Saturday Morning Shows can be the most awesome thing to a kid. I'm sure some of you remember the heyday of Fox Saturday morning: Eek, Bobby's World, Spiderman, Power Rangers and X-Men just to name a few.

The weekend has passed and I manage to see what my once favorite time slots are doing now. Things have changed since i was a kid. It seems like most of these new shows are crap but that could be i'm older now. Fox is still going strong with UPN as it's rival (still called the WB Saturday line up, despite WB is no-longer.) NBC seems a little PBS now and ABC blows thanks to Disney.

There are some shows that are worth staying on the Channel for, Like Johnny Test. It reminds me of Dexter and has its moments. What amazes me about shows today compared to the old days is the pacing. Most cartoons move at a much quicker pace then they use to. I watched an old episode of Real Ghostbusters then some of todays shows and I couldn't believe the difference. The animation style, the jokes, the pace, a lot has changed.

The one thing that confuses me is the badly dubbed anime. What confuses me is I like watching it (because it's anime) yet the voice acting and editing really butcher any enjoyment but i still watch it with some degree of enjoyment.

The new Turtles show is probably the best show on Saturday mornings. It's the closes thing to a animated drama (like the old X-Men) you can find on network TV.

I was wondering what thoughts you have on the subject of Saturday morning shows: Past, Present and Future . . .

Char Aznable wrote:

God, I remember the good days (well, for me) of Saturday morning cartoons. I'd get up and watch Kids WB, shit like X-Men: Evolution, Pokemon, Zeta, Cubix, and the like. Then Pokemon got gay after the first season, and they canceled basically everything good, and replaced it with bad anime and garbage. I eventually said "fuck it", and stopped waking up at 7am just to be disappointed.

Yah, i remember that line up and the newer x-men was not as cool as the old one but it was still awesome. And i agree about Pokemon, after Season 1 it all went down hill. I mean, none of that Orange League Shit had to do with the game and figures Ash would win OL and suck at everything else . . . only in a filler season . . . a filler season

Knyte wrote:

I watched weekday morning and afternoon cartoons the most, as weekends I was usually over at a friends. I remember watching: TMNT C.O.P.S. Transformers (G1) G.I.Joe Exo-Squad He-Man The Tick Real Ghostbusters Mummies Alive Heathcliff MASK Animaniacs Batman: TAS Gargoyles Kidd Video Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling Bobby's World Freakazoid! Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars Centurions Chip 'n' Dales Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Talespin, Darkwing Duck (All the good original Disney Toons.) Count Duckula Wing Commander Academy Danger Mouse

You've listed many of my favs. The Tick, geeze that was hilarious in it's prime. I'm looking at your Disney show list (awesome-ness) and . . . what the hell happened? Why is Disney not showing reruns of those on Saturday mornings anymore or at least remakes. Those shows are better then the crap now because the old shows at least sticked to Disney's roots. And looking at this list, I realized something . . . i think the generation of those shows was spoiled. Today's generation is getting crapped on.

I may bash network dubbed animes but Digimon was cool. The first season was by far the best because season 2 just sucked. Devimon was the best villain, I mean any guy who dresses like he's going to an Ozzy Concert is #1 on the best villains list. Plus he was hardcore, tried to kill the kids while they were sleeping, but 4kids didn't show that.

Char Aznable wrote:

I forgot about those two. NT Warrior rocked and I was pissed when they cancelled it (and then un-cancelled it, and then cancelled it again), and Yugioh was pretty cool. I kind of stopped watching after the whole "Seal of Aurichauchous" shit.

I lost track after Marik turned to evil Marik and Joe said: "I'm going to file this under not good." Has anyone seen the original first season of Yu-Gi-Oh? The one 4kids didn't bother dubbing and Kaiba had green hair. It's pretty badass.

Mr. Bomberman wrote:

ReeperTheSeeker wrote: I may bash network dubbed animes but Digimon was cool. The first season was by far the best because season 2 just sucked. Devimon was the best villain, I mean any guy who dresses like he's going to an Ozzy Concert is #1 on the best villains list. Plus he was hardcore, tried to kill the kids while they were sleeping, but 4kids didn't show that. 1. Digimon aired on weekdays. 2. I remember Bandai not censoring that kind of stuff. I liked how they kept the character's Japanese names but gave them initals (like T.K.)

It was a weekend show for my locate channel and they aired the reruns on weekdays.

Bandai license some bizzare games (Monster Party for example) but they do know how to dub anime.

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Knyte wrote: I watched weekday morning and afternoon cartoons the most, as weekends I was usually over at a friends. I remember watching: TMNT C.O.P.S. Transformers (G1) G.I.Joe Exo-Squad He-Man The Tick Real Ghostbusters Mummies Alive Heathcliff MASK Animaniacs Batman: TAS Gargoyles Kidd Video Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling Bobby's World Freakazoid! Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars Centurions Chip 'n' Dales Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Talespin, Darkwing Duck (All the good original Disney Toons.) Count Duckula Wing Commander Academy Danger Mouse I have to agree w/a lot of these picks. I cant really say you missed much in fact. Tiny Toons maybe, even though it was just a rehashing of old Looney Tunes cartoons made w/younger characters. Freakazoid! was awesome though. The Lobe is one of the coolest characters ever. EDIT: although it wasnt a cartoon, I do miss watching Beakman's world and Bill Nye the science guy.

Lester was the shit, man.