Looney Tunes Collector's Choice

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Looney Tunes Collector's Choice is a series of Blu-ray discs from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Warner Archive division collecting various Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated short subjects from Warner Bros. Cartoons.

This is the first Looney Tunes Blu-ray to be released through Warner Archive, as opposed to the main home video division (second overall home media release after the Porky Pig 101 DVD set in 2017).

According to Jerry Beck, the aim of this series is to release Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts that have been previously unavailable to animation fans and collectors on the various DVD and Blu-ray sets (roughly 370 shorts, before the release of this series); such as the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Platinum Collection, Super Stars and the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection sets.

Animation historian and curator, Jerry Beck and Warner Archive President George Feltenstein indicated that strong sales of Volume 1 could result in future volumes, with more cartoons and multiple discs.

On September 18, due to strong sales of Volume 1, Warner Archive announced Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2 — which included 25 cartoons and was released on December 12, 2023. On January 23, 2024, Warner Archive announced Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 scheduled for a March 12 release date.

Volumes and Featured Shorts

Volume 1

Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 1 was released on May 30, 2023. The set includes 20 cartoons- none of which have previously been released on DVD or Blu-ray before. They are all presented uncut and digitally restored.

Beanstalk Bunny and Catch as Cats Can were sourced from new 4K scans from the original camera negatives. According to Jerry Beck, the set was delayed for almost a full year because the Library of Congress had difficulty shipping the camera negatives for Catch as Cats Can to the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank. The other cartoons on this set had previously been restored for HBO Max streaming service in 2020 - with HBO removing many of them being earlier that same year However, for this release Warner Archive corrected many of the errors initially made by HBO Max, such as Photoshopped titles.

Shorts Featured:

• "Beanstalk Bunny"
• "Catch as Cats Can"
• "The Unruly Hare"
• "His Bitter Half"
• "Daffy Doodles"
• "Cracked Quack"
• "Little Orphan Airedale"
• "Hip Hip- Hurry!"
• "Hot-Rod and Reel!"
• "Greedy for Tweety"
• "Stooge for a Mouse"
• "A Mouse Divided"
• "A Fractured Leghorn"
• "Plop Goes the Weasel!"
• "Tale of Two Mice"
• "The Foxy Duckling"
• "Two Gophers From Texas"
• "Doggone Cats"
• "What's Brewin', Bruin?"
• "The Bee-Deviled Bruin"

Volume 2

Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2 was released on December 12, 2023. This set included 25 cartoons never before released on DVD or Blu-Ray - five more than on Volume 1. In contrast to the previous volume, Volume 2 focuses more on miscellaneous "one-shot" cartoons and characters.

Like the previous volume, only two cartoons (Brother Brat and Ghost Wanted) were specifically restored for this release, while the other cartoons were previously restored for HBO Max and Me-TV, with Warner Archive correcting the Photoshopped titles (most notably on A Hound for Trouble). In addition Cross Country Detours had its original opening title sequence restored, as opposed to the Blue Ribbon re-issue titles featured on previous releases.

Shorts Featured:

• "Behind the Meat-Ball"
• "Brother Brat"
• "Catty Cornered"
• "Cross Country Detours"
• "Daffy's Southern Exposure"
• "Ding Dog Daddy"
• "The Eager Beaver"
• "Fair and Worm-er"
• "Fin 'n' Catty"
• "From Hand to Mouse"
• "Ghost Wanted"
• "Greetings Bait"
• "Hamateur Night"
• "Hare-Breadth Hurry"
• "A Hick a Slick and a Chick"
• "Hiss and Make Up"
• "A Hound for Trouble"
• "I Wanna Be a Sailor"
• "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight"
• "Lickety-SPLAT!"
• "One Meat Brawl"
• "The Penguin Parade"
• "Rabbit Rampage"
• "The Rebel Without Claws"
• "The Wacky Worm"

Volume 3

Volume 3 will be released on March 12, 2024, and will contain the following cartoons:

• "A Feud There Was"
• "Hop, Skip and a Chump"
• "China Jones"
• "Cinderella Meets Fella"
• "Dumb Patrol"
• "Egghead Rides Again"
• "Elmer's Pet Rabbit"
• "Hobo Bobo"
• "Honeymoon Hotel"
• "I Only Have Eyes for You"
• "Mexican Joyride"
• "Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name"
• "Of Rice and Hen"
• "Pre-Hysterical Hare"
• "Punch Trunk"
• "Quentin Quail"
• "Riff Raffy Daffy"
• "Saddle Silly"
• "Sheep Ahoy"
• "The Mouse on 57th Street"
• "The Sheepish Wolf"
• "There Auto Be a Law"
• "Tugboat Granny"
• "War and Pieces"
• "Wet Hare"