by Lee Andrew Harrison, link via Associated Content
When I was just a boy, I hated school. Teachers, school work, kids other than me. All of these things were annoying. I always had one thing to look forward to though: Saturday Morning cartoons. Unfortunately, the days of Saturday Morning cartoons are now dead. Every once in a while I’ll hear people wonder, “Whatever happened to Saturday morning cartoons?” Well, I am here to answer that question. These are the eight reasons that Saturday morning cartoons are a thing of the past:
Saturday Morning Cartoons are Dead Because Kids Grow Up Faster.
In the year 2007 kids grow up faster than they did in 1987. Not grow up faster physically; most kids I know are twerps. But the kids now face things in the real world at a much younger age. They grow up so fast that it is no longer cool to watch cartoons once you’re 10 years old.
Saturday Morning Cartoons are Dead Because Cartoons are For Adults.
If you think about a lot of the cartoons beings made, most of them are being made for adults. Shows like the Simpsons, Family Guy and Futurama are not for young kids.
Saturday Morning Cartoons are Dead Because of Home Video Popularity.
If you think back to when you were a kid, assuming you weren’t a kid like five years ago, then home videos were probably not as huge as they are today. Sure, you probably had a video or two that you liked, but now kids are practically raised on videos rather than Saturday morning cartoons.
Saturday Morning Cartoons are Dead Because of Cartoon Network, Disney and Nickelodeon.
Thanks to Disney, Nickelodeon and especially Cartoon Network, there are cartoons on every hour of the day, every day of the week. Saturday morning is no longer the only time of the week that cartoons are available.
Saturday Morning Cartoons are Dead Because of the Internet.
The internet offers some great things and some bad things. One of the good things about the internet is if you want cartoons you can find them somewhere at any time. Try going to YouTube and search for your favorite cartoon. Chances are you’ll find a couple of episodes or at the very least a few clips.
Saturday Morning Cartoons are Dead Because of the Federal Communications Commission.
The Federal Communications Commission requires that every broadcast station in the United State show at least three hours of educational and informative television every week. Networks aren’t going to show these programs during the day while kids aren’t at home, and they aren’t going to air them at night instead of their prime time shows. So they put them on Saturday mornings instead of cartoons.
Saturday Morning Cartoons are Dead Because of Japanese Anime.
Networks are getting lazy. Once they saw that Japanese Anime was popular they decided to just steal a bunch of Japanese Animes instead of making their own cartoons. Unfortunately most animes aren’t kids shows, so they don’t come on Saturday mornings.
Saturday Moring Cartoons are Dead Because of Video Games.
When I was 7 years old, Saturday morning consisted of “Transformers” and “G. I. Joe” on the television. By the time I was 10 years old, Saturday morning was spent with the Super Nintendo and Genesis.* The video game industry increases more and more every year and kids are replacing Scooby Doo and Fred Flinstone with Mario and Zelda.
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* When I was 7, Saturday morning consisted of Bugs Bunny and a bunch of crappy H&B stuff. (We watched it anyway.) By the time I was 10, we spent Saturday mornings outside. -T
April 19th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I hear you, and i totally agree with all your points, i think its really sad that there is no more “saturday” morning cartoons i mean there sort of is on YTV(canada) and it does show cartoons that are for kids between the hours of 7-12 but your other points come into play there still ( like nick showing most of the toons for that time) and japanese animation shows for sure ( i’m a fan of some anime) but i think its overtaking north american cartoons ( it doesn’t help when you have a large asian population in your country either) but at least for some of us we remember the saturday mornings filled with great ( and sometimes not so great) shows like dog city, animanics,tiny toons,he-man, and so much more
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