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MHS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:27 pm I didn't watch cartoons. Even as a child, I preferred sleeping in, and then reading or playing outside.

Well laa-dee-fucking-dah.

I recall that at least two of the three stations had competing cartoon lineups, and the discerning child knew when to change channels for optimum entertainment.

Oh, and yeah, I still have this CD (ripped to my music collection):

Underdog -Butthole Surfers
03:56
Gigantor -Helmet
04:15
Spider-Man -Ramones
02:07
Jonny Quest / Stop That Pigeon -The Reverend Horton Heat
03:10
Open Up Your Heart And Let The Sun Shine In -Frente
03:31
Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) -Violent Femmes
03:22
Fat Albert Theme (From Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids) -Dig
03:47
I'm Popeye The Sailor Man -Face To Face
03:06
Friends / Sigmund And The Seamonsters -Tripping Daisy
04:23
Goolie Get-Together -Toadies
03:48
Hong Kong Phooey -Sublime
03:47
H.R. Pufnstuf -The Murmurs
03:20
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy -Wax
03:32

MHS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:27 pm I didn't watch cartoons. Even as a child, I preferred sleeping in, and then reading or playing outside.

While my dad didn’t get us up too early I think I probably was up by 9 most weekends.

Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:33 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:15 pm I don't remember a big kerfluffle over the political correctness. I just remembered that they stopped showing some of them due to the cartoon violence. But I may have just missed that.

There are some definite racial stereotypes used that are unacceptable now. Part of it is understandable as the cartoons were made during WW2, but there are some black stereotypes as well.

And don't forget about characters like Speedy Gonzales and his lazy Mexican friend who was always sleeping (or any depiction of any minority - Blacks, Native Americans, and Asians in particular were awful), or Pepe Le Pew, who was basically a stalker who insisted that no meant yes. And even the characters that weren't problematic had numerous episodes that had blackface, 'disguises' that were pretty blatant, side characters that were problematic (even my beloved Tom & Jerry lived in a house with a maid named Mammy Two Shoes.)

A few characters were retired, and a few (like Speedy) were rehabilitated. But lots and lots of individual episodes have quietly disappeared. Others have been edited to remove certain scenes. The same thing applies to films - watch Peter Pan on broadcast or streaming now, and What Makes the Red Man Red will be mysteriously absent. Gee, I wonder why...

Mammy was whitewashed into an Irish woman.

Is that what's underneath the blackface? Black people are actually Irish? That ought to upset a lot of MAGA people.

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:22 pm

MHS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:27 pm I didn't watch cartoons. Even as a child, I preferred sleeping in, and then reading or playing outside.

Well laa-dee-fucking-dah.

I recall that at least two of the three stations had competing cartoon lineups, and the discerning child knew when to change channels for optimum entertainment.

Is that really a laa-dee-fucking-dah statement? Admitting to being so lazy that sleep is more important than cartoons? I was a weird and slothful kid.

MHS wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:27 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:22 pm

MHS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:27 pm I didn't watch cartoons. Even as a child, I preferred sleeping in, and then reading or playing outside.

Well laa-dee-fucking-dah.

I recall that at least two of the three stations had competing cartoon lineups, and the discerning child knew when to change channels for optimum entertainment.

Is that really a laa-dee-fucking-dah statement? Admitting to being so lazy that sleep is more important than cartoons? I was a weird and slothful kid.

I read it as being above cartoon-watching.

Grade school shade is best shade.

Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:39 pm

MHS wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:27 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:22 pm

MHS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:27 pm I didn't watch cartoons. Even as a child, I preferred sleeping in, and then reading or playing outside.

Well laa-dee-fucking-dah.

I recall that at least two of the three stations had competing cartoon lineups, and the discerning child knew when to change channels for optimum entertainment.

Is that really a laa-dee-fucking-dah statement? Admitting to being so lazy that sleep is more important than cartoons? I was a weird and slothful kid.

I read it as being above cartoon-watching.

Ahh, not how it was intended.

Yeah, sleeping in was an accident, not something done on purpose. Perhaps I have that to credit for being a morning person to this day. Then again, my kids don't watch cartoons, they watch stuff that can be watched anytime, but they are still up no later than 6 am most days, sometimes earlier.

I didn’t view Saturday mornings so much as a chance to sleep in, but rather a time when I could throw off the tyranny of trousers and live free and natural for a few hours. Inevitably though, my mother would force me back into clothes and drive me home from the mall.

We had exactly three channels and if you didn't watch shows when they aired, they were just gone until summer reruns. If you wanted to see your cartoons, you got up early, because they gave way to boring adult shows by late-morning. Oh, and BTW, you probably saw them in black-and-white. We didn't get a color set until the mid-60s, and we were one of the first households on our block to buy into that fad. My friends came to my house after school to watch Batman *in color*!!!

