# Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 is a DVD box set from Warner Home Video that was released on October 25, 2005. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short subject cartoons, nine documentaries, 32 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 11 "vintage treasures from the vault", and 11 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks.
Volume 3 is the first in the series to have a disclaimer on the box art stating that the set "is intended for the adult collector" and may not be suitable for younger audiences. It is also the first to feature a warning, given by Whoopi Goldberg, a fan of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters, who tells the viewers that some of the cartoons on the set contain content that is politically incorrect by today's standards, but will be shown uncut for historical reasons, because "removing these inexcusable images and jokes from this collection would be the same as saying [these prejudices] never existed". Future volumes also contain this warning, which is presented instead as a title card before the main menu.

## Related releases

As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Regions 2 & 4:
* Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3
* Disc 2: not released
* Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2
* Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4
These single-disc versions have changed package of contents, as well as excluding all bonus features.
* Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3 includes the short Super-Rabbit from Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 replacing shorts Rebel Rabbit and Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
* Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2 includes the shorts Hollywood Capers and The Film Fan from Disc 2 replacing shorts Porky's Romance, Porky's Party and Porky in Egypt
* Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 includes the shorts The CooCoo Nut Grove, She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, The Honey-Mousers and The Last Hungry Cat from Disc 2 replacing shorts Super-Rabbit, Daffy Duck and Egghead, A Gruesome Twosome, An Itch in Time and Gonzales' Tamales
In the UK (Region 2), the set was released unchanged in 2006.

## Disc 1 - Bugs Bunny Classics

    All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.
| # | Title | Co-stars | Year | Director | Series |
| 1 | Hare Force | Willoughby | July 22, 1944 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 2 | Hare Remover | Elmer | March 23, 1946 | Frank Tashlin | MM |
| 3 | Hare Tonic | Elmer | November 10, 1945 | Chuck Jones | LT |
| 4 | A Hare Grows in Manhattan | Hector | March 22, 1947 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 5 | Easter Yeggs | Elmer | June 28, 1947 | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 6 | The Wabbit Who Came to Supper | Elmer | March 28, 1942 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 7 | Bowery Bugs | | June 4, 1949 | Arthur Davis | MM |
| 8 | Homeless Hare | | March 11, 1950 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 9 | Case of the Missing Hare | | December 12, 1942 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 10 | Acrobatty Bunny | | June 29, 1946 | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 11 | Wackiki Wabbit | | July 3, 1943 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 12 | Hare Do | Elmer | January 15, 1949 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 13 | Rebel Rabbit | | April 9, 1949 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 14 | Hillbilly Hare | | August 12, 1950 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 15 | Duck! Rabbit, Duck! | Daffy, Elmer | October 3, 1953 | Chuck Jones | MM |

### Special features
#### Audio bonuses

* Music-and-effects-only audio tracks on Duck! Rabbit, Duck! and Hillbilly Hare
* Audio commentary
** Jerry Beck and Martha Sigal on The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
** Michael Barrier on Bowery Bugs and Hillbilly Hare
** Greg Ford on Case of the Missing Hare
** Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Wackiki Wabbit
** Eric Goldberg on Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

#### From the Vaults

* Chuck Amuck: 1991 Documentary
* The Bugs Bunny Show: The Honey-Mousers bridging sequences; Ball Point Puns audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc

#### Behind-the-Tunes

* A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy: A look at the creation, comedy, and cultural influence of "The Hunter's Trilogy", three cartoons ("Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning", and "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!") in which Daffy sets up Bugs to be shot by Elmer and the two argue over what hunting season it is (only for Daffy to get shot every time).

