"Looney Tunes" Golden Collection Volume 2 - Complete List of Cartoons

[AKA]

From TVShowsonDVD.com:

Last March we reported on a heads-up from Warner Bros. that The Looney Toons - Golden Collection Volume 2 would be out later in 2004. Now we've gotten a lot more info for you!

In the not-too-distant future, Warner Home Video will announce a release date in late October or early November, for another 4-DVD box set. This time around it will contain 60 cartoon shorts ranging from 1936 to 1958. Included is another disc of just Bugs Bunny 'toons, plus a LOT of favorites from The Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote, AND a large group just from Sylvester & Tweety! It sounds like Warner listened to the fans who missed seeing more of those particular match-ups on the first release. Also on-board are the first ("Tortoise Beats Hare") and last ("Rabbit Transit") stories in the Bugs Bunny/Cecil Turtle (a.k.a. Cecil Tortoise) trilogy, the middle one of which ("Tortoise Wins By a Hare") was on the first DVD set.

The bad news? No Tasmanian Devil. No Pepe Le Pew. No Marvin the Martian. No Foghorn Leghorn. No Speedy Gonzales. It looks like we'll have to wait until Volume 3 to see more of these great characters. But let's face it: the Looney Tunes vaults are very deep, and mining all these gems is going to take quite some time. Be patient! Your favorites will arrive sooner or later, have no fear! For now, we are getting some terrific entertainment to enjoy while we wait for the next box set, including some highly-desirable classics!

Among the great shorts included on this compilation are "Porky in Wackyland," "Old Glory," "The Dover Boys," Little Red Riding Rabbit," "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery," the Oscar-winning first appearance of Tweety & Sylvester in "Tweety-Pie," "French Rarebit," "Hyde and Hare," "One Froggy Evening," and the long-awaited "What's Opera Doc?"

Here is the complete list of all sixty shorts that are expected to appear in this set:

"Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1942)
"Little Red Riding Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny - 1944)
"Stage Door Cartoon" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1944)
"Hare Conditioned" (Bugs Bunny - 1945)
"Rhapsody Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny - 1946)
"The Big Snooze" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1946)
"Slick Hare" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1947)
"Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam - 1948)
"Gorilla My Dreams" (Bugs Bunny/Gruesome Gorilla - 1948)
"Bunny Hugged" (Bugs Bunny - 1951)
"French Rarebit" (Bugs Bunny/Louis and Francois - 1951)
"Baby Buggy Bunny" (Bugs Bunny/Baby-Faced Finster - 1954)
"Hyde And Hare" (Bugs Bunny - 1955)
"Broom-Stick Bunny" (Bugs Bunny/Witch Hazel - 1956)
"What's Opera, Doc?" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1957)
"Beep Beep" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1952)
"Going! Going! Gosh!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1952)
"Zipping Along" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1953)
"Stop! Look! and Hasten!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1954)
"Guided Muscle" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1955)
"Ready.. Set.. Zoom!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1955)
"Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1956)
"There They Go-Go-Go!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1956)
"Scrambled Aches" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1957)
"Zoom And Bored" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1957)
"Whoa, Be-Gone!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1958)
"Porky In Wackyland" (Porky Pig - 1938)
"Old Glory" (Porky Pig - 1939)
"Book Revue" (Daffy Duck - 1946)
"Show Biz Bugs" (Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck - 1957)
"Kitty Kornered" (Porky/Sylvester - 1946)
"Tweety Pie" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1947)
"Back Alley Op-Roar" (Elmer Fudd/Sylvester - 1948)
"Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1949)
"All a Bir-r-r-rd" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1950)
"Room And Bird" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1951)
"Tweet Tweet Tweety" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1951)
"A Bird In A Guilty Cage" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1952)
"Ain't She Tweet" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1952)
"Gift Wrapped" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1952)
"Snow Business" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1953)
"You Ought to Be in Pictures" (Daffy/Porky - 1940)
"Duck Soup To Nuts" (Daffy/Porky - 1944)
"Baby Bottleneck" (Daffy/Porky - 1946)
"The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" (Daffy Duck as "Duck Twacy" - 1946)
"I Love To Singa" ("Owl" Jolson - 1936)
"Have You Got Any Castles?" (1938)
"Katnip Kollege" (Johnny Cat - 1938),
"Hollywood Steps Out" (1941)
"The Heckling Hare" (Bugs Bunny/Willoughby - 1941)
"Tortoise Beats Hare" (Bugs Bunny/Cecil Turtle - 1941)
"The Dover Boys at Pimento University or 'The Rivals of Roquefort Hall'" (1942)
"The Hep Cat" (Hep Cat - 1942)
"Corny Concerto" (Doc and Champ - 1943)
"Rabbit Transit" (Bugs Bunny/Cecil Turtle - 1947)
"Mouse Wreckers" (Hubie and Bertie/Claude Cat - 1948)
"Bear For Punishment" (Henry, Ma, & Junyer Bear - 1951)
"Cheese Chasers" (Hubie and Bertie - 1951)
"One Froggy Evening" (Michigan J. Frog - 1955)
"Three Little Bops" (1957)

One item that was rumored to be included in this set, the Dr. Seuss classic "Horton Hatches the Egg", wasn't included on the list we received. Perhaps it's being included as a bonus item, separate from the main list of shorts? We don't know. Lots of extras WILL be present, we're told, but no breakdown of them has been given to us just yet. We're hoping for a Jerry Beck featurette exploring the making of "What's Opera, Doc?", similar to the chapter in his wonderful book, Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide. Stay tuned, and we'll have more information for you about The Looney Toons - Golden Collection Volume 2, just as soon as we can. But for the moment, that's all, folks!

