The BEST episodes of Woody Woodpecker and Friends season 1939
Every episode of Woody Woodpecker and Friends season 1939, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Woody Woodpecker and Friends season 1939!
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.
#1 - The Bird on Nellie's Hat
Season 1939 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/19/1939
A dishy dolly of a brunette hitchhikes while taking lunch to her blacksmith husband. She gets a ride from a dastardly masher once she shows some leg. When she resists the cad's advances, she blackens his eye and gets tied to the railway tracks in revenge.
#2 - The Sleeping Princess
Season 1939 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/4/1939
A baby is born to the Queen and King of a mythical kingdom, and the whole countrieside is invited to a christening reception, including the Four Good Fairies who watch over the kingdom.
#3 - Scrambled Eggs
Season 1939 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/20/1939
Peterkin, a mischievous elf with mixed body parts, decides to see what would happen if he switched the eggs in the tree-maternity nests. What happens is that there are many surprised mothers, and just as many indignant fathers, when the eggs hatch and each family gets a hatching that resembles neither parent. All fly the, figuratively-speaking, coop and Peterkin is left to tend to all the young birds.
#4 - Life Begins for Andy Panda
Season 1939 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/9/1939
Walter Finchell, the tattletale gossip of the jungle, broadcasts from the treetop that Mr. and Mrs. Panda were presented with a baby boy, whom Mrs. Panda names Andy. All the birds and animals go to the Panda's home to welcome the new arrival. As Andy grows, Mr. Panda takes Andy for a walk in the jungle to get him acquainted with Mother Nature and point out some of the perils.
#5 - A Haunting We Will Go
Season 1939 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/4/1939
Lil' Eightball visits a house haunted by ghosts.
#6 - Silly Superstition
Season 1939 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/28/1939
The second and final cartoon in the Lil' Eightball series. The character would appear once more in the Technicolor Cartune A Haunting We Will Go before being retired from the screen permanently. The last Walter Lantz cartoon filmed in black and white.
#7 - Slaphappy Valley
Season 1939 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/21/1939
#8 - Snuffy's Party
Season 1939 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/7/1939
#9 - Arabs with Dirty Fezzes
Season 1939 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/31/1939
#10 - The Stubborn Mule
Season 1939 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/3/1939
The first of only three Lil' Eightball cartoons. The character was seen again in 1940s Walter Lantz comic books.
#11 - Soup to Mutts
Season 1939 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1939
Dogland is having an amateur show, with food for the winners. A mechanical-applause machine identifies the winners by hitting a jackpot. A cat, way more talented than the dog-performers, dons a dog-skin (source unknown) and proceeds to become the big winner, but he loses his disguise at the crucial moment.
#12 - Bolo-Mola Land
Season 1939 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/28/1939
#13 - Nellie of the Circus
Season 1939 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/19/1939
#14 - Charlie Cuckoo
Season 1939 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/24/1939
#15 - Crackpot Cruise
Season 1939 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/10/1939
#16 - The One-Armed Bandit
Season 1939 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/27/1939
#17 - Little Tough Mice
Season 1939 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/13/1939
#18 - The Birth of a Toothpick
Season 1939 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/27/1939
#19 - The Magic Beans
Season 1939 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/13/1939
Unable to find an apartment for rent, Woody is conned into buying a collection of magic beans from Bucky Beaver. Woody plants the beans and soon he climbs the resulting beanstalk. He not only does battle with the giant, he also takes over the giant's castle. He ends up turning the giant's castle into a hotel in the clouds.
#20 - I'm Just a Jitterbug
Season 1939 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/1939
At a cartoon studio, a drawing of a jitterbug comes to life and encourages the other drawings to dance and sing. Meanwhile, the cuckoo bird in the cuckoo clock is desperate for sleep.