Favorite cartoon DVD box sets?

[ghost of miles]

Y'all know there's another Looney Tunes Golden Collection coming out? This could be even better than the first collection! Check out this lineup, from amazon.com:

Disc #1: Bugs Bunny

1. "The Big Snooze" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1946)

2. "Broom-Stick Bunny" (Bugs Bunny, Witch Hazel; 1956)

3. "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam; 1948)

4. "Bunny Hugged" (Bugs Bunny, Crusher; 1951)

5. "French Rarebit" (Bugs Bunny, Louis, Francois; 1951)

6. "Gorilla My Dreams" (Bugs Bunny, Gruesome Gorilla; 1948)

7. "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1942)

8. "Hare Conditioned" (Bugs Bunny; 1945)

9. "The Heckling Hare" (Bugs Bunny, Willoughby; 1941)

10. "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny, Big Bad Wolf; 1944)

11. "Tortoise Beats Hare" (Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle; 1941)

12. "Rabbit Transit" (Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle; 1947)

13. "Slick Hare" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1947)

14. "Baby Buggy Bunny" (Bugs Bunny, Baby-Faced Finster; 1954)

15. "Hyde and Hare" (Bugs Bunny, Dr. Jekyll; 1955)

Disc #2: Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote and Friends

1. "Beep, Beep!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1952)

2. "Going! Going! Gosh!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1952)

3. "Zipping Along" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1953)

4. "Stop, Look, and Hasten" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1954)

5. "Ready, Set, Zoom!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1955)

6. "Guided Muscle" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1955)

7. "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1956)

8. "There They Go-Go-Go!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1956)

9. "Scrambled Aches" (Road Runner, Wile E, Coyote; 1957)

10. "Zoom and Bored" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1957)

11. "Whoa Be-Gone!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1958)

12. "Cheese Chasers" (Claude Cat, Hubie, Bertie; 1951)

13. "The Dover Boys at Pimento University or 'The Rivals of Roquefort Hall'" (1942)

14. "Mouse Wreckers" (Claude Cat, Hubie, Bertie; 1948)

15. "A Bear For Punishment" (Three Bears; 1951)

Disc #3: Sylvester and Tweety and Friends

1. "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1949)

2. "All Abir-r-rd" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1950)

3. "Room and Bird" (Tweety, Sylvester, Granny; 1951)

4. "Tweet Tweet Tweety" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1951)

5. "Gift Wrapped" (Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Hector; 1952)

6. "Ain't She Tweet" (Tweety, Sylvester, Granny; 1952)

7. "A Bird in a Guilty Cage" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1952)

8. "Snow Business" (Tweety, Sylvester, Granny; 1953)

9. "Tweetie Pie" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1947)

10. "Kitty Kornered" (Porky Pig, Sylvester; 1946)

11. "Baby Bottleneck" (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig; 1946)

12. "Old Glory" (Porky Pig; 1939)

13. "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" (Daffy Duck; 1946)

14. "Duck Soup to Nuts" (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig; 1944)

15. "Porky in Wackyland" (Porky Pig; 1938)

Disc #4: All-Stars

1. "Back Alley Op-Roar" (Sylvester, Elmer Fudd; 1948)

2. "Book Revue" (Daffy Duck; 1946)

3. "A Corny Concerto" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig; 1943)

4. "Have You Got Any Castles?" (1938)

5. "Hollywood Steps Out" (1941)

6. "I Love to Singa" (Owl Jolson; 1936)

7. "Katnip Kollege" (Johnny Cat; 1938)

8. "The Hep Cat" (1942)

9. "The Three Little Bops" (Big Bad Wolf; 1957)

10. "One Froggy Evening" (Michigan J. Frog; 1955)

11. "Rhapsody Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny; 1946)

12. "Show Biz Bugs" (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck; 1957)

13. "Stage Door Cartoon" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1944)

14. "What's Opera, Doc?" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1957)

15. "You Ought to Be in Pictures" (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig; 1940)

I took out the special extras, to save space. It can be viewed at the link above!

