Warner Bros. Discovery Removes Almost Every Classic Cartoon From HBO Max

As noted by Discussing Film, users who log into HBO Max looking hoping to see old Cartoon Network shows will come up almost entirely empty-handed. The streamer’s Boomerang page was home to countless classic animated series. That including some of the best, most famous cartoons ever made. Now it’s just a tiny studio apartment where Mystery, Inc lives in solitude. The only old animated shows still available to stream are Scooby Doo, Where Are You! and The Scooby Doo Show.

That. Is. It. Every other vintage version of famous characters and properties have been eliminated without warning. And hoo boy is that a whole lot of greatness gone in a blink.

Customers, some of whom pay for HBO Max specifically because it should house vintage, beloved cartoons, can’t use the site to watch classic Looney Tunes episodes. The Flintstones have disappeared from the historical record. Tom and Jerry were put down. David Zaslav made Yogi Bear into a bearskin rug. Every Hannah-Barbera character you grew up with has been processed into an appetizer that was then served during brunch on a billionaire’s third yacht.

Yeah, this stinks. And it especially stinks in lieu of Cartoon Network’s cancellation. But this is just what Warner Bros. Discovery does.

The promise of streaming was having easy access to a virtual library dating back decades. Instead they’ve turned into a constant source of disappointment. None more so than HBO Max. It might have its good name back, but it still has the same old problems, too.