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Looney Tunes - Golden Collection

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection - Volume Three (1944)

Volume Three Episodes

1. Hare Force

February 1st, 19447 min

On a cold snowy night a frozen Bugs gets taken in by a kind old lady and set by the fireplace. The woman's dog can only think of ways to kill the rabbit and a war begins between the two for who gets the boot outside to the shivering cold.

2. Hare Remover

February 8th, 19467 min

Elmer Fudd is a mad scientist who wants to turn Bugs Bunny into a fiend. Bugs tricks this ersatz Dr. Jekyll into drinking his own mixture; later, each thinks the other has changed into a bear.

3. Hare Tonic

February 12th, 19458 min

Bugs Bunny tricks Elmer Fudd into believing his house has been quarantined for something called "rabbititus."

4. A Hare Grows in Manhattan

February 13th, 19478 min

Bugs Bunny relates his early life in the Manhattan tenements and spotlights his encounter with a gang of canine toughs.

5. Easter Yeggs

February 14th, 19477 min

Bugs Bunny delivers eggs for the lazy Easter Bunny; he encounters a sadistic brat and a rabbit stew-hungry Elmer Fudd.

6. The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

February 17th, 19428 min

Elmer Fudd and his dogs are hunting for Bugs Bunny in the woods. As Fudd is about to shoot Bugs, he receives a telegram telling him that his uncle is leaving him three million dollars on the condition he doesn't harm any animals.

7. Bowery Bugs

February 19th, 19497 min

Bugs Bunny recounts a story of how he tricked a man so much so that he jumped off a bridge.

8. Homeless Hare

February 21st, 19507 min

A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.

9. Case of the Missing Hare

February 23rd, 19428 min

Bugs' home in a hollow tree is marred when the magician, Ala Bahma, plasters his show posters all over it. Bugs goes to the show to heckle.

10. Acrobatty Bunny

February 24th, 19468 min

When the circus arrives they put the lion's cage right over Bugs' rabbit hole.

11. Wackiki Wabbit

February 25th, 19437 min

On a tropical island a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.

12. Hare Do

February 26th, 19497 min

Elmer Fudd hunts for Bugs with an army surplus wabbit detector but it doesn't seem to work when Bugs leads him off a cliff. Bugs hitchhikes to a local theatre to get away from Elmer but he finds Bugs

13. Rebel Rabbit

February 27th, 19497 min

The signs indicate current bounty prices: $50 for a fox, $75 for a bear, only 2 cents for a rabbit. Bugs is insulted.

14. Hillbilly Hare

February 28th, 19507 min

While vacationing in the Ozark Mountains, Bugs Bunny encounters Curt and Pumpkinhead Martin, two dimwitted hillbillies who are duped by Bugs into a violent square dance.

15. Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

March 2nd, 19537 min

The final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy" once again has Elmer out hunting, while Bugs and Daffy try to con him into shooting the other.

16. Daffy Duck in Hollywood

March 3rd, 19388 min

Daffy Duck wreaks havoc on a movie set at Wonder Pictures ("if it's good, it's a Wonder"). Daffy's creative editing impresses producer I. M. Stupendous.

17. Hollywood Capers

March 4th, 19357 min

Beans sneaks in to a Hollywood movie studio lot, where he gets into a heap of trouble.

18. The CooCoo Nut Grove

March 5th, 19367 min

A night at the Cocanut Grove night club. Many Hollywood celebrities are caricatured. Ben Birdie (Ben Bernie) leads the house band. In real life he had an ongoing feud with Walter Winchel. This feud is addressed in the cartoon with Winchel being called Walter Windpipe. The great torch singer Helen Morgan is caricatured singing the Dubin and Warren song The Little Things You Use To Do. Her singing such a sad song as to drive the crowd into uncontrolled crying is the main joke in the story. Other stars caricatured are Edna Mae Oliver, George Raft, Katharine Hepburn (Miss Heartburn), W.C. Fields, Johnny Weissmuller, The Dionne Quintuplets, Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks, Mae West, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Clark Gable, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Wallace Beery, Edna May Oliver, George Arliss and Gary Cooper.

19. Porky's Road Race

March 6th, 19377 min

It's race day, and first prize is $2 million (less $1,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky's little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. When the black #13 driven by "Borax Karoff" makes a bid for the finish line, can Porky fend him off?

20. The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos

March 7th, 19377 min

A program for radio KUKU set in the woods, mostly starring birds as caricatures of celebrities of the day. The MC is bandleader Ben Birdie, heckled by Walter Finchell. Wendell Howell prepares to lead a singalong; he gives several different page numbers in the songbook, then says, "Never mind, we won't use the books." The audience, responding "Oh yes we will" pelts him. Billy Goat and Ernie Bear introduce and sing the title song. Everyone sings along, except a fox, who informed he's singing the wrong song, responds, "Why don't somebody tell me these things?" We pan across a series of celebrity guests, like W.C. Field-mouse, Dick Fowl, Deanna Terrapin, Bing Crowsby, and the high-note competing duo of Grace Moose and Lily Swans. Tizzie Fish has a cooking segment. Finally, Louella Possums introduces a company performing a scene from The Prodigal's Return.

