Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2

'' Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2'' is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 2, 2004. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.

Related releases

As with Volume 1, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:
*Disc 1: ''Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 2''
*Disc 2: ''Best of Road Runner''
*Disc 3: ''Best of Tweety and Sylvester''
*Disc 4: ''All-Stars - Volume 3''
In Region 1, discs 3 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly ''Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2''.

Disc 1: Bugs Bunny Masterpieces

:''All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.''

Special features

Audio bonuses

* Music-only audio tracks on ''Hyde and Hare''
* Music-and-effects-only audio track on ''Broom-Stick Bunny'', ''Bunny Hugged'', ''Baby Buggy Bunny''
* Audio commentaries
** Bill Melendez on ''The Big Snooze''
** June Foray on ''Broom-Stick Bunny''
**Greg Ford on ''Bugs Bunny Rides Again'', ''The Heckling Hare''
** Jerry Beck on ''Gorilla My Dreams''
**Michael Barrier on ''Tortoise Beats Hare'', ''Slick Hare''
**Chuck Jones on ''Tortoise Beats Hare''

From the Vaults

* ''Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary Special: Part 1'' (1986)
* ''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: A look on Avery explaining his various tricks of his particular brand of cartoon trade, from where the “What’s Up Doc?” expression came from, to his days at MGM.

Disc 2: Road Runner and Friends

:''All cartoons on this disc are directed by Chuck Jones''.

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 at Pimento University or 'The Rivals of Roquefort Hall, ''A Bear for Punishment''
**Greg Ford on '' Stop! Look! And Hasten!'', '' Whoa, Be-Gone!'', '' Mouse Wreckers''

From the Vaults

* '' Adventures of the Road-Runner'' 1962 television pilot
* ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show'' 1968 opening title sequence

Behind-the-Tunes

* Crash! Bang! Boom!: The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown: A look at Termite Terrace's sound effects man, Treg Brown, and how he created the iconic sound effects heard in many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.

Disc 3: Tweety and Sylvester and Friends

Special features

Audio Track

Music-and-Effects Only Audio Tracks for ''Tweet Tweet Tweety'' and ''A Bird in a Guilty Cage''

Audio commentaries

* Greg Ford on '' Ain't She Tweet'', '' Tweetie Pie''
* Michael Barrier on '' Kitty Kornered'', ''Baby Bottleneck'', '' Porky in Wackyland''
* Jerry Beck and Martha Sigall on ''Old Glory''
* John Kricfalusi on '' The Great Piggy Bank Robbery''

From the Vaults

* Bonus cartoon: ''Daffy Duck for President'' (An all-new Daffy Duck cartoon released to tie in with the 2004 Election)
* The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special: Part 2
* The Porky Pig Show opening title sequence
* The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show 1988 and 1992 opening title sequences

Behind-the-Tunes

* The Man From Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett

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

Special features

Audio bonuses

* Music-only audio tracks on ''Three Little Bops'', ''One Froggy Evening'', and '' What's Opera, Doc?''
* Vocals-only audio tracks on ''Three Little Bops'' and '' What's Opera, Doc?''
* Audio commentaries
**Greg Ford on ''Back Alley Oproar'', ''Hollywood Steps Out'', and ''Show Biz Bugs''
**Michael Barrier on ''Book Revue'', '' A Corny Concerto'', and ''One Froggy Evening''
**Jerry Beck and Stan Freberg on ''Three Little Bops''
**Daniel Goldmark on ''Rhapsody Rabbit'' and '' What's Opera, Doc?''
**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: Termite Terrace unit’s passion for sending up the Hollywood of the time and explains the stories behind many of the toons’ delicious parodies, how they expanded into even the musical scores for those pictures, and the tradition of spoofing celebrities that lives on in the movie references in cartoon shows today.
* It Hopped One Night: A Look at ''One Froggy Evening'': A look on the in-depth on what went into making the Chuck Jones masterpiece and its influential effect
* Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of '' What's Opera, Doc?''

From the Vaults

* '' Orange Blossoms for Violet'' (1952) - short live action movie with dubbed-animals only.
* Academy Award-winning ''So Much for So Little'' (1949).

Release and reception

Warner Home Video was not sure that '' Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1'' would sell well enough to justify a second release in the series. Prior to the release of the second volume, WHV's Vice President of Non-Theatrical Franchise Marketing announced: "We are extremely pleased with consumer response to last year's Volume One editions and we are delighted to release another installment of our most famous animated classics."

The first set in the ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection'' series had won the Classic Award at the Parents' Choice Awards, and the second release was also an award-winner. TVShowsOnDVD.com reported that the set won the award for "Best Animated Series" release at the 3rd Annual TV-DVD Conference. In '' The New York Sun'', author and critic Gary Giddins complained that this set, like the first one, was skimpy with the black-and-white shorts, and seemed to avoid the more politically incorrect cartoons in the series. When his review was reprinted in the book, ''Natural Selection'', Giddins noted that '' Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3'' made up for the latter shortcoming by including some of the racist caricature in the series, preceded by an explanatory introduction by Whoopi Goldberg.

In a review reprinted in Syracuse, New York's '' The Post-Standard'', Randy Salas, a critic for the '' Minneapolis, St. Paul Star Tribune'', called the second volume in the '' Looney Tunes Golden Collection'' series a "glorious release". Salas describes the main content of the set, highlighting contributions from Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng with particular emphasis on Jones' ''One Froggy Evening'' (1955). The extras highlighted in the review include commentary from music historian Daniel Goldmark, and interviews with Chuck Jones, who had died in 2002. The review summed up, "This is an essential set for any animation fan, and it might just convert many who are not." The reviewer concluded by pointing out that a 2-disc "Spotlight Collection" with selections from the 4-disc set was also available, but advised, "Skip it and go for the full course."

See also

* Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
** Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
** Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
** Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
** Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
** Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present and miscellaneous)

References

{{Looney Tunes Golden Collection

Looney Tunes home video releases
Bugs Bunny