Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2
Formats:	DVD
Discs:	4
Running time:	426 minutes (7 hours, 6 minutes)
Shorts:	60
Bonus cartoons:	4
Directed by:	Bob Clampett Arthur Davis Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Robert McKimson Tex Avery Frank Tashlin Cal Howard Cal Dalton
Release date:	2 November 2004

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 is the second DVD box set of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. It was released 2 November 2004 by Warner Home Video. It contains sixty Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements. It is also the first Looney Tunes DVD set to feature any black-and-white cartoons, although only two are included here.

Beginning with this set, newly-restored cartoons are restored in high definition, as a future-proofing measure.

Contents

Disc 1 - Bugs Bunny Masterpieces / Best of Bugs Bunny Volume 2

All the cartoons in this disc star Bugs Bunny.

1.  "The Big Snooze" (DVNR)
2.  "Broom-Stick Bunny" 
3.  "Bugs Bunny Rides Again"
4.  "Bunny Hugged" 
5.  "French Rarebit" 
6.  "Gorilla My Dreams" (DVNR)
7.  "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist"
8.  "Hare Conditioned"
9.  "The Heckling Hare"
10.  "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (DVNR)
11.  "Tortoise Beats Hare"
12.  "Rabbit Transit"
13.  "Slick Hare" (DVNR)
14.  "Baby Buggy Bunny"
15.  "Hyde and Hare"

Special Features

• Audio bonuses
  • Music-only audio track on "Hyde and Hare"
  • Music-and-effects-only audio tracks on "Broom-Stick Bunny", "Bunny Hugged" and "Baby Buggy Bunny"
• Audio commentaries
  • Bill Melendez on "The Big Snooze"
  • June Foray on "Broom-Stick Bunny"
  • Greg Ford on "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" and "The Heckling Hare"
  • Jerry Beck on "Gorilla My Dreams"
  • Chuck Jones on "Tortoise Beats Hare"
  • Michael Barrier on "Tortoise Beats Hare" and "Slick Hare"
• From the Vaults
  • The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special: Part 1
  • The Bugs Bunny Show: Do or Diet bridging sequences; No Business Like Slow Business audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc
• Behind-the-Tunes
  • A Conversation With Tex Avery

Disc 2 - Road Runner and Friends / Best of Road Runner

All the cartoons in this disc are directed by Chuck Jones and star characters he created. All but the last four are the second-to-twelfth Road Runner cartoons.

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-z-z-z-z" 
8.  "There They Go-Go-Go!"
9.  "Scrambled Aches"
10.  "Zoom and Bored" 
11.  "Whoa, Be-Gone!"
12.  "Cheese Chasers" 
13.  "The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall" 
14.  "Mouse Wreckers"  
15.  "A Bear for Punishment" 

Special Features

• Audio bonuses
  • Music-only audio tracks on "Guided Muscle", "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z", "There They Go-Go-Go!", "Scrambled Aches", "Zoom and Bored"
  • Music-and-effects-only audio track on "A Bear for Punishment"
• Audio commentaries
  • Michael Barrier on "Beep, Beep!", "The Dover Boys" and "A Bear for Punishment"
  • Greg Ford on "Stop, Look, and Hasten", "Whoa Be-Gone!" and "Mouse Wreckers"
• Behind-the-Tunes
  • Crash! Bang! Boom! The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown: A look at Termite Terrace's sound effects man, Tregoweth Brown, and how he created the iconic sound effects heard in many a Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon.
• From the Vaults
  • Adventures of the Road-Runner (unrestored)
  • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show opening title sequence

Disc 3 - Tweety & Sylvester and Friends / Best of Tweety & Sylvester

The first nine cartoons in this disc star Tweety and Sylvester. The remaining six star either Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, or both (with Sylvester appearing in the tenth), acting as a semi-sequel to Disc 2 of Volume 1.

