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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. Looney Tunes "The Big Snooze" (DVNR)
  2. Looney Tunes "Broom-Stick BunnyBlue Ribbon
  3. Merrie Melodies "Bugs Bunny Rides Again"
  4. Merrie Melodies "Bunny HuggedBlue Ribbon
  5. Merrie Melodies "French RarebitBlue Ribbon
  6. Looney Tunes "Gorilla My Dreams" (DVNR)
  7. Merrie Melodies "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist"
  8. Looney Tunes "Hare Conditioned"
  9. Merrie Melodies "The Heckling Hare"
  10. Merrie Melodies "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (DVNR)
  11. Merrie Melodies "Tortoise Beats Hare"
  12. Looney Tunes "Rabbit Transit"
  13. Merrie Melodies "Slick Hare" (DVNR)
  14. Merrie Melodies "Baby Buggy Bunny"
  15. Looney Tunes "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
  • 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. Merrie Melodies "Beep, BeepBlue Ribbon
  2. Merrie Melodies "Going! Going! Gosh!"
  3. Merrie Melodies "Zipping AlongBlue Ribbon
  4. Merrie Melodies "Stop! Look! And Hasten!"
  5. Looney Tunes "Ready.. Set.. Zoom!"
  6. Looney Tunes "Guided Muscle"
  7. Looney Tunes "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-zBlue Ribbon
  8. Looney Tunes "There They Go-Go-Go!"
  9. Looney Tunes "Scrambled Aches"
  10. Merrie Melodies "Zoom and BoredBlue Ribbon
  11. Merrie Melodies "Whoa, Be-Gone!"
  12. Merrie Melodies "Cheese ChasersBlue Ribbon
  13. Merrie Melodies "The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort HallPublic domain
  14. Looney Tunes "Mouse WreckersBlue Ribbon Academy Award nominee
  15. Looney Tunes "A Bear for PunishmentBlue Ribbon

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

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. Merrie Melodies "Bad Ol' Putty TatBlue Ribbon
  2. Looney Tunes "All a Bir-r-r-dBlue Ribbon
  3. Merrie Melodies "Room and BirdBlue Ribbon
  4. Looney Tunes "Tweet Tweet TweetyBlue Ribbon
  5. Looney Tunes "Gift WrappedBlue Ribbon
  6. Looney Tunes "Ain't She TweetBlue Ribbon
  7. Looney Tunes "A Bird in a Guilty CageBlue Ribbon
  8. Looney Tunes "Snow BusinessBlue Ribbon
  9. Merrie Melodies "Tweetie PieBlue Ribbon Academy Award winner
  10. Looney Tunes "Kitty Kornered"
  11. Looney Tunes "Baby BottleneckBlue Ribbon
  12. Merrie Melodies "Old GloryBlue Ribbon
  13. Looney Tunes "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"
  14. Looney Tunes "Duck Soup to NutsBlue Ribbon
  15. Looney Tunes "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
  • From the Vaults

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. Merrie Melodies "Back Alley OproarBlue Ribbon (original titles restored)
  2. Looney Tunes "Book RevueBlue Ribbon (original titles restored)
  3. Merrie Melodies "A Corny ConcertoPublic domain
  4. Merrie Melodies "Have You Got Any Castles?Blue Ribbon Public domain (original town crier scene restored)
  5. Merrie Melodies "Hollywood Steps OutBlue Ribbon
  6. Merrie Melodies "I Love to SingaBlue Ribbon (original titles restored)
  7. Merrie Melodies "Katnip KollegeBlue Ribbon
  8. Looney Tunes "The Hep CatBlue Ribbon
  9. Looney Tunes "Three Little Bops"
  10. Merrie Melodies "One Froggy EveningBlue Ribbon
  11. Merrie Melodies "Rhapsody Rabbit"
  12. Looney Tunes "Show Biz Bugs"
  13. Merrie Melodies "Stage Door Cartoon"
  14. Merrie Melodies "What's Opera, Doc?Blue Ribbon
  15. Looney Tunes "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
  • From the Vaults

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[]

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

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. Looney Tunes "Broom-Stick BunnyBlue Ribbon
  2. Merrie Melodies "Beep, BeepBlue Ribbon
  3. Merrie Melodies "Bunny HuggedBlue Ribbon
  4. Merrie Melodies "Going! Going! Gosh!"
  5. Merrie Melodies "Zipping AlongBlue Ribbon
  6. Merrie Melodies "French RarebitBlue Ribbon
  7. Merrie Melodies "Stop! Look! And Hasten!"
  8. Looney Tunes "Ready.. Set.. Zoom!"
  9. Looney Tunes "Guided Muscle"
  10. Looney Tunes "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-zBlue Ribbon
  11. Looney Tunes "Hyde and Hare"
Volume 3[]
  1. Merrie Melodies "A Corny ConcertoPublic domain
  2. Looney Tunes "Scrambled Aches"
  3. Merrie Melodies "Zoom and BoredBlue Ribbon
  4. Merrie Melodies "One Froggy EveningBlue Ribbon
  5. Merrie Melodies "Whoa, Be-Gone!"
  6. Merrie Melodies "Cheese ChasersBlue Ribbon
  7. Merrie Melodies "Rhapsody Rabbit"
  8. Looney Tunes "A Bear for PunishmentBlue Ribbon
  9. Looney Tunes "Show Biz Bugs"
  10. Looney Tunes "Three Little Bops"
  11. Merrie Melodies "What's Opera, Doc?Blue Ribbon

Notes[]


Home Media Releases
VHS/LaserDisc
Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection A Salute to Mel Blanc A Salute to Friz Freleng A Salute to Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues... Porky Pig's Screwball Comedies Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote: The Classic Chase Sylvester and Tweety's Crazy Capers Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies Elmer Fudd's Comedy Capers Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
Collections The Looney Tunes Video Show Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals Cartoon Moviestars Warner Bros. Cartoon Cavalcade The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons Modern Looney Tunes Series Stars of Space Jam Looney Tunes Presents
DVD/Blu-ray
I Love Tweety Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Movie Collection (Volume 3) Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4
Other Releases 4 Classic Cartoons The Best of Looney Tunes (KFC) Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection The Essential Bugs Bunny The Essential Daffy Duck Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection Looney Tunes The Best of Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes: Unleashed Looney Tunes Big Faces Box Set Looney Tunes Showcase: Volume 1 Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 1 Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 2 Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Looney Tunes Porky Pig 101 Stars of Space Jam Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes Marvin the Martian Space Tunes Double Feature Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 1 Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2 Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 2 Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
As Extras A Night at the Movies Warner Archive Collection
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