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Cereal, Couch, Cartoons: How Saturday Morning TV Became the Sacred Ritual We're Still Chasing

Cereal, Couch, Cartoons: How Saturday Morning TV Became the Sacred Ritual We're Still Chasing

Before smartphones, before streaming, before anyone had heard the phrase 'content consumption,' there was Saturday morning — and it was absolutely perfect. Millions of Gen X and Millennial adults are now binge-watching DuckTales, X-Men, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on streaming platforms, and psychologists say the urge runs a whole lot deeper than cartoon ducks and pizza-obsessed turtles. We dug into why we keep coming back to those magical Saturday mornings, and what it says about us.