History Creator / HannaBarbera

Hanna-Barbera pioneered the use of many LimitedAnimation techniques, such as RingAroundTheCollar, to produce cartoons on a low budget quickly enough to meet a television schedule. As a result a lot of Hanna-Barbera shows put the emphasis more on the voice acting and the writing/gags than the actual animation process itself. Although other animators who enjoyed better budgets in different circumstances, such as famed ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' veteran Creator/ChuckJones, who would dismiss this approach as "Illustrated Radio", these practices allowed H-B to continue producing works and employing in times where other studios struggled, and manage to continue doing so well into the 1980s and 1990s. In 1967, the company was purchased by Ohio-based Taft Broadcasting (yes, related to [[UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft that Taft]]), which also owned a bunch of regional theme parks such as King's Island in Ohio and Carowinds in North Carolina, and thus Hanna-Barbera properties became prominent at these parks, lasting for years after Taft spun them off (eventually coming under Creator/{{Paramount}} ownership, then Ride/CedarFairEntertainment; the attractions were rebranded as Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}-themed rides after Paramount merged with [[Creator/ParamountGlobal Viacom]], and then after ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' in later years after the parks for a short time came under Creator/{{CBS}} ownership just prior to Cedar Fair taking over), and when Taft acquired syndication company Worldvision Enterprises (the former Creator/{{ABC}} Films) in 1979, this meant that not only did H-B have easier access to the syndication market, but Taft television stations also had a built-in cartoon supply - this was most apparent on independent stations owned by Taft, which were free from commitments to network programming (Taft owned as many as five independent stations at once: KTXA in Dallas-Fort Worth, KTXH in Houston, WCIX in Miami, WDCA in Washington, D.C., and WTAF in Philadelphia).

Hanna-Barbera pioneered the use of many LimitedAnimation techniques, such as RingAroundTheCollar, to produce cartoons on a low budget quickly enough to meet a television schedule. As a result a lot of Hanna-Barbera shows put the emphasis more on the voice acting and the writing/gags than the actual animation process itself. Although other animators who enjoyed better budgets in different circumstances, such as famed ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' veteran Creator/ChuckJones, would dismiss this approach as "Illustrated Radio", these practices allowed H-B to continue producing works and employing in times where other studios struggled, and manage to continue doing so well into the 1980s and 1990s. In 1967, the company was purchased by Ohio-based Taft Broadcasting (yes, related to [[UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft that Taft]]), which also owned a bunch of regional theme parks such as King's Island in Ohio and Carowinds in North Carolina, and thus Hanna-Barbera properties became prominent at these parks, lasting for years after Taft spun them off (eventually coming under Creator/{{Paramount}} ownership, then Ride/CedarFairEntertainment; the attractions were rebranded as Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}-themed rides after Paramount merged with [[Creator/ParamountGlobal Viacom]], and then after ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' in later years after the parks for a short time came under Creator/{{CBS}} ownership just prior to Cedar Fair taking over), and when Taft acquired syndication company Worldvision Enterprises (the former Creator/{{ABC}} Films) in 1979, this meant that not only did H-B have easier access to the syndication market, but Taft television stations also had a built-in cartoon supply - this was most apparent on independent stations owned by Taft, which were free from commitments to network programming (Taft owned as many as five independent stations at once: KTXA in Dallas-Fort Worth, KTXH in Houston, WCIX in Miami, WDCA in Washington, D.C., and WTAF in Philadelphia).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFunkyPhantom''

* ''WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome''

[[caption-width-right:350:Joseph Barbera (left) and William Hanna (right) with plushes of some of their many characters and a couple of the UsefulNotes/{{Emmy Award}}s their studio won over the years.[[note]] On Barbera and Hanna's knees, respectively: [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone and Dino the dinosaur]]. Middle, back row, L-R: WesternAnimation/WallyGator, WesternAnimation/YogiBear, WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw; front row, L-R: [[WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow Huckleberry Hound]], WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, WesternAnimation/TopCat.[[/note]]]]

