https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bux83X6G99Y
Without even watching the video, let me field this one for you, Jimmy.
In the early to mid 1990s, the networks started scaling back on Saturday morning cartoons. They blamed the increase of cable television as the reason. I believe that The Cartoon Network existed by this time and there were references to Nickelodeon and shit like this. Channels that showed children’s programming all day, every day.
The networks said that they couldn’t compete. So I believe that it was NBC who was the first network to eliminate cartoons on Saturday. For a while, they just had adolescent fare like Saved By the Bell and California Dreams and shit like this. Then they moved to putting news programs on Saturday morning. The other two networks, CBS and ABC, quickly followed suit.
In fact, none of this was about not being able to compete, it was about money, of course. These networks thought that they could make more money by putting news on Saturdays instead of cartoons. Cartoons are fairly expensive to produce.
I was in high school when all of this went down so it wasn’t too traumatic for me. But I remember when it ended.
So let’s see what Rainman has to say. Is it going to be Jimmy in a baseball cap in front of a green screen? I sure hope so. What’s more entertaining than that?
0:00 – “Do you remember Saturday morning cartoons?”
Ummm…yes. Weren’t you paying attention, you autistic fuck?
0:15 – Then he gives examples of the kind of cartoons you’d see on Saturday mornings. The Flintstones, the Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Woody Woodpecker, Pink Panther, Popeye…”
What? NONE of these were on Saturday mornings in my lifetime. Or Jimmy’s. We’re about the same age. What the fuck is this? Why are THESE the examples? These are all OLD cartoons.
I’ve seen them. I’ve seen all of these cartoons. Not so much Pink Panther, I’ve seen a little of that. But I wasn’t watching them on Saturday mornings. I don’t know where I’d see them. Sunday mornings?
Now that I think about it, MAYBE Scooby Doo was on Saturday afternoons but I don’t think that it was on any of the three networks that Jimmy is talking about.
What the fuck is this bullshit? Mike does the same thing. Did Mike write this? These old cartoons were not shown on Saturday morning by CBS, NBC, or ABC from the years 1984 to 1992. I don’t give a fuck what Mike or Jimmy say. They’re just straight up lying.
Then he gives Alvin and the Chipmunks as an example. Was this shown on Saturday mornings? I’ve seen it somewhere but I don’t recall it being on Saturday mornings. I’m thinking it was on Nickelodeon. Maybe it was also on Saturday mornings but before my time.
Smurfs is his next example. Yeah. Fine. Smurfs. Why is Smurfs the fucking EIGHTH example? We have to endure seven bullshit, made up, lies before we get to an ACTUAL cartoon that was shown on Saturday morning television in Jimmy’s lifetime.
Care Bears. Okay. Fine. Probably. I never watched it.
Fraggle Rock. No. This isn’t even a fucking cartoon, Jimmy. It’s a puppet show. And it was shown on HBO. I don’t know at what time because I didn’t have HBO. What the fuck is wrong with this guy? Is he just reading this? Is this a script prepared by Mike Matei? And why does Mike Matei have this completely insane idea of what Saturday morning cartoons were all about?
Danger Mouse. NO. Fuck you, Jimmy. I never saw this in my life but it was on Nickelodeon. It’s some weird British cartoon. NEVER on network television on Saturday mornings.
California Raisins. I think so but this is before my time. And I’m two years older than Jimmy. So how does he remember it. I certainly never watched this.
Captain N. Yeah, that was Saturday mornings but it took me a while to remember.
Why didn’t he mention the popular cartoons from the era that were shown on Saturday mornings? Snorks. Gummi Bears. Muppet Babies. Garfield. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Even fucking Bugs Bunny. Why didn’t he mention the fucking Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show? That thing had been on Saturday mornings since the 1960s. That’s a LEGITIMATE old cartoon that they would show. The ONLY old cartoon that they would show in Jimmy’s lifetime.
Where the fuck did he come up with Popeye and shit like that? No. Absolutely not. Not on Saturday mornings. Not on network television.
“There were so many, it felt like a blur.”
Yeah. Clearly. Clearly you did not research this. He’s just mentioning cartoons that he’s seen with no regard to whether or not it was on Saturday mornings on network television.
I’ve seen The Flintstones and The Jetsons and all of this shit. But when and where, I can’t exactly remember. But I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t Saturday mornings on network television. Even if it was, which I don’t think it was, I wouldn’t regard these as Saturday morning cartoons. They were not made for Saturday morning cartoons. I believe that they were originally broadcast in the evenings, at least The Flintstones, and in the 1960s. Come on. Fuck off.
And Popeye? I think that I’d watch this before going to school. Really old, probably public domain cartoons. These were originally released in theatres, of course. They’re not Saturday morning cartoons.