## Disc 2 - Hollywood Caricatures and Parodies

| # | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
| 1 | Daffy Duck in Hollywood | Daffy | December 12, 1938 | Tex Avery | MM |
| 2 | Hollywood Capers | Beans | October 19, 1935 | Jack King | LT |
| 3 | The CooCoo Nut Grove | Ben Birdie | November 28, 1936 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 4 | Porky's Road Race | Porky | February 6, 1937 | Frank Tashlin | LT |
| 5 | The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos | Ben Birdie | December 4, 1937 | Frank Tashlin | MM |
| 6 | She Was an Acrobat's Daughter | | April 10, 1937 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 7 | The Film Fan | Porky | December 16, 1939 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 8 | Speaking of the Weather | | September 4, 1937 | Frank Tashlin | MM |
| 9 | Thugs with Dirty Mugs | | May 6, 1939 | Tex Avery | MM |
| 10 | Goofy Groceries | | March 29, 1941 | Bob Clampett | MM |
| 11 | Swooner Crooner | Porky | May 6, 1944 | Frank Tashlin | LT |
| 12 | Wideo Wabbit | Bugs, Elmer | October 27, 1956 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 13 | The Honey-Mousers | The Honey-Mousers | December 8, 1956 | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 14 | The Last Hungry Cat | Tweety, Sylvester | December 2, 1961 | Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt | MM |
| 15 | The Mouse That Jack Built | | April 4, 1959 | Robert McKimson | MM |

### Special features
#### Audio bonuses

* Music-only audio track on Wideo Wabbit and The Honey-Mousers
* Music-and-effects-only audio track on The Last Hungry Cat
* Audio commentaries
** Jerry Beck and Martha Sigall on Hollywood Capers
** Michael Barrier on The Coo-Coo Nut Grove
** Greg Ford on She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, Thugs with Dirty Mugs, and The Mouse That Jack Built with pre-score music
** Daniel Goldmark on Swooner Crooner
** June Foray and Jerry Beck on The Honey-Mousers

#### From the Vaults

* What's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 1 (Turner Pictures, 1990), which contains the following shorts:
** A Wild Hare (1940) (unrestored, but with recreated titles)
** The Heckling Hare (1941)
** The Big Snooze (1946)
* Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)
* It's Got Me Again! (1932)

#### Behind-the-Tunes

* Fine Tooning: Restoring the Warner Bros. Cartoons: A look at how the Warner Bros. cartoons are digitally restored for the Golden Collection DVD sets.
* Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White: A look at the very early Warner Bros. shorts, which either starred Bosko, Buddy, or were thinly-plotted animated music videos based on music from Warner Bros. music library at the time.

## Disc 3 - Porky and the Pigs

| # | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
| 1 | I Haven't Got a Hat | Beans, Porky | March 2, 1935 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 2 | Porky's Romance | Petunia, Porky | April 3, 1937 | Frank Tashlin | LT |
| 3 | Porky's Party | Porky | June 25, 1938 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 4 | Porky in Egypt | Porky | November 5, 1938 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 5 | Porky and Teabiscuit | Porky | April 29, 1939 | Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton | LT |
| 6 | Pigs Is Pigs | Piggy | January 30, 1937 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 7 | Pigs in a Polka | | February 2, 1943 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 8 | Porky Pig's Feat | Daffy, Porky | July 17, 1943 | Frank Tashlin | LT |
| 9 | Daffy Duck Slept Here | Daffy, Porky | March 6, 1948 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 10 | Bye, Bye Bluebeard | Porky | October 22, 1949 | Arthur Davis | MM |
| 11 | An Egg Scramble | Porky, Prissy | May 27, 1950 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 12 | Robin Hood Daffy | Daffy, Porky | March 8, 1958 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 13 | The Windblown Hare | Bugs | August 27, 1949 | Robert McKimson | LT |
| 14 | Claws for Alarm | Porky, Sylvester | May 22, 1954 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 15 | Rocket Squad | Daffy, Porky | March 10, 1956 | Chuck Jones | MM |

### Special features
#### Audio bonuses

* Music-only audio tracks on Robin Hood Daffy, Rocket Squad
* Music-and-effects-only audio track on The Windblown Hare, Claws for Alarm
* Audio commentaries
** Jerry Beck on I Haven't Got a Hat
** Mark Kausler on Porky's Romance
** Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Porky's Party, Claws for Alarm
** Daniel Goldmark on Pigs in a Polka
** Joe Dante on Porky Pig's Feat
** Eric Goldberg on Robin Hood Daffy
** Paul Dini on Rocket Squad

#### From the Vaults

* What's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 2 (Turner Pictures, 1990), which contains the following shorts:
** Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
** Hare Trigger (1945) (unrestored)
* The Bear That Wasn't (1967; MGM cartoon directed by Chuck Jones),
* Point Rationing of Foods (1943)
* Porky's Party Storyboard Reel

#### Behind-the-Tunes

* Tish Tash: The Animated World of Frank Tashlin: A look at the life and animated work of director Frank Tashlin.

