Saturday Morning Cartoon Blocks

[thanonyx thanonyx]

Back when Saturday morning cartoons were a thing what Saturday morning block was your go to?

I was a Kids WB kid all the way up to when it became CW 4Kids though I watched stuff on Fox Kids and the Fox Box once in a while. I also watched Disney's One Saturday Morning every so often but Kids WB was my overall go to.

 

[Gorse]

Loved this programming block, and got up every Saturday at 6:00AM sharp to catch Oban Star Racers. (I should really give that show a rewatch as an adult.) It was one of the very few places where we got the exact same programming as the U.S. did, so I got to see all sorts of weird cartoons like Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! and Robotboy on it that I couldn't anywhere else. I also seem to recall them showing an awful lot of Power Rangers: Jungle Fury, which I found completely intolerable except for the theme song.

I don't even think they showed any proper anime! It was all just American/European stuff that was anime-inspired. Those were the days, eh? ;)

 

[DunkeyKong]

Used to watch something like The Amazing World of Gumball, Adventure Time, Gravity falls, basically Cartoon Network stuff y'know? Peak Cartoon Network era for me

 

[Yousef]

Loved this programming block, and got up every Saturday at 6:00AM sharp to catch Oban Star Racers. (I should really give that show a rewatch as an adult.) It was one of the very few places where we got the exact same programming as the U.S. did, so I got to see all sorts of weird cartoons like Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! and Robotboy on it that I couldn't anywhere else. I also seem to recall them showing an awful lot of Power Rangers: Jungle Force, which I found completely intolerable except for the theme song.

I don't even think they showed any proper anime! It was all just American/European stuff that was anime-inspired. Those were the days, eh? ;)

Oban star was the stuff. I also loved A.T.O.M Alpha Teens on Machines. Was surprisingly dark.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

This was my jam:

Particularly its combination of anime and European stuff.

 

[Enian]

German channel. Was a huge Ninjago fanboy and would also watch Phineas and Ferb quite often.

 

[Inkingsama]

Loved this programming block, and got up every Saturday at 6:00AM sharp to catch Oban Star Racers. (I should really give that show a rewatch as an adult.) It was one of the very few places where we got the exact same programming as the U.S. did, so I got to see all sorts of weird cartoons like Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! and Robotboy on it that I couldn't anywhere else. I also seem to recall them showing an awful lot of Power Rangers: Jungle Fury, which I found completely intolerable except for the theme song.

I don't even think they showed any proper anime! It was all just American/European stuff that was anime-inspired. Those were the days, eh? ;)

Jetix was the GOAT. Disney XD at it's peak wishes it was as good as Jetix at it's lowest.

 

[Gorse]

Jetix was the GOAT. Disney XD at it's peak wishes it was as good as Jetix at it's lowest.

God, fucking tell me about it. Aside from the stuff they recycled from the main Disney channel, what a waste of a network.

 

[fake-kun]

Loved this programming block, and got up every Saturday at 6:00AM sharp to catch Oban Star Racers. (I should really give that show a rewatch as an adult.) It was one of the very few places where we got the exact same programming as the U.S. did, so I got to see all sorts of weird cartoons like Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! and Robotboy on it that I couldn't anywhere else. I also seem to recall them showing an awful lot of Power Rangers: Jungle Fury, which I found completely intolerable except for the theme song.

I don't even think they showed any proper anime! It was all just American/European stuff that was anime-inspired. Those were the days, eh? ;)

Holy shit, I remember watching Jetix like it was yesterday!

 

[RedNin3]

Jetix + CN. I watched CN stuff till 2010 or something like that, Generator Rex had such a good idea, I miss that kind of stuff.

 

[kaiju]

i use to wake early just to watch samurai pizza cats

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

i use to wake early just to watch samurai pizza cats

Who do you call when you want some pepperoni?

 

[DunkeyKong]

Who do you call when you want some pepperoni?

Papa John's!

 

[Roy00125]

Loved this programming block, and got up every Saturday at 6:00AM sharp to catch Oban Star Racers. (I should really give that show a rewatch as an adult.) It was one of the very few places where we got the exact same programming as the U.S. did, so I got to see all sorts of weird cartoons like Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! and Robotboy on it that I couldn't anywhere else. I also seem to recall them showing an awful lot of Power Rangers: Jungle Fury, which I found completely intolerable except for the theme song.

I don't even think they showed any proper anime! It was all just American/European stuff that was anime-inspired. Those were the days, eh? ;)

Yep that's my childhood, Power Rangers in the morning like Ninja stone, dino thunder, Time Force (best PR) , SPD(Space Patrol Delta), Jungle Fury(it wasn't good PR as I remember ) etc.

 

[Bonkers225]

I was club Fox Kids, than drifted into WB Kids when Pokemon, and Jackie Chan Adventures came along.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Between my mom leaving both my older siblings and picking me for Kindergarten i used to watch the hell of this block

I Still remember the Balloon song from Hello Kitty's Paradise

Fox Kids/Jetix was also the finest after Primaria times, bayblade, Kinnikuman and a Megaman Anime i loved the hell, also Shaman King... God i miss the simpler times

 

[CaptainJupiter]

I didn't have cable as a kid and we didn't get good reception (it was the 90s), so most of the cartoons I saw on TV were syndicated and shown on a US/Canada border station we could get (it was farther away them some of the bigger stations in my state, but I guess not being blocked my mountains probably helped it be clearer, I don't really know how old TV signals worked). Sometimes, if the antenna was in just the right place and the weather was just right, I could see a bit of the Kids WB block, but in general I'd get to see the shows when they were syndicated on another channel.

 

[Gorse]

I saw on TV were syndicated and shown on a US/Canada border station

Living in Niagara Falls (on the Canadian side), I got some of these, too! I remember most notably Fox 21 (which I believe is Fox's Buffalo affiliate station), and I watched some pretty interesting and different programming on it from what shows we got here. Stuff like Archie's Weird Mysteries on Saturday mornings were always a bit of a palate cleanser from the usual range of Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon/Disney shows licensed for our channels.

 

[Adrastia]

I think Muppet Babies was my favorite. I also watched Mr. T (yes he had a cartoon), Pole Position, Robotech, Voltron, Punky Brewster cartoon version, Thundercats, Flintstone Kids, Jem, Dinosaucers, Mask... Some of these might have been after school cartoons. But it's been awhile.

I guess kids aren't into it now. They can just binge Youtube and TikTok.

 

[Gorse]

Dinosaucers

This show was awesome. It was literally Transformers with dinosaurs! And the villain's name was GENGHIS REX! Where the hell is the reboot of this franchise, already!?

 

[DunkeyKong]

This show was awesome. It was literally Transformers with dinosaurs! And the villain's name was GENGHIS REX! Where the hell is the reboot of this franchise, already!?

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Genghis Khan reincarnation

 

[bjork]

I played little league as a kid so that meant I could only catch really early stuff on Saturdays, but I was kinda into whatever was on. Shirt Tales? It's horrible in hindsight but I was loving it at the time. Kissyfur? Hell yeah, sign me up. There was a game show called Kidquiz that played in this area at either 5 or 5:30 on Saturday mornings and I was always there for it. Later on there would be better stuff like Ninja Turtles or Alvin and the Chipmunks on early, and at one point the Dragon Warrior anime ran here... I want to say it was on at 4:30 am on Channel 9, but I can't remember anything aside from it being earlier than everything else.

And yes, dinosaucers was pretty great. That little shitty ankylosaurus guy called the T Rex dude "bossasaur" and I thought that was just great.