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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection Volumes 1-3

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Almost $180.00. Are you that loony to pay that much considering how many loony-tunes shorts this set is missing? I purchased this thinking: "I now own all the loony-tunes I could ever dream of." WRONG! How do I know this? Allow me to explain myself.

I own, on VHS, "The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter." That movie, of course, has nothing to do with this set except that, before the flick, there is a loony-tune short with Bugs Bunny, Daffy D. Duck, and Elmer Fudd. I forgot the name of the short, however it stars Bugs Bunny having a movie theatre put over his home (a rabbit hole no less). Daffy is a movie goer and Elmer is an usher who tries to get both Bugs and Daffy out of the theater. Bugs finally manages to put Daffy and Elmer into a movie with a chainsaw killer (like that seen in "The Chainsaw Massacre") and says, "It takes a miracle to get into pictures, and now these two jokers want to get out." I have seen this short many times, because I have watched "The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter" many times. So, are you loony enough to purchase this? Unless you are a die-hard Loony-Tunes fanatic like myself or have a young one who needs this, purchase them one at a time or go rent one. Trust me, you will use your money wisely because you too will notice that some are missing.

Also, many loony-tunes characters are barely even featured. Foghorn Leghorn, for example, I have yet to find. I found one, and only one, Tasmanian Devil cartoon. Pepe Le Pew has a few, really. Maybe he stinks too much! Speedy Gonzalas is missing quite a few. What I am trying to say is that these focus on Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and then those rare to find Loony-Tunes in that order. The next paragraph will let you know what is on each disc in order.

So, here it is folks:

Loony Tunes Golden Collection Volume One
Disc One: Best of Bugs Bunny
1. Baseball Bugs
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. Long-Haired Hare
4. High-Diving Hare
5. Bully for Bugs
6. What's Up Doc?
7. Rabbit's Kin
8. Water, Water Every Hare
9. Big House Bunny
10. Big Top Bunny
11. My Bunny Lies over the Sea
12. Wabbit Twouble
13. Ballot Box Bunny
14. Rabbit of Seville

Disc Two: Best of Daffy and Porky
1. Duck Amuck (my personaly favorite of all time)
2. Dough for the Do-Do
3. Drip-Along Daffy
4. Scaredy Cat
5. The Ducksters
6. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
7. Yankee Doodle Daffy
8. Porky Chops
9. Wearing of the Grin
10. Deduce, You Say
11. Boobs in the Woods
12. Golden Yeggs
13. Rabbit Fire
14. Duck Dodgers in the 241/2th Century

Disc Three: Loony-Tunes All Stars
1. Elmer's Candid Camera
2. Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
3. Fast and Furry-ous
4. Hair-Raising Hare
5. The Awful Orphan
6. Haredevil Hare
7. For Scent-imental Reasons
8. Frigid Hare
9. The Hypo-Chondri-Cat
10. Baton Bunny
11. Feed the Kitty
12. Don't Give Up the Sheep
13. Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
14. Tortoise Wins by a Hare

Disc Four: Loony-Tunes All Stars
1. Canary Row
2. Bunker Hill Bunny
3. Kit for Cat
4. Putty Tat Trouble
5. Bugs and Thugs
6. Canned Feud
7. Lumber Jerks
8. Speedy Gonzalas
9. Tweety's S.O.S.
10. The Foghorn Leghorn
11. Daffy Duck Hunt
12. Early to Bet
13. Broken Leghorn
14. Devil May Hare

Loony-Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
Disc One: Bugs Bunny Masterpieces
1. The Big Snooze
2. Broomstick Bunny
3. Bugs Bunny Rides Again
4. Bunny Hugged
5. French Rarebit
6. Gorilla My Dreams
7. The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
8. Hare Conditioned
9. The Hackling Hare
10. Little Red Riding Hare
11. Tortoise Beats Hare
12. Rabbit Transit
13. Slick Hare
14. Baby Buggy Bunny
15. Hyde and Hare

Disc Two: Road Runner and Friends
1. Beep Beep
2. Going! Going! Gosh!
3. Zipping Along
4. Stop! Look! and Hasten!
5. Ready, Set, Zoom,
6. Guided Muscle
7. Gee Whiz-z-z
8. There They Go-Go-Go
9. Scrambled Arches
10. Zoom and Bored
11. Whoa, Be-Gone!
12. Cheese Chasers
13. The Dover Boys
14. Mouse Wreckers
15. A Bear for Punishment

Disc Three: Tweety & Sylvester and Friends
1. Bad Ol' Putty Tat
2. All Abir-r-r-d
3. Room and Bird
4. Tweet Tweet Tweety
5. Gift Wrapped
6. Ain't she Tweet
7. A Bird in a Guilty Cage
8. Snow Business
9. Tweetie Pie
10. Kitty Kornered
11. Baby Bottleneck
12. Old Glory
13. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
14. Duck Soup to Nuts
15. Porky in Wackyland

