Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 1 was released on May 30, 2023. The set includes 20 cartoons - none of which have previously been released on DVD or Blu-ray before. They are all presented uncut and digitally restored.
Daffy Duck initiates the tale in the guise of Jack, lamenting the recent exchange of a prized Holstein cow for three seemingly insignificant beans. Disenchanted by his trade, Daffy discards the beans, unwittingly setting off a chain of events as they land in Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole. Subsequently, a towering beanstalk emerges, prompting Daffy to embark on a climb, recognizing the narrative's necessity for progression.
An emaciated canary, singing like Frank Sinatra and attracting the attention of all the admiring chicks, is getting on the nerves of a pipe-puffing parrot, who speaks like Bing Crosby. The parrot spots Sylvester (who in this cartoon speaks differently in a more dopey voice and without a lisp while speaking), foraging through the trash. Telling Sylvester he needs more vitamins (which the canary has been swallowing in bulk), he lures Sylvester inside to snare the canary.
The cartoon opens up on some railroad workers, in silhouette, who are singing "I've Been Working on the Railroad". Elmer is a surveyor for a railroad company, and the path of the new railroad goes directly over Bugs' current residence, as indicated by the signs.[5] Elmer disturbs Bugs from reading "Hare Raising Stories" by singing "I've Been Wowking on the Waiwwoad". Bugs comments, "Hey! That sounds like Frankey Sinatra, or an unreasonable facsimile," then, after holding up a "P-U" sign, plays tricks on Elmer by making him see lovely ladies from an "Eksquire" magazine. Elmer kisses him, and in response, Bugs asks, "Is you is or is you ain't my baby?". Elmer realizes that he has been tricked, and Bugs runs to another hole in the ground and dives in. Elmer shoots down the hole. Elmer remarks, "I hate wittle, gway wabbits."
Daffy learns that a refined lady duck with a high income is seeking someone to marry. After the requisite courtship and marriage, Daffy looks forward to a life of luxury. However, the lady duck, whose personality is as domineering as her size, immediately orders Daffy to do the housework. After an afternoon of exhausting tasks, he is startled by the appearance of the lady duck's rambunctious son Wentworth, whom Daffy wants nothing to do with.
Daffy Duck, fatigued and disoriented from a failed migration attempt, seeks refuge in a mansion belonging to Porky Pig. Mistaking a stuffed duck for a living companion, Daffy imposes himself in the residence, encountering resistance from Porky's vigilant dog, Rover.
The cartoon's story (which is essentially a re-working of Bob Clampett's 1941 short Porky's Pooch) is about a dog named Rags McMutt, who has just escaped from the dog pound and accidentally meets Charlie, an old friend of his, in a car that he used as a hiding place.
Wile E. Coyote relentlessly pursues the Road Runner across treacherous desert terrain. Their chase leads to a pivotal moment at a three-way fork, where the Road Runner's cunning navigation confounds the coyote. Subsequently, a series of comedic mishaps ensue, including failed attempts to ambush the Road Runner using hand grenades and trapeze acrobatics. Despite numerous setbacks, Wile E. Coyote persists in his pursuit, employing various tactics such as slingshots, fireworks, and even motorboats.
Wile E Coyote (Famishius Famishius) attempts several ways to get the Roadrunner (Super-Sonicus-Tastius). The Roadrunner reaches two outcroppings. When Wile E tries it, the end of said outcropping comes off. Just when he thinks he is about to suffer gravity yet again, Wile E is saved by a tree branch. He tries to go on the plateau nearby, only for the plateau to fall to a river. A fish nearby is spooked when Wile E gets his newest scheme.
Hector, Sylvester and Tweety are chasing each other in the street, but they get injured offscreen by passing cars. They are taken to the hospital, where Nurse Granny tends to them. Only the innocent Tweety tries to get rest, while Sylvester tries to get him and Hector tries to harass Sylvester. Sylvester tries many methods to cause pain to the dog's bandaged leg, but always fails, with the dog trying to do the same to him.
