Most of these originated from around 1985 to 1987.

Lots of scratch ‘n sniff, The Goonies, He-Man, Shirt Tales, and McDonalds.

30 Retro Cereal Boxes. Some fun stuff! The biggest omission would be NERDS. I was a big fan of nerds cereal even to the point of collecting enough UPCs to get a special nerds cereal bowl. The bowl was divided in half with a “flood gate” between the two sides. I only wish I knew where this bowl was now. Eating cereal could be fun again.

Want your own box of Ghostbusters Cereal? You can actually buy one…I wouldn’t recommend eating it though.

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I had forgotten about the holograms on cereal boxes craze!

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?

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!