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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. [...]

Nothing says 1985 like a Polo tournament at the country club and a crisp white Cadillac Seville. Except maybe if you add in a blond trophy wife carrying your Polo trophy!

For the last couple of years the AFI Silver Theatre located in Silver Spring, MD has put on a celebration of 1980’s cinema. I’ve seen some fun things and seeing them for the first time on the big screen is worth it! Recently saw Ghostbusters and the original Nightmare on Elm Street.

Highly recommend checking it out. Runs through September 2009.

AFI Silver Theatre Awesome 80’s Film Festival

One of the stranger movie merchandisings of the late 1980’s. Police Academy: The Series was an animated Saturday morning cartoon. I guess parents did not mind it was based on an R rated movie?! Pictured here is a coloring book I have from Golden Books, 1989. The story is all about stolen doughnuts, of course!