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The Disappearance of Saturday Morning
Ant writes "Saturday morning no longer means kids in front of TV sets across the country, glued to the latest in hip cartoons. Why? Gerard Raiti investigates the death of an era." As a former Saturday morning TV addict, this doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.
I fought with my sister over whether to watch Garfield and Friends or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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When I was a kid, I thought the cartoons were hilarious and the Christian Evangelists were boring.
Now I think I that the cartoons are boring and the Christian Evangelists are hilarious.
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I'll always have fond memories of Saturday morning cartoons, right up until SOul Train came on, telling me it was time to go play video games.
Course, these days, I don't think I'veseen a Saturday morning in a few years, unles you count the time between Friday at midnight and when I crawl into bed.
Now I don't have to fight the kid for the remote so I can watch the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Hour. (It is still on isn't it? I haven't won one of the battles since 1993)
The truth is, they're sleeping a lot later due to being up playing CounterStrike all night.
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njordThen the university programs would come on for one or two half-hour shows. There'd be lectures on dinosaurs, chemistry, ancient art, archeology, religion, Egyptian architectures, etc...
Then, if I remember correctly, Scooby-Doo would start off the morning line up (the real Scooby-Doo, not that new-age Scrappy crap, and DON'T get me started on Gadzookie...).
Superfriends, Laugh Olympics, and of course the classic Schoolhouse Rock fill-ins...conjunction junction, what's your function?
I never really liked the Smurfs; guess I was starting to outgrow cartoons then. But I never missed an episode of Dungeons and Dragons. Always wanted that bow...
Back then, shows were real. Now we've got Artifical T.V. ... my wife says that Jenna won.
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8:30? Hell no! Gotta catch Adult Swim! =P
The reason is really very simple - no Pinky and the Brain on saturday mornings. That was the best cartoon ever concieved of by the mind of man, no argument. They had megalomaniacal mice, for Pete's sake! It doesn't get better than that.
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Now kids spend their Saturday mornings sleeping in as they usually have been out smoking bongs and having sex the night before.
Their role models - Eminem and Christina Aguilera, Brittney, Holly Valance etc. You get the picture.
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I'm an amendment to be, yes an amendment to be, and I'm hopin' that they'll ratify me. There's a lot of flag burners who have got too much freedom. I wanna make it legal for policemen to beat 'em, cause there's limits to our liberties. 'Least I hope and pray that there are, 'cause those liberal freaks go too far.
kid: Well why can't we just make a law against flag burning?
Amendment: Because that law would be unconstitutional.
But if we changed the Constitution...
kid: Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!
Amendment: Now you're catching on!
Kid: What if people say you're not good enough to be in the Constitution?
Amendment (singing): Then I'll crush all opposition to me, and I'll make Ted Kennedy pay. If he fights back, I'll say that he's gay.
Congressman: Good news, Amendment! They ratified ya! You're in the U.S. Constitution.
Amendment: Oh yeah! Door's open, boys.
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Now that we all have flying cars and robot housekeepers, it's just not relevant any more.
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Heh, that's a funny observation. On the other hand, With Coyote as a programmer, those cartoons would likely be somewhat dull. What would he send away for? ACME Pursuer-Evader Algorithm Libraries?
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Then again, they say that humor is just a small twist on mundane every-day life. Coyote as a programmer wouldn't be that far from real programmers. Just like real programmers, he'd be sure every one of his "creations" was a work of art, and expect it to work without adequate testing.
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the descent of american television quality into the realm of craptitude we see today is entirely due to the PTA and the AARP - the two most powerful organizations in the US other than the NRA, mostly because the NRA has guns. some of us in the underground plan to put guns in the hands of teachers and retirees and see what happens next...
since it was long ago discovered that kids that watch too much TV are less intelligent and less respectful of their elders than quiet kids that read books, the PTAARP quetly infiltrated the american television indistry, specifically the animation production companies, planting ever increasingly insipid, politically correct and above all boring show concepts into the project pipelines. high-level PTAARP sympathizers at the networks green-lit these projects, diluting the quality of child-oriented televised animation and quietly killing off the spirit of america's cartoon-watching youth.
not being the brightest of the teachers and retirees out there (that segment of the PTAARP already having been recruited by the government for thought-control experiments and school-lunch programs) the plan actually backfired somewhat. rather than turn off the TV and read books, or go outside and enjoy nature on saturday mornings, america's youth adapted to and came to accept the new, milquetoast offerings. rather than breeding a more intelligent, more fit generation of americans, the program instead has been turning out americans more and more accepting of establishment, and less likely to change their habits to conform with a changing enviroment.
some have said that the program was subverted from within by a splinter group of the Young Republicans to just this end
meanwhile, the writers of decent cartoons have abandoned the youth market and instead targeted adults, to the benefit of the growing adult cartoon market, a short-lived market segment, not only because these are the last generation of adults who grew up with quality youth-oriented cartoons, but also because they still spend their leisure time on a couch watching TV instead of exercizing.
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