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. The second release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, 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:
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

#TitleCo-starsYearDirectorSeries
1The Big SnoozeElmer1946Bob ClampettLT
2Broom-Stick BunnyWitch Hazel1956Chuck JonesLT
3Bugs Bunny Rides AgainYosemite Sam1948Friz FrelengMM
4Bunny HuggedThe Crusher1951Chuck JonesMM
5French Rarebit1951Robert McKimsonMM
6Gorilla My DreamsGruesome Gorilla1948Robert McKimsonLT
7The Hare-Brained HypnotistElmer1942Friz FrelengMM
8Hare Conditioned1945Chuck JonesLT
9The Heckling HareWilloughby1941Tex AveryMM
10Little Red Riding Rabbit1944Friz FrelengMM
11Tortoise Beats HareCecil1941Tex AveryMM
12Rabbit TransitCecil1947Friz FrelengLT
13Slick HareElmer1947Friz FrelengMM
14Baby Buggy Bunny1954Chuck JonesMM
15Hyde and Hare1955Friz FrelengLT

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary Special: Part 1 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

#TitleCharactersYearSeries
1Beep, BeepWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1952MM
2Going! Going! Gosh!Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1952MM
3Zipping AlongWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1953MM
4Stop! Look! And Hasten!Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1954MM
5Ready, Set, Zoom!Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1955LT
6Guided MuscleWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1955LT
7Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-zWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1956LT
8There They Go-Go-Go!Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1956LT
9Scrambled AchesWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1957LT
10Zoom and BoredWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1957MM
11Whoa, Be-Gone!Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner1958MM
12Cheese ChasersClaude, Hubie and Bertie, Marc Antony1951MM
13The Dover Boys at Pimento University1942MM
14Mouse WreckersClaude, Hubie and Bertie1949LT
15A Bear for PunishmentThe Three Bears1951LT

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Adventures of the Road-Runner 1962 television pilotThe 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

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

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

Special features

Audio bonuses

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 - short live action movie with dubbed-animals only.

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. 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."