80's Saturday Morning Cartoons

Looking back after 20+ years I see how special the ritual of saturday morning cartoons was

Hey all Jay here. I'm a new writer for Retrojunk.com

In late November 2009 I was at my best friends house and my 6 year old Nephew was watching Sponge Bob Square Pants. It was I dunno around 2 in the afternoon. So I asked Larry what Luke was watching. He says cartoon network. Then before I know what happened the kid is flipping between Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Animal Planet, and some other channel, in high definition no less.

Jokingly I said to my Nephew "Kiddo you don't know what you're missing. Do you know what me and your daddy had to watch at your age?" Of course he had no clue and asked what we had and I yelled " SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS!!" Much to my surprise the kid was outright confused and wanted to know what they were. This poses a problem. I don't have many of my beloved Saturday Mornin' Cartoons on VHS or DVD, BUT Larry did.

Before we knew it we were watching the Smurfs episode where Smurfette made her debut, Spiderman and his Amazing Friends " Enter the XMEN", Disney's The Gummy Bears, and The Super Friends. So that gave me an idea.. let's show the kid what it was really like for us.

Disney's Gummy Bear Adventures

Spiderman and his Amazing Friends

The Smurfs

Later that day I began to compile a typical Saturday Morning Cartoon slot. I wanted to use NBC's Lineup as my guide and realized it was no easy task, but with some work I got the opportunity to put together some really cool stuff for the kid. Now for the big problem... how the hell do I get the commercials!? Ya can't have the cartoons without the commercials right?

Off to YouTube, retrojunk, and a few others to download commercials to insert in the cartoons. Let me tell you I wasn't disappointed. He-Man, Star Wars, Nerf, CHILD WORLD TOY STORES and TOYS R US, and the grand daddy of Saturday bumpers.. McDonalds!

Dungeons and Dragons

The REAL Alvin and the Chipmunks, none of that 3D stuff

ALF baby!! Kids he's from Melmac not Earth

Ok so the groundwork was in place for Luke's Back to the Future ride to the 80's. After HOURS of editing the commercials into the ripped dvd's it was all done and let me tell you, editing commercials into dvd video really sucks, but it needed to be done.

Sidenote, as you'll see in the picture below there is a Spiderman and his Amazing Friends Toys R Us exclusive 3 pack out now in 3 3/4 inch size, just like our good ol' Secret Wars, Gi Joe, and Super Power figures of old. Where the hell was that in the 80's!? Yeah Yeah I uploaded the Super Powers Batmobile as well... I loved that toy and still have it to this day.

Anyhow a few weeks went by and Luke had been nagging me about the present I promised him. So we got him up bright and early at 7:50am on Saturday Morning. Luke came downstairs eyes half opened and yawning in his superman robe. We had a pillow and a blanket on the couch waiting for him, with one of those old school foldable snack tables with OJ in none other then a vintage 80's McDonalds Star Wars Return of the Jedi glass! "Neat lil' addition in my opinion."

I asked Luke if he was ready for his present and away we went. I was able to fit all of the episodes on 2 DVD's. About 25 minutes into an episode of ALF Luke said he was hungry and I had been waiting for it! AsI drank my coffee in the kitchen with Larry I yelled into Luke that we were gonna get McDonalds for breakfast. No sooner did I say this a McDonalds Hamburglar commercial came on. How the Hamburglar got his stripes, I remember that one fondly. Luke wanted hash browns... and it stuck me, that was my favorite part of McDonalds breakfast too!

Jim Henson's The Muppet Babies

This is the Real Ghostbusters. There were 2 Ghostbusters cartoons at the time, a cheap ripoff and the Movie based cartoon.

How do you milk the Smurfs popularity?
Easy create Snorks The Underwater version of the Smurfs

I headed out to get McDonalds, and by the time I got back Luke was literally in 80's heaven! We had out breakfast and watched the cartoons, and to be honest with you all I felt like a 6 year old again, at one point putting my feet up on the couch and becoming totally lost in the moment, oblivious to anything else going on around me just like I did as a kid on a Saturday Morning. Little did I realize that Luke's father was in the exact same "fog" I was in! We were getting just as much enjoyment out of it as Luke was. A few times we went nuts over the Star Wars commercials I used and the Castle Greyskull commercial went over real big, Luke even asked if we could buy him one.... which is another story all unto itself, ha ha ha.

