Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection explained

Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
Director:Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Ken Harris
Producer:Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer
Starring:Voice of Mel Blanc
Music:Carl Stalling, Milt Franklyn, William Lava, George Daugherty
Distributor:Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Country:United States
Language:English

Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection is a Blu-ray Disc box-set released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on December 1, 2020. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts starring Bugs Bunny and numerous bonus features and supplementary content. The set's packaging includes a slip book, a booklet, and a collectible Bugs Bunny Funko! POP doll.[1] [2]

Initially conceived by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment as a single-disc Blu-ray Disc version of The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD set with an additional Funko! doll, animation historian Jerry Beck convinced the department heads to extend the set to three discs and include cartoons not previously released on DVD or Blu-ray Disc in order to appeal to adult collectors.[3] The set includes 32 newly restored and remastered cartoons that were previously unavailable on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Blu-ray Disc sets, in addition to 20 "essential" shorts ported over from those previous collections. Eight cartoons (Lumber Jack-Rabbit, Napoleon Bunny-Part, People Are Bunny, Person to Bunny, From Hare to Heir, The Million Hare and False Hare) had been previously restored and released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars DVDs, however, this Blu-ray Disc set presents them in their original 4:3 aspect ratio (as opposed to the Super Stars sets which had them cropped to "widescreen"). According to Beck, with this collection along with the previous Golden and Platinum Collections, Looney Tunes fans and collectors would be able to own approximately 90% of Bugs Bunny's filmography.[4]

The set also marks the first official home media release of the Max series Looney Tunes Cartoons, with 10 Bugs Bunny centric episodes included as bonus features.[5] [6]

Disc 1

TitleCo-StarsRelease DateDirectorSeries
1Elmer's Candid CameraElmerMarch 2, 1940Chuck JonesMM
2A Wild HareElmerJuly 27, 1940Tex AveryMM
3Hold the Lion, Please (*)June 6, 1942Chuck JonesMM
4Bugs Bunny Gets the BoidBeakyJuly 11, 1942Bob ClampettMM
5Super-RabbitApril 3, 1943Chuck JonesMM
6Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (*)June 12, 1943Friz FrelengMM
7What's Cookin' Doc? (*)January 8, 1944Bob ClampettMM
8Bugs Bunny and the Three BearsThe Three BearsFebruary 26, 1944Chuck JonesMM
9Hare Ribbin'June 24, 1944Bob ClampettMM
10The Old Grey HareElmerOctober 28, 1944Bob ClampettMM
11Baseball BugsFebruary 2, 1946Friz FrelengLT
12Hair-Raising HareGossamerMay 25, 1946Chuck JonesMM
13Racketeer Rabbit (*)September 14, 1946Friz FrelengLT
14Bugs Bunny Rides AgainSamJune 12, 1948Friz FrelengMM
15Haredevil HareMarvinJuly 24, 1948Chuck JonesLT
16Hot Cross Bunny (*)August 21, 1948Robert McKimsonMM
17Hare Splitter (*)September 25, 1948Friz FrelengMM
18Knights Must Fall (*)July 16, 1949Friz FrelengMM
19What's Up, Doc?ElmerJune 17, 1950Robert McKimsonLT
208 Ball BunnyPlayboyJuly 8, 1950Chuck JonesLT

