Whatever happened to Saturday morning cartoons?

[Archae]

I was explaining to my 4 year old grand-niece, how we used to watch Saturday morning cartoons.

Because back then, there were no cable channels devoted to cartoons.

I showed her this:

She told me a lot of those were weird.

Yeah, they were!

[SaB2012]

1. And weekday morning game shows

Press Your Luck
Card Sharks
Name That Tune
Joker's Wild
Hollywood Squares
Match Game
Password
Win, Lose or Draw
$ale of the Century

And so many, many others. I think those and Saturday morning cartoons all died around the same time in the late 1980s to mid-1990s.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop with reality shows with kids.

[Honeycombe8]

3. Too late. Tots and Tiaras. nt

[Honeycombe8]

4. They still come on Toon and Boom stations. Even the old ones. And there's PBS...

besides toons, there were the PBS shows.

[TrogL]

5. They've moved to the Hustler channel

I don't remember the tentacles from when I was a kid

[Frank Cannon]

6. Not weird, just creative and imaginative.

Particularly the Krofft brother shows. Man, those guys were smoking some good puffin' stuff.

Now EVERYTHING is based on some toy, movie, comic, or game tie-in, and designed to appeal to kids with the literacy and attention spans of fruit flies.

The toys were better a hell of a lot better then, too. Battling Tops, anyone?