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MeTV Toons shows old cartoons, and only old cartoons—and succeeds better at its appointed task than streaming services with budgets in the billions.

Last November, Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max streaming service announced that it was firing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the Road Runner. To be more exact, it included its entire library of Looney Tunes cartoons on a list of content that would be leaving the service at year’s end. Animation lovers everywhere exploded in rage. Then Max hastily retracted the cancellation, claiming that the whole announcement was due to an error.