Were these really as good as people remember? I grow up with them but didnt watch all that much outside PBS kids, Disney Saturday and Fox Kids for Xmen & Spiderman, because when Cartoon Network was great it had literally all the shows on these blocks on the network already.
Were these really as good as people remember? I grow up with them but didnt watch all that much outside PBS kids...
Levi Taylor
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Asher Stewart
Fox Kids was based
Anthony Cox
Fox Kids did some funny skits with their shows.
Plus they had Spidey Batman running at the same time.
Colton Moore
If you're 19 you pretty much missed out on good Saturday morning cartoons. By the time you were 5 in 2006, they were in decline, with Kids WB moving to the CW and losing popularity, and stuff like Johnny Test and Coconut Fred dominating.
Levi Flores
imagine having this much synergy
Lucas Lopez
Fox Kids made some amazing commercials:
Jack Edwards
Fox Kids and KidsWB began to suffer when anime became the hot commodity.
Connor Russell
This. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, Saturday morning cartoons were a fucking event, because every channel had an entire lineup of cartoons that (mostly) didn't air any other time of the week. You woke up at like 6 or 7 in the morning, then you just sat around watching cartoons until noon-ish when networks would start showing news or sports (although my local fox station would air movies afterward, so sometimes you'd get lucky and could catch Brave Little Toaster or Last Unicorn if you still wanted more). I was especially fond of ABC Weekend Specials, but I think those were phased out during the Disney era.
Charles Robinson
It was also a great time because it seemed every channel has some sort of Saturday entertainment. Only ones missing from that picture was CBS and NBC. Now granted CBS was mostly really Nick Jr. Tier little kid cartoons and NBC I only remember lot of educational but cool shows about animals, locations or I swear they had Bill Nye at once point. Point is you had options and choices and it was a good time.
Parker Morales
God what I wouldn't give for more of these two interacting. I think Hank and Norrin would be an incredibly appropriately balanced duo for some good storytelling.
Luis Williams
Saturday Morning cartoons were made obsolete by channels that aired cartoons all day, the internet and streaming
Cooper Lopez
I love how they've made an Internet meme out of one forgettable special event.
Ian Collins
I woke up many times early on a Saturday. It was the only time I actually got up when I heard the alarm because fuck Mon - Fri. I got up early enough I remember before One Saturday Morning 6:30 to 7:00am was episodes of This Old House with Bob Vila. I always caught the last 10 minutes of the show and I thank it for growing my interest in woodworking and repair.
Noah Green
The ages of Saturday morning cartoons, in terms of popularity.
1965-1990: Golden age
1990-1996: Neo-golden age (FCC mandates started here, but networks ignored them)
1996-2002: Silver age (anime boom, FCC mandates enforced resulting in more educational shows)
2002-2006: Bronze age (by this point, Saturday morning cartoons were mostly reruns of shows you could see on other networks)
2006-2014: Decline age (Kids WB moved to CW in 2006 and ended in 2008, Vortexx ended in 2014)
Grayson Barnes
I really confined myself to the main cable cartoon channels and I feel like I missed out on some good stuff.
Matthew Watson
Some stuff were definitely better. Probably they thought Cable was more than enough, but somehow it cut some of the uniqueness of that time (and, with parents telling "go watch some stuff on my phone" to their kids, it's probably worse).
At least they taught us to value our time and be patient.
Logan Peterson
This post best post.
By the late 90s/early 00s though, some channels developed after school blocks for reruns and kinda cannibalized their ratings because of it. They were no longer "exclusive" to Saturdays per say. Also didn't help anime with long running story arcs and plentiful amounts of episodes needed lots of airtime to play catch up.
I think Kids WB's undoing was itself. Eventually a lot of the reruns of their shows would dump on cable.
Logan Flores
Essential watching.
>DC Animated Universe (B:TAS, S:TAS)
>X-Men/Spider-Man
>Recess
>The Weekenders
>Animaniacs/Pinky & The Brain/Tiny Toons
>Mucha Lucha!
