Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection

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Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
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Directed by Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Ken Harris
Produced by Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer
Starringvoice of Mel Blanc
Music by Carl Stalling, Milt Franklyn
Distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Release date
December 1, 2020
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection is a Blu-ray Disc box-set released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on December 1, 2020. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts starring Bugs Bunny and numerous bonus features and supplementary content. The set's packaging includes a slip book, a booklet, and a collectible Bugs Bunny Funko! POP doll. [1] [2]

Contents

Initially conceived by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment as a single-disc Blu-ray Disc version of The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD set with an additional Funko! doll, animation historian Jerry Beck convinced the department heads to extend the set to three discs and include cartoons not previously released on DVD or Blu-ray Disc in order to appeal to adult collectors. [3] The set includes 32 newly restored and remastered cartoons that were previously unavailable on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Blu-ray Disc sets, in addition to 20 "essential" shorts ported over from those previous collections. Eight cartoons ( Lumber Jack-Rabbit , Napoleon Bunny-Part , People Are Bunny , Person to Bunny , From Hare to Heir , The Million Hare and False Hare ) had been previously restored and released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars DVDs, however, this Blu-ray Disc set presents them in their original 4:3 aspect ratio (as opposed to the Super Stars sets which had them cropped to "widescreen"). According to Beck, with this collection along with the previous Golden and Platinum Collections, Looney Tunes fans and collectors would be able to own approximately 90% of Bugs Bunny's filmography. [4]

The set also marks the first official home media release of the Max series Looney Tunes Cartoons , with 10 Bugs Bunny centric episodes included as bonus features. [5] [6]

Disc 1

#TitleCo-StarsRelease DateDirectorSeries
1 Elmer's Candid Camera Elmer March 2, 1940 Chuck Jones MM
2 A Wild Hare ElmerJuly 27, 1940 Tex Avery MM
3 Hold the Lion, Please (*)June 6, 1942 Chuck Jones MM
4 Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid Beaky July 11, 1942 Bob Clampett MM
5 Super-Rabbit April 3, 1943 Chuck Jones MM
6 Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (*)June 12, 1943 Friz Freleng MM
7 What's Cookin' Doc? (*)January 8, 1944 Bob Clampett MM
8 Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears The Three Bears February 26, 1944 Chuck Jones MM
9 Hare Ribbin' June 24, 1944 Bob Clampett MM
10 The Old Grey Hare ElmerOctober 28, 1944 Bob Clampett MM
11 Baseball Bugs February 2, 1946 Friz Freleng LT
12 Hair-Raising Hare Gossamer May 25, 1946 Chuck Jones MM
13 Racketeer Rabbit (*)September 14, 1946 Friz Freleng LT
14 Bugs Bunny Rides Again Sam June 12, 1948 Friz Freleng MM
15 Haredevil Hare Marvin July 24, 1948 Chuck Jones LT
16 Hot Cross Bunny (*)August 21, 1948 Robert McKimson MM
17 Hare Splitter (*)September 25, 1948 Friz Freleng MM
18 Knights Must Fall (*)July 16, 1949 Friz Freleng MM
19 What's Up, Doc? ElmerJune 17, 1950 Robert McKimson LT
20 8 Ball Bunny Playboy July 8, 1950 Chuck Jones LT

Special Features

Disc 2

#TitleCo-StarsRelease DateDirectorSeries
1 Rabbit of Seville ElmerDecember 16, 1950 Chuck Jones LT
2 Rabbit Every Monday (*)SamFebruary 10, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
3 The Fair-Haired Hare (*)SamApril 14, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
4 Rabbit Fire Daffy, ElmerMay 19, 1951 Chuck Jones LT
5 His Hare-Raising Tale (*) Clyde Aug 11, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
6 Hare Lift (*)SamDecember 20, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
7 Upswept Hare (*)ElmerMarch 14, 1953 Robert McKimson MM
8 Robot Rabbit (*)ElmerDecember 12, 1953 Friz Freleng LT
9 Captain Hareblower (*)SamJanuary 16, 1954 Friz Freleng MM
10 No Parking Hare (*)May 1, 1954 Robert McKimson LT
11 Yankee Doodle Bugs (*)ClydeAugust 28, 1954 Friz Freleng LT
12 Lumber Jack-Rabbit [n 1] September 25, 1953 Chuck Jones LT
13 Baby Buggy Bunny December 18, 1954 Chuck Jones MM
14 Hare Brush (*)ElmerMay 7, 1955 Friz Freleng MM
15 This Is a Life? [n 2] Daffy, Elmer, SamJuly 9, 1955 Friz Freleng MM
16 Rabbitson Crusoe (*)SamApril 28, 1956 Friz Freleng LT
17 Napoleon Bunny-Part [n 1] June 16, 1956 Friz Freleng MM
18 Half-Fare Hare (*)August 18, 1956 Robert McKimson MM
19 Piker's Peak (*)SamMay 25, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
20 What's Opera, Doc? ElmerJuly 6, 1957 Chuck Jones MM

Special Features

Disc 3

#TitleCo-StarsRelease DateDirectorSeries
1 Bugsy and Mugsy (*) Rocky and Mugsy August 31, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
2 Show Biz Bugs DaffyNovember 2, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
3 Hare-Less Wolf (*)February 1, 1958 Friz Freleng MM
4 Now, Hare This (*)B.B. WolfMay 31, 1958 Robert McKimson LT
5 Knighty Knight Bugs SamAugust 23, 1958 Friz Freleng LT
6 Hare-Abian Nights (*)SamFebruary 28, 1959 Ken Harris MM
7 Backwoods Bunny (*)June 13, 1959 Robert McKimson MM
8 Wild and Woolly Hare (*)SamAugust 1, 1959 Friz Freleng LT
9 Bonanza Bunny (*) Blacque Jacque September 5, 1959 Robert McKimson MM
10 People Are Bunny [n 2] DaffyDecember 19, 1959 Robert McKimson MM
11 Person to Bunny [n 2] DaffyApril 1, 1960 Friz Freleng MM
12 Rabbit's Feat (*) Wile E. June 4, 1960 Chuck Jones LT
13 From Hare to Heir [n 1] SamSeptember 3, 1960 Friz Freleng MM
14 Compressed Hare (*)Wile E.July 29, 1961 Chuck Jones MM
15 Prince Violent (*)SamSeptember 2, 1961 Friz Freleng LT
16 Shishkabugs (*)SamDecember 8, 1962 Friz Freleng LT
17 The Million Hare [n 1] DaffyApril 6, 1963 Robert McKimson LT
18 The Unmentionables (*)Rocky and MugsySeptember 7, 1963 Friz Freleng MM
19 False Hare [n 1] B.B. Wolf, Foghorn (cameo)July 18, 1964 Robert McKimson LT
20 (Blooper) Bunny Daffy, Elmer, SamJune 13, 1997 Greg Ford and Terry LennonLT

Special Features

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Previously restored and released as part of Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire albeit in cropped "widescreen" form. Presented in its correct 4:3 aspect ratio for this release.
  2. 1 2 3 Previously restored and released as part of Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl albeit in cropped "widescreen" form. Presented in its correct 4:3 aspect ratio for this release.

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