You don't need a cable bill to keep watching MeTV Toons. Here's every way to stream it online, and how to do it for free.
Reviewed and updated July 2026 by our cord-cutting team · 2 options
If you ever want to re-live the days of watching your favorite cartoon on a Saturday morning, then tuning into MeTV Toons might be the closest you'll get. The channel airs vintage cartoon programs from studios like Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. nonstop daily, and it's available even without cable. To watch Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and even international programs like the Japanese Speed Racer and the British Thunderbirds, then all you have to do is sign up for a live TV streaming service that carries MeTV Toons. Right now, those are Frndly and Philo, but we'll be updating the list once the channel starts to be available on more platforms. You can read more about these services in the list below.
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Yes, with a free trial. MeTV Toons is on Philo, and you can watch it free for Philo's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Philo is one of the most interesting ways to cut the cord out there: it offers over 70 channels for as little as $25. If you don’t watch sports or a lot of local TV, but want access to everything else, it’s the perfect Live TV option. Their Bundle+ subscription adds access to AMC+, HBO Max, and Discovery+.
It carries no sports and no local channels, so it only covers entertainment and lifestyle networks.
Philo plans
Yes, with a free trial. MeTV Toons is on Frndly TV, and you can watch it free for Frndly TV's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Frndly TV is a streaming platform focused on family-friendly live TV channels, with an attractive price starting at $8.99. There are three plans: Basic, Classic, and Premium, which cost $8.99, $10.99, and $12.99, respectively. The Basic plan only allows for SD streaming, but the other plans allow for HD. The basic plan doesn’t allow for DVR recordings, but the other plans allow for 3 months and 9 months, respectively. Lastly, the basic plan allows for only one simultaneous stream, but the Classic plan allows for two, and the Premium plan allows for four.
It carries only a small set of mostly lifestyle and family channels, with no sports and no major news networks.
Frndly TV plans
No. Sling TV doesn't carry MeTV Toons.
No. Fubo doesn't carry MeTV Toons.
No. Hulu + Live TV doesn't carry MeTV Toons.
No. DIRECTV doesn't carry MeTV Toons.
No. Paramount+ doesn't carry MeTV Toons.
No. Peacock doesn't carry MeTV Toons.
No. YouTube TV doesn't carry MeTV Toons.
No. Disney+ only streams the Disney family (ABC, FX, Nat Geo, ESPN and the Disney kids channels), and MeTV Toons isn’t part of it. The best way to watch MeTV Toons without cable is Frndly TV above (free-trial).
No. HBO Max only streams the Warner Bros. Discovery family (HBO, Discovery, HGTV, TNT, CNN and the rest), and MeTV Toons isn’t part of it. The best way to watch MeTV Toons without cable is Frndly TV above (free-trial).
No. There’s no Prime Video Channels add-on for MeTV Toons, so Prime can’t stream it on demand or live. The best way to watch MeTV Toons without cable is Frndly TV above (free-trial).
The honest way to watch MeTV Toons for free is a free trial, and the trick is not to spend them one at a time. Start one, then start the next when it ends, and you can string together a few weeks of free live TV back to back, usually enough to cover a tournament or a playoff run without paying for a month.
If you're cutting cable for MeTV Toons, odds are you want MeTV too. It's a sister channel, so every service above that carries MeTV Toons carries MeTV as well, and the same free trials get you both. See our full guide to watching MeTV without cable for the per-service breakdown.
MeTV Toons and the US services that carry it are geo-locked to the United States, so your login stops working the moment you leave the country. A VPN fixes that: connect to a US server and the service sees a US address again. The catch is that streaming platforms actively block most VPN traffic, so the VPN you pick matters far more than the service does. These three reliably get back in:
A huge US server network (thousands of IPs across 15-plus cities) with SmartPlay DNS baked into every server, so streaming just works without extra setup. The best value of the top tier on a two-year plan.
Best for streaming MeTV Toons with: Philo
Get NordVPN →The budget pick, and the one to get if the whole household travels: it allows unlimited simultaneous devices on one account, plus a Smart DNS for TVs. Reliable with the on-demand and lifestyle services.
Best for streaming MeTV Toons with: Philo
Get Surfshark →Whichever you pick, connect to a US city first, then sign in to MeTV Toons or the service that carries it as normal. Choose a VPN with a money-back window so you can confirm it un-blocks MeTV Toons before you commit.
No. MeTV Toons is a cable channel and doesn't broadcast over the air, so an antenna can't pick it up. An antenna only gets the free broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, The CW), which pair nicely with one of the services above; check which of those reach your address here.
Every service that carries MeTV Toons runs on the major streaming platforms, so you can watch on just about any TV, phone, or console. Here's how, device by device:
On Roku, you can watch MeTV Toons through Philo and Frndly TV. To set it up, add the channel from the Roku Channel Store, sign in, and open MeTV Toons in the live guide.
On Amazon Fire TV, you can watch MeTV Toons through Philo and Frndly TV. To set it up, download the app from the Amazon Appstore, sign in, and open MeTV Toons in the live guide.
On Apple TV, you can watch MeTV Toons through Philo and Frndly TV. To set it up, install the app from the App Store, sign in, and open MeTV Toons in the live guide.
On Android TV & Google TV, you can watch MeTV Toons through Philo and Frndly TV. To set it up, grab the app from the Google Play Store, sign in, and open MeTV Toons in the live guide.
On Chromecast, you can watch MeTV Toons through Philo and Frndly TV. To set it up, cast it from your phone or use the built-in Google TV app, sign in, and open MeTV Toons in the live guide.
Cheapest is the question everyone starts with, and it's the wrong place to stop. A $35 plan that drops MeTV Toons the month after you sign up hasn't saved you anything. So the first number we pay attention to is the real one, what you owe after the introductory month ends, not the figure in the ad. From there it comes down to whether the channels you actually want sit in the base plan or get stranded in an add-on, how the service behaves day to day (a slow app and a useless DVR wear on you faster than you'd expect), and how much of a fight it puts up when you decide to leave.
Whatever lands at the top of a list like this is the service that gets most of that right for the most people. Once in a while that's also the cheapest one. Usually it isn't.
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