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Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 6 | 
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Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 790
Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 413
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8
MPN: 1000026481
UPC: 085391178712
EAN: 0085391178712
ASIN: B001CO42CA
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: October 21, 2008
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/21/2008
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Fifteen cartoons dating from World War II give Volume 6 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection more focus than previous sets. Many of the 1940's cartoons remain very funny. Bugs Bunny dresses up as Brunnhilda and rides in to the strains of "Tannhauser" in "Herr Meets Hare" (1945), a gag Chuck Jones re-used to greater effect in "What's Opera, Doc" a dozen years later. In "Russian Rhapsody" (1940) some of the gremlins who sabotage Hitler's bomber are caricatures of the Warner Bros. artists. Chuck Jones appears as a chunky, pinkish-tan homunculus swinging a mallet; Friz Freleng is a little green man with a saw-like nose. Younger viewers may find the references to wartime shortages puzzling--or fail to recognize the caricatures of Hermann Goering, Hideki Tojo and Joseph Stalin. Some of the other cartoons can still bring down the house, including "Satan's Waitin'" (1954), in which Sylvester manages to lose all nine of his lives in pursuit of Tweety, and "Bear Feat" (1949), another exercise in futility for Jones' Three Bears. The early musicals featuring Bosko, Foxy (or Freddy Fox) and Buddy have not aged well. Created by Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising, these characters were modeled on Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse, but lack charm and personality. Some more recent films reveal how social attitudes have changed. "Wild Wife," a spoof of a suburban housewife's tribulations, may have seemed hilarious in 1954; today, it's just a laundry list of sexist gags. Like the previous installments, Volume 6 comes loaded with extras. The rarest are five shorts Friz Freleng directed at MGM in 1938. Producer Fred Quimby lured Freleng away from Warner Bros.--only to insist he adapt the comic strip "The Captain and the Kids," Rudolph Dirks' version of "The Katzenjammer Kids." Freleng correctly predicted the films would flop as the characters were "the meanest little bastards in the world," and soon returned to Warners. (Unrated, suitable for ages 6 and older: cartoon violence, ethnic stereotypes, mild risqué humor, alcohol & tobacco use) --Charles Solomon (1. Hare Trigger, 2. To Duck or Not to Duck, 3. Birth of a Notion, 4. My Little Duckaroo, 5. Crowing Pains, 6. Raw! Raw! Rooster! 7. Heaven Scent, 8. My Favorite Duck, 9. Jumpin' Jupiter, 10. Satan's Waitin', 11. Hook Line and Stinker, 12. Bear Feat, 13. Dog Gone South, 14. A Ham in a Role, 15. Often an Orphan, 16. Herr Meets Hare, 17. Russian Rhapsody, 18. Daffy the Commando, 19. Bosko the Doughboy, 20. Rookie Revue, 21. The Draft Horse, 22. Wacky Blackout, 23. The Ducktators, 24. The Weakly Reporter, 25. Fifth Column Mouse, 26. Meet John Doughboy, 27. Hollywood Canine Canteen, 28. By Word of Mouse, 29. Heir Conditioned, 30. Yankee Dood It, 31. Congo Jazz, 32. Smile Dam Ya, Smile! 33. The Booze Hangs High, 34. One More Time, 35. Bosko's Picture Show, 36. You Don't Know What You're Doin'! 37. We're in the Money! 38. Ride 'em Bosko, 39. Shuffle Off to Buffalo, 40. Bosko in Person, 41. The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, 42. Buddie's Day Out, 43. Buddie's Beer Garden. 44. Buddie's Circus, 45. A Cartoonist's Nightmare, 46. Horton Hatches the Egg, 47. Lights Fantastic, 48. Fresh Airedale, 49. Chow Hound, 50. The Oily American, 51. It's Hummer Time, 52. Rocket Bye Baby, 53. Goo Goo Goliath, 54. Wild Wife, 55. Much Ado About Nutting, 56. The Hole idea, 57. Now Hear This, 58. Martian Through Georgia, 59. Page Miss Glory. 60. Norman Normal)
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More Looney Gold January 7, 2009
Keep 'em coming. Nothing in the history of animation can match Warner Bros. Interesting commentaries and features and all those classic cartoons. This set contains some lesser "stars," and some less familiar shorts.
Hare-Less again! January 2, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I am glad the WWII cartoons made the collection as well as one of my top-10 all-time favorites "It's Hummer Time" I am aghast that Mr. Charles M. Wolf has been forgotten again! Hare-Less Wolf may be the best Bugs of all time and it is not anywhere to be found! I own all the other Golden Collections and am sure to buy this one, but please WB make this classic available.
 Collector Cartoons December 20, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This completes the collection. I purchased Volumns 1 thru 5 last year. A very amazing collection of cartoons.
 Disappointing December 6, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have purchased each volume of the Golden Collection so of course when this one came out I hurriedly ordered it as well.
My goal in buying this collection was to recapture those great cartoons that I watched as a child. Many have since been discontinued or heavily edited on TV, so this was a way of enjoying these classic cartoons from the days before we became so politically correct.
I am not one to expect that every cartoon will be a favorite, but I'll have to say this volume is rather full of filler. All of the classic cartoons on disk 3 are the type you'd find in the discount stores for a dollar a disk and are certainly not what I expected for my money. Those who want the very early cartoon classics with unknown characters might love this collection, but I expected to see Golden cartoons, not ancient ones!
WB could have done much better than this, but I guess they expected die-hard fans like me to buy it anyway. They got their wish, but shame on them for not doing better than this.
 Not the way I wanted it to end... December 1, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
For me, the Golden Collection sets have been a lot of fun--They have allowed me to re-connect w/ the cartoons I loved as a kid and to introduce them to my children. And some classics I've been waiting for are in Vol. 6 ("Goo Goo Goliath" and "The Oily American," in particular).
But this collection is heavy on cartoons that pre-date my experience--which, I admit, is probably a big selling point for some other fans.
My biggest disappointment is that "Design for Leaving" ("Not the wed one! Don't ever push the wed one!") was left out.
Bottom line: I'm glad I bought Vol. 6, but I doubt we will watch as many of these cartoons as often as we watch most of Vols. 1-5.
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