Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection

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Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
Blu-ray Disc cover
Directed byChuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Ken Harris
Produced byLeon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, John W. Burton, David H. DePatie
StarringMel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Eric Bauza
Music byCarl Stalling, Milt Franklyn, William Lava, George Daugherty
Distributed byWarner Bros. Home Entertainment
Release date
  • December 1, 2020 (2020-12-01)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection is a Blu-ray Disc box-set released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on December 1, 2020. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts starring Bugs Bunny and numerous bonus features and supplementary content. The set's packaging includes a slip book, a booklet, and a collectible Bugs Bunny Funko POP! figure.[1][2]

Initially conceived by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment as a single-disc Blu-ray Disc version of The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD set with an additional Funko! doll, animation historian Jerry Beck convinced the department heads to extend the set to three discs and include cartoons not previously released on DVD or Blu-ray Disc in order to appeal to adult collectors.[3] The set includes 32 newly restored and remastered cartoons that were previously unavailable on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Blu-ray Disc sets, in addition to 20 "essential" shorts ported over from those previous collections. Eight cartoons (Lumber Jack-Rabbit, This is a Life?, Napoleon Bunny-Part, People Are Bunny, Person to Bunny, From Hare to Heir, The Million Hare and False Hare) had been previously restored and released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars DVDs, however, this Blu-ray Disc set presents them in their original 4:3 aspect ratio (as opposed to the Super Stars sets which had them cropped to "widescreen"). According to Beck, with this collection along with the previous Golden and Platinum Collections, Looney Tunes fans and collectors would be able to own approximately 90% of Bugs Bunny's filmography.[4]

The set also marks the first official home media release of the HBO Max series Looney Tunes Cartoons, with 10 Bugs Bunny centric episodes included as bonus features.[5][6]

In December 2025, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment reissued this set under the name Bugs Bunny Collection without the Funko doll or elaborate packaging - but the exact same three discs, set for release in March 2026.[7]

Special Features

# Title Co-stars Release date Director Series
1 Elmer's Candid Camera Elmer March 2, 1940 Chuck Jones MM
2 A Wild Hare Elmer July 27, 1940 Tex Avery MM
3 Hold the Lion, Please (*) June 6, 1942 Chuck Jones MM
4 Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid Beaky July 11, 1942 Bob Clampett MM
5 Super-Rabbit April 3, 1943 Chuck Jones MM
6 Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (*) June 12, 1943 Friz Freleng MM
7 What's Cookin' Doc? (*) January 8, 1944 Bob Clampett MM
8 Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears The Three Bears February 26, 1944 Chuck Jones MM
9 Hare Ribbin' June 24, 1944 Bob Clampett MM
10 The Old Grey Hare Elmer October 28, 1944 Bob Clampett MM
11 Baseball Bugs February 2, 1946 Friz Freleng LT
12 Hair-Raising Hare Gossamer May 25, 1946 Chuck Jones MM
13 Racketeer Rabbit (*) September 14, 1946 Friz Freleng LT
14 Bugs Bunny Rides Again Sam June 12, 1948 Friz Freleng MM
15 Haredevil Hare Marvin July 24, 1948 Chuck Jones LT
16 Hot Cross Bunny (*) August 21, 1948 Robert McKimson MM
17 Hare Splitter (*) September 25, 1948 Friz Freleng MM
18 Knights Must Fall (*) July 16, 1949 Friz Freleng MM
19 What's Up, Doc? Elmer June 17, 1950 Robert McKimson LT
20 8 Ball Bunny Playboy July 8, 1950 Chuck Jones LT
  • NEW: Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary! (provided in HD)
  • Behind the Tunes Featurettes
    • Hare Ribbin' Director's Cut (Uncensored & Unrestored)
    • Bugs: A Rabbit for All Seasonings
    • Forever Befuddled
    • Mars Attacks! Life on the Red Planet with My Favorite Martian (provided in HD)
  • Audio Commentaries

Disc 2

# Title Co-stars Release date Director Series
1 Rabbit of Seville Elmer December 16, 1950 Chuck Jones LT
2 Rabbit Every Monday (*) Sam February 10, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
3 The Fair-Haired Hare (*) Sam April 14, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
4 Rabbit Fire Daffy, Elmer May 19, 1951 Chuck Jones LT
5 His Hare-Raising Tale (*) Clyde August 11, 1951 Friz Freleng LT
6 Hare Lift (*) Sam December 20, 1952 Friz Freleng LT
7 Upswept Hare (*) Elmer March 14, 1953 Robert McKimson MM
8 Robot Rabbit (*) Elmer December 12, 1953 Friz Freleng LT
9 Captain Hareblower (*) Sam January 16, 1954 Friz Freleng MM
10 No Parking Hare (*) May 1, 1954 Robert McKimson LT
11 Yankee Doodle Bugs (*) Clyde August 28, 1954 Friz Freleng LT
12 Lumber Jack-Rabbit [n 1] September 25, 1953 Chuck Jones LT
13 Baby Buggy Bunny December 18, 1954 Chuck Jones MM
14 Hare Brush (*) Elmer May 7, 1955 Friz Freleng MM
15 This Is a Life? [n 2] Daffy, Elmer, Sam July 9, 1955 Friz Freleng MM
16 Rabbitson Crusoe (*) Sam April 28, 1956 Friz Freleng LT
17 Napoleon Bunny-Part [n 1] June 16, 1956 Friz Freleng MM
18 Half-Fare Hare (*) August 18, 1956 Robert McKimson MM
19 Piker's Peak (*) Sam May 25, 1957 Friz Freleng LT
20 What's Opera, Doc? Elmer July 6, 1957 Chuck Jones MM

Special Features

  • Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
  • Behind the Tunes Featurettes
    • A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy
    • Bugs Bunny: Ain't He a Stinker
    • Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of "What's Opera, Doc?"
  • Audio Commentaries
  • Alternate Audio Tracks
    • Music Only Tracks for Baby Buggy Bunny, Rabbit Fire and What's Opera, Doc?
    • Vocal Only Tracks for What's Opera, Doc?[10][11]

Disc 3

Notes

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