The partnership of William Denby "Bill" Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) and Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera (March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006)--yes, it was ''not,'' in fact, created by a woman named Hanna Barbera--began at [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation MGM's animation studio]], where the pair created WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry and spent almost 20 years directing their cartoon shorts. After MGM got out of the cartoon business in 1957, Hanna and Barbera founded their own studio, which would come to dominate WesternAnimation on television for decades.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[note]]H-B made the original run of theatrical shorts for MGM and would later acquire the rights to the franchise in the 1990s[[/note]]

* AnimationBump: While their regular TV shows relied heavily on limited animation, the studio would use a more lax schedule and substantial budget for all it was worth when it could get it. Most of their staff from ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' migrated over to HB when MGM closed its cartoon unit, so they were plenty capable of full, classical animation. You mostly see this in their features and one-shot specials. The mid '60s also saw an influx of former Disney animators, resulting in some parts of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' being uncannily animated on ones. They'd move away from limited stuff for good by the '90s, after reconstructing their pipeline to allow for outsourcing.
* BookEnds: Joe made his directorial debut with the first WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry short ''Puss Gets The Boot'' in 1940, so it's fitting that his last directing credit would be for the final theatrical Tom and Jerry short, ''The Karate Guard'', in 2005 before his death the following year.

** As of 2016, while the company Hanna-Barbera operates in name only, Creator/WarnerBros has made another more abundant attempt to jump-start the HB brand to bigger goals. This seems to be a culmination of several years of back catalog releases doing well to expanding the new DirectToVideo movies to include more than ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' and ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', increasing of other merchandise for sale, letting DC produce more comics with the characters and the intent of using the animated Scooby-Doo reboot feature to launch a whole film universe. 2017 had brought about another increase in promotion for the 60th anniversary of the studio, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Wacky Races|2017}}'', the first children's TV cartoon based on a non-''Scooby-Doo'' classic H-B property in 21 years. ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'' and the scheduled ''WesternAnimation/YabbaDabbaDinosaurs'' (the latter having been held back in the US for 3 years) would follow in 2021, as the rise of [[Creator/HBOMax streaming]] [[Creator/{{Boomerang}} services]] gives the previously niche product that these characters had become room to breathe.

** Warner Brothers has continued the spirit as of 2015 which saw the release of a crossover with WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry and WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest with ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerrySpyQuest'', as well as ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndKissRockAndRollMystery'' where Franchise/ScoobyDoo meets Music/{{Kiss}}. Bonus points for giving Kiss their super powers from ''Film/KissMeetsThePhantomOfThePark''.

** The WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry shorts, when compared to the output of H&B’s own studio. The former were lavishly animated and featured almost no dialogue, while the latter was the exact opposite. It’s sort of a shame to see what the duo was capable of when given the proper resources.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna-Barbera The Other Wiki]] has more in depth about the duo, their history and their legacy. Also see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemol_Australia Hanna Barbera Australia/Southern Star]] on the other wiki for the former Australian unit. See also [[TheWikiRule The Hanna-]][[http://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Hanna-Barbera_Wiki Barbera Wiki]].

* TheWikiRule: [[http://hanna-barbera.wikia.com/wiki/Hanna-Barbera_Wiki Hanna-Barbera Wiki]] and [[https://hanna-barberawiki.com/wiki/Main_Page Hanna-Barbera Wiki]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke1983'' (European co-production)

* OffModel: This happens a lot with some of their works due to the budget. However, as under AnimationBump, they ''do'' avert this, too.

* InNameOnly: Turner's initial idea for Cartoon Network Studios was to serve as an in-house example of this for Hanna-Barbera. While HB was wrapping production on their then current shows, this new "subdivision" would be in charge of testing the waters for more original content on the channel until the rest of the company shifted focus towards this goal. It wasn't until ExecutiveMeddling from the Time Warner buyout caused CN Studios to become recognized as a full-fledged production arm of Hanna-Barbera before eventually spinning off into its own company. This is why CN Studios [[MyRealDaddy isn't credited on most of the channel's first shows despite already having been formed]], as they weren't intended to be a permanent addition to HB from the start. Before such, CN's president Betty Cohen and Hanna Barbera's head Fred Seibert had enjoyed a good working relationship, and given how much Turner's CN utilized the classic HB roster, looking back in hindsight can make one stunned at just how much the failed merger affected every institution involved.

