In the 90s, Saturday mornings were a respite from the pains of every day life. There wasn’t any homework, there was no bedtime, and the TV was crawling with awesome cartoons, unless it was the summer, and then you had to deal with the dreaded rerun. Rational thought suggests that reruns should happen in the order that the series was originally aired, but oh no dear reader, television programmers don’t play by the rules of man. Instead, they would re-air whatever episode was easiest to put on and that usually meant replaying the same episode multiple times, and in some instances that meant that the youth of the nation would see the same episode of X-Men upwards of 50 times.
We’ve catalogued some of the most replayed episodes in Saturday morning history, why don’t you take a look at our list and see if matches with your memory.
Full disclosure, we’re not TV scientists so don’t sue us if our calculations are off, but the episodes on this list are the ones that we remember being replayed until they didn’t matter anymore. We saw some of these episodes so many times that they actually made us want to go outside and use our imaginations for once. Can you think of doing anything worse on a Saturday morning?
Vote on which episode of a Saturday morning show you remember playing the most, and if there was an installment of your favorite show that you think got too much TV time, let us know in the comments.
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The Menace of Mysterio
"Oh no! Spiderman just robbed the Metropolitan Museum!"
We said for the thousandth time as we watched yet another rerun of this episode that was cool for the first couple of times.
Night Game
For some reason, the guy that picks what episodes are going to air decided to run Night Game, a baseball centric episode of The Real Ghostbusters on a near infinite loop in the early 90s.
In the episode, the gang is drawn into a baseball game between good and evil that only comes about every 500 years. We seem to remember there being a spiked bat in one of the scenes.
Mobster Mash, Lake Titicaca, Icebreakers
The adnauseum re-airing of episode 48 of Animaniacs may have not been a case of lazy programmers as much as it may have been someone at the WB systematically trying the warp the minds of 10 year olds everywhere by having them listen to the Lake Titicaca song as much as possible.
Night of the Sentinels (2)
Night of the Sentinels Part 2 is only the second episode of the seminal Saturday morning cartoon, X-Men but it was aired like the cure for cancer was hidden in the animation.
The crux of the episode is that fan favorite/character basically created to die is supposedly killed by Sentinels, throwing Wolverine into an existential crisis. Fun stuff.
912 - The Screaming Skull
The Screaming Skull is a cautionary tale about marrying a guy who has a history of killing his wives, and the dum dums at Sci-Fi thought it would be a great episode to show over and over and over and over again.
We remember waking up earlier than we should have on a Saturday just to sit through this episode for the 57th time.
Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
With so many episodes of Tiny Toons put into production you'd think that a re-run wouldn't be an option.
Well if you thought that you'd be wrong, because Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow, the episode featuring Elmyra (Looney Tunes WORST character) kidnapping Buster aired possibly more than actual episodes produced for the show.
Videolympics
We're not sure why we spent so much time watching Captain N: The Game Master, maybe we just needed a fix, man. But we really should have gotten a gold medal after watching Videolympics as many times as we did. We can't remember why Mother Brain challenged the N-Team to an athletic competition on Mount Olympus, but we do have a soft spot for Princess Lana's track and field outfit.
Food Fight
We think it's safe to say that no one cares about what the Power Rangers are doing during their school day.
Which is why it's baffling that this episode featuring very little actual Power Ranger action was shown so many times. Maybe the programmers were just big fans of Bulk and Skull.
The Case Of The Killer Pizzas
The episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that put us off eating pizza with meatballs for ever (seriously who does that?).
When Shredder switches out the turtles meatballs with some weird alien eggs from Dimension X, the turtles must battle the Xenomorph-like creatures that hatch from the eggs in order to save the city.
Sharkbait
Oddly enough, after producing three seasons of Street Sharks, the most aired episode was the pilot, Sharkbait. Maybe the producers thought we didn't get it.
And by "get it," we mean buy enough Street Sharks action figures.