Saturday morning cartoons

Dang but what does a kid enjoy more on a Saturday morning than watching cartoons?  Cartoons are way more fun than soccer and Temple.  At least they USED to be.  Saturday morning cartoons started to get phased out sometime around the O.J. Simpson trial.  (Remember THAT?  He did it, btw.)

Let's forget about murder for awhile and all remember some cartoons together, shall we?

Kids used to wake up so excited on a Saturday morning.  Cereal and pajamas, impatient for laughs and adventure.  The main cartoons didn't start until 8am, so if you got up too early, you would be turning the dial all anxious and desperate.  Anything animated would do, even if it was religious or otherwise lame.

There were some real awesome main cartoons.  Scooby Doo, Superfriends, Fat Albert, and the Smurfs.  There were also some not-so-awesome cartoons, like Happy Days in Outer Space.

Why did this happen?  Why didn't they just show a regular episode of Happy Days instead?  I guess because kids would not want to watch that on a Saturday morning.  Outer space adventures are much more exciting, especially when they're FONZIFIED.  (tm Captain Dan)

Other TV shows made weird transitions to the Saturday cartoon schedule as well.

(The Gary Coleman one was before he died for real.)


The Snorks should have attacked the Smurfs.  Ratings gold.  The Smurfs ran out of ideas after like the seventh season, and the Snorks were never too popular anyway, so why not turn them into the bad guys?  Could the Snorks breathe on land?  Probably not.  So they would have to attack and eat the Smurfs all Jaws-style.

***cArToOn tRiViA***

Q: What color is Smurf blood?

A: Black.

One of the highest-rated Saturday morning cartoons EVER was Muppet Babies.  I have issues with it, though.  #1 how come Rowlf the Dog was the only Muppet Baby that had to wear a diaper?

Was it supposed to be some sort of "not housebroken yet" joke?  Also WHO the F is "SKEETER?"

That is NOT a valid Muppet.  They had to pick ten Muppets for the show out of like a MILLION but somehow couldn't find TEN that they were happy with.  They actually invented a new one.  Why couldn't Sam the Eagle be a Muppet Baby?  Or else Dr. Teeth or that idiot that throws the fish?  I guess they didn't want Miss Piggy to be the only girl.  One girl is not enough for a TV cartoon about animal puppets that are also babies, you need two.  I wasn't there, but I assure you that employed people sat in a meeting at a TABLE and reasoned that out.  Good work.

Good work to you as well, creators of Rubik the Amazing Cube.

There could have been a Swedish Chef Muppet Baby or something like that.

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