Warner Archive
The Warner Archive continues to astound with their dedication to preserving some of their legendary animated titles.
Their recent release, Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault Volume 2, is a jewel of a release that features twenty-six animated shorts that had never been released on DVD or Blu-ray in remastered form.
The second disc really shows off the Warner Archives attention to their legacy, as this disc contains twenty-five shorts that previously appeared in other collections, now remastered in high definition for the first time.
The set includes:
DISC ONE
- A-Lad-In His Lamp: Bugs Bunny stumbles upon Aladdin’s magic lamp and gleefully outwits a bumbling villain who wants it, spoofing the Arabian Nights tale with Bugs’s trademark wit.
- Ain’t That Ducky: Daffy encounters a tiny baby duck who is completely fearless, driving Daffy crazy as every attempt to scare or shoo the little one away hilariously backfires.
- Bone, Sweet Bone: A dog goes to great lengths to protect and bury his prized bone, clashing with other scheming animals who want to steal it in this slapstick backyard comedy.
- Boston Quackie: A spoof of the Boston Blackie crime radio and film series, with Daffy Duck playing the suave detective and Porky Pig as his hapless companion on a bumbling spy caper.
- Boulevardier From the Bronx: A city-slicker squirrel travels to the country and clashes with the locals, playing on the classic fish-out-of-water comedy between urban and rural characters.
- The Bird Came C.O.D.: A con-man bird tricks a cat into paying for his delivery, leading to slapstick chaos as the cat tries to get his money’s worth from his unwanted feathered houseguest.
- Country Boy: A early Merrie Melodies short (in Cinecolor) featuring Peter Cottontail, a country rabbit who gets into mischief and misadventures in a rural setting, with the lively musical style typical of early Freleng cartoons.
- The Daffy Duckaroo: Daffy Duck plays a cowboy hero in this western-themed spoof, riding across the range and getting into comedic scrapes in black-and-white.
- Dr. Jerkyl’s Hide: Sylvester encounters a meek little dog who periodically transforms into a monstrous beast after drinking a potion, spoofing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Sylvester as the unlucky victim.
- The EGGcited Rooster: Foghorn Leghorn gets tricked into sitting on an egg and becomes unexpectedly attached to the chick that hatches, leading to fatherly comic chaos on the farm.
- Fastest With the Mostest: Wile E. Coyote pulls out an arsenal of elaborate schemes to finally catch the Road Runner, all of which predictably (and hilariously) go catastrophically wrong.
- Fowl Weather: Tweety and Sylvester clash again, with stormy weather adding to the mayhem as Sylvester’s repeated attempts to catch the little bird are spectacularly undone.
- I Taw a Putty Tat: One of the earliest Tweety & Sylvester shorts — Sylvester relentlessly stalks Tweety in his birdcage, only to be foiled at every turn, establishing the classic formula of the duo’s long-running rivalry.
- I Gofer You: A gangster gopher runs roughshod over Sylvester, using him as an unwilling accomplice in a series of capers in this comedic crime spoof.
- I Was a Teenage Thumb: A comedic fairy-tale spoof following the adventures of a tiny thumb-sized boy, told in Jones’s storybook style with witty narration and visual gags.
- Little Blabbermouse: A fast-talking, motor-mouthed little mouse tours a department store, chattering nonstop to everyone he meets in this energetic early Merrie Melodies short.
- Mother Was a Rooster: Foghorn Leghorn is tricked into raising an ostrich chick as his own, leading to escalating embarrassment and comedy as the enormous, odd bird wreaks havoc on the farm.
- Pests for Guests: The Goofy Gophers (Mac and Tosh) take up residence in Elmer Fudd’s garden, driving him to distraction with their relentlessly polite but utterly destructive antics.
- The Rattled Rooster: A neurotic, nervous rooster can’t seem to get any respect on the farm and fumbles through a series of comic misfortunes involving the other barnyard animals.
- A Sheep in the Deep: Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog go through their classic workday routine — Ralph repeatedly and creatively tries to steal sheep, Sam stops him every time, and they clock in and out like colleagues.
- Sock A Doodle Do: Foghorn Leghorn tangles with a feisty bantam rooster who keeps beating the much larger Foghorn in a running series of barnyard brawls, despite Foghorn’s bluster.
- A Street Cat Named Sylvester: A parody of A Streetcar Named Desire, Sylvester tries to catch Tweety while Granny makes his life miserable, with the title playing on Tennessee Williams’s classic play.
- To Itch His Own: A tiny flea sets up shop on a big shaggy dog, and the dog’s frantic attempts to get rid of his microscopic tormentor form the basis of this clever Chuck Jones comedy.
- A Waggily Tale: Freleng A mischievous puppy imagines himself as a brave hero while causing havoc around the house, blending fantasy sequences with real-world slapstick.
