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Post by Katie on Nov 30, 2019 18:44:29 GMT -5
I have watched Flinstones and Scooby-Doo as a kid in the 80s too.
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Post by Tim on May 27, 2020 18:03:02 GMT -5
You mentioned Saturday morning cartoon, I see. I remember those too.
The advent of the Cartoon Network killed that
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 27, 2020 18:11:06 GMT -5
You mentioned Saturday morning cartoon, I see. I remember those too.
The advent of the Cartoon Network killed that Yeah, Cartoon Network destroyed Saturday morning cartoons. The only good thing about the network was that introduced Americans to anime, otherwise it sucks. And On Demand is worse since kids can watch whatever cartoons they want whenever they want, they don’t have to wait.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 27, 2020 18:53:23 GMT -5
This always gets me nostalgic
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Post by Tim on May 27, 2020 23:20:23 GMT -5
Ah yes, the good old days.
Luckily, I have most of the stuff I used to watch Saturday mornings on DVD. So I can still watch them Saturday mornings.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on May 28, 2020 3:39:42 GMT -5
Yeah, YouTube has many video clips showcasing the Looney Toon cartoons of yesteryear which people can watch.
They're not shown on TV now for obvious reasons because they depict violence then.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 28, 2020 8:00:34 GMT -5
That’s a shame since Looney Tunes is where I first encountered classical music, Wagner in What’s Opera Doc? and Rossini in Rabbit of Seville. There was one episode where Yosemite Sam was a Confederate soldier and another where he was a Prussian soldier in WWI, so they had what TvTropes calls a parental bonus. Unfortunately they don’t have the full cartoons on YouTube, but Bugs Bunny was the first place I encountered classical music and opera, the expectation was that the audience would realize Bugs in a blond wig, Elmer in a Viking helmet, opera= Wagnerian opera. Plus that episode where Bugs is a conductor, he’s based on Leopold Stokowski and there was another episode where Bugs was playing Franz Liszt and Chopin on the piano, actual music. So the cartoons might have introduced lots of kids to classical music.
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Post by Tim on May 28, 2020 11:00:14 GMT -5
They're not shown on TV now for obvious reasons because they depict violence then.
Because the networks thought that kids were so stupid that they couldn't tell a cartoon from reality.
However, it was mostly the rise of cable channels like Cartoon Network that killed Saturday mornings. I mean why wait for one day a week, when you can watch cartoons whenever you want.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 28, 2020 18:58:51 GMT -5
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Post by Squad 51 on May 29, 2020 8:46:46 GMT -5
I loved the "Looney Tunes" and many other shows like "Flintstones" and so on. Those were simply classic cartoons. They still have magic in their own ways in and for me, it's remembering good ol' times. *sighs*
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Post by Tim on May 29, 2020 23:13:52 GMT -5
Indeed it is, Jana.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Jun 2, 2020 7:03:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I enjoyed all of these as they reran many of the older cartoons in the 90s in the mornings, before school for me Monday to Friday.
I found copies online of the older Scooby Doo's remastered in HD, and I really would love to re-watch those again.
I also had the Flinstones S1-3 DVDs I bought about 15 or more years ago I think.
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Post by Tim on Jun 2, 2020 11:27:02 GMT -5
Yeah, those were great cartoons. Also, the Superfriends cartoon. That's where the concept of the Hall Of Justice comes from (that huge building that everyone was in at the end of Crisis).
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jun 2, 2020 15:43:56 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Jun 2, 2020 17:01:37 GMT -5
The only Spiderman cartoon I know is the one from the 1960's.
Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can...
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