Looney Tunes Presents

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Looney Tunes Presents is a series of Looney Tunes VHS releases by Warner Home Video. It was the last collection of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons on the VHS format, and was released from July 1998 to April 2000.

It was the first from Warner Bros. to feature the pre-August 1948 Warner cartoon library on the same tapes as post-48 cartoons, due to a merger with Time Warner and Tuner Broadcasting in 1996. Due its promotions as the "next generation" of Looney Tunes videos, nearly every previous Warner Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video release was discontinued in 1999.

This series included one Bugs Bunny release, two Tweety sets, a Taz release, three Marvin the Martian sets (with one set being reissued), and a release for The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.

Releases

Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny

Tweety: Home Tweet Home

Tweety: Tweet and Lovely

Taz's Jungle Jams

Marvin the Martian's Space Tunes

Marvin the Martian & K-9: 50 Years on Earth!

Marvin the Martian's Space Tunes (reissue)

  • Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
  • Hare-Way to the Stars
  • The Hasty Hare
  • Rocket-bye Baby
  • Jumpin' Jupiter
  • Rocket Squad
  • Haredevil Hare
  • Mad as a Mars Hare
  • Spaced Out Bunny
  • Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
  • Lumber Jack-Rabbit
  • Hyde and Go Tweet

Behind the scenes

  • This was the first Looney Tunes video compilation to use the Warner Home Video logo from 1996-2016.
  • The video Taz's Jungle Jams was originally scheduled to include Bushy Hare, The Lion's Busy, and Nelly's Folly, but the contents were changed shortly before release.
  • The reissued Marvin the Martian's Space Tunes tape combines both the original Space Tunes tape and Marvin the Martian & K-9: 50 Years on Earth!
  • The pre-1948 shorts used in each tape are the "dubbed versions" by Turner, which were used again for Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition VHS tapes by Columbia House.
  • The post-1948 shorts that have WB 1997/1998 dubbed version prints ("THIS VERSION 1997/1998") are presented as dubbed versions as seen on the European VHS tapes, albeit without the dubbed disclaimer on the ending cards. These "dubbed" prints without the disclaimer were used again for Looney Tunes The Collector's Edition VHS tapes.
  • Unlike most unrestored post-1948 shorts without dubbed versions, which tend to use the 1988 Warner Home Video remasters, Tweet and Lovely is presented on the Tweety: Tweet and Lovely as the faded Golden Jubilee tape transfer from 1986.
  • Much like the Stars of Space Jam: Tweety and Sylvester VHS and then-current TV airings, Snow Business is presented with the altered 1959-1960 MM ending card on the Tweety: Home Tweet Home VHS release.
  • The pre-48 shorts appear less than the post-48 shorts on each tape.
  • European releases of the tapes have different shorts compared to their North American releases:

References

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