Too many topics, too little time

Saturday Morning Cartoons. Whatever happened to Saturday Morning Cartoons? An astonishingly intelligent article about how Cable TV, dual-family households, regulations and more eliminated what more than a few of us remember quite fondly as the magical time when suddenly TV existed for our personal entertainment purposes. Anyone else remember occasionally dragging themselves out of bed at 6AM for what was ultimately five hours of really, really cool commercials? (Link from Fark!) [MetaFilter]

Let's be clear there were some horrible cartoons on then, i mean horrible, but some were classic.