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Woody Woodpecker and Friends

Season 1945 1945
TV-PG

  • 1945-01-15T00:00:00Z
  • 7m
  • 49m (7 episodes)
  • English
  • Animation, Comedy
With arguably the most famous laugh of any cartoon character in history ("ha-ha-ha-HA-ha"), Woody Woodpecker pecked his way into our lives through a 1940 Andy Panda theatrical short entitled Knock Knock. Woody continued to appear in short films throughout the 40's and 50's, and in 1957, the Kellogg's company packaged these theatrical works into the syndicated package The Woody Woodpecker Show. Walter Lantz created the famed bird, and in the show's early days, the animator would host from his office, demonstrating how cartoons were made by showing the viewers at home such essentials as painting cels and drawing storyboards. Woody, an obnoxious mischief-maker, would usually star in the shorts, occasionally taking a backseat to his friends Andy Panda, Wally Walrus, Gabby Gator, Buzz Buzzard, Oswald the Rabbit, The Beary Family and Arctic penguin Chilly Willy.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

1945-01-15T00:00:00Z

1945x01 The Pied Piper of Basin Street

Season Premiere

1945x01 The Pied Piper of Basin Street

  • 1945-01-15T00:00:00Z7m

In this swing version of the famous tale, a small town of no distinction is overrun with rats. Stores and homes of every kind and description are infected with a plague of rats. The mayor of the town is in a quandary. His phones are busy with demands to do something about the rats. Finally, he hears a voice say: "Listen. Mister, what you need is a Pied Piper." Looking up, he sees a young man with a trombone (a caricature of Jimmy Durante) who claims that he can run every rat out of town for a small financial consideration. The mayor makes a deal with him, and the trombone player goes to work leading the rats out of town with his hot music. He gets rid of the rats with the playing of his trombone, and he locks them in a large cage. Returning to the mayor's office, he's handed a bag which is full of peanuts.

1945-02-05T00:00:00Z

1945x02 Chew-Chew Baby

1945x02 Chew-Chew Baby

  • 1945-02-05T00:00:00Z7m

For not paying his board and room rent, Woody is unceremoniously kicked out of Wally's square boarding house, where you get four square meals a day. Woody is broke. He finds an ad in the newspaper: a millionaire is looking for his sweetie and is willing to pay a fortune for her- including four square meals a day. Woody has an idea. He dresses as "Clementine" to get food from Wally. Calling on Wally, Woody coyly leads him on while he eats his fill of Wally's home-cooked food. The flirtation soon gets out of hand, Woody loses his wig, and the deception is discovered. Wally tries his best to eliminate Woody and rescue his food, but he's foiled in each attempt. A big firecracker finally backfires on him, putting an end to his efforts.

The show opens with a tremendous storm at sea. The lone survivor is Jackson, a lion who also happens to be a jazz trombone player. The boat is finally shipwrecked in the Arctic, where the lion floats ashore, lands on an ice floe of some sort, and is rescued by penguins. He's so admired for his trombone playing that he's crowned king of the mystical kingdom of Polaroo. The usual "natives embracing the white explorer" phenomenon, but tongue in cheek.

1945-05-14T00:00:00Z

1945x04 Woody Dines Out

1945x04 Woody Dines Out

  • 1945-05-14T00:00:00Z7m

Woody Woodpecker is looking for a meal, but his favorite eatery, The Coffee Pot, has shut down (a sign reads "Closed by Popular Demand"). Unable to find a restaurant that's open, he finally mistakes a feline taxidermist's shop for a restaurant (with a sign reading "We specialize in stuffing birds"). Going inside, he orders a meal, not realizing that he's in a taxidermist's shop. Evidently, Woody's just just what the taxidermist (a cat) has been looking for, since he has a poster offering $100,000 for a king-size woodpecker, stuffed.

1945-07-09T00:00:00Z

1945x05 Crow Crazy

1945x05 Crow Crazy

  • 1945-07-09T00:00:00Z7m

Andy Panda, as a farmer, has a fine-looking field of corn about ready for the harvest. However, a flock of crows has discovered the corn and is busily devouring every kernel in sight when Andy discovers what's going on. He rushes out into the cornfield and fires a shotgun into the air. The crows fly away in every direction- all, that is to say, but one crow who continues to eat undisturbed. After many futile attempts to get rid of the wise-guy crow, Andy finds that he's unable to cope with the crow's sagacity. Andy then calls in his dumb dog Milo for assistance in keeping the crows from eating his corn, especially the one who's causing all the trouble. Again, the crow outsmarts the dog, with disastrous results for both Andy and Milo. Finally, the crow is seen rowing a boat filled with corn away into the sunset as Andy and Milo watch his departure with undisguised chagrin, and not a little relief.

1945-08-27T00:00:00Z

1945x06 The Dippy Diplomat

1945x06 The Dippy Diplomat

  • 1945-08-27T00:00:00Z7m

Woody Woodpecker's sleeping in the arms of a statue in the city park, dreaming of a big, juicy steak. Across the street from the park lives Wally Walrus, who's preparing to entertain famous Russian ambassador Ivan Awfulitch. Wally starts to barbecue some steaks, and the aroma from the sizzling meat wafts its way across the street into Woody's nostrils, picks Woody up, and carries him to the fence surrounding Wally's patio. Woody wakes up and, peeking through a hole in the fence, sees a table loaded with food. Woody reaches through the hole and helps himself to several ears of corn before Wally, who's a little slow to realize what's happening, nails a board over the hole.

1945-12-17T00:00:00Z

1945x07 The Loose Nut

1945x07 The Loose Nut

  • 1945-12-17T00:00:00Z7m

Woody Woodpecker is playing golf and drives his ball into a sand trap. Woody takes a wild swing at the ball in an effort to land it on the green, but the ball lands instead at the feet of a workman, who's laying wet cement on a sidewalk. Searching finally finds the ball lodged in the cement, and Woody attempts to drive it out. In so doing, he completely covers the workman with the wet mortar. Enraged, the workman fashions a bowling ball out of the cement and rolls it toward Woody, scoring a "strike." Woody switches from bowling to croquet and, picking up a huge mallet, drives the ball back to the workman. It hits the workman and knocks him into the sidewalk. The cement quickly congeals around the workman, creating a big bulge in the walk.

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