Special Features

Disc 2

TitleCo-StarsRelease DateDirectorSeries
1Rabbit of SevilleElmerDecember 16, 1950Chuck JonesLT
2Rabbit Every Monday (*)SamFebruary 10, 1951Friz FrelengLT
3The Fair-Haired Hare (*)SamApril 14, 1951Friz FrelengLT
4Rabbit FireDaffy, ElmerMay 19, 1951Chuck JonesLT
5His Hare-Raising Tale (*)ClydeAug 11, 1951Friz FrelengLT
6Hare Lift (*)SamDecember 20, 1952Friz FrelengLT
7Upswept Hare (*)ElmerMarch 14, 1953Robert McKimsonMM
8Robot Rabbit (*)ElmerDecember 12, 1953Friz FrelengLT
9Captain Hareblower (*)SamJanuary 16, 1954Friz FrelengMM
10No Parking Hare (*)May 1, 1954Robert McKimsonLT
11Yankee Doodle Bugs (*)ClydeAugust 28, 1954Friz FrelengLT
12Lumber Jack-Rabbit September 25, 1953Chuck JonesLT
13Baby Buggy BunnyDecember 18, 1954Chuck JonesMM
14Hare Brush (*)ElmerMay 7, 1955Friz FrelengMM
15This Is a Life? Daffy, Elmer, SamJuly 9, 1955Friz FrelengMM
16Rabbitson Crusoe (*)SamApril 28, 1956Friz FrelengLT
17Napoleon Bunny-Part June 16, 1956Friz FrelengMM
18Half-Fare Hare (*)August 18, 1956Robert McKimsonMM
19Piker's Peak (*)SamMay 25, 1957Friz FrelengLT
20What's Opera, Doc?ElmerJuly 6, 1957Chuck JonesMM

Special Features

Disc 3

TitleCo-StarsRelease DateDirectorSeries
1Bugsy and Mugsy (*)Rocky and MugsyAugust 31, 1957Friz FrelengLT
2Show Biz BugsDaffyNovember 2, 1957Friz FrelengLT
3Hare-Less Wolf (*)February 1, 1958Friz FrelengMM
4Now, Hare This (*)B.B. WolfMay 31, 1958Robert McKimsonLT
5Knighty Knight BugsSamAugust 23, 1958Friz FrelengLT
6Hare-Abian Nights (*)SamFebruary 28, 1959Ken HarrisMM
7Backwoods Bunny (*)June 13, 1959Robert McKimsonMM
8Wild and Woolly Hare (*)SamAugust 1, 1959Friz FrelengLT
9Bonanza Bunny (*)Blacque JacqueSeptember 5, 1959Robert McKimsonMM
10People Are Bunny DaffyDecember 19, 1959Robert McKimsonMM
11Person to Bunny DaffyApril 1, 1960Friz FrelengMM
12Rabbit's Feat (*)Wile E.June 4, 1960Chuck JonesLT
13From Hare to Heir SamSeptember 3, 1960Friz FrelengMM
14Compressed Hare (*)Wile E.July 29, 1961Chuck Jones and Maurice NobleMM
15Prince Violent (*)SamSeptember 2, 1961Friz Freleng and Hawley PrattLT
16Shishkabugs (*)SamDecember 8, 1962Friz FrelengLT
17The Million Hare DaffyApril 6, 1963Robert McKimsonLT
18The Unmentionables (*)Rocky and MugsySeptember 7, 1963Friz FrelengMM
19False Hare B.B. Wolf, Foghorn (cameo)July 18, 1964Robert McKimsonLT
20(Blooper) BunnyDaffy, Elmer, SamJune 13, 1997Greg Ford and Terry LennonLT

Special Features

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray Disc (UPDATED). September 11, 2020. Blu-ray.
  2. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection. December 19, 2020. High Def Digest.
  3. Web site: Stu's Show: Program 575 (8/5/20). Stu Shostak. August 2020. September 28, 2021.
  4. Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Extravaganza. Comic Con International. July 2020. September 28, 2021 . YouTube.
  5. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray (UPDATED). September 11, 2020. Blu-ray.
  6. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection. December 19, 2020. High Def Digest.
  7. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray (UPDATED). September 11, 2020. Blu-ray.
  8. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection. December 19, 2020. High Def Digest.
  9. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray (UPDATED). September 11, 2020. Blu-ray.
  10. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection. December 19, 2020. High Def Digest.
  11. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray (UPDATED). September 11, 2020. Blu-ray.
  12. Web site: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection. December 19, 2020. High Def Digest.

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