Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Haiku Hump Day presents - Saturday Morning TV!

You waited for it all week. Got up extra early, when you didn't have to! Ate bowl after bowl of sugary cereal while watching them (unless you lived at our house, where we only had Cheerios and Rice Krispies.) And generally looked up at about noon with eyes glazed over and drool hanging out of your slack jaw. The joy of a Saturday morning!

Whether you preferred the classics




The Odd

Perhaps you went for the live-action


There were those we watched even though they weren't the best


And those that we watched but didn't admit it
But everyone's gotta love a little School House Rock, right?


So let's hear it brethren! How did you spend your Saturday Mornings? What did you watch, what did you love, what did you loathe? And if you need a little reminder of what exactly you were watching - check this out!

58 comments:

JPX said...

Awesome topic,

When I was seven
Land of the Lost frightened me
Sleestaks hid in caves

The Smurfs annoyed me
One chick in the whole damn town?
And no one jumped her?

I hated Scooby Doo
No way those jerks could solve crimes
Thelma should've left them

Conjunction Junction
Stuck in my head for decades
Still suck at English

AC said...

cartoon classicists
know bugs bunny can't be beat.
highlight of morning

AC said...

i dare you to watch
"bully for bugs" without at
least one belly laugh

AC said...

"what's opera doc?"
exposed us all to wagner
without our knowledge

JPX said...

What was he thinking?
His friends weren't that amazing
Come on, Firestar?

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Scoobie Doobie Doo
Just where the hell are you now?
Quit smoking my weed.

JPX said...

I loved The Flintstones
But it was all plagerized
The Honeymooners!

JPX said...

Girls liked dumb cartoons
I mean, "It's Punky Brewster"?!
Girls are so silly

AC said...

i was freaked out by
pufnstuf, sid and marty's
trippy oz ripoff

Landshark said...

6:30 wake up...
Little old lady talking
about math I think.

7:00 comes,
Hanna Barbera is first
Herculoids kicked ass.

7:30 now
Kroft Superstars suffices
though not a cartoon :(

8:30, it's on!
Superfriends, maybe Tarzan?
We're well under way!

9:00 I'm pumped
Scooby Doobies ready for
the Really Rottens.

10:00...fatigue?
Fuck no! Bugs Bunny and friends
here for an hour.

JPX said...

Poor little rich boy
Always fending off robbers
Why not hire cops?

Casper was friendly
What a waste of ghost power
I'd haunt everyone

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Transforming robots
"More than meets the eye" they say,
But not that much more...

JPX said...

Lucas put out crap
Remember that Ewoks toon?
Yeah, I can't either

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Has there ever been
A gayer creation than
The fucking Care Bears?

JPX said...

My Little Pony
Was probably worse than "Bears"
Girls like stupid things

Puffinslayer said...

A cheap voltron clone?
I just loved it anyway
Go Mighty Orbots!

I knew I was off
When I developed a crush
On Sunny Gummi

Always amazed me
That Brainy Smurf was not stabbed
To death in his sleep

Anthropomorphic
A Piece of legislature
He is just a bill

HandsomeStan said...

An unsung hero -
Thundarr the Barbarian
That sword kicked some ass

Was Thundarr He-Man
Or a Han Solo ripoff?
Look! Fake Chewbacca!

Can't believe Puff'slay
Beat me to Mighty Orbots
My ace in the hole

Johnny Sweatpants said...

I enjoyed the Smurfs
Sure they may have dumbed me down
But they made me smile.

Smurfette was more than
Enough Smurf to go around
She was quite smurfy.

Catfreeek said...

