41 | All about Saturday morning cartoons

Our parents said our eyes would turn square. We feared the mundanity of household chores would interrupt the magic of the moment. By Richard's own admission, his eyesight was weak and blurred as he crept upstairs and into the light like a stunned mole after each Saturday morning of sustained cartoon absorption. We were in such danger all the time. And loving it.

Although we occasionally hyperlink forward to more contemporary animated classics like Watership Down, the Simpsons, Johnny Bravo, Beavis and Butt-head, and Cow and Chicken (while unforgivably overlooking the enlightened genius of SpongeBob SquarePants), this episode is all about the Golden Age of Saturday morning cartoon characters like:

Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Barney and Betty Rubble, George and Jane Jetson, Bugs Bunny, Sylvester the Cat, Foghorn Leghorn, Rocket Robin Hood, the Mighty Hercules (and Newton), George of the Jungle, Roger Ramjet, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Sherman and Peabody, Tennessee Tuxedo, Johnny Quest, Woody Woodpecker, Felix (not Fritz) the Cat, Space Ghost, Cool McCool, and the list goes on and on.

As a bonus, or perhaps not depending on your taste, Dave rants about the recently inflated price of his favourite tourtière.

Music and image credits:
Kids watching the boob tube by National Library of Medicine on Unsplash
Bugs Bunny Overture (This Is It!) by Mack David and Jerry Livingston
Semi-Retired “flipz” theme by tubebackr from SoundCloud
Music promoted by free-stock-music.com
Perforated steel by YuriyC from VectorStock