The BEST episodes of The Woody Woodpecker Show
Every episode of The Woody Woodpecker Show ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Woody Woodpecker Show!
"The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a long-running 30-minute American television series mainly composed of the animated cartoon escapades of Woody Woodpecker and other Walter Lantz characters including Andy Panda, Chilly Willy and Inspector Willoughby. The series was revived and reformatted several times, but remained popular for nearly four decades and allowed the studio to continue making theatrical cartoons until 1972 when it shut down. It also kept the Walter Lantz/Universal "Cartunes" made during the Golden Age of American animation a part of the American consciousness.
#1 - The Hollywood Matador
Season 1942 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/1942
The bull is watching through a knothole as the great bullfighter, Woody Woodpecker, is showing off for the spectators. Unable to take it no longer the bull dashes into the arena and charges Woody so hard that he makes a shambles of the stadium. Woody, as always, equal to the task at hand is soon serving bull-burgers to the crowd.
#2 - Ace in the Hole
Season 1942 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/22/1942
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 Loan Stranger
Season 1942 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1942
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?"
#4 - Woody the Giant Killer
Season 1947 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/15/1947
Woody buys some "magic beans" from a con man.
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#5 - Slingshot 6 7/8
Season 1951 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/23/1951
A shooting contest (carrying a $1,000 prize) in a Western frontier town narrows itself down to two pretty sharp-eyed finalists: Indian Buzz Buzzard and his bow and arrow, and tenderfoot Woody Woodpecker. In Woody's hands, "Slingshot 6 7/8" is a weapon to be reckoned with.
#6 - The Unbearable Salesman
Season 1957 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/3/1957
Salesman Woody Woodpacker tries to unload his wares on a hibernating bear.
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#7 - To Catch a Woodpecker
Season 1957 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/29/1957
The Miracle Telephone Company attempts to stop Woody Woodpecker from pecking holes in its telephone poles.
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#8 - Woody Woodpecker
Season 1941 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/1941
Woody Woodpecker spends his day singing loudly and pecking holes in trees. He infuriates the other woodland creatures - when he isn't baffling them with his bizarre behavior. Woody overhears a squirrel and a group of birds gossiping about him. Even though he just sang a song proclaiming his craziness, he denies their whispered accusations that he's nuts. But after they trick him into knocking his head on a statue, the poor bird hears voices in his head and decides the animals might be right. He decides to see a doctor. But leave it to Woody to choose Dr. Horace N. Buggy, a Scottish-brogue-burring fox, who is, if it's impossible, even madder than he is.
#9 - Pantry Panic
Season 1941 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/1941
Woody's friends warn him that the groundhog has predicted a blizzard. Unconcerned, Woody decides not to go South with his pals. Soon enough, the blizzard sweeps in and destroys the loony woodpecker's stash of food. Facing starvation, a glimmer of hope arrives in the form of a cat. The cat is also starving and it turns into a match of brawn and wits to see who eats who.
#10 - International Woodpecker
Season 1957 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/1/1957
Woody Woodpecker tells Knothead and Splinter the story of how woodpeckers have influenced world history.
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#11 - Knock Knock
Season 1940 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/25/1940
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!
#12 - Wacky-Bye Baby
Season 1948 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/1948
When Woody reads that Wally Walrus is expecting a son, Woody disguises himself as the baby boy and proceeds to torment Wally with a "come-back ball."
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#13 - After the Ball
Season 1956 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/13/1956
Pierre Bear runs a bowling ball factory in the great North and mistakenly chops down Woody's tree-house to converts it into a bowling ball.
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#14 - Socko in Morocco
Season 1954 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/1954
Woody Woodpecker is in the Foreign Legion, where he protect a dancing girl from a sheik that wants her for his harem.
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#15 - The Tree Medic
Season 1955 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/9/1955
A tree surgeon inspects Woodys home.
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#16 - Bunco Busters
Season 1955 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/1955
Woody inherits a large sum of money, and Buzz Buzzard enacts an elaborate scheme to steal all of it.
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#17 - Square Shootin' Square
Season 1955 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/26/1955
A bank robber hides his loot in Woodys tree.
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#18 - Bedtime Bedlam
Season 1955 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/4/1955
Woody is running a babysitting service and is offered $50 by one couple if he will look after their "baby".
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#19 - Private Eye Pooch
Season 1955 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/9/1955
Woody escapes from getting stuffed at a taxidermy school and is pursued by Strongnose the bloodhound.
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#20 - Witch Crafty
Season 1955 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/1955
A witch riding on a broomstick crashes into a factory chimney and breaks her broom. Fortunately, the factory happens to be a broom factory. Unfortunately Woody wants her to pay for his work to fix the broomstick.
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#21 - Helter Shelter
Season 1955 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/1955
A mean dog named Happy ruins Woody's attempts to make a home before a big storm comes.
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#22 - Convict Concerto
Season 1954 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1954
A wanted criminal hides inside a piano that Woody Woodpecker is tuning, and forces Woody at gunpoint to play said piano as cover so he can escape.
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#23 - A Fine Feathered Frenzy
Season 1954 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1954
Woody notices an ad in the paper for a rich woman looking for a husband. Not everything is as it seems when he arrives at her house.
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#24 - Real Gone Woody
Season 1954 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/20/1954
Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard fight over who will take the heartthrob Winnie Woodpecker out on a date.
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#25 - Hot Rod Huckster
Season 1954 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/5/1954
Used car salesman owner Buzz Buzzard tries to interest Woody in buying a new car, after sabotaging the one he currently owns.
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