Has anyone asked Jerry if he knows the reason for those removals?

Yeah me too. The DVD and Blu-Ray releases never bothered to release many earlier Foghorns either. Is he really unpopular or something?

A new Looney Tunes batch is coming November 4th:

https://collider.com/wha...n-hbo-max-november-2020/ 

Thanks for telling the forums - I forgot to. It turns out that the photos for the last batch were put out (on that website I've linked in previous posts) 12 days before they were put out, which means that photos for newly restored cartoons could come out any second now!

Additionally, 3 more Bugs Bunny cartoons are being restored! According to Jerry Beck over email, WB is working on restoring [at least] 3 of the more famous, yet unrestored Bugs cartoons. They are:
-Beanstalk Bunny
-The Unruly Hare
-A Lad in his Lamp

Despite 2020 being a horrible year, classic animation releases this year are one of the few things that have made me really happy and excited. Tex Avery announced in January, released in February, and 77 new Looney Tunes restorations so far (if you count the ones removed from batch 3, the number would increase to 90). More on the way. Nice!

I hope they put back all or at least some of the shorts removed from batch 3. Despite the restoration flaws pointed out by Thad Komorowski, watching new restored LT is always good, even more so during a pandemic.

I'm hoping we get some of the good, early Foghorn Leghorns this time around. That series got hosed by WB's thankfully short-lived "only restore cartoons made after 1953" mandate.

Foghorn is by far the most neglected major LT character. No Golden Collection disc was devoted to him and his Super Stars disc was messed up due to the post-1953 policy. As a result, 13 out of 28 shorts remain unrestored despite being the bulk of the series: earlier entries, more inspired and more fundamental to the character. "Henhouse Henery", for example, is the first short where Foghorn hums "Camptown Races".

---

A new Looney Tunes batch is coming November 4th:

https://collider.com/wha...n-hbo-max-november-2020/ 

Thanks for telling the forums - I forgot to. It turns out that the photos for the last batch were put out (on that website I've linked in previous posts) 12 days before they were put out, which means that photos for newly restored cartoons could come out any second now!

Additionally, 3 more Bugs Bunny cartoons are being restored! According to Jerry Beck over email, WB is working on restoring [at least] 3 of the more famous, yet unrestored Bugs cartoons. They are:
-Beanstalk Bunny
-The Unruly Hare
-A Lad in his Lamp

Excellent, thanks for sharing! Unruly Hare is one of my favorite Bugs shorts.

A new Looney Tunes batch is coming November 4th:

https://collider.com/wha...n-hbo-max-november-2020/ 

Thanks for telling the forums - I forgot to. It turns out that the photos for the last batch were put out (on that website I've linked in previous posts) 12 days before they were put out, which means that photos for newly restored cartoons could come out any second now!

Additionally, 3 more Bugs Bunny cartoons are being restored! According to Jerry Beck over email, WB is working on restoring [at least] 3 of the more famous, yet unrestored Bugs cartoons. They are:
-Beanstalk Bunny
-The Unruly Hare
-A Lad in his Lamp

While this is good news, were you supposed to mention this? Usually, Jerry wants to keep the news a secret for certain reasons.

Foghorn is by far the most neglected major LT character. No Golden Collection disc was devoted to him and his Super Stars disc was messed up due to the post-1953 policy. As a result, 13 out of 28 shorts remain unrestored despite being the bulk of the series: earlier entries, more inspired and more fundamental to the character. "Henhouse Henery", for example, is the first short where Foghorn hums "Camptown Races".

The later Sylvester and Tweety shorts also have it pretty bad. It's really inexplicable that Hyde and Go Tweet hasn't been restored yet (unless that's another short with negative damage).

At least the Foghorn disc gave you the choice of Academy or widescreen ratio. The first two Super-stars sets didn't have that option for the post-53 shorts.

