DBZ's handling is indeed dogshit, but to me it's never been too surprising. For people my age and a bit older, DBZ is simply mainstream. It's a lot easier to sell cropped DVDs with blown-out colors when the number of anime nerds pales in comparison to that of the average joes who simply don't want "the black bars" on their widescreen TVs.

As for Looney Tunes, I think that has more to do with that there were just so damn many of them. My impression is that while a good number of them are indispensable classics (Baseball Bugs, What's Opera Doc, Duck Amuck, Fast and Furry-ous...), a lot more of them are just "...eh." Not to mention the ones that Warner Bros. doesn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole anymore. We had the first two Golden Collection sets when I was a kid, and that was more than enough for me.

Completely agree with this, they don't need to put out a good product to sell DBZ.

I think you hit most of it on the head regarding looney tunes.
For me the only good ones are the characters like Bugs, Roadrunner etc. While I do love some of the old Merry Melodies most if not about 99% are just whatever
and just copies or cheaper versions of what Disney was doing at the same time.

Then you just didn't have many of the main character cartoons.

Another issue are the collections that have been released, most of the single LDs have all those cartoons on the box set of 6 volumes of DVDs.
There are Blurays and those are another mixed bag of part of them without a collection of them all.

For starters, you guys sound like punters. There are loads of great LT shorts that don’t involve the mains. That kid Ralph who daydreams he’s rescuing is parents from a stewpot or aliens? The dog and wolf that clock in when they get to the sheep meadow? One Froggy Evening, Nelly’s Folly? Loony Tunes is one thing I will non-sarcastically thrown the term “genius” around to describe because it really is. Mel Blanc and Chuck Jones in particular. You guys should probably devote real time to these things. They are as classic and classic can be, the animation embarrasses anything made today and the humor is very insightful.

...Good thing I didn't?

"Looney Tunes" is indispensable. "Every last Looney Tunes short" contains plenty that given perfect foresight I would have skipped.

To bring this back to Macross, this is like if I said, "I watched a few episodes of Macross Frontier and decided it wasn't for me," and someone lectured me that Macross (not Frontier, just Macross without any qualifiers) is actually brilliant and I just don't know.

Macross is multiple completely different projects connected only by whoever has the rights at the moment, therefore any of the bad stuff is just worthless having little to nothing connecting it to the good stuff.

The Muppet Show is even worse. They still haven’t put out anything but Seasons 1 and 2. Since then they have bought Star Wars and made...however movies they have made, at least three, but haven’t managed to do seasons 3 and 4. Disney + has them but they are missing things.

I think they did release the entire series in Germany on DVD, original music and all. The only downside is that the episode title cards are in German.