- Woolen Under Where: Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog return for another day on the job — Ralph scheming endlessly to swipe sheep, Sam thwarting him with calm efficiency, all framed by their deadpan punch-clock ritual.
- Zoom at the Top: The Road Runner effortlessly outruns and outsmarts Wile E. Coyote through another gauntlet of doomed Acme contraptions in the desert Southwest.
DISC TWO:
- Awful Orphan: Porky Pig’s quiet life in his high-rise apartment building is rudely disrupted when an obnoxious mutt sneaks in and refuses to leave.
- A Bird in a Guilty Cage: Sylvester Cat spots Tweety Bird in a display window of an after-hours department store and sneaks inside through a mail server chute.
- Bowery Bugs: Bugs Bunny recounts the story of how he tricked a man named Steve Brody into leaping off the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Claws for Alarm: Porky and Sylvester stay overnight in what Sylvester realizes is a terrifying hotel filled with endless imminent danger.
- Crowing Pains: Henry Hawk hides in an egg to catch his first chicken, while Foghorn Leghorn tells him that Sylvester is the real chicken and the farm dog joins in the fun.
- Frigid Hare: Bugs rescues a penguin from an Inuit hunter at the South Pole and becomes obligated to it beyond his wildest dreams.
- Hare Remover: Elmer Fudd is an amateur scientist who wants to turn a normal character into a devilish fiend; he’s all out of experimental animals. Enter Bugs Bunny.
- The Heckling Hare: Bugs is being chased by hunting dog Willoughby, and outsmarts him at every turn, until the end, where they outsmart the audience together.
- Hop and Go: Claude Hopper, a kangaroo, and best darn hopper in the world, is full of himself (and dumb), so a couple of Scottish rabbits take him on.
- Hyde and Hare: Bugs Bunny gets himself adopted as a pet by a kindly soul who has been feeding him carrots every day. Bugs’ friend turns out to be Dr. Jekyll who drinks his evil potion and turns into a monster.
- Jumpin’ Jupiter: Porky and Sylvester’s desert campground is sliced away and towed into outer space by a green, bird-like Jupiterian searching for earthly animal life. But Porky remains blissfully unaware, leaving Sylvester to be terrorized by the alien.
- The Last Hungry Cat: Sylvester thinks he has finally caught Tweety Bird. But his conscience, along with radio and newspaper reports, begin to make him believe he is a murderer.
- Mexican Boarders: Speedy Gonzales’ lethargic cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, comes to visit Speedy’s hacienda, to the delight of Sylvester Cat, who is confident he will be able to catch Slowpoke for dinner.
- Mouse Menace: Porky has a particularly menacing mouse in his house; after his traps, and an increasingly nasty set of cats all fail, Porky builds a robot cat. This cat proves to be a much bigger challenge for the mouse, who ultimately builds a robot mouse packed with explosives.
- Odor of the Day: A dog is looking for refuge from the cold and finds a nice warm house, but he doesn’t realize that it belongs to Pepe Le Pew.
- Often an Orphan: Charlie Dog tries everything to get Porky to take him in and he finally does. After a couple pranks the dog pound ends up picking up Porky and not the dog.”
- The Pest That Came to Dinner: Porky Pig soon discovers that a termite is responsible for his belongings crumbling to dust. When he can’t exterminate the termite himself, he goes to a shyster who offers him a series of unsuccessful methods to remove the termite.
- Ready… Set… Zoom!: Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote’s attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.
- Scent-imental Over You: Jealous of all the high-class dogs in their fine coats, a little Mexican hairless pooch borrows one, not realizing it’s a skunk’s pelt. Once she has it on, she finds everyone fleeing from her, except for the amorous Pepe Le Pew.
- Stop! Look! And Hasten!: A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can’t help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus) catch the Road Runner (Hot Rodicus supersonicus).
- To Beep or Not to Beep: Wile E. Coyote hopes to stop and catch the Road Runner using a huge, boulder-throwing catapult. But no matter where Wile E. positions himself, the catapult drops the boulder on him.
- Wagon Heels: Porky Pig is the scout for a wagon train headed west, ever vigilant for the feared Indian, Injun Joe.
- Wise Quackers: After Daffy lands on Elmer’s farm, he begs Elmer to take him as a slave to avoid being shot. Daffy tortures Elmer with his antics.
- You Were Never Duckier: At the National Poultry Show, the prize for Best Duck is only $5.00, while the prize for Best Rooster is $5,000.00, so Daffy Duck decides to don a rubber glove top-knot, plucks a real rooster for tail feathers and enters the show.
The release also features five audio commentary tracks.
Once again, kudos to the entire restoration team, as well as the Warner Archive for the love and attention that results in releases like this. Highest recommendation.
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