Looney Tunes:Golden Coll. V1 (DVD)

in the fantastic "Deduce You say"; a WB takeoff on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this version you have Daffy as the famous Sherlock Holmes and Porky Pig as Watson. The dialogue and atmospheric setting in this one are amazing and VERY funny; when they go to the local pub looking for the Shropshire Slasher, Daffy leans back on the bar and orders "hot buttered gin" with a dozen darts stuck in his beak, the price of annoying one of the female bar patrons. When the object of their search finally makes an appearance, Porky interviews him and elicits the information thusly: "Name, my good man?" "Shropshire Slasher." "Occupation?" "Shropshire Slasher." Doesn't get any better than this; these cartoons are absolutely hilarious, and this collection has some real gems, my personal favorite being "Feed the Kitty" a Chuck Jones masterpiece, involving an English Bulldog and his tiny kitty friend. When Marc Antony (Bulldog) first encounters kitty, he barks furiously, instead of running away the kitty purrs and rubs up against him. It is mutual love at first sight, and although Marc Antony endeavors to hide his little friend, eventually he is caught red-handed. There is a scene of the lady of the house baking cookies, and the kitty has been hiding in the batter bowl; when Marc Antony looks through the window, all he sees is the mixing bowl operating a a furious pace, and thinking his kitty has been chopped to bits, emits a tortured howl and collapses in grief on the sidewalk...when the lady comes out and lets him back in she gives him a cookie...unfortunately the cookie is in the shape of a kitten! Thinking it is his friend, he puts it on his back, where the real kitty used to ride, and then his chin quivers and he breaks down in really inconsolable sobbing. Then the kitty, unhurt, walks up to him and purrs and rubs his chin; Marc Antony is overjoyed! In the end, he is allowed to keep his kitty. This is a pure joy to watch. "Dripalong Daffy" is a riot; Porky Pig as sidekick and comic relief to Daffy Duck, who becomes sheriff of Gower Gulch, (an inside joke/reference to the nickname for the WB Studio, located in what was then known as Gower Gulch...) and they enter the local saloon looking for a villian, who, when he enters the salon, demands his "usual." This is a frightening concoction that necessitates the bartender donning Asbestos gloves, face shield and a special apron; then tongs! The mixture is so volatile it emits tiny explosions, adn then, when ice is added, the cubes jump out of the glass and run away screaming...The bad guy downs this appalling drink and his only reaction is his hat does a backflip. Daffy demands his own; the results are somewhat different; he turns all shades of the rainbow, including PLAID and POLKA DOTS, then walks arounfd like a mechanical doll and then recites Mary Had a Little Lamb in a child's high pitched voice...the showdown is wonderful; all kinds of amazing camera angles, and shots from high hotel windows, and the ominous clanking of spurs...this is strongly reminiscent of "High Noon" and is simply terrific. "Wearing of the Grin" is one of the most surreal cartoons ever to emerge from the amazing minds of the WB animators; this is Salvador Dali come to life...Porky Pig, travling through Ireland, becomes lost and tired in a thunderstorm and seeks refuge at a local haunted castle, and the caretakers, O'Pat and O'Mike, clay pips firmly upside down in their mouths, come and assist Porky and get him a "nice soft bed" for the night...but first the O'Pat and O'Mike characters split up and we see they are actually 2 Leprechauns...and one of them asks Porky "Have you seen my other half, sir?" There they are, 2 separate Leprechauns, and one of them says to Porky "Isn't this sight enough to make the heart stand crossways in ye?" Porky goes into shock and they put after his head hits the pillow, Porky falls asleep and has a Dali nightmare...the end of which he is sentenced to the wearing of the green shoes. These shoes are tap shoes and force him to dance and dance uncontrollably; finally he wakes up and escapes from the castle. "Water Water Every Hare" is another great one; Bugs falls asleep and is carried out of his rabbit hole by a rain storm and is deposited at the nightmare Castle of the Evil Scientist, (a miniscule version of Boris Karloff) whose castle conveniently has a neon sign stating "Evil Scientist" flashing off and on...once inside, Bugs is going to be used for his brain to go into the cranium of the enormous metal robot the scientist has built....Naturally,m Bugs has some objections to this and thre scientist enlists the aid of the Monster..this is a great character, covered with hair and complete with sneakers! Bugs finally corrals the Monster and shrinks him down to about three inches; he packs his bags and leaves in disgust...when the scientist returns, Bugs breaks a bottle of chloroform and chases Bugs in a hilarious slomo chase. saying "come.....back......here..........you........rab....bit." Great stuff, a must have, and wait 'til you see what's coming next! Check it out: Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour, The - Golden Collection Volume 2 - Complete List of Cartoons! 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. 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) Best line from "What's Opera Doc:" (Elmer Fudd)"Oh Brunhilde, you're so wuvwy...." (Brunhilde Bugs)"Yes I know it, I can't help it..." And we still have Pepe Le Pew and Foghorn Leghorn to come, just to name a couple!!! OH BOY!

