Line #119 Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids


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6	->''Monday morn, wake up time,\
7	Get to work and stand in line\
8	What would make you feel real fine?\
9	One Saturday Morning!''
10	-->--''One Saturday Morning'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COPOKXAO6oI theme song]]
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12	[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe]] [[OnceAnEpisode Illuminating Television]] [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere here.]]
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14	The ''other'' cartoon [[MediaNotes/BlockProgramming block]] of [[TheNineties the 1990s]] to be created by Disney, running on [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] under the name Disney's One Saturday Morning from September 13, 1997 to September 7, 2002, then ABC Kids from September 14, 2002 to August 27, 2011.
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16	In 1997, WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon was running its last leg and dropped the branding, and Creator/{{Disney}} had bought out ABC two years prior and revised their Saturday morning line-up (notably dropping ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'' in the process). Peter Hastings, a former writer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', had just fled to them from Creator/WarnerBros out of his frustration with the ExecutiveMeddling happening to the latter cartoon, so he was put in charge of coming up with a new Saturday morning block for ABC. The idea he came up with (as seen in the block's intro sequence) was that the weekdays are represented as buildings, and the building for Saturday is a special one, where it is like "five hours of summer once a week", according to the theme song.[[note]]Ironically, most of the cartoons created for the block would tend to take place at school, due to an FCC regulation calling for more educational programming for children and most TV writers thinking this meant "let's make animated kids-in-school sitcoms".[[/note]] It was called Disney's One Saturday Morning (the "one" being the building's address number). This also marked the first time children's programming that ABC had an overall theme since the 1970s (with the "Funshine Saturday" brand).[[note]]Otherwise, the block mainly had the famous claymation bumpers used from 1988 to 1993, when they were replaced with bumpers themed after one of the series that would [[EarlyBirdCameo debut the season following their usage]] (the 1993-94 season had ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'', while the 1994-95 season had ''Literature/WhatAMess''); then the 1995-96 season, the last before Disney fully took over, used bumpers with live-action kids; and the 1996-97 season, which served as the transitional period, had bumpers with the toy soldiers from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' and also marked the arrival of several Disney-sourced programs, including ''Doug'' (see below) and ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries''.[[/note]]
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18	One Saturday Morning was the name of not only the block, but also a two-hour live-action hosting show whose hosts, and format, were tweaked from season to season; the name came from the address the giant factory building where the hosting segments originated, a giant mechanical "1" with vague {{Steampunk}} elements. Early on, virtual sets were used to portray the interior of the building; soon, most of the action was moved onto the ''Televator'', wherein female human host Charlie (Jessica Prunell) and later Meme (Valarie Rae Miller) alongside Jelly Roll the Elephant (voiced by Creator/BradGarrett) could ascend or descend to different levels depending on the segment or program. This was where episodes of three of the block's most prominently featured shows (newcomers ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', and Disney's {{Retool}}ed version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'') were presented. It was also home to many interstitial segments shown between the programs, listed below. The hosts and interstitials disappeared from the block in late 2000.
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20	Despite being filled with more E/I content than any of the other Saturday morning blocks (and pointing it out by having some guy say "Illuminating Television" over each show's intro sequence), One Saturday Morning was a very popular block, managing to stay on ABC for five years; this was thanks to the clever writing and strong characterization of the series it aired. In its third season, a companion block was added in the form of Disney's One Too, which ran on Creator/{{UPN}} as a replacement for their own "Kids" block (even though UPN was a corporate sibling to [[{{Creator/Nickelodeon}} a competitor]], though the time may have been given to Disney due to UPN's President at the time, Dean Valentine, having formerly been a Disney executive) on both weekday afternoons and Sunday mornings. The weekday block was originally going to be called ''Whomptastic'', but they probably changed it to the more fitting name probably because it would not make sense to name a block after the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''-made UnusualEuphemism for "suck"; Disney themselves claimed it was for "better brand identity", which also makes sense. Like The Disney Afternoon before it, One Saturday Morning also garnered its own soundtrack album of musical highlights from the shows.
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22	Three of its shows became feature films: ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie'' (originally intended for a DirectToVideo release), which, while doing well in the box office, bombed with critics; ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'', which was by far the most successful movie of the three; and ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' (the only show from 2000-2003 to get a movie), which bombed at the box office, but did well with critics. Of the main three from this block, only ''Pepper Ann'' didn't get a theatrical movie.