Again The Smurfs

Around 10 Luke dozed off for a bit, which looking back on it now is something I always used to do between 9:30 and 10:30 give or take. Without realizing it I set a mood though. I used a lot of Christmas commercials in this little Saturday Project. Christmas was right around the corner and with the tree, and the stockings, and the presents under the tree I gotta tell you, it really did feel like Christmas in the 80's again! Larry commented to me about that, the memories this all brought back to him.

The Superfriends ruled and was on for the majority of the 1980's. Gotta love it!

The morning lasted for almost 4 hours. Hey the Smurfs was an hour and a half long or 3 episodes at it's peak. Luke said that he wanted Saturday morning every Saturday now. Ah kids lol. After 12 noon the morning was officially over and it was back to the 21st century for us.

Dungeons and Dragons

This is most certainly something I would recommend to anyone who has kids and wants to have a little piece of what it was like for us at that very special age between 5 and 12. Seeing my Nephew's reactions to the cartoons and the commercials was really special. Seeing this for myself truly made me feel like a kid again for a few hours on a Saturday. And being 35 I admit it, I miss Saturday mornings so much. Saturday mornings around Christmas time was extra special. The toy commercials and the way it made you excited to see Santa at the department store, the begging for He-Man and Transformers, the list goes on and on.

In closing Saturday mornings were a special treasured thing among anyone growing up in the 80's. Unlike today we didn't have "on demand". We waited impatiently for a week at a time to see the next episode and follow our cartoon heroes. As children it gave us something to look forward to, and for our parents something to use against us as punishment to keep us in line all week. The TV networks spent millions of dollars on Saturday Mornings. they were just as competitive as prime time, time slots. We really had it made in the 80's. It was a great time to be a kid, and it was extremely nice to be able to share that with my best friend, and my Nephew.

Some traditions just should not die! Long Live Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Comments

Saturday mornings today pale to what they were in the 80's. Dungeons and Dragons. I picked up the DVD set a while back. Good trip down memory lane. It came with a book with the characters translated into D&D characters and an adventure to run them through that was a prequel to "The Dragon's Graveyard" episode--the most controversial episode in the series. Very cool.

tknbydeb:

Sat morning Cartoons BEGAN in the 60's. And VERY quickly caught on like wildfire and became an American Kid-dom Institution almost over night. It was a TRADITION, and that's I think what makes me sadder then anything is that a COUNTRY WIDE tradition has died. And it was literally COUNTRY WIDE.

At the same time however I often think of how LUCKY we were to have these things, things that brought us all closer together, the toys, the cartoons, the holiday specials, etc etc. For me being a late 70's-80's kid I was the last true generation to get the FULL force of our tradition, it was the biggest it ever was in the 80's. I consider myself so lucky to have that in my life.

And it has absolutely played a role in molding me as an adult. It is special to me, all those memories, ALL THOSE CHRISTMAS MORNINGS! Oh My God the Holiday Season was INSANELY GOOD! There's just so much to love about it.

I could go on and on lol BUT I will leave it at that. THANK YOU for your comment! MUCH MUCH APPRECIATED!

Great Teacher Oskar:

WOW I REALLY appreciate that comment, means a lot.

You wouldn't by chance happen to have a copy of the DVD you made, would you?

Really nice! Quite creative. I bet if someone decided to produce Saturday Morning Cartoons on DVD with commercials and all, it would sell VERY well! Thanks for sharing your story! Best writer on this site! :O)

I have a similiar article on here entitled, Growing Up Groovie, for all those who grew up between 69' and 89'. It's good to know that my wife and I have so much in common with so many others from around our state, our country, and our world. Keep up the good work with your nephew, and LONG LIVE SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS!!!

The best article I've read on here so far, take an experience where you wanted to relive the 80's with your nephew, and become caught up the moment yourself was very real and warming. I admit, i'm 35 too and I got caught up in this myself. We were the first generation to enjoy Sat morning cartoons that were made in support of the actual toys we were playing with at that moment. And, I admit I reflect on the 80's and in my mind, I think of it in terms of Toys,Christmas,Sat morning Cartoons.

dude the other ghostbuster wasnt a ripp off,actully that was the original cartoon from filmation studios (same studios that make he-man) some how the sold the idea to a movie maker and they change the gorilla for green ghost but filmation ghostbuster is the real deal actually im a big fan of that cartoon

mysticwryter:

Cinnamon Toast Crunch OR Golden Grahams would be AWESOME right about now lol.

