Saturday Morning Cartoons are no more

[Agent Proto]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/30/saturday-morning-cartoons-are-no-more/

How do you feel about this news? Have you grown up knowing that every Saturday morning you will be catching some of your favorite cartoons or shows meant for kids? I feel kind of sad knowing that Saturday morning cartoons are now a thing of the past, but I should be glad for cable networks for channels like Cartoon Network and such. Share your thoughts.

[Ayen]

Tis teh end of an era. At least I still have Qubo.

[Vyk]

I heard this on NPR today. Apparently it was like this for a while now. So its not like the kids feel like they're missing out. Obviously they weren't watching very many Saturday morning cartoons anyway. It just feels bad to those of us who grew up with it, but then again, none of us were currently watching Saturday morning cartoons either. So in actually they've been kinda dead already for a long time :/

But then again, I'm all about nostalgia. I have tons of old cartoons downloaded and on DVD and favorited on services like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video :3

Not to mention some of the best cartoons didn't even come out until I was grown up, and still managed to enjoy them (Invader Zim, and Avatar: The Last Airbender to name a couple)

[noxious.sunshine]

Cartoons aren't what they used to be.

I'm not overly heartbroken by this, but Saturday morning cartoons were always my thing as a kid. Having only 1 tv and my dad hogging it when he was home, I was specifically given Saturday morning cartoons. That was our ritual. My dad and me, hanging out, eating breakfast, watching cartoons.

[Freya]

I think the rise of the internet and stream services killed it. We don't have to wait for stuff. If you want to watch whatever cartoon, marathon it on netflix or youtube or whatever. It's just so much easier to get the content we want, even for the kids we have. Your kid whines about no adventure time being on? Watch a tivo'd one or go to netflix and pick one of the season. Netflix has a "Netflix Kids" for a reason.

[arenzi]

It's sad but I've stopped watching cartoons on Saturday mornings a long time ago because they aren't what they used to be. So it's already been a thing of the past to me.

[Psychotic]

I had a good time growing up and watching cartoons on both Saturday and a Sunday morning but this doesn't make me sad. I'm an adult, I don't watch cartoons now. Yeah kids now will miss out, but then again I missed out on iPads, Netflix and hell the internet itself as a kid, so what can you do? The times they are a-changin'.

[blackmage_nuke]

I didnt watch Saturday Morning Cartoons. How could you sit around on a weekend watching cartoons when there were video games to be played!

[Araciel]

Kids these days ... this world is going to hell in a handbasket.

Get off my lawn :colbert:

[Hannibal_Khan]

Adventure Time is a good show. Its my 3yr old nieces favorite. She calls it 'TimeTime' and she loves Jake. I use babysitting her as an excuse to watch the show :lol:.

As for me TMNT was best cartoon ever, but i will never watch that michael bay movie.

[Colonel Angus]

I think the rise of the internet and stream services killed it. We don't have to wait for stuff. If you want to watch whatever cartoon, marathon it on netflix or youtube or whatever. It's just so much easier to get the content we want, even for the kids we have. Your kid whines about no adventure time being on? Watch a tivo'd one or go to netflix and pick one of the season. Netflix has a "Netflix Kids" for a reason.
No, it was cable & the FCC that killed it. All that happened before the rise of Netfix & DVRs & before the internet was "the thing".

Every station had Saturday morning cartoons. I remember watching the Smurfs, Fat Albert & Mr. T on Saturday mornings on NBC.

It's a shame CW is giving up on it's shows. Just before they completed DBZ Kai.

[DMKA]

Good?

So they can enjoy cartoons whenever, wherever, and aren't restricted to a specific timespan once a week. why would anyone think this is a bad thing? We would have killed to have such a privilege as kids.

Crying over this is like crying that you don't have to walk to a payphone to make an away-from-home phonecall now, or that you don't need to pay $4 to call 411 to find out where the nearest pizza delivery place is.

[Agent Proto]

I never suggested that this was a bad thing. It's more of a thing of novelty that's never going to be a thing again. Saturday mornings used to be a time when we would be able to watch cartoons, and it was also a good time for companies to advertise specifically for kids knowing that they would be watching. It's just now replaced by the Internet and cable networks specific for cartoons.

[Ayen]

I used to watch Fox Kids every Saturday morning as a kid. Got kind of sick with all the jumping around they did. First they were on 41, then 62, then 29, then 38, which was a channel we couldn't get on the TV in the front room at the time, but could get in my brother's room just fine so we had to tape it in there to watch later.

STAY ON ONE CHANNEL!

Then the WB had its own Saturday morning lineup: Pokemon, Jackie Chan Adventures, Yu-Gi-Oh, Cardcaptor Sakura, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, good times.

[Shlup]

That's it! It's decided! I'm going to be one of those moms that restricts TV watching to just once a week--Saturday mornings. I already have a pretty healthy digital collection of cartoons.

Actually, the more I think about this the more I like it. We have a media machine set up already; I'll just make a playlist that the kids can open up on Saturday morning while I sleep in. And it will be a sacred time.

[MJN SEIFER]

I enjoyed these as a kid, I had a TV in my room back then, so if I was awake in time for them, I'd just watch TV before I actually had to get up.

I don't pay attention to what counts as a Saturday Morning Cartoon now (even though I still watch cartoons) because It's not really a good time for me (Saturday morning? I'm going to bed by then.), but I enjoyed them as a kid, even though I had other channels with cartoons to watch at anytime. It was just a good way to start the day (though, I still did this on weekdays as well if I was awake in time).

[Colonel Angus]

What's even sadder was the end of the weekday afternoon cartoon lineups. Now it's news, judge shows & celebrity gossip. R.I.P.

[Shlup]

Not in this house! In this house it's Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood! That show is boss.

[Colonel Angus]

Not in this house! In this house it's Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood! That show is boss.
Ah, yes, PBS. The last bastion of children's entertainment over the airwaves.

[Raistlin]

I did love Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. The Spider-Man and X-Men animated series were my favorites (I think they were on FOX). Kids are just fucking spoiled nowadays. Why in my day, I had to actually sit in front of a TV at a specific time to watch a TV show, even reruns! And then walk 5 miles to school, uphill both ways!

[Vyk]

There's probably still something to be said for Shlup's regulation. Even back in the 80s too many parents were accused of using their TV to babysit their kids. Now their iPad babysits their kids. I don't know how it is in the rest of the world, but it's pretty prevalent that each generation of children be more dumb than the last. Or at least it seems that way. Probably more and more lazy parenting I suppose