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24	One Saturday Morning aired its last broadcast under that name on September 7, 2002, after which it was rebranded as ABC Kids. ABC Kids started off pretty strong; it even saw the premiere the otherwise Creator/DisneyChannel Original Series ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', which was a big hit for its time as it rode high on the popularity of [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the film it followed up on]], and continued to air new episodes between both the block (including a ''Recess'' {{crossover}}) and the pay TV channel throughout its run. However, the block quickly degenerated into nothing but Disney Channel sitcom reruns which aired with a very odd "film" effect over them (and were laughable in actual E/I content) [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (which itself degraded to [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks butchered]] versions of the nearly-twenty-year-old ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''); which were many times pre-empted by some station groups with actual educational shows.
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26	The block eventually got the axe in Fall 2011 when Disney decided to move its kids' shows exclusively to its then-numerous cable networks, and was replaced with a block of E/I programs called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litton%27s_Weekend_Adventure Litton's Weekend Adventure]], run by Litton Entertainment instead of Disney. Most of the Litton shows are of the animal show variety, or have a NoBudget feel, though thankfully the infamous "Litton look" of their earlier cheaper efforts is gone; Litton also began to control CBS's Saturday morning block at the start of the 2013-14 season, and in the Fall 2014 season, they took over The CW's block (ironically under the name One Magnificent Morning). One Too, meanwhile, lasted until the end of the 2002-03 season, but due to the name change for the Saturday block, the One Too brand was dropped and the block was unbranded (though Disney's website called it Disney's Animation Weekdays). Meanwhile, most of the shows featured on the block went into syndicated reruns on the Creator/DisneyChannel and Creator/ToonDisney, until the latter channel having since been replaced with Creator/DisneyXD. ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' was also rerun on [=DiC=]/Cookie Jar's CBS Saturday morning blocks from 2007 until early 2011. ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' was reran on Disney Channel, but at 4:00 AM (as part of Disney Junior (a highly strange decision, as it's not a preschool show at all) for a short time in early 2011). ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' was rerun on Creator/DisneyXD for a short time in October 2011. Many of the One Saturday Morning series [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes sadly haven't received full DVD releases yet]], but thankfully several of the shows are on Creator/DisneyPlus.
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30	!!Shows that ran on One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids:
31	[[index]]
32	!!!One Saturday Morning (and One Too) only
33	* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' (13 episodes would premiere on ABC, while the rest would be syndicated)
34	* ''Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' (which had already been running for a season before that)
35	* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn''
36	* ''WesternAnimation/JungleCubs''
37	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerShow The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show]]'' (Like Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, because their contract didn't expire yet, though it was already on its last legs at the time. The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons were getting more exposure on Creator/KidsWB and ''especially'' on Creator/CartoonNetwork, where 90% of the cartoons shown were uncut and uncensored. Once the contract ended in 2000, those cartoons would be restricted to Cartoon Network.)
38	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' reruns (only to fill up their "edutainment" requirement; the only other show to last the length of OSM)
39	* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' (again, to fill out their "edutainment" requirement, though, after awhile, those got phased out)
40	* ''WesternAnimation/ScienceCourt'' (not owned by Disney), retooled the following season as ''Squigglevision''
41	* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries''
42	* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks''
43	** ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''
44	* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' (created by [=DiC=], then owned by Disney)
45	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders''
46	* ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet''
47	* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand''
48	* ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace''
49	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'' (''One Too'' mainly, with reruns during the last two months of ''OSM'')
50	* ''WesternAnimation/MaryKateAndAshleyInAction'' (created by [=DiC=])
51	* ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' (''One Too'' only; reruns of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' alternated with new episodes of ''Frontier'')
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53	!!!One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids
54	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' (the only show made expressly for the block to appear throughout the entirety of OSM's run; it aired in reruns during the ABC Kids era until 2004)
55	* ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' (reruns only)
56	* ''Series/EvenStevens'' (reruns only)
57	* ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo''
58	* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' (reruns only)
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60	!!!ABC Kids only
61	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' (the last series to be made exclusively for the block)
62	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' (reruns only)
63	* ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''
64	* ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''
65	* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' (made for Disney Channel, but premiered on this block first and aired new episodes concurrently between both throughout its three-year, two-season run)
66	* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' (reruns only; in fact, the rest of the non-''Power Rangers'' entries on this list are all reruns)
67	* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''
68	* ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture''
69	* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''
70	* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''
71	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie''
72	* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''
73	* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' (made its ABC Kids debut just one day after its premiere on Disney Channel)
74	* ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce''
75	* ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''
76	* ''Series/HannahMontana''
77	* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive''
78	* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''
79	* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''
80	* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' (a 2010 re-version of the series)
81	[[/index]]
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84	!!Interstitial segments from the block's first three seasons included:
85	* ''WesternAnimation/MrsMungersClass'' - Conversations between the titular teacher and her students are presented as Flash-animated yearbook photos.
