08.27.23
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Daily Prompt

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What TV shows did you watch as a kid?
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All the worst you can imagine.

I used to love Saturday morning cartoons. Back then the anvil could still hit the coyote, Popeye could give someone a good ass whuppin, Elmer Fudd could hunt wabbits with a shotgun, and Bugs was a crossdresser.

It was great! I wish I could still see those old cartoons now deemed “harmul to children.” I believe the cartoon police went a little too far with deeming the classic cartoons as “violent.” Shit man,watch the evening news if you want violent. Go to the movies if you want violent. Say hello to a cop while being the wrong color if you want violent. Those old cartoons are classic. An anvil landing on the coyote does not a violent child make.

As far as that goes, violence is pretty much baked into our existence, we are a violent species. The cartoons didn’t have anything to do with it…

I also watched a lot of Gilligans Island. Gilligan was on, right arount the time I got home from school. Hogans Heroes was on after supper, I remember watching that one too.

On Friday nights where I lived, we had a late night show called “Accri’s Creature Feature.” Accri was an aluminum siding company that sponsored the show. The Creature Feature had all of those old corny sci-fi monster movies we used to love to hate.*

When I got a little older I’d watch some Johnny Carson, and Saturday Night Live. Both TV show Icons. Both still running today.

So, what did you watch?

*Strangely enough I still enjoy those same movies on MST 3000. If you don’t know what Mystery Science Theater is, google it. Get your head straight right before you watch it 😉 FYI, Pluto (free TV!!) has its very own MST 3000 channel! I love me some MST 3000.

MST 3000 is still pretty funny even if you don’t umm, enjoy a little evening buzz.

18 thoughts on “Daily Prompt”

  1. Great post! I can totally relate to missing those old cartoons and feeling like the cartoon police went a bit too far. It’s interesting how violence is ingrained in our existence as a species. As for me, I also grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons and shows like Gilligan’s Island and Hogan’s Heroes. But I’m curious, what other TV shows did you watch as a kid?

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    • First, welcome aboard!

      Umm, wow, making me put on my ole thinking cap here. I remember Jonny Quest, The Herculoids, Underdog, Secret Squirrel, Quick Draw McGraw, Scooby Doo, to name a few.

      TV shows, I remember MASH, Love Boat, Columbo, Kojack, Emergency, Dragnet, and my memory gears are smoking right about now.

      What shows do you remember?

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  2. Hardly watched any TV as a child and if there was any it was by accident. You see, I grew up without a television and there was no neighbour I recall who had one. So I grew up listening to radio and who remembers radio shows?
    I don’t know whether humans are violent. Or that violence is baked into our existence. I think humans have a capacity for violence but that is it. That our cities are violent or have been violent can actually be laid at the door of men and a few women who organized armies for whatever reason. It is these stories that have been amplified to look like we are a violent species. Or maybe I am mistaken.

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    • Well a capacity for violence is one thing, the willingness to use it is another, but we apparently cannot get away from it.

      I can’t remember a time in my life, once old enough to understand what’s going on in the world, where violence wasn’t a daily occurence. Sometimes on a massive scale, for years at a time.

      I’m pretty sure cartoons weren’t the cause…

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  4. As I’ve aged, many, many “younger day” memories have faded. In fact, nowadays, remembering what I did 5 minutes ago can sometimes be a strain.

    I do agree with many of your choices … altho’ I didn’t like Hogan’s Heroes. I religiously watched I Dream of Jeannie, The X-Files, Ed Sullivan Show, Gilligan’s Island, I Love Lucy, Lassie …

    Now I don’t watch any series-type programs … and I avoid the news shows. Mostly I watch movies on Netflix, Prime, and Tubi.

    Interesting how our habits change over the years, isn’t it?

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  5. This is a test.

    I just “logged in” to your blog. Let’s see what happens. WP is great, but the “developers” can’t seem to leave well enough alone. Earning their salary, I suppose.

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  6. Let’s see if WP recognizes me. It did force me to log in again.

    I did watch all the classic sitcom reruns, especially The Addams Family, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. My sister was a big Brady Bunch fan. But my big childhood staple was Star Trek. First, when it originally came out, I watched it with my dad when I was very small. Then endless reruns, which were the only decent afterschool programming available for years. I put up with the animated Star Trek, which had some good writing and terrible art quality, but it never lived up to the original.

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