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The studio went through this in the mid-to-late 90's during their transition into Creator/CartoonNetwork, as the channel's emphasis on creator-driven cartoons caused many of their shows to contrast heavily with the rest of the HB library in terms of [[DerangedAnimation style]] [[ArtShift and]] [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs tone]].

* NoExportForYou: For Hanna-Barbera, this trope was the case in Germany and Austria, when the AnimationAgeGhetto was strong in the United States. Hanna-Barbera did not recognize Germany (until 1990, split into West Germany and East Germany) and Austria because of both countries' very harsh history of authoritarianism and is also due to MoralGuardians. Until the 1990s, West Germany (later Germany) and Austria heavily relied on American animation studios other than Hanna-Barbera for American animation distribution. As a result, most classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons were never dubbed in German while some others, like ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' and ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'', fall into LateExportForYou as they were only released in Germany and Austria in the 1990s.

** Several of Cartoon Network's promos from the above mentioned time [[LampshadeHanging seemed to have pointed some of this out]]. There is some confusion as when this process began Cartoon Network under Cohen believed in parodying their cartoons while also showing them in their regular forms. A lot of the humor came from the programming room. [[note]]Which was where most of the creative from Creator/AdultSwim came from as well.[[/note]] Originally though the concept behind these may have been to parody the rivalry going on at the studio by even having the characters kind of take sides. Once the studios split and the Cohen-era ended there seemed to be a more direct TakeThat attitude added some of which even twisted the network's old slogan into the ''best place for some cartoons''. This may have made some of the earlier light hearted ones look HarsherInHindsight.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Hanna Barbera itself was the successor to the [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM Animation]] studio. As when MGM shut them down, Bill and Joe went on their own and took a good chunk of their MGM staff with them.

In 1996, Time Warner merged with Turner Broadcasting, putting them under the same corporate roof as Creator/WarnerBros., all the ironic given H-B had a few years earlier lost a good amount of its staff to WB. This reunited a few H-B shows that had been in the hands of Warner Bros.[[note]]Namely the AnimatedAdaptation versions of ''Series/{{The Dukes of Hazzard}}'', ''[[Creator/AbbottAndCostello The Abbott and Costello Show]]'' and Ruby-Spears' WesternAnimation/PoliceAcademyTheAnimatedSeries, plus the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' franchise based on characters from Creator/DCComics and the R-S version of ''[[WesternAnimation/RubySpearsSuperman Superman]]''.[[/note]], and reunited the pre-1948 color ''Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies'' and the Harman-Ising ''Merrie Melodies'' with the rest of the library.[[note]]The Warner Bros. library (and the rest of Warner Bros. Television, for that matter) is still separate from the Turner and H-B libraries, but can be co-marketed when they wish.[[/note]] From this point Hanna-Barbera was slowly merged into Warner Bros. Animation, with the intent that the new company didn't need more than one animation studio. This, however, didn't go entirely smoothly. [[note]]The short version is that basically there were way too many people with different goals trying to be shoved under one roof. You had very pro WB people who didn't want to be associated with HB in any way. You had HB people that felt the new generation disrespected the HB legacy. You had younger employees not wanting to be shackled to the WB or HB legacies. You had WB execs who had helped with Nickelodeon not wanting to work with CN. And you had a lot of people stuck in the middle wanting the whole thing to just end already.[[/note]] Just before the then-imminent death of Bill Hanna in 2001, Cartoon Network programming and the units producing them were spun out into their own entity (Cartoon Network Studios) under the Turner silo and Warner Bros. assumed the production of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', the company's [[LongRunners longest-running franchise]] and picked up all their legacy properties with Hanna-Barbera credited as the copyright holder under the Warner Bros. silo. By this point in time, the Cartoon Cartoon efforts had dominated the studio's output, in comparison to other general Hanna Barbera productions, and from here on out the earliest Cartoon Cartoons (including ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'')[[note]]the final series to use the company's trademark "swirling star" logo (and even then, it was originally done as a throwback, as it was last used in 1992, outside an odd ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode in 1997, apparently an editing error)[[/note]] stopped being associated with Hanna-Barbera as well.

