Welcome to those of you joining me from Capturing Magical Memories, and to those of you just hopping aboard. I am the final stop on our Magical Blogorail tour through the perfect Disney afternoon.
There is not much that I can still recall from English class as a kid, but one of the things I do remember is when attempting to define a word, one is not to use that word in the actual definition. Sometimes, however, it just seems impossible to keep to the rule, and this happens to be one of those times. For me to define the perfect Disney afternoon without using those words is impossible, because it simply is The Disney Afternoon.
My routine was pretty simple as a kid. I came home from school, grabbed a Pop-Tart or Little Debbie, and sat down for two hours of The Disney Afternoon. Homework would simply have to wait, because starting at 3pm every weekday I was glued to some of the best cartoons ever made...Duck Tales, Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin, and Darkwing Duck. With the animated shorts of Disney past long out of production, these were the cartoons I grew up with, and man do I wish they were still around.
In later years, Duck Tales was substituted with Goof Troop, which seemed to be a backwards move for the lineup, because I much preferred the antics of Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Goofy and his made up son Max. There were too many unanswered questions with Goof Troop for me to appreciate it. I mean, how did Goofy have a son? Does that mean there's a Mrs. Goofy out there somewhere? Surely there has to be, but where is she? Did she dump Goofy? Or maybe he dumped her? These are all questions that arose from The Disney Afternoon, and I'm still attempting to reconcile them to this day.
If you came here today looking for a great way to spend a day at Walt Disney World, I'm sorry to leave you disappointed. My hope is that there are others out there who severely miss Uncle Scrooge's swims in the money pit, and his ever faithful pilot, Launchpad McQuack. I know I sure do...
Thank you for joining Magical Blogorail Teal this month. We will be back November 22nd with an all new theme. Keep checking in with our blogs in between loops to keep up to date with our Disney info, photos and stories. If you are looking for more Disney magic, you can make your way over to The Magical Blogorail website to see all our members and their blogs, as well as all our previous loops.
Here is the map of our Magical Blogorail should you happen to have to make a stop along the way and want to reboard:
1st Stop ~ YourFirstVisit.Net
2nd Stop ~ The DisneyFAITHful
3rd Stop ~ The Many Adventures of a Disney-Lovin’ Spectrum Mom
4th Stop ~ Capturing Magical Memories
Final Stop ~ The World of Deej
~Insert Dude-like Closing Here~
Deej
Love it! I remember loving Duck Tales. You are right though about having to watch those cartoons when you got home.
ReplyDeleteI so miss those cartoons! Great post. I'm going to be singing the Ducktales theme the rest of the day. And I consider that a good thing! :)
ReplyDeleteI loved your post, except for the fact that it made me feel so OLD! (These cartoons came well after my time.)I'm glad they gave you such happy memories!
ReplyDeleteDeej~ you must be about the same age as my younger brothers, because I so recall those 'toons playing on our tv after school too (but I wasn't watching them!) LOL
ReplyDeleteGreat post, I loved Duck Tales~~miss that one..
ReplyDeleteI'm with Kathy! :-) I was a bit older when these cartoons were in rotation. I love that those cartoons and that time spent after school left you with such great memories!
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