Tubi Enters Its Cartoon Era

Fans of Cartoon Network and Warner Bros Animation haven't had a lot of victories in the last couple of years. Cartoon Network abandoned their webpage and shifted everything to HBO Max, then called MAX.  The Boomerang stand-alone streaming service shuttered and threw everything to MAX. Then MAX dropped nearly everything animated, including nearly every Cartoon Network series, every Hanna-Barbera cartoon including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Scooby-Doo, Tom & Jerry, and even the venerable classic Looney Tunes shorts and most of the spinoffs.

The message seemed clear to the "fandom:"

Warner Bros HATES cartoons.

It did look bleak, but something started happening in spring 2024. First, Warner Bros launched Cartoon Rewind, a FAST channel that aired older and seemingly random cartoons. Silverhawks, Beetlejuice, Richie Rich, Shirt Tales, Pac-Man, Challenge of the Go-Bots, Mister T, Pirates of Dark Water, Thundarr the Barbarian, Fantastic Max, Centurions, Police Academy: The (Animated) Series, and even Meatballs and Spaghetti, a show most "lost media" nerds told themselves was lost forever, ended up on Cartoon Rewind.

But that didn't satisfy folks. They were still convinced that Warner Bros hated cartoons.

In May 2024, Weigel Communications announced plans to launch a free over-the-air spinoff of their popular MeTV channel that would solely air cartoons. MeTV Toons, which launched the following month, became a cartoon lover's dream with shows from most of the major animation studios, but the biggest library they had access was the Warner Bros Animation library. Warner Bros Entertainment would be a partner on the venture (not an owner as so many erroneously put out there) as well as a programming consultant and has done a masterful job in presenting restored prints of Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Popeye, and MGM shorts as well as the Hanna-Barbera library. 

But that didn't satisfy folks. Especially the Cartoon Network fans who were still mad that Cartoon Network shows were being ignored.

Tubi, a streaming platform which already had tons of cartoons from studios like Wildbrain, Hasbro, Nelvana, and Sony Pictures Television, extended their deal with Warner Bros Entertainment that started with The Flintstones streaming on Tubi (this was initially added largely because FOX was planning to put a Flintstones spinoff, Bedrock, on its lineup before it ultimately got scrapped) and continued with a mix of obscure and popular animation library titles including The Adventures of Batman and Robin, the Ruby-Spears Superman series, The Smurfs, Jonny Quest, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Scooby-Doo, the 1974 Addams Family series (ironically, this aired while the Addams Family episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies didn't), Laff-a-Lympics, and Tom & Jerry. Then, almost out of the blue, Tubi added Looney Tunes-themed specials and spinoffs like Bah Humduck, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, and The Looney Tunes Show. 

In the summer of 2025, Tubi shocked a lot of animation fans and added over 750 Looney Tunes shorts to its library. Looney Tunes became Tubi's most popular show on the service and convinced them to go all-in on Looney Tunes and committing to keep them for a very long time. 

At the end of January, Turner Classic Movies signed a six-year deal to bring Looney Tunes to its cable channel and dedicating itself as an "ongoing home" for the brand starting in February with Bugs Bunny being spotlighted as the Star of the Month.

IIn the meantime, Tubi continued to add more Warner Bros Animation library fare, notably most of the Cartoon Rewind slate of shows. 

Then, on February 13, 2026, Tubi casually made this tweet: 

My cartoon era starts March 1

With that statement, Tubi dropped this epic list of shows coming to Tubi starting in March, and boy, it's a lot (note: the actual March premieres are in bold and returns are marked with an asterisk): 

