Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 is a four-disc DVD box set collection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Following the pattern of one release each year of the previous volumes, it was released on October 21, 2008.
Warner Home Video had announced that this will be the final release in the Golden Collection series. Succeeding the Golden Collection series would be the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection series on Blu-ray, which had its first release in November 2011. On July 3, 2012, a two-disc DVD version of Volume 1 of the Platinum Collection was released.
Volume 6 is far less child-friendly than the other five volumes in the series. Like Volumes 3, 4, and 5, it has a warning before each disc about the shorts containing content that some viewers would not consider to be "politically correct" by today's standards, and as such, is "intended for the adult collector". However, Volume 6's disclaimer states that it "is not suitable for children", as opposed to Volumes 3-5 stating that they "may not be suitable for children". This is due to that in addition to containing cartoons that have racial and/or ethnic stereotypes and references to sexism in Robert McKimson's Wild Wife, Volume 6 also contains many cartoons that pertain to World War II, most of them containing depictions or references to Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo or to Nazis and Imperial Japan in general. While Volumes 4 and 5 each had a couple explicitly WWII themed cartoons, Volume 6 is notable for having an entire disc dedicated to the subject, including several of its bonus cartoons.
Volume 6 was originally only released in North America due to the poor sales of Volume 5. However, the discs in this volume were not region-coded, making it easy for collectors outside of North America to import and play this set. The set was released in the UK on 12 September 2011.
Disc 1: Looney Tunes All-Stars
Special Features
Commentaries
- Hare Trigger by Greg Ford
- The Birth of a Notion by Mark Kausler
- My Favorite Duck by Jerry Beck
Music-only tracks
- Raw! Raw! Rooster!
- Jumpin' Jupiter
Television specials
- Bugs Bunny in King Arthur’s Court
- Daffy Duck’s Easter Eggcitement
Bonus Shorts
Bonus Shorts - Music-only tracks
- Rabbit Rampage
- Boyhood Daze
Disc 2: Patriotic Pals
Special features
Friz Freleng at MGM
- Poultry Pirates
- A Day at the Beach
- The Captain’s Christmas
- Seal Skinners
- Mama’s New Hat
Commentaries
- Herr Meets Hare by Greg Ford
- Russian Rhapsody by Mark Kausler
- The Draft Horse by Greg Ford
Music-only track
- Yankee Dood It
Bonus Shorts
Disc 3: Bosko, Buddy and ''Merrie Melodies''
All cartoons on this disc are in black-and-white.# | Title | Characters | Director | Year | Series |
1 | Congo Jazz | Bosko | Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising | LT | |
2 | Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! | Foxy | Rudolf Ising | MM | |
3 | The Booze Hangs High | Bosko | Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising | LT | |
4 | One More Time | Foxy | Rudolf Ising | MM | |
5 | Bosko's Picture Show | Bosko | Hugh Harman and Friz Freleng | LT | |
6 | You Don't Know What You're Doin'! | Piggy | Rudolf Ising | MM | |
7 | We're in the Money | Rudolf Ising | MM | ||
8 | Ride Him, Bosko! | Bosko | Hugh Harman | LT | |
9 | Shuffle Off to Buffalo | Rudolf Ising and Friz Freleng | MM | ||
10 | Bosko in Person | Bosko | Hugh Harman and Friz Freleng | LT | |
11 | The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon | Rudolf Ising | MM | ||
12 | Buddy's Day Out | Buddy | Tom Palmer | LT | |
13 | Buddy's Beer Garden | Buddy | Earl Duvall | LT | |
14 | Buddy's Circus | Buddy | Jack King | LT | |
15 | A Cartoonist's Nightmare | Beans | Jack King | LT |
Special features
Commentaries
- Shuffle Off to Buffalo by Jerry Beck
- A Cartoonist's Nightmare by Jerry Beck
The World of Leon Schlesinger
- Introduction by Martha Sigall and Jerry Beck
- Cryin' for the Carolines
- Haunted Gold title sequence
- Schlesinger Productions Christmas Party with optional commentary by Martha Sigall and Jerry Beck
Bonus Shorts
Disc 4: Most Requested Assorted Nuts and One-Shots
Special Features
Commentaries
- Fresh Airedale by Greg Ford
- The Hole Idea by Mark Kausler
Music-only tracks
- The Hole Idea
- Martian Through Georgia
Bonus documentary
- Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
Bonus Shorts
Bonus Short - Music-only track
- Wild Wild World
Bonus Short - Music and Effects track
- Punch Trunk