# Looney Tunes FINALLY on DVD! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079 "2003-07-13T00:42:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/1 "2003-07-13T00:42:27Z")
[Read it and rejoice.](http://www.cartoonresearch.com/news.html) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/2 "2003-07-13T00:45:26Z")
Oh, I want those NOW! ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/3 "2003-07-13T01:17:07Z")
OM effing G. That and then hopefully a box with the complete Roadrunner&Coyote cartons is now on my list for Christmas. I’ve been trying to find Duck Amuck for… well for ever. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/4 "2003-07-13T01:19:54Z")
WA-HOO! ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/5 "2003-07-13T02:30:09Z")
Nice. Just the other day I saw the one cartoon with Rocky (shhhyyuudd-up) and Elegant Mess (Bugs) and starting thinking, Geez, I never see these. Isn’t there some way to buy them? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/6 "2003-07-13T02:39:34Z")
Too cool. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/7 "2003-07-13T03:40:06Z")
And just yesterday I was saying to the GF, “I used to have some cartoons on video that I lost years ago, I need to do a search and see if I can find them on DVD.” Thanks Euty! You’re now officially my favorite commie… er moderator. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/8 "2003-07-13T05:04:06Z")
While I’m grateful as hell that Waarner’s finally decided to do this, but I wish they’d done this _years_ ago when Chuck Jones was still alive so that we could listen to his commentary on the tunes. I’m also wondering if they’re going to be releasing the more controversial tunes. ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/9 "2003-07-13T05:07:35Z")
There _IS_ a God! (Or maybe it’s just Chuck being nice to us from the Great Beyond…) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/10 "2003-07-13T07:05:18Z")
What a year. I can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/11 "2003-07-13T13:14:57Z")
I’m one of those who doesn’t have a DVD player. Time to pony up I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/12 "2003-07-13T13:21:22Z")
Hey, those human sacrifices actually worked! Wish I could tell my brother. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/13 "2003-07-13T13:52:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*While I’m grateful as hell that Waarner’s finally decided to do this, but I wish they’d done this _years_ ago when Chuck Jones was still alive so that we could listen to his commentary on the tunes. I’m also wondering if they’re going to be releasing the more controversial tunes. \*\* Who knows? Jerry Beck’s final comment seems to say there’ll be more good things in store. Obviously, you have to get the more obvious ones out of the way first. (Note: Warner Home Video will be releasing two different Looney DVDs on October 28. The “Golden Collection” will contain all the cartoons in the “Premiere Collection.” There will also be two sets of the mediocre, in my opinion, Internet shorts. Yeah…) It seems the Mike Barrier commentaries will feature archival sound bites from Warner staffers. Other commentaries sound good too, like animation historian Jerry Beck (I finally saw what he looked like on the _Spirited Away_ DVD-I didn’t realize he was so young!), Stan Freberg on _Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears_ (which I believe he lent a voice to), and Greg Ford on his _Blooper Bunny_, one of the funnier of the 1990s cartoons. Not to mention Bugs’s two starring roles with Jack Carson, isolated music tracks of the great Stalling and Franklyn, some rare stuff (including a live action-animation pilot that never became a series due to a ABC-Warner falling out, and a Road Runner pilot that was presumed lost), and just great Looney Tunes in what appears to be the best they ever looked. This could be the start of something big. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/14 "2003-07-13T20:46:22Z")
**Euty** , for the love of all things artistic, please tell me that these cartoons have not been edited in any way. Recent television broadcasts of the Warner Brothers cartoons have had the gunplay and other violent sequences snipped from them. I want falling anvils, bundled sticks of dynamite, double barreled shotguns and all of the hilarious mayhem that accompanies them! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/15 "2003-07-13T21:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\ ***Euty** , for the love of all things artistic, please tell me that these cartoons have not been edited in any way. Recent television broadcasts of the Warner Brothers cartoons have had the gunplay and other violent sequences snipped from them. > > I want falling anvils, bundled sticks of dynamite, double barreled shotguns and all of the hilarious mayhem that accompanies them! \*\* Both a Warner’s press release and Beck say that “each cartoon has been brilliantly restored and re-mastered to its original, uncut, anvil-dropping glory.” Watch the skies…there just might be an anvil up there. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/16 "2003-07-13T21:45:38Z")
Woo [glances upward] Hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/17 "2003-07-14T01:59:17Z")
wowzer ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/18 "2003-07-14T03:36:55Z")
Oh, god. Wow. You mean I could have _Bully for Bugs_ **and** _Feed the Kitty_ **and** _Duck Rabbit Duck_ **and** \* Duck Dodgers in the 24th-and-a-Half Century\* **and and and**? I’m assuming _What’s Opera, Doc?_ will be in it - it’s only in the National Film Registry, it must. I won’t be seen for a week when this is released. ---
**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/19 "2003-07-14T05:51:44Z")
Hmmm. I see no mention of _What’s Opera, Doc?_ **or** _The Rabbit of Seville._ But the idea that they’d put out a DVD without these two is simply unthinkable. They just must have left them off the press release. Right? oh please, oh please, oh please As if I’d let that stop me from buying the set, though. Oooh boy! Can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![tarfu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tarfu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarfu)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079/20 "2003-07-16T22:15:17Z")
I’m still waiting for the day they release all the old episodes of Heckle and Jeckle! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-tunes-finally-on-dvd/188079.md?page=2)