Saturday Morning Cartoon Tier List

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**Jake** (1:18)
Can I drop a little Jeremy Irons on you guys? Yeah, I just want to do a little Jeremy Irons.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:23)
Ah, the Saturday Morning Cocktoon. A wonderful tradition of American childhood.

**Jake** (1:30)
What better way to sell cereal, toys, and various other programs to just the most stupidest form of life imaginable.

**Mike** (1:38)
You're transformed into Jim Cummings.

**Holden** (1:40)
All right, give us some HR Gieger now.

**Jake** (1:44)
When I look upon the glowy rectangle, and I am told which products I enjoy, I am filled with a almost ooze-like fluid that pours forth from my heart.

**Holden** (1:55)
Jake, remember we were on tour?

**Mike** (1:56)
Freak of me, freak of you.

**Holden** (1:58)
Remember we were on tour, that guy had you write HR Gieger on his legs so he could get it tattooed, and you spelled it wrong.

**Jake** (2:06)
I thought there was an E, or was there an E? I still don't know how to spell his name.

**Holden** (2:11)
Oh, so good. Well, anyways, Saturday Morning Cartoons.

**Jake** (2:14)
That's right. We're doing a tier list.

**Mike** (2:16)
I would have just put Swedish Dick Guy.

**Jake** (2:21)
We're doing a tier list. We're sticking primarily to the core 90s canon, which means that-

**Mike** (2:26)
Because we're getting to that season, the end of August, beginning of September, boom.

**Jake** (2:32)
Yes, and so obviously, there's no way we couldn't fill every single cartoon from every single network from every single year. There's also like, well, technically, that was a syndicated show that aired on Morning. So sorry-

**Mike** (2:44)
Sorry, C. Bear and Jamal people.

**Jake** (2:46)
Yes, my apologies to the entire Disney Afternoon.

**Mike** (2:49)
Yo-Yo-Gee. All bear-based, yeah. Because some of those Disney Afternoons did have Saturday episodes like Dark Week Duck, but that could be its own episode someday, the Disney Afternoons.

**Jake** (3:00)
Yeah, for sure. My hope is, is that as we go through this list, we will figure out like what is the most core, like essential Saturday Morning cartoon, the thing that you look forward to all week, the thing that like really pays off, the thing that like lives beyond its just actual role as a time slot to sell advertising on.

**Holden** (3:19)
And it's funny, I have a couple different eras actually, because having the older brother, you're like listening to, you know, Gen X music like sooner than maybe you would have explored it on your own. And also with Saturday Morning cartoons, earliest memories are Thundercats and like Transformers. Obviously we were sticking more to like our time more specifically. But it is funny, I have early-asked memories of that.

**Jake** (3:44)
As exhausting as it is to declare, we are 90s kids. And that is, and I've looked at our viewership stats and apparently you are also 90s kids.

**Mike** (3:54)
Yeah, we looked at how Key Man barely dented the algorithm.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:59)
You are a 90s kid.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:00)
Street Sharks really are.

**Jake** (4:02)
Yeah, so it.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:03)
We are doubling down.

**Holden** (4:05)
I also, you know, it's weird. I'm like, am I going to rank these as the kid I was or am I going to rank these as the adult now?

**Jake** (4:13)
Well, as the cartoon dumpster Svengali, I've watched a lot of these shows as an adult. And let me tell you, hoo boy, you did not actually enjoy Beetlejuice. Exactly. You maybe thought you did. You maybe, maybe the colors and noises were enjoyable.

**Mike** (4:29)
I mean, I think all French people should be skeletons.

**Holden** (4:33)
Now that you're bringing it up, I do remember that having a weird pacing and having kind of weird issues.

**Mike** (4:39)
Is that where we want to start?

**SPEAKER_7** (4:40)
We want to start right here?