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the looney bin?!....Max removes original 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.... - NewtonMP2100 - 03-17-2025
....from the streaming service....as they move away from child programming.....the same reason they didn't renew 'Sesame Street'.....
That's all, folks: Remaining original Looney Tunes removed from Max
....The slow death of Looney Tunes Warner Bros. Discovery continues unabated. As noted by the Toon Hive Bluesky account earlier today, the remaining 255 original Looney Tunes cartoons have been removed from Max. The news comes amid the release of the first feature-length Looney Tunes animated movie, The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Story, starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, two of Earth’s greatest movie stars now in need of a streaming home for the back catalog. Warner Bros. Discovery did not immediately respond to The A.V. Club‘s request for comment.
This latest anvil to the head of cartoon history is the product of a multi-year project to stop Coyotes from fooling media executives with brick walls that look like an empty stretch of highway or a darkened train tunnel. In 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery, the film and television studio that once had an instantly recognizable mascot that could be appropriated across its galaxy of brands, like a famous Mouse, pulled over 250 shorts from its streaming platform. Months later, the company included the remaining Looney Tunes cartoons in the “Titles Leaving Max” section of its “What’s New On Max” media release. However, it claimed it was a mistake and that the cartoons would continue streaming on Max. The company no longer includes “Titles Leaving” in its press releases, probably because too many people were worried about how quiet their Merrie Melodies were becoming—what with the company deleting classic shorts from its streamer, locking Coyote Vs. Acme in the WB water tower, and opting to let indie distributor Ketchup Entertainment release The Day The Earth Blew Up. Nevertheless, when one looks for Looney Tunes on the platform, the only available titles are the recently produced Looney Tunes Cartoon, 2015’s New Looney Tunes, Baby Looney Tunes, and Bugs Bunny Builders.
The initial batch of removals included seasons 16 through 31, which spanned from 1950 through 2004, and included such classics as “What’s Opera, Doc?” and “Duck Amuck.” The remaining 255 shorts, comprising seasons 1 through 15, are outside the Golden Era of Looney Tunes but featured some historically notable cartoons, including the introduction Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Daffy Duck and the final WB cartoons directed by Tex Avery and Frank Tashlin. It should be noted that some of the cartoons are still available on the Warner Bros. Classics YouTube channel, but we suppose it’s only a matter of time before these get the Dip, too. Have we considered that Judge Doom is in charge of WBD?......
.............more stuff being removed from Max...........?!
Re: the looney bin?!....Max removes original 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.... - Lizabeth - 03-17-2025
Bummer…
Re: the looney bin?!....Max removes original 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.... - Ombligo - 03-17-2025
Re: the looney bin?!....Max removes original 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.... - Robert M - 03-17-2025
Newton,
What a shame. I've seen some of the "new" Warner Bros toons and they were awful. Just awful. Here's an example:
No rifle for Elmer. Apparently, they didn't allow him to have one. So, they give him a scythe and Bugs is allowed dynamite. That makes sense.
Robert
Re: the looney bin?!....Max removes original 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.... - Lizabeth - 03-17-2025
Just looked at Max again - all the Looney Tunes cartoons left are "new" ones not the "old" ones.
Hopefully they will find a home somewhere...those are classics for a reason.
Re: the looney bin?!....Max removes original 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.... - vision63 - 03-17-2025
Lizabeth wrote:
Just looked at Max again - all the Looney Tunes cartoons left are "new" ones not the "old" ones.
Hopefully they will find a home somewhere...those are classics for a reason.
MeTV has a whole free over the air cartoon station with lots of 'em. All hail MeTV-Toons.
https://metvtoons.com/
Re: the looney bin?!....Max removes original 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.... - ka jowct - 03-17-2025
Their golden age was the 1930s and 1940s. Big, short-sighted mistake.
Re: the looney bin?!....Max removes original 'Looney Tunes' cartoons.... - Will Collier - 03-17-2025
Looney Tunes on Boomerang is the best thing on TV any given evening, give or take Rockford Files or Samford and Son reruns.
Now get off my lawn.