Title card used for the August 1992 and February-March 1993 releases
Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons was the fourth Looney Tunes home video collection from Warner Home Video. It debuted on August 12, 1992 and ended on May 18, 1994. It also marked the LaserDisc debuts for the Warner Bros.-owned post-1948 Looney Tunes cartoon shorts.
August 1992 releases[]
This wave released on August 12, 1992 is also referred to as the "movie title parody series". It was the first to honor Yosemite Sam with his own videotape. It was also the first to include the recent computer colorized Looney Tunes cartoons.
The cover of each tape features the star of the video within the trademark Looney Tunes color rings and a golden film strip containing the Warner Bros. shield in the middle below it. The title of each video was a parody of a well-known motion picture. Also included on the front of each box was a "quote" from a fellow Looney Tunes character.
The tapes feature the same opening from the Cartoon Cavalcade tapes from 1988 except the original WB shield graphic is replaced by the Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons logo despite not being featured on the tape covers.
| Cover | Title | Shorts |
|---|---|---|
 |
Bugs Bunny: Truth or Hare | |
 |
Daffy Duck: Tales from the Duckside |
|
 |
Porky Pig: Days of Swine and Roses |
|
 |
The Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: The Scrapes of Wrath | |
 |
Sylvester & Tweety: The Best Yeows of Our Lives | |
 |
Yosemite Sam: The Good, the Bad and the Ornery! |
Movie titles parodied[]
- Bugs Bunny: Truth or Hare: Madonna: Truth or Dare
- Daffy Duck: Tales from the Duckside: Tales from the Darkside
- Porky Pig: Days of Swine and Roses: Days of Wine and Roses
- The Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: The Scrapes of Wrath: The Grapes of Wrath
- Sylvester & Tweety: The Best Yeows of Our Lives: The Best Years of Our Lives
- Yosemite Sam: The Good, the Bad and the Ornery!: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
As of June 2025, all the cartoons on these VHS tapes have been released - restored and uncut - on DVD and Blu-Ray, with the exception of Tweet and Sour on the Sylvester & Tweety: The Best Yeows of Our Lives tape.
February-March 1993 releases[]
This wave is made exclusively for LaserDisc. This wave of sets produced in 1992 and released on February 3, and March 3 and 10, 1993 feature the same opening from the Cartoon Cavalcade and the August 1992 wave of videos.[1][2][3][4]
With the exception of "Porky Pig's Feat" on the Ham on Wry LaserDisc, which is computer colorized, all the black-and-white cartoons in the LaserDiscs were featured in their said original presentation.
Each LaserDisc set has fourteen cartoons, with a total of seven cartoons per disc side, except for the Looney Tunes: Assorted Nuts LaserDisc which instead had sixteen cartoons with a total of eight cartoons per disc side.
As of June 2025, all the cartoons of these LaserDiscs have been released - restored and uncut - on DVD and Blu-Ray, with three exceptions: Pests is Guests, A Sheep in the Deep and Don't Axe Me.
September 1993 releases[]
Screenshot of the 1992-2001 Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo (shown at the beginning of each tape)
Each video in this wave released on September 22, 1993 begins with the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo (the original version with Bugs spinning the banner on the shield). For the first time since the Golden Jubilee tapes, Elmer Fudd gets his own home video release on the Warner Home Video label. The series was discontinued in 1999.[5]
The "Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons" banner.
Each tape featured the "Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons" logo on the front cover, with the WB shield in the center and the text "When Only the Looniest Will Do!" The LaserDisc releases have the logo on the back cover.
| Cover | Title | Shorts |
|---|---|---|
 |
Bugs Bunny's Hare-Brained Hits | |
 |
Elmer Fudd's School of Hard Knocks | |
 |
The Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote's Crash Course | |
 |
Sylvester & Tweety's Tale Feathers | |
 |
Yosemite Sam's Yeller Fever |
Notes[]
- Each of these VHS tapes' box art is a reference to one of the cartoons listed in each release:
- Bugs Bunny's Hare-Brained Hits: Bugs Bunny sitting in the electric chair with a carrot in his right hand is a reference to "Big House Bunny".
- Elmer Fudd's School of Hard Knocks: Elmer Fudd, in his hunting gear from "Robot Rabbit", is depicted with his hunting shotgun tied in a ribbon in a similar fashion as in "Upswept Hare".
- The Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote's Crash Course: The VHS box art references the gag of the anvil falling on Wile E.'s head from "Going! Going! Gosh!"
- Sylvester & Tweety's Tale Feathers: Sylvester opening the can of cat food to find Tweety hiding inside it is a reference to "A Street Cat Named Sylvester".
- Yosemite Sam's Yeller Fever: Yosemite Sam appears in his design from "Hare Lift" in the VHS box art.
- As of June 2025, all the cartoons on these VHS tapes have been released - restored and uncut - on DVD and Blu-Ray, with three exceptions: Pests for Guests, Don't Axe Me and Dr. Jerkyl's Hide.
- A Street Cat Named Sylvester was released - restored and uncut - on the I Love Tweety: Volume 1 DVD in Japan, but has not yet been released on DVD or Blu-Ray in the United States.
May 1994 releases[]
This wave of LaserDisc exclusive sets produced in 1993 and released on May 18, 1994 feature the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo from the September 1993 VHS releases, as hinted by the appearance of the WB Family Entertainment logo on the top of these LaserDisc covers.[6] Jerry Beck provides liner notes for each release.
As of June 2025, all the cartoons on these LaserDiscs have been released - restored and uncut - on DVD and Blu-Ray, with three exceptions: A-Lad-In His Lamp, Boston Quackie and Trip for Tat.
- Mouse Mazurka is available on the Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection DVD and Blu-Ray set, however as an unrestored extra.