Let me check Reddit. Are these faggots calling him out on this or are they just commenting on “no time” and how Jimmy is bald and how sexy Bootsy is?
No, it’s just braindead “memes”. If you want intelligent discussion about Cinemassacre, it’s GamerGrrls or nowhere. Those faggots on Reddit are too busy jacking each other off and eating the jizz.
0:45 – Jimmy says that he doesn’t remember hearing the term “Saturday morning cartoons.” How? Every year, they would promote the new cartoons. Something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7P6Fk5PdzI
Every network would do it. Every year. It was a big event. I can’t remember if they were shown in the evenings or on Saturday mornings. They would advertise the upcoming year’s lineup of Saturday morning cartoons.
“I do remember watching cartoons on Saturday mornings but I also remember watching cartoons on Sunday mornings. I think.”
You fucking retard. He didn’t research this AT ALL. That’s why he’s just naming random cartoons. All of that shit, The Jestons, Popeye, Woody Woodpecker, NOT SATURDAYS. These are just cartoons that he remembers watching.
God, this is so fucking bad. Jimmy can fuck right off with this zero effort bullshit.
“Sometimes even weekday mornings before school and definitely after school.”
Yeah. Who gives a shit? This is about SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS.
I mean, he’s showing footage of fucking Batman: The Animated Series during this. IT’S TOTALLY IRRELEVANT, JIMMY.
1:00 – “I remember Ninja Turtles, Duck Tales, and Tiny Toons.”
Duck Tales and Tiny Toons were shown on weekday afternoons. Fuck you, you fucking retard.
Now, you might say, “Hey, why are you raging over cartoons here?” BECAUSE HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING ABOUT SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS! HE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT CARTOONS WERE BEING SHOWN ON SATURDAY MORNINGS. HE’S JUST TALKING ABOUT ANY CARTOON THAT HE SAW AS A CHILD.
If you want to do a video on cartoons that you enjoyed as a child, by all means do so. But this is supposed to be about SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS. They’re their own thing.
He’s giving blatantly false information. People who are younger than Jimmy are going to watch this and say, “Oh, these were all Saturday morning cartoons. Interesting. I had no idea.” No. He’s full of shit. He’s a moron. His brain is mush.
1:15 – “So I wanted to look back at this tradition that I somehow participated in but wasn’t really aware.”
Boy, is this accurate. Jimmy doesn’t have a fucking clue. And this is the video. It’s a video about a retarded man talking about something that he doesn’t even remember. He admits this. He admits that he doesn’t remember anything about Saturday morning cartoons. And it shows. I’m not even at the 90 second mark and I’ve already written a short story length piece about everything that’s wrong with this video.
“Saturday mornings were a giant mix of various shows.”
And he shows a promotional thing from Fox Kids. Fox was not doing Saturday morning television. The cartoons in this promo were all shown on weekday afternoons. This is fucking terrible.
1:30 – “Star Wars: Ewoks. Anyone remember that?”
No. Let me look this up. This is some bullshit from before his time, I’ll bet.
1985 to 1986. James would have been five or six. MAYBE he remembers this. Maybe. I certainly don’t.
Then he’s showing footage from Rambo and Robocop cartoons. Were these on Saturday mornings? I’ve never seen either of these.
No. Both Rambo and Robocop were shown in syndication so it could have been at any time, depending on where you lived, but it wasn’t on network tv so it wasn’t a Saturday morning cartoon.
Fucking retard Jimmy over here.
1:45 – Teen Wolf. Yes, Teen Wolf is an actual Saturday morning cartoon. Holy shit. We actually got one. By sheer luck.
Then he just talks about the fucking movie. What is this shit?
2:30 – Tales from the Crypt Keeper. I think that this was also a Saturday morning cartoon. Jimmy is on a roll here. Two for two. Let’s keep it going.
And he immediately just starts talking about the HBO live action show. CARTOONS, JIMMY. We’re talking about cartoons here. Remember cartoons? I remember. You sure as fuck do not.
Beetlejuice. Mmm…I think so but let me check. Yeah. It aired on ABC on Saturday mornings but also concurrently on Fox on weekday afternoons. That’s why I wasn’t sure. I never watched it, by the way. It was shit.
Then Jimmy immediately talks about the movie, of course.
Hey…Jimmy. If you want to talk about movies, talk about movies. But this video is supposed to be about cartoons. SATURDAY MORNING cartoons.
3:45 – Real Ghostbusters. A Saturday morning cartoon, yes. Is he going to mention any cartoons not based on films?
Then he talks about the movie. Of course.
4:45 – Quick shout outs to The Addams Family, Punky Brewster, Bill and Ted. I think that all of those are Saturday morning cartoons. I never watched them.
