The WORST episodes of Woody Woodpecker and Friends
Every episode of Woody Woodpecker and Friends ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Woody Woodpecker and Friends!
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 Lamp Lighter
Season 1938 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1938
#2 - 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.
#3 - Arabs with Dirty Fezzes
Season 1939 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/31/1939
#4 - Snuffy's Party
Season 1939 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/7/1939
#5 - Slaphappy Valley
Season 1939 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/21/1939
#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 - A Haunting We Will Go
Season 1939 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/4/1939
Lil' Eightball visits a house haunted by ghosts.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Man Hunt
Season 1938 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/7/1938
Although the main plot is a bunch of cute forest animals getting their revenge by fighting a war on some hunters, the hunters here are atrociously racist, not just typically stereotypical.
#13 - Yokel Boy Makes Good
Season 1938 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/21/1938
#14 - Trade Mice
Season 1938 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/28/1938
#15 - Feed the Kitty
Season 1938 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/14/1938
The final cartoon in the Oswald series. Oswald himself would still appear in two more films, Happy Scouts (1938) and The Egg-Cracker Suite (1943).
#16 - Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl (or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands)
Season 1938 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/1938
The first of many 1890's melodrama lampoons produced by the Lantz studio during 1938 and 1939.
#17 - Tail End
Season 1938 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/25/1938
A story of the outcast dogs NYC's East Side. They live in the dog slums, and are trying to get some of the bones the fat bulldog has piled up in his yard, but the bulldog is too watchful
#18 - Problem Child
Season 1938 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/16/1938
Wildcat Willie, one of Walter Lantz's lesser known characters, is the protagonist here, a mean widdle kid who runs away from home and masquerades as an orphan. Trouble ensues when Wildcat's new family suspects Wildcat is a rat - er, wildcat. Lots of fast action and violence (Wildcat wields a mean axe).
#19 - Movie Phoney News
Season 1938 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/1938
This "cheater" cartoon features no new animated segments and, with the exception of the soundtrack and the newsreel-esque intertitles, is comprised entirely of footage from the following Lantz releases: The Hillbilly (1935), Monkey Wretches (1935), Soft Ball Game (1936), Alaska Sweepstakes (1936), The Barnyard Five (1936), Music Hath Charms (1936), House of Magic (1937), and The Big Race (1937).
#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.
#21 - Chilly's Hide-a-Way
Season 1971 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/1/1971
#22 - Moochin Pooch
Season 1971 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/1/1971
Charlie agrees to babysit his boss's dog while he's out of town. The dog wreaks havoc over his house, and the situation gets even worse when his boss calls and says that he'll be gone for a month.
#23 - The Rude Intruder
Season 1972 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1972
A man wants to build a oil well on top of Chilly's and Maxie's igloo, but the two put up a fight.
#24 - Let Charlie Do It
Season 1972 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/1972
The kitchen sink is clogged, and Bessie insists that Charlie call a plumber to fix it. However, Charlie refuses to hire a plumber and proceeds to unclog the sink with the help of Junior.
#25 - A Fish Story
Season 1972 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/1972
Charlie's doctor claims that Charlie is nervous, and suggests that he gets a pet fish to calm him down. Charlie had hard time getting the tank of fish home, and when he finally got it home, Bessie orders Charlie to return it. Charlie goes back to the doctor's house and dunks the bucket on him.