The BEST episodes directed by Alex Lovy

#1 - Speedy Ghost to Town

Looney Tunes - Season 1967 - Episode 5

Daffy Duck overhears Speedy Gonzales and another mouse talk about a hidden cheese storage area, thinking it is really gold they are talking about.

#2 - Ace in the Hole

The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1942 - Episode 2

Woody Woodpecker is a stable boy. The stables are located right in an airfield, and the sound of airplanes droning around only fuels his lust to fly. "I want to fly like the birds!" declares the woodpecker. But the only thing the bulldog sergeant on the airfield feels Woody is competent for is clipping the horses with an electric clipper. And considering that Woody accidentally allows the clipper to clip off the sarge's shirt buttons and a long strip of hair off his chin, he may be giving Woody too much credit. Nevertheless, Woody spends his time reading "How to Fly a Plane from the Ground Up." And eventually, he sneaks onto a PU-2.

#3 - The Woody Woodpecker Polka

The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1951 - Episode 6

The story opens with various couples going into a barn to attend a barn dance. All of them sway to the rhythm of the music. Wally Walrus is the doorman who collects the tickets as they enter. Admission to the dance is $1, which entitles each purchaser to a ticket to "Free Eats." Woody Woodpecker is in a haystack sleepily watching the dancers go by. He sees by his watch that it's dinnertime, and he realizes that he's hungry. His glance falls on the "Free Eats" sign, so he proceeds to follow the crowd into the barn. He hands a rubber dollar bill to Wally, who discovers it after Woody has entered the barn. Woody's hungrily standing by a table laden with food, and just as he's about to really feast, Wally ejects him from the barn.

#4 - Knock Knock

The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1940 - Episode 1

Andy Panda asks Pop if you can really catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. Pop tells Andy not to bother him only to hear a knocking at the door. The "knocking" is really coming from a woodpecker pecking against their roof. Pop sets out to trap the bird but is no match for its screwiness. He uses a wind-up explosive decoy that the bird falls for but when it explodes, he just feels "betrayed!" After giving Pop a wild ride through the sky, Andy pours salt on his tail and traps it! Two ambulance attendants come to take the bird away but they too are just as looney!

#5 - The Loan Stranger

The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1942 - Episode 3

Woody is happily (and nuttily) driving down the street when his car breaks down. He tries to get a loan on it from a nearby wolf. The wolf agrees to give Woody the loan but exclaims if he doesn't receive payment in thirty days, he'll take Woody's car away. Sure enough, a title card tells us, "Thirty days have elapsed (and so has Woody's memory)". The wolf appears at Woody's door trying to serve him with a notice but the crafty woodpecker pretends he's not home. The wolf tries to trap him disguised as a deliveryman giving Woody a cake... but the woodpecker throws it in his face bellowing, "I don't like cheesecake!" Finally, the fox throws a punch at Woody and believes to have seriously injured him. He sympathetically agrees to forget about the loan only to be infuriated when Woody "recovers" holding a cuckoo clock and asking, "How about a loan on the clock, Doc?"

#6 - Norman Normal

Looney Tunes - Season 1968 - Episode 2

We go inside Norman Normals head to see how he handles problems in his life.

#7 - Fiesta Fiasco

Looney Tunes - Season 1967 - Episode 10

Daffy Duck builds a rainmaking machine in order to rain out Speedy Gonzales's fiesta, but it spits out a small black cloud that does nothing but harass Daffy himself.

#8 - Rodent to Stardom

Looney Tunes - Season 1967 - Episode 6

Daffy is discovered by famous Hollywood director Harvey Hassenpfeffer. The duck is made stuntman for Speedy Gonzales.

#9 - See Ya Later Gladiator

Looney Tunes - Season 1968 - Episode 7

A time machine sends Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales back to Rome in 65 A.D.

#10 - Merlin the Magic Mouse

Looney Tunes - Season 1967 - Episode 9

Merlin, a mouse, puts on a magic show in front of an audience of one cat.