Needless to say, I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Yep, I'm already planning on getting this, because it has "I Love to Singa," for starters.

I'd love to find the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote episode that features the "Indestructo Ball." One of the most hilarious sequences from that whole series.

[Eric]

Family Guy all the way

SpongeBob has not been boxed, but have all the individual DVDs (way )

[jazzbo]

I'm deprived! I don't have ANY cartoon dvd box sets!

Not surprising. I've never been much into cartoons, even as a lad. Comic books is another story. . . .

[WD45]

Am I the only one looking for "The Critic" on DVD?

[ghost of miles]

Gotta love the Internet yet again--I did a search and discovered that the Indestructo Steel Ball comes from a 1959 cartoon entitled "Wild About Hurry." Unfortunately, it's not on either of the Looney Tunes DVD box-sets.

There is, however, an online catalogue for all ACME products!

ACMEIndestructoBall

[ghost of miles]

Am I the only one looking for "The Critic" on DVD?

THE CRITIC rocked!

"Buy my book... buy my book..."

[GA Russell]

Am I the last man in America to not have a DVD player hooked up to his TV?

I may get one to watch the Rocky and Bullwinkle sets. Are they still as funny as I remember them to be?

[ejp626]

Another shout out to the Critic. I was able to rent the whole series on Netflix. I had forgotten that Marty's son went to the UN High School. There are some classic laughs related to this, including the son falling in love with Castro's grand-daughter.

[jacman]

Am I the last man in America to not have a DVD player hooked up to his TV?

I may get one to watch the Rocky and Bullwinkle sets.  Are they still as funny as I remember them to be?

yes and yes.

The Looney Toons set is great, even tho they left out my personal favorite...Hillbilly Hare.

as far as the Bullwinkle and Rocky goes...Jay Ward=genius.

can't wait for season 2 to be released.

BTW-i picked up the H. R. Puffinstuf set the other day. my kids love it.

have they released GUMBY on DVD? i used to smoke some 'erb and watch GUMBY...trippy stuff.

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Edited September 29, 2004 by jacman

[ejp626]

I've seen some Gumby but not a complete edition.

BTW, I believe Rocky and Bullwinkle season 2 just hits stores. I saw it in Target yesterday, though I might have been hallucinating from jetlag.

[Big Al]

I've seen some Gumby but not a complete edition.

BTW, I believe Rocky and Bullwinkle season 2 just hits stores. I saw it in Target yesterday, though I might have been hallucinating from jetlag.

Yes. we picked ours up at Target today. I don't know about anywhere else, but here in Arlington, Target is selling it for $24.99. When you consider this is a 4-DVD set, with each DVD having stuff on both sides thereby making this the equivalent of an 8-DVD set, this is a steal!!!

And yes, it is still just as funny!!!

[BruceH]

I may get one to watch the Rocky and Bullwinkle sets. Are they still as funny as I remember them to be?

YES!!!

[BruceH]

Y'all know there's another Looney Tunes Golden Collection coming out? This could be even better than the first collection! Check out this lineup, from amazon.com:

Disc #1: Bugs Bunny

1. "The Big Snooze" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1946)

2. "Broom-Stick Bunny" (Bugs Bunny, Witch Hazel; 1956)

3. "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam; 1948)

4. "Bunny Hugged" (Bugs Bunny, Crusher; 1951)

5. "French Rarebit" (Bugs Bunny, Louis, Francois; 1951)

6. "Gorilla My Dreams" (Bugs Bunny, Gruesome Gorilla; 1948)

7. "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1942)

8. "Hare Conditioned" (Bugs Bunny; 1945)

9. "The Heckling Hare" (Bugs Bunny, Willoughby; 1941)

10. "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny, Big Bad Wolf; 1944)

11. "Tortoise Beats Hare" (Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle; 1941)

