Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals

Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals is the first series of VHS releases of the pre-1948 a.a.p.-owned Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons issued by MGM/UA Home Video in 1986. This video collection marks the first attempt to remaster the 35mm a.a.p. dupe prints by a company other than Warner Bros. to make them marketable. The VHS series was produced in response to the impending buyout of the MGM studio by Ted Turner in 1985.

Each cartoon in the tape has a distinctive transfer where they mostly have light blue borders around the titles and sometimes, the original opening Color Rings are cut or have an altered a.a.p. opening title sequence where after the a.a.p. logo opening the original opening rings are replaced with the 1947-49 Color Rings and Blue Ribbon opening title (with the 1939 Merrie Melodies opening music playing over it) before it cuts to the rest of the original opening titles. See Daffy Doodles for more info. These were fixed in the Cartoon Moviestars VHS and The Golden Age of Looney Tunes LaserDisc.

Unlike other VHS series by MGM/UA Home Video where the Turner Entertainment Co. logo is featured before the cartoons, instead the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or United Artists logo is featured before the cartoons, as the VHS series was produced before Turner's acquisition of the majority of the pre-May 1986 MGM library.

In addition to the Looney Tunes cartoon volumes listed here, family films such as The Wizard of Oz and the Chuck Jones How the Grinch Stole Christmas! special were released under the Viddy-Oh label, as well as the first home video release of the Pink Panther cartoons (as United Artists still had a contract with CBS/Fox Video at the time). All of the cartoons in MGM's library (with the exception of the Popeye cartoons in the a.a.p. library, which King Features Syndicate prevented from being released), were given releases in this series. These releases are beyond the scope of this wiki and will not be listed here.

Cover	Title	Featured cartoons
	The Best of Bugs Bunny & Friends	"Duck Soup to Nuts"   "What's Cookin' Doc?"  "Toy Trouble"  (only in Latin American NTSC release)  "Bedtime for Sniffles"  (NOTE: Not found on the Latin American NTSC release)  "Tweetie Pie"    "Nothing but the Tooth"  "A Feud There Was"   "The Little Lion Hunter"
	Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Little Red Riding Rabbit"	"Little Red Riding Rabbit"  "Tortoise Beats Hare"  "The Old Grey Hare"  "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk"  "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt"
	Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hold the Lion, Please"	U.S. order:  "Hold the Lion, Please"  "Buckaroo Bugs"  "Racketeer Rabbit"  "Super-Rabbit" Latin American order:  "Hold the Lion, Please"  "Buckaroo Bugs"  "Racketeer Rabbit"  "Super-Rabbit"  "Acrobatty Bunny"  "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid"  "Rhapsody Rabbit" PAL order:  "Hold the Lion, Please"  "Buckaroo Bugs"  "Racketeer Rabbit"  "Super-Rabbit"  "Acrobatty Bunny"  "Rabbit Punch"  "Rhapsody Rabbit"
	Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd Cartoon Festival Featuring "Wabbit Twouble"	"Slick Hare"  "Stage Door Cartoon" (NOTE: Not found on the Latin American NTSC release)  "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper"  (only in Latin American NTSC release)  "The Unruly Hare"  "Wabbit Twouble"  "A Wild Hare"    "The Old Grey Hare"  "The Big Snooze"
	Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Ain't That Ducky"	U.S. order:  "Ain't That Ducky"   "Daffy Duck Slept Here"  "Hollywood Daffy"  "Conrad the Sailor"  "The Wise Quacking Duck" Latin American order:  "Ain't That Ducky"   "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"  "Daffy Duck Slept Here"  "Hollywood Daffy"  "The Up-Standing Sitter"  "The Wise Quacking Duck"  "What Makes Daffy Duck" PAL order:  "Ain't That Ducky"   "Birth of a Notion"   "Daffy Duck Slept Here"  "Hollywood Daffy"  "Conrad the Sailor"  "The Up-Standing Sitter"  "The Wise Quacking Duck"  "What Makes Daffy Duck" Argentinean order:  "Ain't That Ducky"   "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"  "Daffy Duck Slept Here"  "Hollywood Daffy"  "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur"   "Conrad the Sailor"  "The Wise Quacking Duck"  "What Makes Daffy Duck"
	Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur"	"Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur"   "The Stupid Cupid"   "Plane Daffy"  "Nasty Quacks"  "Along Came Daffy"
	Elmer Fudd Cartoon Festival Featuring "An Itch in Time"	"An Itch in Time"   "The Hardship of Miles Standish"  "Elmer's Pet Rabbit"  "Back Alley Oproar"
	Little Tweety and Little Inki Cartoon Festival Featuring "I Taw a Putty Tat"	"I Taw a Putty Tat"   "Birdy and the Beast"  "Inki at the Circus"   "Inki and the Lion"   "A Gruesome Twosome"  "Tweetie Pie"    "The Little Lion Hunter"
	Porky Pig and Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Tick Tock Tuckered"	"Daffy Doodles"   "Duck Soup to Nuts"   "One Meat Brawl"   "Tick Tock Tuckered"   "Tom Turk and Daffy"  "Baby Bottleneck"   "Wagon Heels"  "My Favorite Duck"
	Porky Pig Cartoon Festival Featuring "Nothing but the Tooth"	U.S. order:  "Nothing but the Tooth"  "Kitty Kornered"  "Swooner Crooner"    "Mouse Menace"   "Trap Happy Porky"  International order:  "Brother Brat"  "Kitty Kornered"  "Mouse Menace"   "My Little Buckaroo"   "Old Glory"   "Swooner Crooner"    "Trap Happy Porky"   "Nothing but the Tooth"
	Porky Pig Cartoon Festival Featuring "Tom Turk and Daffy"	"Wagon Heels"  "Tom Turk and Daffy"  "Old Glory"   "My Favorite Duck"   "One Meat Brawl"
	Sniffles the Mouse Cartoon Festival Featuring "Sniffles Bells the Cat"	"Sniffles Bells the Cat"   "Sniffles and the Bookworm"  (only in PAL release )  "The Brave Little Bat"   "Sniffles Takes a Trip"  (only in PAL release )  "Lost and Foundling"   "Toy Trouble"
	Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hair Raising Hare" (PAL-exclusive release )	"Hair-Raising Hare"  "Hare Tonic"  "Easter Yeggs"  "Buccaneer Bunny"  "Hare Force"  "A Feather in His Hare"  "A Hare Grows in Manhattan"

