Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
Blu-ray Disc cover
Directed byChuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Ken Harris
Produced byLeon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer
Starringvoice of Mel Blanc
Music byCarl Stalling, Milt Franklyn
Distributed byWarner 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 Bugs Bunny shorts 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]

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 HBO Max series Looney Tunes Cartoons, with 10 Bugs Bunny centric episodes included as bonus features.[5][6]

Disc 1

# Title Co-Stars Release Date Director Series
1 Elmer's Candid Camera Elmer Fudd March 2, 1940 Chuck Jones MM
2 A Wild Hare Elmer Fudd July 27, 1940 Tex Avery MM
3 Hold the Lion, Please (*) June 6, 1942 Chuck Jones MM
4 Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid Beaky Buzzard 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' Russian Dog June 24, 1944 Bob Clampett MM
10 The Old Grey Hare Elmer Fudd October 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 Yosemite Sam June 12, 1948 Friz Freleng MM
15 Haredevil Hare Marvin the Martian 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? Elmer Fudd June 17, 1950 Robert McKimson LT
20 8 Ball Bunny Playboy Penguin July 8, 1950 Chuck Jones LT

Special Features

  • NEW: Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentarary! (provided in HD)
  • Behind the Tunes Featurettes
    • Hare Ribbin' Director's Cut (Uncensored & Unrestored)
    • Bugs: A Rabbit for All Seasoinings
    • Forever Befuddled
    • Mars Attacks! Life on the Red Planet with My Favourite Martain (provided in HD)
  • Audio Commentaries

Disc 2

# Title Co-Stars Release Date Director Series
1 Rabbit of Seville Elmer Fudd December 16, 1950 Chuck Jones LT
2 Rabbit Every Monday (*) Yosemite Sam February 10, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
3 The Fair-Haired Hare (*) Yosemite Sam April 14, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
4 Rabbit Fire Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd May 19, 1951 Chuck Jones LT
5 His Hare-Raising Tale (*) Clyde Bunny Aug 11, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
6 Hare Lift (*) Yosemite Sam December 20, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
7 Upswept Hare (*) Elmer Fudd March 14, 1953 Robert McKimson MM
8 Robot Rabbit (*) Elmer Fudd December 12, 1953 Friz Freleng LT
9 Captain Hareblower (*) Yosemite Sam January 16, 1954 Friz Freleng MM
10 No Parking Hare (*) May 1, 1954 Robert McKimson LT
11 Yankee Doodle Bugs (*) Clyde Bunny August 28, 1954 Friz Freleng LT
12 Lumber Jack-Rabbit [n 1] September 25, 1953 Chuck Jones LT
13 Baby Buggy Bunny Babyface Finster December 18, 1954 Chuck Jones MM
14 Hare Brush (*) Elmer Fudd May 7, 1955 Friz Freleng MM
15 This Is a Life? [n 2] Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam July 9, 1955 Friz Freleng MM
16 Rabbitson Crusoe (*) Yosemite Sam April 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 (*) Yosemite Sam May 25, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
20 What's Opera, Doc? Elmer Fudd July 6, 1957 Chuck Jones MM

Special Features

  • Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
  • Behind the Tunes Featurettes
    • A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy
    • Bugs Bunny: Ain't He a Stinker
    • Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of "What's Opera, Doc?"
  • Audio Commentaries
  • Alternate Audio Tracks
    • Music Only Tracks for Baby Buggy Bunny, Rabbit Fire and What's Opera, Doc?
    • Vocal Only Tracks for What's Opera, Doc?[9][10]

Disc 3

# Title Co-Stars Release Date Director Series
1 Bugsy and Mugsy (*) Rocky and Mugsy August 31, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
2 Show Biz Bugs Daffy Duck November 2, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
3 Hare-Less Wolf (*) Charles M. Wolf February 1, 1958 Friz Freleng MM
4 Now, Hare This (*) B.B. Wolf May 31, 1958 Robert McKimson LT
5 Knighty Knight Bugs Yosemite Sam August 23, 1958 Friz Freleng LT
6 Hare-Abian Nights (*) Yosemite Sam February 28, 1959 Ken Harris MM
7 Backwoods Bunny (*) Pappy and Elvis June 13, 1959 Robert McKimson MM
8 Wild and Woolly Hare (*) Yosemite Sam August 1, 1959 Friz Freleng LT
9 Bonanza Bunny (*) Blacque Jacque Shellacque September 5, 1959 Robert McKimson MM
10 People Are Bunny [n 2] Daffy Duck December 19, 1959 Robert McKimson MM
11 Person to Bunny [n 2] Daffy Duck April 1, 1960 Friz Freleng MM
12 Rabbit's Feat (*) Wile E. Coyote June 4, 1960 Chuck Jones LT
13 From Hare to Heir [n 1] Yosemite Sam September 3, 1960 Friz Freleng MM
14 Compressed Hare (*) Wile E. Coyote July 29, 1961 Chuck Jones MM
15 Prince Violent (*) Yosemite Sam September 2, 1961 Friz Freleng LT
16 Shishkabugs (*) Yosemite Sam December 8, 1962 Friz Freleng LT
17 The Million Hare [n 1] Daffy Duck 6 April 1963 Robert McKimson LT
18 The Unmentionables (*) Rocky and Mugsy September 7, 1963 Friz Freleng MM
19 False Hare [n 1] B.B. Wolf July 18, 1964 Robert McKimson LT
20 (Blooper) Bunny Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam June 13, 1997 Greg Ford and Terry Lennon LT

Special Features

  • Behind the Tunes Featurettes
    • Hard Luck Duck
    • Short Fuse Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam
    • 50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3½ Minutes
  • Audio Commentaries
    • Greg Ford on Show Biz Bugs, Rabbit's Feat, From Hare to Heir and (Blooper) Bunny
    • Jerry Beck on Knighty Knight Bugs and False Hare
  • Ten Looney Tunes Cartoons Episodes
    • Harm Wrestling
    • Big League Beast
    • Pool Bunny
    • Pest Coaster
    • Buzzard School
    • Siberian Sam
    • Grilled Rabbit
    • Vincent Van Fudd
    • Hare Restoration
    • Mini Elmer/Plunger/Moving Hole/Bees[11][12]

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.

References

  1. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray Disc (UPDATED)". Blu-ray. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection". High Def Digest. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Stu's Show: Program 575 (8/5/20)". Stu Shostak. August 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  4. ↑ Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Extravaganza. Comic Con International. July 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2021 – via YouTube.
  5. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray (UPDATED)". Blu-ray. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection". High Def Digest. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray (UPDATED)". Blu-ray. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection". High Def Digest. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray (UPDATED)". Blu-ray. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection". High Def Digest. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray (UPDATED)". Blu-ray. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection". High Def Digest. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
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