Looney Tunes Super Stars is a series of nine Looney Tunes DVDs consisting of two Bugs Bunny DVDs and other characters who got their own collections. It started on August 10, 2010 and ran until April 23, 2013. The series consists of:[1]

Title Cartoons New cartoons Wave Release Date
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire 15 15 1 August 10, 2010
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth 14 November 30, 2010[2]
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy 0
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit 2 May 4, 2011[3]
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks 11 October 4, 2011[4]
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best 17 14 December 27, 2011[5]
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham 18 16 3 November 6, 2012[6]
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester and Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem 15 April 23, 2013[7]

Although Super Stars is the semi-successor to the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series, the true successor of the Golden Collection is the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection. However, unlike the Platinum Collection, there are no special features in the Super Stars series. While other volumes were planned, no further releases were made after 2013.[8] The Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best and the Sylvester and Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem DVDs are now the only home media releases from Warner Bros. to have a major Looney Tunes character's (and two minor Looney Tunes characters') entire filmography featured.

Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire

Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth

Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth
DVD Cover
Directed byRobert McKimson, Friz Freleng
Produced byEddie Selzer, John W. Burton, David H. DePatie
StarringMel Blanc (voice)
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
November 30, 2010 (United States)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Super Stars' Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth was released on November 30, 2010.[9] Unlike previous Super Stars discs, the disc not only contains the matted-widescreen versions of the cartoons, but the original fullscreen versions as well.[10]

# Title Characters Year Director Series
1 All Fowled Up Foghorn, Henery Hawk, Barnyard Dawg 1955 Robert McKimson LT
2 Fox-Terror Foghorn, Barnyard Dawg 1957 Robert McKimson MM
3 A Broken Leghorn* Foghorn, Miss Prissy 1959 Robert McKimson LT
4 Crockett-Doodle-Do Foghorn, Egghead Jr. 1960 Robert McKimson MM
5 Weasel While You Work Foghorn, The Weasel, Barnyard Dawg 1958 Robert McKimson MM
6 Weasel Stop Foghorn, The Weasel 1956 Robert McKimson LT
7 Little Boy Boo Foghorn, Egghead Jr., Miss Prissy 1954 Robert McKimson LT
8 Banty Raids Foghorn, Barnyard Dawg 1963 Robert McKimson MM
9 Strangled Eggs Foghorn, Henery Hawk, Miss Prissy 1961 Robert McKimson MM
10 Gopher Broke The Goofy Gophers, Barnyard Dawg 1958 Robert McKimson LT
11 A Mutt in a Rut Elmer 1959 Robert McKimson LT
12 Mouse-Placed Kitten 1959 Robert McKimson MM
13 Cheese It, the Cat! The Honey-Mousers 1957 Robert McKimson LT
14 Two Crows from Tacos Jose and Manuel 1956 Friz Freleng MM
15 Crows' Feat Joes and Manuel ,Elmer 1962 Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt MM

(*) Have been released on the Golden Collection DVD set

Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy

Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy
DVD-cover
Directed byFriz Freleng
Produced byEddie Selzer, John W. Burton, David H. DePatie
StarringSylvester, Tweety, Granny, Mel Blanc (voice)
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
November 30, 2010 (United States)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy was released on November 30, 2010.[11]

All cartoons on this disc star Sylvester and Tweety, were directed by Friz Freleng, and were previously released on the Golden Collection DVDs.

# Title Co-Stars Year Series
1 Tweetie Pie 1947 MM
2 Bad Ol' Putty Tat 1949 MM
3 All Abir-r-r-d! Hector 1950 LT
4 Canary Row Granny 1950 MM
5 Putty Tat Trouble Sam Cat 1951 LT
6 Room and Bird Granny, Hector 1951 MM
7 Tweety's S.O.S. Granny 1951 MM
8 Tweet Tweet Tweety 1951 LT
9 Gift Wrapped Granny, Hector 1952 LT
10 Ain't She Tweet Granny, Hector 1952 LT
11 Snow Business Granny 1953 LT
12 Satan's Waitin' Hector 1954 LT
13 The Last Hungry Cat Granny 1961 MM
14 Birds Anonymous Clarence Cat 1957 MM
15 Tweety and the Beanstalk Hector 1957 MM

Notes

  • While the USA version of this DVD set releases "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" and "Snow Business" restored, for reasons unknown, the European version of this DVD set for some reason releases "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" presented as a 1998 dubbed version (albeit without the dubbed notice) and "Snow Business" presented unrestored as the Stars of Space Jam VHS transfer with the altered 1959-1960 Merrie Melodies ending card on the European DVD release.

Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit

Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit
Polish DVD cover
Directed byTex Avery, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Arthur Davis, Abe Levitow
Produced byLeon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer
StarringBugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Mel Blanc (voice)
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
May 4, 2011 (Czech Republic)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit was released on May 4, 2011 (in Region 2 and 4).[3]

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny and were previously released on the Golden Collection DVDs.

# Title Co-Stars Year Director Series
1 Tortoise Beats Hare Cecil 1941 Tex Avery MM
2 Super-Rabbit 1943 Chuck Jones MM
3 Rabbit Fire Daffy, Elmer 1951 Chuck Jones LT
4 Baton Bunny 1959 Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow LT
5 Rabbit of Seville Elmer 1950 Chuck Jones LT
6 Big Top Bunny 1951 Robert McKimson MM
7 Bowery Bugs 1949 Arthur Davis MM
8 Gorilla My Dreams Gruesome Gorilla 1948 Robert McKimson LT
9 Long-Haired Hare 1949 Chuck Jones LT
10 High Diving Hare Sam 1949 Friz Freleng LT
11 Bully for Bugs 1953 Chuck Jones LT
12 Ballot Box Bunny Sam 1951 Friz Freleng MM
13 Rabbit Seasoning Daffy, Elmer 1952 Chuck Jones MM
14 Rabbit's Kin Pete Puma 1952 Robert McKimson MM
15 Broom-Stick Bunny Witch Hazel 1956 Chuck Jones LT

Notes

  • In the Region 2 release, "Rabbit Fire", "Baton Bunny", "Rabbit of Seville" and "Big Top Bunny" are replaced respectively by "Buckaroo Bugs", "Hurdy-Gurdy Hare", "Hare Tonic" and "Acrobatty Bunny". These shorts too were already released in the Golden Collection series.
  • This is the only Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD set that is unavailable in Region 1, instead it is only available in Regions 2 and 4.

Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks

Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks
DVD cover
Directed byChuck Jones, Rudy Larriva, Robert McKimson, Spike Brandt, Bret Haaland, Matthew O'Callaghan
StarringWile E. Coyote and Road Runner
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
October 4, 2011 (United States)[12]
Running time
125 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Super Stars' Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks was released on October 4, 2011.[13] It was released earlier in the Czech Republic on September 8, 2011[14] and on October 3, 2011 it was available early in the U.S. at Walmart stores.[15]

All cartoons on this disc feature Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

# Title Year Director/Producer Series
1 Coyote Falls 2010 Matthew O'Callaghan LT
2 Fur of Flying 2010 Matthew O'Callaghan LT
3 Rabid Rider 2010 Matthew O'Callaghan LT
4 The Whizzard of Ow 2003 Bret Haaland LT
5 Chariots of Fur 1994 Chuck Jones (both director and producer) LT
6 Little Go Beep 2000 Spike Brandt LT
7 Sugar and Spies 1966 Robert McKimson (director), Friz Freleng (producer) LT
8 Clippety Clobbered 1966 Rudy Larriva (director), Friz Freleng (producer) LT
9 The Solid Tin Coyote 1966 Rudy Larriva (director), Friz Freleng (producer) LT
10 Out and Out Rout 1966 Rudy Larriva (director), Friz Freleng (producer) MM
11 Shot and Bothered 1966 Rudy Larriva (director), Friz Freleng (producer) LT
12 Chaser on the Rocks 1965 Rudy Larriva (director), Friz Freleng (producer) MM
13 Highway Runnery 1965 Rudy Larriva (director), Friz Freleng (producer) LT
14 Boulder Wham! 1965 Rudy Larriva (director), Friz Freleng (producer) MM
15 Hairied and Hurried 1965 Rudy Larriva (director), Friz Freleng (producer) MM

Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best

Pepė Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best
DVD-cover
Directed byChuck Jones, Arthur Davis, Friz Freleng, Abe Levitow
Produced byEddie Selzer, John W. Burton, David H. DePatie
StarringMel Blanc (voice)
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
December 27, 2011 (United States)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best was released on December 27, 2011.[16] The pre-53 shorts are presented in full screen while the post-53 shorts have both widescreen and full screen options (except for 1956's "Heaven Scent" which is only available in full screen).[17] This was also the last Looney Tunes Super Stars series to feature a matted 1:85 widescreen format option for the post-1953 shorts and one of the few Warner Bros. home media release to feature the entire filmography of a major Looney Tunes character.

All cartoons on this disc feature Pepé Le Pew.