Disc Four: Loony-Tunes All Stars: on stage and screen
1. Back Alley Oproar
2. Book Revue
3. A Corny Concerto
4. Have You Got Any Castles?
5. Hollywood Steps Out
6. I Love to Singa
7. Katnip Kollege
8. The Hep Cat
9. The Three Little Bops
10. One Froggy Evening
11. Rhapsody Rabbit
12. Show Biz Bugs
13. Stage Door Cartoon
14. What's Opera, Doc
15. You Ought To Be in Pictures (not the one mentioned earlier)

Loony-Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Three
Disc One: Bugs Bunny Classics
1. Hare Force
2. Hare Remover
3. Hare Tonic
4. A Hare Grows in Manhatten
5. Easter Yeggs
6. The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
7. Bowery Bugs
8. Homeless Hare
9. Case of the Missing Hare
10. Acrobatty Bunny
11. Wackiki Wabbit
12. Hare Do
13. Rebel Rabbit
14. Hillbilly Hare
15. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!

Disc Two: Hollywood Caricatures and Parodies
1. Daffy Duck in Hollywood
2. Hollywood Capers
3. The CooCoo Nut Grove
4. Porky's Road Race
5. The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos
6. She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
7. The Film Fan
8. Speaking of the Weather
9. Thugs with Dirty Mugs
10. Goofy Groceries
11. Swooner Crooner
12. Wideo Wabbit
13. The Honey-Mousers
14. The Last Hungry Cat
15. The Mouse That Jack Built

Disc Three: Porky and the Pigs
1. I Haven't Got a Hat
2. Porky's Romance
3. Porky's Party
4. Porky in Egypt
5. Porky and Teabiscuit
6. Pigs is Pigs
7. Pigs in a Polka
8. Porky Pig's Feat
9. Daffy Duck Slept Here
10. Bye, Bye Bluebeard
11. An Egg Scramble
12. Robin Hood Daffy
13. The Windblown Hare
14. Claws for Alarm
15. Rocket Squad

Disc Four: All-Star Cartoon Party
1. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
2. Super-Rabbit
3. Daffy Duck and Egghead
4. A Grusome Twosome
5. Draftee Daffy
6. Falling Hare
7. Steal Wool
8. Birds Anonymous
9. No Barking
10. Rabbit Punch
11. An Itch in Time
12. Odor-Able Kitty
13. Walky Talky Hawky
14. Gonzales' Tamales
15. To Beep or Not to Beep

Blep...Blep...ABlep...ABlep...That's All Folks!

Yes, there are special features on every disc.

See "pricing question" entry from 1/13/06...I was wondering the same thing...why is the package price of 3 DVD's more than the sum of them purchased separately?

I think it's a question for Amazon to answer.

Can someone explain why buying volumes 1, 2 & 3 separately is $ 33.05 less than the 3 volumes combined? Based on the individual pricing, the total is $ 141.94.

Buy them all seperately! It's cheaper. Why? I don't know, but it is!

Volumes 1-3 were a total of $129.54 with Super Saver Shipping. If you order each volume separately or purchase Volume 1-2 and add Volume 3, either way they are more expensive and cost about $140.00. Amazon must have listened to some of the complaints.

I grew up loving Looney Tunes, especially Bugs and wanted to share them with my daughter who is nine. She loves watching Looney Tunes and seems to prefer them over the cartoons that are on currently on TV.

A good collection but could use more of the other characters in thier cartoones

The Looney Tunes - Golden Collections are truly massive compilations of glorious Saturday morning entertainment. I find that many of the cartoons on the air today are crudely drawn, poorly written, and overly politically correct. When I found out that Looney Tunes were available on DVD, I jumped at the chance to purchase them, and I wasn't disappointed. Each Volume contains 4 DVDs, and each DVD has a certain theme. For example, in Volume 1, Disk 1 is entitled "Best of Bugs Bunny," Disk 2 is "Best of Daffy and Porky," etc. The menu interface is simple, and features a "Play all" command, so you don't have to go back and select a new cartoon short every few minutes. The cartoons featured are not just the "classic" Looney Tunes, either. There are selections from the very beginning of Looney Tunes, such as "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur" (Volume 3, Disk 4). Not all of the cartoons feature the identifiable and loveable characters, either. There are also DVDs featuring the Hollywood Caricatures and Parodies created, providing a slightly more intelligent break from the zany antics of Bugs, Daffy, Porky, and friends. The DVDs are also LOADED with special features and commentary. There is enough here to keep a die-hard Looney Tunes fan entertained for a very long time. In my opinion, this collection is well worth the money.

If you like the real Looney Tunes then you need these collections - ALL of them. Don't order just one as it is like having 1 chip, cant do it.