>Fillmore
>Digimon (optional)
>Pokemon (optional)
>Yu-Gi-Oh! (optional)
Mason Gutierrez
>Mucha lucha
>Essential
Camden Hall
>By the late 90s/early 00s though, some channels developed after school blocks for reruns and kinda cannibalized their ratings because of it. They were no longer "exclusive" to Saturdays per say.
I differ on that.
At least at the beginning, after school blocks were stuff you could missed when grounded or doing homework.
The good stuff was always on Saturdays
Colton Moore
Each one only had a small era of like 3ish years of being good. None of them were consistent.
But overall networks were a lot pickier in what shows they greenlit since time was very limited. There was not a lot of meaningless, low quality filler taking up the timeslots.
Joseph Gonzalez
I loved both of these because it was the only place at the time that was showing video game cartoons. There were a few really good shows, but I admittedly remember being bored until the really good shows came on.
I also have to give them credit for how much effort they put into their promos. youtube.com
Xiaolin Showdown
Jackie Chan Adventures
Pokemon's first two seasons
Yugioh
Ultimate Muscle
Viewtiful Joe
The Batman
Kirby Right Back At Ya (I'll admit my enjoyment of this mainly stemmed from it being a video game show)
Static Shock
I'm definitely forgetting some shows...you get the idea.
Grayson Richardson
Fox Kids & Kids WB & late 80s early 90s CBS Saturday mornings were stellar. Great lineups. Some of those lineups had heavy hitters one after another and some shows are GOATs. Its a lasting experience with people because effort was put in to make them feel like cohesive colorful blocks. Fun bumpers, comedy and action shows bleeding into each other, and say what you will and it's fine to be a little cynical but the commercials were great too.
Bentley Brown
True, they seemed to be at their height in the 80s and 90s. Before that was Hanna Barbera spam, and after was the slow decline and giving it up for cable channels
92-93 seemed to be the biggest in amount to watch since everyone had a long block of shows, Fox, ABC, CBS, then nickelodeon tried to compete pretty hard. Also independent stations had long blocks on saturday mornings too with shit like street sharks, biker mice, mighty max, iron man/fantastic four etc.
Late 90s NBC quit, CBS lost a lot of their shows, Warner made WB and took half of Fox's lineup, and UPN just got started with like 3 shows at best.
Jason King
>CBS
Wanted to be cheap and stop investing in animation and found it more profitable/differential in just airing the news instead
>UPN
UPN had a block?
Zachary Wilson
I know UPN dabbled in syndicated cartoons for a while. A LOT of people mainly knew the channel had a cartoon block because it was the first channel to air Pokemon in a lot of areas (Fox had it in others).
Logan Hernandez
At 11am, that's when Soul Train, WCW Wrestling, local sports, or golf started and the saturday morning shows were over.
Colton Roberts
UPN Kids was a Saturday morning block of mostly forgettable crap:
en.wikipedia.org
Most people had Pokemon and other syndicated stuff run on their UPN stations though.
Charles Lee
>UPN had a block?
en.wikipedia.org
I know for a fact I never watched any of these shows, but I recognize the UPN Kids logo for some reason.
Benjamin Fisher
I got up very early in the weekend to watch ink and paint club
John Cook
I remember some shows had totally different episodes on saturday than on weekdays.
Alvin & the Chipmunks had the new season on Saturdays while reruns were syndicated on weekday afternoons. Darkwing Duck and Beetlejuice just had two totally different lineups for weekends and saturday.
Jose Phillips
The fuck is this network?
Mason Nelson
Alvin had a whole season made just for syndication.
Juan Perez
Qubo is chaos incarnate. You never know what the fuck will randomly get added to their schedule (they got fucking Stickin' Around recently and even aired the live action Animorphs series at one point).
Matthew Torres
I grew up in the bronze age based on your scale.