Me TV is bringing them back .

How can they begin to think that kids today will put down their electronic toys,
to watch cartoons ?

( If that's their target audience )

Heck, I know over half a dozen kids that are at the soccer field, the ball field, the football field, or the basketball court at 8:30 on Saturday mornings.

Will sports go away?
Could this be the resurrection of couch potato 's?

www.metv.com

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Hell, I might watch them!

are they running Looney Tunes?

and are they the cut/sanitized version?

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Originally posted by lyman:
are they running Looney Tunes?

and are they the cut/sanitized version?

This. If so...

Seems like the government wants to ruin everything. That was the end of the cartoons in the morning.

Back when it cost $300,000 to make Smurf cartoons, it was well spent compared to the craptoons they have today.

I don't think they would show the Censored 11 or Song of the South, but Adolph Wolf was funny as hell.

HBO Max has the uncut Looney Toons on there, have been watching some over the last week. Great memories

I wonder if they'll show these from WWII...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltO0Xcdm1s

I thought Private Snafu sounded amazingly similar to Bugs Bunny. Hmm...

How many times have you heard Donald Duck say 'Heil Hitler'? Lucky for us he had a bad dream.

Big fan of classic Tom & Jerry.
Trivia:
Q: What was Tom's girlfriend named?
A: Toodles Galore.
Is you is or is you aint my baby?

They are supposed to have Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, and Popeye.

Awesome. I used to love the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner hour.

None of those were originally Saturday morning television cartoons. They were shown in theaters. Too bad they don't show these or something like them instead of the endless previews of other movies.

What will be interesting is seeing what ads get played.

Curious whether it'll be toys/games or Metamucil/Geritol?

I have fond memories of Saturday morning cartoons circa the early-mid 1980's at my grandmother's house in Philly. yes, those were the days.

I have young kids ages 3 and 6 and therefore get to see a lot of their "cartoons" and kids programming in general and what I've noticed is that the majority of it seems to be educational or otherwise seems to want to show or teach them something. I think the government mandated that somewhere along the way, they are far different than the cartoons of our day.

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Originally posted by egregore:
None of those were originally Saturday morning television cartoons. They were shown in theaters.

Most of them I was exposed to originally during weekday cartoons, not Saturday morning. I did watch a lot of The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour though.

It's a step in the right direction, and they appeal to a wide audience, but I'll wait until they specifically target my Gen-X '70s kid generation. I'd love to check out The Funky Phantom, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Speed Buggy, Clue Club, Hong Kong Phooey, Emergency +4, and Laff-A-Lympics again. Those were my Saturday morning cartoons.

Also, live-action stuff like Shazam, Land of the Lost, and especially, Ark II—postapocalypticism for kids!

Jonny Quest in the 60’s. My Dad used to get me up from bed so I wouldnt miss it !
Now that is a great memory !

Summer of '70, I was 18. Had the house to myself for about four weeks total that year as my mother had gotten remarried and was traveling with my stepfather.

I worked Mondays thru Fridays. The drill Friday night was get off work, fill the car up, pick up a pizza on the way home. Clean up, go out and party or go cruising on Telegraph.

Regardless how late or early I came in the Saturday morning drill was early awake, some cold pizza, a can or two of Coca Cola and Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour.

The CBS Cartooniverse in the mid-60's - the last of the violent adventure/fun cartoons like The Herculoids, Mightor, Space Ghost, Birdman, The Lone Ranger, etc. Then the government mandated that cartoons had to have socially appropriate themes like environmentalism. And no violence. I hated that.
Johnny Quest's single season in infinite reruns was the only reprieve for a long time.

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The CBS Cartooniverse in the mid-60's - the last of the violent adventure/fun cartoons like The Herculoids, Mightor, Space Ghost, Birdman, The Lone Ranger, etc.

Yes! The Herculoids was my favorite of those. Except for the Lone Ranger, they were all Hanna-Barbera productions. About the same time there was also a Fantastic Four. The 1967 Lone Ranger cartoon borrowed heavily from The Wild Wild West, even having an analog to Dr. Loveless called Tiny Tom. Another - a "so bad it's good" - was Super President.

Man, I miss those times. I just remembered the late 70's, early 80's Tarzan and Flash Gordon shows. Oh, and Thundar the barbarian, I loved that one. Unfortunately, today's kids don't see them like we did. I'll show stuff like the Super Friends to my kids and they're like, really dad? That was super lame. Well, forty something years ago they were super awesome.