When I was but a wee lad (mid- to late-50's), Saturday mornings were for cartoons -- Bugs Bunny, Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Tom and Jerry, Popeye, and other such entertainments.
This morning, just for drill, I had a look at our local selection of programs and didn't see a damn thing that looked even vaguely amusing.
WTF is a Yu-Gi-Oh? I've seen/heard about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Power Rangers (some years ago, it was on in the afternoon in the Dallas area; when the program ended, the kids in the apartment complex would go outside an re-enact various scenes with one or two of them getting karate-chopped or -kicked every so often). Similarly, I've heard of Pokemon (a friend's kid wanted Pokemon underwear for cryin' out loud!), Care Bears, and so on.
Where's the mindless laugh-yourself-silly stuff that so many of us grew up on? Yes, it was violent (tough to get much more violent than the Coyote's schemes against the Roadrunner, for example), but we KNEW that it was cartoons, that Real Life didn't work that way. Now all we've got is techno-fantasy crap and play-nice-and-be-happy drivel.
*snif*
I miss Looney Tunes.
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Here in Joisey when I was a kid, Saturday mornings meant one thing - Science Fiction Theater, hosted by the late Claude Kirchner. The worst of the "B" flicks, hosted by a guy in a circus ringmaster's costume, with a crudely painted big-top background and a clown puppet. The incongruity of it all didn't really sink in until I was an adult, but it was great.
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