Now I want some Cinnamon Chex and lay on the floor and watch some of those cartoons. I miss them!!

As NLogan just pointed out Saturday Mornings were a RITUAL, and in that respect sacred to all of us who experienced it. I think the only thing as sacred to us were the Holiday Specials like Its the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, A Christmas Story, and the ORIGINAL Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer ( CLAYMATION ). And here in NY the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade because it opened the door to Christmas for us.

Kids had a special time to be kids back then and it was Saturdays. Our whole childhood life led up to Saturday, the week depended on it, almost as much as summer vacation which I cannot believe Obama wants to get rid of. HE'S ON DRUGS.

Ah the ritual of Saturday morning cartoons.

i can relate to this story because my niece and nephew are 7 and 3 and they like the old cartoon better than the new ones....my niece loves jem !!! shows how weak the newer cartoons are...long live the 80s!!!!

I loved Dungeons and Dragons and Spider man and his amazing friends... Those were Saturday morning cartoons here in India as well

The 80s and the 90s will always be the best! Death to modern cartoons and up with the oldies!

HEY all, just a reminder I don't sell this 2 dvd set. in fact since I never thought I'd write an article I deleted the raw data off my computer... the files were absolutely HUGE upwards of 150gigs! The original disks I gave to my nephew. When he asked to keep them I didnt see why not. OOPS

ILuVtHe90z,

I'll check the PM's now I havent been on in days Im sorry

I so agree with what you did for your nephew. My nephews and nieces look at these CGI and weirdo cartoons and think they are heaven. I then decided it was up to me to show them cartoons like we watched same mater as you. Of Course not being so tech savvy I actually ended up buying DVDS of cartoon shows which was a better investment for me so I could watch anytime. I am so happy to have found Dungeons & Dragons, Superfriends, Superpowers show,Thunddar the Barbarian, Spider-woman,Thundercats,She-Ra, Transformers, and GI Joe. They were like "WOW" and they actually grab these to watch when they visit me now. LOL

I really enjoyed this article. It's always nice to read about how things use to be and it's even better to see that there are some kids today that would still enjoy it. What programs did you use to create the dvd? How did you go about inserting the commercials? I really want to try this out. I sent you a pm but you didn't respond.

NowhereMan1966,

Yeah NBC was the "big one". BUT ABC def needs honorable mention. I was thinking which shows did I used to watch back then.

The Muppet Show, The Cosby Show, Different Strokes, Silver Spoons, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, Hunter, Family Ties, Who's The Boss, Happy Days, Charles in Charge ( Sundays on Fox ), The A-Team, Alf, Amazing Stories, Doogie Howser, The Fall Guy ( Heather Thomas was so hot ), Mr. Belvedere, Miami Vice, MacGyver, Head of the Class, Growing Pains, Gimme A Break, Battlestar Galactica 1980, Night Court, Perfect Strangers, Punky Brewster, Ray Bradbury Theater, Roseanne, Saved By The Bell ( SATURDAY MORNINGS BABY! ), Small Wonder, Too Close for Comfort, Webster, Beauty and the Beast, The Wonder Years to name a few LOL

I think NBC had a special place because they were #1 in the 1980's and had the best programming IMHO although there were good shows on the other two big networks too. Brandon Tartikoff ran the programming for NBC at that time and I believe he was a true genius, died too young in 1997. NBC could use him right now. I would say an honorable mention, although this is really for ABC, was Aaron Spelling as well.

You know's best about retrojunk? We get to have a small glimpse into our childhood firsthand. We are the generation that grew up on technology. That technology is giving us the chance to do what previous generations before us couldn't do outside of memory. That's priceless, and in today's world that might the thing that makes today a little easier to deal with for some folks.

At the same time I get to talk to great folks like you and share our experiences together. I find that the more I speak to all of you the more I begin to realize and understand our culture, where we came from, what our values and morals are, and how lucky we were to grow up when we did. It brings it home in a time when it's very easy to forget where you came from.

