[7][8] After spending a few months at Paramount Pictures developing a short-lived series of live-action comedy shorts named Speaking of Animals, Avery was hired by the MGM cartoon studio.

According to animation historian Jerry Beck and Warner Archive Senior Vice President George Feltenstein, this lack of availability was because most of the original film negatives to pre-1951 MGM cartoons were destroyed in the 1978 film vault fire at the George Eastman House leaving only inferior duplicate copies, mainly mid-1990s Turner broadcast television masters as seen on the Ted Turner-owned cable networks Cartoon Network and Boomerang that were unsuitable for HD releases.

The set was made to "test the waters" and see if there was a potential market for future releases of Tex Avery cartoons on DVD; however, poor fan reception and low sales forced any of these plans to be scrapped.

[17] The set had to be delayed from June to December because the initial restoration quality of the shorts done by HBO Max was so poor that it was deemed "unreleasable" and the transfers had to be sent back multiple times to be redone and fix the problems.

[17] Since cartoons were not restored by the regular Warner Archive team when Volume 2 was released on December 15, 2020, the set received a somewhat mixed reception from fans noting some minor issues with DVNR, color correction, as well as titles being redone with Photoshop.

All shorts are presented uncut (with a warning stating that the cartoons shown are products of their time and may contain jokes that, by today's standards, are considered racially insensitive) and digitally restored.

All shorts are presented uncut (with a warning stating that the cartoons shown are products of their time and may contain jokes that, by today's standards, are considered racially insensitive).

All shorts are presented uncut (with a warning stating that the cartoons shown are products of their time and may contain jokes that, by today's standards, are considered racially insensitive).