Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
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Number of shorts | 60 |
Number of discs | 3 |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment |
Original release | December 1, 2020 |
Run time | 425 minutes[1] |
The Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection, also known as the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection, is a three-disc Blu-ray box set containing 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts starring Bugs Bunny, in addition to numerous bonus features and supplementary content. It was released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on December 1, 2020. The set's packaging includes a slip book, a booklet, and a collectible Funko! POP doll.
Initially conceived 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 either DVD or Blu-ray, in order to appeal to adult collectors.[2]
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. Additionally, 20 shorts were ported over from those previous collections. According to Beck, with this collection (along with the previous Golden and Platinum Collections), fans and collectors would be able to own "approximately 90% of Bugs Bunny's filmography."[3]
Shorts
Disc 1
- Elmer's Candid Camera
- A Wild Hare
- Hold the Lion, Please
- Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
- Super-Rabbit
- Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
- What's Cookin' Doc?
- Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
- Hare Ribbin'
- The Old Grey Hare
- Baseball Bugs
- Hair-Raising Hare
- Racketeer Rabbit
- Bugs Bunny Rides Again
- Haredevil Hare
- Hot Cross Bunny
- Hare Splitter
- Knights Must Fall
- What's Up Doc?
- 8 Ball Bunny
Disc 2
- Rabbit of Seville
- Rabbit Every Monday
- The Fair Haired Hare
- Rabbit Fire
- His Hare Raising Tale
- Hare Lift
- Upswept Hare
- Robot Rabbit
- Captain Hareblower
- No Parking Hare
- Yankee Doodle Bugs
- Lumber Jack-Rabbit
- Baby Buggy Bunny
- Hare Brush
- This Is a Life?
- Rabbitson Crusoe
- Napoleon Bunny-part
- Half-Fare Hare
- Piker's Peak
- What's Opera, Doc?
Disc 3
- Bugsy and Mugsy
- Show Biz Bugs
- Hare-Less Wolf
- Now, Hare This
- Knighty Knight Bugs
- Hare-abian Nights
- Backwoods Bunny
- Wild and Woolly Hare
- Bonanza Bunny
- People are Bunny
- Person to Bunny
- Rabbit's Feat
- From Hare to Heir
- Compressed Hare
- Prince Violent
- Shishkabugs
- The Million Hare
- The Unmentionables
- False Hare
- (Blooper) Bunny!
Bonus features
Disc 1
- Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
- Hare Ribbin' (director's cut)
- Forever Befuddled
- Bugs: A Rabbit for All Seasonings
- Mars Attacks!: Life on the Red Planet with My Favorite Martian
Disc 2
- Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All Star 50th Anniversary
- 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?"
Disc 3
- Hard Luck Duck
- Short Fuss Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam
- 50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 1/2 Minutes
- Ten Looney Tunes Cartoons episodes starring Bugs Bunny
- "Harm Wrestling"
- "Big League Beast"
- "Pool Bunny"
- "Pest Coaster"
- "Buzzard School"
- "Siberian Sam"
- "Grilled Rabbit"
- "Vincent Van Fudd"
- "Hare Restoration"
- Sketches: "Mini Elmer", "Plunger", "Moving Hole", and "Bees"
Behind the scenes
- Eight cartoons (Lumber Jack-Rabbit, This is a Life?, 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, although 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 a 16:9 "widescreen" ratio).
- The set marks the first official home media release of Looney Tunes Cartoons, with ten Bugs Bunny related episodes included as bonus features.
References
- ↑ Jacobson, Colin (November 22, 2020). "Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection [Blu-Ray (1940-1991)"]. DVD Movie Guide.
- ↑ [Jerry Beck|Beck, Jerry]; Shostak, Stu (August 5, 2020). "Stu's Show: Program 575 (8/5/20)".
- ↑ Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Extravaganza. Comic Con International. YouTube. July 2020.