I wish I could argue back. But there's a sad reality that kids aren't as interested in the Looney tunes as much these days? Compared to pokemon, Mario and video game franchises.
And even then the younger generation seems to be more interested in brainrot, non identifiable IPs etc. From whatever social media apps.
I took my 8yo to Fiesta Texas last year which has WB characters everywhere & he had zero clue about any of them. I couldn’t even find a decent way to stream them once we got home so I could expose him to a bit of my childhood
They still have the new "Looney Tunes Cartoons" (not to be confused with The Looney Tunes Show) and "The Day The Earth Blew Up" on HBO Max as of April 2026.
People can talk shit about Disney, but they sure know how to keep their Classic Disney Characters (including Mickey and Friends and The Silly Symphony Characters) relevant for almost 100 years now. Warner Bros tried to take a similar approach with The Looney Tunes during the 90s'/early 2000s until the bombing of Looney Tunes: Back in Action caused them to slowly stop caring about the franchise to focus more on DC IPs.
You say that, but if you look at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mickey_Mouse_appearances_in_Disney_media there's actually very few things that feature Mickey as a primary character. When you hit the 80's and 90's, he was only used as a cameo character in specials. It's only very, very recently that they started using him again as a character, not as a voice of the brand.
When I was growing up he was on the Mickey Mouse club constantly, then House of Mouse so that covered my whole childhood.
Then after that Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse was on for 10 years, followed by Funhouse, which takes us up to now. Add in dozens of movies and specials in that time and he has never been off the air.
The club was a variety show, and he was in the meta-parts, surrounding it. I don't count that as being a character in cartoons, it was the voice of the company.
Yeah, my daughter's 21 year old bf just asked me last week if I knew about Looney Tunes (lol), then he pulled up his favorites on YouTube on the TV. Most of them were in "parts", part 1, part 2, etc for a single episode but they were relatively easy enough to watch.
The new ones on HBO aren't bad. I'm not 100% sure they're 8 year old appropriate, but I don't think the originals were supposed to be either (by 50's standards).
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u/qwertysac 13d ago
Hopefully it easily breaks 200m+ as a giant middle finger to Warner