The complete Looney Tunes checklist.
Every Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon ever made - all 1,002 golden-age theatrical shorts, the later theatricals, the webtoons, every TV episode, and every film - each with its own record page and a checklist you can tick off as you collect. See what has been restored, what only ever hit DVD, and what was never released at all.
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From the ledger
The golden-age register stops in September 1969, and the stopping was twenty-one years in the making. The 1948 Paramount ruling unbundled shorts from features and let theaters stop paying for them; a 3-D panic shut the studio for five months in 1953 and proved it was closable; and television turned Warner's own vault into its cheapest competitor, through the 1955 and 1956 library sales and The Bugs Bunny Show. The doors closed in May 1963, the contract years wound down, and the original run ended with a remake title and a beatnik tiger. The autopsy of the theatrical short, with dates.
October 14, 2026
For his first four years, all under producer Leon Schlesinger, Bugs Bunny heckled unprovoked, tormented innocents, lost to the tortoise twice, and played an outright outlaw. Chuck Jones ended it with a rule, that Bugs must always be provoked, and the record dates the correction: Hold the Lion, Please stands as the first short produced under the doctrine, and the fully villainous Bugs of Buckaroo Bugs exits the filmography in the same 1944 reel as Schlesinger's producer credit. The file on the brat years, and why behavior dates a print as reliably as a title card.
October 5, 2026
From late 1943 to 1956, Warner's Blue Ribbon reissue program spliced new title cards directly into the original negatives of its color cartoons, cutting away and mostly scrapping the original titles and credits. The destroyed-credits era lines up almost exactly with the pre-1948 library Warner sold to a.a.p. in 1956, A Wild Hare itself went through the program, and only a handful of originals have ever been recovered. The file on the largest self-inflicted wound in the catalog, and how the ledger reconstructs what the splicer removed.
October 4, 2026
From October 2003 to October 2008, Warner Home Video released one Golden Collection box set every autumn: six volumes, 356 restored cartoons, commentaries, documentaries, and a stated aim of serving the adult collector. Against this ledger's 1,002 golden-age shorts, that five-year excavation reached about a third of the filmography, and no release program since has matched its depth. Here is why the window opened, what came through it, why it shut, and why the six out-of-print boxes still anchor the hobby.
October 2, 2026
Four cartoons before A Wild Hare star a rabbit who officially is not Bugs Bunny. The shorthand for him, Happy Rabbit, turns out to be a name invented decades later, while the name Bugs Bunny was in print a year before the official debut. The pre-history, one tickable box at a time.
September 30, 2026
A counting question about a finished body of work should have one answer. The references offer at least seven, from 998 to 1,041, and the standard encyclopedia disagrees with its own tables. This ledger counted the rows. Here is the number, the arithmetic, and the five judgment calls that explain every rival total.
September 27, 2026
Eleven golden-age shorts have been locked away since 1968. They were restored fifteen years ago. The DVD was finished. It never shipped.
September 12, 2026