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You’ve been hired to program the ultimate Saturday morning experience for kids across the nation–create your own ideal Saturday morning cartoon schedule.
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Well what an amazing melange of awesomeness! Now this is what I call a mixtape...So many shows with relatively so little time. We'll pull so stuff from weekday afternoon stuff here for this cornucopia of animated fun. Here goes! We can all start with the quintessential into bumper! When you say this logo, you knew something awesome was coming up!
6:00 - 6:30: New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – You’ll notice it’s not all boy shows on here…This Disney show really tugs on some sentimental heartstrings for me. The storyies were really well done, every character was totally likable. This always would be a winner for me…and it is the epitomizing show for the “After these messages we’ll be right back” Promo bumpers… Bah, I’ll show it after the theme song.
6:30 - 7:00: Garfield and Friends - Super funny show that most people don’t even think of.I actually watched it for the “Friends” (or U.S. Acres) portion to see Sheldon, Orson, Booker and Lanolin just to name a few. Crazy to think Megatron voiced half the farm!
7:30 - 8:00: Exo Squad - Great,
innovative show. We didn’t get enough
Macross Saga in the States and this was a very nice incorporation for kids who
wanted to get their mech fix. I always
was a Mech Warrior and BattleTech fan so this show really touched a sweet spot for
me. I’ve talked about the amazing toys
this cartoon produced by Playmates and this is something I wish was still alive and kicking
8:30 - 9:00: Inhumanoids - Now here is a show that probably would get some hate mail from angry parents. Super dark and very well written and animated, the Inhumanoids just had so much awesome stuff packed into each well rolled episode with some gruesome takedowns, hideous monsters and every type of freaky creature you could think of taking up the fight for both good and evil. This was an intense show that only lived one brief season. Every kid deserves the chance to witness Tendril or Decompose for themselves!
9:00 - 9:30: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - No Saturday would be complete without this gem of a cartoon show. I remember this being the ultimate product placement show as I played with my Turtles, drove them around in the Party Wagon, launched the Pizza Shooter and had epic clashes at the Sewer Playset (Best Playset everrrrr) as I watched these guys kick Foot Clan ass all over the screen. Sorry for the low rent "intro"...
9:30 - 10:00: Transformers - With the rekindled interest in the more classic version of the series through the Fall of Cybertron game, I think it’s only fair for kids to get a refresher on the epic struggle between Autobot and Decepticon…(Also, it’d be awesome for this to be a reason for Hasbro to reignite the true G1 renaissance) Autobots, roll out!
10:00 - 10:30: The Real Ghostbusters -
This made my morning in the most absolute of senses. Killer intro, terrifying ghosts, awesome
scenery. Some of these episodes were so
creepy, they stayed with me though the weekend.
Check out my previous post on scariest Ghostbuster Ghosts to see what I
mean!
10:30 - 11:00: Muppet Babies - As James Rolfe said, “It is the very embryo of life itself, we are all the offspring of...the Muppet Babies!” This show incorporated everything you could think of into a seemingly innocent show aimed at the littlest demographic. There are more nerd shout-outs and fan service than you can count with stories that still hold up to this day. I remember loving the one were Rolfe loses his voice or the one where They are climbing Fozzie’s family “Tomato”Tree. How about when they go to the "Wierdo Zone" or Gonzo steals all the animal crackers? Animal Color!!!! Good times!
11:00 - 11:30: Pee Wee’s Playhouse - Not technically a cartoon show but it had tons of puppets, animation, claymation so it works for me. Hell the show had a guy called the “King” of Cartoons, dammit! It gets on the list just for the 3 minute long Cindi Lauper theme song and having Devo do the music!
Well, there you have it! Make your rounds around the league to see what other lineups our fine affiliates have planned for your fictional viewing pleasure!
Monster fan? head to Green Plastic Squitgun!
Action fan? Shezcrafti is the one for you!
Memories of Toymorrow has Dragon's, Mr T and Voltron to say the least!
Rediscover the 80's has got GoBots, PacMan and MASK! Hoo Yeah!
Goodwill Hunting for Geeks has got a little bit of everything!
Garfield & Friends, Muppet Babies, and Inhumanoids almost made my list. I had a REALLY hard time choosing. And Pee-Wee!! How could I have overlooked him??
ReplyDeleteGreat picks!
ShezCrafti just stole the words out of my (fingers?) mouth! Muppet Babies and Pee-Wee WOULD have been on my list if I'd thought of them... And Garfield & Friends was another favorite I would have agonized over whether to include, again, if I'd thought of it. GREAT picks!
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