These Looney Tunes classics are still hilarious fun, and the excellent Golden Collection sets are like treasure troves for fans. This set (Volume One) is, in my opinion, the very best of them all. It's the best place to start a Looney Tunes collection. If you only own one set, this is the one to get. The Warner Brothers theatrical cartoons (Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies) represent a high point in animation. The cartoons were groundbreaking for their wild humor and off-the-wall style. I'm only an amateur when it comes to animation history, but the cartoons are great and the bonus features are very interesting. The Looney Tunes were originally played before Warner Bros. movies and were later played on television and marketed toward kids. This is how I saw the Looney Tunes growing up. The cartoons, however, were not made with kids in mind, and I am happy to say that they hold up very well with adult viewers. I was a little surprised how FUNNY these fifty- and sixty-year-old cartoons still are. As this is the first Golden Collection set, I believe these 4 discs contain the best mix of Looney Tunes classics of all the sets. Many memorable cartoons from my childhood. Disc One focuses on Bugs Bunny, Disc Two focuses on Porky and Daffy, and the final two discs are a hodge podge of Looney Tunes characters. High points include: "Baseball Bugs" - classic Bugs Bunny baseball cartoon "Rabbit Seasoning" - part 2 of the classic Rabbit Season/Duck Season, Bugs-Daffy-Elmer trilogy "High Diving Hare" - Bugs vs. Yosemite Sam and a high-diving routine; funny stuff "Rabbit of Seville" - Bugs and Elmer in an opera (the one where barber Bugs massages Elmer's head with his toes) "Duck Amuck" - Daffy is at odds with the animator "Drip-Along Daffy" - Daffy as a Wild West gunslinger, Porky as the sidekick "Deduce, You Say" - Daffy and Porky in a Sherlock Holmes/Watson caper "Rabbit Fire" - the first Rabbit Season/Duck Season, Bugs-Daffy-Elmer cartoon "Long-Haired Hare" - Bugs poses as a conductor to exact revenge on an opera singer "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century" - Daffy and Porky as space explorers "Early to Bet" - the Gambling Bug makes a cat take on a dog in a game of cards, despite his losing streak "Don't Give Up the Sheep" - a wolf tries to outsmart a sheepdog ...as well as appearances by Marvin Martian, Sylvester, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn, Wile E. Coyote, Roadrunner, and even the Tasmanian Devil. Almost all the cartoons are winners. Some are sure to stand out in your memory, some are culturally or historically significant. These 4-disc Golden Collection sets are ideal for collectors and animation buffs. Along with nearly 60 cartoons, these sets include a wealth of bonus features and behind-the-scenes extras. Very interesting stuff and well worth it, if you're interested in such things. Among the extras included in this set are "Behind-the-Tunes" featurettes on Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester/Tweety, Roadrunner/Wyle E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Carl Stalling (the man behind the music), and Mel Blanc (the voices of the Looney Tunes); a documentary on the "Golden Age of the Looney Tunes"; and informative audio-commentaries for select cartoons. **More casual fans or kids/families may be more interested in the less-expensive "Spotlight Collections" ( volume one ), which feature just two discs of cartoons, without the bonus features. If all you want are the cartoons to watch, these 2-disc sets may be a better option for you.** The Looney Tunes Golden Collections make excellent gifts and can occasionally be found on sale for about $26 (down from about $50). The sets are great for cartoon lovers and collectors, featuring behind-the-scenes extras to go along with the Looney Tunes shorts. Of all the (six) Golden Collection volumes, this first set is the best, featuring classic cartoons from all the major characters and first-rate bonus features. Later releases were more specialized, but this set contains a healthy mix. One of my favorite DVD sets. Very highly recommended.