#11 - Cool Cat

Looney Tunes - Season 1967 - Episode 8

English big game hunter, Colonel Rimfire, inside a mechanical elephant hunts Cool Cat the beatnik tiger.

#12 - The Tree Medic

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 13

A tree surgeon arrives in a forest to inspect a tree, specifically Woody's. He destroys Woody's bed with a drill and Woody plans to get even. First, he sticks a pan over said drill, then sticks his foot in the tree's branch and kicks the doctor in the face with it. He also inflates the doctor's stethoscope with a bellows until it explodes and holds up a sexy pin-up when the doctor x-rays the tree. Finally, Doc discovers Woody and gives chase but Woody inevitably outsmarts him knocking the doc unconscious. The pest gone, Woody can now continue his rest.

#13 - Andy Panda's Victory Garden

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 10

Andy Panda and his dog Balmer plant a victory garden, while a pesky rooster eats their plants. Andy wants to plant a new garden with the help of his dog. Unfortunately, everything goes wrong for both of them. Andy finds that the ground is hard as rocks and he can't dig; he has to use a drill. The dog chases a worm and gets stuck in a rake. The worm whacks him and leads him on a merry chase through a garden hose, turning it into a snake which blasts the poor dog in the face with water. Meanwhile, Andy's seeds are vacuumed up by a rooster, which he attacks with a sickle. The rooster lands on the dog. The battle rages with everything in a heap. The garden is ruined... or is it? The super-grow fertilizer is working wonders.

#14 - Boogie Woogie Sioux

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 13

Big Band swing music from the 1940s combines with some politically incorrect overtones about Arizona Indians. Characters include "Tommy Hawk and His 5 Scalpers." In this madcap musical, an Indian chief fires his rainmaker and hires Tommy Hawk, whose trap drums produce some amusing results.

#15 - Cow-Cow Boogie

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1943 - Episode 1

Hilarious film of a herd of Herefords on a cattle ranch. The cattle on the "Lazy S Ranch" are slow-moving until an outrageous Stepin Fetchit-style black boogie-woogie musician arrives and sings the boogie-woogie, bringing sweet syncopation to the bored white cowpokes back home on the range. They literally rope him up like a lynch mob- but they just want to hear him play the piano! He lures the cattlemen's doomed steer into the boxcars to slaughter with the swinging title tune. The herd's "lead singer" has animated lips and sings the boogie as she rambles along the inside of a wooden fence. She's backed up by the rest of the herd.

#16 - Swing Your Partner

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1943 - Episode 4

A horse (with a Jack Benny attitude and voice) is treated like a horse and doesn't like it, so he gets even with his owner. Homer Pigeon incurs the animosity of his horse Hank, first by routing him out of bed to go to the barn dance, then by cracking him repeatedly on the back of the head with his buggy whip. Insult is added to injury when the halter weight drags him into a deep mud hole. Throughout the hectic gaiety of the barn dance, Hank, still in the mud hole, dreams up dire bodily harm for Homer. All of the barnyard animals, except Hank, are having a smell time. Finally, Hank can stand it no longer. He stalks into the barn and promptly, but effectively, breaks up the dance. The last we see of Homer is his trotting home pulling the buggy while Hank, sitting beside Homer's girl, cracks the buggy whip and sings, "The ol' grey mare, she's smarter than she used to be, smarter than she used to be..."

#17 - To Catch a Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 8

Woody Woodpecker has become an endless source of frustration for the Miracle Telephone Co. ("If you get your call, it's a miracle") by pecking holes in their telephone poles. After a company henchman fails to apprehend him, the company President goes after Woody himself using a woodpecker disguise. Hijinks ensue.

#18 - Canine Commandos

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1943 - Episode 6

Dogs train in the United States Army.