86	** ''Centerville'' - A semi-spinoff that replaced ''Mrs. Munger's Class'' after its cancellation. It uses the same art style as ''Munger'', but takes place around the titular Centerville instead of a class yearbook and the characters speak in tune to a drum beat.
87	* ''What's the Diff?'' - Two slightly identical stills from one of the shows featured on the block are presented, and viewers have to count the differences between the two pictures.
88	* ''How Things Werk''- Presented as a parody of 50's educational shorts and comic books, a kid named Billy knows how things work, yet "Mr. Werks" (voiced by Disney regular Creator/CoreyBurton) then shows up with a nonsensical explanation (ie: elevators are operated not by cables, but by ''giant invisible retirees'').
89	* ''Tube Dwellers'' - The continuing adventures of two guys named Bob working in your TV.
90	* ''Manny the Uncanny'' - Starring [[WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} Paul Rugg]] exploring things.
91	* ''(Genie's) Great Minds Think for Themselves'' - The Genie from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' presents facts about inventors and other notable historical figures. Notably, Creator/RobinWilliams voices the character once again.
92	* ''How Much Stuff Could an Elephant Crush?'' - ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, featuring Jelly Roll.
93	* ''Find Out Why'' - Hosted by [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Timon and Pumbaa]], these segments involved Pumbaa asking Timon a question, starting as "Timon, ever wonder why/how/what___?" (Usually, "Why do we sneeze?" "How is thunder caused?"), with Timon answering something outlandish to the question. Pumbaa then explains about the said subject. A few of these were released on the special edition DVD of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''.
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95	!!Tropes present include:
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97	* AdoredByTheNetwork:
98	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' during the OSM era. It got to the point where there were ''billboards and bus posters'' for the show in some areas. ''Mrs. Munger's Class'' was also pretty adored; see below.
99	** ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' was this for the ABC Kids era. It was supposed to be a Creator/DisneyChannel show, but it ended up debuting on this block first and new episodes aired between one or the other throughout its run.
100	** And to re-enforce this trivia trope for both the above shows, ''Recess'' and ''Lilo & Stitch'' crossed over on the latter's show, years after the former ended production.
101	** ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' was also this for the ABC Kids block. This was the second-longest running show on the block, behind ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.
102	* TheAnnouncer: For the entire run of the block, voiceovers were done over the end credits by the late ABC staff announcer [[http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/bp1/siddoherty.html Sid Doherty]] (carrying over from the previous, pre-Disney era Saturday Morning schedule); upon the switch to ABC Kids, generic pre-recorded voiceovers took his place, and Doherty himself retired from ABC in 2008 (possibly the last of the pre-Disney ABC staff announcers to do so).
103	* ArtifactTitle: To an extent. "One Saturday Morning" was not only based on fact, but it was also the address of the building where the hosting interstitials took place. In September 2000, those segments were dropped and the block didn't have any hosting at all.
104	* BreakingNewsInterruption:
105	** The block's premiere was originally intended for September 6, 1997, but it got pre-empted for coverage of Princess Diana's funeral across all TV channels, which also pre-empted the premieres of ''Series/TheWeirdAlShow'' and ''[[Series/WheelOfFortune Wheel 2000]]'' on the then-new ''Think CBS Kids'' block and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfCalamityJane'' on ''Creator/KidsWB''
106	** The December 19, 1998 airing, which notably contained the ChristmasEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', was pre-empted by the Bill Clinton impeachment trial.
107	** The April 22, 2000 airing was pre-empted by coverage of the raid on the Florida home where Elian Gonzalez was being held by his father.
108	* ChannelHop: Because ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'', ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'', ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'', and ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'' were renewed before the switch to ABC Kids, new episodes of the shows would end up being aired on Creator/ToonDisney.
109	** As stated above, ''Digimon'' went from Fox Kids to UPN as a result of the buyout and shutdown of the former.
110	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Peter Hastings performs the ''One Saturday Morning'' theme song.