In 1991, a deal was struck between GAB and [[UsefulNotes/TedTurner Turner Broadcasting]] that resulted in Turner purchasing Hanna-Barbera and its library. Turner also purchased the Creator/RubySpears library, but not the studio, which became its own entity again. It was here those libraries merged and the HB shows were united with the predecessor shorts Bill and Joe had done for MGM, but are legally not in the same library. [[note]]All Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears shows are listed as property of Hanna-Barbera, whereas Tom and Jerry and other MGM shorts are listed as property of Turner Entertainment Co., though they are free to be co-marketed as much as WB wants; not to mention that Tom and Jerry, in recent years, has been marketed under the Hanna-Barbera name a few times[[/note]] Under the new ownership, everything that was in planning but not funded was put on hold ([[https://fredseibert.frederator.com/post/451448569/the-hanna-barbera-logo-business-cards-circ indeed]], Turner was planning to shut the studio down and simply continue to utilize the library. Then-president David Kirschner convinced Ted not to, partially because of H-B being in production on expensive theatrical productions; Kirschner eventually turned H-B's feature animation into the semi-separate Turner Feature Animation, which only was able to produce ''Film/ThePagemaster'' and ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' before being absorbed into Warner Bros. Feature Animation), and in 1992 Turner launched Creator/CartoonNetwork. The HB libraries and MGM libraries, along with the pre-August 1948 color ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies]]'' library and most of the Harman-Ising ''Merrie Melodies'' acquired when Turner bought out MGM in 1986[[note]]Turner had wanted the entire studio but was met with debt problems. This resulted in him selling off MGM/UA after only 74 days, but he kept the library. The pre-August 1948 color ''Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies'' and most Harman-Ising ''Merrie Melodies'', produced in black-and-white, had been owned by United Artists via Associated Artists Productions, which had bought most of the pre-1950 WB library in the 1950s, with a.a.p. owning all live-action short subjects released prior to September 1948 and almost all features released prior to 1950 as well as one released in 1950.[[/note]]. This combined library, along with some other material, made up a good chunk of the schedule at the dawn of the network. However, as the channel grew, so did the initiative to bring new original content to the channel. The studio at the time had an influx of younger talent that had been brought in to fill the gap left by the earlier exodus. In 1994, Hanna-Barbera was internally reorganized as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and with a new sub-entity that began to refocus their efforts towards what was originally called "World Premiere Toons", essentially allowing many of the younger members of the studio to launch their own pilots in the hopes of becoming new original shows. Originally this was only seen as a sub-division while the rest of the studio made their efforts to switch over from other channels. [[note]]The animated ''Film/DumbAndDumber'' series, a co-production with corporate sibling Creator/NewLineCinema, was the company's final non-Cartoon Network series.[[/note]]

Hanna-Barbera pioneered the use of many LimitedAnimation techniques, such as RingAroundTheCollar, to produce cartoons on a low budget quickly enough to meet a television schedule. As a result a lot of Hanna-Barbera shows put the emphasis more on the voice acting and the writing/gags than the actual animation process itself. Although other animators who enjoyed better budgets in different circumstances, such as famed ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' veteran Creator/ChuckJones, would dismiss this approach as "Illustrated Radio", these practices allowed H-B to continue producing works and employing in times where other studios struggled, and manage to continue doing so well into the 1980s and 1990s. In 1967, the company was purchased by Ohio-based Taft Broadcasting (yes, related to [[UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft that Taft]]), which also owned a bunch of regional theme parks such as King's Island in Ohio and Carowinds in North Carolina, and thus Hanna-Barbera properties became prominent at these parks, lasting for years after Taft spun them off (eventually coming under Creator/{{Paramount}} ownership, then Ride/CedarFairEntertainment; the attractions were rebranded as Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}-themed rides, and then after ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' in later years), and when Taft acquired syndication company Worldvision Enterprises (the former Creator/{{ABC}} Films) in the late 1970s, this meant that not only did H-B have easier access to the syndication market, but Taft television stations also had a built-in cartoon supply.