# Title Co-Stars Year Director Series
1 Odor-able Kitty* 1945 Chuck Jones LT
2 Scent-imental Over You 1947 Chuck Jones LT
3 Odor of the Day Wellington 1948 Arthur Davis LT
4 For Scent-imental Reasons* Penelope 1949 Chuck Jones LT
5 Scent-imental Romeo Penelope 1951 Chuck Jones MM
6 Little Beau Pepé Penelope 1952 Chuck Jones MM
7 Wild Over You 1953 Chuck Jones LT
8 Dog Pounded Sylvester, Tweety 1954 Friz Freleng LT
9 The Cats Bah Penelope 1954 Chuck Jones LT
10 Past Perfumance Penelope 1955 Chuck Jones MM
11 Two Scent's Worth Penelope 1955 Chuck Jones MM
12 Heaven Scent* Penelope 1956 Chuck Jones MM
13 Touché and Go Penelope 1957 Chuck Jones MM
14 Really Scent Penelope 1959 Abe Levitow MM
15 Who Scent You? Penelope 1960 Chuck Jones LT
16 A Scent of the Matterhorn Penelope 1961 Chuck Jones LT
17 Louvre Come Back to Me! Penelope, Claude 1962 Chuck Jones LT

(*) Have been released on the Golden Collection DVD set

Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham

Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham
DVD Cover
Directed byRobert McKimson, Arthur Davis, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Irv Spector
Produced byLeon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, John W. Burton, David H. DePatie, William L. Hendricks
StarringMel Blanc (voice)
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
November 6, 2012 (United States)[18]
Running time
126 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham was released on November 6, 2012. This was the first DVD in the Super Stars series to present the post-1953 cartoons in original fullscreen format only, with no matted 1:85 widescreen format option.[18]

# Title Characters Year Director Series
1 Tom Turk and Daffy Daffy, Porky 1944 Chuck Jones LT
2 Wagon Heels* Porky 1945 Bob Clampett MM
3 Mouse Menace Porky 1946 Arthur Davis LT
4 One Meat Brawl Barnyard, Porky 1947 Robert McKimson MM
5 Curtain Razor Porky 1949 Friz Freleng LT
6 The Pest That Came to Dinner Porky 1948 Arthur Davis LT
7 Riff Raffy Daffy Daffy, Porky 1948 Arthur Davis LT
8 Boobs in the Woods* Daffy, Porky 1950 Robert McKimson LT
9 Dog Collared Porky 1950 Robert McKimson MM
10 Thumb Fun Daffy, Porky 1952 Robert McKimson LT
11 Fool Coverage Daffy, Porky 1952 Robert McKimson LT
12 Corn on the Cop Daffy, Granny, Porky 1965 Irv Spector MM
13 Corn Plastered Farmer and Crow 1951 Robert McKimson MM
14 Gone Batty Bobo 1954 Robert McKimson LT
15 Ant Pasted Elmer 1953 Friz Freleng LT
16 Dog Gone People Elmer 1960 Robert McKimson MM
17 Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches) Bunny and Claude 1968 Robert McKimson LT
18 The Great Carrot Train Robbery Bunny and Claude 1969 Robert McKimson MM

(*) Have been released on the Golden Collection DVD set

Notes

  • According to Jerry Beck, the reason the two Bunny and Claude cartoons were included on the DVD was for filler.
  • While the set claims that all the cartoons on the set are "remastered for the first time into pristine, first-run condition," "Wagon Heels" and "Boobs in the Woods" were previously released restored on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 and the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, respectively. In addition, "One Meat Brawl" uses the USA 1995 dubbed version transfer and "Ant Pasted" uses the 1998 dubbed version transfer, hence the cue marks at the iris out and the closing of the rings.
  • On the back of the DVD, photos of "Tick Tock Tuckered", "Daffy Doodles", and "Nothing but the Tooth" are shown—however, these cartoon aren't actually included on the DVD. "Tick Tock Tuckered" was released on Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl; "Daffy Doodles" and "Nothing but the Tooth" have not seen a home video release as part of a Looney Tunes DVD series, although "Daffy Doodles" appears as an extra on the DVD of the Warner Bros. movie My Reputation, using the 1995 USA dubbed version transfer.
  • The PAL version of the DVD includes "One Meat Brawl" with the red borders at the opening titles as it was sourced from the 1995 PAL Dubbed Version print.
  • "Ant Pasted" 1953 English audiotrack on PAL DVD release is played with low-pitched audio.

Sylvester and Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem

Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem
DVD Cover
Directed byRobert McKimson, Friz Freleng
Produced byEdward Selzer, John W. Burton, David H. DePatie
StarringMel Blanc (voice)
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
April 23, 2013 (United States)[19]
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem is a DVD featuring 18 newly remastered cartoons. It is the final release in the Super Star series, due to poor sales of Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 and the depletion of the remastering budget for new-to-DVD Looney Tunes shorts.[19] This release features all 18 of Sylvester's pairings with Hippety Hopper and/or his son, Sylvester, Jr., The DVD was released on April 23, 2013.[19]

All cartoons in this collection star Sylvester, and co-star either Hippety Hopper and/or Sylvester Jr.. All are directed by Robert McKimson, except for Goldimouse and the Three Cats, which was directed by Friz Freleng.

