What if Warner Bros. kept the rights to Bosko?

Note: This theory was originally written on the New Idea Central Wiki.
In 1933, Harman and Ising broke with Warner Bros. over budget disputes with Schlesinger. Having learned from Walt Disney's experiences with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, they carefully kept all rights to the Bosko character and took him with them at the time of their departure. But what if Warner Bros. kept the rights to Bosko?
Here's what might have happened.
This theory is interconnected to What if Paramount kept the rights to Buzzy the Crow, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, Modern Madcaps, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare?
==Changes==
*Warner Bros. would keep the rights to Bosko after 1933.
**Bosko would still be the mascot of Warner Bros. until 1935.
*Censored Eleven Looney Tunes shorts would never be existed.
*Warner Bros. would keep the rights to Johnny Test after 2006.
**As a result, Johnny Test would stream on HBO Max in 2020.
*Warner Bros. would keep it's Warner Bros. Cartoons B&W cartoons library after 1955.
**As a result, The redrawn colorized versions of all the Warner Bros. Cartoons B&W cartoons library would retain the original Warner Bros. Cartoons logos.
*TMZ and Chilevisión would stay at AT&T via WarnerMedia in 2021.
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*Warner Premiere would remain open after 2012.
*The Thief and the Cobbler would've been completed by the people at Warner Bros. in 1992, even if it wouldn't do well at the box office.
**It would be released on September 23, 1993.
*Warner Bros. Television Animation would remain open after 2003.
*Kids' WB would still continue after 2008.
**Shows based on DC Comics and Looney Tunes properties would air on Kids' WB and Cartoon Network.
*Yakko, Wakko, and Dot would would fall out of the water tower in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (named Spy Jam in this alternate universe) when Daffy crashes the Batmobile into the Warner Bros. water tower.
*Looney Tunes: Back in Action would receive the following changes:
**The film would be named Spy Jam, have Jackie Chan as its star, and be more of a James Bond/Austin Powers parody.
**Yakko, Wakko, and Dot would would fall out of the water tower when Daffy crashes the Batmobile into the Warner Bros. water tower.
**The film would be more successful.
**Brendan Fraser wouldn't be involved with the film due to
***Brendan Fraser would instead be involved with George of the Jungle 2.
**Xbox and Microsoft Windows versions of the game adaptation would be made.
*The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part would do well in the box office.
**Universal Pictures wouldn't bought the rights to The Lego Movie franchise in 2020.
**The Lego Movie 3, Lego Superfriends and The Billion Brick Race would have be released.
*The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, Kentucky Kingdom, The New Marine World Theme Park, Riverside: The Great Escape, Fiesta Texas, Adventure World: The Thrill Park, Reino Aventura, Darien Lake, Geauga Lake, La Ronde, and Jazzland would be acquired by Paramount Parks instead of Six Flags.
*On March 10, 2004, Six Flags would have sold its European parks, with the exception of the Warner Bros. Movie World Madrid and Warner Bros. Movie World Germany to Paramount Parks.
*Superman Lives would be released.
*Warner Bros. would have made the 2011 Smurfs movie, its 2013 sequel, Smurfs: The Lost Village, the 2021 Smurfs television series, and the 2025 Smurfs film.
*Quest for Camelot (released internationally as The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot) wouldn't exist, with the film being replaced by a film adaptation of Six Flags Over Georgia's Tales of the Okefenokee ride.
*Tales of the Okefenokee would close at Six Flags Over Georgia in 2008 instead of 1980.
**An updated version of Kings Island's former Enchanted Voyage ride called Hanna-Barbera Enchanted Voyage would open at Six Flags Over Georgia on May 16, 2009 replacing Tales of the Okefenokee.
