I'm not sure what the occasion is, but Boomerang's programming for tomorrow morning and early afternoon is all vintage theatrical cartoons and early Hanna-Barbera TV series. In addition to what usually airs there's Yogi Bear (though it seems to be all Yogi's cartoons from The Huckleberry Hound Show like "Pie Pirates", not episodes of The Yogi Bear Show, which is what my cable TV box's guide says), Top Cat, The Jetsons and Wacky Races. There's stuff that usually airs at night or overnight like Popeye, The Flintstones and Scooby Doo, Where Are You? Even the blocks of Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry are different cartoons, not the same ones Boomerang has been repeating over and over. Looney Tunes seems to mostly be a combination of "firsts" like "I Haven't Got A Hat", "Porky's Duck Hunt", "A Wild Hare" (though my cable TV box's guide just says "Wild Hare") and "Fast and Furry-ous" and "famous" cartoons like "Duck Amuck", "What's Opera, Doc'?", "One Froggy Evening" and "Hyde and Go Tweet". And the block starts with a Harman-Ising Merrie Melody! Sometime during the afternoon Boomerang switches to stuff from the 1980's like The Smurfs, A Pup Named Scooby Doo and Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Then Boomerang switches to the Cartoon Network originals, at which point I quit going through the guide. (I'll finish tonight.) No Tex Avery MGM cartoons, but at least it's a change from Boomerang's usual programming.

See, it's things like this that make me wish I still had cable. Still, it's nice to hear that Boomerang is back to being itself again! I just hope they keep going in this direction, even letting the old stuff coexist with the more modern stuff.

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Last night I finished going through the guide for the rest of today. They only showed two early Cartoon Cartoons, The Powerpuff Girls and Cow and Chicken. After that everything was from the 21st century. By the overnight hours it was recent Cartoon Network TV series like We Bare Bears and Craig of the Creek. (But no recent TV series with Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry and Scooby Doo.) Boomerang's usual programming is back today. It was nice while it lasted...

While I didn't see any promos or bumpers about it as I briefly watch the lineup, I'm under the impression they did this marathon in honor of the month-long centennial celebration of Warner Bros.

Heck, they even show some Warner cartoons for the first time in many years on TCM as filler as part of the channel's celebration.