Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3


Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 is a DVD box set from Warner Home Video that was released on October 25, 2005. The third release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short subject cartoons, nine documentaries, 32 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 11 "vintage treasures from the vault", and 11 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks.
Volume 3 is the first in the series to have a disclaimer on the box art stating that the set "is intended for the adult collector" and may not be suitable for younger audiences. It is also the first to feature a warning, given by Whoopi Goldberg, a fan of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters, who tells the viewers that some of the cartoons on the set contain content that is politically incorrect by today's standards, but will be shown uncut for historical reasons, because "removing these inexcusable images and jokes from this collection would be the same as saying never existed". Future volumes also contain this warning, which is presented instead as a title card before the main menu.

Related releases

As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:
  • Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3
  • Disc 2: not released
  • Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2
  • Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4
These single-disc versions have changed package of contents, as well as excluding all bonus features.
  • Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3 includes the short Super-Rabbit from Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 replacing shorts Rebel Rabbit and Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
  • Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2 includes the shorts Hollywood Capers and The Film Fan from Disc 2 replacing shorts Porky's Romance, Porky's Party and Porky in Egypt
  • Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 includes the shorts The CooCoo Nut Grove, She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, The Honey-Mousers and The Last Hungry Cat from Disc 2 replacing shorts Super-Rabbit, Daffy Duck and Egghead, A Gruesome Twosome, An Itch in Time and Gonzales' Tamales
In the UK, the set was released unchanged in 2006.

Disc 1 - Bugs Bunny Classics

#TitleCo-starsYearDirectorSeries
1Hare ForceWilloughby1944Friz FrelengMM
2Hare RemoverElmer1946Frank TashlinMM
3Hare TonicElmer1945Chuck JonesLT
4A Hare Grows in ManhattanHector1947Friz FrelengMM
5Easter YeggsElmer1947Robert McKimsonLT
6The Wabbit Who Came to SupperElmer1942Friz FrelengMM
7Bowery Bugs1949Arthur DavisMM
8Homeless Hare1950Chuck JonesMM
9Case of the Missing Hare1942Chuck JonesMM
10Acrobatty Bunny1946Robert McKimsonLT
11Wackiki Wabbit1943Chuck JonesMM
12Hare DoElmer1949Friz FrelengMM
13Rebel Rabbit1949Robert McKimsonMM
14Hillbilly Hare1950Robert McKimsonMM
15Duck! Rabbit, Duck!Daffy, Elmer1953Chuck JonesMM

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Chuck Amuck: 1991 DocumentaryThe Bugs Bunny Show: The Honey-Mousers bridging sequences; Ball Point Puns audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc

Behind-the-Tunes

  • A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy: A look at the creation, comedy, and cultural influence of "The Hunter's Trilogy", three cartoons in which Daffy sets up Bugs to be shot by Elmer and the two argue over what hunting season it is.

Disc 2 - Hollywood Caricatures and Parodies

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

What's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 1, which contains the following shorts:

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Fine Tooning: Restoring the Warner Bros. Cartoons: A look at how the Warner Bros. cartoons are digitally restored for the Golden Collection DVD sets.
  • Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White: A look at the very early Warner Bros. shorts, which either starred Bosko, Buddy, or were thinly-plotted animated music videos based on music from Warner Bros. music library at the time.

Disc 3 - Porky and the Pigs

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

What's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 2, which contains the following shorts:

Behind-the-Tunes

  • Tish Tash: The Animated World of Frank Tashlin: A look at the life and animated work of director Frank Tashlin.

Disc 4 - All-Stars Cartoon Party

Special features

Audio bonuses

From the Vaults

Behind-the-Tunes

Reception

In The New York Sun, author and critic Gary Giddins had complained that Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 were lacking in 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: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books, Giddins noted that Volume 3 made up for its forerunners' shortcomings by including some of the racial caricatures of the series, preceded by an explanatory introduction by Whoopi Goldberg.