I appreciate everyone's comments on here regardless of positive or negative. Scorpius pointed out a fact I was clueless to. I learned something new today. You learn something new everyday if you are willing to. I hope to hear from more of you, and I am going to write some new articles about the 80's here in New York. For anyone wondering YES I am going to write them as if I was speaking directly to you, I just dig that style of writing and feel it makes the experience more personal considering the content we are discussing. Anyhow I look forward to hearing from more of you guys and I am happy that the article brought back some memories for you all. Long live the 80's!

Cyber Ninja

Yeah I gave Scorpius credit for his position. And again I respect it because for all we know he grew up watching that other Ghostbuster show and it may hold for him the same feelings that the 80's movie and cartoon hold for many of us. Factually he is 100% correct. And yes the Superfriends name did change. So did Spiderman And His Amazing Friends at one point, I don't remember exactly but I believe is was called something else BEFORE The Incredible Hulk cartoon accompanied it. There are some factual points that may have been missed, but as I said earlier I went on my experiences and memory as an 80's kid. So the article is quite literally written not from fact, but from my recollections and my opinions / likes and dislikes as a child.

rantanamo

That's a SICK idea! WOW. You do realize that if I got the actual days with the bumpers right I'd have 10 years of Saturday Cartoons which means I'd be watching them EVERY SATURDAY for the next 10 years! LMAO I'd be 45 by the time it was said and done, and then start over again! I debated contacting the networks they have them all in the archives EXACTLY as they aired. Thats a great idea, and also your use of playlists is a great idea as well. I did it old school because I have foraml training in Graphic design and Video Editing, so for me the "hardware" is already in place for me to do it that way. BUT you're method is awesome dude.

nalydbokaj

I was trying to stick to an NBC run, I admit I veered here n there but for some reason NBC always was the one I liked the most. I think it was their call sign, when the music played bum, bum, bummmm. Also many of my favorite shows were on NBC, Cosby Show, Different Strokes etc etc. yeah yeah I was Biased BUT those Claymation Bumpers were awesome. I personally always liked the Dog and the Hydrant. Hydrant- 1, dog- 0 LOL

HerotheBarbarian

I did that on purpose. I was hoping that if I wrote the article as if you and I were just shooting the poo over a cup of coffee that it might make the article that much more personal to the reader. I'm a big believer of connecting with the reader where they can relate to and understand not only the writer's position BUT their own all at once. No big words, no phrases we'd never use in real life... just you and me rememberin' how great it was to be an 80's kid! ;-)

Transformers ruled but it was an after school cartoon, just like Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, GI-Joe, Thundercats, He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Woody Woodpecker, and may others. But I agree with you Transformers rocked!

Thank you to everyone. Your comments are awesome and I truly appreciate them. To address a question that has flooded my PM's lol, like an idiot after I made the DVD and gave it to my Nephew I deleted the RAW video files from my main computer. Raw Video files take up an absolutely ridiculous amount of space. This project was almost 55 gigs worth of video files. So it went by by after I was done. I gave the DVD to my Nephew. If we can find it then I don;t see why I couldn't burn a few copies, but there is no guarantee. He's 6 now god knows what he did with it lol.

I'll be 44 in July and I miss the Saturday morning cartoons of the 1970's and 1980's. Love your project idea to show today's kids at what they missed. My favorite thing was to get up on a cold, Saturday morning and watch the Smurfs with a cat on my lap just before breakfast. It's a shame we don't have that anymore. Sometimes I like to relive a little bit of this when I go and watch the old cartoons Verizon puts on the On Demand channels as well. Thumbs up for you.

WHAT HAPPENED TO "TRANSFORMERS"? THEY WERE THE BEST 80'S CARTOONS EVER MADE.

Don't know how I overlooked this one for so long, this was awesome! Takes me back to those same Saturday mornings. Great idea. I'll pay you for those DVD's you made. T.U. #38.

Despite that I didn't grow up watching it as a kid, I gotta thank Toon Disney for when it brought back the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. Its such an awesome show as are pretty much alot of the 80s cartoons (Duck Tails, Gummy Bears, Smurf, heck even Pac Man was cool.)

