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There's no greater analog for Purgatory than waking up too early on Saturday for cartoons, so you had to watch Jack Hanna for an hour.
- Thread starter Lionel Mandrake
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The inescapable dread of waking up early on Sunday and realizing that literally the only thing on tv was the 700 Club and sermons on every channel
in a pre-internet world when the weather was bad so you couldn't go outside to play, that was torture
in a pre-internet world when the weather was bad so you couldn't go outside to play, that was torture
It's 1983, and I woke up in time for the cartoons!
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Hmm. I'm going back to bed.
ABC Saturday Morning Cartoons promo (1983)
This promotional spot from ABC advertised the Saturday morning cartoon lineup in 1983, including Pac-Man, Super Pac, Rubik the Amazing Cube, Menudo (Ricky Ma...
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Hmm. I'm going back to bed.
Purgatory for me was having a sick day where you weren't super sick so you could still enjoy TV...but since you just had broadcast the highlight of the daytime shows was the 12pm news. Everything else after 9am was infomercials and soap operas.
I'm jealous
One morning I woke up early to meet Jack Hanna.
I'm jealous
Weekday mornings sucked too because no one showed cartoons until I was like 17. Until DB and Sailor Moon came on TV we just had Honeymooners or I Love Lucy to watch from 6-7am when we had to leave for school. And even then I was "done with" cartoons so I didn't even watch those.
In the UK we had an *excellent* tradition of Saturday Morning magazine shows. Some rather cheaper than others, admittedly!
I miss 'em, and there's precious few - for obvious reasons (pop performances and cartoons) on Youtube.
Tiswas:
Going Live:
SM:TV Live
Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow
I miss 'em, and there's precious few - for obvious reasons (pop performances and cartoons) on Youtube.
Tiswas:
Going Live:
SM:TV Live
Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow
That's pretty spot on. Or waking up at like 6:30 on Christmas morning and turning to a Tiger Electrics shitty baseball game for like 90 mins desperate to kill time.
With streaming, though, this is all lost. Being bored is lost.
With streaming, though, this is all lost. Being bored is lost.
No Jack Hannah predates Steve Irwin. Steve is a cooler version but Jack was first.
Also living in Ohio he's pretty well thought of and that show was pretty popular here. But when I was a kid, 3 Stooges were on before cartoons.
And like Slayven I remember channels being off the air until 5am.
This is what I remember watching before the Saturday morning block started:
I recently learned Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had an episode with OJ Simpson in it but never aired for obvious reasons.
great analogy
in Germany you had to watch these if you woke too early on a sunday
Der LiLaLaune-Bär!
The cartoons that were hosted there weren't all bad though, I remember David der Klabauter being part of the lineup.
Less than two minutes in and already they're too lazy to just wisk some eggs for an omelette.
Damn, looked up this guy after seeing this and remembering seeing this drivel and boy, did that Wikipedia entry go dark really quick.
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And as soon as the cartoons were over it was sports or some sort of tax subsidy mandated edutainment show with a budget of seven dollars.
It wasn't even made better by having Nickelodeon or Disney Channel as their Sunday programming usually sucked until prime time. It'd usually just be a marathon of one or two shows that you're already sick of.
It wasn't even made better by having Nickelodeon or Disney Channel as their Sunday programming usually sucked until prime time. It'd usually just be a marathon of one or two shows that you're already sick of.
I had him too. Enjoyyy Our Wild Amerrrica.
Sadly, Stouffer turned out to be a d-bag iirc.
what kind of living arrangement do these people have going on?
jesus my friend and me laughed our asses off at this commercial like 14 years ago then next thing you know he was on the phone and ordered 2 of them. I still use mine to this day LOL
I liked watching Jack Hanna! Sure he was not the main attraction I was waiting for, but I like animals!
that's cool!One morning I woke up early to meet Jack Hanna.
Omg. I've only been through this many times in the 90s for WB and Fox Kids until the 00s where shows like Dharma and Greg, Xena, Hercules, Mutant X, and Beast Master aired in the early morning. I honestly got hooked to those live shows more than the cartoons.
