Saturday morning cartoons have sure changed since when I was a
\nkid. For me, the weekend was a time to overdose on Bugs Bunny, with
\nmaybe a little bit of the Super Friends thrown in for good measure.
\nIf I was really lucky, I’d be able to catch Bullwinkle or Woody
\nWoodpecker… before “All-Star Wrestling” came on. (Keep in mind,
\nthis was a time when the only place you could catch wrestling was
\nthe late morning hidden in the UHF channels.)<\/p>\n
So it shouldn’t be too surprising that when I listened to
\nThe Music Of Disney’s One Saturday Morning<\/i>, I kind of felt
\nlike the new kid in town. This was going to be a learning
\nexperience for me, seeing that I haven’t watched most of these
\ncartoons ever (the one exception being
\nThe New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh<\/i>, and that was on The
\nDisney Channel, not ABC), and I had to keep an open mind about
\nthese things.<\/p>\n
The tape is another one geared exclusively towards the under-10
\ncrowd, featuring short snippets – some barely 10 seconds in length
\n– from the cartoons today’s kids are growing up with. Some of the
\ncharacters we might be familiar with, such as Doug (who got his
\nstart on Nickelodeon) and Timon and Pumbaa – and let’s not forget
\n“101 Dalmations,” who cashed in with their own cartoon after the
\nsuccess of the live-action film. (I personally wish the “Chicken
\nWoof\/Rap” had gone on longer than a few seconds; it was kind of
\ncute.) Other cartoons, like “Pepper Ann” and “Recess,” are names
\nthat we parents may still be learning, but the kids probably know
\nthese songs word for word.<\/p>\n
Acting as interludes are snippets from “Mrs. Munger’s Class,”
\nshort outtakes which make me wonder how badly my friends and I used
\nto treat some of our teachers. Also, the occasional bumpers for
\n“One Saturday Morning” break up monotony, but one wonders how much
\nthey really need to keep selling the series. I mean, for Cripes
\nsake, if the kids have this album, they obviously watch the
\ncartoons; you don’t need to keep hitting them over the head with
\nthe message, “Watch our cartoons, ’cause the other ones suck.”<\/p>\n
It’s hard to find fault with songs that, on average, clock in at
\none minute in length, and I can think of worse ways I could have
\nspent the better part of a half hour. If the kids like this music,
\nthen I’ll let them be the best judges of the merits of
\nThe Music Of Disney’s One Saturday Morning<\/i>. The kids will
\nlove it, the parents will tolerate it. (And if the parents can’t
\ntolerate it, just thank God it’s a few years before the little
\ntykes get into Rammstein.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5827],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-38823","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-various-artists","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38823"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38823"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}