111	* FreezeFrameBonus: If you looked at the "Illuminating Television" bug when ''Winnie the Pooh'' was on, the hand that pulled the lightbulb chain was Pooh's, rather than the normal human hand. Same for ''Brand Spanking New Doug!''.
112	* {{Irony}}: The theme song states the block is "Five hours of summer once a week". Almost all of the shows took place mainly at school.
113	** This got worse during the ''actual'' summer months. No, they did not change the theme.
114	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The ''only'' way to see of the original OSM shorts (especially ''Mrs. Munger's Class'' for the reasons listed below) is through Website/YouTube.
115	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' got a few episodes on VHS compilations (''Dalmatians'' got one tape, one [=VideoCD=], and another tape outside of the US, while ''Doug'' got four tapes and the movie), ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' got a few VHS and DVD releases (while ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' got a movie), ''Teacher's Pet'' only got the movie on VHS and DVD. As for the rest... they got reruns on the other Disney networks until 2006 or 2008.
116	** ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' did receive a DVD release through the Disney Movie Club in 2013, though.
117	** ''Mrs. Munger's Class'' has its own [=YouTube=] channel.
118	** As far as legal streaming is concerned, ''Doug'', ''Recess'', ''Pepper Ann'', ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'', ''Teacher's Pet'', ''101 Dalmatians: The Series'', and ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'' are available on Creator/DisneyPlus (as are series that reran on the block), while ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' can be seen on [=YouTube=] directly from current owner Creator/WildBrain, and on Creator/PlutoTV. The rest are currently unaccounted for, though. (A selection of ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' shorts are on Creator/{{Max}} and the Boomerang service as well as physical discs and digital purchases, shorn of any ''Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show'' branding.)
119	** The ''Digimon'' seasons that ran as part of ''One Too'' can currently be found on Creator/{{Hulu}}, in their Saban/Sensation dubbed runs.
120	* NeverBareheaded: In the early seasons, Charlie (Jessica Prunell) would never, ever, ever be shown without a full headcovering on.
121	* NetworkRedHeadedStepchild: ''The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show'', for obvious reasons; to a lesser extent ''Jungle Cubs'', ''Science Court''/''Squigglevision'', and ''Digimon Frontier'' were also this. It's telling that that the commercial bumpers for these shows leave out the Disney branding (as all except Jungle Cubs were not owned by Disney)
122	* {{Novelization}}: No, seriously. At least three chapter books were published containing adaptations of episodes of ''Recess'', ''Pepper Ann'', and ''Doug'', as well as some of the interstitials.
123	* OnceAnEpisode: The intros were punctuated by an animation of a hand turning on a light bulb with a male voiceover saying, "Illuminating Television," with the light bulb doing more than just lighting up. These were to indicate the block's and its shows' (supposed) compliance to E/I standards.
124	* OneSteveLimit: Averted in ''Tube Dwellers''; both of the characters are named Bob. And then there was King Bob from ''Recess''...
125	* {{Retool}}: In September 2000. The short segments and hosting interstitials were dropped, a different and shorter version of the theme tune replaced the original (also replacing the visuals; this time having characters from ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' (who were replaced with the characters from ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'' in 2002), ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' interacting with [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action kids in a live-action field]] (characters from ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'' were added in 2001)), and the "one" in the logo changed design.
126	* SameContentDifferentRating: Because the TV-Y and TV-Y7 ratings are supposed to indicate that a series is made specifically for children, while a TV-G rating simply means "nothing offensive", the Creator/DisneyChannel shows that aired on the block, always rated TV-G on their original network, were given one of those other two ratings for their reruns there. ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'', ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'', ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'', and ''Series/HannahMontana'' were all re-rated TV-Y7, while the other shows got a Y. Eventually, though, ABC Kids also starting using the original TV-G rating for their Disney Channel reruns in March 2007.
127	** Conversely, ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'', which were rated TV-Y on One Saturday Morning/ABC Kids, were re-rated TV-G for their reruns on Disney Channel (though Creator/ToonDisney kept the original TV-Y rating for ''its'' airings of those shows). Most of the shows that aired new episodes on the block have since been re-rated TV-Y7 on Disney+, including ''Recess'', which also received that rating when it returned to Creator/DisneyXD for a single week in October 2011 (despite the network airing the series with a TV-Y rating when the show had regular broadcasts there between 2009-10, a holdover from the channel's days as Toon Disney).