If anything, as Leviathan said, Sylvester & Tweety has had it worse. Remember when WB released a set full of repeats instead of new-to-DVD shorts?

A new Looney Tunes batch is coming November 4th:

https://collider.com/wha...n-hbo-max-november-2020/ 

Thanks for telling the forums - I forgot to. It turns out that the photos for the last batch were put out (on that website I've linked in previous posts) 12 days before they were put out, which means that photos for newly restored cartoons could come out any second now!

Additionally, 3 more Bugs Bunny cartoons are being restored! According to Jerry Beck over email, WB is working on restoring [at least] 3 of the more famous, yet unrestored Bugs cartoons. They are:
-Beanstalk Bunny
-The Unruly Hare
-A Lad in his Lamp

Just to clarify: Are those three going to be part of the next batch on 11/4, or further down the line?

Hard to say, although like Jerry said, a lot of the newly restored cartoons will NEVER show up on MAX, though he is fighting for a home video release of these cartoons.

A new Looney Tunes batch is coming November 4th:

https://collider.com/wha...n-hbo-max-november-2020/ 

Thanks for telling the forums - I forgot to. It turns out that the photos for the last batch were put out (on that website I've linked in previous posts) 12 days before they were put out, which means that photos for newly restored cartoons could come out any second now!

Additionally, 3 more Bugs Bunny cartoons are being restored! According to Jerry Beck over email, WB is working on restoring [at least] 3 of the more famous, yet unrestored Bugs cartoons. They are:
-Beanstalk Bunny
-The Unruly Hare
-A Lad in his Lamp

Just to clarify: Are those three going to be part of the next batch on 11/4, or further down the line?

Hard to say, although like Jerry said, a lot of the newly restored cartoons will NEVER show up on MAX, though he is fighting for a home video release of these cartoons.

These would have been perfect for the 80th anniversary Blu-ray, too.

Obviously America has more going on right now, but with a day to go, do we still have no info on what shorts this update will contain?

Obviously America has more going on right now, but with a day to go, do we still have no info on what shorts this update will contain?

Sadly, not yet. However, WHV promised up a digital release of the Bugs 80th Blu-Ray today, but only 6 of the 60 cartoons appear on Amazon.

Added shorts so far:

S1 Ep 16 - Young and Healthy
S1 Ep 19 - The Girl at the Ironing Board
S1 Ep 20 - Pettin' in the Park
S1 Ep 31 - The Merry Old Soul
S1 Ep 33 - Little Dutch Plate
S1 Ep 35 - Flowers For Madame

S2 Ep 10 - Porky the Rain-Maker
S2 Ep 12 - The Village Smithy
S2 Ep 16 - The Fire Alarm
S2 Ep 17 - Plane Dippy
S2 Ep 19 - I'd Love to Take Orders From You
S2 Ep 20 - Fish Tales
S2 Ep 22 - When I Yoo Hoo

S3 Ep 8 - Porky and Gabby
S3 Ep 10 - Porky's Building
S3 Ep 13 - Porky's Super Service
S3 Ep 16 - Streamlined Greta Green
S3 Ep 18 - Plenty of Money and You
S3 Ep 19 - Sunbonnet Blue
S3 Ep 22 - Rover's Rival

S4 Ep 12 - Porky the Gob
S4 Ep 13 - Porky's Naughty Nephew
S4 Ep 14 - Porky's Spring Planting
S4 Ep 15 - The Sneezing Weasel
S4 Ep 17 - Porky's Five and Ten
S4 Ep 22 - Count Me Out

S5 Ep 11 - Pied Piper Porky
S5 Ep 14 - Porky's Tire Trouble
S5 Ep 15 - Dog Gone Modern
S5 Ep 23 - Snowman's Land
S5 Ep 24 - Naughty Neighbors
S5 Ep 26 - Fresh Fish
S5 Ep 27 - Porky the Giant Killer

