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Today's continuation of #VideoWednesday follows the final line of Looney Tunes videos marketed to children and families, "Looney Tunes Presents". Launched in June 1999 and ended in April 2000.

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This series focuses on the most popular Looney Tunes characters in terms of licensing. Tweety is the company's top-selling character (not to mention he brought in $50 million in merchandise during 1998 alone).

It makes sense that Tweety would launch the line with two videos. "Tweety: Home Tweet Home" and "Tweety: Tweet & Lovely". Priced at $14.95 in clamshell packaging, both tapes came packaged with a flat, cardboard Tweety picture frame, while some came with a plush Tweety doll.

Tweety: Tweet & Lovely contains 10 cartoons and is the more collector friendly of the two tapes. All cartoons are directed by Friz Freleng. It includes...

"Tugboat Granny"
"Tweety's Circus"
"Tweet and Lovely"

"The Rebel Without Claws"
"Hawaiian Aye Aye"
"Birds Anonymous"
"Fowl Weather"

"Greedy for Tweety"
"Catty Cornered"
"A Pizza Tweety-Pie"

In terms of presentation and selection of shorts (including a number of VHS debuts), the "Tweet and Lovely" tape is worth getting. The addition of some fan favorites like Birds Anonymous and their swan song Hawaiian Aye Aye are a nice touch.

Any favorites from Tweety: Tweet and Lovely (1/3)?

Any favorites from Tweety: Tweet and Lovely (2/3)?

Any favorites from Tweety: Tweet and Lovely (3/3)?

*Hawaiian Aye Aye was directed by Gerry Chiniquy.

The last of the two June 1999 releases, Tweety: Home Tweet Home, has a large number of double dips but it contains three new to VHS debuts. All cartoons are directed by Friz Freleng. It includes...

"Red Riding Hoodwinked"
"Dog Pounded"
"Tweet Tweet Tweety"

"Tree Cornered Tweety"
"The Jet Cage"
"Snow Business"
"Bad Ol' Putty Tat"

"Putty Tat Trouble"
"Tweety's S.O.S."
"Home, Tweet Home"

Home Tweet Home may not be worth it unless you want The Jet Cage. You can find these cartoons on other DVD sets but it makes a nice companion video to Tweet and Lovely. The first wave includes a total of 20 Tweety cartoons.

Any favorites from Tweety: Home Tweet Home? (1/3)

Any favorites from Tweety: Home Tweet Home? (2/3)

Any favorites from Tweety: Home Tweet Home? (3/3)

The next wave released in October 1999 includes three videos. One of them is Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.

The other two has one completely new video (Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny) and a combined reissue of two Marvin the Martian videos from 1998.

Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny includes 10 cartoons. Half are new to VHS. It is more family-friendly as he encounters mostly animals and monsters. It is also the first Warner VHS to include pre-1948 cartoons.

"Big Top Bunny"
"Tortoise Beats Hare"
"Water, Water Every Hare"

"Rabbit Rampage"
"The Abominable Snow Rabbit"
"Rabbit's Kin
"Foxy by Proxy"

"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid"
"My Bunny Lies over the Sea"
"Baton Bunny

The tape includes the following VHS debuts: Rabbit Rampage, The Abominable Snow Rabbit, Rabbit's Kin, and Foxy by Proxy. It is either worth buying or skipping it altogether. The compilation itself still stands out for its presentation and variety of shorts.

Any favorites from Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny? (1/3)

Any favorites from Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny? (2/3)

Any favorites from Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny? (3/3)

The next tape is a combination of two videos released in 1998 for Marvin the Martian's 50th birthday, also during the Warner Bros. 75th anniversary celebration.

Marvin the Martian & K-9: 50 Years on Earth! and Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes.

Also released in October 1999 is "Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes" (not to be confused with the original tape). It contains 12 cartoons from the two previous tapes. The tape also came in a special green clamshell case.

It covers Marvin's entire filmography with bonus shorts too.

"Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century"
"Jumpin' Jupiter"
"Rocket-bye Baby"
"Hare-Way to the Stars"

"Rocket Squad"
"The Hasty Hare"
"Haredevil Hare"
"Mad as a Mars Hare"

"Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century"
"Spaced Out Bunny"
"Lumber Jack-Rabbit"
"Hyde and Go Tweet"

Not too many double dips, but its presentation might hinder with some of the modern shorts in mine, and some that don't feature Marvin does show it. Regardless, Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes is a good video compilation of the previous July 1998 releases.

Any favorites from Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes? (1/3)

Any favorites from Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes? (2/3)

Any favorites from Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes? (3/3)

The last tape may not be on everyone's list but the bonus cartoons add it up to the mandated ten.

"Taz's Jungle Jams". Released in April 2000, it is the only tape in the third and final wave of the video series. Like Bugs, Tweety, and Marvin, Taz is extremely marketable.

It is also a double dip of The Stars of Space Jam: Tasmanian Devil including the same six shorts as follows...

It even has the same short from Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales.

According to @gregmethod, there was supposed to be more jungle themed cartoons but plans were averted at the last minute. "The Lion's Busy" and "Nelly's Folly" were considered along with "Bushy Hare". Only these four got released...

@gregmethod "Apes of Wrath"
"Gorilla My Dreams"
"The Lyin' Mouse"
"Dough for the Do-Do"

@gregmethod "Taz's Jungle Jams" is not necessary to collect as you can find most of these cartoons scattered on other DVD sets.

Looney Tunes Presents definitely made its mark in video history as one of the final waves of Looney Tunes theatrical shorts on VHS.

@gregmethod Any favorites from Taz's Jungle Jams? (1/3)

@gregmethod Any favorites from Taz's Jungle Jams? (2/3)

@gregmethod Any favorites from Taz's Jungle Jams? (3/3)

@gregmethod For the next #VideoWednesday, we will expand to an all-week long coverage highlighting the only mail order line of #LooneyTunes videos, and the final Looney Tunes VHS collector set ever made.

Looney Tunes The Collector's Edition, Wave 1 from November 1999.
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