- A Pizza Tweety-Pie was released - restored an uncut - on the I Love Tweety: Volume 3 DVD set in Japan, but has not yet been released on DVD or Blu-Ray in the United States.
Notes[]
- The cartoons featured on the film strips during the opening sequence used for the 1992 VHS tapes and the 1993 laserdiscs were originally released on the Golden Jubilee tapes, and therefore use the exact same transfers as those aforementioned tapes. These are "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight", "Speedy Gonzales", "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!", "The Scarlet Pumpernickel", "Fast and Furry-ous", "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century", "Tweet and Lovely", "High Diving Hare", "Boobs in the Woods", "For Scent-imental Reasons", "Bedevilled Rabbit", "Rabbit Seasoning", "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat", "Ali Baba Bunny", "Show Biz Bugs", "Drip-Along Daffy", "What's Opera, Doc?", "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe", "Birds Anonymous", "Canned Feud" and "Greedy for Tweety".
- Ironically, "Tweet and Lovely", "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight", "Speedy Gonzales", "For Scent-imental Reasons" and "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" are not included on any of the videos in this collection, while all the remainder shorts are included in all the LaserDisc releases, albeit upgraded to the newer Laserdisc resolution transfers from the late-1980s/early-1990s which looked far superior [7], as opposed to reusing the same transfers from the Golden Jubilee tapes these clips came from.
- Some of the cartoons released on VHS in this collection also reappeared on the LaserDisc releases as well. The shorts from the VHS tapes that didn't make it on the LaserDiscs include "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", "Wideo Wabbit", "Wise Quackers", "The Impatient Patient", "Porky & Daffy", "Porky's Party", "Patient Porky", "Rabbit's Feat", "Tweet and Sour", "Tweet Tweet Tweety", "Home, Tweet Home", "Honey's Money", "Wild and Woolly Hare", "Each Dawn I Crow", "Upswept Hare", "Hip Hip- Hurry!", "Southern Fried Rabbit", "This Is a Life?", "Muzzle Tough", "A Street Cat Named Sylvester", "Satan's Waitin'", "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", and "Ain't She Tweet".
- Six of the shorts have certain minor goofs in their presentations on the LaserDisc releases;
- "Nelly's Folly" on Looney Tunes: Curtain Calls LaserDisc release has a slide after the "THE END" that read: "Merrie Melodies: A Warner Bros. Cartoon. A Vitaphone Release" is cut, ending straight after the "THE END" title card, for unknown reasons, presumably due to time constraints (as LaserDiscs can hold only up to two hours of content, one on each side). This aforementioned ending card is kept intact on TV airings.
- "14 Carrot Rabbit" on Bugs Bunny: Hare Beyond Compare: 14 More Bugs Bunny Classics LaserDisc release uses the incorrect 1955-1964 Looney Tunes closing theme instead of the correct 1946-1955 Looney Tunes closing theme on the original ending card.[8] The original ending music cue is kept intact on TV airings.
- "Beanstalk Bunny" on Bugs Bunny: Hare Beyond Compare: 14 More Bugs Bunny Classics LaserDisc release uses the incorrect 1955-1964 Merrie Melodies opening theme instead of the correct 1945-1955 Merrie Melodies opening theme.
- "Operation: Rabbit" on Road Runner Vs. Wile E. Coyote: If At First You Don't Succeed... LaserDisc release has the correct 1946-1955 Looney Tunes opening and ending music cues replaced by the incorrect 1955-1964 renditions of the same cues. The original opening and ending music cues of this cartoon's same video transfer are on both the Chariots of Fur VHS tape and on TV airings, albeit with notable audio splices in both the opening and closing soundtracks.[9]
- Both "Boston Quackie" and "The Duxorcist" on Guffaw and Order: Looney Tunes Fight Crime and Looney Tunes After Dark LaserDisc releases respectively use the incorrect 1946-1955 Looney Tunes opening theme instead of the correct 1955-1964 Looney Tunes opening theme, even though this error is already present on every other earlier and later prints of both cartoons.
- "The Duxorcist" on Looney Tunes After Dark LaserDisc has the end credits after the "That's all, Folks!" ending card cut, presumably due to time constraints (as LaserDiscs can hold only up to two hours of content, one on each side). On TV airings as well as DVD releases, the end credits are kept intact.
- Due to the loss of its original camera negatives, "Riff Raffy Daffy", which appears on Guffaw and Order: Looney Tunes Fight Crime, uses an inferior Cinecolor film print. Other late-1940s Cinecolor cartoons in this home video series, such as "Dough Ray Me-ow" on Guffaw and Order: Looney Tunes Fight Crime, have used superior "dupe" Technicolor elements since the 1980s. This inferior print of "Riff Raffy Daffy" is also used on TV airings.
- As of June 2025, the majority of the cartoons available on these VHS tapes and LaserDiscs have also been released - restored and uncut - on the various Looney Tunes DVD and Blu-Ray collections, with the eight exceptions: Tweet and Sour, Pests for Guests, A Sheep in the Deep, Don't Axe Me, Dr. Jerkyl's Hide, A-Lad-In His Lamp, Boston Quackie and Trip for Tat.
- A Street Cat Named Sylvester and A Pizza Tweety-Pie were released - restored and uncut - on the I Love Tweety DVDs in Japan, however have not yet been released on DVD or Blu-Ray in the United States.
- Mouse Mazurka was released on the Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection DVD and Blu-Ray set, but as an unrestored extra.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AjeEYo7Des
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z33fySapbA
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPz_rWKuZU
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbATnQCK9qI
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240224055709/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/videoauthori.aspx
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30sqNaAdPjk
- ↑ https://jldelbert.blogspot.com/2021/04/restoring-looney-tunes.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1hQFWnLn-c
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4C9lggVyKM