Oh yeah, I hated the fact that Inuyasha was on really late at night, so I'd be super happy if I couldn't fall asleep because that meant I could watch Inuyasha. One night, while I woke up late at night I turned on Cartoon Network and Trigun was on (I even remember the exact episode, it was episode 10, Quick Draw) and the rest is history.
Also, I remember reading a lot of manga because I couldn't stay up late enough to watch anime and I didn't know they sold anime DVDs of series that never even aired on American TV or fansubs, so I read the Naruto manga a lot and loved Shonen Jump. I'd always tell people about Naruto and they were like "Who?". So I remember how happy I was when Naruto premiered on Toonami, I remember eating really good pizza while watching it. It's hard to imagine before that nobody knew what the hell I was talking about when I mentioned Naruto. I hate Naruto now.
Also, I adored the edited Toonami version of Rouroni Kenshin.
And of course, getting up on Saturday mornings to watch Pokemon. cat_whee