12. "Rabbit Transit" (Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle; 1947)

13. "Slick Hare" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1947)

14. "Baby Buggy Bunny" (Bugs Bunny, Baby-Faced Finster; 1954)

15. "Hyde and Hare" (Bugs Bunny, Dr. Jekyll; 1955)

Disc #2: Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote and Friends

1. "Beep, Beep!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1952)

2. "Going! Going! Gosh!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1952)

3. "Zipping Along" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1953)

4. "Stop, Look, and Hasten" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1954)

5. "Ready, Set, Zoom!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1955)

6. "Guided Muscle" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1955)

7. "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1956)

8. "There They Go-Go-Go!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1956)

9. "Scrambled Aches" (Road Runner, Wile E, Coyote; 1957)

10. "Zoom and Bored" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1957)

11. "Whoa Be-Gone!" (Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote; 1958)

12. "Cheese Chasers" (Claude Cat, Hubie, Bertie; 1951)

13. "The Dover Boys at Pimento University or 'The Rivals of Roquefort Hall'" (1942)

14. "Mouse Wreckers" (Claude Cat, Hubie, Bertie; 1948)

15. "A Bear For Punishment" (Three Bears; 1951)

Disc #3: Sylvester and Tweety and Friends

1. "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1949)

2. "All Abir-r-rd" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1950)

3. "Room and Bird" (Tweety, Sylvester, Granny; 1951)

4. "Tweet Tweet Tweety" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1951)

5. "Gift Wrapped" (Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Hector; 1952)

6. "Ain't She Tweet" (Tweety, Sylvester, Granny; 1952)

7. "A Bird in a Guilty Cage" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1952)

8. "Snow Business" (Tweety, Sylvester, Granny; 1953)

9. "Tweetie Pie" (Tweety, Sylvester; 1947)

10. "Kitty Kornered" (Porky Pig, Sylvester; 1946)

11. "Baby Bottleneck" (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig; 1946)

12. "Old Glory" (Porky Pig; 1939)

13. "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" (Daffy Duck; 1946)

14. "Duck Soup to Nuts" (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig; 1944)

15. "Porky in Wackyland" (Porky Pig; 1938)

Disc #4: All-Stars

1. "Back Alley Op-Roar" (Sylvester, Elmer Fudd; 1948)

2. "Book Revue" (Daffy Duck; 1946)

3. "A Corny Concerto" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig; 1943)

4. "Have You Got Any Castles?" (1938)

5. "Hollywood Steps Out" (1941)

6. "I Love to Singa" (Owl Jolson; 1936)

7. "Katnip Kollege" (Johnny Cat; 1938)

8. "The Hep Cat" (1942)

9. "The Three Little Bops" (Big Bad Wolf; 1957)

10. "One Froggy Evening" (Michigan J. Frog; 1955)

11. "Rhapsody Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny; 1946)

12. "Show Biz Bugs" (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck; 1957)

13. "Stage Door Cartoon" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1944)

14. "What's Opera, Doc?" (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd; 1957)

15. "You Ought to Be in Pictures" (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig; 1940)

I took out the special extras, to save space. It can be viewed at the link above!

Needless to say, I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

This STILL doesn't have all the gems, but it sure looks good! I can't wait either!! (And it's got "The Three Little Bops"---thank-you Warner Brothers!)

[Big Al]

This STILL doesn't have all the gems, but it sure looks good! I can't wait either!! (And it's got "The Three Little Bops"---thank-you Warner Brothers!)

Oh yeah, there's plenty of gems MIA. I'm guessing this is gonna be an annual thing (didn't the last set come out about the same time last year?), so that'll give us something to look forward to!

In any event, I'm really looking forward to the pre-1948 cartoons. Hopefully, when they say "restored," they mean that the Blue Ribbon notations have been removed and the original openings to each cartoon restored. I just hope, HOPE, that they left the old Looney Tunes in black & white, the way they're meant to be seen!

