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I was reading an article in Time a last week about a Saturday morning cartoon creator team from the 70s. It outlined their shows and it got me thinking… what the hell happened to good quality Saturday morning cartoons?
I remember when I was a kid getting up at like 7:30 (that’s where the crappy cartoons were placed) and watching cartoons in the morning until 10:30ish eating cold pizza. Why I say 10:30ish is because they had an hour of Looney Tunes and I would be bored watching them after about a half hour and go do something else.
Now, I can’t remember which shows were actually Saturday morning shows or after school shows. But what I do remember they were quality. Snoorkles, Thundercats, Transformers, Voltron, He-Man, Shirt-Tales, and the Adventures of the Gummy Bears to name a few. I do remember that Inspector Gadget and Duck Tales were after school–but they were the bomb.
Over the past 10 years, the movie industry has made a mockery of my sacred 80’s cartoons. The Inspector Gadget movie was embarrassing as was the Alvin and the Chipmunk movies. The only one of somewhat decent quality was Transformers. Now there’s word they are thinking about making even more of them. The GI Joe movie isn’t close to the cartoon and the He-Man remake probably won’t be either. I must also note that the 80s He-Man wasn’t the best movie, but I still liked it because they tried to stay true to the cartoon.
I just wish Boomerang would bring back Saturday morning cartoons again and I would get up (a little hungover probably) with a bowl of cereal and/or cold pizza if it’s available and watch some major blocks of cartoons and relive the good ol’ days.