S6 Ep 21 - Little Blabbermouse
S6 Ep 23 - Stage Fright
S6 Ep 26 - Wacky Wildlife

S7 Ep 13 - The Haunted Mouse
S7 Ep 19 - Porky's Snooze Reel
S7 Ep 22 - The Cat's Tale

S8 Ep 19 - Hobby Horse-Laffs
S8 Ep 20 - The Impatient Patient
S8 Ep 23 - Porky's Pastry Pirates
S8 Ep 28 - Gopher Goofy
S8 Ep 29 - The Squawkin' Hawk
S8 Ep 30 - Fox Pop

S9 Ep 16 - Greetings Bait
S9 Ep 18 - Fin 'n Catty

S10 Ep 22 - Meatless Flyday
S10 Ep 24 - The Unruly Hare

S11 Ep 22 - Fair and Worm-er

S12 Ep 13 - Along Came Daffy
S12 Ep 15 - Little Orphan Airedale

S13 Ep 21 - Two Gophers From Texas
S13 Ep 22 - What's Brewin' Bruin?
S13 Ep 24 - Bone, Sweet Bone
S13 Ep 25 - The Rattled Rooster
S13 Ep 26 - The Shell-Shocked Egg
S13 Ep 28 - My Bunny Lies Over the Sea

S15 Ep 21 - The Ducksters
S15 Ep 23 - The Leghorn Blows at Midnight
S15 Ep 25 - All A-bir-r-r-d
S15 Ep 27 - A Fractured Leghorn
S15 Ep 28 - Bunker Hill Bunny
S15 Ep 30 - Two's a Crowd

S16 Ep 16 - A Fox in a Fix
S16 Ep 17 - His Hare-Raising Tale
S16 Ep 18 - A Hound For Trouble
S16 Ep 20 - Room and Bird
S16 Ep 21 - Sleepy Time Possum
S16 Ep 22 - The Wearing of the Grin
S16 Ep 23 - Putty Tat Trouble
S16 Ep 24 - A Bone For a Bone
S16 Ep 26 - Tweety's S.O.S.
S16 Ep 27 - Tweet Tweet Tweety

S17 Ep 23 - Rabbit's Kin
S17 Ep 24 - Water, Water Every Hare
S17 Ep 25 - Sock-a-Doodle Do
S17 Ep 26 - Ain't She Tweet
S17 Ep 28 - Mouse Warming
S17 Ep 30 - Terrier Stricken

S18 Ep 16 - Fowl Weather
S18 Ep 17 - Muscle Tussle
S18 Ep 18 - Plop Goes the Weasel
S18 Ep 19 - Don't Give Up the Sheep
S18 Ep 20 - Snow Business
S18 Ep 22 - Ant Pasted
S18 Ep 24 - Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century

S19 Ep 24 - I Gopher You
S19 Ep 26 - Quack Shot
S19 Ep 27 - Sheep Ahoy

S20 Ep 22 - Hare Brush
S20 Ep 23 - A Kiddie's Kitty
S20 Ep 24 - Pests For Guests
S20 Ep 26 - Tweety's Circus
S20 Ep 27 - Rabbit Rampage
S20 Ep 28 - Lumber Jerks

S21 Ep 21 - Rabbitson Crusoe
S21 Ep 22 - Tree Cornered Tweety
S21 Ep 23 - Tugboat Granny
S21 Ep 24 - Tweet and Sour

S22 Ep 20 - Greedy For Tweety
S22 Ep 22 - Tweet Zoo

S23 Ep 13 - Hare-less Wolf
S23 Ep 14 - Now, Hare This
S23 Ep 15 - Pre-Hysterical Hare
S23 Ep 17 - A Pizza Tweety Pie
S23 Ep 18 - A Waggily Tale
S23 Ep 19 - To Itch His Own
S23 Ep 20 - Hip Hip Hurry!

