I was never really a 'get up early' kind of kid.

I usually would sleep in on Saturday mornings, missing the early cartoons. Usually around ten or eleven I would drag my butt out of bed, flop on to the couch and gripe about how early cartoons ended these days.

There were a few cartoons I would get up and watch. Anyone out there remember the old D&D cartoon? These kids who got sucked into a fantasy world and hung around with this midget Dungeon Master? They each got a neat magic item like a magic hat or bow, thus pegging them into their little categories and positions.

How about Battle of the Planets (or G-Force as it was alternately known)? Despite the fact that this was a highly bastardized and edited version of a Japanimation classic (a fact of which I wasn't aware at the time, but frankly wouldn't have cared about if I had known) I thought it was pretty good. I liked the whole morphing, joining/splitting robot thing.

I used to watch the old Spiderman religiously. You know the one - the endlessly repeating backgrounds, infinite supply of web fluid? Hardly a difference between it and Rocket Robin Hood? Yeah, that one.

I was a Scooby Doo fan too. I think Scrappy Doo should have been fed to a wood chipper, but I always liked Fred, Daphne and the rest of the gang. I always thought Freddy was a little gay (c'mon, a CRAVAT?) but Daphne was a babe.

Unfortunately, I was born too late to get into Transformers. I liked it, and would watch it when it was on, but I was at that age when I was no longer supposed to be into kid stuff, so I felt a bit silly watching it. Didn't stop me playing with all of my cousin's Transformers when I went over to visit them.

Oh, I'm not going to sit here and say that modern cartoons suck. Some do, certainly, but some of them are as well written and produced as your average television drama. The adult following of such shows is bigger than I think anyone ever expected.

I used to watch Reboot every week, and kind of got into Beastmasters (that's my old Transformers liking resurfacing). My tastes have changed a lot though. Honestly, I can't watch Scooby Doo without cringing anymore. It's just so... silly!

Doesn't matter much anyway. My Saturday morning sleep is still more important to me than getting up to watch cartoons.

Some things don't change.

Mom Rating: 2 out of 5. Given a choice between sleeping in and watching cartoons... Mom will usually pick a good book.

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