5:00 – “Even Flintstone Kids, which was already a cartoon to begin with.”
Jimmy can’t wrap his special education brain around this one. Making child versions of tv shows was popular at the time. It started with Muppet Babies. Then you had The Flintstone Kids and there was also a Scooby Doo version where they were children. A Pup Named Scooby Doo.
5:15 – Jimmy claims that Muppet Babies inspired him. Oh, do tell. “It made me want to use my own imagination and sometimes imitated the things that I’d see them do.”
So…doing something that you saw somebody else do is “using your imagination”. Let’s just move on.
6:30 – Pee Wee’s Playhouse. It was on Saturday mornings but this was not a cartoon. Come on. There were plenty of actual cartoons that were shown on network television on Saturday mornings.
6:45 – Garfield and Friends. Saturday morning cartoon.
Then he immediately talks about the comic strip…
7:45 – “The other half of the show, that I didn’t care for as much, was Orson’s Farm or US Acres or whatever the hell it’s called.”
US Acres, Jimmy. Think that you could have done some research? It was also a short-lived comic strip. You could have talked about the comic strip here.
But no, US Acres was the superior cartoon over Garfield. Jimmy just couldn’t get into it because he only watches things that were well-known licensed properties. He can’t appreciate something on its own merits.
8:00 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He says that this started as a weekday cartoon but in season four was shown on Saturday mornings. This seems right but who can tell with Jimmy? He doesn’t know anything about this shit.
Then he immediately talks about how he preferred the live action movies. This is fucking horrendous.
8:30 – “The show had a long run. What can you say about Ninja Turtles?”
What can YOU say? Nothing. Not a single fucking thing. But a more knowledgeable person can probably talk at some length about the cartoon.
9:00 – He talks about Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue. It’s an anti-drugs PSA. I just watched this maybe six months ago for reasons that I can’t remember. It was pretty weird. I vaguely remember this as a kid. Maybe.
10:15 – “So good times. Those were the days, right? Well, that’s the sentiment, that Saturday morning cartoons are gone. I guess they’re gone because otherwise we wouldn’t be looking back at them.”
Oh my god. He doesn’t even know that they’re gone. It was a huge fucking story in the early to mid 1990s. Where the fuck was he? Where has he been SINCE the early to mid 1990s? He hasn’t noticed that Saturday morning cartoons aren’t being aired any more? He has children.
Then he checks the current television listings for the networks on Saturday morning. I can’t fucking believe this. Does he not know this? Does he think that Saturday morning cartoons are still being shown? No. It’s news. That’s what he’s showing. They’re showing news now.
Has he been in a coma for the past 30 years? What the fuck is this?
“But if you go to the other networks like Disney, Disney Junior, Disney XD, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Nick Toons, Universal Kids, Cartoon Network, then there’s plenty of cartoons.”
Those are not networks, Jimmy. He doesn’t know the basic fucking terminology. A “network” was so-called because it was a network of different channels all across the country who agreed to show the same programming. So you had The Dumont Network, CBS, NBC, and ABC. Later, you had Fox and the WB and UPN and then whatever WB and UPN became when they merged. These are the networks. These are the only networks. The Dumont Network went out of business 70 years ago or whatever. But when people talk about “network tv”, this is what they’re talking about.
What Jimmy was describing were cable tv channels. You can only get these channels if you pay a subscription to your cable company. At least this was historically how it was done. I don’t know how it’s done today.
There’s also syndication television. These are those weird local stations that you used to be able to get and maybe still can get. They show whatever cheap programming they can get. Old episodes of What’s Happening or whatever. Some show Spanish language programming. Shit like this. These are also the channels where cartoons like Rambo and Robocop were shown. But it depends if your local channel bought the rights to the show or not.
11:15 – Jimmy starts talking about Svengoolie for NO REASON AT ALL. He’s the host of some horror movies on MeTV, which I believe was a syndicated channel, or at least was when I was living in the US. Maybe it’s a cable channel now.
13:00 – Jimmy cites the rise of DVDs as a reason why Saturday morning cartoons ceased to exist. No. DVDs came out YEARS later.
That’s the video. This was shockingly bad. Pure ignorance. It was nothing but misinformation. Twenty minutes of misinformation.
He talked about cartoons that weren’t even shown on Saturday morning network television. And everything that he did mention that was legitimately a Saturday morning cartoon, they were all animated spin offs from live action movies. This is dogshit. Total dogshit.
Why make a video when you don’t know jack shit about the topic and don’t want to put any research AT ALL into it?
– “Can we all just appreciate how legendary James is? Such a great content creator.”
These Youtube comments have to be made up. Nobody can possibly think these things.