In 1991, a deal was struck between GAB and [[UsefulNotes/TedTurner Turner Broadcasting]] that resulted in Turner purchasing Hanna-Barbera and its library. Turner also purchased the Creator/RubySpears library, but not the studio, which became its own entity again. It was here those libraries merged and the HB shows were united with the predecessor shorts Bill and Joe had done for MGM, but are legally not in the same library. [[note]]All Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears shows are listed as property of Hanna-Barbera, whereas Tom and Jerry and other MGM shorts are listed as property of Turner Entertainment Co., though they are free to be co-marketed as much as WB wants; not to mention that Tom and Jerry, in recent years, has been marketed under the Hanna-Barbera name a few times[[/note]] Under the new ownership, everything that was in planning but not funded was put on hold ([[https://fredseibert.frederator.com/post/451448569/the-hanna-barbera-logo-business-cards-circ indeed]], Turner was planning to shut the studio down and simply continue to utilize the library. Then-president David Kirschner convinced Ted not to, partially because of H-B being in production on expensive theatrical productions; Kirschner eventually turned H-B's feature animation into the semi-separate Turner Feature Animation, which only was able to produce ''Film/ThePagemaster'' and ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' before being absorbed into Warner Bros. Feature Animation), and in 1992 Turner launched Creator/CartoonNetwork. The HB libraries and MGM libraries, along with the pre-1948 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' library acquired when Turner bought out MGM in 1986[[note]]Turner had wanted the entire studio but was met with debt problems. This resulted in him selling off MGM/UA after only 74 days, but he kept the library. The pre-1948 ''Looney Tunes'' had been owned by United Artists via Associated Artists Productions, which had bought the entire pre-1948 WB library in the 1950s[[/note]]. This combined library, along with some other material, made up a good chunk of the schedule at the dawn of the network. However, as the channel grew, so did the initiative to bring new original content to the channel. The studio at the time had an influx of younger talent that had been brought in to fill the gap left by the earlier exodus. In 1994, Hanna-Barbera was internally reorganized as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and with a new sub-entity that began to refocus their efforts towards what was originally called "World Premiere Toons", essentially allowing many of the younger members of the studio to launch their own pilots in the hopes of becoming new original shows. Originally this was only seen as a sub-division while the rest of the studio made their efforts to switch over from other channels. [[note]]The animated ''Film/DumbAndDumber'' series, a co-production with corporate sibling Creator/NewLineCinema, was the company's final non-Cartoon Network series.[[/note]]

In 1996, Time Warner merged with Turner Broadcasting, putting them under the same corporate roof as Creator/WarnerBros. This reunited a few H-B shows that had been in the hands of Warner Bros.[[note]]Namely the AnimatedAdaptation versions of ''Series/{{The Dukes of Hazzard}}'', ''[[Creator/AbbottAndCostello The Abbott and Costello Show]]'' and Ruby-Spears' WesternAnimation/PoliceAcademyTheAnimatedSeries[[/note]], and reunited the pre-1948 ''Looney Tunes'' with the rest of the library.[[note]]The Warner Bros. library (and the rest of Warner Bros. Television, for that matter) is still separate from the Turner and H-B libraries, but can be co-marketed when they wish.[[/note]] From this point Hanna-Barbera was slowly merged into Warner Bros. Animation, with the intent that the new company didn't need more than one animation studio. This, however, didn't go entirely smoothly. [[note]]The short version is that basically there were way too many people with different goals trying to be shoved under one roof. You had very pro WB people who didn't want to be associated with HB in any way. You had HB people that felt the new generation disrespected the HB legacy. You had younger employees not wanting to be shackled to the WB or HB legacies. You had WB execs who had helped with Nickelodeon not wanting to work with CN. And you had a lot of people stuck in the middle wanting the whole thing to just end already.[[/note]] Just before the then-imminent death of Bill Hanna in 2001, Cartoon Network programming and the units producing them were spun out into their own entity (Cartoon Network Studios) under the Turner silo and Warner Bros. assumed the production of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', the company's [[LongRunners longest-running franchise]] and picked up all their legacy properties with Hanna-Barbera credited as the copyright holder under the Warner Bros. silo. By this point in time, the Cartoon Cartoon efforts had dominated the studio's output, in comparison to other general Hanna Barbera productions, and from here on out the earliest Cartoon Cartoons (including ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'')[[note]]the final series to use the company's trademark "swirling star" logo (and even then, it was originally done as a throwback, as it was last used in 1992, outside an odd ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode in 1997, apparently an editing error)[[/note]] stopped being associated with Hanna-Barbera as well.

