Indeed.

OMFG YES YES TO THE FUCK YES!!! I totally agree with you. The ONLY reason I woke up early on a Saturday was to watch cartoons til noon.

Daaaamn, that's just messed up.

I agree!

This is the whole reason most kids are growing up dumber and dumber with each generation instead of smarter and smarter. Want real education? Watch Gargoyles! There's an episode where Elisa is shot by accident by Broadway. It taught kids that playing with real weapons results in real world consequences. This is real-world experience you're not going to learn from Dora the Explorer.

THIS!

*nod* Indeed.

Damn.. :\ It's sad to see cartoons go away. I feel they are not being appreciated as well now in these days (Well on my opinion).
But I agree with ya, I miss waking up to good, classical cartoons.

I'm a HUGE Filmation freak! From the animation to the voices to the music they used, NOTHING can replace the unbridled joy of seeing those shows. Meeting  mkaz at Anthrocon was an absolute highlight for me; he used to work for Filmation and Ralph Bakshi.

Same here. It sucked. I had to watch something else.

Til I turned a teenager and got a sega dreamcast.

-vader's Voice- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Dude, screw educational programs! I want some Fuckin TMNT and Digimon! Like what kid in the right mind is going to watch about how to grow plants? Fuck that. I want to see some action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glD17Lyh8EE

A vintage 70s and 80s SatAM network cartoon block?
Oh, allow ME!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7AgMHuiNug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqRxWAqnQ_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7SodgHhG00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyv9zxtgCCc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ufw2YdGJsw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWzoi1cx7_U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ODmKh7TJ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDsWNZPEVQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVbesrTBLs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I9blXQEHyw
And so many, many more!
From 5:30 AM to just before noon like Our Host said, to be replaced by either the teen dance shows or pro-wrestling.
But don't fool yourselves: kids today have a much, much better access to cartoons than we ever did. Today we have the technology we were being promised during the Cold War. And that's a VERY good thing.

Its was a long time coming but like the man say, Nothing last forever.

One of the problems I tend to see with modern cartoons is they're trying to feed off the popularity of older shows that have came before them. But they try to do it as cheaply and quickly as possible since they're using computers to do the art instead of by hand. Then they try too hard by making it sound funny when in return it's just a sad attempt at comedy. I'd say the ONLY modern cartoon I have any respect for is Phineas & Ferb mainly because they're focusing in on what the two boys are doing for the day. They're not sitting on their butts playing with an iPhone, they're out building some ridiculous contraption for fun. Then you add in the funny doctor guy who has a failed attempt at trying to rule something in each episode.

It's pretty much similar with cartoons made for young children that are labeled "Educational". The company who makes the show doesn't care if your child is getting smarter. It's all just marketing and making money. You make a character the kids will like, make a toy line out of it so the parents will buy toys and bingo, millions made. They pull kids in by adding in lots and lots of vibrant colours and interesting backgrounds. It doesn't matter if all the character does is repeat the same line 20 times. Young children don't know any different and all they're going is responding to the pretty colours, the character, and the sounds.

It's sad when everything nowadays isn't even made for entertainment. It's just another sad attempt at making money.

I grew up with stuff like Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Reading Rainbow, and Magic School Bus.

I think you need to check out Gravity falls, because alot of people are asking how Disney is getting away with things not meant for kids

Also, you need money to survive, quality is one thing, but not all quality can get you money to feed yourself/sheltered your head

Well... I grew up in a fantasy land when i arrived fro Cuba in April 1969. First, your first 8 years of your life you grow up in a dictatorship and have neighbors watching what you say and do. We had a late 50's RCA Victor black and white tv set, and around noon, showed ancient, early 30's american theatre cartoons. A few months after arriving, my father bought my mother an RCA Victor entertainment center, featuring a huge 25 inch color tv. Remember the scene where Dorothy gets whisked off dreary Kansas and lands in OZ and everything turns from sepia tone to brilliant Technicolor? That TV was it for me... and on Saturday mornings, i watched The Archies, Will the real Jerry Lewis, please sit down, The Wacky Races, The Groovy Ghoulies, Josie & The Pussycats, Underdog, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Hong Kong Phooey, Scooby-Doo Where are you?, Fat Albert, Dungeons & Dragons, ( which disappointed me for not one sign of a minotaur) The Smurfs, The Hair Bear Bunch, Lassie's Rescue Rangers, Star Trek animated series, He-Man, Thundercats,. Bravestarr, Gargoyles, and many more that I can't recall.

But I also saw the demise of it.... and turned to other stations that ran cartoons, sometimes in the weirdest hours of the day. There was one station that ran Bravestarr at 4:30 am!!! God knows how many times I would wake up and record the show (I didn't record the commercials) while at the same time having a paw time fantasizing about 30-30

I have been watching the CW's animation block and now that it is gone, I feel I have no recourse but watch my dvd's and have those memories. Kids in the future will miss something we took for granted.

Deep sigh!

30-30 YES!

I must do some new 30-30 porn

Oh, please do! I bought this over the summer: http://www.redbubble.com/people/dga.....;ref=shop_grid

They better not do this to disney/nick/cartoon network. I'm gonna bust some heads of gravity falls gets cancelled because parents don;t see it as educational

I like your avatar.

thank you

I agree with  xenin NICE AVVIE!!

thank you

Wow that is a sad thing, would hate for it to happen to other networks like Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney.

Several years ago, we had a block party on a Saturday that lasted into the wee hours. When I took a break and turned the TV on (this was around 1 AM), I'll NEVER forget seeing Filmation's "Flash Gordon" on NBC. That blew my mind!

There are still several all-cartoon cable channels. The only kids this will affect are those whose families don't have cable TV service.

Yes YES YES MOTHERFUCKING PLEASE BRING IT BACK!! THIS WAS THE ONLY TIME IT WAS ACCEPTABLE TO WAKE UP EARLY ON A GOD DAMN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

I agree! There are some shows on air that I like but mostly it's just garbage. I'd like to make a show that if be proud to say my younger sister watches.

Yeah, I used to watch Saturday morning cartoons, too. Although I would never get up early to watch them. I remember it fondly, but in retrospect, those shows mostly sucked. The only thing worth watching was Soultrain.

Soul Train and American Bandstand.