When did Saturday morning cartoons start to suck?

[Stark]

I'm sitting here flipping through channels and can't find one cartoon that isn't total garbage.

KTLA - Cardcaptors - imitation pokemon junk
WPIX - Detention - bleh
KWGN - Batman Beyond - bruce wayne too old to be batman... Superfriends blows this junk away.
NBC, NBC-W - Hang Time - I wish the wnba players all looked like her. I might watch.
CBS Mythic Warriors: Guardians Greek legends re-told with a modern PC moral.
CBS-W - Flying Rhino Junior High ???
FOX-W - Flint the Time Detective Looks like more pokemon crap.
FOX - Dungeons & Dragons - wait... I found a good one!!!! Oh no, an imitation dungeon master! whoo hoo! Interactive Yoda commercials! I feel like a kid again!

Back to the point, when did all the cartoons on sat. morning turn into poorly animated, politically correct garbage? I sure would hate to be a kid on Saturdays now.

 

[DAM]

i know ive felt the same way, everytime i go home and want to watch cartoons with my little brother or sister i cant sit there for more the 10 minutes, i just prefer the cartoon network or hell even something on PBS (except for teletubbies but my sister likes them )



dam()

 

[8ball]

The "New" cartoons started to suck when you were about 13. Thats when the "New" stuff wasn't like the "Old" stuff. You're getting old.

 

[brandc]

1982

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Batman Beyond is pretty cool. It seems directed toward the older kid. Its quite violent for the 5-8 year olds.

X-Men <-- Sweeeeet cartoon
Tick <-- Hahah the funniest cartoon I've ever seen
Sonic the Hedgehog <-- For some reason I liked this one.

Add more of your old favorites.

 

[8ball]

Classics? Ren and Stempy (you eeeeediot), Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry.

 

[DAM]

thundercats
transformers
D&amp;D
he man
carebears (yeah right!)
gi joe
pretty much any warner bro cartoon
and some of the disney ones too, except for mickey, he is such a puss



i cant think of any more.



dam()

 

[Stark]

Does anyone remember the specials announicng the cartoon lineups for the upcoming year? I used to plan my whole morning out weeks in advance!

 

[SufferinSuccotash]

Cartoons started to suck once the following stopped airing:

Transformers (NOT BeastWars!)
G.I. Joe, before they made Serpentor
Thundercats
Dungeons &amp; Dragons (didn't get towatch this much - I came from a family where my parents thought playing D&amp;D involved worshipping the Devil).
The Real Ghostbusters
The Smurfs
Voltron

I loved to watch Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butt-Head, and the first two or three seasons of South Park, and I liked the regular Batman cartoon.

 

[Jedi Mike]

Stark, were those the ones that were showed on Fridays? They would show previews the day before of what cartoons they are gonna show but with new episodes.

 

[geno]

You know what kills me? Is when I see imitation Anime (the fake pokemon crap). The drawing styles, characters, they're all blatant rip offs trying to pass as a Japanese cartoon. Are we as Americans so desperate to latch onto a trend to the point that we'd fake a cartoon style? Talk about originality...

 

[UG]

When you longer were part of the target market, and when your ability to discriminate between entertaining/worthwhile and developmentally lacking evolved.

 

[Sacotool]

I miss the 80's cartoons such as the Smurfs and the Chipmunks.

 

[Stark]

Jedi-mike

That's it!! It was friday the night before...

 

[Killbat]

My Saturday morning channel is now Cartoon Network. Hell, how can you beat a healthy dose of REAL anime (Dragon Ball Z, fool!) plus Bugs and Daffy? I don't think you can.

 

[Russ]

<< Probably when I reached the age of nine or ten! >>



Red,

Had television even been invented at that time?

Russ, NCNE

 

[Mday]

how can you not like batman beyond... it's schway...

 

[apoppin]

For me it was a long long time ago. I remember the Disney cartoons being about the only thing on Sat am along with Popeye &amp; Tom and Jerry.

Along came Hana-Barbara and the quality of the cartoon art took a drastic step downwards although there was much more choice. Some of the early funny standouts were the Flintstones and their clone the Jetsons. Rocky and Bullwinkle had some wicked adult humor for children and the Roadrunner was good violent fun.

All of these had their roots in the earliest cartoons. Today, however, cartoons are mostly a vehicle for selling products. Commercials interrupted by more commercials. That is when they really started to suck.

 

[ltk007]

My favoirite cartoons:

DBZ
Batman
X-Men
Winne the Pooh (sentimental value)
and I like the new Superman if I ever see it

I don't really watch TV cartoons anymore I have so many japanese DBZ episodes on my computer

 

[Rudee]

Whatever happened to Underdog, Woody Woodpecker, Ironman, Fantastic Four, Tarzan, Lidsville, Hulk, Bugsbunny Roadrunner Hour, Hillarious House of Frightenstein, and the original Hammy Hamster?

Hehe. When you get in your 30's like me, these &quot;oldies&quot; become classics. Certainly nothing like the stuff that is on now.

 

[Mday]

oh, the cartoons started sucking a few years ago. after it started sucking, CBS pulled their cartoons. seasons later the WB started showing cartoons.

 

[HannibalX]

I'm personaly getting sich of all this Japanimation bull sh!t.

 

[creedog]

Actually I had this conversation the other night, and there are several reasons for the downfall of the saturday morning line-up and the dimminishing enthusiams that used to accompany it.

First there are more rules and regulations requarding porgramming for children. There used to be a time when you couldn't tell a tv show apart from a commercial (most showws were just 30min commercails for the toy that they were selling). Plus they limited the ammound fo comericals that you could air durring a show. Remeber how over the top and exciting those commercials used to be, the ones that showed kids playing with the toy in a way that you couyldn;t replicate at home (there's laws against that kind of advertising now)

Plus cable tv brought more cartoons into the market place so that they werent just restricted to certain time slots.

Plus now kids seem ti loke a lot of the reality based, live action shows.

 

[jaydee]

Whatever happend to Animaniacs? That was the bomb!

 

[Mday]

Animaniacs is still around.