Remember when it was worth getting up?
It's like you've read my mind.
Not really
Other than my little pony, I don't think I recognise any of these characters. Hopefully you're about to make me feel young and not old!
They're 1980s to 1990s... so you're young. Like me. I AM YOUNG
This is a singular year in the 1980s. If someone has a run of US published Marvel comics this was an ad that ran promoting the fall cartoon line up.
Rainbow Brite was 1984-86
Gummi Bears was 1984-1991
Jem was 1985-88
This was the fall line up in 1985 or 1986. Im inclined towards 1985 as there was a Strawberry Shortcake animated release that year.
She-ra in the top left. In front is a gummy bear (its still on Disney+), Rainbow Bright in the middle, a carebear to the left and Strawberry Shortcake on the right of the MLP.
Thos is a print ad that ran in Marvel comics for the lineup on a US network.
The back: She-Ra of She-Ra Princess of Power (He-Man spinoff) and Jemm of Jemm and the Holograms (show about a band)
The fromt: A Carebear I dont recall which one,I dont recall the blue thing, A Gummi Bear (this was the start of Disney doing high quality shows on major networks on Saturdays this was a good cartoon for the time), Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony, and StrawberryShortcake.
The blue thing is a Popple
For me when Jem came on it was time to turn it off and go play outside.
I was a boy in the 1980s, my dad would call us "little queers" if my brother and I tried watching that.
He was also hyper sensitive because my uncle was gay and he always said it was because he was interested in dolls growing up. The dark ages of rampant bigotry it was.
Most of these were not “Saturday morning” cartoons.
I Bet You're Fun At Parties.
If you can, try finding timeshift recordings of old TV. I have a 3 hour block of Saturday morning cartoons from the mid-90s where someone just hit record on their VHS - commercials and everything.
I'm in my 40s, but about once a year I'll get a bowl of super sugary breakfast cereal and plop down in front of the TV to relive my youth.
only two of those shows were good.
It’s so different now that the kids can just put on the telly and get it whenever they want. In the old days it was sort of self-regulating, in that the shows were only on in the morning, and parents didn’t need to worry.
I had to go to orchestra every saturday morning. Play the violin with a bunch of other unenthused kids with pushy parents.
One saturday morning I just told my mum I quit. 6 years of the violin just promptly ended there, and for the first time in my life I watched the Power Rangers. It was majestic.
The new She-Ra on Netflix is actually great
There's so much good stuff out today.
Avatar. Adventure Time. Steven Universe. She-ra (and the Princesses of Power). Gravity Falls. Over the Garden Wall. The Owl House. Amphibia. Even the less fantastical stuff is good, like Craig of the Creek and Phineas and Ferb.
My kids are very spoiled and so am I since we get to experience these shows for the first time together.Some may call it even better than the OG
I always look fondly back on when my brother would wake me up on a Saturday morning "quick, x-men is starting!"
@LadyButterfly Ah, Jem! I remember that one!
They don't make them like that anymore
There are some excellent shows out today.
All introduced by a man in a colourful jumper, who would later go on to be a registered sex offender.
She-rah was ace, so was the gummy bears. Ah the days when you knew you were up too early when they were still playing the test card...
Oh the test card!! I remember that.
