POLL: When WERE the 80's, anyway?
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saturday_am_80sJust curious, and it may help sway some decisions we have to make about the next 1980's Saturday Morning Historical Reenactment Society Watch-Along (calm down, it won't be till December at the earliest)...
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Date: 2011-09-12 05:34 pm (UTC)...not to mention the old days of Johnny Quest, Speed Racer, Kimba the White Lion, Marine Boy...
...and check the icon. Great cartoons are great cartoons. The year doesn't matter!
-The Gneech
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Date: 2011-09-12 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-12 05:48 pm (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2011-09-12 06:50 pm (UTC)The icon says it all!
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Date: 2011-09-12 05:39 pm (UTC)I'm probably remembering shows from 1981 from reruns but I remember a lot of them and they feel really familiar to me, so I'm going with '81 as my earliest cartoon year.
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Date: 2011-09-12 05:48 pm (UTC)This is what this community is all about, to me. It's about trying to preserve the Saturday Morning as it was, not as we remember it in bits and pieces :)
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Date: 2011-09-12 06:53 pm (UTC)I've even been pulling out my DVD sets of the ones avail to re-watch them. *facepalm*
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Date: 2011-09-12 06:59 pm (UTC)I definitely remember getting up on Saturdays from '86 on though.
ha ha oh wow
Date: 2011-09-12 07:25 pm (UTC)Oddly, I think this was right around the time I started being interested in girls, too. Turning 11 FTW! :P
...then my interest in cartoons picked back up in '89, as the game industry came back to life... right around when I realized high school girls weren't interested in ME. ;)
Suddenly my early years make a lot more sense!!!
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Date: 2011-09-12 07:36 pm (UTC)This is why our work here at the 1980's Saturday Morning Historical Reenactment and Preservation Society is so important!
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Date: 2011-09-13 01:17 am (UTC)It makes me sad that it's really become a thing of the past.
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Date: 2011-09-14 12:33 pm (UTC)Either 6 out of the 15 free to air digital channels,
or 3 out of the 5 free to air analogue channels (which are simulcast on the digital channels)
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Date: 2011-09-12 11:34 pm (UTC)Yay!
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Date: 2011-09-13 01:07 am (UTC)Is there anything any of us could do to help out?
Left off '80 cause I was still a little too young to really know what was going on, but I'm sure I was watching at least a few cartoons on Saturday morning.
I think my Saturday Morning experience peaked when they started showing TMNT, but that was in 1990. Maybe X-Men was the last great Saturday Morning Cartoon? By that time I hit high school and Saturday morning became time to sleep. lol :P But there was nothing good on anymore anyway!
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Date: 2011-09-13 01:15 am (UTC)FOX did an outstanding job of trying to save Saturday Mornings with a great mix of original programming (The Tick, X-Men, Kirby, TMNT)... they deserve some special mention I think :)
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Date: 2011-09-13 01:41 am (UTC)Wow, after looking up the schedules, I forgot a lot of shows that didn't start until the early '90s. (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures, Back to the Future, Pirates of Dark Water, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, WildC.A.T.s)
I for one most definitely don't take it for granted! hehe :) It would rule if eventually we could do it every other month or so, but I know it's wishful thinking. :P
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Date: 2011-09-15 01:09 am (UTC)Only season one so far, but they have it set up kind of weird, when I started it the other night I only intended to watch one episode, but it just kept going, and I noticed the runtime was about movie length... no idea why they clumped them together that way, but whatever, I LOVE IT SO MUCH OMG! And it's been many years since I've really sat down and watched it through.
I have VERY vivid memories of being about three or four years old and waking up super early, before my mom, just to watch this show. The Yamato, the wave motion gun, and the "EARTH HAS ___ DAYS LEFT" at the end of every episode have all really stuck in my mind ever since then. Those were the only things I could remember for years, not even the name of the show, until I was discovering "Japanimation" about ten years later. :)
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