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Template:Infobox film 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]
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
- LT=Looney Tunes
- MM=Merrie Melodies
- (*)= Newly Restored for Blu-ray
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 Seasonings
- Forever Befuddled
- Mars Attacks! Life on the Red Planet with My Favorite Martian (provided in HD)
- Audio Commentaries
- Jerry Beck on Elmer's Candid Camera, What's Cookin', Doc? and 8 Ball Bunny
- Greg Ford on A Wild Hare, Hold, the Lion, Please!, The Old Grey Hare, Bugs Bunny Rides Again and What's Up, Doc?
- Michael Barrier on Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid and Haredevil Hare
- Paul Dini on Super-Rabbit
- Stan Freberg on Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
- Constantine Nasr on Hare Ribbin'
- Eric Goldberg on Baseball Bugs
- Greg Ford and Michael Barrier on Hair-Raising Hare[7][8]
Disc 2
- LT=Looney Tunes
- MM=Merrie Melodies
- (*)= Newly Restored for Blu-ray
| # | Title | Co-Stars | Release Date | Director | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbit of Seville | Elmer | December 16, 1950 | Chuck Jones | LT |
| 2 | Rabbit Every Monday (*) | Sam | February 10, 1951 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 3 | The Fair-Haired Hare (*) | Sam | April 14, 1951 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 4 | Rabbit Fire | Daffy, Elmer | May 19, 1951 | Chuck Jones | LT |
| 5 | His Hare-Raising Tale (*) | Clyde | Aug 11, 1951 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 6 | Hare Lift (*) | Sam | December 20, 1952 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 7 | Upswept Hare (*) | Elmer | March 14, 1953 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 8 | Robot Rabbit (*) | Elmer | December 12, 1953 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 9 | Captain Hareblower (*) | Sam | January 16, 1954 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 10 | No Parking Hare (*) | May 1, 1954 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
| 11 | Yankee Doodle Bugs (*) | Clyde | August 28, 1954 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 12 | Lumber Jack-Rabbit Template:Refn | September 25, 1953 | Chuck Jones | LT | |
| 13 | Baby Buggy Bunny | December 18, 1954 | Chuck Jones | MM | |
| 14 | Hare Brush (*) | Elmer | May 7, 1955 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 15 | This Is a Life? Template:Refn | Daffy, Elmer, Sam | July 9, 1955 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 16 | Rabbitson Crusoe (*) | 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 (*) | Sam | May 25, 1957 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 20 | What's Opera, Doc? | Elmer | 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
- Eric Goldberg on Rabbit of Seville
- Greg Ford on Rabbit Every Monday and Rabbit Fire
- Constantine Nasr on The Fair-Haired Hare and Baby Buggy Bunny
- Jerry Beck on Lumber Jack-Rabbit
- Daniel Goldmark on What's Opera, Doc?
- Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese (via archival recording) on What's Opera, Doc?
- Alternate Audio Tracks
Disc 3
- LT=Looney Tunes
- MM=Merrie Melodies
- (*)= Newly Restored for Blu-ray
| # | 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 | November 2, 1957 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 3 | Hare-Less Wolf (*) | February 1, 1958 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
| 4 | Now, Hare This (*) | B.B. Wolf | May 31, 1958 | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 5 | Knighty Knight Bugs | Sam | August 23, 1958 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 6 | Hare-Abian Nights (*) | Sam | February 28, 1959 | Ken Harris | MM |
| 7 | Backwoods Bunny (*) | June 13, 1959 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
| 8 | Wild and Woolly Hare (*) | Sam | August 1, 1959 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 9 | Bonanza Bunny (*) | Blacque Jacque | September 5, 1959 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 10 | People Are Bunny [n 2] | Daffy | December 19, 1959 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 11 | Person to Bunny [n 2] | Daffy | April 1, 1960 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 12 | Rabbit's Feat (*) | Wile E. | June 4, 1960 | Chuck Jones | LT |
| 13 | From Hare to Heir [n 1] | Sam | September 3, 1960 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 14 | Compressed Hare (*) | Wile E. | July 29, 1961 | Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble | MM |
| 15 | Prince Violent (*) | Sam | September 2, 1961 | Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt | LT |
| 16 | Shishkabugs (*) | Sam | December 8, 1962 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 17 | The Million Hare [n 1] | Daffy | April 6, 1963 | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 18 | The Unmentionables (*) | Rocky and Mugsy | September 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, 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
Notes
References
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