Notes

• Each of these VHS tapes' box art is a reference to one of the cartoons listed in each release:
  • The Best of Bugs Bunny & Friends: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Sniffles and Inki are featured on the VHS box art, representing each of their respective cartoons featured on the VHS tape. However, for some odd reason, the VHS box art depicts Elmer in his modern design from "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" and onward, despite that his only cartoon in that VHS release, "A Feud There Was", instead depicted Elmer in his original Egghead-like design, likely due to an error.
  • Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd Cartoon Festival Featuring "Wabbit Twouble": The VHS box art depicts artwork based on "Slick Hare" instead of its titular cartoon, most notably in Bugs and Elmer's character designs and tuxedos from that cartoon.
  • Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Little Red Riding Rabbit": Bugs Bunny, Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf from that titular cartoon are featured on the VHS box art.
  • Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hold the Lion, Please": Bugs Bunny and Leo the Lion from that cartoon are featured on the VHS box art.
  • Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Ain't That Ducky": The VHS box art depicts a scene of the Little Yellow Duck yelling at Daffy to shut up from that titular cartoon.
  • Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur": Daffy Duck, Casper Caveman and his pet dinosaur Fido from that titular cartoon are featured on the VHS box art. However, the VHS box art erroneously depicts Daffy in his later-1940s design, instead of his earlier late-1930s design from that titular cartoon.
  • Elmer Fudd Cartoon Festival Featuring "An Itch in Time": Elmer Fudd, Willoughby and A. Flea from that titular cartoon are featured on the VHS box art.
  • Little Tweety and Little Inki Cartoon Festival Featuring "I Taw a Putty Tat": Sylvester, Tweety, and Inki are featured on the VHS box art, representing each of their respective cartoons featured on the VHS tape.
  • Porky Pig and Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Tick Tock Tuckered": The VHS box art depicts a scene of Daffy and Porky preparing for some shuteye from that titular cartoon, such as Porky setting their alarm clock and Daffy holding an umbrella while they're both in bed.
  • Porky Pig Cartoon Festival Featuring "Nothing but the Tooth": Porky Pig, his horse and the Mohican from that titular cartoon are featured on the VHS box art.
  • Porky Pig Cartoon Festival Featuring "Tom Turk and Daffy": Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Tom Turk from that titular cartoon are featured on the VHS box art.
  • Sniffles the Mouse Cartoon Festival Featuring "Sniffles Bells the Cat": The VHS box art depicts a scene of of Sniffles being chased by the cat he previously put a bell on from that titular cartoon.
• Some of the cartoons' transfers have been mastered twice for this VHS collection, such as "Tweetie Pie" and "Duck Soup to Nuts".
• Though most of the Cartoon Festival VHS transfers are presented on this VHS collection and on television with the opening intros cut or altered, the transfers themselves do exist with their original opening rings intact. Some of these VHS transfers (with the original opening titles intact) are even recycled for the Cartoon Moviestars VHS collection and the first four volumes of The Golden Age of Looney Tunes LaserDisc releases (with the former home media release having some of these transfers keeping their original a.a.p. logos intact).
• Many of these Cartoon Festival VHS transfers were used for broadcast on the Turner networks (TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network) from 1986 to 1995 prior to the debut of the 1995 dubbed versions. When shown on TV, most of the time the exact same copies of the transfers with the edited opening titles as seen on the VHS tapes were used, though some Cartoon Festivals VHS prints were shown with the original opening rings intact such as "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur" and "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt".
