"Looney Tunes DVD Vexes Fans"

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

Great choices.

I was hoping for "A Wild Hare" on the first DVD!

Joe

 

My first one too. Second was "Duck Dodgers."

Indubitaboobaly, sir.

 

I agree with you Michael - these releases on DVD are going to be too infrequent for them to get into the meat of the catalog. But I'm not complaining - I'm so grateful that they have released this first set.

Ken, you Daffy/Porly selection is the cream of the crop - I really hope they get more of those mid-40s Clampett cartoons released next time around. Baby Bottleneck is one of my all-time favourite cartoons.

I personally can't see what all the fuss is about "What's Opera Doc?". I actually think it's a rather awful and pretentious cartoon. It pushed the Chuck Jones stylisation of the Bugs and Elmer characters to unhealthy extremes.

 

From the Digital Bits web site today, a small update:

Around the horn today, there's an interesting AP story up over at Excite on Warner's new Looney Tunes Golden Collection. It seems some folks out there aren't happy with the selection of shorts on the set. Warner's response? Chill out... you'll get the ones you want eventually. We can verify that it's taking the studio a long time to properly restore all 1,100 of their Looney Tunes shorts. The plan is to release a new collection of 60 every year, hopefully until they're all out. Of course, that means it will take 18 years to get them all on DVD. With any luck, the studio will pick up the pace a little as they go. We're guessing that if sales of this first batch are good, they'll get a LOT more enthusiastic about Looney Tunes on DVD in the future. Thanks to all you readers who sent this in.

 

None of 'em, although of course Robin Hood Daffy has been included as an extra on the Adventures of Robin Hood SE.

What, no Porky Pig's Feat or My Favorite Duck?

 

Hey, is the Robin Hood spoof with Bugs on the new DVD collection? It's one of the finest cartoons that Jones did with Bugs, IMO. It might have been called Rabbit Hood. "King's carrots....?"

 

What about "A to ZZZZ" - the one where the boy daydreams in class.

One of my favorites!

 

Not on the box set, but also a bonus with the WB Robin Hood DVD.

Being halfway through the second disc of the set, my biggest complaint is I wish there were more Daffy and less Porky...he's never been one of my favorites, personally.

Oh, that and the layer change on disc one comes in the middle of "Rabbit Of Seville", causing my player to pause for a second in the middle of the cartoon. Minor quibble.

 

I got mine yesterday! Watched most of the 4th DVD last night including the documentary.

Ok Looney fanatics, pardon my ignorance. One of my favorite Bugs cartoons has Bugs torturing an arrogant opera tenor, culminating with the Hollywood Bowl crumbling on the poor singer. What's the name of the toon and is it on this set (please please please be 'yes' )?
One of the funniest scenes for me is when Bugs puts on a gray wig, coat and tails and smugly walks up he aisle, obviously mimicking the great conductor Stowkowski. Voices from the stunned and thrilled audience gasp "Leopold!"
Dan C

 

FIGARO! FIGARO! FIGARO! FIGARO! FIGARO! FIGARO! FIGARO!

 

That's great! Thanks guys. I'd watch it right now but I'm already late for work.
Dan C

 

Question. The original post with the MSNBC link refers to one of the absent shorts that was missed by the public as What's Opera Doc, when Ken lists it as being on the disc. Why is that?

 

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I'm going to pick this up today. Sorry about that.

 

Here's an interesting anecdote about the box from Mark Evanier's great web page and blog: http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2003_10_28.html#003221

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I haven't seen the new Looney Tunes DVD yet but a reader named "Booksteve" informs me that the documentary narrated by Stan Freberg and included on the DVD has an error in it. There's a photo of voice actress Bea Benaderet, he says, that is identified as June Foray.

Booksteve writes, "Stan should be incensed!" He's right. A few years ago, the Rhino Records people put out a boxed set of comedy CDs that included one of the records that Stan did with his sometimes-sidekick, Daws Butler. In the accompanying booklet, there was a photo of Daws identified as Stan. Mr. Freberg says he called Rhino and told them about it and the response was, "Are you sure?"