How 'bout Snagglepuss
"Exit, stage left" was his line
He's totally gay

I got up at five
Why no one else remembers
Barbapapa show

Scooby & Shaggy
Paranoid and so hungry
The classic stoners

Fred wore an ascot
Who wears and ascot, really?
Fred was such a tool

Fat Albert and gang
Played music on hunks of junk
The first ghetto band

Hated Roadrunner
Always mocking Coyote
Fuck that stupid bird

Tom and Jerry show
Stupid cat and mouse antics
Tom always got fucked

Speedy Gonzales
Fastest but not the smartest
Glue on floor, mouse stuck

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Don't spit? Now I know!
"And knowing's half the battle."
Gee, thanks army guy.

Whirlygirl said...

[jpx using wg's computer]

Cat never caught mouse
Coyote never caught bird
Outcome always known

Saturday cartoons
Saddest moment of the day
"Turn the TV off!"

Johnny Sweatpants said...

(JPX your Scoobie Doo haiku had not one but 2 syllabic errors. Utterly disgraceful.)

(Welcome Puffinslayer - hilarious Brainy Smurf bit. It's true, he was such an ass! By the way the rules are that the whoever wins gets to pick the topic and winner of the following week.)

Seriously though
GI Joe was pretty cool
Does it hold up now?

It was a little
After JPX's time
He didn't get it.

Whirlygirl said...

[JPX] I know, it was pre-coffee!

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Inspector Gadget
Was a bumbling buffoon
Why did I watch it?

He couldn't get dressed
Without Penny's assistance
Let alone solve crime.

HandsomeStan said...

Spilled Count Chocula
All over my parents couch
I never told them

Cartoons competing
Bring on the Laffalympics
Rooting for Muttley

Johnny Sweatpants said...

If you could have sex
With a cartoon character
Whom would you select?

Jem's the gal for me
"Truly outrageous" indeed
On stage and in bed.

HandsomeStan said...

The best of both worlds
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
Yeah, I'm not ashamed.

HandsomeStan said...

What about Scarlett?
Duke always too square for her
Flint always busy

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Oh you hate Mondays?
Hope you choke on lasagna
You unfunny cat

HandsomeStan said...

Ripoffs aplenty -
Who would win? Smurf versus Snork.
Would anyone care?

Landshark said...

Never understood:
How's a bucket of water
a super power?

HandsomeStan said...

What about the guy
That wanted you to eat cheese?
Look! A wagon wheel!

HandsomeStan said...

Don't know about you
I picture something different
Hearing "Herculoid."

Johnny Sweatpants said...

I own two Madballs
I throw them at people's heads
Never watched the show

Johnny Sweatpants said...

"Look, a wagon wheel!"
That's f'in hysterical
Can't stop giggling

Catfreeek said...

Kids today don't wait
Nicktoons and Cartoon Network
Crap toons every day

If Gargamel could
make his own smurf like smurfette
why waste time with rest?

Gargamel's kitty
Was ugly and obnoxious
yeah, I dis'd a cat

HandsomeStan said...

Logic out window
Jabberjaw and the Grape Ape
Would kill everyone

Catfreeek said...

It's time for Timer
Pedophile with cheesy treats
Think he was on crack?

No one's that happy
To eat up cheese and crackers
In ten gallon hat

When I'm slow on the
draw I need something to chaw
I hanker for a

Hunk o' cheese when my
ten gallon hats a feelin
five gallons flat I

Got somethin' planned
which is, little cheese sandwich-
es. when my get up

and go has got up
and went I hanker for a
hunk o' cheese when I'm

Dancin' a ho-down
and my feets kinda slow down
or any time I'm

Weak in the knees I
hanker for a hunk of, a
slab or slice or chunk

of a snack that is
a winner and yet won't spoil
my dinner I hank-

er for a hunk o'
cheese. Ya Hoo! Can't believe I
remember whole song.

HandsomeStan said...

I think we'll refer to you as Cheesefreeeek from now on...

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Catfreeek - you're a freak
I assumed you looked it up
You should see a shrink

Catfreeek said...