***Hanna-Barbera Enchanted Voyage would be a reimagining of Kings Island's former Enchanted Voyage ride.
***Hanna-Babrera Enchanted Voyage at Six Flags Over Georgia would feature reworked gags in several scenes, the addition of many new holographically projected animations, and several animated figures of characters from Tom and Jerry, Huckleberry Hound, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator, The Jetsons, Peter Potamus and So-So, Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey, Moby Dick, The Banana Splits, Wacky Races, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, the Scooby-Doo! franchise, Jabberjaw, The Smurfs, Johan and Peewit, Pac-Man, Saturday Supercade, Dexter's Laboratory, Dial M for Monkey, and The Justice Friends.
***Hanna-Barbera Enchanted Voyage at Six Flags Over Georgia would reuse the stormy swamp scene as well as the crows, frogs (expect for the dixie band frogs), and crocodiles from Tales of the Okefenokee.
***Clones of Hanna-Barbera Enchanted Voyage would open at Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Magic Mountain in 2010.
***A clone of Hanna-Barbera Enchanted Voyage would open at Warner Bros. Movie World Australia in 2011 replacing Looney Tunes River Ride.
***A clone of Hanna-Barbera Enchanted Voyage would open at Warner Bros. Movie World Germany in 2012 replacing Looney Tunes Adventure.
**A dark boat ride based on Smurfs: The Lost Village would open at Six Flags Over Georgia in 2018 replacing Hanna-Barbera Enchanted Voyage.
**An animated film adaptation of the Tales of the Okefenokee ride would be released on May 15, 1998 replacing Quest for Camelot.
**The film adaptation of Tales of the Okefenokee would reuse all the songs from the ride.
**A video game adaptation of the 1998 Tales of the Okefenokee theatrical film would be released on Atari Jaguar, Atari Jaguar CD, Sega Saturn, Windows, Mac, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Color on December 16, 1998.
**Wild West Falls Adventure Ride at Warner Bros. Movie World would instead be named Tales of the Okefenokee and themed after the 1998 film of the same name.
**Rio Bravo at Warner Bros. Movie World Madrid would instead be named Tales of the Okefenokee and themed after the 1998 film of the same name.
**A television series based on the 1998 film adaptation of Tales of the Okefenokee called Tales of the Okefenokee: The Show would air new episodes on Kids' WB from September 11, 1999 to March 25, 2000.
***Tales from the Okefenokee: The Show would air reruns on Kids' WB from September 11, 1999 to August 31, 2001.
*The Warner Bros. Discovery merger would not happen.
**The proposed merger with Viacom would not happen.
** Scoob: Holiday Haunt, Batgirl, Coyote vs. Acme, Tooned Out, Tweety Mysteries, Scooby-Doo and the Haunted High Rise, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Pups, and Tom and Jerry Time wouldn't get shelved or deleted.
*Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation and Wakko's Wish would be theatrical films instead of direct-to-video films.
**Wakko's Wish would receive three sequels.
*The AOL/Time Warner merger wouldn't have all the issues and would keep Warner Music Group, World Championship Wrestling, Time Warner Cable, Time Warner Book Group, Time-Life, and Time Inc., although AOL Time Warner would still rename as Time Warner.
**As a result, AOL remains owned under Warner Bros. Entertainment.
**Time Warner Cable, Time Warner Book Group and Time-Life were transferred to Time Inc. with the former two being rebranded as Time Cable and Time Book Group.
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*Warner Communications would acquire Namco alongside Atari in 1976.
** Atari would never leave the console market.
** Atari Panther would actually be made.
** Atari would have kept Chuck E. Cheese instead of selling it to Pizza Time Theatre, Inc. in 1978.
*** Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000 would have been an animated film produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
** There would be more Crystal Castles video games.
** Namco, Midway, and Crystal Castles games would be exclusive to Atari consoles.
** Klax would have been developed and published by Namco instead of by Atari Games.
** Namco would remain open after 2006.
** The video game adaptation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man wouldn't be rushed and both would be extremely successful.
*** As a result, the video game crash of 1983 would have never happened.
** JT Storage wouldn't reverse merge with Atari in 1996.
** Time Warner would acquire Hasbro Interactive in 1998 and Infogrames in 2001, with Hasbro Interactive being renamed Atari Interactive.
