The 333 Best Pop Songs of the 2000s: #245

#245: "Breakfast Club" (2005) - Z-Trip

DJ Z-Trip, along with rappers MURS and Supernatural, bring back two of the fondest memories for those of us in the 13th Generation who grew up with color televisions at the advent (but before the proliferation) of cable television: name-brand cereal and Saturday morning cartoons. Nowadays, cartoons are aired on cable and/or satellite 24/7, but back in the day, the only time one could watch non-Flintstones/non-Scooby Doo cartoons was Saturday morning, and sugar-coated cereal only sweetened the experience.

I've seen the best minds of my generation lament the passing of Saturday-morning cartoons, dragging themselves through the old-fogey cries that today's cartoons aren't as good as they once were. For the most part, that idea is hogwash. I've two kiddies at home, and I watch cartoons with 'em, so I know these cartoons, and you, seventies/eighties animation, are no comparison. From style to content, today's animated fare is far and above better than what I saw in my couch-potato developmental days. So why the grousing from so many Generation Xers? Old Fartisan politics? Pretty much, yeah. Nostalgia wears eight-bit rose-colored glasses dontchaknow, but nostalgia has its place in society (often misplaced, though), and there's nothing wrong with the occasional trip back. Life seemed so much simpler, then. Oh, God--I'm quoting Barbara Streisand now. Time to quit, sit back, get the Alpha-Bits and watch Challenge of the SuperFriends--while DJ Z-Trip quotes liberally from the space sounds of Whisper. Don't worry, though. He's only buggin'. And so are we.