21. She Was an Acrobat's Daughter

March 8th, 19378 min

A typical afternoon at the movies is lampooned in this looney trip to the cinema.

22. The Film Fan

March 9th, 19397 min

Porky Pig is on his way to the store to pick up some groceries for his mother when he walks by a sign saying that the local movie theater is having a "kids admitted free" day. The excited Porky rushes in and views a series of spoofs of newsreels, movie trailers, feature films, and even the Lone Ranger!

23. Speaking of the Weather

March 10th, 19377 min

It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a travel magazine as a distraction to rob a bank, he is chased, caught, and sentenced to, of course "Life" (the magazine). But there's also a conveniently placed "Escape" magazine....

24. Thugs with Dirty Mugs

March 11th, 19398 min

Killer and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order, except they skip the 13th National Bank. The police are unable to catch them, despite their predictability (and their endless sight gags). Finally, they get help from an unlikely source: the guy in the front of the theatre who sat through the picture before. They capture Killer, and he gets a long sentence, which he has to write on the blackboard 1,000 times.

25. Goofy Groceries

March 12th, 19418 min

Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.

26. Swooner Crooner

March 13th, 19447 min

Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.

27. Wideo Wabbit

March 14th, 19567 min

Bugs Bunny is chased by Elmer Fudd throughout a TV studio and its various productions.

28. The Honey-Mousers

March 15th, 19567 min

The Honey-Mousers are starved for food and a cat stands between them and the refrigerator. Ralph and his friend concoct unsuccessful cat-passing techniques, the best being a Trojan dog made from a barrel.

29. The Last Hungry Cat

March 16th, 19617 min

Sylvester Cat slips when making a grab for Tweety Bird in Granny's flat, and falls dazed to the floor as one of Tweety's feathers lands in his mouth. Tweety runs off. Sylvester comes to and finds the feather lodged between his lips. He thinks he has swallowed and killed Tweety and suffers terrible remorse as an Alfred Hitchcock-like voice-over chides him for his "crime". Sylvester cracks, runs into the streets confessing, and returns to Granny's place, where he finds he didn't eat Tweety after all.

30. The Mouse That Jack Built

March 17th, 19597 min

A mouse version of The Jack Benny Program (1950).

31. I Haven't Got a Hat

March 18th, 19357 min

The occasion is a school musical with many acts in which each of them end with a problem. The biggest one being when Beans pulls a gag on Oliver and embarrasses him in front of the rest of the students.

32. Porky's Romance

March 19th, 19378 min

The introduction cartoon for Petunia Pig deals with Porky's courtship with her. Once he's won her hand in marriage, he fantasizes about his future with her, which doesn't seem very appealing.

33. Porky's Party

March 20th, 19387 min

Porky's birthday. His uncle sends him a silkworm that churns out articles of clothing when it hears the word "sew." After a sock and a bra, Porky stuffs it in a pocket to prepare for his party. He uses some hair tonic, then his dog Black Fury has some for himself it's 99% alcohol. The guests arrive: a penguin and a goose. The penguin, shoveling in the food, accidentally swallows the worm, which starts churning out top hats, which pop open inside the penguin's head. The goose tries increasingly violent ways of remedying this. Meanwhile, Porky's dog, lathered with shaving cream, runs in and is branded a mad dog.

34. Porky in Egypt

March 21st, 19387 min

Porky is a tourist. He's missed the main camel, so he rents one of his own. Both of them are soon overcome by the hot desert sun; the camel starts hallucinating, and marches off, playing the bagpipes. Porky sees the camel swimming in a pool, but it turns out to be a mirage. The camel eventually recovers enough to bring both of them back to town, where Porky goes mad.

35. Porky and Teabiscuit

March 22nd, 19398 min

Porky accidentally buys an old horse at an auction and must enter him in a race to recoup his loss.

36. Pigs Is Pigs

March 23rd, 195410 min

A stubbornly officious station master's stand-off with a miserly customer over the shipping rate for transporting guinea pigs gets completely out of hand.

37. Pigs in a Polka

March 24th, 19438 min

The story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.

38. Porky Pig's Feat

March 25th, 19439 min

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill.

39. Daffy Duck Slept Here

March 26th, 19487 min

Porky Pig fights to get a room in the only vacant hotel in town. Unfortunately, he must share his room with Daffy Duck, who irritates Porky and makes the night uncomfortable for him.

