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What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon(s) as a kid?

Also, which shows were rare: meaning, you looked out for them and felt lucky when you caught them but that you didnt often get to see?

I honestly can't remember what I used to watch Sat mornings but I do know I was always looking out to catch Kirby Right Back at Ya which was on pretty rarely and sporadically. Was always low-key disappointed when it wasnt on then

Nowadays, I like things like Grim and Evil and Superjail! Wish I could find Duck Dodgers tho

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X-Men
- X-men '97 is a worthy successor of you haven't already seen it!
  
  Seen it, enjoyed it! Thanks!
- The GOAT

Loved watching Batman & Pinkie and the Brain. Freakazoid was the rare one.

Reboot!

Jackie Chan Adventures
Animaniacs
Histeria
Freakazoid
- Jackie Chan Adventures always made my day, the little messages from Jackie at the end of each episode were the height of my week back then
- Freakazoid has to be drawn heavily from Robin Williams and his Genie from Aladdin

The Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Show, Thundarr the Barbarian, Dungeons and Dragons, Gummi Bears
- A man of culture, here. I concur, good sir!
- Omg, are you me? Exactly in that order.
  
  You're just the same age

didn't have a favorite really.
super mario bros super show
capt N
the legend of zelda
back to the future: the cartoon
attack of the killer tomatoes
transformers
voltron
beast wars
tmnt
ghost busters
gargoyles
batman tas
superman tas
animaniacs
freakazoid
looney tunes
taz-mania
tinytoons
garfield and friends
I'm sure there's one or two I'm forgetting but if any of those were on the TV, I was watching it.
- Captain N was so weird when you think about it as an adult: Isekai of the week, done as a commercial for video games.
  It worked, though, and I loved it too!

Road Runner and Wile E Coyote was my favorite. It was somewhat rare in amongst all the WB morning cartoons. The rare one I always looked out for and almost never saw: Catch the Pidgeon (Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines)
- Foghorn leghorn was always my absolute favorite
  
  I got so pumped when foghorn memes were a thing for a week or two.

Samurai Jack. I still enjoy it as an adult (an interesting case study in storytelling using a minimum of voice/narration).

Static Shock

Pee-Wee’s Playhouse!
- HAAHA

TMNT and GI Joe.
Actually, I can't recall if those were Saturday morning cartoons or daily ones.
- I think I emember GI Joe being daily and Turtles being Saturday morning, but that might have varied by local station.
- Daily iirc.I had the same question lol. I have them all on my plex now.

Eek! The cat

changed as new ones came up. I remember being excited with battle of the planets and isis but later thundar the barbarian seemed way cool. The D&D one especially the bow and eventually the transformers but by that time I was getting the you are too old for cartoons thing. Still not sure at what point I will think im too old.

Sonic Underground

Bobby’s World

That 90s Tex Avery show. Though, admittedly I think it was a weekday morning show, so probably doesn't fit...
- Its about whatever you watched on sat morning, not how ubiquitous the shows syndication was. Same with rare, its rare for YOU im asking about :)

Gummy Bears!
Just looked it up now and am pleasantly surprised it still rates a 7.5 on IMDB so I wasn't necessarily watching complete tat 😁 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0088528/

Old School Bugs & Daffy. The Pink Panther. Scooby Doo. Jam out with the Schoolhouse Rock. Then after lunch, This Week in Baseball, American Bandstand, Soul Train & Wide World of Sports.

Thundercats. Teenage mutant ninja turtles. Randomly heathcliffe, Garfield, James Bond jr, captain planet, GI Joe.
Saturday mornings were mostly looney toons and roadrunner type stuff.

BEAST WARS!

Bugs Bunny
Jonny Quest
The Thunderbirds
The Flinstones
The Jetsons
Beanie and Cecil
Roger Ramjet
Rocketship 7 with Dave Thomas

Don't know if actually Saturday mornings but The Gumby Show, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Thunderbirds. Spiderman was Saturday mornings for sure.
All were rare, TV was in parents bedroom until I was in middle school and I needed permission to watch.

Samurai Pizza Cats. They got more fur than any turtle ever had
- They’re stronger than Old Cheese
- Were they adolescent?

The OG Looney Tunes.

There was this Peter Pan and the Pirates show I really liked and I never see recognition in the eyes of others when I mention it, but it was on every afternoon as a kid in addition to Sat mornings.

Ulysse 31.

Spiderman, the Paul Soles version.

Also, which shows were rare: meaning, you looked out for them and felt lucky when you caught them but that you didnt often get to see?
That makes it easy: Sonic the Hedgehog. SonicSatAM. The darker, more anime-like series.
It is forever burned in my mind, and I only ever saw like 6 whole episodes. It came on at like 5am. 😩
- That villain guy with the shades and the handlebar mustache was made for tv

Rare for me was Nickelodeon, or any premium cartoon channel really. I only saw their cartoons during free trials growing up. No Spongebob for me. I had Y-TV and PBS mainly. Some cartoons mirrored from Fox Kids. Stuff like that. I also had a nearby library. We did have Comedy Central.
Futurama was my favorite for sure.
Younger me loved Rupert, especially the mirror dimension episode.

Dungeons & Dragons, before that it was Bugs Bunny. Weekdays it was reruns of 1940s Tom and Jerry cartoons with all the violence intact.

Shaman King and Digimon ♥️

Classics like Bugs Bunny and Animaniacs were always good. Doug. Pepper Anne.
Ones that most people have forgotten or didn't know because they weren't exposed to Canadian shows as a kid:
Science Court was on ABC's One Saturday Morning and I loved it. Technically a Sunday morning one, but The Smoggies for the Canadian people here that are of a certain age! The Raccoons (another Canadian one)

For a relaxing Sunday Morning? Probably Timon & Pumbaa and Dexter's Lab. At night things got spicy with Courage the Cowardly Dog and Gundam Wing.
When my family got Boomerang and Toon Disney channels, life was good.

Wiley coyote and road runner, and Tom a Jerry.
More withing my era, rocket power, CatDog, and other golden age nickelodeon shows.

Good ol' Looney Tunes, especially Bugs Bunny. Partly just because it was hilarious, but mostly because my dad used to watch Bugs Bunny with me and we would laugh at different parts, cause they included jokes and gags aimed at adults too.

Pretty much anything rare rare for me. I often wasn't up early enough or didn't think to watch them.

Hong Kong Phooey (number one super guy)!

Definitely Road Runner.
As for a rare one, Lost In Space. My spoiled brother had to have Batman, every week.

I saw reboot, TMNT, and Tex Avery mentioned which were a few good favorites.
A couple of others I haven't seen mentioned yet would be Wild C.A.T.S. and Street Sharks.

My cartoons that I remember as a kid were 4kidstv shows, whatever was on there at the time, so I guess things like kirby, tmnt, sonic x, wins club, yugioh, chaotic. One piece was apparently a thing that was on at the time too but I wasn't really interested in it at all. There are some other shows tucked away in my memories that may or may not be from 4kidstv but I feel like they sit in that timeframe as a kid...idk what these other shows are, I just know I'm forgetting a few.

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