100% agree! It's a real tragedy. You can go on Amazon and order some real classics though.

Youtube is packed with old cartoon shows,too. Also,Cartoon Network has created some of the worst cartoons both visually and script wise ever created. I think that has helped with the death of entertaining cartoons though they have had some good ones,too. (Johnny Bravo)

I'm not sure what you watched but "Jonny Quest" still ranks as maybe the coolest cartoon of all time.

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Kids don't look to Saturday morning as the cartoon day. They have cartoons all the time.

I used to love those prime time shows in early September that rolled out the cartoon lineup for each station and gave clips of new stuff for the year.

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I remember those roll out shows as well. Also, remember Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nebors as space people or something.

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Except with cable, netflix, hulu, youtube, amazon, google play, and many others, they do know the joys.

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There are several TV channels with childrens' programming 24 hours per day. Nomination denied.

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Saturday morning, 6 AM.. taking the blanket downstairs, bowl of cocoa pebbles....life was good!

CEREAL DRAFT!

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These still exist. There's plenty of these shows on cable. You don't even have to point and click. Who cares if one of the 4 big networks is not running an animated show on Saturday morning?

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Yes, please send me back to the day when I only had 5 channels to choose from. Those days were wonderful.

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There was a collective awesomeness to it that is hard to describe.

I always got ticked that they kept messing with the Superfriends every year. Just keep the damn Wonder Twins off it! It's fine!

Also, the Spiderman & Friends Hour had too much Fantastic Four in it.

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I am old also and agree.

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My Saturday morning cartoons on Fox were X-Men, The Tick, and I don't remember much else. I think there was also a cartoon called "Dog City" where dogs went around solving mysteries. No, not like Scooby-Doo. This was more film-noir. Channel 32 also ran a Mega Man cartoon later in the morning that I would watch faithfully before swimming lessons. Good times, good times.

Never was a big fan of the darker, moodier, Sonic the Hedgehog that was on ABC. I liked the cheerier version that was on channel 50 during the week.

And speaking of during the week, if you want to mourn a loss of children's programming, mourn the loss of the after-school block. Power Rangers, Animaniacs, X-Men, Batman & Robin (though I never liked that one and used that time to do homework), that was where was at for us '90s kids. I don't know if it happened abruptly or gradually, but one day I put on channel 32 to see what the kids were watching these days and it was just reruns of COPS.

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Bingo! That after school block was awesome. I think I used saturday mornings to play video games without my parents bitching about spending too much time inside.

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Because everything is on the internet, there's a blog listing the Fox Kids lineups, but they don't look right to me. To wit:



Power Rangers was never on in the mornings in Chicago, at least not in 1993-1995 when I watched it. It was always right after school.

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Back in the day it was WFLD's

3:00 - Little Rascals
3:30 - Three Stooges
4:00 - Hour long Brady Bunch block
5:00 - Happy Days, I think
5:30 - Laverne & Shirley
6:00 - Happy Days again

Something like that. I hated the Little Rascals.

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3:30 to 4:30 seems right to me.

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Animaniacs is on no, I forget what channel. My daughter loves it.

I watched Gummi Bears, Top Cat, Scooby, Bugs Bunny, MC Hammer, Teen Wolf, Muppet Babies and there were a couple song or video shows I liked.

I hate land of the lost.

They have cartoons on 24/7 on cable. Even have the classics on Noggin. 2014 my friend. I bet you're still upset they took GLOW off of channel 50.

My brother and I watched Pee Wee's Playhouse from 8:00-8:30, and then it was off to bowling, which started at 9:00.

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I also hate having a dvr where I can fast forward through commercials and have a wide variety of programming ready for me whenever I want.

Why can't we go back to a less convenient time because IT WAS BETTER!

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I know in the 2 p.m. hour there was something called "The Fox Kids Cubhouse" and also Bobby's World. I got out of school at 2:35 so I think I would catch the last few minutes of Bobby's World before Power Rangers, Animaniacs, X-Men. Then Batman was in there somewhere, I want to say 4. At 1 or 1:30 there was something called "The Bots Master" that obviously I would only get to watch when I was home sick or had one of the many, many days off that Prospect Heights schools gave.

Another relic of TV-watching that I miss in a weird way was how up through 1996, we had cable in the family room and my parents' room but antennas in the kitchen, basement, and my room. I used to watch all this stuff over the air from a little 10" screen next to the kitchen table. Then I'd watch The Simpsons upstairs in my room on a big crappy TV that had the little number slides next to the buttons for each channel. 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 23, 26, 32, 38, 44, 50, 66, 72. That was all I had. And 23 was in Polish and wasn't on cable!

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I have hundreds of channels, On Demand, and an external hard drive full of cartoons/movies for the kids, that is plugged into the Blu Ray player.

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I think Animaniacs is on Hub (The channel not Arkush)

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Hehe, guys, I gotta tell ya, this Pinky and the Brain spinoff is going to take children's television by storm, heh heh.

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This was just last week, right?

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Firestar was hot.

Of course.

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for my generation...when i was little, the afternoon stuff was the live action incredible hulk, voltron, and scooby doo. usually scooby doo was back to back. and i think we had 3,2,1 contact in the afternoons too, along with wonderworks. then when i was around 9 or 10 it was alvin and the chipmunks, gummi bears, duck tales, and tailspin...i think darkwing duck started a little later, toward my teens, when i grew out of it.

but the mid 90's, what you're talking about, totally got me back in. i loved spielberg's kids block of "tiny toons", "freakazoid", "animaniacs", and "pinky and the brain". and i still think "batman: the animated series" is one of the best cartoons of all time. even batman & robin were good. loved "the tick" and even enjoyed the live action version they made...which did not last long at all. but i found it amusing. i have it on DVD.

i still have an old worn out tick tee shirt that is now a gym shirt. i couldn't believe some guy actually recognized it and said "that's a great shirt. i loved that show." he did not ask me to spot for him afterward.

Ducktales and Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers were my favorite after school shows.

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"duck tales" also spawned one of the best Capcom NES titles ever...along with one of the best soundtracks.