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TMC · 04-23-2019, 08:34 PM

Does anyone remember this? How on Thanksgiving mornings and afternoons, I want to say mostly in the '90s, local stations would dump random cartoons on the schedule? And usually, said cartoons included several unsold pilots such as Bubsy and Battletoads. There was also a poorly-edited-together hour of the Power Team cartoons from the first season of Video Power.

jimpickens · 04-27-2019, 04:54 AM

They did that in the 70's and 80's also.

TeeVeeCloset · 04-27-2019, 07:27 PM

Actually in the 70's the friday after thanksgiving became another mind blowing cartoon filled saturday morning on the networks beginning in the 60's.

I have 1960's TV Guide ads advertising special airings of bugs bunny, the beatles, King Kong, Milton The Monster, Magilla Gorilla, etc...all starting at 11am and continuing throughout the late afternoon.

As a 1970's child i consistently remember what is now just a black friday shopping day then being filled glued to the TV with all my network saturday morning cartoon friends!

"Those Were The Days My Friend, We'd Thought They Never End"..Mary Hopkin

jimpickens · 04-27-2019, 07:36 PM

Yep the good old days.

KRW · 04-30-2019, 10:52 PM

I remember a lot of Looney's Tunes specials being on my local stations. Mainly Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck ones.

jimpickens · 04-30-2019, 11:26 PM

And the Charlie Brown one plus the animated version of Last of the Mochichans and the First thanksgiving and repeats of the Laff Olympics.

MrCleveland · 05-01-2019, 03:45 PM

I did like watching cartoons on the day after Thanksgiving...as a matter of fact...I even made a tape with mostly cartoons and cartoon films on one tape called "The Day After Thanksgiving Tape"!

TMC · 04-10-2026, 11:58 PM

It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 622--Bubsy

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It's 1993. Video games are the newest form of entertainment. The landscape already has cartoons of Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Mega Man cartoon will bow in the following year. What other video game characters have the popularity to drive a cartoon? Bubsy?! A pilot aired around Thanksgiving 1993. What could possibly go wrong? What COULDN'T go wrong?

04-23-2019, 08:34 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,386	Thanksgiving Pilot Dump Day Does anyone remember this? How on Thanksgiving mornings and afternoons, I want to say mostly in the '90s, local stations would dump random cartoons on the schedule? And usually, said cartoons included several unsold pilots such as Bubsy and Battletoads. There was also a poorly-edited-together hour of the Power Team cartoons from the first season of Video Power.

04-27-2019, 07:27 PM	#3
TeeVeeCloset Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 1,873	Actually in the 70's the friday after thanksgiving became another mind blowing cartoon filled saturday morning on the networks beginning in the 60's. I have 1960's TV Guide ads advertising special airings of bugs bunny, the beatles, King Kong, Milton The Monster, Magilla Gorilla, etc...all starting at 11am and continuing throughout the late afternoon. As a 1970's child i consistently remember what is now just a black friday shopping day then being filled glued to the TV with all my network saturday morning cartoon friends! "Those Were The Days My Friend, We'd Thought They Never End"..Mary Hopkin
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05-01-2019, 03:45 PM	#7
MrCleveland Drew Carey from Hell Forum Star Join Date: Nov 10, 2007 Location: The City of Cleveland, in The State of Cleveland, in The United States of Cleveland Posts: 14,222	I did like watching cartoons on the day after Thanksgiving...as a matter of fact...I even made a tape with mostly cartoons and cartoon films on one tape called "The Day After Thanksgiving Tape"!
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04-27-2019, 04:54 AM	#2
jimpickens Member Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2007 Location: weston,wv Posts: 1,389	They did that in the 70's and 80's also.

04-27-2019, 07:36 PM	#4
jimpickens Member Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2007 Location: weston,wv Posts: 1,389	Yep the good old days.

04-30-2019, 10:52 PM	#5
KRW One Bad Mother Funker Forum Regular Join Date: May 23, 2017 Location: The Funk Dojo Posts: 899	I remember a lot of Looney's Tunes specials being on my local stations. Mainly Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck ones.

04-30-2019, 11:26 PM	#6
jimpickens Member Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2007 Location: weston,wv Posts: 1,389	And the Charlie Brown one plus the animated version of Last of the Mochichans and the First thanksgiving and repeats of the Laff Olympics.