#19 - Pigeon Holed

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 1

Homer Pigeon's eyesight is pretty bad, so he goes to a doctor for glasses- only to find out that he has arrived at an induction center for the Pigeonaire Corps instead.

#20 - Panhandle Scandal

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 6

Bandit Denver Dooley travels to a lawless western town where he notices a sign, "No Bandits Allowed. Signed, Marshall Woody Woodpecker". Dooley pays no heed to the sign and confronts a Mexican who claims to know about the bird but in the end, just says, "I don't know him, Senor!" Dooley causes trouble at a bar and marshall Woody steps in. Dooley demands a showdown which Woody keeps besting him at. Dooley chases after the redhead asking the Mexican for directions (The Mexican again says, "I don't know him, Senor!"). After a few more chase gags, Dooley again encounters the Mexican and asks for directions. At this point, the Mexican reveals himself to have been Marshall Woody all along and arrests Dooley (still saying, "I don't know him, Senor!").

#21 - Room and Wrath

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 6

Smedley, manager of the "Snowtel" where Chilly Willy is visiting, notices Chilly has not paid his bill. When Chilly still refuses to pay, Smedley tries various methods of evicting him but all his attempts are thwarted either by Chilly or his own ineptitude. Eventually, the scenario culminates in Smedley chasing Chilly outside with Chilly tricking him into running into a whale's mouth. Finally, Chilly believes Smedley to be gone and returns to the "Snowtel"...only to find Smedley in bed next to him and still asking, "How 'bout this bill, Boy?"

#22 - The Talking Dog

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 9

Maggie and Sam have finally saved enough money to be able to pay off the mortgage on their home, and Maggie warns Sam to be careful on his way to the bank. Sam immediately runs into a shady character who offers many ways for Sam to lose his money, but Sam resists them all until he is offered a talking dog. San, figuring a talking dog is a way to get rich immediately buys it. He has many rejections before he can get the dog a booking at a theatre. Before the dog can exhibit his skills, a cat shows up and ruins the act. Maggie and Sam lose their home, and Sam ends up in the dog house, with a talking dog as his companion.

#23 - Fowled Up Party

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 1

Sam and Maggie are on their merry way to a costume party, and Sam is wearing a Rooster costume. They run out of gas on the way and Sam hikes off looking for a gas station. He gets no further than the nearest farm house and encounters a huge dog who likes nothing better then chicken as the dinner item of his choice, and he is really thrilled over the prospect of just how many dinners the biggest rooster he has ever seen will provide.

#24 - Billion Dollar Boner

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 2

On a quiet and peaceful street, the serenity of one house is suddenly disturbed by the noise of Woody Woodpecker pecking away inside on a chest of drawers. The owner, Terrance O'Hoolihan, goes after Woody, and just as he catches him, the doorbell rings.

#25 - Plumber of Seville

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 3

Hercules, a small, bulbous-nosed plumber, receives a note saying he must "fix leak at Carnegie Hall". He arrives but, unfortunately, on the same night, various musical pieces are being conducted and, while Hercules noisily repairs the leaky pipe, manages to disrupt the concert in no uncertain terms. To make matters worse, he has wine with lunch, gets drunk, and falls in love with the female harp player. Finally, he fixes the pipe and presents the conductor with his enormous bill. The conductor throws him out where the harp player catches him and drives off to the park so they can continue "pitching woo".

#26 - The Goofy Gardener

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 9

Herman, a gardener employed at a ritzy estate lets nothing divert him from his gardening chores, and continues to perform them in the midst of a big, outdoor party being held on the grounds by the owner. Herman them blames the host for all the mistakes, mishaps and problems the guest have to endure.

#27 - Pigeon Patrol

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 9

Homer, a drawling country pigeon, calls on his girl Mazie, but she gives him the cold shoulder when a squadron of carrier pigeons flies over. Homer resolves to win her favor by joining the Pigeon Patrol. Try as he does, he can't win the grade because he hasn't enough chest. Trudging home, he witnesses an aerial combat between a carrier pigeon and a Japanese vulture. When the pigeon crashes to the ground, Homer volunteers to carry the vital message through. He battles and defeats the vulture, delivers the message, wins the girl, and raises a family of bright young fledglings for the Pigeon Patrol.

