By Kayla DeKraker
Fans of classic animation can celebrate! Earlier this month, the legendary LOONEY TUNES and Merrie Melodies shorts finally found a new streaming home on Tubi.
The ad-supported app saved the day after HBO Max got rid of Looney Tunes and other classics from their library.
MSN revealed that “Tubi has compiled 789 shorts into 262 30-min episodes.”
The best news of all? They are all free.
MAX began eliminating the classic cartoons back in 2023, with the main purpose to cut back on expenses. This happened around the same time that the classic SESAME STREET was also removed from Max. What is even more interesting about these changes is that Warner Bros. is the original parent company of LOONEY TUNES, and they own MAX.
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This is a stark contrast from the 1990’s, when cartoons used to be a Saturday morning staple. Decider noted that Warner Bros. now seems “hostile” to the characters they aired for decades. “Warners seems actively hostile toward these characters, angrily misinterpreting the artists’ intentions in hopes that this will somehow save the money,” the outlet reported. “The nonsensical rationale for losing the shorts was that their current strategy emphasizes ‘adult and family programming,’ the implication being the Looney Tunes shorts are ‘children’s programming.’”
One Reddit thread also discussed the controversy of MAX getting rid of so many classic shows.
“Can someone please tell me why MAX is removing all of this content?” one user asked. “Because David Zaslav hates animation despite bring the CEO of a company built on it. He sees no value in it,” one user chimed in.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav had green lit a new film called THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES STORY but was then sold to a different company before it’s release. Warner Bro’s also made the film COYOTE VS. ACME before deciding it was too costly.
Classic cartoons are entertaining, not overly stimulating, and usually family friendly.
The first LOONEY TUNES episode called “Singin’ in The Bathtub” was a 7 minute and 53 second episode that released in 1930. It was created by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. Thus LOONEY TUNES was born, a direct response to Warner Bro’s competition with Disney. Now in 2025, while Mickey Mouse is alive and well, Bugs Bunny has been abandoned by his parent company.
Tubi isn’t the only platform keeping LOONEY TOONS alive. MeTV Toons also streams LOONEYS TOONS as well as other classic cartoons.
As times change and content grows darker, it is important to keep family friendly classics alive.
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