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I'm usually in full-blown reminisce mode anyway, so why not make the rest of you poor saps suffer along with me, right?

Here, you'll find no shortage (well...unless I can't think of any new material) of meaningless but ultimately harmless bits of ephemera covering the past 20 or so years of pop culture, and my occasional interactions with it. Whether you're into the iconic or the ironic, sooner or later, I'll probably get around to it.
Watch, as the hilarity ensues! Or, if you prefer, gawk like a shocked passerby witnessing a horrible accident!

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They shoot weekday afternoon cartoons, don't they?

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Contributed by: Jared Keller on 10/16/2007

When did it all get so lame? Sure...weekday afternoon TV has never been the province of high-mindedness. I mean, nowadays, one would never have expected George Plimpton or William F. Buckley to pop up between ads for "Bulldog" Moore, (or, back in the day, Norton Frickey and Associates), National American University (isn't that a bit, well... redundant?), or those home study courses that let you become a master of TV/VCR repair. The "old days" weren't much better.

Still, if you were a kid at home, watching the TV round about 1:00, you could feel the anticipation building. The "home sick from school" TV pattern was pretty easy to figure out, really. After some kind of Sally Jesse Raphael-ish thing, you'd have your basic Leave it to Beaver reruns, or perhaps a dash of Happy Days, and then, my friends, beginning at 2:30pm, the cartoons would come on. They started slowly, of course. The afternoon always kicked off with The Flintstones, or The Jetsons, and it bled over into The Smurfs, but soon enough, you'd run into the holy triumvirate. Inevitably, at some point in these shows' lifecycles, Voltron, GI Joe, and Transformers found themselves all bunched together in an outright orgy of little kid coolness. If Robotech was in the mix, too? Fuggetaboutit.

I'd watch that block right now, if I could find it.

Oh, and yeah - for all of you Thundercats, Silverhawks, and Masters of the Universe fans out there? Those were loser shows for losers. Losers. I won't be reminiscing about those at all. How do you like them apples?

Nowadays, however, afternoon cartoons are as rare as an original Carlos Mencia bit. The cartoons have disappeared from the airwaves. Ok, ok...except for those on Cartoon Network. And Boomerang. Shut Up.

These kids today wouldn't know a weekday cartoon if it ran up, punched them in the face, and stole their lunch money. Kids today...with their rock & roll, and their ice cream sodas, and their Dane Cooks...

So, in order to let you relive a little of the afternoon cartoon magic of days gone by, please accept my gift of these links to work that other people have done. I take all the credit.

Bunch o' 80s afternoon cartoon bumpers from some TV station in Chicago

Optimus Prime Bumper

GI Joe cartoon commercial - 5 days a week!

Brief Voltron bit. Yeah. Dynotherms connected.

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Submitted By: Bill Prather

posted on 10/23/2007 @ 11:10:43 AM

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I tossed my He-Man t-shirt when he made some lame speech at the end of a cartoon (remember those? before Springer!) He said some crap about playing sports for fun and that winning wasn't all that important. WHAAAAAT! He became "Lame" Man to me. I'll take Speed Racer anyday. Speed took on the "Mammoth Car!" and won!

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Submitted By: Jared Keller

posted on 10/17/2007 @ 3:54:52 PM

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Yes, but it was a GREEN tiger. With yellow stripes. That's just wrong on so many levels. Bad enough, in fact, that I don't even have to bust out the Orko card to prove the evil of that show.

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Submitted By: Brendan Leonard

posted on 10/17/2007 @ 1:41:31 PM

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Dude, He-Man's ride was a tiger. A tiger.

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