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The short begins at a party at a stork club from which a drunken stork leaves to deliver a baby. Elsewhere, Sylvester shrugs off his wife's desire of wanting a baby, even mocking her brief depression over his objection ("And what thanks do I get? I wish I was dead! Boo hoo hoo! Every day it's the same thing - pitter-patter of little feet!"). Meanwhile, the drunken stork arrives in their neighborhood and, exhausted and unable to continue to his intended destination, drops the bundle off at the nearest house- theirs. Sylvester's wife, despite being surprised at the stork's public drunkenness, graciously receives the package.
A cat is shown in Foghorn's resident farm, fishing in the local pond. Instead, he receives a note from the fish reading "Dear Dope, You can't catch us Fish without a Worm on the hook." Frustrated, the cat begins to look for a worm around the farm. Meanwhile, Foghorn Leghorn encounters a small green worm and chases him into a corner, where he and the cat crash into each other. Recovering from his daze, Foghorn confronts the cat and questions why he's chasing after worms instead of mice. The cat, unable to talk back at the rambling rooster, is eventually pushed up a ladder before falling off, with Foghorn remarking "There's nothing worse than a blabbermouth cat", even though Foghorn himself is the blabbermouth. The cat, knowing that Foghorn would be a great interference for his quest for a worm, tricks him into getting his head stuck in a fence (via a wooden guillotine) and used a paintbrush attached to an automated wheel to repeatedly smack him in the face with green paint.
The story begins with a wanted poster for a weasel with the subtitle "WEASEL (CHICKEN THIEF)." The Dawg is seen guarding the hen house by marching back and forth. Foghorn, who is on the other side of the wire fence, states to the audience that the Dawg is "strictly G.I.", meaning "Gibbering Idiot," not to mention the fact that he's being stubborn as a donkey. Foghorn distracts the Dawg by deliberately letting a young chick escape from the barnyard.
Catstello is being chased by a cat rapidly at high speed around the house, yelling "Hey Babbit!" Catstello narrowly escapes into the mousehole, while the cat crashes into a wall. Babbit notices this and asks Catstello for the cheese. Catsstello replies that he does not have any, because he is scared of the cat. Babbit then chastises Catstello for his cowardice, but he fails to change Catstello's behavior. Babbit then continuously slaps his partner on the head.
An insomniac fox is having trouble sleeping, and despite his best efforts (tossing and turning, clamping his eyes shut, etc), he simply cannot fall asleep. He stumbles across a book entitled Insomnia and its Cure, which tells him filling his pillow with duck feathers is essential for a good night's sleep. The next morning, the fox heads out to capture a duck and soon comes across one. The duck, however, proves to be too much for the fox to handle, as he is constantly outsmarted and all his plans to capture him backfire at every turn.
An unnamed dog based on John Barrymore (who also appeared in The Goofy Gophers) is reading a book and decides to seek wild game, which happens to come in the form of the Goofy Gophers. After trying to get them through simple chasing, only to see the gophers dive into their hole and then overrun the hole and off a cliff, the dog (upside down, hanging off a tree) looks through his book and discovers four ways to get a gopher:
Wellington the dog is given a package to deliver to Uncle Louie, with strict instructions not to let go of it. Sylvester and an unnamed orange cat, both of whom Wellington has been tormenting, see this as their chance to get even. They try multiple ways to get him to drop the package (one of which is disguising a cigarette from pepper and using it to make him sneeze), but Wellington always outsmarts them.
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In a metropolis of the eastern hemisphere, inhabitants are gripped by fear and law enforcement perplexed, as the entire urban landscape becomes inundated with an enigmatic phenomenon: mustaches painted ubiquitously on advertisements and even unsuspecting individuals. Amidst this puzzling scenario, Daffy Duck emerges as the self-professed culprit, breaking the fourth wall to the audience and justifying his actions through poetic verse. With whimsical resolve, Daffy reveals his singular mission: to adorn every countenance with a mustache.