Saturday Morning memories thread

[Drtooth]

I know I probably said it before, but the other downer was the TV Ei crap. now, granted... when it first came out, innovative shows were being created... The Weird Al Show, Disney's One Saturday Morning, Histeria... and like that. And then somewhere down the line, someone at CBS said, "Aw, the heck with this" and put on Nick Jr. reruns, which led to the domino effect of The Disney channel on ABC and The Discovery Channel/Qubo "why bother, I'm getting a fat paycheck for not even working" line ups.

And let's not forget the pathetic and laughable syndicated line up of shows like "Aqua Kids" and whatever cheep nature shows they have lying around. Aqua Kids... wow! Yeah! I don't know about you, but that's the short of show I'd wake up at 6am on a Sunday morning to watch...

The worst part, I think, is Disney's only working with TV EI shows lately, just so they can rerun them on ABC without effort or cost. Something I've been saying for a while... They were bats to not do a Pirates of the Caribbean cartoon. I mean, if there was any possible way they could have screwed up, it was that. They even had "Toon" design toys and merchandise. it would have saved their TV animation studio that was thriving since the 1980's. Honestly, it's like no one's even bothering to try and make money off a sure thing. No wonder why we're in a financial mess, and everyone's dangerously unqualified for their jobs. Thank you Bob Igor... as bad as Eisner was, at least we had some great cartoon shows on TV. Even Mickey had a good show. 2 Good shows! Mouseworks and House of Mouse...

 

[wwfpooh]

2 Good shows! Mouseworks and House of Mouse...

Four if you count Mouse Factory (which started in the 70's, but still ran into the 80's), Mickey Mouse Works/House of Mouse (I lumped them together, because all House of Mouse was was Mouse Works shorts--and a small amount of new material--shown with inside-the-nightclub wrap-arounds), repeated airings of The Mickey Mouse Club (via Vault Disney), and Good Morning Mickey (an 80's show that aired alongside what was left of Mouse Factory before Mouse Works fully took over in the mid-90's).

 

[Redsonga]

I would so watch a POTC animated series, they could do stories based on the young Jack Sparrow books and have the best cartoon since Fox's Peter Pan ! Since pretty much everyones favorite character was Jack anyway . *has huge poster and knows many others that do :3*

 

[wwfpooh]

And the theme song would be a rendition of Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A Pirate's Life for Me.

 

[CensoredAlso]

This old Disney Channel behind the scenes segment discusses the making of the original PotC ride:

Disney Imagineering: Audio Anamatronics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4RofhtcBc

 

[wwfpooh]

Speaking of said ride, here's the LP.

Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A Pirate's Life for Me. We pillage and plunder, we rifle and loot...Drink up me hearties, Yo Ho! We rob, embezzle, and even hijack...Drink up me hearties, Yo Ho!

 

[Drtooth]

And the theme song would be a rendition of Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A Pirate's Life for Me.

I'd see the theme song, ala the 1990's Batman series, using the film's score to fit the theme song. And I could see it be either a young Jack Sparrow series or a continuing adventures type series (like what they planned to do with Atlantis... it's a shame Atlantis the series was never made. There was to be a Gargoyles cross over).

But Disney dropped the ball... they made Phineas and Ferb, and that's basically all they got. They only want something they can recycle onto the ABC kid's line up. I'm all for recycling, but that's ridiculous. It's a shame too. It would have been a sure fire hit. Granted, I'd rather them do something original and not milking off the popularity of a movie... but you all seen how much they were making off those films. It was a SURE thing and they blew it.

 

[wwfpooh]

*shrugs*

Most networks blow stuff these days and the stuff they do make are seemingly no better (ex: The second Smallville of sorts in The Graysons [which is coming to The CW], which is taking the backstory of Dick Grayson--years before he became Robin & Nightwing--and turning it into something akin to a live-action teen drama, like all the stuff on that network now [most of which would be considered nothing but an ironically laughable...well...circus]).

 

[Drtooth]

At least that idea ties in with Batman, a franchise that Warners seems to be rising higher and higher with due to The Dark Knight. So far we have Lego Batman (including a video game, a possible cartoon series, and of course the Legos themselves), The Brave and the Bold, Gotham Knight, and countless pieces of merchandise for kids and adults. It would only make sense to do a show connected with that. Not that I don't think it's a poor idea, and they should have learned their lesson from Birds of Prey... but at least they're milking a film and comic empire.

Disney not making a POTC cartoon series at the risk of not having it rerun on ABC, or counting as a TVEI requirement, or to tie in to the tween crap was the SOOPER Hugest mistake they could have made. It could have saved their television animation studio.

Man, I wish that Lassiter got the TV animation studios as well.

 

[Redsonga]

Disney seems to be less and less about animation at all which really worries me...I mean in our days and dating back to our grandparents (or in my case grandparents, in most other peoples' families my age great grandparents. Yay older families!) days Disney did do live action a lot but their cartoon making out shined everything else and was the most important to them.

What happened to at least having Ducktales/Gummi Bears/classic Mickey reruns on weekends? I mean most of what they show are reruns of their live action series anyway that fans have seen a million times, it's not like replacing some of them with classic cartoon series that haven't been seen in years would hurt anything..At the very least I know a lot of their parents would watch, and ratings are ratings no matter what