There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought:“What if we simply ...

The 1980s were a golden age for cartoons, which often featured some creatively creepy villains that linger in memory even all these decades later. The most famous and iconic cartoons of the 1980s ...

In 1980, everything changed for animation in America. President Jimmy Carter signed the FTC Improvements Act of 1980, limiting the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to regulate children’s programming ...

These days, you can watch animated TV shows whenever you want—on streaming channels, YouTube or any of the cable channels devoted exclusively to cartoons. There are endless ways to watch funny kids ...

In a faraway time known as the 1980s, cartoons like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ruled Saturday mornings. Some cartoons were glorified commercials for a line of action figures or plush dolls ...

For those of us of a certain age, nothing from childhood was better than Saturday mornings. The weekend was here, which meant no school for the next two days. To celebrate, we’d wake up early on ...

The ’80s was a truly remarkable decade when it came to cartoons and anime, and over the course of that period, a number of now-iconic franchises first hit the screen. One such franchise is one of the ...

We love horror here at Nerdist, but we were kids once too. Not every kid watches A Nightmare on Elm Street at eight years old. Some of us watched regular old cartoons. But, those of us who grew up in ...

Anyone who grew up in the 1980s grew up watching many of the same, 30 minute toy commercials known as Saturday morning cartoons. Those same children, in all likelihood, grew up in households where ...

Brad LaCour is a Senior List Writer for Collider. Based out of Los Angeles, California, Brad lives close enough to the stars but is too busy to find out where exactly they live. Brad is fairly certain ...