#28 - The Dizzy Acrobat

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1943 - Episode 5

Unimpressed by the sideshow barkers' astounding claims, Woody goes to the circus without a ticket, and the circus cop kicks him out. Woody comes back, and the cop tells him that he'll have to work watering an elephant if he stays. A little thing like that doesn't detain Woody for long. Woody connects the elephant's trunk to the fire hydrant and blows up the elephant. The cop isn't pleased with Woody's work and tries to get tough with him, but he doesn't know Woody very well! The circus performance struggles on while Woody, with the hel of a few lions, tigers, elephants and unscheduled acrobatics, that trying to keep him from seeing the circus is unethical, ungentlemanly, and very unlikely to succeed! Woody runs hrough circus tents, gets the animals in an uproar (making the lion bite off his own tail), and leads cops to the high wire on a bicycle. Chased by the cops, Woody makes the crowd roar as he does wild trapeze stunts.

#29 - Yankee Doodle Swing Shift

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 11

#30 - Kittens' Mittens

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 2

Three little kittens go out walking and ridicule a little orphan tramp kitten because he doesn't have any mittens. They lose their mittens, just like in the nursery rhyme. Fearing that their mother won't let them have pie, they pretend that their mittens were stolen. Their mother calls the police, who arrest every criminal in town. In the police lineup, the boys accuse the vagabond kitten they met. When asked to name the culprit, they name the kitten. He denies committing the crime, and the cops threaten to hang him. This causes the boys to relent and tell the truth. Their friend is off the hook, and the kittens adopt him.

#31 - The Big Snooze

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 10

Forest ranger Clyde is given an order to make sure the park bears are not disturbed from their winter hibernation. He inspects their cave and finds Chilly Willy trying to sleep among them. He hollers at Chilly not to wake them up, waking one bear up himself. He sends the sleepwalking bear back to bed but it isn't that simple. The bear continues to sleepwalk going on a wild ride through the woods after Chilly gets him to put some skis on. The bear finally stops... and is now sleeping in Clyde's bed. Clyde returns to the cave where all the bears are now sleepwalking and Chilly is giving each one a lit dynamite stick!

#32 - Air Raid Warden

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 14

#33 - Woody Meets Davy Crewcut

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 13

From the time he was a baby, Little Davy Crewcut learns to shoot at bears with a variety of weapons, but when he gets grown and starts taking serious potshots at Mr. Bear with a rifle, Mr. Bear gets rightfully upset at being shot at, and suggest to Davy Crewcut that he turn his shooting in the direction of a more suitable target, such as a woodpecker. The woodpecker turns out to be Woody, and Woody also objects to being shot at.

#34 - 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 4

Andy Panda (still an infant) pesters Papa, who's trying to take a nap. When he gets his magic wand in the mail, he practices on Papa and competes against the witch doctor of the Pygmies, who wants to see who has more magic.

#35 - Ace in the Hole

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 7

Woody Woodpecker is at an Army Air Corps military base, and is dreaming of taking one of the planes up in the air. His enthusiasm in this respect gets him into a lot of trouble with his sergeant. Finally, the sergeant, fed up with Woody's actions in trying to imitate a pilot, throws Woody out of the barracks and into the pilots' quarters. Woody reads a textbook ("How to Fly a Plane From the Ground Up"). In the quarters, he stumbles over a clothes tree and into a flying suit. Woody's attempts to zipper the suit get him into more trouble as he knocks over a box of flares, one of which lands in the collar of the flying suit. Attempting to zipper the suit, Woody mistakenly pulls the pin from the flare, and he's violently projected into the air. The suit swells up and bursts, and Woody floats down by parachute into the cockpit of the plane (the PU-2).