* [[TalkingToHimself Talking to Themselves]]: And how! A lot of Hanna-Barbers shows had only a few actors playing all the parts. ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' had just '''two''', Don Messick and Paul Winchell. Luckily, the actors were talented enough to have multiple voices in their repertoire.

* ''Series/{{The Dukes|OfHazzard}}'' ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dukes 1983 animated adaptation]])

The studio's extremely prolific half-century-plus output included classic cartoon series like ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'', ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981''; the Emmy-winning live-action MadeForTVMovie ''The Gathering'' and a handful of feature films, most namely a popular adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/CharlottesWeb''. It was also responsible for the infamous live-action acid sequence in ''[[Music/{{Kiss}} KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park]]'', as well as countless other projects.

** After middling success in the 1980s, when their runaway hit was the LongRunner ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' that nothing else matched, a shakeup in management, as well as a massive facelift of their production pipeline, led to the production of Cartoon Network's hugely successful Creator/CartoonCartoons, most of which were HB productions (or at least had their initial pilots produced by HB) and existed under the studio's umbrella until about 2001. Until Cartoon Network Studios' own absorption into WB, association between the two had been little to none.

* ''Daisy-Head Mayzie''

On March 4, 2019, in a major shakeup of [=WarnerMedia=] by their new owners, AT&T, Warner Bros. took control of Cartoon Network and its production operations, ultimately bringing Hanna-Barbera and the Cartoon Network properties under one roof again for the first time in 18 years. While the shakeup brought no major alternations at first, April 2021 saw Cartoon Network Studios Europe (the branch of Cartoon Network Studios that produces ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' and other shows) be rebranded as [[https://deadline.com/2021/04/cartoon-network-studios-europe-renamed-as-hanna-barbera-studios-europe-1234729256/ Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe]]. This change gives Hanna-Barbera a physical studio presence for the first time in 20 years. The DirectToVideo film ''WesternAnimation/StraightOuttaNowhereScoobyDooMeetsCourageTheCowardlyDog'' marks the first {{Crossover}} between a classic Hanna-Barbera property (Scooby Doo) and a Cartoon Network original show (''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'') since the earliest days of the restructuring. In addition, Creator/HBOMax, [=WarnerMedia=]'s flagship streaming service, hosts material from both the Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network libraries.

* MultipleDemographicAppeal: The studio lasted as long as it did because their cartoons were purposefully made to appeal to everyone. Kids liked the colorful characters, slapstick humor, and action, while grown-ups liked the witty writing and celebrity references. In the case of ''Huckleberry Hound'', [[https://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-collegiate-hound.html?_sm_au_=iHVjfZ6v6vrtMknH4vVRvKQvJQ6BF college students adored the series]] [[https://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2010/10/fans-of-huckleberry-unite.html?_sm_au_=iHVjfZ6v6vrtMknH4vVRvKQvJQ6BF and had fan clubs for it]], as well as "[[https://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2010/11/daws-butler-goes-home.html?_sm_au_=iHVjfZ6v6vrtMknH4vVRvKQvJQ6BF Huckleberry Hound Days]]" where they would blast episodes of series on the loudspeakers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[note]]H-B made the original run of theatrical shorts for MGM and would later aquire the rights to the franchise in the 1990s[[/note]]
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'' [[note]]H-B directed some of the theatrical shorts and would also aquire the rights to the franchise along with Tom and Jerry (which they later merged it with) in the 90s[[/note]]

* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_%26_Goliath Samson & Goliath]]'' (also known as ''Young Samson'')

* ''The Hathaways'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn96fO226bU opening credits]])