40. Bye, Bye Bluebeard

March 27th, 19497 min

Bluebeard the killer is at large, and in Porky Pig's home, a crafty mouse disguises himself as Bluebeard to scare Porky into providing him with a generous serving of food. Just as Porky realizes the mouse is too tiny to be Bluebeard, the real Bluebeard appears and ties Porky onto a rocket, intending to blast the pig into orbit! But when Bluebeard is distracted by Porky's food and decides to help himself to it, he his challenged by the mouse, who leads him on a chase.

41. An Egg Scramble

March 28th, 19507 min

On Porky Pig's farm, Miss Prissy, a slow-witted hen, has never laid an egg. So, one of her fellow hens paints Prissy's name on an egg and places it in Prissy's nest. Prissy believes she laid the egg and proudly refuses to let Porky have it to give to a market's truck. Porky takes the egg from her and gives it to the driver of the truck. Prissy follows the truck to a nearby city, determined to regain her egg. She grabs it from a woman in a house and flees. Convinced she's being chased by police, Prissy takes refuge in a run-down building where Pretty Boy Bagel, an escaped criminal, is also hiding out.

42. Robin Hood Daffy

March 29th, 19586 min

Daffy attempts to convince Porky, as Friar Tuck, that he really is Robin Hood.

43. The Windblown Hare

March 30th, 19497 min

Bugs Bunny gets swindled by the Three Little Pigs into buying their houses of straw and wood.

44. Claws for Alarm

March 31st, 19547 min

Porky Pig doesn't realize that the old hotel where he and Sylvester are spending the night is really part of a ghost town. It's only Sylvester who sees the band of murderous mice trying to do them in, while Porky chalks his fears up to insanity.

45. Rocket Squad

April 1st, 19567 min

In a futuristic city, Detectives Monday and Tuesday pursue a wanted criminal.

46. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur

April 2nd, 19398 min

Go back billions of years to the dinosaur age with Caspar Caveman and his pet dino, Fido. Caspar spots Daffy in a lake and hunts him but Daffy just keeps outsmarting him.

47. Super-Rabbit

April 3rd, 19438 min

Bugs Bunny becomes a superhero who does battle with a rabbit-hating cowboy and his horse.

48. Daffy Duck & Egghead

April 4th, 19387 min

A very early appearance of a barely recognizable Daffy Duck, seen here tormenting Egghead, a prototype Elmer Fudd who is just as unsuccessful with ducks as he was later to be with a certain wascally wabbit.

49. A Gruesome Twosome

April 5th, 19457 min

Two cats (one a caricature of Jimmy Durante) battle violently for the affections of a pretty girl cat, who'll dispense her favors on the one who brings her a little bird. Unfortunately for the lovestruck felines, the bird in question is a vicious little thing named Tweety.

50. Draftee Daffy

April 6th, 19457 min

Daffy Duck is desperate to elude the draft board representative bearing his conscription order.

51. Falling Hare

April 7th, 19438 min

Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.

52. Steal Wool

April 8th, 19577 min

alph Wolf tries to forcibly remove Sam Sheepdog in order to gain access to a flock of sheep. Without success, he uses a lasso, cannon, a string of firecrackers, and a giant rubber band.

53. Birds Anonymous

April 9th, 19577 min

When Sylvester learns of the possibly dire consequences of his passion for birds, he joins Birds Anonymous to quit. Unfortunately, the outside world taxes his resolve to the limit.

54. No Barking

April 10th, 19547 min

In a junkyard, Frisky Puppy's loud yapping keeps high-strung Claude Cat jumping, onto trains, planes and up past Tweety Bird's nest.

55. Rabbit Punch

April 11th, 19488 min

Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.

56. An Itch in Time

April 12th, 19438 min

Elmer threatens to give his dog a bath if he doesn't stop scratching, but the poor pooch is the victim of a hungry flea whose tools of the trade include pickaxes and dynamite.

57. Odor-Able Kitty

April 13th, 19457 min

A cat, tired of being abused by everyone in his neighborhood, disguises himself as a skunk and inadvertently attracts the romantic advances of a real skunk.

58. Walky Talky Hawky

April 14th, 19467 min

Young Henery Hawk's father regretfully admits their family's shame: they hunt and eat chickens. Henery set off to find one, and comes across Foghorn Leghorn, where the loudmouth rooster is engaged in his favorite pastime, playing tricks on a grumpy dog.

59. Gonzales' Tamales

April 15th, 19576 min

Male Mexican mice are jealous of Speedy Gonzales for taking their girl-friends. So, they set Sylvester Cat after Speedy by issuing a challenge to Sylvester in Speedy's name.

60. To Beep or Not to Beep

April 16th, 19637 min

Wile E. Coyote attacks the Road Runner with an enormous boulder-throwing catapult, only to have it constantly backfire on him.