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* Am I (the person who wrote the page) the only person who is bothered by the fact that this channel, which is clearly owned by [[Disney]], has been showing cartoons created by [[Warner Bros]]. Animation?! No one else seems to complain about the presence of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'', or ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]''; in fact, they even seem to treat it like there's nothing at all wrong with it. Have these people forgotten that Disney and Warner Bros. are BITTER ENEMIES?!? There should have been no way that Warner Bros. would agree to let Disney run their shows. Plus, all three of those shows have already had their entire runs released on DVD before Jetix even picked them up, which makes the decision to put them on Jetix even ''more'' pointless!

** They are not so much bitter enemies as much as friendly rivals (think Batman and Superman, not Batman and the Joker). ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' had Mickey Mouse and the gang appearing next to the [[Looney Tunes]]. They use their cartoons in the other's movies (Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'' in Warner's ''Gremlins'', Warner's Powerpuff Girls in Disney-subsidiary Touchstone's ''Unbreakable'') and reference each other's work (references to Warner's Superman in Disney/Disney owned ''Underdog'', ''Hollywoodland'' and ''Sin City'', reference to Disney's ''Fantasia'' in Warner's ''Billy and Mandy''). They don't really hate each other.

**** Cultural touchstones for the time the episodes were written? They were riffing on the hot button issue of the day? Kinda like the "___ movie" movies, only, you know, intelligent?

*** One should also remember that both Disney and Warner Bros. are HUGE corporations, and sometimes different shows or films are made by different divisions of the same company (for example, the [[Disney Animated Canon]] is made by a different branch of the Walt Disney Company from the one that runs Disney Channel, and there are probably similar examples within Warner Bros.) and even different people working in the same division may not all feel the same way about the competition. Perhaps Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Histeria, [[Pinky and The Brain]], and Freakazoid were all written by members of Warner Bros. who hated Disney, while the decison to let Warner Bros. shows run on Toon Disney was made by executives who did ''not'' share those writers' hatred? Besides, both companies [[Money, Dear Boy|really want to make money]], and sometimes greed may overcome bitter hatred (especially if shareholders don't share the companies' hatred for each other and would be really pissed at the company they own passing up an easy monymaking opprotunity). The coorporate world is seldom as simple as people think it is (then again, that's often true of [[Real Life|the world in general]]).

** Dude, ya gotta understand. Disney is the devil. That's why they make such good shows and almost never show them anymore. As far as I know, the only thing you listed that airs anymore is ''[[Gargoyles]]'', and that is, like you said, around 3 in the morning. At least there's always [[YouTube]] and [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]].

** Add to that the fact that they seem less and less inclined to release DVDs of said shows (I almost guarantee we'll never see the rest of Darkwing Duck or Tale Spin), and not only that, they give us the edited releases and we're supposed to be thrilled. And they wonder why people will download copies illegally; that's the only way I could get "Days of Plunder and Lightning" unedited for gods' sakes!

*** We all know there are a lot of people who grew up with 90s TV and had wonderful memories from it. And for that to stay true, it's better if the cartoons stay in our childhood memories instead of on TV. Moving on instead of living in the past, also helps. And that's what people should do.

**** While that's true, it's kind of hard to justify when almost everything they show nowadays is so much worse that it isn't funny.

* On the Warner Brothers stuff - forgiveness?

** [[Money, Dear Boy]], it's how syndication works. Plus, who cares if Disney is playing some old Warner Brother's show that CN isn't playing or vice versa? In the end you still get to watch the show.