/saturday-morning-cartoons-are-dead/ Cute tagline here. Tomorrow. Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 /saturday-morning-cartoons-are-dead/#comment-6276 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:26:32 +0000 /?p=665#comment-6276 Jem is no Netflix, thank God.
Yes, He-Man. I was totally into that Masters of the Universe thing. I think I still have a toddler-sized T-shirt.

]]> /saturday-morning-cartoons-are-dead/#comment-3810 Sat, 04 Oct 2014 21:39:49 +0000 /?p=665#comment-3810 I think you’re right that the sugar (and toy) sellers realized their demographic was replaced by the retired grandparents who tuned in to network tv on Saturday mornings out of habit and boredom. To them, every morning is Saturday morning so advertisers for insurance, security systems, pills, televangelists and whatever else retired folks buy got a 6th day. There also used to be a strong weekday morning (Romper Room, Capt. Kangaroo) and after school cartoon block from 4-6PM [Hanna Barbera characters got their following-Huck, Quick Draw, Yogi, not to mention the other cartoons no one remember younger than 50 remembers-Crusader Rabbit, Col. Gleep. If I’m not mistaken, your other big deal was He-Man( ugh, that name) which was on after school daily, right?]. And didn’t there used to be a cartoon hour around 6-7 AM? Wasn’t that time for Rainbow Brite/Jem/30 Minute Workout- Whoops, sorry, that was my demographic again.

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