I don't know how old you are buddy, I'm in my late 50's, but after reading the above, you described me and my brothers to a tee growing up. We did exactly the same. As a child growing up in the late 50s, and into the 60s, you LIVED for Saturday morning cartoons. Of course back then you only had VHF/UHF channels (7-8 total?); but we were up around 5;30 Am, lying on the floor in your pajamas, watching that test pattern, waiting for one of those channels to start showing cartoons. And you didn't move till around noon (LOL).
Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, and Bob McKimson were simply geniuses of the Golden Age of Animation. And I would also add Max and Dave Fleischer (Popeye), as well as Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker), Terrytoons (Paul Terry), Famous Studios (Harveytoons), and of course Jay Ward (Bullwinkle). I remember many of the comedians back then were somewhat worried about the competition from the growing popularity cartoons because you can do things in animation that they can't do in real life.
And one of my many idols growing up was voice actor Mel Blanc. He was the master. Nobody can touch him. Growing up I taught myself how to do many of the character's voices he did. I was on the golf course last week and did Pete Puma, and my brother started laughing so hard it took him a bit to compose himself so he could hit (LOL).
As for today's "PC crowd" that criticizes those old cartoons from the 40's/50's because of racial stereotypes, sexism, or even violence? Yeah, it existed, and some examples have already been sighted. Big deal! Get a life is all I can say. Back in the mid-70s, one of the female CEOs (I think it was ABC) decided to edit out all the violence in Warner Brothers cartoons ... the coyote falling off the cliff, Elmer Fudd shooting someone, etc. "Wabbitt Season, Duck Season" where Daffy keeps getting shot by Elmer, just doesn't make it with that edited out.
The original Popeye cartoons were not only violent, but he cursed under his breath.
Cartoons back then weren't created for children, but were shorts shown in movie theaters for adult audiences.
I don't see how anyone can complain about them, yet allowed their kids to watch Beavis and Butthead, Rem & Stempy, or even today's Family Guy. AS well as the extreme violence in video games.
Watching Elmer Fudd shoot Daffy was tame.