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Do kids still watch old Hanna-Barbera cartoons? (Flintstones, Top Cat, Jetsons, Tom & Jerry, etc)

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    Aside from the Flintstones being the mascot for Fruity Pebbles cereal, do your kids know who old school Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters (pre-1970s) like the Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, or Tom and Jerry are?

    As a kid growing up in the 1990s, those cartoons were already 30-50 years old. The only time I ever watched them was when I was sent to my grandma's house to be babysat, where there were no toys to entertain myself with. I never found the shows to be particularly interesting or enjoyable, it's just there was nothing else on or I had nothing to do.

    I feel like with today's technology (especially YouTube and streaming services), kids don't ever have to watch something just because they are bored and nothing else is on. They never have to watch Secret Squirrel or Wally Gator because there's nothing else to do.

    The only older (pre-1970s) Hana-Barbera cartoons I can see kids today watching would be Scooby Doo, but that's only because it keeps getting modern reboots every few years. But I don't know any young people, maybe I'm wrong. Do your kids watch the older Hanna-Barbera cartoons?
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    I got this,..
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    I enjoy the early H-B cartoons...my fave is Loopy de Loop.
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    To be quite honest, with the exception of "Scooby-Doo" series, the really old H-B toons do not seem to appeal to today's children. It's probably because television viewing habits have changed in the last decade. TV viewership, as a whole, is in decline; and the generation who were fans of the really old H-B toons are likely grandparents now. It's the sign of the times, and it's sad.

    I am not a big fan of the really old H-B cartoons, even when I was younger - and I will be turning 50 years old next year. However, I am more of a fan of H-B toons if it is Scooby-Doo (including the Scrappy era) or its clone series such as "Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels", and cartoon series involving crimefighting and not involving comic book superheroes. Among the 1980s content, I mostly enjoy "The Little Rascals" spinoff, "Richie Rich", "Shirt Tales" and "The Gary Coleman Show" the most. "Smurfs" and "The Gary Coleman Show" were the only H-B cartoons I enjoyed that didn't involve crimefighting.

    I guess you could say I was more of a fan of the newer content during H-B's decline in popularity in the 1980s. At least Scooby-Doo is still being produced with new episodes today.

    I wouldn't be surprised if older Scooby-Doo toons will someday air on MeTV, but for the sake of sanity among viewers, hopefully they won't air any series with Scrappy involved. Although I did enjoy the episodes he was on, but it was more for the storyline.
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    I realize also that, since September 1984, only ten new H-B cartoons debuted on broadcast television (four on ABC, five on NBC, and only one on CBS). This was a sign that H-B was suffering financially as we headed into the 1990s, and it makes sense, since Ruby-Spears and DiC were big names in cartoons during the latter half of the 1980s.
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    I also noticed that the bulk of Hanna-Barbera's content during much of the first half of the 1980s was licensed material. Shirt Tales, Richie Rich, Smurfs, The Little Rascals, Pink Panther and Sons, Pac-Man, The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, Laverne & Shirley in the Army, The Gary Coleman Show, and maybe others I do not know off the top of my head. The only original properties I recall from the early 1980s were Snorks and The Biskitts (though the former was perhaps inspired by the success of Smurfs).
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    Other originals from the 80's were Foofur, and nearly all the shows featured on The Funtastic World Of Hanna-Barbera(Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Paw-Paws, Galtar, etc). Not to mention Wildfire, which was NOT inspired by the classic Michael Murphy song.
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    Well, apart from Wacky Races, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Captain Caveman, The Magilla Gorilla Show, Tom & Jerry, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Scooby Doo, and Josie and the Pussycats, I don't watch the remaining shows of H & B, they just don't appeal to me and this is coming from someone who is going to be 50 this year! LOL!
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    I,myself,will turn 70 this November, so I remember seeing Ruff and Reddy back in the 50s,wasn't aware of HB's work on Tom and Jerry until around 1965,when they made it to network television. My favorite era of HB had to be the mid sixties,a mixture of adventure cartoons like Space Ghost and the Herculoids, as well as humorous toons like Secret Squirrel, the Impossibles, and Wacky Races.
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