Upon checking out the wiki page for USA Network’s Cartoon Express, I discovered a really odd factoid…Keith Olbermann, of MSNBC and who some consider one of the last real journalists, was the narrator of Cartoon Express during the mid 1980’s! Hearing of this I headed straight to youtube to locate any videos that might demonstrate what his narration of the show was like, but I was unable to find any from around that time. You can view what YouTube has for Cartoon Express bumpers and trailers here.
Cartoon Express was a staple for me each and every morning. I remember drag myself out of bed and into the living room, where I would lay half awake watching as much of it as I could before having to get ready for school or falling asleep again.
So many cartoons were shown during Cartoon Express plus the bumpers such as “In A Minute”. My favorites would be Scooby’s Laff-A-Lympics, Shirt Tales, Pac-Man The Animated Series, The Smurfs, and later The Real Ghostbusters and The Snorks, which were just underwater Smurfs.
What was your favorite part of Cartoon Express? Anyone have a video with Olbermann as the narrator?
Wed, Feb 10, 2010
1980's, 1990's