the E/I programming is horrible. they keep running the same shows over and over. ABC has a handfull of hannah Montanna and Suite Life shows, but they never add any newer ones. Even as an adult, I would sleep late on saturday and drink my morning coffee and watch Bugs Bunny or some other FUNNY cartoon. Now there is just nothing on saturday worth watching. When I was a kid, before E/I they had a disclaimer that said "recomended by the National Education Association" which was ususally our cue to grab the plyers and change the channel, because we knew it was going to be some low budget preachy educational crap that looked like a PBS reject. it was sort of like being made to eat your vegetables. Kids are not as dumb as you think they are, at least I wasn't, I know crap when I see it. If we had wanted to watch educational we would have flipped over to PBS and watched Sesame Street. And the only reason we watched kid shows on PBS was because during the weekdays the networks had on soap operas. PBS was the only kid stuff we had. If something good was on the other channel, hardly anyone watched PBS. Not only is the E/I programming these days just a major snooze fest, but the quality is horrible. too much second rate computer animation. Plus all the cartoons these day, including the ones on Cartoon network look like they were done on shockwave or flash media. They look flat and jerky. Plus, why can't the artists draw anymore, the charactors just look plain weird. Everyones body is shaped funny, heads are way too big, ugly looking color, poor backgrounds. The Archies, and Hannah Barbera had some crappy animation, but at least you could tell what you were looking at.
I agree to a degree; although some shows made by flash or shockwave are actually pretty good, like "Totally Spies", someone else mentioned this.
