Looney Tunes Super Stars

Looney Tunes Super Stars is a series of single-disc Looney Tunes cartoon-compilations, with each DVD release entirely dedicated to a particular well-known Looney Tunes character. The series released nine different releases from its start on August 10, 2010, until its end on April 23, 2013, serving as a continuation of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series.
==Background==
In 2008, in response to declining sales of DVDs and the growing popularity of Blu-rays at the time, Warner Home Video was convinced that consumers were only interested in high-definition material on home video made and therefore made a drastic decision to cater to that market via the Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD line. Upon learning that the post-1953 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were shown in theaters cropped to 1.85:1 widescreen format while still animated in the fullscreen Academy ratio of 1.37:1 like the earlier pre-1954 cartoons, Warner Bros. decided to present the post-1953 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons in this cropped widescreen aspect ratio on their first titles of the Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD line Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire and Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl.http://www.dohtem.com/bugs/wide/ 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 TVs.https://web.archive.org/web/20101220010830/http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/showthread.php?p=181212
On December 14, 2012, Jerry Beck stated on Stu's Show that he will be picking some cartoons for the future of the Looney Tunes Super Stars line.http://www.dohtem.com/bugs/news/ However, as the budget to restore more never-before-released on DVD Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons had run out in 2014, the Looney Tunes Super Stars line came to an abrupt end, with Marsupial Mayhem being the last collection of the release, causing the other proposed character volumes to be canceled.
===Controversy===
Collectors were upset to find that all post-1953 cartoons from the first two Looney Tunes Super Stars collections (Hare Extraordinaire and Frustrated Fowl) were presented in widescreen format instead of Academy ratio. This widescreen format, which crops both the top and bottom of the image, resulted in these affected shorts having certain visual gags and other important visual elements cut off.
As a result of these complaints, later volumes presented their cartoons in both formats, similar to how Warner Home Video previously presented most of its family feature films on DVD during the previous decadehttp://www.dohtem.com/bugs/wide/. However, the Porky & Friends and Sylvester & Hippety Hopper DVDs only contain fullscreen versions of the cartoons.
Most of the cartoons presented as widescreen on these sets has been later released on their proper Academy aspect ratio to home media on later sets such as Looney Tunes Platinum Collection and Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection. As of currently, "Design for Leaving", "Stork Naked", "Dime to Retire", "Lighter Than Hare", "Daffy's Inn Trouble", "The Iceman Ducketh", and "Suppressed Duck" are the only cartoons that have yet to be released to home media in their Academy aspect ratio.
==Releases ==
Cover	Title 	Released 	Featured cartoons
 	Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire 	August 10, 2010 	
* "Mutiny on the Bunny"
*"Bushy Hare"
*"Hare We Go"
*"Foxy by Proxy"
*"Hare Trimmed"
Cropped to widescreen:
*"Lumber Jack-Rabbit"
*"Napoleon Bunny-Part"
*"Bedevilled Rabbit"
*"Apes of Wrath"
*"From Hare to Heir"
*"Lighter Than Hare"
* "The Million Hare"
* "Mad as a Mars Hare"
*"Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare"
*"False Hare"
 	Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl 	August 10, 2010 	
*"Tick Tock Tuckered"
*"Nasty Quacks"
*"Daffy Dilly"
* "Wise Quackers"
*"The Prize Pest"
Cropped to widescreen:
*"Design for Leaving"
*"Stork Naked"
*"This Is a Life?"
* "Dime to Retire"
*"Ducking the Devil"
* "People Are Bunny"
*"Person to Bunny"
* "Daffy's Inn Trouble"
*"The Iceman Ducketh"
*"Suppressed Duck"
 	Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth 	November 30, 2010	Available in both fullscreen and widescreen:
*"All Fowled Up"
*"Fox-Terror"
*"A Broken Leghorn"
*"Crockett-Doodle-Do"
*"Weasel While You Work"
*"Weasel Stop"
*"Little Boy Boo"
*"Banty Raids"
*"Strangled Eggs"
* "Gopher Broke"
*"A Mutt in a Rut"
*"Mouse-Placed Kitten"
*"Cheese It, the Cat!"
*"Two Crows from Tacos"
*"Crows' Feat"
 	Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy 	November 30, 2010	
*"Tweetie Pie"
* "Bad Ol' Putty Tat"
*"All a Bir-r-r-d"
*"Canary Row"
* "Putty Tat Trouble"
* "Room and Bird"
*"Tweety's S.O.S."