*** As a direct result, the Infogrames name would keep.
** Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures would be produced by Warner Bros. Television Animation instead of 41 Entertainment, Arad Productions, a partnership between Sprite Animation Studios and OLM, Inc., and Bandai Namco Entertainment.
*SpongeBob SquarePants: The Ride wouldn't operate at Six Flags parks due to SpongeBob SquarePants being owned by Viacom.
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**The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Six Flags Great Adventure from 2004 to 2017 replacing
**The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Six Flags Over Texas from 2004 to 2012 replacing
**The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Six Flags Great America from 2008 to 2017 replacing Space Shuttle America.
**The song Cartoon Friends (which was the theme song for Kings Islands' Enchanted Voyage ride) would have played at Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America, and Six Flags Over Texas before and after The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera show.
*The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Warner Bros. Movie World parks after it closed at Universal Studios Florida in 2002.
**The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Warner Bros. Jungle Habitat from , 2003 to .
**The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Warner Bros. Movie World from September 17, 2005 to August 29, 2010.
**The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Warner Bros. Movie World London from , 2006 to .
**The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Warner Bros. Movie World Madrid from , 2007 to .
**The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera would have operated at Warner Bros. Movie World Germany from May 27, 2008 to July 4, 2011.
**The song Cartoon Friends (which was the theme song for Kings Islands' Enchanted Voyage ride) would have played at Warner Bros. Movie World, Warner Bros. Movie World Germany, and Warner Bros. Movie World Madrid before and after The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera show.
*A restaurant chain titled Bugs Bunny's Kitchen would have opened in 2003.
**Character vignettes would have been placed throughout Bugs Bunny's Kitchen featuring characters from Dexter's Laboratory, Ed, Edd n Eddy, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Pinky and the Brain, and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain. Menu items would have included Goopy Geer's Burger, , , , , , and . The kids meal equivalent would have been the Meal, complete with a toy.
**Bugs Bunny's Kitchen would have opened at Six Flags AstroWorld, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America, and Six Flags Over Texas in 2004.
* Rooster Teeth would stay open.
==Films==
===Animated===
====Warner Bros. Animation====
*Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (March 11, 1992)
*Tom and Jerry: The Movie (July 30, 1993)
*Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (December 25, 1993)
*Space Jam (November 15, 1996)
*Cats Don't Dance (March 26, 1997)
*Tales of the Okefenokee (May 15, 1998)
*The Iron Giant (August 6, 1999)
*Wakko's Wish (December 21, 1999)
*Osmosis Jones (August 10, 2001)
*Spy Jam (November 14, 2003)
*Happy Feet (November 17, 2006)
*The Smurfs (July 29, 2011)
*Happy Feet Two (November 18, 2011)
*The Smurfs 2 (July 31, 2013)
*Free Birds (November 1, 2013)
*The Lego Movie (February 7, 2014)
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*The Smurfs 3 (2015)
*Storks (September 23, 2016)
*The Lego Batman Movie (February 10, 2017)
*Smurfs: The Lost Village (April 7, 2017)
*The Lego Ninjago Movie (September 22, 2017)
*Smallfoot (September 28, 2018)
*The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (February 8, 2019)
*Scoob! (May 15, 2020)
*The Billion Brick Race (October 12, 2020)
*Tom & Jerry (February 26, 2021)
