I'm sure this has been done before, but watched this video this morning so now I'm feeling nostalgic



What was your Saturday morning cartoon ritual? I recall several good ones: Transformers Beast Wars was the best and most fondly remembered. Static Shock, Animaniacs, X Men Evolution (which is on Disney plus now I think) and, how could I forget:

The original Pokemon!

What were some of yalls?

Ninja Turtles and Animaniacs were on weekday afternoons after school. They could have been on Saturdays, but don't remember that.

I remember watching Animaniacs at night. I think it first aired in primetime? Too old to remember.

80s & 90s cartoons are probably the biggest injection of nostalgia I can get outside of maybe old school Nickelodeon shows like Legends of the Hidden Temple.

I watched way too many cartoons...just off the top of my head
Wil E Coyote & Road Runner
Pinky and the Brain
Inspector Gadget
Rugrats
Doug
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Ahh Real Monsters
Spider-Man
X-Men TAS
TMNT
The Real Ghostbusters
Batman TAS
Gargoyles
Beast Wars
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Rocko's Modern Life
YuGiOh
Digimon

Spider-Man and X-men on Fox were always my must watch. Plenty of others I watched throughout the years, but those two stick out the most

Only Saturday morning cartoons I cared about were the original Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh

Man, I went a tear a few years ago and hit everywhere online hard to find old school saturday monring cartoons to put on my plex server as we were having a kid (daughter). Here's my list:

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
Animaniacs
Batman AS
Battle of the Planets
Bettlejuice
Bionic Six
CareBears
Centurions
Chip&Dale
Danger Mouse
Darkwing Duck
Adventures of the Gummi Bears
DuckTales
GIJoe
He-Man
Inspector Gadget
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
The Little Mermaid (didn't even know about that one originally)
Looney Tunes
M.A.S.K.
The Magic School Bus
Muppet Babies (the original)
The Pink Panther
Pinky and the Brain
The Pirates of Dark Water
The Real Ghostbusters
Robotech
Scooby-Doo (FYI, Scooby-Doo was annoying to track down because I didn't realize that the original show was actually 3 different versions of the show named: Where are you, Movies, and Show)
Scooby-Doo Laff-A-Lympics
The Secret Squirrel
Sesame Street
She-Ra
SilverHawks
The Smurfs
Space Kidettes
Speed Buggy
Speed Racer
Star Blazers
SuperMan (AS)
TaleSpin
TMNT
ThunderCats
Tom&Jerry
Transformers
Voltron
Wacky Races
X-Men

Saturday morning cartoons were the best, but they're were also some great ones on coming home after school.

The new duck tales series on Disney+ is great and I'll watch it on Saturday mornings occasionally for fun

Gaius Rufus said:

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I don't remember if these were specific to Saturday mornings, but...

He-Man
G.I. Joe
M.A.S.K.
COPS (the cartoon)
Voltron
Tiny Toons
USA Cartoon Express
Batman: The Animated Series
ThunderCATS
TMNT
Transformers
Mr. T.
She-Ra
Jem
The Ghostbusters
Scooby-Do
Flintstones and all of the Hannah-Barabara stuff

I'm sure there were a ton more.

Edit - I would highly recommend NOT going back and re-watching most of these. I tried that with GI Joe a few years ago and it completely killed my memories.

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LOL, most are horrible. I did enjoy Hasbrow doing a live stream of all the original GI-Joe cartoons a few weeks ago. While they didn't hold up, they are great background.

I have a ton, but my daughter doesn't like any of them. Fortunately her favorite show is Bluey, which is something I can enjoy so I'm not too hard pressed to watch any.

TXAG 05 said:

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Ninja Turtles and Animaniacs were on weekday afternoons after school. They could have been on Saturdays, but don't remember that.

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Same with the four Disney cartoons (Tailspin, RR, DuckTales, DWD) right?

Garfield and Friends was a favorite Saturday morning watch of mine.

Here's 3.5 hours of 1986 nostalgia, complete with commercials

jeffk said:

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TXAG 05 said:

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Ninja Turtles and Animaniacs were on weekday afternoons after school. They could have been on Saturdays, but don't remember that.

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Same with the four Disney cartoons (Tailspin, RR, DuckTales, DWD) right?

Garfield and Friends was a favorite Saturday morning watch of mine.

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Correct, also Tiny Toon adventures.

Good lord. The first two commercials in this block hit me right in the hippocamups.

My favorite Sat Morning cartoon was Dungeons and Dragons.

My favorite cartoons overall as a kid were:

Force Five - was on around 1980 or so - alternated between several Shogun Warrior cartoons - Gaiking, Grandizer, Getter Robo G, Danguard Ace

Robotech - used to come on in the afternoons. I discovered the original Macross a few years later, but I still like Robotech.

Battle of the Planets - I used to watch this on TBS - pretty terrible compared to the original Gatchaman series. They cut out the fight scenes and put in the 7-Zark-7 scenes.

Fat Albert
Scooby-Do
Rocky the Squirrel

You got up at 6:30 a.m. on Saturdays in the 1980s and about your only option was Alvin and the Chipmunks.