*"Tweet Tweet Tweety"
*"Gift Wrapped"
*"Ain't She Tweet"
*"Snow Business"
*"Satan's Waitin'"
*"The Last Hungry Cat"
*"Birds Anonymous"
*"Tweety and the Beanstalk"
 	Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit (international countries)	May 4, 2011 	
*"Tortoise Beats Hare"
*"Super-Rabbit"
*"Rabbit Fire"
*"Baton Bunny"
*"Rabbit of Seville"
*"Big Top Bunny"
*"Bowery Bugs"
*"Gorilla My Dreams"
*"Long-Haired Hare"
*"High Diving Hare"
*"Bully for Bugs"
*"Ballot Box Bunny"
*"Rabbit Seasoning"
*"Rabbit's Kin"
*"Broom-Stick Bunny"
 	Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks	October 4, 2011 	Available in both fullscreen and widescreen: 
*"Coyote Falls"
*"Fur of Flying"
*"Rabid Rider"
*"Whizzard of Ow"
*"Little Go Beep"
*"Chariots of Fur"
*"Sugar and Spies"
*"Clippety Clobbered"
*"The Solid Tin Coyote"
*"Out and Out Rout"
*"Shot and Bothered"
*"Chaser on the Rocks"
*"Highway Runnery"
*"Boulder Wham!"
*"Hairied and Hurried"
 	Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best Of Zee Best 	December 27, 2011	
*"Odor-able Kitty"
*"Scent-imental over You"
*"Odor Of The Day"
* "For Scent-imental Reasons"
*"Scent-imental Romeo"
*"Little Beau Pepé"
*"Wild over You"
*"Heaven Scent"
Available in both fullscreen and widescreen:
*"Dog Pounded"
*"The Cats Bah"
*"Past Perfumance"
*"Two Scent's Worth"
*"Touché and Go"
*"Really Scent"
*"Who Scent You?"
*"A Scent of the Matterhorn"
*"Louvre Come Back to Me!"
 	Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham 	November 6, 2012 	
*"Tom Turk and Daffy"
*"Wagon Heels"
*"Mouse Menace"
*"One Meat Brawl"
*"Curtain Razor"
*"The Pest That Came to Dinner"
*"Riff Raffy Daffy"
*"Boobs in the Woods"
*"Dog Collared"
*"Thumb Fun"
*"Fool Coverage"
*"Corn on the Cop"
* "Corn Plastered"
*"Gone Batty"
*"Ant Pasted"
*"Dog Gone People"
*"Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches)"
*"The Great Carrot-Train Robbery"
 	Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem 	April 23, 2013 	
*"Hop, Look and Listen"
* "Hippety Hopper"
*"Pop 'Im Pop!"
* "Who's Kitten Who?"
*"Hoppy Go Lucky"
*"Cats A-weigh!"
*"Bell Hoppy"
*"Lighthouse Mouse"
*"Too Hop to Handle"
*"The Slap-Hoppy Mouse"
*"Mouse-Taken Identity"
*"Hoppy Daze"
*"Freudy Cat"
*"Cat's Paw"
*"Fish and Slips"
*"Birds of a Father"
*"Claws in the Lease"
* "Goldimouse and the Three Cats"
===Reissues===
Cover	Title 	Released 	Sets included
 	Looney Tunes Super Stars 3-Pack 	October 15, 2013	
*Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
*Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth
*Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks
 	Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature 	October 14, 2014	
*Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
*Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth
*Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks
 	Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature Vol. 2	June 6, 2017 	
*Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
*Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy
*Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham
==Notes==
*Despite the series being scrapped at the time, a cover for a Super Stars Elmer Fudd set was used in digital releases of a collection of Elmer Fudd cartoons on iTunes Video and Amazon Prime Video.https://www.facebook.com/bugsbunnyvideoguide/photos/a.501972356580638/2043051739139351/?type=3https://www.amazon.com/Looney-Tunes-Elmer-Fudd/dp/B0083KGAIU
*The Supergenius Hijinks and Marsupial Mayhem discs contain the usual content warning on the back of their cases, however they do not carry a disclaimer.
==See also==
*Looney Tunes Golden Collection
*Looney Tunes Platinum Collection
*Looney Tunes Collector's Choice
==References==
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