S24 Ep 13 - Hot Rod and Reel
S24 Ep 14 - Trick or Tweet
S24 Ep 15 - Tweet and Lovely
S24 Ep 16 - Tweet Dreams
S24 Ep 17 - Wild About Hurry

S25 Ep 13 - Hopalong Casualty
S25 Ep 14 - Hyde and Go Tweet
S25 Ep 14 - Rabbit's Feat
S25 Ep 17 - Wild Wild World
S25 Ep 18 - Ready, Woolen and Able
S25 Ep 19 - Mice Follies

S26 Ep 11 - Compressed Hare
S26 Ep 15 - Prince Violent
S26 Ep 16 - Zip 'N Snort
S26 Ep 17 - Lickety-Splat

S27 Ep 7 - The Jet Cage
S27 Ep 8 - Mother Was a Rooster
S27 Ep 9 - Shishkabugs
S27 Ep 10 - Wet Hare
S27 Ep 12 - A Sheep in the Deep
S27 Ep 13 - Quackodile Tears
S27 Ep 15 - Zip Zip Hooray
S27 Ep 16 - The Slick Chick

S28 Ep 11 - Hare-Breadth Hurry
S28 Ep 14 - Woolen Under Where

S29 Ep 18 - Hawaiian Aye Aye
S29 Ep 21 - Tease For Two
S29 Ep 25 - Rushing Roulette
S29 Ep 26 - Tired and Feathered
S29 Ep 28 - Just Plane Beep

S30 Ep 17 - Merlin the Magic Mouse
S30 Ep 20 - Cool Cat
S30 Ep 21 - Big Game Haunt
S30 Ep 22 - Hippydrome Tiger
S30 Ep 25 - Feud With a Dude
S30 Ep 27 - 3 Ring Wing Ding
S30 Ep 29 - Chimp and Zee
S30 Ep 32 - Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too
S30 Ep 33 - Shamrock and Roll

S31 Ep 15 - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
S31 Ep 17 - Spaced Out Bunny
S31 Ep 19 - Box Office Bunny
S31 Ep 20 - Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
S31 Ep 23 - From Hare to Eternity

---

As a certain someone said on Facebook in his blunt sarcastic way (never seems to want to let that go and I recall he not liking this cartoon at one point), "Naughty Neighbors" has a better print on the service with no mix-match title music.

Something VERY important to note; Fresh Fish and The Rattled Rooster have their ORIGINAL TITLES RESTORED while Two's a Crowd and Sleepy Time Possum both have their original rings restored!!!!

The print of "Porky the Giant Killer" is also a massive improvement over the version on PP101. Contrast levels are higher (more pronounced whites) and the original opening title music is back.

---

Something VERY important to note; Fresh Fish and The Rattled Rooster have their ORIGINAL TITLES RESTORED while Two's a Crowd has its original rings restored!!!!

So does When I Yoo Hoo, a cartoon that they gave a very odd sounding soundtrack....
https://ibb.co/BP8b45c 
https://ibb.co/gwd7bn7 
https://ibb.co/HrPYm6G 

Wow, that's a big update! I know what I'll be doing the next few days...

Watching Quackodile Tears now. One discrepancy I noticed: The short originally faded out and back in for the title card. This version just smash cuts from the shield logo to the title card. Restoration looks good, though.

"A Waggily Tale" is great picture-wise, but there's one amusing flub: after the opening titles, the "That's All Folks!" end title appears before cutting to the cartoon proper. As a result, the cartoon doesn't end with any end card; it just ends.

Also, this amusing "Rabbit's Kin" flub: https://twitter.com/allnewzbadnewz/status/1324050387926716418 

---

So, of the last two batches of newly-remastered Looney Tunes, which ones are presented with their title sequences restored, as opposed to recreated?

Wait so any old Foghorns? The list is so long!!!

Checking them out. Frankensteined titles notwithstanding, they look great.

Some of the B/W shorts look a bit rougher than others, and some have complete openings while others have truncated ones. Can this be explained?