Once Upon a Time, I Liked Jumping Out of Bed on Saturday Mornings
Today’s guest post is brought to you by the talented Allison Boyer. You can read more from Allison at www.findreligion.net and www.RealityOnBravo.com.
When Saturday morning rolls around these days, I usually hide under my blanket for an additional hour or two of sleep–at least until my cat jumps on my head to wake me up! I’ve always loved sleeping in, but I do remember that for about 7 years, I gladly traded in those precious extra minutes for something else: Saturday morning cartoons. I was that child who would run downstairs at about 7:30 AM and sit in front of the television in my flannel PJs, with my big bowl of Captain Crunch. I’d watch what NBC and ABC had to offer, and occasionally my grandma would tape a few hours of Nickelodeon, since I didn’t get that channel.
Now, nothing against Dora the Explorer…but when I see kids’ shows today, I often think how they can’t compare to the shows I used to watch. I feel like these older shows were more intelligent, but also more about fun. If you wanted educational, you watched Sesame Street.
I miss being excited for something as simple as cartoons and other children’s programing. Here are my 1980s-90s favorites. What were yours as a child?
Eureka’s Castle
The singing fish statue and Batly were my favorites!
Land of the Lost
I remember thinking that the show went downhill when they focused more on the talking dinosaurs. I wanted to be Crysta, though, and I had suuuuuch a crush on Kevin!
Inspector Gadget
Who didn’t love this show? The boss was so funny when he got blown up, and the dog was hilarious.
Fraggle Rock
I’ll have you know that I own this on DVD now and watch it occasionally, just because I still love it so much! Boober!
Gummy Bears
…bouncing here and there and everywheeeeeeeere! I used to drink cranberry juice and pretend it made me jump around when I watched this at my Mammy’s house. Now that I think about that, I’m sure she loooooooved when I did that!
Other shows I miss: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Salute Your Shorts, 3-2-1 Contact, Saved by the Bell, Hang Time, Under the Umbrella Tree, and ANYTHING with the Care Bears!
July 19th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Nice post Alli, but I have huge qualms with the lack of Saved by the Bell clip. I mean, who doesn’t want to wake up to AC Slater and/or slip in a “that’s the size of a Zak Morris cell phone” in daily conversation? (like I did yesterday). Don’t fret though, TBS still airs episodes at 7am (ouch) and hopefully will bring back the 12pm slot, too.
One last comment…. how can you call this a worthy quote without any shout out to GHOSTWRITER??? You know you walked around middle school with a pen on a string on your neck, just in case. I mean, we all did..
July 19th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Ooo, yes, I did miss Ghostwriter!
August 17th, 2007 at 8:57 am
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