You forgot to mention Robotech though, but that will not keep me from giving this a thumbs up! Good Job!

First I got to say you're a helluva guy for doing that for your nephew. The sad truth is that the kids nowadays don't have it like we did on Saturday mornings. For kids, Saturday morning cartoons were a revered tradition back in the 80's, an escape that we looked forward to all week long. But that's gone the way of the dodo bird. There are no more Saturday mornings...

You didn't say anything about those claymation bumpers ("After These Messages"

from ABC's Saturday morning lineup.

Turbo Teen!!...gracias Cyber...gracias

In Toronto,Canada, Teletoon recently added the 'TeletoonRetro' channel on Rogers cable and they show alot of shows from the 60s,70s,80s and early 90's examples like.....'The Banana splits Adventure Show','Top Cat','The Jetsons','Inspector Gadget','BeetleJuice'..etc..I was really happy to discover I had that on my cable box. Unfortunately for people like us who come from an older generation, we have to endure crap like 'Dora the Explorer' and teeny bop shows.

On a little nitpicking I agreed with Scorpius about The Ghost Busters the live action tv show. Also Superfriends change their name to The Super Power Team and Tjnaples it was Turbo Teen about a teen who turns into his car when he gets hot. Sorry but this is a pretty good article you did a good job Jpdraven.

I've been doing this same thing. Finding enough bumpers has been the main problem, but they seem to be out there. The other problem is, I have found myself trying to do specific days. Of course I don't know the exact commercials that aired, but I've certainly matched up air dates for the shows I have. I've been working on this off and on for about a decade. Youtube really got me interested again because of the bumpers and commercials. Feels much more real.

If you have an HTPC or media streamer, there's a way around actually adding the commercials. I chose to break up the shows into segments and use playlists to insert bumpers and commercials. Works really well with Zoom player and even the small WMC playlist plugin because of the seamless playlists. Only thing I need is to do is get a CRT to complete the look. Doesn't quite look right on an LCD.

Normally I would site the gramrical poor taste of writting like you are talk. But this was a rather compelling artical. An engrossing tale of your nephew's journey through cartoon history. Us barbarians firmly believe in pervsering and passing on history. Without a history, we have no future. Very compelling

I would also be willing to buy a DVD as my tech skills really aren't up to par. Man, I wish someone would just decide to dedicate a cable channel to all retro...Manic Mondays in the 70's, Trippy Tuesdays 60's, Super Saturdays with the 80's so on...Well I just prefer the 80's, but I know that's not everyones cup of tea

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This is awesome!! I bought the DVD's of all my favorite shows as a kid, but it was never the same. The mix of shows and addition of the commercials ins incredible! It seems like multiple people have done something like this...would anyone be willing to sell a copy or trade or something?

Thank you for the wonderful article! I too have tried to recreate Saturday morning cartoons for my children even with the inserted 80's commercials. I'm not sure who enjoys it more..me or them. It would be awesome if you posted your Saturday morning tribute on You tube. I love to see your work!

Thanks again

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jpdraven,

I wrote a similar article a while back about my cartoon experiences growing up. I've linked it below for you to check out. I hope it conjures some old memories for you like your article did for me.

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/4576/

A great article that brought back many wonderful memories for me. I will be 33 this year, so a lot of your article really hits home. I have many of the old cartoons on DVD myself, but the commercials were a great touch! Well done!

Oh and one more thing, do not listen to Scorpius. He wouldn't know a good article if it jumped out of the toilet and bit him on the ass. He has no people skills, no class, and no contributions (articles etc) other than bashing your article on this site, I did some "research". He obviously needed to make himself feel better by putting you down for not knowing some extremely uncommon knowledge that no one could possibly care about. Once again very well done!

It is so hard to believe that Saturday morning cartoons is not longer around. There was no question where you were from 7:00am-12:00pm every Saturday growing up in the 80's. That and the cartoons really were much better:

He-Man, Smurfs, Pac-Man, D&D, Gummy Bears, Ghostbusters,Transformers, Voltron, Spider-Man, Snorks, Muppet Babbies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Some dude that turned into a car when he got wet, and so on and so forth.

I have editing experience and to go to the trouble you did to insert commercials was indeed a good bit of work and I can picture how many dividends paid off! Super original article, well written, and most importantly brought back great memories and that is the purpose of this site. BRAVO!

