Day off
Hey does everyone remember when they were young and eagerly awaiting Saturday morning cartoons? Was it your weekend activity that you most looked forward to during the week? Remember when you still looked forward to getting up early on the weekend to watch TV, maybe with dried cereal in a bowl in front of you as you tuned in to the early morning cartoons. How many people still like getting up early on Saturday or Sunday? Do you get your pleasure now from sleeping in on the weekend, maybe lounging around in your PJs until noon? Well for those of us who are avid NFL fans, its like we are young again; getting up early and turning on the television to catch the ESPN crew or the Fox guys. Maybe rushing out to get the sports page or logging on to the net to find out late breaking football news. Yes football season has started again and although my wife dreads the start of the season, I feel like a little kid again, anticipating the morning rush as I plop down in front of the tube and zone out for hours on end.
posted by Unknown at 7:07 PM
10 Comments:
Saturday mornings were part of my best childhood memories. Loved watching cartoons with cereal...
I am pretty much always up early on weekends, but LOVE this time of year - I'm ready for some football!!
I still wish Saturday mornings still had good cartoons but they moved them to Sundays and sucked all the goodness out of them so they are purely mediocre. I would get up early enough to watch the signal come back from snow and see the U.S. flag waving in the air in hopes to catch shows that I couldn't see otherwise. With so many games on, I would actually have to go somewhere to watch all of them that I can because the choice of what gets played on television locally is usually the wrong one.
I don't remember the last time I got to be lazy. I SO want to do this this weekend. I think I might. Thanks.
Lora -- Saturday mornings - football fan, there must be a connection.
Martin -- I had forgotten about the 6 am snow to flag to cartoon connection.
Jenn -- I am there for you.
Football...
*yawn*
:o)
I don't know what I'd do without you!
Definitely Pro Vavoom, although I used to root for Notre Dame and the LA schools UCLA and USC back when UNLV was just a basketball college...
When I first moved back to the states when we were stationed in Italy (my father was in the air-force) I stayed with my Aunt Alice. My cousin and I weren’t allowed to go downstairs before a certain time on Saturdays because it was claimed we would make to much noise and wake up my Aunt and Uncle. But we used to sneak down anyway because we wanted to watch some cartoon I can’t remember except that it has a werewolf in it. Think Scoobie Doo rip off but instead of Scoobie and Shaggy, the Shaggy character turns into a werewolf. It must have already been in its second development stage because they had already added the cute baby werewolf character. The thing was the intro song to the cartoon had this one part were it introduced the baby werewolf and he did this baby “da-da aRRrrroooooo” thing in the crib that me and my cousin just found incredibly funny though for the life I can’t say why.
I also remember in my social studies class in Jr. High School the extra credit question was to write out the preamble to the constitution. After about 20 minutes into the test somebody in the room starting humming this tune. Then somebody else did it in the back and then another person. Finally when it seemed half the class was humming it our teacher burst out, “okay okay I have to know. What is it will the humming? Every class today has been doing it toward the end of the test!” To which the entire classed answered together with a School House Rock rendition of, “We the people in order to form a more perfect union…” (though I should point out that I did notice years later that they changed one word/phrase a bit to keep the song on beat)
-Joseph-
aka Arrion
Joe good to see ya, hope you enjoy the blog!
Hey, Joe. Ok, I think the cartoon that you were watching was Fang Face which also had a character named Baby Fang which started in 1978. I dunno but I still miss Captain Caveman.
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