Me, I'm just tickled there's all those Road Runner cartoons!!!

[BruceH]

I've seen some Gumby but not a complete edition.

BTW, I believe Rocky and Bullwinkle season 2 just hits stores.  I saw it in Target yesterday, though I might have been hallucinating from jetlag.

Yes. we picked ours up at Target today. I don't know about anywhere else, but here in Arlington, Target is selling it for $24.99. When you consider this is a 4-DVD set, with each DVD having stuff on both sides thereby making this the equivalent of an 8-DVD set, this is a steal!!!

And yes, it is still just as funny!!!

I took your advice and bought this in Target. Good price! Did they change the music cues though? Sure seems like it.

[GA Russell]

By the way, I bought some DVDs for my brother-in-law for Christmas last year from Deep Discount DVD

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/

and had good service from them. I think you'll like their prices and their selection.

[Big Al]

I took your advice and bought this in Target. Good price! Did they change the music cues though? Sure seems like it.

Not sure; haven't had a chance to really sit down and watch it. Which music cues are you referring to?

[BruceH]

The connecting and beginning ones for each episode; for instance, the music playing when Rocky jumps off the high-dive board and flies around in the air while Bullwinkle lugs the water tub all over the place.

[Big Al]

Hmm, I'll have to check that out tonight and report back!

[dave9199]

I read they use Season 2's beginning because it was Jay Ward's favorite. Don't forget, the first 2 seasons it was called The Rocky Show. Then, i think, it switched networks & became The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. I think that's the beginning your thinking of. It looks like they used the first season opening (I'm guessing here) on the last 2 stories in the season 2 box. I say that because of the crudeness of the drawings.

Edited September 30, 2004 by dave9199

[Big Al]

You’re correct that there is some change. If you look closely on the 1st Season, when they do the Rocky & Bullwinkle intros, the lettering for “Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends” is clearer than everything else in the picture. It looks though the new lettering was superimposed over the old lettering. To be sure, I checked an old video of the show, and sure enough, THAT intro was called “Rocky and Bullwinkle.” I don’t know if that’s the original: for all I know, that one also could’ve been superimposed! I don’t know why they couldn’t just leave it in its original state! Even the voice-over sounds a little different: like they over dubbed the “and Friends” part.

Ah well; nit-picky details, to be sure. Everything else about the DVDs, especially the sound quality, is fantastic!

[GA Russell]

Not meaning to nitpick, but...the first two seasons the show was called "Rocky and His Friends" and was shown twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays in DC where I lived at the time). It was syndicated.

It then (I think this was 1960, maybe '61) moved to ABC where it was called "The Bullwinkle Show", and was shown Sundays at 6:00 pm as I recall (I lived in Seattle then).

It is also my vague recollection that they were inconsistent in the titles of the cartoons after they moved to ABC, sometimes carrying the name "Rocky and Bullwinkle", and sometimes "Bullwinkle and Rocky", but that may not be correct.

[Big Al]

Cool!

If nothing else, the DVDs make the titles consistent!

I promised my son I wouldn't watch season 2 without him, and that we'd spend the evening tonight (Friday night) watching it. So I'll have an answer about those music cues then.

I watched some of season 1 tonight, and all the music cues are as I remember them. Bear in mind, though, that I was born ten years after this stuff premiered, so I have no idea what it all originally looked or sounded like!

[BruceH]

You didn't ever catch repeats of the show?

I was born during, I believe, the third season, and can remember watching repeats of it back in '66, '67, '68, and so on. The thing is that it seems a lot funnier as an adult because you get all the jokes, but kids still love it. (In that sense, it was sort of The Simpsons of its time.)

Edited October 1, 2004 by BruceH

[CJ Shearn]

I'm an anime fan, so I enjoy the Sailor Moon season 1 set, the Neon Genesis Evangelion set and the Tenchi Muyo! OVA set (original video animation)