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Saturday Morning

Shawn | December 6, 2008 in Journal | Comments (0)

Tags: being a kid, cartoons, childhood, saturday morning cartoons

Hey Scooby!!

As I lay here at almost noon in bed in my boxers I ponder further my sadness of the loss of my sacred childhood ritual – Saturday Morning Cartoons.

My childhood years not being my favorite stage of my life, few shining moments shine thru the muck of that mire in my memory. Saturday morning is not only a bright spot but a continuous, reoccurring one that provided some needed escape on a regular basis.

It was with a near Xmas morning anticipation that I would wake as early as possible every Saturday and watch even the oldest cartoons I didn’t care for so much at first. Scramble to to cupboard for a big bowl of cereal (maybe a new prize dig?!), and take up my spot a few feet from the tube on the floor to see my favorite shows larger than life!

Scooby, Speed Buggy, Bugs, Daffy, Droopy, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Stooges, Starblazers, Space Ghost, the Hurculoids, Little Rascals, Speed Racer, Voltron, Tom & Jerry, Dungeons & Dragons, GI Joe, Transformers… On and on

Hey, where'd he go?!?

I still enjoy these shows when I can catch them. I watched them to, I daresay, an abnormally older age. When execs got together to discuss the inception of CN’s Adult Swim my pic might as well have been emblazoned on the cover of the marketing proposal with a big red target on my forehead.

I later found other things to escape into, for better or worse… But I still still watch cartoons with the same fascination I had as a child, though I still miss that special time.

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