1.  "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" 
2.  "All a Bir-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"

Special Features

• Audio bonuses
  • Music-and-effects-only audio tracks on "Tweet Tweet Tweety" and "A Bird in a Guilty Cage"
• Audio commentaries
  • Greg Ford on "Ain't She Tweet" and "Tweetie Pie"
  • Michael Barrier on "Kitty Kornered", "Baby Bottleneck" and "Porky in Wackyland"
  • Jerry Beck and Martha Sigall on "Old Glory"
  • John Kricfalusi on "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"
• Behind-the-Tunes
  • The Man from Wackyland", The Art of Bob Clampett
• From the Vaults
  • The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special: Part 2
  • The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show 1988 and 1992 opening title sequences
  • The Porky Pig Show 1964 opening title sequences
  •  "Daffy Duck for President"

Disc 4 - Looney Tunes All Stars: On Stage and Screen / Looney Tunes All Stars Volume 3

All the cartoons in this disc are themed after show business, including musicals, stage performances, and films.

1.  "Back Alley Oproar"  (original titles restored)
2.  "Book Revue"  (original titles restored)
3.  "A Corny Concerto" 
4.  "Have You Got Any Castles?"   (original town crier scene restored)
5.  "Hollywood Steps Out" 
6.  "I Love to Singa"  (original titles restored)
7.  "Katnip Kollege" 
8.  "The Hep Cat" 
9.  "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"

Special Features

• Audio bonuses
  • Music-only audio tracks on "Three Little Bops" (partial), "One Froggy Evening" and "What's Opera, Doc?"
  • Vocals-only audio track on "Three Little Bops" with Stan Freberg
  • Vocals-only audio track on "What's Opera, Doc?" with Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan
• Audio commentaries
  • Greg Ford on "Back Alley Oproar" and "Hollywood Steps Out",
  • Michael Barrier on "Book Revue", "A Corny Concerto" and "One Froggy Evening"
  • Jerry Beck and Stan Freberg on "The Three Little Bops"
  • Daniel Goldmark on "Rhapsody Rabbit" and "What's Opera, Doc?"
  • Greg Ford on "Show Biz Bugs" with Pre-Score Music
  • Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese, and Maurice Noble on "What's Opera, Doc?"
  • Jerry Beck on "You Ought to Be in Pictures"
• Behind-the-Tunes
  • Looney Tunes Go Hollywood
  • It Hopped One Night: A Look at "One Froggy Evening"
  • Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of "What's Opera, Doc?"
• From the Vaults
  • "Orange Blossoms for Violet"
  • "So Much for So Little"  

Menus

Overall Design

As with the previous volume the DVD menus feature a simple art-style, but this time appear to be done in a mix of cheaper 2D and 3D animation. As before, each option is represented in a yellow font resembling a thin cartoony Times New Roman that glows white and turns dark blue if highlighted. Each menu has differently-colored backgrounds depending on the disc: baby blue on Disc 1, red on Disc 2, light blue on Disc 3, and pink on Disc 4. Each page has the available selections near the center of semi-transparent Color Rings, which start from either the left, right, or occasionally middle of the page. Directly underneath the selections is a button to take the viewer back to a previous menu in the form of an certain object: a carrot on Disc 1, a starburst on Disc 2, and wooden mallets on Discs 3 & 4. Usually beside it are extra buttons as white text that navigate between the pages. A sign (the same kind as on the main menu of Discs 3 & 4) has the name of the current menu.

Instead of 90's stock artwork, near the selections are poses cropped from the frames of original shorts of the featured characters on the first three discs and an assortment of them on Disc 4, often looking at, pointing, or motioning to the selections.

In place of the characters on the shorts menus, screenshots are displayed on two frames of a filmstrip column (only one screenshot on the first page). Each short name may also have extra selections beside it that are explained on the first page of every shorts menu: a microphone for commentary on the short, a music-note for the music-only soundtrack of the short, or a miniature Looney Tunes logo for a Behind-the-Tunes featurette related to the short. Unlike the previous volume, the screenshots do not change no matter which option is highlighted.

If "Continue" is selected at the end of the Languages menu, an extra screen pops up with URLs for the then-current Looney Tunes and Warner Home Video websites, and copyright and legal information for the DVD.

