I’ve become something of a media maven in the pursuit of creating the ultimate Saturday morning cartoons lineup. I use animated shorts and random funny stuff instead of commercials. For over two years now my kid has been getting a two hour block of the best cartoons Qbittorrent can buy every weekend. I’ve discovered way better stuff than I ever got to watch as a kid, it’s kind of the perfect antidote for nostalgia.
If you use Plex or Jellyfin you can even set up a live channel of your content for your kid. One decent solution is to use https://tunarr.com/
That’s cool! It’s the kind of project I’d love to do, but I know it wouldn’t actually get used. Aside from how kids his age haven’t really been exposed to much broadcast TV, so many shows these days are serialised as a consequence of the whole streaming phenomenon!
I lament the death of the episodic format often, because it intrinsically respects your time more. Serialised shows all have the confidence to say “hang on, it gets really good in about an hour and a half”, which is bullshit. Serialised shows know that they need to command your attention within a couple minutes, and the scripts are so much more tight and compelling as a result.
I would absolutely run my own pirate TV channel, like the pirate radio DJs of old. I just don’t have the IT or legal wherewithal to put my hand on that chopping block. But I could definitely bring the content and arrangement to an outfit doing something like that.
You forgot Pinky and the Brain before animaniacs!
Otherwise, this is a good morning.
Saturday mornings in the 2000s:
Fox Kids/Fox Box/4Kids/Toonzai with the following:
- DBZ Kai
- Sailor Moon
- Tokyo Mew Mew
- Sonic X
- TMNT 03/Fast Forward/Back to the Sewers
- One Piece
- Pokémon
- Kamen Riders: Dragon Knight
- Huntik
- Chaotix/Marrillian Invasion
- Magical DoReMi
- Viva Piñata
- Skunk-Fu
- Shaman King
- Kirby: Right Back At Ya
- Winx Club
- Cubix
Feel free to add anything I missed!
Tokyo Mew Mew was on television?!
I’m guessing by your reaction, the 4Kids dub was heavily censored?
I had no idea it ever was on TV!
Holy shit, Bobby’s World got a mention. And Eek the Cat. That probably includes Terrible Thunderlizards but they need their own representation.
And life with Louie
I’m pretty sure Animaniacs was a weekday broadcast.
https://inthe90s.com/saturdays.shtml
Nope. On Saturdays too it seems.
Amazing how easy it was to find this by the way. Multiple websites documented this. Kind of unreal. I know there are many extremely well deserving websites that are gone and lost to the sands of time now, yet I found multiple websites that documented the 90s Saturday morning cartoon television schedule. Wild.
It definitely started off as a weekday series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Animaniacs_episodes
But after season 1 it looks like it switched to a weekly release.