You endured that to get to the Superfriends / Challenge of the Superfriends / Superfriends: Galactic Guardians show. That was a good hour of TV would mix in long episodes and short ones and some of the dumbest plot lines ever. That said, I love that show and could write a disseration about it.

That got you to 8 a.m. My brother and I would watch the Smurfs for half an hour to make fun of the SMurfs, but at 8:30, we went over to CBS for Dungeons & Dragons. You didn't do anything during D&D - no eating no going to the bathroom, no listening to MOm asking you to do chores. That was the pinnacle of the day, the week, the year. Fear not, Ranger! Barbarian! Magician! Thief! Cavalier! and Acrobat!

After that as a grab bag year by year. As someone else mentioned, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends was teh best of it. Things like the Pac-Man/Turbo/POle Position tunes were among the worst.

Born in the early '80's.

Wake up and grab a bowl (or two) of cereal to get that sugar rush going.

Depending on the year, I'd watch any of the following:

X-Men
Spider-Man
Batman: The Animated Series
Pirates of Dark Water
Dino-saucers
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Fantastic 4
Sonic the Hedgehog
Back to the Future
Dragonball Z (still remember having to wake up just before 6:00 AM to watch this on the local Fox station in Bryan)
Garfield and Friends
Beetlejuice
The Tick
Gargoyles
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo


I envy my kids. There were so many great shows on back in the late '80's/early '90's, and we didn't have the recording technology kids have today. Many times I'd either be flipping back and forth between channels, or just have to miss a show entirely.

It really is funny how many shows were created just to market toys to us. There are great videos on YouTube all about those shows, especially on Toy Galaxy.

Two negative memories I have of Saturday Morning Cartoons are:

- having to go play soccer some Saturday mornings, and missing most of the cartoons. Probably why I still don't like the sport to this day.

- not liking The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, because when it was over, and the end credits/song would play, the next show was not cartoons (at least here in Bryan), and that the cartoon block for the morning was done, and I'd have to wait another week to see all of my favorite shows.

Can we all agree that Marshal Bravestar was trash?

So many great show listed above!

I'll keep my list short with the most important shows to me.

1. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. This was my first time to see my hero as a cartoon on TV. There was a live action show around that time, but it was lackluster.

2. Dungeons and Dragons. I had some nerd tendencies and this show was like fertilizer on those tendencies.

3. The Superfriends. This was a little earlier, maybe late 70s and into the 80s. I was into comic movies WAY before they were cool.

For me, the ones I remember most were Animaniacs around 5-7. The last years I remember waking up to watch morning cartoons were during the height of Pokemon, so the first couple seasons were ones I used to love watching. Follow that up with a little Pokemon Red on my Gameboy. I wish I still had that huge grey brick...

1. Looney Tunes always and forever
2. Fat Albert
3. Superfriends
4. Various and sundry others, including Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch and Speed Buggy

Recess

Philo B 93 said:

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So many great show listed above!

I'll keep my list short with the most important shows to me.

1. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. This was my first time to see my hero as a cartoon on TV. There was a live action show around that time, but it was lackluster.

2. Dungeons and Dragons. I had some nerd tendencies and this show was like fertilizer on those tendencies.

3. The Superfriends. This was a little earlier, maybe late 70s and into the 80s. I was into comic movies WAY before they were cool.

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I remember thinking how great Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends was (1981 version). I started watching it again on Disney +, but had to stop because I think the memory was better. I've thought of this series so many times, wondering why they chose Iceman and Firestar to assist.


Also, Superfriends and Justice League - I still think of the Wonder Twins, and will still sometimes do a stupid "Wonder Twins Activate" impersonation of them, "Form of a vulnerable hummingbird.....Shape of a small ice patch that the villain probably won't step on"



He-Man and Thundercats also still show up in my random comments (Snarf!) or a reference to castle Grey Skull.


But by far, Scooby and Bug Bunny were the most viewed cartoons.

The Wonder Twins are still the brunt of many a joke in my family

Worthless Twins

They always turned into something stupid and unhelpful.

The only good thing about summer ending back in the day was the commercials for the new cartoons being released in September.

Loved Scooby Doo, Hong Kong Phooey, Top Cat, Underdog, Jonny Quest, Wacky Races, The Archie Show, etc. We watched 'em all while sitting too close to the TV set.

But the real winners were the live action shows like the Banana Splits and all of the weird ones produced by Sid and Marty Krofft, like this one:

Also on Saturday mornings...



One of the first albums I bought on CD was the Saturday Morning collection of theme song covers. Including this one.

EclipseAg said:

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The only good thing about summer ending back in the day was the commercials for the new cartoons being released in September.

Loved Scooby Doo, Hong Kong Phooey, Top Cat, Underdog, Jonny Quest, Wacky Races, The Archie Show, etc. We watched 'em all while sitting too close to the TV set.

But the real winners were the live action shows like the Banana Splits and all of the weird ones produced by Sid and Marty Krofft, like this one:

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Sigmund and the Sea Monsters was weird.

Capt. Kool and the Gang

Dr. Shrinker (I can still sing the theme song)

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl