Showing posts with label home media release. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home media release. Show all posts

Friday, September 25, 2026

Available Updates (Vault Diznee)

“Drawn and Quartered” is still on hiatus until 2027, but I do want to chime in with some additions and corrections involving the cartoon shorts that are available for release, as the Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault, volume 3 was released this month, and there are a lot of WB shorts I’ve covered that were censored, but are now shown uncut on this Blu-ray. Normally, I’d go back and add an “EDIT” on the actual entry, but this is a better way of doing that, though I did go back to the "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" entry and the "12 Missing Hares" entry to announce that, yes, these are available on Blu-ray, uncut, uncensored, and remastered/restored for HD, since, hey, they're might be people reading those posts (and I'm sure there are: as of this writing, "Sinkin' in the Bathtub"'s entry is at 116 views while "Joined at the Hypocrisy: A June Bugs Special in April" is at 269).

The cartoons I cover will be in order of appearance on the Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault, volume 3 (and, while I’m here, I might as well include volumes one and two). The ones I haven’t covered yet, but have been shown edited on television will be highlighted. A full list of shorts (both the ones that were shown edited and/or banned from American TV and the ones that were safe to air) can be found here, here, and here. I’m only listing the cartoons that are on all three Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault Blu-rays as of 2026 and were either banned or censored when aired on American television (and international TV, but mostly American TV).


Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault, Volume 1

Disc 1

“Beauty and the Beast”

“A Day at the Zoo”

“The Dixie Fryer”

“Double or Mutton”

“Each Dawn I Crow”

“Easy Peckin’s”

“Feather Dusted”

“A Kiddie’s Kitty”

“Quackodile Tears”

“Ready, Woolen, and Able”

“Terrier-Stricken”

“Tweet and Lovely”

“Tweety’s Circus"

“Two’s A Crowd”

“Wild About Hurry”

“Zip ‘n Snort”

Disc 2

“Ain’t She Tweet”

“Birth of a Notion”

“Bye, Bye Bluebeard”

“Daffy Duck & Egghead”

“Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z”

“Gonzales’ Tamales”

“Hare Trigger”

“Hare Trimmed”

“Horton Hatches the Egg”

“Little Boy Boo”

“Past Perfumance”

“Porky’s Duck Hunt”

“Red Riding Hoodwinked”

“Rhapsody Rabbit”

“Snow Business”

“Zoom and Bored”


Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault, Volume 2

Disc 1

“A-Lad-In His Lamp” (not on the 12 Missing Hares/Banned Bugs Bunny 12 list, but did air with a scene cut on Cartoon Network and was eventually phased out due to Middle Eastern/Arabic stereotypes. This short also didn’t air on the former WB network for the same reason it was eventually phased out)

“Ain’t That Ducky”

“Boston Quackie”

“The Daffy Duckaroo”

“Dr. Jerkyl’s Hyde”

“Fastest With the Mostest”

“Fowl Weather”

“I Taw a Putty Tat”

“I Was a Teenage Thumb”

“Mother Was a Rooster”

“Pests for Guests”

“A Sheep in the Deep”

“Sock a Doodle Do”

“A Street Cat Named Sylvester”

“To Itch His Own”

“A Waggily Tale”

Disc 2

“Awful Orphan”

“A Bird in a Guilty Cage”

“Bowery Bugs”

“Claws for Alarm”

“Frigid Hare” (proud member of the 12 Missing Hares/Banned Bugs Bunny 12)

“Hare Remover” (its inclusion here is debatable, as, while there is a scene that looks as if it’s missing a part, said missing scene hasn’t resurfaced nor was it added to the cartoon when it was included on the Blu-ray set. Nonetheless, it will be covered on the “Lost and Missing Scenes” entry).

“The Heckling Hare” (same as above, though cuts were made on some TV versions to either cover up the point where the cartoon prematurely ends or to cut out the falling sequence entirely for time reasons)

“Hop and Go”

“Jumpin’ Jupiter” (part three of Andrea Hicks’ and Sarthurva U.'s coverage of the Porky/Sylvester horror vacation shorts is coming. I promise)

“The Last Hungry Cat”

“Mouse Menace”

“Ready.. Set.. Zoom!”

“Stop! Look! And Hasten!”

“Whoa, Be-Gone!”

“Wise Quackers” (if you can believe it, this short actually did air on American TV with minor cuts before disappearing because of the slavery references)

“You Were Never Duckier”


Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault, Volume 3

Disc 1

“Billboard Frolics”

“A Feather in His Hare” (nothing was cut from this, but it is part of the 12 Missing Hares/Banned Bugs Bunny 12, which I did cover on this blog. That post is considered one of my best works, next to the FAQ about The Censored Eleven and, for some reason, my entry on “I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song”)

“Horse Hare” (just like the previous entry, this is a “12 Missing Hares” short. Unlike “A Feather in His Hare,” this one was shown edited on television before being phased out)

“Lady, Play Your Mandolin!”

“Sinkin’ in the Bathtub”

“Tree Corner Tweety”

“Tweet and Sour”

Disc 2

“Ballot Box Bunny”

“Boobs in the Woods”

“Case of the Missing Hare”

“Fox Terror”

“Foxy By Proxy”

“Fresh Airedale”

“Goldimouse and the Three Cats”

“Herr Meets Hare” (no parts cut, but it was included on the 12 Missing Hares/Banned Bugs Bunny 12 list)

“Holiday for Shoestrings”

“Mississippi Hare” (another 12 Missing Hares/Banned Bugs Bunny 12 member, and, like “Horse Hare,” it was shown on American TV with parts cut and is part of the blogpost I did about those shorts)

“Mutiny on the Bunny”

“Pizzicato Pussycat”

“A Star is Bored” (yeah...when I get to this one, it’s going to be an exercise on how good of an amateur video editor I really am)

“The Windblown Hare”

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As always, Stay Looney and Be Merrie!

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Billboard Frolics (Shokus All Night Long)

 

Director: Isadore "Friz" Freleng (credited as "I. Freleng")

Summary: It's a "things come to life and put on a show" cartoon, but instead of a grocery store, a department store, or the ever-popular bookstore, it's an alley filled with billboards on or around buildings. There is a story of a baby chick from one of the ads getting chased by an alley cat after getting owned by a worm in an apple, but that's buried beneath all the other gags. 

Fun Facts: Probably the only noteworthy thing about this short is that this is the first appearance of "Merrily We Roll Along," which is one of two theme songs associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. While it doesn't really matter now since both are used interchangably, I'd like to remind casual fans of classic cartoons that the Merrie Melodies' theme is "Merrily, We Roll Along" while Looney Tunes' theme is "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," which was heard on the 1937 short "Sweet Sioux," but wasn't used as the Looney Tunes theme until "Rover's Rival".

The Channel: Home media release (Shokus Video's Cartoon Collection, third volume)

Part(s) Edited: Curiously, the scene of the baby chick getting inflated with a tire pump while chasing the worm from the apple was cut. A scene of mild slapstick like this normally wouldn't be cut on television, much less home media release, so I'm as lost as you are when it comes to explaining why it would be edited. I'm just going to assume that this is either a time/pacing cut brought on by either the cartoon going on for too long or, since Shokus Video is one of those gray-market public domain video companies that probably took some cartoon shorts that were still under copyright, some parts had to be trimmed for legal reasons (though if that were the case, why was the beginning with Eddie Camphor and Rub-Em-Off singing "Merrily, We Roll Along" not cut? Seems like the easy target).

Looney Tunes Wiki also claims that there may be a cut between the woman's underclothes dancing and the scene of the chick in the billboard ad chasing after the worm, but I'm going to cover that on my blog page about cartoon shorts that may have been edited, but there currently is little to no evidence of the deleted scenes existing.

What Wasn't Cut, But Should Have Been: The cigarette-smoking penguins doing the same dance as the wooden ducks on "Beauty and the Beast," only now the snow is abrasive, powdered cleanser for sinks and bathroom fixtures rather than soda crackers being put through an electric fan. I could see some unnamed syndicated versions doing it, but mostly, I see Cartoon Network and Boomerang temporarily editing this because one of their taboos is showing characters smoking cigarettes. I say "temporarily" because I can also see this being shown edited initially, then shown uncut before getting phased out.

How It Plays Edited/Video Comparison: Going by how I edited it (based on what Looney Tunes wiki states), it looks obvious that something's missing. This is evident in the audio side of things rather than the visual, but I will let you, the viewer, judge for yourself.


Availability Uncut: Besides the Shokus Video's Cartoon Collection print, there are versions of this short that are available uncut and uncensored. The version I used for the compare/contrast video is from MeTV (an over-the-air channel that airs classic cartoon shorts, as well as older live-action TV shows) and that version is uncut (barring the alleged edit I mentioned above). The Golden Age of Looney Tunes laserdisc (volume 4, side 10) had this uncut, as well as the 2005 DVD release of the film Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. It used to be on Max (formerly known as "HBO Max") when the streaming service was first released in 2020, but it has since been pulled. Why? I don't know. There's nothing problematic about it (unless you count the Rub-Em-Off, the Russian violin [or "wioleen"] player, but most don't. I feel this might have been dropped because no one was streaming it, which is a shame, because it does look good restored). As of this writing, it hasn't been released anywhere else besides those places, but things could change...

Update: …and they did. “Billboard Frolics” is on Tubi as of 2025.

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