Animation legend Chuck Jones had a mythic set of ground rules for his ingenious Road Runner series: the setting was always the desert, the characters never spoke, the Road Runner never left the road, the Coyote never caught the Road Runner, etc. A similar set of rules seems at work in THE GOLDEN COLLECTION introductory DVD presentation of Warner Bros. animated shorts. Here is the breakdown: 1. The majority of the fifty-six motion pictures included are artistically valuable and the collection as a whole is a sheer delight which belongs in the library of anyone who loves classic cartoons. The set includes such masterpieces and popular favorites as "Duck Amuck", "Bully for Bugs", "Deduce You Say", "Fast and Furry-ous", "Long-Haired Hare", "Rabbit of Seville", "Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning", "The Scarlet Pumpernickel", "Wabbit Twouble" and "Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2 Century". All the films, even the weakest, deserve preservation, restoration and DVD availability. 2. The selection of complete shorts spans two decades (1940-59), according to year of initial theatrical release. This means that the heyday of Porky Pig (1936-39) is excluded, along with the historic Harman-Ising period (1930-33) and such early characters as Bosko, Buddy and Foxy. On the other hand, the set is also free of material from the Warner cartoon studio's years of decline (1960-64) and decay (1965-69). 3. Within the 1940-59 span is an intensive focus on the six-year "middle" period 1948-53, when the Warner cartoons were at their technical zenith. Fully half of the films in the collection were released during the three peak years of 1949-51 (ten in 1950 alone). The high degree of concentration allows for appreciation of the studio output of a particular era, lent contrast and variety by the broader context. 4. The star of the show is unquestionably Bugs Bunny, with twenty-one cartoons. There is an adequate amount, for a starter set, of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Sylvester & Tweety. Key films of the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn and Speedy Gonzales are duly included. Important supporting characters like Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam and Marvin the Martian are well-represented, and the Tasmanian Devil makes a token appearance. The bill is rounded out with a few one-shots and curios. 5. The individual directors at Warner's animation studio are as notable as its character stars. A full twenty-five of the films (almost half) are by superstar director Chuck Jones (and written by Michael Maltese). Most of the rest are directed by Friz Freling, with several by Robert McKimson and one by Arthur Davis. Only three films are directed by the great Bob Clampett. 6. There are no films directed by the legendary Tex Avery, who departed the studio in the early 1940's, or the influential stylist Frank Tashlin. 7. Most cartoons are voiced by the amazing Mel Blanc. 8. All cartoons are scored by Music Director Carl W. Stalling or his immediate successor. 9. Most notable of the anomalies is the poor showing of the ultra-popular (and ultra-"violent") Road Runner, with only one episode (albeit his debut); while tired old Foghorn Leghorn encores with an undistinguished late episode -- rather than, say, "The High and the Flighty", his memorable pairing with Daffy Duck. In keeping with Rule #6, Avery's Oscar-nominated classic "A Wild Hare" (1940), the first "true" Bugs Bunny cartoon, is supplanted by Jones' "Elmer's Candid Camera", a rare prototype from earlier that year which features the debut of Elmer Fudd and the still-evolving Wascal Wabbit. And the extras, in their mania for completeness, include the animated excerpts from the feature films TWO GUYS FROM TEXAS and MY DREAM IS YOURS twice each, but only one version is digitally restored. 10. Not all of these Golden Era cartoons are masterpieces or true classics, but the less exceptional films included represent the high standard against which the extraordinary stand out. A technically crude quota quickie like McKimson's "Rabbit's Kin" shines because voice artist Stan Freburg's endearingly dumb Pete Puma character is memorable. A couple of genuine duds (Davis' "Porky Chops", for instance) have been thrown in for good measure, and even these serve to offset the overall excellence of the remainder. 11. Organization is minimal, with most of the Bugs Bunny material on Disc One, Daffy and Porky on Disc Two, and the others in an "All-Star" free-for-all on Discs Three and Four. The cartoons are presented in seemingly random order, but this very randomness is exactly how audiences experienced them both in theaters and on television. 12. The hours of extras are an embarrassment of riches. 13. Such beloved masterpieces as "Beanstalk Bunny", "Duck, Rabbit, Duck!", "Robin Hood Daffy", "The Singing Sword", "The Three Little Bops", the Oscar-Winning Rabbit's "Knighty-Knight Bugs", and (supremely) "One Froggy Evening" and "What's Opera, Doc?", have been withheld for future DVD editions. The set is designed to whet the appetite for more and leaves the grateful viewer with much to look forward to. 14. THE GOLDEN COLLECTION is worth more than its cost in dollars and is an infinitely better investment than the cheap alternate "Premiere Collection", which simply duplicates Discs Three and Four with no extras. The Premiere Collection is kiddie fodder for the undiscerning bargain-store shopper and is to be avoided by anyone concerned with art and popular culture. High sales of the vastly superior Golden Edition will determine future releases, so buy 'em up and give 'em to your friends. CARTOONS ARE FOR EVERYONE! Rating: 10/10 ***** EXTRAORDINARY.

