USA CARTOON EXPRESS 80s & 90s Memories!!!
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- USA Cartoon Express changed how kids watched cartoons forever.
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We grew up in a blessed time, where we not only got the new cartoons of the 80s and 90s, but TV regularly showed classic Disney, Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry (and DROOPY), Popeye, Hanna-Barbera, etc. cartoons from before we were even born. I grew up being able to see Mickey Mouse, and Donald Duck, and Bugs Bunny, and Yogi Bear, and The Flintstones, and Scooby Doo, alongside Inspector Gadget, and Thundercats, and Duck Tales, and the X-Men.
I honestly feel bad for kids today. For all the "choices" with streaming services and shit that exist, and stuff online, I feel in some ways they actually have less exposure to the classics that we did. And I think those classics are important. I feel like we were all the better for experiencing them. I fear most kids these days, are only getting the newest, meh cartoons, and probably mostly even only the newest movies.
I can't imagine my childhood years without old monster movies, and Twilight Zone, and Star Trek, and Looney Tunes, and Mickey Mouse, etc., things that came out YEARS before I was born. I grew up loving those old things, old music, old books, etc. I can't imagine it, and I wouldn't want to.
I missed backpedaling with you.
I only watched this when I visited my grandma as she had cable, and I would always hope to see the real ghostbusters pop up on the train. The crossover of all the characters on the train felt special.
We needed a USA Cartoon Express and USA Up All Night crossover!
You Damn right!!!!!
So basically, USA Cartoon Express rolled in so that Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon could fly. I'm glad the backpedaling series has returned.
For us, it was a time of excitement. USA had it all, even the sitcoms they aired were classic. Getting to put the channel on & watch reruns of Major Dad, My 2 Dads, Facts of Life, Gimme a Break, & Perfect Strangers, it was awesome. The Cartoon Express was the best, then of course, in the 80s, watching All-American Wrestling, Prime Time Wrestling (always bugging my parents to let me stay up to watch it), fun times
What about Kung-Fu Theater on Sunday’s after All-American Wrestling? That was one of my favorites as well.
I remember watching the Cartoon Express many times as a kid. It's sad that it's not on anymore. If only there was a way to travel back in time, and go back to the good old days.
I can still see the room I watched it in; there is no need to close my eyes.
I used to spend a lot of time riding the Cartoon Express back in the day. Good times.
Classic USA Cartoon Express!
This was so weird. I saw the Cartoon Express intro for the first time in like 35 years, yesterday on a different video. Then this video, today…awesome pick!
IN A MINUTE! I miss USA Cartoon Express.
I remember watching USA Cartoon Express back in the 1980s and early 90s. This is how I was introduced to a lot of Hanna Barbera cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s.
It's been so long... I thought Let's Backpedal was decommissioned, just like the Cartoon Express. Glad to see a revival.
I vividly remember watching Cartoon Express on USA Network as a child. The Summertime and Holidays was the best time because on Christmas Day, New Years, and Thanksgiving cartoons would be shown all day!!! I was very sad on the day that Cartoon Express went back to the train station for the final time. I knew at that time all that was big were world premiere toons on Cartoon Network and I HATED the fact that Cartoon Network took all of the Hanna Barbera Cartoons off TV and tried to appeal to teenagers and young adults. I still believe in my opinion that there is no way in SIX KINDS OF HELL that Cartoon Network could convince me that Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory and all of the other World Premiere Toons were better than all of the Hanna Barbera Cartoons of the 60's, 70's and 80's. I have never ever watched any of those World Premiere Toons to this day some 20+ years later and refuse to this very day. I still watch the same cartoons that played on Cartoon Express in the same order at the same time on my days off of work and holidays.
I too grew up with Cartoon Express and Calliope as well. Such fond memories of these cartoon blocks. They introduced me to so many show I'd have never seen otherwise.
My memory is clearly slipping in my old age! I’d thought this was on in the morning!? Luv this vid!