#36 - Mouse Trappers

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1941 - Episode 1

Andy Panda's dad is bragging about his prowess as a hunter when Mom directs his attention to a severe mouse problem. Andy's father is trying to catch a pesky mouse with his own "scientific" approach, while young Andy keeps pushing the idea of an old-fashioned mousetrap. Dad "shows" Andy how to catch a mouse, one failed attempt after another. The help of a cat proves ineffective, as it turns out that the cat and mouse are drinking buddies.

#37 - Hot and Cold Penguin

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 11

For the fourth Chilly Willy cartoon the setting is the Antarctic. Chilly tries making a fire to get warm but even the fire freezes. He then spots the general headquarter for Little America and inside he spots a warm furnace. Unfortunately Smedley the dog is guarding it and headquarters. After a series of skirmishes Chilly finally prevails and finds the warmth he has been seeking.

#38 - Watch the Birdie

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 2

Deep in the woods, a birdwatcher is studying the various bird species found there. First, he discovers "love birds" (a henpecked husband bird and his grumbling bird spouse), and a "humming bird" (who hums rock tunes). Then he discovers Woody who gives him all sorts of trouble such as attaching his stethoscope to a running faucet, stretching the lens on his camera and then snapping it back on him, and sending all manner of trees tumbling down onto him.

#39 - The Ostrich Egg and I

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 4

Sam acquires and ostrich from which hatches, no surprise, an ostrich. The ostrich attach's itself to Sam, in addition to eating everything in sight, and Maggie orders him to get rid of it. When Sam thinks he has lost the bird, he returns home where Maggie leads him to the bedroom, where Sam finds the ostrich with a family of her own.

#40 - Hold That Rock

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 8

Smedley is the manager of Balancing Rock Canyon where various boulders are perched atop high poles. As Smedley explains, the slightest noise is enough to send the rocks tumbling ("You gotta be quieter than a goldfish in a sound-proof aquarium") so it's hardly a surprise that he panics when Chilly Willy arrives selling various loud noisemakers among them firecrackers, a "boomerang brick", a joy buzzer, novelty gun, and exploding telephone. Eventually, the rocks fall landing Smedley in the hospital where Chilly arrives to sell one last noisemaker to "cheer him up" with.

#41 - Woodpecker in the Moon

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 8

The local rocket society is looking for a new volunteer to blast to the moon, the only other person having been sent there being Professor Dingledong who has not returned thus far. They decide to send mailman Woody Woodpecker who, upon landing on the moon's surface, encounters the aforementioned Dingledong who demands possession of Woody's rocket so that he may return to Earth. After many a tussle, Woody and Dingledong are both returned to Earth's atmosphere whereupon Dingledong takes revenge on the rocket society chairman by blasting *him* into space!

#42 - Goofy Roofer

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1941 - Episode 8

Andrew P. Panda (Andy's pop) asks the Acme Roofing Company if it will repair his shoddy roof. He is quickly turned off by the exorbitant price ($200) and determines, "I'll fix it myself!" Naturally, Pop isn't the most skilled of workers, but does his best anyway. The ladder collapses, so Andy's pop tries hurling rolls of roofing paper. However, the flying paper snatches him to the roof. His best turns to his worst when an annoying pelican distracts him by making the roof his new home. Pop angrily tries to rid himself of the feathered pest (who just wants to mind his own business) and destroys the roof more than ever in the process. Furious, Pop falls through the skylight, landing (conveniently) near the telephone. Admitting defeat, he again calls the roofing company, only to be irately told, "Fix it yourself!"

#43 - Operation Cold Feet

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 5

A sentry is posted to guard the food supply at a South Pole expedition location, but Chilly Willy the penguin is hungry and has his eyes on the canned sardines and other sea-food choices at the post. Lots of chase and pursuit but Willy ends up well fed.

