Kool-Aid, Warner Bros. Cartoons and Hyper Drivers

Saturday Mornings for October 17, 2026: Kool-Aid, Warner Bros. Cartoons and Hyper Drivers. 13 pieces (vintage commercials and promos, songs and theme tunes): Refreshing beverage, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Hyper Drivers and more, with Lucky. In this episode: 0:00 Saturday Mornings on Stupid Potato 0:11 Lucky opens the show 1:48 Refreshing beverage (commercial, 1984) — Kool-Aid is an American flavored drink mix brand owned by Kraft Heinz and based in Chicago, Illinois. Edwin Perkins created the powder form in 1927, developing it from a liquid concentrate product called Fruit Smack. 3:22 Warner Bros. Cartoons (cartoon opening) — Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was an American animation studio founded in 1930 by Leon Schlesinger that produced the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films for Warner Bros. Pictures. After Schlesinger sold the company to Warner Bros. in 1944, it became the in-house animation division. The studio created famous characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig, and employed influential directors and animators such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Ben Hardaway, Robert McKimson, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Arthur Davis, and Frank Tashlin. 5:54 Hyper Drivers (commercial) 6:55 Lucky on Forest Moon Adventure (cartoon opening) 7:03 Forest Moon Adventure (cartoon opening) 9:00 Nickelodeon - Tokio Koto Nick (promo, 1986) — A promotional spot for Nickelodeon from 1986, part of the network's 'NICK NICK NICK' promo campaign that aired during the 1980s. 9:14 Mighty Four (cartoon opening, 1990) 10:44 Frosted Flakes (commercial, 1980s) — Frosted Flakes is a breakfast cereal made of sugar-coated corn flakes that was introduced in the United States in 1951 under the name "Sugar Frosted Flakes". WK Kellogg Co produces it for the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, while Kellanov makes it for the rest of the world. The word "sugar" was removed from the product's name in 1983. 11:40 Lucky on Chō Kōsoku Galvion 11:52 Galvion (TV theme, 1984) — Chō Kōsoku Galvion is a 1984 anime mecha series that originally aired in Japan with 22 episodes, following criminals who use robots to help innocents in exchange for reduced prison sentences. The show's episode count was reduced from its original plan after sponsor Takatoku Toys went bankrupt, though a 23rd episode was partially completed but never aired. Episode 22 included a 35-second epilogue with voice-over narration and stills explaining the series' intended conclusion, and the show was one of the final anime productions by studio Kokusai Eiga-sha. 13:15 Kindergarten Babies (commercial, 1999) — A Nickelodeon commercial from late 1999 for Kindergarten Babies dolls, which came with carriers or pouches. The ad emphasizes that each doll needs love and care from its owner. …and 5 more. The whole running order: Saturday Mornings Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.