The Bugs Bunny Video Guide. PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR. As 1. 99. 0 began, Time Warner had one major thought on its mind Bugs Bunnys fiftieth birthday. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were two series of theatrical cartoon shorts running from 1930 to 1969. Warner Bros. Baby Looney Tunes Season 1 Episode 3 School DazeDespite the devastating loss of Mel Blanc the previous July, Warner Bros. A new theatrical short, Box Office Bunny, was in production the Time publishing division was preparing a special commemorative magazine all about the rabbit DC Comics was launching a three issue mini series a new half hour cartoon package, Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny Friends, was being offered in syndication and Warner Bros. Animation partnered with Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment to produce a brand new weekday afternoon series about Bugs schooling the next generation of cartoon stars, Tiny Toon Adventures. Baby Looney Tunes Season 1 Episode 3' title='Baby Looney Tunes Season 1 Episode 3' />In this Star Wars Rebels episode 20 season 3 Twin Suns you can watch how lost on the desert world of Tatooine, Maul is searching for ObiWan Kenobi. However, his. Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, best known for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of theatrical short films produced by. By spring, a brief animated. Instead, Warner was looking for ways to re promote its back catalog of animated releases. At the beginning of the year it partnered with corporate sibling Time Life to launch a new mail order program, the Looney Tunes Library. By calling an 8. 00 number, consumers were able to sign up for a subscription that allowed them to receive a different character collection from the Golden Jubilee series every other month. The offer was so popular that in 1. Time Life would extend the collection by including not only the three A Salute to. Also, the five theatrical compilation features were re promoted and lowered to 1. Friz Frelengs Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs Bunnys 3rd Movie 1. Rabbit Tales, and Daffy Ducks Movie Fantastic Island. Though primarily based around the original Duck Dodgers short which is also set in the 24 and 12 century, or roughly the year 2350, the series has also. In the labels first strike against the growing market of public domain Looney Tunes videos, the covers of the three movie reissues prominently featured a new element a gold round seal with the WB shield and the phrase. Marking the final assortment to feature any Warner Bros. Elmer commemorated the pairs half century mark with seven cartoons, two of which were new to legitimate home video Hare Remover and the public domain favorite Fresh Hare and the rest having only been released edited on the Cartoon Festival videos. Daffy Duck and Company and Porky Pig and Company, in addition to obviously featuring the title characters, each contained a couple of one shots or other miscellaneous shorts such as The Dover Boys at Pimento University and most of the pre 1. Hubie and Bertie. Following the mold of the earlier laserdiscs, it merely combined the contents of the Bugs Bunny Classics and Starring Bugs Bunny Among the four waves, a total of ninety nine uncut pre 1. Warner Bros. And though the Looney Tunes characters were taking their final bows in that particular series, MGMUA had bigger and better plans in store for the franchise. In addition to very short clips from the yet to be released productions Box Office Bunny and Tiny Toon Adventures not to mention a blink and you miss it moment from Disneys Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the video was noteworthy for being the first Warner Home Video release to feature clips of cartoons from the Turner library a bit of a foreshadowing of a major event to come later in the decade. Bugs, Porky, and Tweety were also seen that month on another Warner release of another television special, The Earth Day Special that had aired earlier in the year on ABC with the gang making cameos alongside such superstars as Robin Williams, Bette Midler, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Keaton, the cast of Cheers, and even Kermit the Frog. Seeing as how they had access to the very shorts that were the cause of the celebration, MGMUA Home Video launched a brand new stand alone Bugs Bunny video line to honor the rabbits fiftieth year. Priced at 1. 2. 9. To set them apart from the rather understated looking Cartoon Moviestars videos of old, the cover of each video featured a strikingly beautiful airbrushed image of Bugs recreating a scene from one of the cartoons inside. Out of the twenty cartoons available in this first assortment, only one had not been previously released by the label, the public domain staple Wackiki Wabbit. A few others were uncut upgrades from versions released on the old Viddy OhCartoon Festivals, but the majority of the shorts were already readily available on various Cartoon Moviestars releases. With all five of the major Bugs Bunny directors Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Robert Mc. Kimson represented at least once, and with some historically minded liner notes on the back covers, the videos served as an adequate. Bugs Bunnys Greatest Hits was rightly titled, containing the classics Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears, Slick Hare, and The Big Snooze. With a tongue in cheek back cover. Bugs Bunny on Parade was perhaps the oddest yet most collector friendly volume in the first wave by including such rarely released shorts as Elmers Pet Rabbit, Buckaroo Bugs, and Hold the Lion, Please. The assortment ended solidly with Bugs Bunnys Festival of Fun, which featured such favorites as Rhapsody Rabbit, Baseball Bugs, and The Wabbit Who Came to Supper. Issued as part of Warners new Holiday Treasures collection that also included such animated fare as Nestor the Long Eared Christmas Donkey, The Little Drummer Boy Book II, and Twas the Night Before Christmas, the video was the specials first ever release outside of its seemingly annual airing on CBS. Containing two original shorts directed by Friz Freleng Bugs Bunnys Christmas Carol and Fright Before Christmas and one by Chuck Jones Freeze Frame, Bugs Bunnys Looney Christmas Tales would easily become the most popular title in the assortment, enjoying an annual re release long after the other Holiday Treasures programs disappeared without a trace. MGM was again in the crosshairs of another buyout, this time by recently launched media company Path. Sensing a unique opportunity, Time Warner advanced Path. In exchange, Warner Home Video was granted a thirteen year deal to exclusively distribute MGMUA Home Video product. Watch Cougars, Inc. Online. Though the sixteen employee MGMUA including George Feltenstein who was now director of laserdisc sales and marketing after an oh so brief stint away at Criterion would continue to produce and package the labels releases, Warner was now in charge of mastering, manufacturing, and getting those videos and laserdiscs into stores and, perhaps most importantly, sharing in the profits. This meant that for the first time since 1. Warner Bros. The horror comedy featured an animated pre title sequence directed by Chuck Jones in which Daffy usurps Bugs from his position atop the WB shield and later Daffy pops up throughout the end credits to offer comments before trying to take over Porkys. The new Warner and MGMUA titles over the course of 1. January reissues of four titles from the Golden Jubilee series Bugs Bunnys Wacky Adventures, Daffy Duck The Nuttiness Continues, Road Runner vs. Coyote The Classic Chase, and Elmer Fudds Comedy Capers. Repackaged in slightly modified covers, it is perhaps not a coincidence that each of the four volumes contained Bugs Bunny cartoons, a clear indication that Warner Home Video intended to keep the focus on Bugs well into the new year. Again jam packed with classic pre 1. Bugs shorts, the second assortment unfortunately proved to be even less essential to completists than the first. All but one of the cartoons were already found on various Cartoon Moviestars videos, while the remaining short was merely another uncut upgrade from a previous Cartoon Festival release. Bugs Bunny Hollywood Legend focused primarily on mid 4. Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng such as Hare Force, Hare Tonic, and Hare Conditioned. Here Comes Bugs was almost a rethinking of last years Bugs vs. Elmer compilation, including such essential pairings of the two as The Unruly Hare and the Blue Ribbon titled The Wild Hare. Finally, Bugs Bunnys Comedy Classics contained such WTBS staples as Easter Yeggs and Racketeer Rabbit. Quality Bugs shorts all, but all previously released as well.