The Archivist: LOONEY TUNES Collector’s Vault Volume 2 - Our Review with Over 100 Screenshots!

We gratefully acknowledge distributor Movie Zyng/AV Entertainment, who provided the product for this review.

New on Blu-ray, Warner Archive has delivered another collection of vaulted animation shorts. After many collected editions on Blu-ray over the years, with Collector’s Vault Vol. 1, it started to feel like the best episodes were behind us, we were perhaps starting to gently scrape at the bottom of the barrel. Which is why it’s a nice surprise that Vol. 2 proves that wrong – it is arguably a better collection than the last.

The first disc features cartoons that are on disc in a Looney Tunes collection for the first time. Disc Two cartoons are newly collected on Blu-ray but may have popped up before in DVD collections or as bonus features on other discs.

What you can expect here is a multiple toons featuring the main gang (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd), Tweety and Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk, Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf, and Pepe le Pew. Plus many other toons featuring lesser-known and one-off characters.

Highlights in the set include Jekyll & Hyde riffs (Dr. Jerkyl’s Hide, Hare Remover, Hyde and Hare), Daffy as as secret agent (Boston Quackie), a 2-strip toon from 1935 (Country Boy), and battles with bugs (To Itch His Own, The Pest that Came to Dinner).

My personal favorite toon in this collection (and maybe a top-5 all-time) is the terrific Claws for Alarm, which features Porky and Sylvester spending a night in a spooky ghost town. Many viewers will recognize as a segment from the 1988 compilation film Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters.

Several episodes also feature expert commentaries.

Note, some of these cartoons have racist gags or stereotypes. While this set isn’t nearly as bad as the recent Tom & Jerry collection in this respect, there are a handful of such moments which have aged poorly and can be rather offensive.