IT BEGINS!!!

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Mark your calendars now! SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD 2011!!! This community is dedicated to the planning, coordinating and execution of our Virtual Saturday Morning Cartoon Viewing Party! Kind of like a Civil War Re-enactment Society, only with less guns and more Cookie Crisp cereal.

EVERYONE WORLD WIDE IS INVITED!

We hope to set up a mutually agreed upon YouTube playlist full of programming that will span from 6am till 1pm - SEVEN HOURS OF SATURDAY MORNING PROGRAMMING!!! It'll be like a marathon! Get up in the morning and press "Play", stay in your jammies and eat cereal all day long while maybe even chatting on-line with others who are watching the same thing. No pausing! Bathroom breaks only during the commercials (which will be a scheduled part of the play list). I should go ahead and make it clear RIGHT NOW that we are NOT the originators of this content, all we'll be doing is making a playlist of already existing video on YouTube. We have the technology, people! We live in THE FUTURE, where we can use our technology to recreate THE PAST! How awesome is that???

Nominations & Limitations

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Please reply to this post with your nominations for which cartoons should be included in our little marathon (September 3rd 2011). We're looking for SEVEN HOURS of classic 80's Saturday Morning cartoons here, that's 14 half-hours to fill! Only rules for nominations is that it needs to be a cartoon (or children's program) that was on the air some time between 1980 and 1989.

This covers A LOT of territory thanks to the proliferation of syndicated second-run cartoons through most of the 80's! For instance, the animated Star Trek was only on the air from 1973 to 1974, but I didn't discover it till it was broadcast as reruns on Saturday mornings in the 80's. Land of The Lost, H.R. Puffenstuff, Jabberjaw, Grape Ape... a good chunk of the 80's cartoons I remember were actually products of the 1970's.

So what do we do? Limit this to anything you saw in the 1980's, or limit it to stuff that was actually *produced* in the 1980's?

Suggestions and nominations appreciated :)

Our first poll: 1980

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Here's a list of all the cartoons that were on the air between the three major networks in 1980 (according to TV Guide), so we'll start the voting here. I plan to put up polls for every year from 1980 to 1989, with each cartoon only represented once. So you won't see "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show" every year, but eventually you WILL see "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show" some time later in the years. Does that make sense? Good :) Now go ahead... choose your top 5!

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