## Disc 4 - All-Stars Cartoon Party

| # | Title | Characters | Year | Director | Series |
| 1 | Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur | Daffy | April 22, 1939 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 2 | Super-Rabbit | Bugs | April 3, 1943 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 3 | Daffy Duck & Egghead | Daffy, Egghead | January 1, 1938 | Tex Avery | MM |
| 4 | A Gruesome Twosome | Tweety | June 9, 1945 | Bob Clampett | MM |
| 5 | Draftee Daffy | Daffy | January 27, 1945 | Bob Clampett | LT |
| 6 | Falling Hare | Bugs | October 30, 1943 | Bob Clampett | MM |
| 7 | Steal Wool | Ralph and Sam | June 8, 1957 | Chuck Jones | LT |
| 8 | Birds Anonymous | Tweety, Sylvester, Clarence Cat | August 10, 1957 | Friz Freleng | MM |
| 9 | No Barking | Claude, Frisky | February 27, 1954 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 10 | Rabbit Punch | Bugs, The Crusher | April 10, 1948 | Chuck Jones | MM |
| 11 | An Itch in Time | A. Flea, Elmer, Willoughby | December 4, 1943 | Bob Clampett | MM |
| 12 | Odor-able Kitty | Pepé | January 6, 1945 | Chuck Jones | LT |
| 13 | Walky Talky Hawky | Foghorn, Henery, Barnyard Dawg | August 31, 1946 | Robert McKimson | MM |
| 14 | Gonzales' Tamales | Speedy, Sylvester | November 30, 1957 | Friz Freleng | LT |
| 15 | To Beep or Not to Beep | Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner | December 28, 1963 | Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | MM |

### Special features
#### Audio bonuses

* Music-only audio tracks on Gonzales' Tamales and Birds Anonymous
* Audio commentaries
** Paul Dini on Super-Rabbit
** John Kricfalusi on A Gruesome Twosome
** Milton Gray on A Gruesome Twosome
** Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Draftee Daffy
** John Kricfalusi and Bill Melendez on Falling Hare and An Itch in Time
** Jerry Beck and Art Leonardi on Birds Anonymous and Gonzales' Tamales
** Greg Ford on No Barking and To Beep or Not to Beep
** Michael Barrier on Odor-able Kitty and Walky Talky Hawky

#### From the Vaults

* Private Snafu cartoons: Spies (1943), Rumors (1943), Snafuperman (1944)
* Falling Hare Storyboard Reel
* TV pilot: Philbert (Three's a Crowd) (1963) - with optional commentary by Jerry Beck and Art Leonardi

#### Behind-the-Tunes

* The Charm of Stink: On the Scent of Pepé Le Pew: A look at Chuck Jones' amorous skunk character, Pepe Le Pew
* Looney Tunes Go to War!: A look at the outrageous (and often offensive) cartoons released by Warner Bros. studios during World War II.
* Strictly for the Birds: Tweety and Sylvester's Award-Winning Teamup: A look at how Sylvester and Tweety's pairing led to Friz Freleng winning the Oscar for the 1957 short Birds Anonymous.

## Reception

In The New York Sun, author and critic Gary Giddins had complained that Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 were lacking in black-and-white shorts and seemed to avoid the more politically incorrect cartoons in the series. When his review was reprinted in the book, Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books, Giddins noted that Volume 3 made up for its forerunners' shortcomings by including some of the racial caricatures of the series, preceded by an explanatory introduction by Whoopi Goldberg.