[Soundgod]

Lucy and Ricky founded Desilu, which got bought by Paramount (that's how they got Star Trek and Mission:Impossible). Paramount also owns their own theme parks, well maybe not for too much longer. But wait, Viacom, which bought Paramount and later CBS is spinning off Paramount/CBS along with the theme parks which they are considering selling. Meanwhile all of Lucy's shows ran on CBS, who now owns them. So, why are they still in Universal? All the Hanna Barbara stuff started as Screen Gems Which I think did become part of MCA(Universal), but not before they sold HB to Taft Broadcasting of Cincinati, who founded the Kings Island Park group. Later, Taft sold HB to MCA, but kept license rights for the characters in costumes. Around 1990 MCA/Universal, now owned by Matsu*hita, sold HB to Ted Turner who already owned the rights to the MGM cartoon catalogue, the cornerstone of Cartoon Network programming. Turner merged with Time/Warner, so now Time/Warner owned Looney Toons and Hanna Brabara, which is why they pulled Funtastic World of Hanna Barbara and replaced it with Jimmy Neutron, A Nick/Viacom property that was never controlled by Universal, who since was bought by Seagrams, which in turn destroyed itself In the Vivendi merger because Edgar Jr. wanted to be a Hollywood Mogul instead of a booze merchant and then GE bought 80% of Universal's holdings from Vivendi who no longer has the Seagrams liquor business either.
Everybody clear now?
Wait, who did own the Max Fleischer (Popeye and Betty Boop) cartoons anyway?

Note to Mickey! Matsushi*a is not a bad word, stop editing it! It's the corporate parent of Panasonic.