My head is just filled
with miles of useless info
I blame it on drugs

Look out! Spiderman!
He spins a web any size
catches thieves like flies

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Popeye, I'm confused
Olive Oil? Serious?
He could do better

Well wait... maybe not
He's not exactly a prize
Spinach eating creep

HandsomeStan said...

Okay, okay - FINE.
Watched Shirt Tales. Muppet Babies.
I'm not proud of it.

Catfreeek said...

Well it's T-T-T
for Tennessee Tuxedo
and his pal Chumly

I loved Underdog
I mean the cartoon of course
not the crappy film

Mr. Peabody
and his boy Sherman always
used way-back machine

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Did anyone know
About a cartoon called "Popples"?
What the hell was that?

It's worth looking up
Dumbest thing I ever seen
I mean - Popples? Huh?

So apparently
All their names begin with "P"
Which pisses me off

There's "Party Popple",
"Pretty Bit", "Potato Chip",
"Puffball" and "Putter".

I want them all dead
Death to Popples! Kill them all!
Even the children!

Now I'm wigging out
I can't stop writing "Popples"
Someone please help me!

50PageMcGee said...

that was catfreeks rubiyyat right there.

also, people it's SATURDAY morning cartoons. transformers was sunday. inspector gadget was weekdays. what kind of nerds are you?

lazy nerds. the worst kind.

Catfreeek said...

Jackson five, Osmonds
Brady kids and so much more
all horrible toons

HandsomeStan said...

Perfect Saturday:
Watch "Supercade." Go to mall.
Play video games.

Q-Bert was guest star
Appeared only so often
A prima donna

Pac Man wore a hat
Not in any game I played
Inaccurate show

HandsomeStan said...

"What's Opera, Doc?"
Cross-dressing and opera
Perfect for children

Yosemite Sam
So angry and gun-toting
Freakin LOVE that guy

Could watch Coyote
Fall off big cliffs for hours
Tweety? Waste of time.

Laughed til my sides hurt
Get "Duck Amuck" on YouTube
STILL hilarious

Johnny Sweatpants said...

50 Page judges
But he writes zero haikus
That makes him a jerk

HandsomeStan said...

50 took ballet
Every Saturday morning
Don't hide from it, dude

Catfreeek said...

JSP is nuts
Never heard of the Popples
Think he made them up

Catfreeek said...

Plastic man cartoon
stretchy superhero fun
Just silly putty

Johnny Quest, Hadji
Those wacky kids got in deep
Race had to save them

What kind of name's Race?
I can still hear the music
adventure theme song

50PageMcGee said...

--provoked by taunts, i'll jive with this unofficial expansion into cartoons in general

Princess of Power
both boys and girls could enjoy.
not gay (like He-Man)

writing smurf haiku
it's not at all difficult
"smurf" seventeen times

rainbow brite: lame. BUT
slutty costume proves rainbows
not just for gay folk

Brainy, every week
kicked way out of town. strong bones!
why fear Gargamel?

HandsomeStan said...

The Smurf master race
Begat by Hefty/Smurfette
He had a tattoo

Smurfette a brunette
Papa cured her & bleached her
Blonde Smurfs have more smurf

Cats love to eat Smurfs
"Three apples high" kind of big
Azrael had balls

See that Smurf right there?
Totally smurfed me last night
Really, dude! No smurf!

nowandzen said...

Saturday morning
Cartoons with cinnamon toast
Ultraman and smiles

Octopunk said...

Fucking busy day
Damn I missed Haiku Hump Day
I'll play anyhow

Octopunk said...

Saturday alarm?
Yup. Miss nothing. Go get dressed
During commercial

Gargamel must stop
Crushing out on Witchie Poo
Cuz she's live action

Devlin, anyone?
Life's problems can be solved with
Motorcycle jumps

Poor Dr. Shrinker
Madman with an evil mind?
Just misunderstood

He's Hong Kong Phooey
Bumbling uselessly through life
The cat solved the crimes

That little parasol
Won't stop boulders, Coyote
Good try anyway

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