128	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The photographs used for ''Mrs. Munger's Class'' were actual pictures taken (without permission) from a middle school yearbook, and some of the people depicted were none too happy about it and filed a lawsuit. So ''Mrs. Munger's Class'' was swiftly cancelled, all parties settled out of court, and ''Centerville'' sprang up in its place.
129	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The switch to ABC Kids ended up getting every show on the block that ''wasn't'' originally on Creator/DisneyChannel canceled, with the exceptions of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', which was announced for OSM but ended up on ABC Kids, any of the Disney-era ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' series, ''Recess'' (for being one of the most popular shows on OSM), and ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' (on the account that it rode on the wave of [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the original film's]] popularity at the time, and Disney decided to air new episodes on both this block and Disney Channel as a result). Some shows were lucky to air newer episodes on Creator/ToonDisney.
130	** In some markets (the UPN station could pick when to air the block), ''One Too'' aired on weekday mornings instead of afternoons. Which meant some new episodes of the shows on the block would be premiering as the target audience are getting ready to go to school or are already in school.
131	** Disney wanted nothing to do with ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' (or ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', which reran in an alternating pattern with new ''Frontier'' episodes), but their buyout of Fox Family (renamed to Creator/ABCFamily), Creator/SabanEntertainment and Creator/FoxKids made them contractually obligated to dub it. Hence, they primarily shoved it off onto UPN's "Disney's One Too" block (which at this point had no real name; the Disney website called it ''Disney's Animation Weekdays''), which was in its' final season, and credited themselves as "Sensation Animation"; ABC Family itself actually gave ''Digimon'' more promotion.
132	** Given how it was composed of cartoons from [[Creator/WarnerBros Disney's greatest rival]], ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerShow The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show]]'' was screwed from the get-go; it was basically squeezed in awkwardly after the main segment of the block (with the hosting segments) ended and before ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' and ''Science Court''/''Squigglevision'', with generic bumpers (that referred to neither Disney or ''One Saturday Morning'' itself), ''Schoolhouse Rock'' being squeezed in after it, and it had no promotion. The only reason it was there was because ABC still had to honor their contract with WB, and once that ran out in 2000 the show unceremoniously ended.
133	** At least for ABC Kids, the final fourth hour of the block that aired at noon was mostly devoted to non E/I fare, so many ABC affiliates thought it was worthless (as they only really needed the first three hours to fulfill their weekly E/I requirements) and usually pre-empted it for sports or whatever else. This happened in a lot of the major cities/markets, so a good amount of first-run series that ran at this time throughout the years didn't get such great ratings. Perhaps the biggest example of this being ''{{WesternAnimation/WITCH}}''.
134	* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: All their shows prior to 2000, while most of the shows from 2000-2002 ended with thirty-nine episodes or less. Almost averted with ''Recess'', as ABC wanted to order more episodes after the initial sixty-five, but Disney declined.
135	* ThemeNaming: "One Saturday Morning" is the name of the fictional address, and based on fact.
136	* TotallyRadical: Somewhat.
137	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
138	** According to one OSM animator on Website/YouTube, ABC ''loved'' the ''Mrs. Munger's Class'' shorts and wanted to do a primetime version. But that didn't happen because of the aforementioned lawsuit. However, a few Saturday morning shorts were aired on the "TGIF" lineup before.
139	*** To elaborate, animator [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2192191/ Tim Maloney]] explained in [[https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=iRfl-lss1hk a comments section]] that the producers would have been more than happy to negotiate with those people for the use of their likenesses--the show was just ''that'' popular (both with viewers and network execs), and ABC wanted ''way'' more out of it than the mere minute-long segments. Maloney even mentioned that the people would likely still be receiving royalty checks to this day.
140	* WolverinePublicity:
141	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' was their number-one show, to the point where they would always advertise it more than the other shows...even after it ended production.
142	** For ABC Kids, it was ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''; it was supposed to be for Creator/DisneyChannel, but Disney really wanted to keep ''Lilo & Stitch''[='=]s momentum going and made it a show for this block as well.
143	* WritingAroundTrademarks: A kinda-sorta version: during the block's early years, when ''Bugs Bunny and Tweety'' was on, the bumpers would not refer to the block's name, and the graphics would show the logo minus the "Disney" script logo mounted to the flag perched atop the logo; obviously this was to prevent legal issues. A similar thing was done during ''One Too''; when ''Sabrina: TAS'' aired, the bumpers would lack the Disney logo.
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