# Remember Saturday morning cartoons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024 "2005-02-20T15:40:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/81 "2005-02-22T03:18:40Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > A few that nobody has mentioned were: Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog. > Anyone remember Tennessee Tuxedo and Mr. Answer Man? How about Heckle & Jeckle, Woody Woodpecker, Underdog, and Betty Boop? Mr. McGoo, Cool McCool, and _vintage_ Popeye were some of my faves, but nothing really did it like Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Dooright, Fractured Fairy Tales, and Mr. Peabody. > > _Nothin’ up my sleeve. PRESTO!_ Somebody my age! I mentioned Woody Woodpecker back there someplace, but I forgot about Tennessee Tuxedo (voiced by Don Adams) Heckle & Jeckle and Underdog (Wally Cox). I remember Tom Terrific being on Captain Kanagroo on weekday mornings, though. The on Sunday mornings Davy and Goliath, which I understand the Lutherans are bringing back. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/82 "2005-02-22T04:52:42Z")
> [@longhair75](#): > > freind e. thorp > > i go back farther than you, i guess. i remember saturday mornings with black and white live action shows like fury (sort of like lassie but with a big black horse) and sky king (a cowboy with an airplane???) then on to bugs and daffy. there were also a couple of puppet sci fi shows, one space opera called (iirc) fireball XL5 and one with submarines (the name escapes me) mighty mouse, top cat, and huckleberry hound. later, the jetsons. > > i seem to have lost track of saturday mornings about the time scooby doo was first on. Well, maybe you do go back a little farther. 🙂 My giveaway was **Inch High Private Eye** , which aired in 1973-74. I was six. I was also just in time for \*\*Big Blue Marble \*\*and **Schoolhouse Rock**. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/83 "2005-02-22T05:01:29Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > One comedian I saw speaking to a group of mostly Gen X’ers (my generation- I was born in 1966) majorly hit a responsive chord when he said the words “Sooooooouuuuuuuul Train” still make him mad and depressed because as a kid it officially meant “cartoons are over”. Yeah, pretty much. That and on Sunday mornings, I hated Pat Robertson because I had to wait until the 700 Club was over so I could watch my cartoons that were on (just a few, nothing like Saturdays), and he kept going on about teh Jaysus and teh sinners. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/84 "2005-02-22T05:47:26Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > One my earliest memories of any kind is a snibbet of _The Beatles_ saturday morning cartoon. And yet for 15 I heard nary a mention of it amid the standard innundation of Beatles memorabilia (“No, not ‘Yellow Submarine’! It was a _saturday morning catoon show!_”). I had begun to doubt it had existed when MTV showed some reruns in the late 80’s. Vindicated! I vaguely remember it too. MTV’s rebroadcast of the show, by the way, [is one of the last times the cartoon’s been aired on TV.](http://www.filmthreat.com/Features.asp?Id=1310) > [@sqweels](#): > > Another barely-remembered show from that era was something called “Tom Foolery” or the like, featuring some rather bizarre animal characters. In one episode, Chicken Licken thinks the sky is falling when he gets hit on the head with a puzzle piece labeled “piece of sky”. Anyone else remeber that? > > Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going down to the Little Store to buy some “Odd Rods”. 🆒 Not only do I remember “Tom Foolery”, I watched it on a semi-regular basis. NBC used to air around 7 a.m. before the other networks started showing their cartoons. If I was up early on Saturday, I watched mainly because it was the only cartoon on at the time. ---
**Author:** ![High\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@High\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/High_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/85 "2005-02-22T07:36:07Z")
Captain Caveman Plastic Man (a sad, sad Fantastic 4 thievery) Not Saturday morning, but must be mentioned: Squidly Didly Winnie Witch Precious Pup Secret Squirrel Magilla Gorilla (I guess naming conventions of the time dictated either a rhyme, alliteration or an alliterative rhyme) The Great Space Coaster (not Saturday morning or a cartoon, but cool) [Rejoice!](http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/moviefinder/products/2304803.html) ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/86 "2005-02-22T07:40:49Z")
