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]

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 will not be any special features in the Super Stars series.^[8] Jerry Beck stated on Stu's Show on December 14, 2011 that he will be picking some cartoons for the future of the Super Stars line. ^[9]

There were originally plans to do another Daffy Duck release. According to Jerry Beck on Stu's Show after the release of the final volume of the Platinum Collection series, the Super Stars series came to an abrupt end due to low sales and lack of money to remaster the never-before-released cartoon shorts, making any other future character Super Stars releases, like Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam and Speedy Gonzales extinct. 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.

Controversies[edit]

The first two Looney Tunes Super Stars 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, which made many collectors upset, as cartoons were filmed in Academy ratio, not widescreen at that time (CinemaScope shorts being the only exception and Warner never filmed any LT shorts in CinemaScope). 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 T.V.s. 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.^[10]

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.^[11]

Looney Tunes Poker

Egghead (or the prototypical Elmer Fudd) made four more appearances in Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas (1938), Hamateur Night (1939), A Day At The Zoo (1939), and forty-nine years later in the 1988 compilation film Daffy Duck's Quackbusters. After stowing away on a riverboat called 'The Southern Star', Bugs plays poker against a gambler named Colonel Shuffle.

References[edit]

1. ^Date, Titles for New DVDs featuring Bugs Bunny and Daffy DuckArchived 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.comArchived 2010-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^[1]
4. ^WHV Confirms Road Runner/Coyote Delay; Gives New TimeframeArchived 2011-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, tvshowsondvd.com, February 22, 2011
5. ^WHV Announces New Pepe Le Pew DVDArchived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, tvshowsondvd.com, September 1, 2011
6. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2012-08-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), tvshowsondvd.com, August 29, 2012
7. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2013-04-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
8. ^Jerry Beck, on Stu Show 11.
9. ^http://www.dohtem.com/bugs/news/
10. ^http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/showthread.php?p=181212#post181212Archived 2010-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
11. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2012-11-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Recently, after people had raised “Looney Toons” as an alternate memory, something odd happened: People report seeing “Looney Tunes” (the actual name) change to “Looney Toons,” at many websites, just for a day or so.

For example, on 28 Nov 2015, Emily said, “Hey guys…. Looney Tunes changed again. Just last week it was Looney Toons…” (“Last week” would have been Nov 15th – 22nd.)

Ordinarily, I’d dismiss that kind of report as a brief and localized issue — usually a print media error, or a typo in a digital TV show listing.

Also, it doesn’t help that Tiny Toons exist, with similar graphics to their “grown-up” counterparts. So, that provides plenty of reason for people to be confused about the cartoon series’ names.

(However, several people — including Lebaneser Scrooge — mentioned Tiny Toons in their comments, so they were aware of the difference.)

In this case, Emily’s comment was one of many. She wasn’t confusing “Tiny Toons” and “Looney Tunes.” In fact, reports were widespread and credible.

The alternate memory — a reality in which it really is “Looney Toons” — was suggested in some 2014 emails. By March 2015, people were more outspoken about this. (See a comment on Comments 5 and another on Comments 6, with more on later pages.)

Looney Tunes Playing Poker

So, if the one-day switch was deliberate, the crossover wasn’t original; we’d already talked about it, here. And — if it was a genuine mistake (by one or more people) — one might question whether those who changed the name, temporarily, may have come from another reality.

But, that’s assuming the brief name change occurred in this reality. And frankly, it’s stacking one speculation atop another, reaching a precarious conclusion.

As I see it, we have several explanations, none of which can be proved. Here they are, in no particular order:

1. Everyone who thought they saw “Looney Toons” was mistaken. (I don’t believe that, based on the volume of reports I received, but it must be mentioned if we’re considering every possibility.)
2. Everyone who saw “Looney Toons,” online, had slid into a reality where that was the correct spelling. And then they slid back into this reality, without noticing any other alternate-reality cues.
3. The veil (or whatever you want to call it) between realities thinned, briefly and only in certain locations, so the alternate reality’s “Looney Toons” name phased into view in (or from) this reality.
4. The brief change — from Looney Tunes to Looney Toons — was deliberate, and either a prank or a social experiment. (The scale of that would be impressive, but not impossible.)

If you saw Looney Toons in November (or at any other time), share your thoughts in comments, below. If possible, include when you saw it, and where you were at the time (nearest city).

Looney Tunes Johnny Smith And Poker-huntas

[UPDATE: Comments are now closed.]

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