re: Name some of your favorite old school (maybe even Sat. morning old) cartoons.

#1 Looney Tunes
#2 Laff-Olympics
#3 The Justice League

These were the best Saturday Cartoons. Johnny Quest was also great but was on at about 6AM right before Rocky & Bullwinkle. That's pretty early to start the Saturday morning cartoon marathon. Scooby Doo is up there as one of the all time great toons but that was not on Saturday mornings where I lived, M-F after school.


Other notable cartoons not necessarily Saturday morning cartoons:

Fat Albert
Tom & Jerry
Yogi Bear
Richie Rich
Inspector Gadget
Thundar the Babarian
He-Man
Thundercats
GI Joe
The Smurfs


I grew up during that transition from network to cable TV. It used to be Saturday mornings meant something for cartoons. You'd get up early as a kid and binge watched until noon when the ABC Saturday Morning Special came on or an episode of The Littles. Other than Saturdays you only had about an hour after school of Woody Woodpecker, Scooby Doo, and then reruns of the Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island. Cable changed all that.

Now cartoons are available 24-7 for kids. The anticipation of Saturday mornings are gone for kids these days. it was like having 52 Christmases a year waiting for the weekend. I actually feel bad for today's kids. They have everything yet don't know what they are missing.