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 3 - 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 - The Screwdriver (Woody's Jalopy)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/11/1941
Woody Woodpecker is driving through the countryside and is, shall we say, not a stickler for the rules. He's practically asking for trouble when he confronts a traffic cop who explains he is looking for speeders. Woody reveals himself to be a speeder by driving to Alaska and back in less than a minute. The cop tries to arrest him but Woody states, "I bet ya wouldn't be so tough without that uniform." The officer undresses but Woody attacks him with a boxing glove camera. Woody also gets his goat by dressing as a farmer on horse-and-buggy and as a Chinaboy with rickshaw. Finally, the cop flips out and is sent to a mental hospital with Woody as his caretaker. The TV version of the cartoon re-titled as Woody's Jalopy.
#3 - Woody Woodpecker
Season 2 - 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.
#4 - Pantry Panic
Season 2 - 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.
#5 - Ace in the Hole
Season 3 - 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.
#6 - The Loan Stranger
Season 3 - 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?"
#9 - Knock Knock
Season 1 - 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!
#11 - Dumb Like a Fox
Season 24 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1964
Woody argues with Fink Fox on how to divide up their food.
#12 - Crowin' Pains
Season 22 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/25/1962
Woody flies to the country where he notices a farmer and his pet crow, Jubilee, the latter of which is well fed. Woody trades places with the crow to get some free food.
#14 - Science Friction
Season 23 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1963
Woody tangles with a mad scientist who wants to switch his brain with a ape.
#15 - Tepee for Two
Season 23 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1963
When Woody makes way too much racket with his TV set and musical instruments, his neighbors have had enough and evict him from the entire city.
#16 - The Tenant's Racket
Season 23 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/1963
Woody, tired of flying, takes over a birdhouse. The human owner of the house tries various tactics to get Woody to move out.
#17 - Coy Decoy
Season 23 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/9/1963
While flying south with a flock of ducks, Woody is shot at and hunted by a hunter and his dog.
#18 - Shutter Bug
Season 23 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/7/1963
Glamorous screen star Woody Woodpecker is constantly beset by a publicity photographer who wants to take his picture.
#19 - Stowaway Woody
Season 23 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/1963
Woody flies onto a Hawaii-bound ocean liner, causing havoc for a captain and his dog.
#21 - Little Woody Riding Hood
Season 22 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/1962
Woody's take on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but Gabby Gator tries to steal the wolf's part.
#22 - Sioux Me
Season 25 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/6/1965
An Indian tribe is in need of rain and believe they can get it by sacrificing Woody.
#23 - Saddle Sore Woody
Season 24 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/1964
Dirty McNasty horsenaps Woody’s horse. Woody follows the villain into town to try and get his horse back.
#24 - Woody's Clip Joint
Season 24 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/9/1964
When Woody is getting his hair cut a news report states that Louie the Lion has escaped from the circus. Soon after, Louie enters the barber shop and forces Woody to hide him from the cops.
#25 - Skinfolks
Season 24 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/7/1964
Woody decides to visit his rich uncle in hopes of a handout.