Canceled: A Whole Bunch of Shows, and Your Precious Childhood Memories

So the fatalities are coming fast and furious now for the current TV season. FX canceled The Riches. CBS apparently canceled some show called The Ex List (um...try to stop sobbing?) Christian Slater's much-hyped My Own Worst Enemy got the axe over at NBC. And ABC just canceled Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, and (gasp sob no no) Pushing Daisies.

(If you're a fan of the piemaker, perhaps you'll find some comfort in the rumored talks and plans for a movie? But then again, you may also have been a fan of Arrested Development and have HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE.)

(DEAR GOD MAKE THE DAMN MOVIE ALREADY.)

But get this. Fox has gone and up and cancelled Saturday morning cartoons.

Like, all of them. Like, the very institution and idea of Saturday morning cartoons. Altogether. Boom!

And yet, soooo totally not surprising, what with all the competition from the 24-hour kids' cable networks. You've got Nick, Nick Jr, NOGGIN, Disney, PBS Sprout, the Cartoon Network -- all running cartoons and targeted age-appropriate programming and a shitload of Spongebob non-stop. Add in TiVos and On Demand programming, and kids (and parents) can pretty much order up whatever specific show they want at any time, any day of the week.

And also, GOD. I cannot even fathom the amount of terrible, horrible, just all-around crap cartoons I watched as a kid in the 80s. Every Saturday morning I would creep downstairs -- before the sun was up, when there was nothing even on yet except for creepy low-budget puppet shows on public television -- pour myself a huge bowl of cereal and then sit in front of the TV for HOURS, watching everything from old Hanna Barbera shows and Scooby Doo to Disney stuff like DuckTales and Chip n' Dale (RESCUE RANGERS!!) to the just plain awful toy tie-ins like Rainbow Brite and Care Bears and Pound Puppies. And the Smurfs! And the Snorks!

So, Fox will be airing infomercials on Saturday mornings instead. SWEET. Those things are like stain removal porn.

If you'd like to take a trip down your own personal brain-rot lane of Shows You Remember The Theme Song From And Yet Cannot Remember Your Own Phone Number, spend some time perusing Wikipedia's exhaustive lists of 1970s animated television series and 1980s animated television series.

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