  •  Abbott & Costello Cartoons
  • Addams Family (1974)*
  • Adventures of Batman, The
  • Animaniacs
  • Aquaman
  • Astro and the Space Mutts*
  • Atom Ant
  • Baby Looney Tunes
  • Batman: The Brave and the Bold
  • Be Cool Scooby-Doo!*
  • Beetlejuice*
  • Ben 10 (2005)
  • Beware the Batman
  • Captain Caveman
  • Captain Caveman & The Teen Angels*
  • Captain Planet
  • Codename: Kids Next Door
  • Courage The Cowardly Dog
  • Cow & Chicken
  • Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
  • Dexter's Laboratory
  • Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz
  • Dragon's Lair
  • Duck Dodgers
  • Dukes of Hazzard: The Animated Series
  • Dumb & Dumber (Animated Series)
  • Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
  • Ed, Edd 'n Eddy
  • Evil Con Carne
  • Flintstone Family Adventures
  • Flintstone Kids
  • Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
  • Freakazoid!
  • Great Grape Ape
  • Help, It's the Hair Bear Bunch
  • Hong Kong Phooey
  • Jonny Quest* 
  • Justice League
  • Justice League Action
  • Krypto the Superdog
  • Legion of Super Heroes
  • Loonatics Unleashed
  • Looney Tunes 3D Shorts
  • Looney Tunes Cartoons
  • MAD
  • Magilla Gorilla
  • Mucha Lucha!
  • New Looney Tunes Show (aka Wabbit)
  • New Scooby Doo Mysteries*
  • Paddington Bear
  • Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm
  • Perils of Penelope Pitstop
  • Pinky and the Brain
  • Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain
  • Powerpuff Girls
  • Pup Named Scooby Doo*
  • Quick Draw McGraw
  • Ricochet Rabbit
  • Scooby and Scrappy Doo*
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated*
  • Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue*
  • Smurfs*
  • Snagglepuss
  • Static Shock
  • Super Friends
  • Supernatural: The Anime Series
  • Taz-Mania
  • Teen Titans
  • The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo*
  • The Batman
  • The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
  • The Frankenstones
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
  • The Heathcliff and Dingbat Show
  • The Mask (Animated Series)
  • The New Adventures of Batman
  • The New Adventures of Gilligan
  • The New Fred and Barney Show
  • The New Scooby Doo Movies*
  • The Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show
  • The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
  • The Secret Squirrel Show
  • The Super Globetrotters
  • The Yogi Bear Show*
  • Tiny Toon Adventures
  • Tom & Jerry (currently there)
  • Tom & Jerry Comedy Show
  • Tom & Jerry Kids
  • Tom & Jerry Show, The*
  • Tom & Jerry Tales
  • Top Cat
  • Unikitty
  • Wacky Races
  • Wacky Races (2017)
  • Xiaolin Showdown
  • Yo! Yogi
  • Yogi's Galaxy Goof-Ups
  • Yogi's Gang
  • Yogi's Space Race
  • Yogi's Treasure Hunt

Whew! That's a lot!


Tubi is about to become a mecca for fan-favorite animation, even more than it already is now. Warner Bros is doing something once deemed impossible to a lot of fans as it no longer has their animation library in a walled garden. Shows that haven't seen the light of day in decades will be on a platform that respects the animation medium. If you're a fan of Looney Tunes, Tubi is going to be your prime destination. If you like Hanna-Barbera shows like Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo, you're going to love Tubi. If you're a fan of action cartoons from DC, you're going to dig this place. If you like niche and kind of obscure cartoons that haven't been on TV in ages, I think you're going to like Tubi. If you dig old-school Cartoon Network and Kids' WB, you might life this place. 

Does it have the entire Warner Bros Animation library? Absolutely not. There are a few high-profile shows like Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, SWAT Kats, ThunderCats, Space Ghost, The Herculoids, and countless others to mention. Seriously, this library is massive. And yet, I get the general sense of what Tubi announced is only a small taste of what they're about to get in the foreseeable future. 

Truth be told, even the titles I bolded would be more than I imagined would even be on an outlet not owned by Warner Bros Discovery, especially the Amblin co-productions and the Cartoon Network originals. I know this won't completely satisfy everybody. Heck, people complain about the owners of Tubi, Fox Corporation, and its ties to FOX News, even though the two units are not connected aside from common ownership. 

It is nice seeing any platform embrace animation the way that Tubi is, and it's even nicer seeing shows from the largest media library playing a huge role in Tubi's "cartoon era." 

I really hope it lasts

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