The BEST episodes of Woody Woodpecker and Friends season 1947
Every episode of Woody Woodpecker and Friends season 1947, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Woody Woodpecker and Friends season 1947!
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 Bandmaster
Season 1947 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/22/1947
Andy Panda goes to the circus, and the circus turns into a circus where a girl aerialist is rescued by her own false teeth; the acrobats and jugglers mangle each other; a girl trapeze artist loses her wig as a rope-spinning act goes haywire; and the drunken high-wire walker finds himself surrounded by pink elephants.
#2 - Smoked Hams
Season 1947 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/28/1947
Wally Walrus is a "Day Sleeper," as the sign hanging on his door attests. Woody Woodpecker is a "Night Sleeper," as another sign on his door signifies. Both of them live in the same apartment house. The dawn of a new day is just breaking. Wally's retiring for his daily sleep, but Woody, down the hallway in another room, is still sound asleep. Woody's awakening is rather sudden when a door in a cuckoo clock opens, and a doll comes out and pours a small pail of water in his face. Full of vim and vigor, Woody noisily begins mowing the lawn. This disturb's Wally's sleep, and he takes stringent measures to stop grass and loose trash.
#3 - The Coo Coo Bird
Season 1947 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/9/1947
Woody reads in the paper that quail hunting season begins the next morning at 5 a.m. Not wanting to pass up quail hunting, he determines to get a good night's sleep. However, of course, his attempts are ruined by all manner of distractions, such as a flashing neon sign, and an obnoxious cuckoo clock that takes on a life of its own (the cuckoo itself is just as obnoxious). In getting rid of the cuckoo, Woody destroys his bed, causing him to sleep on a runaway "automatic table," with which he has many a tussle. The folding table first beats him up, then traps him, and finally bucks him off into a bush full of quail. The quail throws him to a hunter's dogs, who chase him into a cabin where he almost loses his identity, and the quail give him the Woody Woodpecker laugh.
#4 - Well Oiled
Season 1947 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/30/1947
Enjoying a drive through the Giant Redwoods, Woody Woodpecker runs out of gas. He tries to foil police officer Wally Walrus after siphoning some from his cop car. Unfortunately, he's observed by the cop, and the chase is on. Woody eludes the cop temporarily by ducking into a service station and disguising himself as an old man. When the cop asks for water, Woody uses the fire hose, then runs him through a huge wringer at the car laundry. A duel fought with grease guns gives Woody a chance to thoroughly grease the law, but he makes one slip and winds up with himself well oiled.
#5 - Solid Ivory
Season 1947 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/25/1947
Woody Woodpecker is playing pool in his barn. He loses control of one of the balls (the white one), which bounces across the yard and lands in a hen house. When he goes to get it, an overprotective setting hen will not let him have it, thinking that Woody is trying to steal one of her eggs. Woody loses the battle that follows, so he tries a rod and reel, baited with corn. The hen hooks it up with the light circuit and almost electrocutes Woody. He tries hypnotizing her with nylons, but she beats him back to the eggs. A disguise as a lovestruck French rooster with a Charles Boyer accent finally gets her off the nest, but Woody drops the eggs. The baby chicks that pop out of the broken eggs make the hen happy, so all is forgiven.
#6 - Woody the Giant Killer
Season 1947 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/15/1947
Out of work, Woody is weary from looking for a place to rent, and he complains about his not having any living quarters. He's approached by city slicker Buck Beaver, who convinces him to buy some magic beans. Woody plants them, and a beanstalk shoots up to the clouds. An elevator takes Woody to a giant's castle, where he finds the dopey giant asleep and initially fails to wake him up. Woody puts mustard, red pepper and horseradish on his tongue, which does the trick. Woody hides from the giant in a stuffed olive and is almost swallowed. He escapes in a handy car.
#7 - Musical Moments from Chopin
Season 1947 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/24/1947
Andy Panda is performing a rendition of Chopin's "Polonaise" for an audience in a barn when Woody Woodpecker walks in. After initially trying to show Andy up, Woody joins in on an accompanying piano. As the duo play, various members of the audience are engaged in antics seemingly in sync with the musical performance.
#8 - The Overture to William Tell
Season 1947 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/16/1947
In this Lantz Color Cartune, Wally Walrus, masquerading as famed orchestra leader, Sir Wally Walrus, mounts the podium to conduct the orchestra, and his troubles only end when the cartoon does, with the orchestra completely destroyed.