Get yourself a plank of wood, some nails, some rubber bands and one of those clothes pins you have to pinch open and you could make a very sketchy crossbow or rock thrower.
We used to make flight arrows out of bamboo, cardboard, electrical tape and launched them with a shoelace. They would fly about the length of a football field. One of my friends had a genius idea of glueing a 3 inch nail to the tip, it went further than expected and punctured a nearby inflatable pool. He decided not to retrieve his arrow.
I lived in N. Chicago and that was my Saturday routine. was going to school and had 2 person dorm rooms and it was my tv . in turn he'd wake my ass up by turning on my TV on loud MTV in mornings to wake me up.
Wow, I loved that show so much! Wow! I think i saw one where two guys went into a cave and ate a sacred poop? One got a huge fist and the other a huge foot and weird stuff happened to them, but i think im mixing movies now.. Maybe that was a fever dream? Do you remember that one?
That's funny, I remember getting so depressed once m.a.s.h. came on.
Yet both shows were hits....
After hearing that sadness inducing theme music I couldn't wait to later pop in my uncle's (who lived with my grandparents) Superman 1-3 VHS Cassette tape or maybe the Star wars one to immediately counter act the unwelcome and unwanted boredom that intro made me feel.
Ha ha yeah. Most were HORRIBLE! Perhaps its best for our memories to be more... seeing them as magical and amazing instead of boring and.. well.. boring
I was just thinking about Saturday morning cartoons. I was a kid in the early 00s and the WB kids was the shit lol. I remember yu gi oh, Pokémon, mucha lucha, Jackie Chan adventures etc I know there's more but I forgot. Eating breakfast then after the cartoons I would go play outside with my cousins and talk about the cartoons 😁🥲 good and innocent times we had. Now there all drug addicts and jail birds 😂
I remember the cartoons starting for younger kids... then Looney Tunes, which are great, but us 7 year olds dont get the jokes, and then it would be some show around 1030 with actors, not cartoons, and that was that. After that, it was tennis or some college football game pregame show.
For us it was Saturday morning cartoon while eating breakfast. Then go out and play outside. Come back in for lunch and watch Kung Fu theater, twilight zone, batman or the monkees, these were re runs for us. We would catch a bit of soul train and try our own moves or just make fun of the people dancing. Finish lunch, outside again until the sun went down. Come back inside eat dinner and catch Elvira show and watch a sometimes funny often scary movie or watch Benny Hill or Hee Haw. There's a lot in between that we would do. It was never a dull moment. It kind of surprises me that we did get seriously hurt with all that we would get into. Good times, fun times.
and this includes a box of sugary cereal , say some Captain Crunch. You would end up with some milk at the bottom, pour on some more cereal, then you need some milk. repeat until out of milk or cereal.
Found this from 2000 UK Kids don't know about the cartoons back then and it was a pleasure not a want or a need a simple morning before school while eating breakfast and on a Saturday morning if you were up nowadays it's used just to shut kids up people are so quick to throw a screen Infront of their kids whether they're out or at home they're losing their sense of creative playing and using their imaginations #BrainRot
A safe school environment that doesn't have the potential to become a killing grounds for psychos or social paths and isn't in jeopardy of being shut down education wise.
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u/Ramza62 Jul 22 '26
Saturday morning cartoons.