Saturday Morning Cartoons...I miss you.

For the past 45 minutes my family and I have been watching intro's to the Saturday morning cartoons I watched when I was growing up. I think my wife was the first one to talk about the Gummi Bears and we went from there. We sang what we could remember from the theme song and then I went to YouTube to find the intro. After watching it and seeing the look on my 7 year olds face I had to play more. I felt like a little kid again watching these intro's and it took me back. I remember waking up early as all hell with my little brother, before my sisters were born of course, and getting a box of cereal and a gallon of milk and turning on the tube to watch some cartoons. I remember we would destroy the box of Honey Combs, Pacman, Captain Crunch or Smurf cereal and almost the entire gallon of milk. If we didn't want cereal we would snag a box of honey grahams or Oreo's and we were set for the morning. Did my parents care? Hell no! They got to sleep in and now that I'm a parent I understand that sleep is a lot better. This is especially true now because the Saturday morning cartoons blow! I have been up a few times and watched cartoons with my boy and it's not the same. They have revamped Sonic the Hedgehog and the bad guy who looks exactly like Dr. Robotnik is actually named Dr. Eggman. At first I was baffled and told Logan this was not Dr. Eggman, it was Robotnik and a few weeks later he schooled me on it.

"Hey dad, you remember Dr. Eggman?"

"Umm...you mean Robotnik?"

"Uh...yeah well it's not Robotnik. You want to know why?"

"Sure buddy, tell me what you know."

"Well, last week on the show they said that Robotnik is Eggman's grandfather. So..."

Yep! That's right, I got schooled by my kid. It's all good though, at least he knows about Robotnik...umm let's move on shall we. They also have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but they're many many years into the future and it's just odd. Dragon Ball Z is still cool but everything else blows! Bring back The Gummi Bears, Shirt Tales, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, The Wuzzles, Snorks, Muppet Babies, Heathcliff, and all the other badass cartoons that I had growing up. Bring back the early Nickelodeon which was actually Pinwheel. After morning cartoons on Saturday it was on to Pinwheel where one could watch Mr. Wizard and You Can't Do That On Television. Then when I got a little older and Pinwheel turned into Nickelodeon we had Snick on Saturday nights where one could watch "Are You Afraid of The Dark?"

I could go on and on and on but there are way too many to mention here. If I did I would have to dip into the Disney Channel with Kids Incorporated and Good Morning Ms. Bliss, which turned into an NBC hit and renamed "Saved By The Bell". Anyway, I just wanted to write about this since we spent so much time looking at video's on all these cartoons. We had the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons and now our kids have crap. I believe there is a channel called Boomerang that has all the old shows but it's not the same. If anyone can remember any other cartoons let me know! Cheers!

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