Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 is a DVD box set from Warner Home Video that was released on September 25, 2005. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short subject cartoons, 9 documentaries, 32 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 11 "vintage treasures from the vault", and 11 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks.
Volume 3 is the first in the series that includes a disclaimer on the box art stating the set "is intended for the adult collector" and that it may not be suitable for younger audiences. Volume 3 is also the first to contain a warning, this one by Whoopi Goldberg, who is a fan of the Warner cartoon characters, advising the viewers that some of the cartoons on the set contain content that is politically incorrect by today's standards, but will be shown uncut and uncensored for historical reasons, "because removing these inexcusable images and jokes from this collection would be the same as saying [these prejudices] never existed". Future volumes also contain this warning, presented instead as a title card before the main menu.
As with Volumes 1 and 2, the individual discs were released separately in Region 4:
Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3Disc 2: not releasedDisc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2 Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 The Region 4 versions have changed package of contents.
Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny - Volume 3 includes the short Super-Rabbit from Disc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 replacing shorts Rebel Rabbit and Duck! Rabbit! Duck!Disc 3: Best of Porky - Volume 2 includes the shorts Hollywood Capers and The Film Fan from Disc 2 replacing shorts Porky's Romance, Porky's Party and Porky in EgyptDisc 4: All-Stars - Volume 4 includes the shorts The CooCoo Nut Grove, She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, The Honey-Mousers and The Last Hungry Cat from Disc 2 replacing shorts Super-Rabbit, Daffy Duck and Egghead, A Gruesome Twosome, An Itch in Time and Gonzales' TamalesAll cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.Music-and-effects-only audio track on Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, Hillbilly Hare'Audio commentaryJerry Beck and Martha Sigal on The Wabbit Who Came to SupperMichael Barrier on Bowery Bugs and Hillbilly HareGreg Ford on Case of the Missing HareEddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Wackiki WabbitEric Goldberg on Duck! Rabbit, Duck!Chuck Amuck: 1989 DocumentaryThe Bugs Bunny Show: The Honey-Mousers bridging sequences; Bull Point Puns audio recording sessions with Mel BlancA-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season TwilogyMusic-only audio track on Wideo Wabbit and The Honey-MousersMusic-and-effects-only audio track on The Last Hungry CatAudio commentariesJerry Beck and Martha Sigall on Hollywood CapersMichael Barrier on The Coo-Coo Nut GroveGreg Ford on She Was an Acrobat's Daughter, Thugs with Dirty Mugs, The Mouse That Jack Built with pre-score musicDaniel Goldmark on Swooner CroonerJune Foray and Jerry Beck on The Honey-MousersWhat's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 1 (Turner Pictures, 1990), which contains the following shorts (since they are part of another feature, they are unrestored):A Wild Hare (1940) (unrestored, unrestored, but with recreated titles)The Heckling Hare (1941)The Big Snooze (1946)Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)It's Got Me Again! (1932)Behind-the-Tunes: Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and WhiteFine Tooning: Restoring the Warner Bros. CartoonsMusic-only audio tracks on Robin Hood Daffy, Rocket SquadMusic-and-effects-only audio track on The Windblown Hare, Claws for AlarmAudio commentariesJerry Beck on I Haven't Got a HatMark Kausler on Porky's RomanceEddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Porky's Party, Claws for AlarmDaniel Goldmark on Pigs in a PolkaJoe Dante on Porky Pig's FeatEric Goldberg on Robin Hood DaffyPaul Dini on Rocket SquadWhat's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny: Part 2 (Turner Pictures, 1990), which contains the following shorts:Hair-Raising Hare (1946)Hare Trigger (1945) (unrestored)The Bear that Wasn't (1967; MGM cartoon directed by Chuck Jones),Point Rationing of Foods (1943)Porky's Party Storyboard ReelBehind-the-Tunes: Tish Tash: The Animated World of Frank TashlinMusic-only audio tracks on Gonzales' Tamales, Birds AnonymousAudio commentariesPaul Dini on Super-RabbitJohn Kricfalusi on A Gruesome TwosomeMilton Gray on A Gruesome TwosomeEddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi on Draftee DaffyJohn Kricfalusi and Bill Meléndez on Falling Hare, An Itch in TimeJerry Beck and Art Leonardi on Birds Anonymous, Gonzales' TamalesGreg Ford on No Barking, To Beep or Not to BeepMichael Barrier on Odor-able Kitty, Walky Talky HawkyPrivate Snafu cartoons: Spies (1943), Rumors (1943), Snafuperman (1943)Falling Hare Storyboard ReelTV pilot: Philbert (1961)- with optional commentary by Jerry Beck and Art LeonardiThe Charm of Stink: On the Scent of Pepé Le PewLooney Tunes Go to War!Strictly for the Birds: Tweety and Sylvester's Award-Winning TeamupIn The New York Sun, author and critic Gary Giddins had complained that Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 were lacking in black-and-white shorts, and seemed to avoid the more politically incorrect cartoons in the series. When his review was reprinted in the book, Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books, Giddins noted that Volume 3 made up for its forerunners' shortcomings by including some of the racial caricatures of the series, preceded by an explanatory introduction by Whoopi Goldberg.