*The Lego Superfriends Movie (April 28, 2021)
*Space Jam: A New Legacy (July 16, 2021)
*DC League of Super-Pets (July 29, 2022)
*The Lego Movie 3: The Third Part (March 3, 2023)
*Coyote vs. Acme (
====Cartoon Network Movies====
===Live-action===
====Warner Bros. Pictures====
==Television==
===Animated===
====Cartoon Network====
*Space Ghost: Coast to Coast (1994-2001)
*Dexter's Laboratory (1996-2003)
*Johnny Bravo (1997-2004)
*Cow and Chicken (1997-1999)
*I Am Weasel (1997-2000)
*The Powerpuff Girls (1998-2005)
*Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999-2004)
*Yuckie Duck (1999-2006)
*Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999-2002)
*King Crab (2000-2003)
*The Rowdyruff Boys (2000-2005)
*Sheep in the Big City (2000-2002)
*Time Squad (2001-2003)
*Thrillseeker (2001-2005)
*Samurai Jack (2001-2004)
*Grim & Evil (2001-2003)
*Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (2002-2003)
*Kimmy and Lizzie (2002-2006)
*Codename: Kids Next Door (2002-2008)
*The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003-2007)
*Evil Con Carne (2003-2007)
*Jeffrey Cat (2003-2009)
*Megas XLR (2004-2007)
*Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004-2009)
*Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004-2007)
*The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (2005-2007)
*Camp Lazlo (2005-2008)
*Jimmy Two-Shoes (2005-2009)
*Sunday Pants (2005-2006)
*Wonder Flower (2005-2011)
*My Gym Partner's a Monkey (2005-2008)
*Ben 10 (2005-2008)
*Squirrel Boy (2006-2007)
*Thunderstrikers (2006-2009)
*Class of 3000 (2006-2008)
*Goo and Her Imaginary Friends (2007-2012)
*Ami, Yumi and Emi (2007-2009)
*Out of Jimmy's Head (2007-2011)
*Chowder (2007-2010)
*Transformers: Animated (2007-2009)
*Ben 10: Alien Force (2008-2010)
*The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008-2010)
*The Secret Saturdays (2008-2010)
*Mix-Up Critters (2009-2011)
*Underfist (2009-2012)
*Flow Out (2009-2013)
*Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2010-2012)
*Generator Rex (2010-2013)
*Sym-Bionic Titan (2010-2012)
*Robotomy (2010-2011)
*The Amazing World of Gumball (2011-2019)
*Tigerina (2011-2019)
*Witcheria (2012-2018)
*Ben 10: Omniverse (2012-2014)
*Clocksome (2013-2018)
*Uncle Grandpa (2013-2017)
*Steven Universe (2013-2019)
*Mixels (2014-2016)
*Clarence (2014-2018)
*Over the Garden Wall (2014-2019)
*We Bare Bears (2015-2019)
*Long Live the Royals (2015-2018)
*The Powerpuff Girls (2016) (2016-2020)
*Mighty Magiswords (2016-2019)
*OK K.O.: Let's Be Heroes (2017-2021)
*Apple & Onion (2018-present)
*Craig of the Creek (2018-present)
*Summer Camp Island (2018-present)
*Victor and Valentino (2019-present)
*Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart (2019-present)
*Infinity Train (2019-2021)
*Steven Universe Future (2019-2020)
*Peter the Camel (2020-present)
*Tig N' Seek (2020-present)
*Ostrichtrio (2020-present)
*The Fungies! (2020-present)
*Huckleberry Hound (2020-present)
*Mighty Knight (2021-present)
*Elliott from Earth (2021-present)
*We Baby Bears (2022-present)
*Clocksome (2023-present)
*The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe (2023)
*Jessica's Big Little World (2023)
*Invincible Fight Girl (2024)
*Battu (TBA)
*The Amazing World of Gumball: The Series (TBA)
*Wacky Races (second reboot; TBA)
*The Powerpuff Girls (second reboot; TBA)
*Foster's Imaginary Nursery (TBA)
====Adult Swim====
==== Kids' WB ====
* Tales from the Okefenokee: The Show (1999-2004)
== Video games ==
== Other media ==
=== Consoles ===
==== Home ====
* Atari 2600 (1977-1992)
* Atari 5200 (1982-1988)
* Atari 7800 (1986-1992)
* Atari XEGS (1987-1992)
* Atari Panther (1991-1996)
* Atari Jaguar (1993-2001)
** Atari Jaguar CD (1995-2001)
* Atari Cheetah (2000-2008)
* Atari Tiger (2007-2018)
* Atari Lion (2013-present)
* Atari Leopard (2020-present)
* Atari VCS (2021-present)
==== Handheld ====
* Atari Lynx (1989-1995)
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