Main Menu Intro

Upon inserting the disc and bypassing the Warner Home Video logo, the now-3D Color Rings zoom out from the screen (zoom in for the smallest ring) and land in their positions. Instead of pulsing, the rings slowly zoom in and out. Once the featured characters are about to take their place on the menu, The Looney Tunes logo slowly bounces in and wobbles with a motion blur from the top as "The" and "Golden Collection [Disc Number]" fade above and below it respectively. Finally, part of the bottom half is wiped off to make way for a black line with the options "Play All", "Shorts", "Features" and "Languages".

Unique to this collection are new arrangements of "Merrily We Roll Along" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" based on their themes from the original shorts that play throughout the main menu. These new versions appear to be done in a single track that starts at a different time of the track for each disc. The new arrangements in order of playback are based on:

• Arrangement 1: The 1941 opening version of "Merrily We Roll Along".
• Arrangement 2: The 1945 opening version of "Merrily We Roll Along".
• Arrangement 3: The 1941 closing version of "Merrily We Roll Along".
• Arrangement 4: The 1941 opening version of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".

On international regions, "The" and "Golden Collection [Disc Number]" are replaced with simply "The" and "Collection", just as before.

• On Disc 1, Bugs Bunny flies through the rings and around the screen like an airplane in his B-19 pose (from "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist") before freezing in the center. A pair of carrots then fly in and land on the bottom right (symbolizing this as the second Bugs Bunny-related disc in the series) before the disc's title pops up on them, then Bugs winks at the viewer. Music starts at Arrangement 1.
• On Disc 2, the Road Runner (from "???") is chased by Wile E. Coyote wearing a napkin and holding a fork and knife (from "???") as they zip inside the rings. Road Runner pops out from behind the selections to stick his tongue and do his signature "beep-beep" at him before hiding back down as Wile E. runs past where he was. A big starburst with the disc's title and two smaller starbursts beside it pops up in the center. Music starts at Arrangement 1 after the eighth beat.
• On Disc 3, Sylvester raises his paw up with Tweety sitting on it looking surprised and then angry (from "???"), the paw slides to the left but Tweety (from "???") reappears flying to the right away from Sylvester (from "???") as he desperately chases and reaches out his hand to grab him. A sign rises up on the left with the disc's title already on it. Music starts at Arrangement 3.
• On Disc 4, Bugs Bunny briefly pokes his ears out one of the rings running to the left. Then, Daffy Duck in his devil suit (from "Show Biz Bugs") poofs in from a cloud of smoke as a sign rises up on the left with the disc's title already on it. Shortly after, Elmer Fudd slides in from the left in a viking outfit (from "What's Opera, Doc?") pointing his finger up triumphantly. Music starts at Arrangement 3.

Main Menu Idle Loop

After the menu intro, the Color Rings continue to zoom in and out in the background either inward, outward, or in different patterns, but new is the circle in the center opening up to reveal the featured character(s) in a pose. During this, the Looney Tunes logo above animates, albeit moving more frequently compared to the first volume. Aside from shakes and spins, it also zooms and stretches throughout. Meanwhile, the characters continue animating, using different poses from frames from the original shorts.

Below are the animations the characters do for each disc, which the menu loops through out.

Disc 1

• After a few seconds, Bugs takes off again and flies away before opening the circle and rising up, pointing his finger up triumphantly (from "???"). He slides to the left of the screen as the door closes and opens again to reveal him rising in a pile of carrots and chewing one (from "Slick Hare"). He lowers back down and the door closes, and goes back to flying in his B-19 pose and the center of the screen.