# Title Co-Starring Year Director Series
1 Hop, Look and Listen Hippety Hopper 1948 Robert McKimson LT
2 Hippety Hopper Hippety Hopper 1949 Robert McKimson MM
3 Pop 'Im Pop! Hippety Hopper, Sylvester Jr. 1950 Robert McKimson LT
4 Who's Kitten Who? Hippety Hopper, Sylvester Jr. 1952 Robert McKimson LT
5 Hoppy Go Lucky Hippety Hopper 1952 Robert McKimson LT
6 Cats A-Weigh! Hippety Hopper, Sylvester Jr. 1953 Robert McKimson MM
7 Bell Hoppy Hippety Hopper 1954 Robert McKimson MM
8 Lighthouse Mouse Hippety Hopper 1955 Robert McKimson MM
9 Too Hop to Handle Hippety Hopper, Sylvester Jr. 1956 Robert McKimson LT
10 The Slap-Hoppy Mouse Hippety Hopper, Sylvester Jr. 1956 Robert McKimson MM
11 Mouse-Taken Identity Hippety Hopper, Sylvester Jr. 1957 Robert McKimson MM
12 Hoppy Daze Hippety Hopper 1961 Robert McKimson LT
13 Freudy Cat Hippety Hopper, Sylvester Jr. 1964 Robert McKimson LT
14 Cat's Paw Sylvester Jr. 1959 Robert McKimson LT
15 Fish and Slips Sylvester Jr. 1962 Robert McKimson LT
16 Birds of a Father Sylvester Jr. 1961 Robert McKimson LT
17 Claws in the Lease Sylvester Jr. 1963 Robert McKimson MM
18 Goldimouse and the Three Cats* Sylvester Jr. 1960 Friz Freleng LT

(*) Have been released on the Golden Collection DVD set

Controversies

The first two Looney Tunes Super Stars sets (Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire and Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl) had released the majority the cartoons from the post-1953 era in a 1:85 widescreen format. Warner Bros. has stated the reason for this was because that is how the post-1953 cartoons were shown in theaters, though the cartoons were filmed in Academy ratio, not widescreen at that time. On December 1, 2010, animation expert Jerry Beck explained on the Shokus Internet Radio call-in talk program, Stu's Show that Warner aimed this series, not at collectors, but at the mass market who expect it to fit on their widescreen TVs. He speculated that at some point down the road there will probably be a douple-dip release of those shorts in a collector's DVD version with the video in full-frame format. However, the Foghorn Leghorn DVD includes both the widescreen and the Academy ratio of the cartoons on the same disc and further releases provide only fullscreen viewing.[20]

On the Tweety and Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy and Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit DVDs, all of the cartoons have been released previously on the Golden Collection series, much to the disappointment of fans.[21]

With the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks DVD, some collectors were disappointed that the set focused on the less well-received DFE-era Coyote/Road Runner cartoons (particularly the Rudy Larriva-directed ones) and lacked Chuck Jones' Coyote/Road Runner cartoons from the Pre-1964 "classic" era.

References

  1. ↑ Date, Titles for New DVDs featuring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck Archived 2010-01-02 at the Wayback Machine, tvshowsondvd.com, December 30, 2009
  2. ↑ The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour DVD news: Announcement for November 2010 releases of Looney Tunes Super Stars | TVShowsOnDVD.com Archived 2010-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 http://www.dvdsvet.cz/dvd/superhvezdy-looney-tunes-kralicek-bugs-neposedny-dareba-p115302/
  4. ↑ WHV Confirms Road Runner/Coyote Delay; Gives New Timeframe Archived 2011-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, tvshowsondvd.com, February 22, 2011
  5. ↑ WHV Announces New Pepe Le Pew DVD Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, tvshowsondvd.com, September 1, 2011
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  12. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-07-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) New release date for Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote DVD Has Been Announced
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  17. ↑ "Golden Age Cartoons | Reviews | Looney Tunes Super Stars: Pepe le Pew". Archived from the original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
  18. 1 2 "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour DVD news: Announcement for Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham | TVShowsOnDVD.com". Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
  19. 1 2 3 "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour DVD news: Announcement for Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem". January 16, 2013. Archived from the original on April 21, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
  20. ↑ "Foghorn Leghorn DVD contains option for standard or widescreen - GAC Forums". forums.goldenagecartoons.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-20.
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