# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/121 "2005-02-23T20:51:09Z")
Wow-another one I just remembered is ‘Top Cat’. Anybody else remember this one-season runner from the early 60s? ---
**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 24, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/122 "2005-02-24T03:09:11Z")
Shit, how could I have forgotten _Pee Wee’s Playhouse_? ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/123 "2005-02-24T04:25:58Z")
Not only did MC Hammer have a cartoon, but I seem to remember that Kid ‘n’ Play had a cartoon too. No idea on the quality of it, but it probably sucked. And then there was _Lil’ Rosie_, Roseanne Barr’s own cartoon. I don’t remember watching a lot of Saturday morning cartoons. Of course I watched _Looney Tunes_. _Garfield and Friends_ was good, especially the _U.S. Acres_ bits. _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ (the theme song of which has now lodged itself into my brain) was never to be missed. But the real high point of my Saturday was _Beakman’s World_. I’ve always had a soft spot for educational TV. Also, I thought the first female sidekick of Beakman’s was pretty hot. The second one didn’t quite have the same _je ne sais quois_. And now I can’t remember which one was the first one: Josie or Phoebe. Come to think of it, I think I’ve watched more cartoons as an adult than as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/124 "2005-02-24T07:59:51Z")
I must be about the same age as Guin, because I remember most of those Saturday morning ones from the OP. I only half-watched Saturday cartoons while I played with my Legos though. The ones I really watched were on after school: Voltron, He-man, Transformers, Star Blazers, Robotech (actual death and destruction!), Inspector Gadget (I had a thing for Penny). I remember the existence of Thundercats, but never really watched it. There are a few vaguely remembered cartoons I saw back then. One was some sort of space epic, possibly anime, that they played on HBO sometimes. The only thing I really remember was a cool shot of a star gradually being eclipsed by a big ass spaceship coming in from the right, while some ominous music played. Another one, which may be Thundarr after all, had a guy with sort of a fancy bronze lightsaber that he could split into two swords, and a kid who could fly using a folding metal boomerang or something. ---
**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 24, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/125 "2005-02-24T19:58:19Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > Another one, which may be Thundarr after all, had a guy with sort of a fancy bronze lightsaber that he could split into two swords, and a kid who could fly using a folding metal boomerang or something. Galtarr And The Golden Lance. The heroic Galtarr rode around on a funky horse with his companions hot redheaded chick, and her telekinetic brother. They fought the evil Tormac, who had red skin and was blind in one eye due to his own attempt to claim the golden lance. Re Pee Wee’s Playhouse I want to make this perfectly clear since so many people remember it incorrectly. Ice cream soup was melted ice cream with animal crackers. Ice cream N cake puddin’ was ice cream and cake blended together by hand. Re Clue Club “Who solves trouble on the double? Clue Club! Clue Club solved the crime. I knew it all the time.” ---
**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 25, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/126 "2005-02-25T18:19:53Z")
> [@Arhat](#): > > Don’t drown your food! > > Anyone remember any more? I myself hanker for a hunk o’ cheese. ---
**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 25, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/127 "2005-02-25T20:05:47Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Wow-another one I just remembered is ‘Top Cat’. Anybody else remember this one-season runner from the early 60s? Sure. The Hanna-Barbera folks figured they had such a great fomula with the Flintstones’s _homage_ to The Honeymooners, they’d try to re-create it by ripping o–, errr, _homaging_ Sgt. Bilko from _The Phil Silvers Show_. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/128 "2005-02-25T23:44:36Z")
The thing that hit me about H-B cartoons, even as a little kid, was that when an indoor chase ensued, the house had 42 friggin’ couches-it’s like the house was 10 feet wide, and 400 feet long. 😃 ---
**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 26, 2005, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024/129 "2005-02-26T07:50:32Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > The thing that hit me about H-B cartoons, even as a little kid, was that when an indoor chase ensued, the house had 42 friggin’ couches-it’s like the house was 10 feet wide, and 400 feet long. 😃 Didn’t even have to be a chase for the Flintstones. Fred could be kvetching about something to Wilma while he went to open the front door for Barney, and he’d pass two dozen identical windows, if his dialog was long enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-saturday-morning-cartoons/291024.md?page=6)