Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 Explained
Looney Tunes Golden Collection
Volume 2 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 2, 2004. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.[1]
Related releases
As with Volume 1, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:
- Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 2[2]
- Disc 2: Best of Road Runner[3]
- Disc 3: Best of Tweety and Sylvester[4]
- Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 3[5]
In Region 1, discs 3 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2.
Disc 1: Bugs Bunny Masterpieces
All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
Special features
Audio bonuses
From the Vaults
- Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary Special: Part 1 (1986)
- The Bugs Bunny Show: Do or Diet bridging sequences; No Business Like Slow Business audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc
Behind-the-Tunes
- A Conversation With Tex Avery: A look on Avery explaining his various tricks of his particular brand of cartoon trade, from where the “What’s Up Doc?” expression came from, to his days at MGM.
Disc 2: Road Runner and Friends
All cartoons on this disc are directed by Chuck Jones.
Special features
Audio bonuses
From the Vaults
Behind-the-Tunes
- Crash! Bang! Boom!: The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown: A look at Termite Terrace's sound effects man, Treg Brown, and how he created the iconic sound effects heard in many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.
Disc 3: Tweety and Sylvester and Friends
| Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
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| 1 | Bad Ol' Putty Tat | Tweety, Sylvester | | Friz Freleng | MM |
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| 2 | All a Bir-r-r-d | Tweety, Sylvester, Hector | | Friz Freleng | LT |
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| 3 | Room and Bird | Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Hector | | Friz Freleng | MM |
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| 4 | Tweet Tweet Tweety | Tweety, Sylvester | | Friz Freleng | LT |
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| 5 | Gift Wrapped | Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Hector | | Friz Freleng | LT |
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| 6 | Ain't She Tweet | Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Hector | | Friz Freleng | LT |
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| 7 | A Bird in a Guilty Cage | Tweety, Sylvester | | Friz Freleng | LT |
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| 8 | Snow Business | Tweety, Sylvester, Granny | | Friz Freleng | LT |
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| 9 | Tweetie Pie | Tweety, Sylvester | | Friz Freleng | MM |
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| 10 | Kitty Kornered | Porky, Sylvester | | Bob Clampett | LT |
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| 11 | Baby Bottleneck | Daffy, Porky | | Bob Clampett | LT |
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| 12 | Old Glory | Porky | | Chuck Jones | MM |
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| 13 | The Great Piggy Bank Robbery | Daffy | | Bob Clampett | LT |
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| 14 | Duck Soup to Nuts | Daffy, Porky | | Friz Freleng | LT |
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| 15 | Porky in Wackyland | Porky | | Bob Clampett | LT |
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Special features
Audio Track
Music-and-Effects Only Audio Tracks for Tweet Tweet Tweety and A Bird in a Guilty Cage
Audio commentaries
From the Vaults
- Bonus cartoon: Daffy Duck for President (An all-new Daffy Duck cartoon released to tie in with the 2004 Election)
- The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special: Part 2
- The Porky Pig Show opening title sequence
- The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show 1988 and 1992 opening title sequences
Behind-the-Tunes
- The Man From Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett
Disc 4: Looney Tunes All-Stars: On Stage and Screen
Special features
Audio bonuses
Behind-the-Tunes
- Looney Tunes Go Hollywood: Termite Terrace unit’s passion for sending up the Hollywood of the time and explains the stories behind many of the toons’ delicious parodies, how they expanded into even the musical scores for those pictures, and the tradition of spoofing celebrities that lives on in the movie references in cartoon shows today.
- It Hopped One Night: A Look at One Froggy Evening: A look on the in-depth on what went into making the Chuck Jones masterpiece and its influential effect
- Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of What's Opera, Doc?
From the Vaults
- Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952) - short live action movie with dubbed-animals only.
- Academy Award-winning So Much for So Little (1949).
Release and reception
Warner Home Video was not sure that would sell well enough to justify a second release in the series.[7] Prior to the release of the second volume, WHV's Vice President of Non-Theatrical Franchise Marketing announced: "We are extremely pleased with consumer response to last year's Volume One editions and we are delighted to release another installment of our most famous animated classics."[8]
The first set in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series had won the Classic Award at the Parents' Choice Awards,[9] and the second release was also an award-winner. TVShowsOnDVD.com reported that the set won the award for "Best Animated Series" release at the 3rd Annual TV-DVD Conference.[10] In The New York Sun, author and critic Gary Giddins complained that this set, like the first one, was skimpy with the black-and-white shorts, and seemed to avoid the more politically incorrect cartoons in the series. When his review was reprinted in the book, Natural Selection, Giddins noted that made up for the latter shortcoming by including some of the racist caricature in the series, preceded by an explanatory introduction by Whoopi Goldberg.[11]
In a review reprinted in Syracuse, New York's The Post-Standard, Randy Salas, a critic for the Minneapolis, St. Paul Star Tribune, called the second volume in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series a "glorious release". Salas describes the main content of the set, highlighting contributions from Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng with particular emphasis on Jones' One Froggy Evening (1955). The extras highlighted in the review include commentary from music historian Daniel Goldmark, and interviews with Chuck Jones, who had died in 2002. The review summed up, "This is an essential set for any animation fan, and it might just convert many who are not." The reviewer concluded by pointing out that a 2-disc "Spotlight Collection" with selections from the 4-disc set was also available, but advised, "Skip it and go for the full course."[12]
See also
Notes and References
- Release and content information: Web site: The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes comedy Hour - The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2. 2009-02-05. TVShowsOnDVD.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090415184441/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Bugs-Bunny-Looney-Tunes-Comedy-Hour-Volume-Release/3964. 2009-04-15.
- Web site: Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Bugs Bunny-Volume 2.
- Web site: Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Road Runner-Volume 1.
- Web site: Looney Tunes Collection-Best of Tweety and Sylvester-Volume 1.
- Web site: Looney Tunes Collection-All Stars-Volume 3.
- According to the packaging
- Web site: David. Lambert. The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour - WB Studies 'Golden' Sales to Decide Looney Future. 2009-02-06. 2003-08-01. TVShowsOnDVD.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090208001410/http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Bugs-Bunny-Looney-Tunes-Comedy-Hour/568. 2009-02-08.
- News: That's Not All, Folks!; The Looney Golden Collection Volume 2 and the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 2 Available for the First Time on DVD November 2. Warner Home Video. 2004-09-07.
- Web site: David. Lambert. Site News - 3 TV-DVDs win Parents' Choice Awards. 2009-02-05. TVShowsOnDVD.com. 2004-04-03. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090415184321/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News/1443. 2009-04-15.
- Web site: Gord. Lacey. Site News - And the Winners Are.... 2009-02-05. TVShowsOnDVD.com. 2005-11-07. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090415184326/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News/4460. 2009-04-15.
- The New York Sun 23 Nov 2004, reprinted in Book: Giddins, Gary . Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books. Gary Giddins. 2006. Oxford University Press. 0-19-517951-X. 123–124 . registration. Looney tunes golden collection..
- News: Randy A.. Salas. Bugs and His Buddies Go Looney Tunes in DVD set. Minneapolis, St. Paul Star Tribune. The Post-Standard. Advance Publications. Syracuse, New York. D-4. 2004-11-08.
