Saturday Morning just ain't the same (spoiler, shows, house, characters)
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You are not kidding! When I was coming up, TV viewers had a "block" of shows...I should say "blocks"; In the daytime, Goodson-Todman (game shows); evenings, Norman Lear and/or Garry Marshall (sitcoms); Aaron Spelling and/or Stephen Cannell (action/adventure & drama); Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. & Filmation (animated cartoons); Sid & Marty Krofft (live children's shows).
Many of the above mentioned ppl, sadly are no longer with us. But they have left a legacy yet to be matched!
I agree! We got our first tv in 1949 and there were only a few shows in the morning hours and then no more shows until around 5 p.m., and then nothing after around 11 p.m.
Saturday morning we could watch old western movies or a kid show; and there were 15 minutes shows that featured Les Paul and Mary Ford, and even Korla Pandit.
During the mid 2000s, I used to watch the Qubo block on NBC. I thought there were some good cartoons. Canada's Jacob Two-Two was one of those multi-layered cartoons with something for the kiddies and jokes for the adults that went over the kiiddies' heads. I also liked Jane and the Dragon.
Rose colored glasses here much? I watched as many cartoons as anyone when I was a kid, but in retrospect they all bit it pretty hard. Most of the HB ones I grew up with were Scooby Doo knock offs and the animation on all of them was horrible even by the standards of the day.
The only older cartoons that still hold up for me are Rocky & Bullwinkle and Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales. The animation is not great, but the writing is light years ahead of HB.
Some of the funniest cartoons go back to Tex Avery made cartoons. He had a knack for comedic cartoon timing. Early Tom & Jerry had international comedy since it was no dialog and all physical comedy. Later years they went down hill fast on the comedy. HB had a big hit with Scooby-Doo. Then came the chain Scooby-Doo formula shows like Speed Buggy & Jabber Jaw. Though I loved the "Super Friends" show as a kid, watching reruns I'm reminded how limited the writing and acting the show really was. For it's time, the animation wasn't bad like the shrinky-dinks type animation of most Saturday morning cartoons in those days. Politically correct sensors ruining the classic Warner Brothers cartoons like Bugs Bunny and eliminated Speedy Gonzales entirely because they think it's offensive to Mexicans (even though it is popular in Mexico). While the classic cartoons of the past spawned a toy line, the cartoons of the 80s was developed for already existing toys and video games to increase sales. Then there were cartoons made to promote a message. That doesn't work. Make a show for entertainment to tell a story or make people laugh. Don't do it with the intent of selling a product or promote a social political cause. Nothing wrong with including a life lesson for young children, but don't sell or promote social causes.
Though Saturday morning cartoons were disappearing, I was having high hopes when I saw quality animation and writing on programs like Gargoyles, Batman, Superman, Recess, and more recent examples like Justice League and Young Justice. It's so sad that the majority of new programs on regular Cartoon Network have grade school level animation drawings and writing. The most recent great quality cartoon series was Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's spinoff, Legend of Korra, is getting better and then was cut from network broadcast and put in online viewing only.
Yep. A couple of hours of Hanna Barbara or Looney Toons, then the live action stuff like Sid and Marty Krofft shows.
I guess golf pays more than cartoons these days.
Don't have to pay writers and animators to produce golf. If I put my TV on golf, it's to help me fall asleep. To me, golf is one of the sports that is fun to play but is boring as heck to watch on TV. Golf, tennis, and bowling are the main ones on this list. I'd love to see a rule change to professional golf. They call themselves athletes. If they're athletes, then why don't they carry their own bags?
More WB cartoons back in the 50s (Bugs Bunny and the gang). No tinted glasses, just reality glasses.
The ones that they originally played before movies were pretty great. The Saturday morning ones were above average but didn't match the quality of the originals.
But, honestly, except for nostalgia purposes I could go without ever seeing Jabberjaw again.
The ones that they originally played before movies were pretty great. The Saturday morning ones were above average but didn't match the quality of the originals.
But, honestly, except for nostalgia purposes I could go without ever seeing Jabberjaw again.
I'd add Speed Buggy to that list, "rrrooom a zoom zoom"
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