• In 1986, several more Cartoon Festival VHS transfers were created from a selection from pre-1948 Looney Tunes cartoon library, though not every one of them have been released on this VHS collection in the United States; the rest of them were released as part of this VHS collection overseas outside the United States. They are: "Brother Brat", "What Makes Daffy Duck", "Fresh Hare", "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper", "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery", "My Little Buckaroo", "Sniffles and the Bookworm", "Sniffles Takes a Trip", "Little Brother Rat", "Acrobatty Bunny", "Rhapsody Rabbit", "Count Me Out", "Baseball Bugs", "Rabbit Punch" and "The Up-Standing Sitter" are examples of cartoons that have transfers that belong in this batch of international releases of the Cartoon Festivals VHS tapes.
• Both the Cartoon Festival VHS prints of "Wabbit Twouble" and "The Up-Standing Sitter" keep their edited ending title cards from the older a.a.p. TV syndication prints, albeit with blue borders. Though the latter cartoon's Cartoon Festivals VHS print is not found on any of the USA versions of this VHS collection.
• PAL releases of the Cartoon Festival VHS collection have slightly different variations of the altered a.a.p. openings at the beginning of the tapes: they instead use the altered a.a.p. opening from "The Hardship of Miles Standish" (or in the case of "Brother Brat" on the "Nothing but the Tooth" tape, the altered a.a.p. opening of "My Little Buckaroo") plastering over the original opening rings.
• Some of the tapes in this VHS collection were given different names from their USA counterparts in international releases. Examples;
  • Porky Pig Cartoon Festival Featuring "Nothing but the Tooth" is renamed as "Porky Pig Cartoon Festival Featuring "Brother Brat" on the international releases, including in the UK, Italy and Greece, due to "Brother Brat" being included on the international releases, unlike the USA release.
  • Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Ain't That Ducky" is renamed as "Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hollywood Daffy" on the international releases, such as the UK release.
  • Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Ain't That Ducky" is renamed as "Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" on the Spanish releases, despite "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" nowhere to be found on this VHS tape, let alone any of the VHS collection in general, likely due to name confusions between that cartoon and "Hollywood Daffy", which in contrast, is included on those Spanish versions of this VHS tape.
  • Sniffles the Mouse Cartoon Festival Featuring "Sniffles Bells the Cat" is renamed as "Sniffles the Mouse Cartoon Festival Featuring "Sniffles and the Bookworm" on the international releases, due to "Sniffles and the Bookworm" being included on the international releases, unlike the USA release.
• It is the only VHS series to honor Chuck Jones' early characters Sniffles and Inki with their own videotapes.
• The PAL-exclusive Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hair Raising Hare" VHS tape would eventually make a USA release as part of the Cartoon Moviestars banner in September 1988, under the name "Starring Bugs Bunny!", albeit with "Hair-Raising Hare" replaced by "Hare Conditioned".
  • Even the VHS box art of Bugs from of The PAL-exclusive Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hair Raising Hare" VHS tape is reused as the VHS box art for the "Starring Bugs Bunny!" USA VHS tape as well.

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UK version

UK version

UK version, which is renamed as Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Hollywood Daffy" (contains "Ain't That Ducky", "Birth of a Notion", "Daffy Duck Slept Here", "Hollywood Daffy", "Conrad the Sailor", "The Up-Standing Sitter", "The Wise Quacking Duck", "What Makes Daffy Duck")

UK version

UK version

UK version

UK version

UK version, which is renamed as Sniffles the Mouse Cartoon Festival Featuring "Sniffles and the Bookworm" (contains "The Brave Little Bat", "Sniffles Bells the Cat", "Lost and Foundling", "The Egg Collector", "Bedtime for Sniffles", "Sniffles Takes a Trip", "Sniffles and the Bookworm")