Anybody besides me remember Don Coyote and his faithful sidekick Sancho Panda? I barely remember it myself. My favorite was the immortal _Garfield and Friends_. I used to get up every Saturday at 8:00 AM to catch this show. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/87 "2005-02-22T08:06:17Z")
ABC Weekend Specials, anyone? _The Mouse and the Motorcycle_ is the only one I actually remember, though. And ABC’s _Sonic the Hedgehog_—not the syndicated one, which was slapstick drudge. The network one was well-written, interesting, and cool. And the full hour of Warner Brothers cartoons that was on the lineup for years. J. Michael Straczynski’s (!) _Ghostbusters_ run. (Before it turned into _Slimer’s Budget Animation Show_) These days, sadly, Saturday Mornings seem but a shadow of their former selves. Even compared to just a couple of years ago. No cartoons on NBC; CBS is all “Nick Jr.”; ABC has some programming, but a distressing amount of Lizzie McGuire and “Recess”\* reruns; and my local Fox station has a LOT of anime dueling-game shows crammed between reruns of _Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century._ _sigh_ I made myself sad. ☹ \*Doesn’t this bloody show _die?_ ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/88 "2005-02-22T08:27:53Z")
> [@Loopus](#): > > Anybody besides me remember Don Coyote and his faithful sidekick Sancho Panda? I barely remember it myself. Yup. In fact Don Coyote was one of my early handles online. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/89 "2005-02-22T11:58:40Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > Another barely-remembered show from that era was something called “Tom Foolery” or the like, featuring some rather bizarre animal characters. In one episode, Chicken Licken thinks the sky is falling when he gets hit on the head with a puzzle piece labeled “piece of sky”. Anyone else remeber that? Holy crap, you just dredged up a deep memory. I remember the chicken sitting there with a big blue puzzle piece! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/90 "2005-02-22T20:32:55Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > The Girl bots, Bo & Boo ( I think?), were designed by Wendy. No wonder I always want to ogle them. 😉 > [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > BTW–if you’r saving up for _Omaha_ TPBs, you’re making a mistake. The early issues are getting very hard to find. Buy them one at a time, & ASAP. 'course, the _real_ trick is sneaking them past the wife… 😃 > [@DocCathode](#): > > How could whatserface not know scientist guy was Orbots comander? Ask Lois Lane. > [@DocCathode](#): > > And how come Tor was human-sized as Tor, but when he folded in his arms and legs to form Orbots’ body he was was 20 feet tall? \ Subspace! He’s _obviously_ shunting additional mass from an interdimensional source. Fairly easy, actually – you just need to ionize the graviton flow in a reverse-polarity muon field, then… \ ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/91 "2005-02-22T21:27:28Z")
Nobody has mentioned the animated Brady Bunch! I barely remember it and what I do remember is tainted by those goddam Pandas (Ping and Pong?) and that minah bird, Merlin. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/92 "2005-02-22T22:06:03Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Sectaurs-Warriors Of Symbion? Prince Dargon and his heroic pals fight General Spidrax and his evil minions. I have some of the toys, and a few issues of the comic. I don’t know if they ever made a cartoon though. The other problem is that the characters rode insects. Sounds about right! I think there was another show, Robotix? They maybe had cool vehicles too… > [@DocCathode](#): > > Visionaries- Hey, holograms are wonderful things. The Supernaturals was a toyline even more heavily based on holograms. But, afaik the Supernaturals never had a cartoon. The supernaturals weren’t quite as cool as the visonaries, at least the toys. Don’t get me wrong, I owned a bunch of both… ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/93 "2005-02-22T22:17:32Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > I think there was another show, Robotix? They maybe had cool vehicles too Robotix told the tale of human explorers stranded on a planet currently inhabited by giant robots. Milennia ago, the planet’s scientists had seen a great catastrophe (I think it was a nova) coming. The good guys and the bad guys had gotten together and developed a plan for survival. They would all be put into suspended animation deep underground. Giant robots would protect the planet and revive them when it was safe. Something went wrong. They woke up to find that their minds had been transferred to the giant robots. It’s discovered that with a human at the controls, the robots can reconfigure themselves. A group of bad guy humans joins the bad guy robots and the fighting commences. ---
