The primary method is to send a browser user agent string that starts with "() { : ; } ; " and try to run a stupid (as in stupid people never remove them out of default installs) CGI script. Then when the shell gets invoked (either for a shell script CGI, or a dumbass system() call from another language CGI), the bug causes bash to execute whatever is on the end of the user agent string, before doing anything else. This is because the cgi-bin module takes all the various parameters of the HTTP request and sticks them into environment variables, and the bug executes environment variables before doing what it's been called up to do.

The easiest thing to do whether or not you can get a patched bash yet is to disable Apache's cgi-bin module.

But I do stream/download them, from the OTA signal. And (usually) in the maximum quality that you can get them (almost 6GB per hour). Most ISPs would have a shit fit if you tried to download .ts files all the time. And I'm not sure how you expect to watch HD with 5.1 audio on a shitty smartphone.

I know you're halfway trolling, but...

You can add that new show "Forever" to the list. The main character and female sidekick are almost clones of JLM and LL's characters, with the "two hundred year old man" trope added in. I didn't want to like it, but added a record rule for it before the first episode ended. And I'll admit to liking the first season of Elementary, but the second season has languished in my DVR. It does have one major advantage over the BBC Holmes in that I actually get episodes of it every week as opposed to needing cable or waiting until PBS gets around to showing a few.

I literally can not watch new Five-O. I tried a couple of times, but it's way too edgy and angsty.

Saturday morning was killed by cable, but the DVR will be the nail in the coffin. Unless maybe you ran a house-wide DVR server thingy that could embargo episodes one per week until after a specific time (which could still allow for pausing and backing up to see something again). This would of course have to be of old-but-good shows that you can't get firehosed five days a week. And not just Saturday morning, you could do this with various prime-time blockbusters of the past to show them on weekday evenings.

And waiting a week for a new episode of animation isn't completely dead, it's just gone underground to the people watching new episodes of anime from Japan. Yesterday morning I watched a live (untranslated) stream of the new episode of Log Horizon with a 4chan thread. (Then I watched the sub a couple of hours later when the usual suspects came through.) There's twenty-four more weeks of waiting to see what happens next week. Ironically, by the time the sub is ready in the US, it's... Saturday morning!

Then those stations probably run their E/I on Sunday mornings.

Never mind that Speedy Gonzales "remained a popular character in Latin America. The Hispanic-American rights organization League of United Latin American Citizens called Speedy a 'cultural icon'". It was the corporate gringos who decided that it was offensive, and their white guilt made them sweep Speedy under the rug.

Sports is (and always has been) an afternoon thing on Saturday. Well after 11am anyhow in the Central time zone, which I guess might mean a 9am game in Pacific.

Looking back at my MythTV's harvested OTA guide info, I noticed that "Good (Morning|Day) ($CITY|America)" seems to be one of the shows that takes up a lot of Saturday morning time slots. All four major networks and their local affiliates have some kind of morning newsy block starting at 6am, followed by the obligatory E/I block. It's one of those things that the more desirable demographics will turn on and leave on as they go around the house, and the commercials will play with nobody nearby to hit the mute button.

Then move to the border near a major US city* and get an ATSC television. I'm pretty sure the CRTC hasn't gone quite as far as jamming US broadcast TV.

*That's a joke, son, you're supposed to laugh. I know that's basically only Vancouver and the Toronto/London areas.

And Bat-Mite.

Apologies to anyone who had happily forgotten about that little runt for years. But the "scrappy sidekick" trope was never not stupid.

And then there was the Sid & Marty Krofft stuff. Particularly the acid-trip-mascot-costume stuff like H.R. Pufinstuff (which I was surprised to recently find out was a recycled mascot from the San Antonio Hemisfair world's fair).

But on the other hand, they did do Land of the Lost, which seemed to have some sort of back-story behind those crystal panels, but I was never able to watch it regularly enough to figure it out. All I remember is the girl would always do something stupid, get lost and/or almost killed, but still somehow solve the plot of the week. Someday I need to find and watch that show properly. Those sleestak hisses were both stupid and cool, and so were their costumes, about on the level of Doctor Who stuff of its day (as if we would have known about Doctor Who back then).

I think you should put "educational" in scare quotes. Some of the crap that gets the E/I tag (aka HEY LOOK WE'RE SHOWING THAT EDUCATIONAL STUFF, SEE?) is hard to call either educational or instructional. Especially those "teens do teen things at school" sitcom shows (well "sit" anyhow, not much comedy). Mostly it's just three hours of "wildlife" (aka look at these random cute and token non-cute animals) shows. Which are also shoehorned onto the weather sub-channels on Sunday mornings. One of the channels here plays something called "Tomorrow Today" which seems to be some sort of Australian science snippets show that I was unable to trace the origins of. (and it's produced in 4:3 too) But at least it's showing actual science-y stuff, and not teens-being-teens. (TOOOOOTALLY TEEN!)

Another part of the downfall was when it was outlawed to advertise toys along with the show that those toys were based on, when a bunch of soccer moms got in a snit about that. That certainly reduced the interest in creating more than a few shows. Meanwhile, in Japan, that certainly hasn't hurt the chirlrrrrrren.

And we must also not forget the after-school block that was big in the '90s. I guess those got killed off by courtroom shows, adult talk shows, and celebritard gossip shows, because that's what I see when looking back to last Friday afternoon in my MythTV schedule (which was harvested from the actual OTA guide info).

But really, I'm going to have to say that pervasive cable TV and cable-only networks in the US was what really happened. Why get up early Saturday morning (or rush home after school) for your toons, when there are multiple channels showing them 24/7?