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Jack Hanna was always the "after" saturday morning cartoons thing. like right around 1030/11am or so. With the rest of the edutainment block that was mostly live action tv and rarely a cartoon.
my early morning shows before the cartoons started was The Three Stooges, I Love Lucy and Romper Room
my early morning shows before the cartoons started was The Three Stooges, I Love Lucy and Romper Room
great analogy
in Germany you had to watch these if you woke too early on a sunday
The bear is now in rehab?
Not specific to Saturday morning but being out of town or traveling when you knew some big episode or some shit was about to go down based on the cliffhanger the week before was always tough.
Yes I would like to go to my cousins wedding but why did it have to happen at the same time we were getting a season finale to Star Trek or a game 7 of the NBA Finals?
Also I might have been weird but I was ok with Jack Hanna. It was no TurboTeen but not much can compete with a teenager that can turn into a car.
For me, as an 80s kid in the Midwest, the morning schedule was as follows:
Test pattern
U.S. Farm Report
USA Cartoon Express
The test pattern was better than the farm report.
Test pattern
U.S. Farm Report
USA Cartoon Express
The test pattern was better than the farm report.
OP
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Soul Train was FOX.
CBS would usually switch over to golf or racing.
I didn't really bother with NBC's Saturday mornings.
With ABC, sometimes you'd get lucky and they'd play a movie or something after their cartoon block.
You're only real hope of keeping the vibe going was to find a UHF station playing something weird.
Anybody here old enough to remember how every time Scooby Doo came on you would hope it was the Batman episode and it never was?
This. Give me Jack Hanna any day over that hateful goblin.
Yeah I googled him after posting that, turns out he was accused of faking footage and making tame animals fight and stuff? Don't know if it was ever substantiated but he faded pretty quick after that.
Evidently they made a movie about his childhood with the kid from Home Improvement which is funny.
when I was a kid Cartoon Network would switch to tcm movies at a certain time every day, I think 9pm and that would be signal that its bed time, sounds early in hindsight lol, it would stay tcm until like 5am so if you had a nightmare and woke up early all you had to watch was old ass black and white movies
On my side I remember waking up to early and ended up with cartoons for babies.
Why the hell did they think babies would wanna watch tv at 5 am?
Then it was stuffs for 5 yo at around 6 and then the real good stuff was 7...or the time I had to go to school because I lived rather far.
There was never any real point in watching tv during school days if you ask me.
Wednesday and Saturday were the real days!
starting 8 till 10h30 you had all the good stuff from DBZ to Sailor Moon with City Hunter in between.
Real quality stuff!
Why the hell did they think babies would wanna watch tv at 5 am?
Then it was stuffs for 5 yo at around 6 and then the real good stuff was 7...or the time I had to go to school because I lived rather far.
There was never any real point in watching tv during school days if you ask me.
Wednesday and Saturday were the real days!
starting 8 till 10h30 you had all the good stuff from DBZ to Sailor Moon with City Hunter in between.
Real quality stuff!
This is one of the greatest era replies ever lmao.One morning I woke up early to meet Jack Hanna.
Sitting through Hey Dude to get to Solute Your Shorts or The Adventures of Pete & Pete..
Sitting through CatDog to get to Angry Beavers.
Sitting through Weinerville to get to Rocko or Hey Arnold.
Sitting through Bonkers to get to Gargoyles.
Sitting through My Brother And Me to get to Kenan & Kel or Nicktoons.
Sitting through the crappy Police Academy and Toxic Avengers cartoons to get to Ninja Turtles.
Sitting through Eek! the Cat to get to Tiny Toons or Batman: TAS.
There are so many.
Sitting through CatDog to get to Angry Beavers.
Sitting through Weinerville to get to Rocko or Hey Arnold.
Sitting through Bonkers to get to Gargoyles.
Sitting through My Brother And Me to get to Kenan & Kel or Nicktoons.
Sitting through the crappy Police Academy and Toxic Avengers cartoons to get to Ninja Turtles.
Sitting through Eek! the Cat to get to Tiny Toons or Batman: TAS.
There are so many.
When you woke up too early, or slept too late, you ran into a potential Ron Popeil combo lol
When you knew "Crap I slept too late!" or "Crap I woke up about 2 hours too early!"
When you knew "Crap I slept too late!" or "Crap I woke up about 2 hours too early!"