**Author:** ![Verminary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/71e660/32.png) [@Verminary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verminary)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/94 "2005-02-22T22:47:57Z")
**Monchichis**! I think they only went one season on ABC, but I can still sing the theme song. The plush doll tie-in had a neutronium head covered in a soft fuzzy skin that did absolutely nothing to cushion the impact when it was swung at a handy sibling. Many concussions resulted when stuffed animal fights escalated to Monchichi level. **Jace and the Wheeled Warriors** was just odd. Vehicles that were a cross between Venus Flytraps and giant buzzsaws, a hero with Rogue hair, and a midget robotic knight as a sidekick. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/95 "2005-02-22T23:07:10Z")
> [@Verminary](#): > > **Monchichis**! I think they only went one season on ABC, but I can still sing the theme song. “Way up in the trees live the Monchichis. Monchichi Monchichi.” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/96 "2005-02-22T23:08:44Z")
> [@High Cheese](#): > > The Great Space Coaster (not Saturday morning or a cartoon, but cool) Damn, I thought I was the only one who ever watched that show! “On the great space coaster, get on board…” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/97 "2005-02-22T23:08:51Z")
I thought I would be the first to mention The Beatles animated, but somebody beat me to it. There was a lot of Hanna-Barbera crap that I couldn’t be bothered with, even as an adolescent – The Jetsons, Josie & The Pussycats, The Archies, etc. Jonny Quest, though, was extremely cool. For some reason, I still remember the theme from an extremely short-lived animated King Kong: > [@](#): > > King Kong, you know the name of > King Kong, you know the fame of > King Kong - 10 times as big as a maaaaannnn… George of the Jungle (and its subsidiaries, Tom Slick, Super Chicken) was the second-best thing ever to hit Saturday morning. The all-time best being, of course, Looney Tunes. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/98 "2005-02-22T23:15:01Z")
Great Space Coaster “This is the news, with Gary G’nu.” We had an abstract elephant, an orangutan, a clown who could turn invisible, an alien green guy with weird horns (IIRC he was only in later seasons), a bird, and the evil circus owner, M T Promises. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/99 "2005-02-22T23:44:09Z")
_Linus the Lion-Hearted_. This king of the jungle began life as the character/mascot of Post Crispy Critters[sup]TM[/sup]. “THE ONE AND ONLY CEREAL THAT COMES IN THE SHAPE OF ANIMALS!” Try to imagine yourself being stampeded by a herd of galloping animal crackers while you read the above. He is not to be confused with King Leonardo, the ruler of Bongo Congo, who ran the country with the aid of his chancellor, a skunk named Odie Koloney, and was fined by his mother whenever he used a cuss word (one Bongo Buck in the Swear Jar every time he said “Confound it!”). ---
**Author:** ![Arhat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@Arhat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arhat)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/100 "2005-02-23T00:30:43Z")
> [@High Cheese](#): > > Plastic Man (a sad, sad Fantastic 4 thievery) Not true. [Plastic Man](http://www.toonopedia.com/plas.htm) First Appeared: 1941 [Fantastic Four](http://www.toonopedia.com/fant4.htm) First Appeared: 1961 I also used to love the various edumercials like the previously mentioned School House Rock, but there was also: Yuck Mouth “Got some beef in my teef, got some chicken too Ouch! That’s a cavity. Hey! that’s new.” Somewhere, out there, someone needs HELP! Dr. **H** enry’s **E** mergency **L** essons for **P** eople and Don’t drown your food! Anyone remember any more? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024.md?page=6)