[vashti1999]

It almost doesn't matter which shorts will be included, there'll be a space reserved for this on my shelf right next to the first edition.
Of the ones I remember offhand, I'm glad they're including:


"Little Red Riding Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny - 1944)
"French Rarebit" (Bugs Bunny/Louis and Francois - 1951)
"Baby Buggy Bunny" (Bugs Bunny/Baby-Faced Finster - 1954)
"What's Opera, Doc?" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1957)
"I Love To Singa" ("Owl" Jolson - 1936)
"One Froggy Evening" (Michigan J. Frog - 1955)

Still waiting for "Bowery Bugs". Maybe Volume 3?

[musicradio77]

If you are a big Looney Tunes fan, say goodbye to those cheesy Public Domain videotapes and say hello to the Golden Collection. On this DVD, they showed the same cartoons that it was featured in numerous PD tapes.

[robyrob]

this is awesome news!

[AKA]

Release date is November 2.

[snl75]

does anyone know who the singer is in three little bops he sounds alot like jack jones i love that cartoon

[musicradio77]

I found this video at a yard sale a few months back. It has a collection of Looney Tunes favorites called "Cartoon Favorites - Vol. 1". As I was watching this video, the film prints on that tape needs to be restored, the sound quality was bad. I hope the DVD would help. It has 7 of the cartoons starring the Looney Tunes. Here they are in no particular order.

1. "Falling Hare" (Bugs Bunny)
2. "To Duck or Not to Duck" (Daffy Duck & Elmer Fudd)
3. "The Case of the Missing Hare" (Bugs Bunny)
4. "A Day At the Zoo"
5. "Get Rich Quick Porky" (Porky Pig) Redrawn
6. "Ali Baba Bound" (Porky Pig) Redrawn
7. "Porky's Railroad" (Porky Pig) Redrawn

The last three cartoons in that collection has badly redrawn prints. The original 1930's Porky Pig cartoons were released in black & white but in the early 70's, the Porky cartoons were shown and remade it in a horrible color redrawn print. They were not very good until now. Thanks to colorization in 1992 by replacing the poor redrawn cartoons. And by the way, the video tape I have had removed the openings and closings with the "That's all folks!" ending. And at the end of the tape, it reads "The End". What a disgrace. I hope the redrawn prints that they were back in the early 70's would not be on this DVD release. I hope so.

[Jenya]

I have The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol 1, 2,4 and 5 on Laserdisc box sets. I think all 4 laserdisc box sets, together, have about 50 hours of Warner Brothers cartoons.

I don't have Vol 3 LD box set yet.

[musicradio77]

Originally posted by Jenya
I have The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol 1, 2,4 and 5 on Laserdisc box sets. I think all 4 laserdisc box sets, together, have about 50 hours of Warner Brothers cartoons.

I don't have Vol 3 LD box set yet.

I don't have a laserdisc player, but the "Golden Age of Looney Tunes" collection will always be a collector's item. I think that one of the volumes has a mysterious opening to "A Wild Hare" the one that was not even shown until the "Blue Ribbon" re-release used in the first "Looney Tunes" compilation film "Bugs Bunny Superstar".

[vashti1999]

Originally posted by barwars
Ohh and, TERRIBLE cover art.

True, they give the 2 disc release better cover art than the four disc release.

[vashti1999]

Below, the two disc Spotlight collection cover, but I'll be getting the Golden collection one week from today. Wished they used this as the cover for the Golden collection. Last year's release was one of the titles I was most excited about and it's that way for volume 2 now. I can't wait.

[musicradio77]

On one of those volumes of "Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection", the cartoons are also featured in six "Looney Tunes" animated films:

1. "Bugs Bunny Superstar"
2. "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie"
3. "The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"
4. "Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales"
5. "Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island"
6. "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"

These are the films wrap around with the cartoons before it was used in later volumes of a 4-DVD compilation sets.

[RepublicEagle]

It's Stan Freberg who's singing in the "Three Little Bops" cartoon. Also in the upcoming collection is a new cartoon short, "Daffy for President." So it's coincidental that "The Golden Collection - Volume 2" will be released on November 2nd, which is Election Day!

[dlemond]

"Gorilla My Dreams" is one of my favorite Bugs cartoons.

Bugs pretending to be the baby gorilla since the stork screwed up and then dad taking him for a walk, tossing him in the air and dropping him.

Bugs:
'Shall we try it again, Doc? My Way?"

Pulls a shovel out of nowhere and smashes the gorilla on the head.

[spunkygirl]

I'm definitely getting this one, I miss seeing Looney Tunes, the DVD is a great deal