I watch them with my family and they are by far THE best cartoons my kids have seen. They love them and have several favorites they can act out without the dvd playing! Beats any cartoon material produced since - including those awful Tiny-Toon disasters.

Some real hidden gems - Private Snafu (never seen that stuff).
Can watch the characters change over time - Elmer, Bugs, Daffy, Tweety all go through some growing up. Very neat to see.

Don't miss out.

The Looney Tunes cartoons span over 30 years from 1930 until the end of the WB animation studio in 1963, and these three volumes do a good job of representing the best that WB animation had to offer during this time. Watching these old cartoons makes it painfully obvious how much less original today's cartoons look when compared to these classics, even as the cost of animation production has radically declined due to improved technology. The Looney Tunes brought out the kid in everyone, where today's cartoons are mainly animated versions of adult characters in some kind of sci-fi action adventure with some high-tech weaponry thrown in for good measure.

These three volumes do a fine job of spanning the three decades of Looney Tunes. Volume one concentrates more on the golden era of Looney Tunes, which was from approximately 1948-1953 and contains a large sampling of Bugs Bunny including the classic "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!", where you get to clearly see the pecking order of Bugs, Daffy, and Elmer Fudd that holds constant throughout any cartoons involving any combination of those three. Volume Two includes some of the older cartoons, among them, "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" (1930), the first Looney Tune, and the Oscar-winning documentary "So Much for So Little." Also there's one of my favorites "I Love to Singa", which was a 1936 cartoon that was a take-off on "The Jazz Singer". Everyone will recognize 1955's "One Froggy Evening" in which a workman discovers a frog that only sings when the two of them are alone. This features the frog with the tophat that was the mascot for the WB network. Volume Two is also heavily weighted towards the Road Runner and Tweety. Volume Three has a wider range of cartoons than the first two volumes, with the original Porky Pig cartoon from 1935 through to some entries from 1963, the year of the last Looney Tune. Pepi Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn, and Speedy Gonzales are also included in various cartoons over the three volumes.

Apparently there were some earlier complaints about the price that have been resolved, since the price for the three sets together is now pretty much on par with collecting the three volumes separately. There is a fourth volume available, but currently it must be bought separately. If you have fond memories of watching these cartoons on TV as a kid, I highly recommend this set.

America is a great country, ain't it, Doc? Where else do people pay a full price premium on a product that they really only want 25% of?

Alright, alright...perhaps dat ain't fair. Daffy, Porky and the rest of the gang have their moments. And some of the lesser known classics that feature none of the popular characters are "nice to have", but ain't "need to have".

But the Bugs Bunny shorts in this collection make it woith the dough and woith the 4 star rating. HIT THE BUY BUTTON, for sure, Doc.

It sure would be nice to be giving 5 stars to an all Bugs Bunny collection though. I mean why couldn't they sell the individual character collections separately. Rhetorical question, really. The answer is good old American capitalism. And us maroons keep buyin' 'em, so no point in complaining anymore.

If they release one collection on its own it should be the "banned" collection. This way those who might be offended don't have to purchase it. Here's the list of what us collectors would like to see, so please Mr. Warner, let us see 'em again:

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt - Featuring a stereotypical Elmer Fudd trying to catch Bugs.

Bunker Hill Bunny - Bug's says, "Your brother blows bubble gum."

All This and Rabbit Stew - The only Bugs cartoon on the Censored Eleven, featuring a stereotype trying to catch Bugs.

Southern Fried Rabbit - Yosemite Sam is a Confederate with Bug's trying to cross the Mason/Dixon line as a stereotype.

Any Bonds Today? - Bugs Bunny and friends promote war bonds, with Bugs doing a Jolson impression.

Fresh Hare - A firing squad that turns "into a stereotype" at the end to sing along to Bugs' last wish of being in Dixie. Elmer and Bugs jump into snow drifts leaving silhouettes...one of Bug's silhouettes is a shapely woman.

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips - One of the most infamous Bugs Bunny cartoons, with Bugs fighting stereotypes during World War II.

Herr Meets Hare - Bugs disguises himself as Hitler in the Black Forest.

Mississippi Hare - Cotton pickers mistake Bugs' tail for a ball of cotton and toss him in with the rest of the haul. On the riverboat Bugs takes on the gambler Colonel Shuffle.

Which is Witch? - A stereotypical witch doctor needs Bugs as an ingredient.

Bushy Hare - Featuring the stereotypical Aborigine "Nature Boy",..."UNGA BUNGA BUNGA INGA BINGA BINGA BUNGA!!!! What'd I say?! What'd I say?!"

Horse Hare - Yosemite Sam leads a Indian stereotypes to invade Bugs' fort.

A Feather In His Hare - Another American Indian stereotype trying to catch Bugs.