How old are your kids?
Some of the crap I catch my 8 yo watching are bizarre. Half of them get locked. They're just creepy

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

In my estimation The Smurfs was the one that signaled Saturday morning cartoons now officially sucked. I think Spongebob is pretty good. Other ones over the past couple of decades that my kids watched that I liked were Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Chowder, neither of which lasted more than a couple of years. I think they were both on Cartoon Network but I'm not sure. Now it seems like all the cartoons my daughter turns on are based on princesses of one sort or another.

Phinneas and Ferb is pretty good too, not sure if it's still on.

The commercials are the worst part of the whole thing. Our 8yr old girl loves Kratts Creatures and a couple other PBS ones like Odd Squad. She actually learns a ton from Kratts and can recall it all. My wife and I are both Biologists and we can actually sit and watch those two at least.