Get Your Cereal Ready!! Saturday Morning 80's Cartoon, FlashBack's

Man o Man, the good old day's of Saturday morning cartoon's. The Only time, if you were a champ, that you'd get up super early when they first come on, around 7am! I'd always get a big bowl of cereal and my grandma always had one of those metal breakfest trays, with Knight Rider or Tansformers on it. The simple things you loved as a kid. They don't make cartoons like they used to. With all the high tech software there is out there to make Cartoon's look almost life like is amazing! I guess I'm just old school and still am a kid at heart when it comes to some great memories, waking up, watching some Saturday morning cartoons! Lets travel back into time, and lets take a look at 13 of my Favorite cartoons growing up!

15.The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle (CBS, 1979-1982)

Why pair a flying rodent with a couple of wisecracking magpies? Why not? Mighty Mouse was the flying mouse (no shit you say, but here's something you didn't know: MM creator Izzy Klein's original super-powered vermin was a housefly named "Superfly"), and Heckle and Jeckle were the magpies, and along with new characters Quacula (a vampire duck) and Swifty (the sidekick to longtime Mighty Mouse adversary Oil Can Harry) they formed one of the most bizarre anthropomorphic menageries in animated history. Which is saying something.

14. The Smurfs (NBC, 1981-1989)

If elves and fairies were Protestants and Catholics, Smurfs were the Mormons. They lived in a tight-knit and self-sufficient society, and cherished community bonding through occasional campfire sing-a-thons.

But unlike the believers, they weren't allowed to keep multiple wives and an entire population of blue phallus-wielding males (no relation to Dr. Manhattan) was stuck with three chicks (Smurfette, Sassette, and Granny Smurf) to pluck.

Forget the beef they had with Gargamel—imagine how many times they brawled to get some dome?

13.Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (CBS, 1972-1984; syndication, 1984-1985)

When we were kids, everyone liked to say they wanted to be an astronaut or a fire fighter. Forget that!, we wanted to be Cosby Kids. It didn't matter who: We'd be fine with ultra-slick pornhound Rudi, or even speech-impediment poster child Mushmouth ("obeekaybee!").

12. ProStars (NBC, 1991)

Imagine Kobe Bryant, Derek Jeter, Alexander Ovechkin, and Drew Brees saving children across the world from evildoers while living together in a gym operated by a gadget-building Jewish lady. That was the premise of ProStars, featuring cartoon versions of Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Bo Jackson.

This show, which felt like Captain Planet meets The Three Musketeers, didn't last more than two seasons, but stained our memories with a few misconceptions: a) Michael Jordan has a Leno-sized chin, b) Wayne Gretsky's always hungry like he's blazed, and c) Bo Jackson can swing tree trunks to destroy tractors.

Seriously, for some of us who were barely potty-trained when we peeped this show, we really thought Bo knows how to do anything!

11. Mister T (NBC, 1983-1986)

Unlike Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling(the shameless 1985 cartoon that tried to cash in on the popularity of pro wrestling but had voice actors putting words in the mouths of our favorite WWF heroes and villains), Mr. T actually voiced himself in this show, and also appeared in live-action intros and narrations that broke down moral lessons for that ass at the end of each episode.

Granted, the show was an obvious rip-off of Scooby-Doo, and the thought of Mr. T as a gymnastics coach who travels the world solving mysteries with his limber youngsters still makes us laugh, but we could never be mad at more Mr. T. And even if we could, we damn sure wouldn't put it in print anywhere he might read it and "pity" us fools with his fists.

10. Tom and Jerry Kids (Fox, 1990-1994)

There have been many versions of this classic cat-and-mouse cartoon, but this is my favorite. Full of creative chases and violence, it didn’t feature the overt racism of the Hanna-Barbera era (1940-1958) with its Mammy Two Shoes caricature of a poor black maid, the soft batch pussy-footing of 1975’s The Tom and Jerry Show, in which the natural enemies were inexplicably peace-loving friends, or the janky animation of The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show from the early ’80s. Nope, just good ol’ Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse teaching kids how hilarious violence is.

9. Richie Rich (ABC, 1980-1984)

Contrary to popular belief, the richest kid in the world is not Diggy Simmons. It's the tow-headed young lad known as Richie Rich, a.k.a. The Only Aryan You Ever Envie.

Jumping off the pages of the Harvey Comics universe (comprised of Casper, Sad Sack, etc.) and into ABC's Saturday morning lineup—along with Scooby-Doo, and later Pac-Man—the pint-sized gazillionaire ran rampant in his mansion and the fortunately named town of Richville.

Fun fact: his girlfriend was Bart Simpson! Or, rather, his girlfriend was voiced by Nancy Cartwright, who's also the voice of Bart. Which makes us think that "eat my shorts" started as the twisted sadistic fetish of a child who already had everything...EXCEPT TOTAL SUBMISSION.

8. Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats (syndication, 1984-1988)

Heathcliff had his share of pals over his cartoon life, from Dingbat and the Creeps to Marmaduke, but the game changed in 1984 when the second half of Heathcliff became The Catillac Cats. And then it was time for the adventures of Healthcliff's street-smart buddy Riff-Raff, his friends (Hector, Wordsworth, and Mungo), and lady-friend Cleo.

They lived in the town dump, got into scrapes, and Wordsworth wore a Walkman and rapped everything he said. What's fucking with that? Oh, and, also, this is just a personal theory, but Hector and Mungo were the inspiration for the Plutonians from Adult Swim's Spacecataz.

See? Amaze your friends with that little tidbit.

7. Super Friends (BC, 1980-1982)

It aired under many different names, from Challenge of the Super Friends to The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, but everyone knows the Justice League of America cartoon by its original name. DC universe icons (Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman) and shoehorned-in lames (Wonder Twins, Gleek, El Dorado) alike battled baddies and took hydraulic shape-shifting to new...heights, we guess. Although "FORM...OF...ICE CUBE!" doesn't seem much like heights to us.

6.Voltron (syndication, 1984-1985)

God bless the Japanese and their amazing imagination for peace-defending anthropomorphic weaponry, which inspired Peter Keefe to develop this one-of-a-kind clusterfucking of robotic lions that promoted unity, teamwork, and action figures that raped our parents' wallets. For the '90s babies out there, think Power Rangers in animation minus the racial typecasting.

5. ThunderCats (syndication, 1985-1989)

We bet you thought Arthur Rankin Jr. wasn't cashing new checks in the '80s. Come on, B.

Though Thundercats was a departure from the usual Rankin/Bass stop-motion family fare, you could kind of see his fingerprints throughout the corny-ass dialogue we took as animated awesomeness back in the day. Whatever. We were hooked on the four seasons to cop the briefs, dinette set, bed sheets and toothbrush. Ain't consumerism grand?

4. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (CBS, 1969-1970)

The first of many cartoons to feature everyone's favorite cowardly talking Great Dane, this undisputed classic is formula genius. Four teens (preppy Freddie, stunner Daphne, nerd girl Velma, hippie stoner Shaggy) and Scooby-Doo are stranded somewhere with a ghost/monster problem when their van, the Mystery Machine, breaks down and they wind up investigating and unmasking some seemingly innocuous deviant who was dressing up and scaring people off to cover up a crime.

It took on a whole different meaning to us when we got hip to the sweet cheeba and realized that Shaggy and Scooby, with their "Scooby Snacks," insatiable hunger, and jumpiness, are high all the time—and yet they still contribute to society in a positive way. So go screw, Narcs!

3. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983–1985)

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American animated television series (1983-1985). The show, consisting of two 65-episode series, was produced by Filmation, based on the original toyline by Mattel. Yo! I had He Man action figures, Battle Cat, Man of Arms' both Castles, !!!! He -Man Was the Man, Mos Defnitely!

2.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (syndication, 1987-1990; CBS, 1987-1996)

If you were trying to build the perfect franchise for guys of all ages, you couldn't do any better than TMNT: four skateboarding turtles living in a sewer with their grizzled rat sensei, munching on pizza and banging the hot TV reporter from Channel 6 (OK, so maybe that last one's just implied).

Oh, and the best part? They're fucking ninjas for fuck's sake. Yes, the whole enterprise got a little overplayed once it entered the realm of lunch boxes and plush toys, but there was a time when Saturday mornings weren't shit without the turtles with the Renaissance names. And to think all the kids these days get is a cheesy CGI flick.

Cowabunga to our youth!

1. The Transformers (1984–1987)

More than any other of the many media which Transformers have invaded in the past 30 years, it is The Transformers, the original cartoon that ran from 1984 to 1987, which captured the imagination of children and the young-at-heart worldwide.

The cartoon (along with the Marvel comics) set up the basic story of Transformers that most other incarnations were to follow: two warring factions of robots on the planetCybertron leave in search of resources. The factions crash-land on Earth and, millions of years later, begin their battle anew in Reagan-era America and across the globe.

Once established, the cartoon rarely took any steps to upset its status quo. Plots generally centered on a Decepticon plot or invention of the week, which would be used to gather energy or Defeat The AutobotsFOREVER!!, and the Autobots' efforts to stop the plan. Most of the time the Decepticons were forced into retreat, and the Autobots drove off victorious. At most, a new character or team was added to one side or the other. Plots became a bit less formulaic during Season 3, though character death and true plot upheaval remained a rarity.

Through its 98-episode run, this series took viewers around the globe and to many strange places and times: across the alien Cybertron, the Earth's prehistoric past, the Earth's then-future of 2005, the Metropolis-like society of Nebulos, and more. It is not the best animated series ever to air, but it stimulated viewers with its concept at the time, and continued to do so in the years to come.

I know I missed quite a few, so take a look at this Video, 50 Best Cartoon's of The 80's

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