Random Thought: Saturday Morning Lost

You know what’s wrong with kids today?  One thing, among many, is the severe lack of awesome, half-a-day, Saturday morning cartoonage! 

Where is Bugs Bunny?  Tom & Jerry?  Scooby Doo?  Droopy?  Yoggie Bear & Boo Boo? Seen a Smurf lately?  It’s like they all died and have been buried on Cartoon Network or something.

Why do I bring this complaint you might ask… mostly because my television is held hostage, and not just on Saturday morning either.  Everyday from 3:30PM until 8:30PM, there might as well be only one station… the Disney Channel.  (I should try and get a discount from my cable company because we don’t use any other channels!)  I’m sorry folks, but I’m just a little Hannah Montannaed out!  I have a huge case of Zack-and-Cody-itis! 

I need me some Tex Avery cartoons and some Looney Tunes, in an un-edited and not-so-politically correct, original version!  I watched plenty of Wile E. Coyote getting anvils dropped on him before being blown into a black, crusty pile with eyes and that cartoon violence didn’t turn me into a violent kid.  Seeing “Baby Face” Finster smoking a cigar while shaving didn’t make me want to smoke!  “Wabbit season” and “Duck season” didn’t make me shoot my friends, it just made me laugh!  I want originals people!!

Just before the fall TV season began when we were kids in the 70′s and 80′s, they had a “preview” program where they introduced all of the new cartoon shows and characters to us.  They showed all of these cool new cartoons in the TV Guide, and I tell you… as a kid I got pumped!!!  CAPTAINNNN CAAVVVVVEEEEMMAANNNNN!!!  Bring on the cartoons!!  Where is that now?  I can remember the 3 major networks having an all-out, cartoon war to grab our attentions (and ratings) every September.  Doesn’t happen anymore!

Our kids are missing out on a huge slice of life.  That slice that started your Saturday morning off with a smile between your spoonfuls of Froot Loops.  That slice that gave you an excuse to remain in your PJs until lunch.  That slice that ended by lunch so you could go OUTSIDE and play the rest of the day away.  We wonder why our kids are fat and un-motivated.  Their Disney shows last ALL DAY LONG!

Now there are a few highlights today that I must recognize… Phineas & Ferb is an AWESOME cartoon and has often made me belly laugh!  Very well-written cartoon there!  I also enjoy the Penguins of Madagascar!  Also very clever!  But that’s all the kids have now!

Parents, petition… cry… write your congressman or senator!  We must find a way to bring back decent toonage to the airwaves before our young minds are swept away by Zeke & Luther!

Be-dee-ba-dee-ba-dee… That’s all folks!