INCH HIGH PRIVATE EYE!!! Man the cartoon express was something super special
The USA Network had it all, even the sitcoms, game shows, and TV shows they aired were good. Watching reruns of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Major Dad, MacGyver, Murder, She Wrote, Quantum Leap, The Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, Press Your Luck, Hollywood Squares (with John Davidson), High Rollers, Wipeou The $25,000 and $100,000 Pyramids, the early 90's revivals of The Joker's Wild & Tic Tac Dough, Scrabble, Sale of the Century, Talk About, and Caesars Challenge, Mike Hammer, The Partridge Family, Just the Ten of Us, Square Pegs, American Gladiators, Wings, The Facts of Life, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Magnum, P.I., Knight Rider, Love Connection, Renegade, America's Most Wanted, The People's Court, Walker, Texas Ranger, Xena: Warrior Princess, Baywatch, Top Cops, Gimmie a Break!, Perfect Strangers, Webster, Saved by the Bell: The New Class, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Hearts Afire, Something So Right, the 1989-1994 episodes of the Bob Saget run of American's Funniest Home Videos, JAG, Ned & Stacy, The Naked Truth, Martin, Jesse, The John Larroquette Show, Nash Bridges, Veronica's Closet, Doctor, Doctor, Living Single, My Two Dads, Cheers, it was so awesome. The Cartoon Express was the best. I still know all this stuff, it had a mix of 60's, 70's and 80's Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Problem Child, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Highlander: The Animated Series, reruns of Volton, Denver, the Last Dinosaur, Jem, The Real Ghostbusters, Toxic Crusaders, G.I. Joe, Dinosaucers, Mighty Mouse, Deputy Dawg, Heckle & Jackle, The Chipmunks Go to the Movies, Captain N, Maxie's World, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, The Superman/Batman Adventures, Woody Woodpecker, and Dennis the Menace, USA Action Extreme Team was good, it had shows based on the Street Fighter 2 video game franchise and The Savage Dragon comic book franchise, ExoSquad, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Wing Commander Academy, Street Sharks, Ultraforce, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Mario All Stars, Double Dragon, Mighty Max, Gargoyles, and Sailor Moon, I remember watching the USA Cartoon Express as a kid growing up in my younger years. I remember watching Yogi Bear on Nickelodeon, TNT, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. I also watched TMNT original show on syndication, USA and CBS on Saturday mornings.
This was one of my childhood tv programs
I was kind of confused on how there was so much Hanna Barbera Scooby-like shovelware. Now it makes sense.
Ah, hell ya! Let's Backpedal!
Fun one! I remember almost all of these, especially Turbo Kid... creepy kid turns into a car!
Plenty of cartoons during the week in the 70s and 80s. Mask, GI Joe, Transformers, etc. and the off chance you got to stay home sick or no camp for summer, the UHF station usually played Flintstones, Jetsons, Underdog, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Looney tunes, or Popeye among other syndicated shows. USA just put a block on cable.
Wish I had UHF back then.
Besides from giving you thumbs up, for being a fellow Jabberjaw fan. I recorded episodes of The Superman/Batman Adventures (which was also taped with Taz-Mania), before shuffling off to high school. But my usual jam in the earlier Express days, was Mr. T and He-Man.
I like this vibe and the voices. Subscribed! 😊
Thank you. And thanks for watching!
Lived in the US for one year back in 87 (British). I remember Cartoon Express blowing my mind as in the UK nothing like that existed and didn't until we all got Sky/cable in the early to mid 90's (I think it was). We literally only had about 1hour of kids TV everyday from around 3:30pm on BBC1 and ITV for decades (UK only had 4 channels for the majority of my life).
this is how i recall it. my first cartoons i lived in the northwest between BC and seattle. smurfs and superhero shows spiderman mostly and they were in fact limited to saturday mornings. however when i moved into the states 1984 on uhf tv we had afternoon cartoons already that went : tom jerry loony toons started at 2pm... 2:30pm was dc superfriends. 3pm was he-man (the first one i saw was 'tale of two cities' i can still remember). 3:30pm: scooby doo (i still know the first episode of scooby doo i ever saw. it was that year at age 5 "whos afraid of the big bad werewolf" and i cried it scared me). 4:00 was either gi joe or transformers.. a few things get away from me hey its been almost 40 years lol. around the 86\87 school year fox network bought our local uhf channel (probably lots of those) and created the disney afternoon block starting with duck tales. i saw early cartoon express only on cable in 1985 after my family moved in town. i still remember not having a cable ready tv and those boxes the cable company gave out sat on top the TV with the buttons and a wire remote lol. cartoon express was "pre-he man or tmnt" era then. it had all the hannah barbera grape ape funky phantom scooby with dynomutt clue club speedbuggy jabberjaws and hong kong fuey..others like a show called shirt tails. i concur that lots of times usa cartoon express would be played well into the dark of night and that was a treat. also where i lived there was a neighborhood store i would walk to that sold 25 cent hotdogs and grape ape candy. i shit you not they sold lots of candy inspired by hannah barbera tv shows