Saturday afternoon was the "Creature Feature" with Dr. Paul Bearer on WTOG TV 44

VINTAGE ST. PETE: The life and legend of ‘master of scare-emonies’ Dr. Paul Bearer

“As the character continued to develop, I came up with two answers for where the scar came from. If a little kid asks me about it, I say I got it in a used scar lot! If it’s an adult, I tell them I got it in the war and try to prompt them into saying well which war? I reply the boudoir (boo-d-war)!”

Why are you kids still on my lawn?

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:09 am Why are you kids still on my lawn?

Our walkers got stuck in the gopher holes.

MHS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:27 pm I didn't watch cartoons.

I didn't really watch cartoons either, at least not on weekends. I do fondly remember watching curling and some Don Cherry show on CBC Windsor 9 early on Saturdays.

But usually on Saturday morning I was playing with toys or out in the woods. When I was 10 or so, I started having to do chores and my most vivid Saturday [late] morning memories are listening to Bob Ufer on the radio while working outside with my old man.

I'm sure I watched a pretty wide variety of cartoons on Saturday mornings, but I remember Rocky & Bullwinkle (and friends) as the ones I really appreciated.

Looney Tunes were also important, but they were a weekday afternoon thing.

I cannot remember all the cartoons I watched back then. I remember the great ones but Im forgetting so many other ones. Id need a huge list of what played on what network at what time to know what I watched. I would watch one then change the channel to grab a new or better one and do that all morning just changing channels. I know I was up by 7am..maybe 6am for some of the stuff. Id sit until about 12:30 or 1pm when toons stopped and shows started.

The very early morning stuff was usually a real show. I remember the Bee Gees having a early morning half hour show I loved. After a couple or three live action things or variety shows the toons would kick in and go the rest of the morning.

I had a larger than normal bowl mixing bowl I made my cereal in. My dad always kept regular Alpha bits in stock for me. Id sit and eat a bowl or two during the morning toons. You cant even find regular Alpha Bits now..its some marsh mellow type. I thin kI will get some and just remove the marsh mellows for some future throwback Sat. Ill find all the toons I can remember on youtube and online and set it up for a Sat morn one day and sit at the pc and eat my Alpha Bits for a retro Saturday lol.

I can’t believe I read this whole thread and no one mentioned Land of the Lost and Sigmund and the Seamonters.

Also Saturday morning
Scooby-doo
Superfriends
Captain Caveman
Looney Tunes (Tasmanian Devil was my favorite)
Space Ghost and The Herculoids
Hong Kong Phooey
Wacky Races

Weekdays
Rocky and Bullwinkle show
Speed Racer
More Looney Tunes
Mighty Mouse
The Banana Splits show.


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Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:12 pm
What is involved in moving them to a media server?

Sorry, I missed this in your post. Your best bet is Plex.. You can run it from your computer easily enough, although I use an Nvidia Shield TV which has it built in.

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:56 pm

Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:12 pm
What is involved in moving them to a media server?

Sorry, I missed this in your post. Your best bet is Plex.. You can run it from your computer easily enough, although I use an Nvidia Shield TV which has it built in.

Thanks. I knew you could do it with audio but for some reason never thought about it for video.

It really is the best, easiest way to get a media server up and running. It's been around for ages (I think it started as Xbox Media Server years ago). There are other options that are more feature rich and hands on, but Plex takes minutes to set up and still has a lot of feature. I got a lifetime subscription with Plex for around a hundred bucks, and that gives me lifetime updated meta data, and other features like live video recording of over the air tv. But you don't really need all that if you just want a media server.

To rip videos, you can use Handbrake. That's what I used for ripping my beloved Kolchak: The Night Stalker and my equally beloved Night Gallery dvds to Plex.

As another Plex user, I agree with the above. Well, except for that weird bit about Kojack.

Don't you EVER make fun of the great Kolchak!

Kolchak: No, no, no, I'm not a regular passenger here. I'm a reporter. See?

Passenger: A reporter. Oh, you mean like the fifth column, huh?

note: i even repurchased the entire series the minute it came out on blu ray.

Some kinda stalker are you? Of the night I bet.

I can't really remember everything, but a lot on the various lists are familiar.
I didn't see this on the list though.
Star Blazers.
Godzilla cartoon


Also I remember playing Battle of the Planets in the school yard and it resulted in my first kiss that didn't involve a physical assault. I'm not 100% sure but I think her name was Lisa and she kissed me. If I was smarter at the time I would have followed up.