Friz Freleng (1905-1995), Chuck Jones (1912-2002) and Robert McKimson (1910-1977) directed hundreds of different short, animated cartoons starting in the late 1920's through the early 1960's for Warner Brothers. Beginning in 1937, actor Mel Blanc (1908-1989) began to do the voices for many of the animated characters, including the first characters for the cartoons that would eventually become known as "Looney Tunes": Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. Later, in 1940, actor Arthur Q. Bryan (1899-1959) began doing the voice for what would become a very popular Looney Tunes character, Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd was introduced in the cartoon entitled "Elmer's Candid Camera" that also featured a rabbit character that would became the basis for the most popular and beloved Looney Tunes character: Bugs Bunny, whose voice was done by Mel Blanc. The third, and final, actor to lend her voice to the Looney Tunes characters was June Foray (1917-), who did the voices for Granny and Witch Hazel to name two. Other Looney Tunes characters who got their voices from Mel Blanc include Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester, Pepe le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dog, Wile E. Coyote, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian and the Tasmanian Devil. I was thrilled to see Warner Brothers begin to release the Looney Tunes cartoons on DVD. "The Golden Collection", a set of 4 DVD's containing 56 different Looney Tunes cartoons, is not even one-tenth of the total number of cartoons created by Friz Feleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, June Foray, and the many animators that were involved over the years. Not only is the animation of the cartoons in "The Golden Collection" fully restored, scenes that are now considered inappropriate for commercial television have been included. I was surprised to watch a cartoon on the first DVD that I had never previously seen, "Big House Bunny" (1950), but after viewing it, I understood why no commercial television station had probably ever aired it. Thankfully, "Elmer's Candid Camera" is included on the third disk of "The Golden Collection". Overall, I rate "Looney Tunes - The Golden Collection" with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars. The cartoons featured on these 4 DVD's are just as enjoyable today as they were when they were first viewed by theater-going audiences long before they began to be aired on commercial television. The stories and animation are by no means dated; instead, they demonstrate the high quality of the animation art long before computer-generated graphics came into use. Sadly, only June Foray remains alive today of the original masters of Looney Tune art, but their legacy of animation will continue to be enjoyed by generations of children (and adults) for years to come.

What can I say my husband wanted it we bought it we watched it it works he likes it.

Okay, some gems are missing, like ONE FROGGY EVENING, WHAT'S OPERA, DOC, RABBIT OF SEVILLE -- but would it really be so sublime an experience to catch these yet one more time only cleaned up a bit? They're on video, they're endlessly run on CARTOON NETWORK, and because they were rather late in the game, they were looking pretty good on Saturday mornings back in the seventies. The point of this set is the clean-ups of older cartoons. For decades now, forties gems like THE TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE have looked like mud, all browns and grays and brick-reds. Here we can see them looking as vibrant as they did eons ago, clean as a whistle. This is a miracle -- how grateful we must be that Warner Brothers has finally gone to the trouble to restore these icons of popular American art. And then the extras are just dazzling, almost too much. Listen to selected cartoons with only the music tracks and understand why Carl Stalling is so heralded as a genius. Watch pencil tests and see how brilliant these guys were at creating the Illusion of Life on pads (remember, Bugs Bunny DOESN'T EXIST!). Listen to Mel Blanc laying voice tracks -- a little guy croaking into a mike making us believe these creatures are real. The commentaries are a little repetitious and mundane, except that Mike Barrier gives us generous clips of interviews he did thirty years ago with the creators. They're all dead now -- this is precious stuff, and this is the only way to hear Jones, Freleng, and others actually discussing what they did. We even get a bit of Carl Stalling himself! There were about a thousand Warner Brothers cartoons depending on how you count, and if they had put all the major faves in this set then there wouldn't be any highlights left for the next ones -- which properly should comprise about twenty more, after all. I do find some real problems, though. I hate to quibble, but have all of these really been as thoroughly restored as possible? Too often there is obvious grit left, most visible on all-black fields or as the camera tracks across a static background. Clearly this is remnants of years of film scraping through projectors as reprints were being made, but presumably this could be digitally eliminated. This is never a SERIOUS problem, but it cannot be said that the cartoons have always really been made to look as new as modern technology could have it. And then this set does have too much of a bias towards the late forties and afterward. The cartoons that really need sprucing up are pre-1948, and we only get a few of these. When it happens it's a miracle -- I grew up watching a syndicated YANKEE DOODLE DAFFY so faded it might as well not have been in color, and here it looks as bright and colorful as a TINY TOONS episode -- bravo! But how about more of this on the next set? Surely A WILD HARE had more colors than just brown and maroon -- restore that one and let us buy it! And then there are the black-and-whites. There is a "Careful what you wish for" issue here -- much of the black-and-white Warner's output only holds up in small doses today. The "Looney Tune" as we cherish it only emerged gradually in the late thirties, and before that, Bosko, with the repetitious, primitive gags, only holds up two or three shorts at a time, and early Porky Pigs of the late thirties tend to be similarly distant to us at this remove (sorry, Bob Clampett fanatics!). But still, there are hidden gems even in this era, and they can be quite beautiful (PORKY PIG'S FEAT?). Hopefully the next set will focus less on celebrating Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng's "middle period" salad days (I suspect this may have been a courtesy) and lean more towards giving a richer sampling of the whole thirty-three years of glory, including the raucous early forties. But this is a GREAT beginning. After all, who would have thought we could ever take such a treasure trove home instead of waiting for what was given us every Saturday morning in pajamas?