that i was watching on USA. lol which meant it was a feast for one extra sense. smell-o-vision. i can still taste that grape ape candy gosh.. spoiled i was. the scooby doo show is probably the center of my universe with the other "satellite spinoffs". i really got into like "harum scarum sanitarium" or "wheres the crew" etc.. the way i recall scooby prior to USA was shown mostly in its first two season format alongside he-man. when i saw it on UHF i thought at first they were the same show and any minute fred would hold aloft his magic sword and say by the power of greyskull. i figured it out pretty fast lol but that was my own wacky toon timeline thats still close to this old ticker. we picked up nickelodian in the late 80s and the ones a remember were heathcliff and count duckula the ren and stimpy ushered in nicktoons. somewhere in all that was the family channel and the show "dinosaucers" showed after reruns of the live action 1960s batman tv series with adam west and burt ward. snick brought us the live action "are you afraid of the dark" with doug rugrats but nick at night was a bummer.. of course ted turners cartoon network finally got 24 hours cartoons going but until boomerang most of those werent my thing. one morning when i was taking community college courses in 1995/6 i was up eating breakfast getting ready to leave watching gilligans island on TNT when the credits to scooby where are you started i went oh darn i gotta role to class. luckily by that time my skills with my 4 head vcr remote were quite keen. i programmed it to record every hour long scooby block that week on tnt while i was in class commercial free. no one else in my family could figure out how to do that. so i put together a several hour long vhs compilation by 1997 when i went away to the big state university i gave it to my younger brother as a going away present and when i would visit home on rare weekends we would dig out that old tape and a pack of zigzags and have a good evening.. so yeh great stuff really.
My brother had Grape Ape pajamas that he would only wear when he came on. LOL
It was a part of my life
I vaguely remember this.
Very interesting. I was in my twenties when that channel launched so I didnt even know it happened. I had always though it was nickelodeon who started 24/7 cartoons.
I remember watching the USA Express as a kid. I remember watching Yogi Bear on Nickelodeon. I also remember watching TMNT original seies on USA and CBS on Saturday mornings. I remember watching a part of the new Doug series before going to school. Times sure have changed!
I watched tons of Cartoon Express. I remember all this stuff vividly... except for Inch High Private Eye. I had to research that on IMDB. It didn't last long. There were only a handful of episodes. They must've played those at the very end of every train run, when the vehicle was running out of steam. ;) "Columbo is popular... why don't we shrink him down to an inch height and market him to children."
September 20, 1982. I was three months old.
Prob fair to say you do NOT in fact remember.
I miss the Buttons and Rusty holiday specials.
How come you didn't bother doing a weird voice for Jabberjaw???
Great video. Love the nostalgia every time!
I should have sung the song - it was stuck in my head for days.
I thought many ov those cartoons were on fox afternoons in the late 80s. I used to love watching USA but the hannah barbarra stuff got old quick. Nickelodeon did the Bugs Bunny stuff before nick at night. And in the mornings I remember cartoons playing on the local ABC channel. I was born in 82 so for me it was all established so I missed the whole when it started theme
Popeye's son doesn't have a deformed face whatsoever. He looks normal. That kinda makes me assume the child belongs to someone else, and Olive Oil just lied to hide her guilt.
i used to watch thundercats in the afternoon on usa cartoon express. but i never cared for the toy's i was more into transformers back then. but damn i have heard of wheelie and the chopper bunch in years i used to watch that as a kid.
I was 5 I’m sure I watched but do not recall
The Cartoon Express would eventually be replaced in the 90s by the USA Action Extreme Team.
Remember those bumpers of those three kids getting electrocuted or something????
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The 90s cartoons, of course, featured a bunch of action cartoons like
Savage Dragon, Street Fighter, Mighty Max, Street Sharks and others.
Uhh, video games? Not unless you were rich and your parents bought you an Atari!
But technically you could have watched cartoons everyday if you had bought vhs tapes.
Ever watch ABC or CBS on Saturday morning?
Indeeeeed
We Gen Xers don't know how good we had it. The kids that grow up today without internet, cable, or satellite get an absolute borefest for Saturday morning television. All Edju-tainment crap, with more emphasis on the "edju". I'll take seeing a mouse blow up a cat with dynamite over watching an antelope give birth at the zoo, any day! But Gen Z will never know the joys we had!
Hey buddy and I hope you are doing well. Yes, good times for sure.
What? You friend was long long ago….before when you got up to turn the tv..
The "Robonic" Stooges was a terrible name. The writers were trying to merge the words "robotic" with "bionic." I'm not sure why though... sounds kinda dumb and redundant.
I recall USA express being the go-to early evening lineup for cartoons. Wpix was the after school one.
USA Friday nights for Kung Fu theater!
It was a part of my life