#44 - Ballyhooey

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 5

After a short history of television, the high towers of a TV station transmit waves. Woody turns on his TV set to watch his favorite quiz show, "Win the Whole Wide World." He waits for a question, the answer to which is "The Whole Wide World." But the program keeps being interrupted by endless annoying (yet amusing) commercials.

#45 - The Hollywood Matador

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 2

A day of the big bullfight has arrived. The stands are packed. The spectators are in a frenzy of excitement. A trumpeter signals the entrance of the contestants. Woody Woodpecker, the matador ("Woody the Terribull"), enters the arena through a maze of doors and acknowledges the crowd's plaudits by waving his sword and bowing to the delirious mob. The vicious bull is being held by the tail through a knothole in the fence. He's fighting and straining to get into the arena. The starter's gun is fired, and the bull leaps into the arena, dragging the fat attendant through the knothole and into the battle area. The bull's first rush whirls Woody around so fast that he finds himself closely wrapped up in his cape, unable to move. From here on, the bullfight resolves itself into a battle between Woody, the bull and the cape.

#46 - The Loan Stranger

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 12

Woody Woodpecker's so happy that he forgets to pay attention to where he's driving, and he crashes his car into a pole. When his car fails, Woody goes to the Sympathy Loan Co. ("You'll Need It") to borrow money for a new car. A loanshark tricks Woody into signing for a loan of $1. Woody finds the sleazy loanshark very sympathetic until he gets his loan. However, the loanshark underestimates Woody's capacity for befuddling anyone.

#47 - Under the Spreading Blacksmith Shop

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 1

Teased by his son to allow him to shoe a horse, Andy Panda's dad decides to have some fun with the little guy by dressing up as "Charlie Horse," who wants new horseshoes. A riot of fun begins. Mixed up with magnets, a plow, flying anvils and red-hot horseshoes, Pop finally runs for his life. Andy chases him and proves that he can nail on a shoe.

#48 - Nutty Pine Cabin

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 6

Andy is trying to build a cabin in the peace and quiet of a primeval forest with new lumber (and the assistance of various woodland friends). The lumber twists and turns, and the cabin falls. A bunch of eager beavers are trying to build a dam. They learn that Andy has some lumber, and they come to borrow some. Andy thinks that they are cute, and, in a generous (and joking) mood, he gives a curious little beaver a piece of beaverboard. The beavers get serious, and they try to carry off all his lumber. Taking it for granted that they can have whatever building materials they can carry away, they also take apart Andy's cabin for their dam. When they steal his lumber, Andy declares war.

#49 - The Screwball

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1943 - Episode 2

Woody Woodpecker is a knothole spectator at a baseball game ("Droops vs. Drips- guaranteed a good game to the last Drip")- until a cop comes along and covers up the hole. After several futile attempts to gain admittance to the grounds, Woody manages to outsmart the angry policeman and get into the ballpark. As Woody settles down to watch the game, a man in a 50-gallon hat sits down directly in front of him, and Woody can't see a thing. At Woody's request, the man removes his hat, revealing a huge head of hair, which is as obstructive as the hat. Since Woody cannot ask the man to remove his hair, Woody gets a lawnmower and cuts an opening through the hair for him to see through. Indulging in a bottle of pop, Woody's thoroughly enjoying the game when the cop suddenly looms up in front of him.

#50 - Juke Box Jamboree

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 8

A cute little mouse living in a cafe is awakened from his sleep by ghosts playing the jukebox upstairs. The mouse climbs inside the machine and runs into trouble with an automatic record changer. Falling into a glass of Zowie Alcohol, he gets rip-roaring drunk. Derby-hatted "alcohol spirits" emerge from empty beer glasses. All the inhabitants of the bar come to life and sing and dance. A lobster dinner comes to life in the person of Carmen Miranda and dances a typical Brazilian dance. A big band plays rumbas in the Xavier Cugat style. Brazilian dancers are also seen dancing around a lampshade, and Latin "matchstick men" move to the beat, as well.