Great article. Its crazy to think that kids are growing up without saturday morning cartoons. That was the best part of the week! But its nice to be able to relive that through these articles and video sites

I feel so sorry for kid's nowadays.....I have looked at Saturday Morning's nowadays and they don't have the joy that we had. I remember getting up at 6:30 AM, watching until near noontime and it was good cartoons and having to compromise with my siblings for dueling shows that were on against each other. Them were the days.

Loved them all!... except Disney's Gummy Bear Adventures.

I loved The Real GhostBusters.

I would love to see this DVD set... Did you do CBS/NBC/ABC bumpers and One to Grow On as well? If so, I would be interested in purchasing something like that from you myself.

It is truly a unique experience that someone like myself would not only enjoy but I think others as well. Especially the college/early thirties stoner crowd. LOL

Hit me up on here, I would love to talk to you more about all of this~!

It was well done but yes, it is true that the other Ghost Busters show was actually around before the movie and was unrelated to it. They negotiated rights to use the name for the movie but that's why for the show, they had to call it The Real Ghostbusters.

It was not poorly done. It was very good. write more and don't me discouraged by rude idiots.

I loved quite a few of these shows growing up, and those that came out around the early to mid 90s on Saturdays. Now all they have today is garbage. They'll let any idiot make a show these days.

the other Ghostbuster cartoon wasn't a ripoff... it was a spinoff of an old live action tv show... Do more research... this was poorly done

I remember my little brother would wake me up so we could watch them together, starting with the Muppet Babies. I would make cereal for the both of us. Rice Krispies with so much sugar that a pile of it was left after the milk and cereal were gone (the best part of the breakfast in my opinion). Then we would put blanket and pillow on the floor and not get up for hours. As I got older I started telling him to stop waking me up because I was too old for the Muppet Babies. He would wake me anyway. I would get mad but then go watch it because I was up at that point. To this day he doesn't know that I secretly wanted him to keep waking me.

Muppet Babies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs and Gummi Bears were all 80's diamonds!

Best article I've read on Retrojunk in awhile! Awesome read!

not a fan of voltron!? or thunder cats?

What an awesome idea! vkimo is right, you could sell those DVD's to us 80's children and make a bundle... :-)

Great article! This is right up my alley. I have had times on the weekends, when the mood catches me, to pop in a 1980s Sat morning block on DVD with the commercials and relive a few hours of childhood. I'm glad to have a bunch of old Sat morning blocks to do that! I've been meaning to recreate a Sat morning like you did but I know it won't feel the same. I'm glad the little one enjoyed it though! I'm sure there are plenty others who just won't get it... but us 80s kids always will. :-D

These kids today just "don't get it". And never will. Too much of a good thing is never a good thing. And that's what has happened when 24hr cartoon channels were created.

I worshiped Saturday Morning Cartoons. It was like a mini Christmas to me every weekend.
From the crack of dawn hour of 6am with "The Patchwork Family" (please tell me someone remembers that too) to the winding down hours of noon to 1pm where they'd air Fat Albert and American Bandstand (a definite staple of Saturday morning).

You can never appreciate something when it's only ALL the time as oppose to only a few hours on weekend mornings and a few hours after school. I'm glad I'm not a kid growing up today.

Wow! So cool! Copyrights be damned, I want a copy!! I've often thought about attempting this, but my video editing skills are not all that hot. The commercials are/were key to the experience. As a thirty-four year old ex(?) cartoon addict, your piece really spoke to me. I know that you didn't list all of the cartoons that you viewed but did you include The Hulk (made by the same team as Spiderman), Pac-Man and Muppet Babies? Maybe that can be included in part-two! Great first article! Can't wait to read next one.

Great freakin idea! I've been working on getting my niece and nephew to watch more retro stuff by burning them DVDs of the classics but I never thought about finding commercials and splicing them in. I think I may have to try that, thumbs up!

Truly fantastic idea! I've tried several times to get my nephews to sit down and watch my Saturday Morning Cartoon tapes that I personally recorded in the 80's (commercials and all) but to no avail. Glad Luke was appreciative!

A very creative idea, and a very cool article about it...This was a great first article. I look forward to future material.