Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons is a series of Looney Tunes videos and Laserdiscs from Warner Home Video. It debuted on July 15, 1992 and ended on May 18, 1994.
July 1992 releases[]
This wave released on July 15, 1992 is also referred to as the "movie title parody series". It was the first to honor Yosemite Sam with his own videotape. It was also the first to include the recently computer-colorized Looney Tunes.
The cover of each tape features the star of the video within the trademark Looney Tunes circles and a golden film strip containing the Warner Bros. shield in the middle below it. The title of each video was a parody of a well-known motion picture. Also included on the front of each box was a "quote" from a fellow Looney Tunes character.
The tapes feature the same opening from the Warner Bros. Cartoon Cavalcade VHS releases from 1988 except the original WB shield graphic is replaced by the Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons logo despite not being featured on the tape covers.
Cover | Title | Shorts |
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Bugs Bunny: Truth or Hare | ||
Daffy Duck: Tales from the Duckside |
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Porky Pig: Days of Swine and Roses |
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The Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: The Scrapes of Wrath | ||
Sylvester & Tweety: The Best Yeows of Our Lives | ||
Yosemite Sam: The Good, the Bad and the Ornery! |
Movie titles parodied[]
- Bugs Bunny: Truth or Hare: Madonna: Truth or Dare
- Daffy Duck: Tales from the Duckside: Tales from the Darkside
- Porky Pig: Days of Swine and Roses: Days of Wine and Roses
- The Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: The Scrapes of Wrath: The Grapes of Wrath
- Sylvester & Tweety: The Best Yeows of Our Lives: The Best Years of Our Lives
- Yosemite Sam: The Good, the Bad and the Ornery!: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
February-March 1993 releases[]
This wave is made exclusively for LaserDisc. This wave of sets produced in 1992 and released on February 3, and March 3 and 10, 1993 feature the same opening from the Warner Bros. Cartoon Cavalcade and the July 1992 wave of videos.[6][7][8][9]
With the exception of "Porky Pig's Feat" on the Ham on Wry LaserDisc, which is computer-colorized, all the black-and-white cartoons in the LaserDiscs were featured in their original black-and-white presentation.
Each LaserDisc set has fourteen cartoons, with a total of seven cartoons per disc side, except for the Looney Tunes: Assorted Nuts LaserDisc which instead had sixteen cartoons with a total of eight cartoons per disc side.
September 1993 releases[]
Each video in this wave released on September 22, 1993 began with a short animated opening of Bugs Bunny spinning the "Warner Bros. Family Entertainment" logo around the small Warner Bros. shield. For the first time since the Golden Jubilee series, Elmer Fudd gets his own VHS tape on the Warner Home Video label. The series was discontinued in 1999.[10]
Cover | Title | Shorts |
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Bugs Bunny's Hare-Brained Hits | ||
Elmer Fudd's School of Hard Knocks | ||
The Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote's Crash Course | ||
Sylvester & Tweety's Tale Feathers | ||
Yosemite Sam's Yeller Fever |
May 1994 releases[]
This wave of LaserDisc exclusive sets produced in 1993 and released on May 18, 1994 feature the 1993 Warner Bros. Family Entertainment opening logo featuring Bugs Bunny from the September 1993 VHS releases, as hinted by the appearance of the WB Family Entertainment logo on the top of these LaserDisc covers.[11] Jerry Beck provides liner notes for each release.
See also[]
- The Golden Age of Looney Tunes
- Cartoon Moviestars
- Stars of Space Jam (Japanese LaserDiscs)
- Bugs and Friends (Japanese LaserDiscs)
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ The Impatient Patient (computer colorized)
- ↑ Porky Pig's Feat (computer colorized)
- ↑ Porky's Party (computer colorized)
- ↑ Patient Porky (computer colorized)
- ↑ Porky's Hero Acency (computer colorized)
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AjeEYo7Des&ab_channel=CatraDhtem
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z33fySapbA&ab_channel=CatraDhtem
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPz_rWKuZU&ab_channel=DaffyDuck
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbATnQCK9qI&ab_channel=GamesR4Players
- ↑ http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/videoauthori.aspx
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30sqNaAdPjk&ab_channel=KingAndrewCecil