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.

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

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.