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How A Hip '90s Reboot Of Yogi Bear Helped Kill Saturday Morning Cartoons

Out of all of Hanna-Barbera's classic cartoon characters, none have the incredible staying power of Yogi Bear.Warner BrothersIntroduced in 1958 as a character on The Huckleberry Hound Show, Yogi's pic-a-nic basket-stealing antics have never gone out of style, and odds are his cartoons are still in syndication on one of your local channels. Which is why it can be so surprising to learn that a revamped '90s spin-off starring Yogi helped kill America's Saturday morning cartoon tradition.NBCYo Yogi! ran in NBC's Saturday morning lineup for just 19 episodes in 1991, but it had a huge impact on cartoon

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10 Wildly Inappropriate Moments From Your Favorite Childhood Cartoons

As I sit and watch cartoons with my children these days, I notice quite a stark difference between the content now portrayed compared to what I remember watching as a child myself. Illustrators and writers are more aware of what will be deemed inappropriate, and they go to great lengths to avoid anything controversial. It wasn't always this way. Here are 10 times that cartoons from my childhood crossed a line into, "did that just really happen?"1. Rugrats - Tommy and Angelica's head.I am sure that no one drew this up intentionally, in fact, without the screen shot

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11 Cartoons We Loved In The 80s That No One Remembers Today

It's funny how nostalgia works: certain TV shows are talked about and fondly remembered to this day, while others are forgotten before they're even finished. We loved watching these 11 cartoons when they first aired in the 1980s, but good luck finding someone who remembers them all!1. BraveStarrBraveStarr and Thirty/Thirty.DenOfGeekThis strange space opera about a pair of lawmen on the New Texas planet was actually a spin-off of the Ghostbusters cartoon. Sheriff BraveStarr and his robo-horse Thirty/Thirty defended the planet from rustlers and outlaws like Stampede and Tex Hex.These days, it's remembered mainly for this

90s

9 'Liquid Television' Shows To Remind You Of How Much Cooler MTV Was In The 90s

Way before giving drama-loving teen moms a platform for fame, MTV was home to some compelling and game-changing content. In the early 90s, a time when animated television shows and films were mostly marketed to children, MTV made sure that it stood out from the rest by offering one of the best late-night programming to ever grace our small screens, Liquid Television. The weird, slightly psychedelic, uncensored animation and puppet variety show gave us gems like AEon Flux and Beavis and Butt-Head. All of the original cartoons shown on Liquid Television were created by independent artists and animators, which made