Disc 2

• The Road Runner zips from the left side while Wile E. (in a new pose from "") zips from the right with three dynamite sticks beside him. As the two stare at each other, the Road Runner sticks his tongue and beep-beeps at Wile E. just before the dynamite explodes leaving the latter charred (from "") before collapsing backward as the Road Runner runs forward. The starbursts shrink backward before popping up back up in different spots, the smaller two on the left side and the bigger one on the bottom right. The Road Runner zips through the rings again as the circle opens up to reveal Wile E. looking downward with a bucket of ACME Grease (from "") and his pupils moving as if he's checking where the Road Runner went. The circle closes and opens back up with the Road Runner inside before it runs to the left, the circles closes and open again to reveal Road Runner and Wile E. staring at each other again. The circle closes a final time, and the Road Runner beep-beeps as Wile E. runs through the rings again. The starbursts shrink back and reappear back in the center once more.

Disc 3

• Sylvester rises up holding Tweety from the right before the latter flies to the left, thus giving chase. The circle opens to reveal Sylvester (from "???") rising up and jerking his right thumb to the left and his other paw on his hip. Tweety flies over his head just as he lowers down and the circles closes, only for it to open again as Sylvester picks up and angry Hector by mistake to his surprise (from "???"). He slides off to the right as the circle closes, and it opens up one last time as Hector (from the same pose as before) stands beside Sylvester (from "???") and Tweety (from "???"), now joined by Porky Pig (from "???") and Daffy Duck (from "???"). Once the circle closes, Tweety goes back to flying to the right as Sylvester chases him as seen in the intro.

Disc 4

• After a few seconds, Daffy and Elmer slide down. The circle opens as Daffy poofs back in from inside, raising his arms up a little before poofing out as the circle closes. The circle opens again as another poof of smoke happens, this time bringing in Daffy on the left and Elmer on the bottom (in the same poses on the intro), but now joined by Bugs on the right jerking his right thumb to the left (from "???") and Michigan J. Frog performing his signature dance (from "One Froggy Evening") on top of Elmer's helmet. The circle closes, and Daffy and Elmer reappear in their original poses.

Gallery

Interior front cover

Interior back cover, featuring quotes from the cartoons featured.

Disc 1 cover

Disc 2 cover

Disc 3 cover

Disc 4 cover

International Covers

In international countries, each one disc was separately released, under the Looney Tunes Collection label. In some countries, these discs also include the four "How-to-Draw..." tutorials from this volume's Spotlight Collection equivalent. Like the previous volume, certain European countries released their own four-disc DVD sets under the label.

Disc 1 of Golden Collection Volume 2 (Australia)

Disc 2 of Golden Collection Volume 2 (Australia)

Disc 3 of Golden Collection Volume 2 (Australia)

Disc 4 of Golden Collection Volume 2 (Australia)

Looney Tunes Collection release for all four discs (Belgium)

Disc 1

Best of Bugs Bunny Volume 2

Disc 2

Best of Road Runner Volume 1

Disc 3

Best of Tweety and Sylvester Volume 1

Disc 4

All Stars Volume 3

Japanese All Stars Volumes 2 & 3

In Japan, two unique "All Stars" volumes were released on March 4th, 2005 using contents from various discs in this collection save for Disc 3 (likely due to the Tweety DVDs releasing at that time). In addition, the second and third volumes reuse the Best of Bugs Bunny Volume 2 and Best of Road Runner cover art, respectively.

Volume 2

1.  "Broom-Stick Bunny" 
2.  "Beep, Beep" 
3.  "Bunny Hugged" 
4.  "Going! Going! Gosh!"
5.  "Zipping Along" 
6.  "French Rarebit" 
7.  "Stop! Look! And Hasten!"
8.  "Ready.. Set.. Zoom!"
9.  "Guided Muscle"
10.  "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" 
11.  "Hyde and Hare"

Volume 3

1.  "A Corny Concerto" 
2.  "Scrambled Aches"
3.  "Zoom and Bored" 
4.  "One Froggy Evening" 
5.  "Whoa, Be-Gone!"
6.  "Cheese Chasers" 
7.  "Rhapsody Rabbit"
8.  "A Bear for Punishment" 
9.  "Show Biz Bugs"
10.  "Three Little Bops"
11.  "What's Opera, Doc?" 

Notes

• Despite being listed as a feature, "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" is not included in this set. It would later be included on Volume 3.