I remember the cartoons on TV. My saturday morning started with Davy & Goliath at 6:45 am right after the test pattern, station start up info (this is TV 12 broadcasting on a frequency of…) and national anthem. Favorites: Skyhawks, Hot Wheels, Speed Buggy.
Do kids still get up early on Saturday morning to watch cartoons?
Season 1 is available on DVD now. The cartoons are still as good as I remember them.
The Critic was never really a children’s cartoon…it was on during prime time, first on ABC and then it moved to Fox for a season. And I don’t know how much you’re remembering…ok, it didn’t rely on shock value or random cameos, but it wasn’t in any way just a sitcom that just happened to be animated. It had a LOT of fantastical elements to it. The Simpsons is much more grounded in reality.
The “kid from Easter Island” was in several episodes, and him and his family all had those giant stone heads as their actual heads. One episode had Klingons attending Marty’s school, one featured the “Nightmare on Elm Street Preschool” where Freddy Kruger commanded a worm from Hell to devour the children who didn’t nap, and so on.
Don’t get me wrong, The Critic was a fantastic show that was waaaaaaay ahead of it’s time (I mean, look at Family Guy. It does similar jokes (wackiness, lots of things that couldn’t happen in the real world,) but The Critic was so much better at working them into the plot and not just doing them as random cut-aways. It’s just not a sitcom that was by random chance animated.
To the OP: Holy mother of crap, Are you kidding!? : ) My current channel lineup lists 13 different channels that show cartoons. Plus we subscribe to netflix so there’s an entire line up of new and old cartoons available to watch instantly. Plus our DVD collection of the cartoons I watched when I was a wee lad. In fact, my 7 year old is going through my Tom & Jerry set right now. One more thing, some networks, like Nickelodeon, let you watch episodes of their shows on their website. These punk kids are spoiled today man.
Yup. I’ll add: Thomas the Tank Engine (not new but ever-popular among the under-4 crowd) and the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
I’ll add that the only one I can stand is Back Yardigans, because they do some cool klezmer sounding music. 
Dora I particularly dislike, because its plot is so very rigid.
I didn’t realize that there were so many cartoon networks. I can only see three in Chicago NW cable. I haven’t had digital cable since 2004, so I guess a lot must’ve popped up since then
I tried to interest the kid in THe Flintstones and he laughed heartily at me… he said it sucked and the background never changed…, he was equally contemptous of Bullwinkle… and Top cat haha
I absolutely love Boondocks. but this is about the kiddies...I don’t have kids, but I want to add another vote for Flapjack. The voicework and the quirky plots are really entertaining.
I remember watching Ren & Stimpy on the weekends as a kid…heck, I remember earning the privelege of having my parents’ old VCR to hook up to the TV in my room so I could record the show. I was never a big fan of Doug, especially after one of the networks (ABC, maybe?) wrecked it. Rugrats was pretty good, but they hit a super-saturation point with the merchandise, and the show seemed to completely tank around that time.
Little Einsteins and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse reign supreme at our house, along with a bevy of movies on VHS and DVD. Hubby and I have also introduced the kids to the Looney Tunes Golden Anniversary collection, which they love.
I casually turned on the tv early this Saturday morning. I rarely watch network tv on Saturday. I was surprised that ABC,NBC,CBS weren’t carrying cartoons. One channel had one of those Daybreak shows on from 7AM to 9. The other channels had paid programming and some local real estate marketing shows.
One network finally showed cartoons from 9 till 11. The other two continued with local real estate crap.
What the heck happened? I remember fondly waking up at 6:45AM every Saturday and watching cartoons from 7AM till 11AM. ABC,NBC,CBS all carried cartoons. This was 1968-1974. I stopped watching after I turned 13.
I feel kind of bad for kids today. Not having even one morning of cartoons must suck. 
Heck there’s nothing for adults either. Who wants to watch real estate marketing? I’ve got a house already.
You voodooed this thread back into existence and then didn’t bother to read a single reply? Really?
Another vote for Fanboy And ChumChum. The simple fact alone that they have a school janitor named “Janitor Poopatine” whom is a parody of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, and he has a levitating chair, wears a hooded robe just like Palpatine, speaks like Palpatine and has an episode dedicated to him where Fanboy destroys the “Dump Star” is just brilliant.
The fact that my 8 and 4 year old sons have seen the Star Wars movies and get the reference just makes me laugh.
I read the whole thread. I was simply confirming what was on Sat mornings in my region.
Cartoons on cable channels are mostly reruns. The networks used to run new stuff on Saturdays. There were other times I saw the older stuff like Merry Melodies and Tom & Jerry. They ran weekdays 7am till 8am. I’d watch until my bus came for school.