Max has dropped the original Warner Bros. cartoons from its lineup, which our TV critic says leaves us with the pastiche and is similar to removing books from a library.

No other streaming service had prioritized history in that way — but all good things must come to an end, and so, too, has the era of classic Looney Tunes on Max.

The original Looney Tunes animated shorts, which ran from 1930 through 1969, have been scrubbed by Warner Bros. Discovery-owned Max.