At the time I am writing this something short of 400 people have already put their two cents in, so I won't bore you with the details yet again. Let me just say that having viewed all five sets, this one is the best and is the one to start with if you don't know if you'll want to buy the others. It has the very best of the Looney Tune cartoons on it, concentrated in the peak years of 1948-1953. Bugs is featured in over a third of the cartoons, and there is little from the very early cartoons. Do note that "One Froggy Evening" is not in this set, neither is "I Love to Singa". This set has the best extra features, with complete documentary histories of the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes lines of cartoons. I guess when WHV was putting this set together in 2003 they weren't sure if the idea would go over, so they really knocked themselves out putting out an extra good set, even for WHV's usually high standards. One feature that this set has that later ones do not is a feature that, as you select each cartoon title, displays a descriptive frame from the cartoon. Since most people remember WB cartoons by content rather than by name, this is most helpful.

This past week, Warner Bros finally started releasing Looney Tunes cartoons on DVD. That's something I know has been a popular request for many years now. The collection that is out now has something like 48 toons on it. The 4 DVD set is broken up into four categories. "Bugs Bunny", "The Best of Daffy & Porky", with 3 & 4 being called "Looney Tunes All Stars". There's something like 1200 Looney Tunes cartoons, and about 250 of them have Bugs Bunny in them. At about 50 a set, it'll take awhile to release everything, but I read somewhere that releasing all of them is the plan. Yikes! Anyway, the set was better than I was expecting. I was figuring it would be a bunch of cartoons and not much else. Turns out there's a gob of behind the scenes things. They even put commentaries on a bunch of cartoons. As the bulk of the people who worked on these things are dead now, they have other folks doing commentaries, usually introducing some old audio clip from one of the original directors of the particular cartoon. There's features on various characters, and a bunch of other items. Again, I was very pleasantly surprised that the disc was as good as it was quality wise. I grew up on Looney Tunes cartoons on Saturday morning. If you're interested in quality well made cartoons, you cannot go wrong with this set. I also would hope that those of us (I'm 38) who are older and have kids expose their own children to this, and let them see some good stuff for a change. The bulk of the Bugs Bunny cartoons (like 97% of them) were made before I was born, so Saturday morning cartoons were defined by Looney Tunes to me - which is why I think most of the stuff that has come since (Smurfs, Pokemon, Powerpuff Girls, etc)) are total crap. Seeing these cartoons again is a real great trip down memory lane - I really enjoyed them before, and I really enjoy them now. Very VERY strongly recommended. There is also a 2 DVD set which has about half of what this has on it, but who wants that? Get this one - it's great!

Yup, perfectly looney for all to enjoy. Who don't like the antics of these beautiful characters? Their always up to something and a real treat to watch.

Fabulous collection of short but snappy classic cartoons. Just be aware that the DVD is Region 1 and won't on most european players - except of course multi region devices.

Coffret dégradé , 6 DVD en bon état , seul problème , les DVD ne fonctionnent que sur mon lecteur dvd : ancienne génération ! ! !

love it

Was in need of a good chuckle, and this did it for me.