Before cable channels started playingcartoonsaround the clock,Saturday morning cartoons were a sacred time forchildren.

10’Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!'

The series follows Norris along with his team of specialists as they fight the evil organization known as VULTURE.

Animated versions of Michael Jordan, Macauley Culkin, and Louie Anderson are cropped together.

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1986 was the same year thatSylvester Stallonehad his muscles compressed into 2D whenRamboreceived his own animated series.

The wave of matinee action stars fighting shadowy organizations was an attempt to grab a piece of theG.I.

Joemarket that was selling toys faster than they could stock the shelves.

Mary-Kate and Ashley talk on a couch in Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!

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Candy played himself as the counselor of a small sleepaway camp filled with an eclectic group of adolescent campers.

People who werent children in the early 90s will never understandhow bigHome Aloneand Culkin were to the under-10 crowd.

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Rosey stands in a superhero outfit with her friends in Little Rosey.

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Gary Coleman in animated form wears an angel outfit in The Gary Coleman Show.

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Chuck Norris wades through the water in the animated series Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos.

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MC Hammer as cartoon Hammerman.

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Bruce Willis voices Bruno in the animated series Bruno the Kid.

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ProStars Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Bo Jackson as cartoons.

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Louie watching TV in the swimming pool in Life with Louie.

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John Candy stands with the rest of his campers in the animated series Camp Candy.

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Macaulay Culkin makes a wish with his magic baseball glove in the animated series Wish Kid.

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