Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 is a Looney Tunes collection on DVD. Following the pattern of one release each year of the previous volumes, it was released on November 14, 2006.
This Looney Tunes collection is the first one where every disc in the collection has a special theme. Disc one is all Bugs Bunny. Disc two is devoted to cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin. Disc three is all Speedy Gonzales cartoons. Disc four features feline characters, including the well-known Sylvester plus the lesser known Conrad the Cat and Claude Cat among others. Previous Golden Collections included at least one All-Stars disc with no common theme.
Like Volume 3, Volume 4 contains a warning about the politically incorrect humor and racial stereotypes in some of the cartoons, but unlike Volume 3's warning, which was a filmed introduction done by Whoopi Goldberg, Volume 4 simply presents a title card before the main menu with the following:
The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise is the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.
The Region 2 version contains only 53 shorts; 11 on Disc 2, and 14 on each of the others.
Akin to Volume 2 and 3, Disc 1 was released separately in Region 4 as Best of Bugs Bunny, Volume 4, while the other discs were not released in the same format.
In Region 1, discs 1 and 4 were also released separately as the more family-friendly Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 4.
Audio commentariesEric Goldberg on Rabbit Hood and Mississippi HarePaul Dini on Operation: Rabbit and Hurdy-Gurdy HareJerry Beck on 8 Ball BunnyJune Foray and Jerry Beck on Rabbit RomeoMusic only tracks on Knight-mare Hare, Sahara Hare, Barbary Coast Bunny, To Hare is Human and Rabbit RomeoMusic and effects track on Operation: Rabbit and Southern Fried RabbitTwilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond ScottPowerhouse in PicturesBugs Bunny: Superstar, part 1 (1975), which contains the following shorts:What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)The Wild Hare (1940)A Corny Concerto (1943)I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 ½ Minutes - (1989)The Bugs Bunny ShowBallpoint Puns Bridging SequencesForeign Legion Leghorn recording sessionsTrailer Gallery:Bugs Bunny's Cartoon CarnivalBugs Bunny's All-Star RevueAll cartoons on this disc are directed by Frank Tashlin.Mark Kausler on The Case of the Stuttering Pig and Porky in the North WoodsMichael Barrier with Frank Tashlin on Now That Summer is Gone, Cracked Ice and Porky's Poultry PlantDaniel Goldmark on You're an EducationGreg Ford on Plane Daffy and I Got Plenty of MuttonJerry Beck on Puss n' BootyEddie Fitzgerald on The Stupid CupidBugs Bunny: Superstar, part 2, which contains the following shorts:Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)Walky Talky Hawky (1946)My Favorite Duck (1942)Hair-Raising Hare (1946)The Old Grey Hare (1944)Porky and Daffy in "The William Tell Overture"Frank Tashlin StorybooksLittle Chic’s Wonderful MotherTony and ClarencePrivate Snafu shortsThe Goldbrick (1943)The Home Front (1943)Censored (1944)All cartoons on this disc star Speedy Gonzales.Audio commentariesStan Freberg and Jerry Beck on Cat-Tails for TwoGreg Ford with Friz Freleng on Mexican BoardersArt Leonardi and Jerry Beck on Nuts and VoltsPaul Dini on The Wild ChaseMusic only track on Tabasco Road, Mexicali Schmoes, and West of the PesosMusic and effects track on Cat-Tails for Two90 Day Wondering (1956 Army reinlistment film by Chuck Jones)Drafty, Isn’t It? (1957 Army recruitment film by Chuck Jones)Friz on Film (new 1-hour documentary)Audio commentariesGreg Ford with Chuck Jones on Conrad the SailorEddie Fitzgerald on The Aristo-CatGreg Ford with Chuck Jones on The Aristo-CatJerry Beck on Dough Ray Me-owDaniel Goldmark on Pizzicato PussycatJune Foray and Jerry Beck on The Unexpected PestMusic only tracks on Cat Feud, The Unexpected Pest, and Go Fly a KitMusic and effects track on A Peck of TroubleOne Hit WondersSing-a-Song of Looney TunesThe Art of the GagWild Lines: The Art of Voice ActingLooney Tunes: A Cast of ThousandsPorky’s Breakdowns (1939 joke reel with Porky swearing) (unavailable on UK release)Sahara Hare Storyboard ReelPorky’s Poor Fish Storyboard Reel
