The BEST episodes written by Milt Schaffer
#1 - The Loan Stranger
The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1942 - Episode 3
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?"
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#2 - Ace in the Hole
The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1942 - Episode 2
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.
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#3 - Hello Aloha
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 4
Goofy lives out the working-man's dream of walking away from his job and moving to a tropical island paradise.
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#4 - Home Made Home
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 5
Goofy builds his dream home; a job that was probably better left to the professionals.
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#5 - Get Rich Quick
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 13
Goofy tries to win big at gambling; a habit his wife has a major problem with until he brings home the bacon.
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#6 - Motor Mania
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 10
Goofy plays Mr. Walker: a kind hearted soul until he gets behind the wheel of his car and, like Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde, he becomes Mr. Wheeler and his personality completely changes.
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#7 - Mr. Duck Steps Out
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1940 - Episode 5
Donald wants to take Daisy jitterbugging, while Huey, Dewey and Louie find devious ways of tagging along.
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#8 - Chips Ahoy
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1956 - Episode 1
Chip 'n' Dale find an acorn heaven on an island in the middle of a pond. But they need to borrow Donald's ship in a bottle to get there.
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#10 - Tomorrow We Diet!
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 10
Goofy tries to lose weight by dieting, but has problems with his mirror talking back to him.
#11 - Lion Down
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 1
Goofy plans a relaxing day at rest, but he needs a second tree at his penthouse apartment to hang his hammock. So, he brings one back from the forest only to find it includes a mountain lion who wants some rest as well.
#12 - Fathers Are People
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 15
Goofy experiences the ups and downs of trying to be a father.
#13 - No Smoking
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 17
Goofy tries a number of ways to give up smoking.
#14 - Mickey and the Seal
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 15
A zoo escapee finds refuge in Mickey's bath, despite Pluto's protests.
#15 - The Lone Chipmunks
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 3
Chip 'n' Dale in the old west, trying to bring in Black Pete for a $10,000 reward.
#16 - Food for Feudin'
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 12
A feud begins when Pluto wants to hide his bones in the same tree where Chip 'n' Dale store their acorns.
#17 - The Barber of Seville
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1944 - Episode 2
While Tony Figaro is out to get his physical, Woody Woodpecker heckles the customers in the Seville Barbershop. Woody stands outside the shop looking at the ads and wants a "victory haircut." Woody goes to the shop, but the barber isn't there. Woody decides to take over the operation of the barber shop. The first customer is an Indian who gets a scalping, followed by a tough workman who wishes that he had never run into Woody. All of this frantic cartoon features Woody singing the "Largo al Factotum" ("The Shaving Song") from "The Barber of Seville," by Giacomo Rossini.
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#18 - Father's Lion
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 1
Goofy teaches his son the finer points of camping out, with a mountain lion in hot pursuit.
#19 - Ski for Two
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1944 - Episode 7
Looking over some vacation folders, Woody Woodpecker comes across one that offers good food. It's Wally Walrus' exclusive Swiss Chard Lodge ("40 miles as the crow flies, but who wants to fly with an old crow?") in Sunstroke Valley. A blizzard overtakes the train on the way, so Woody takes a shortcut on his skis. Arriving at the lodge, Woody finds that he needs a reservation. Losing an argument with the walrus proprietor, the irrepressible Woody returns disguised as Santa Claus, gets in the lodge by way of the chimney, starts filling his bag with food, and is discovered by Wally and thrown out. They fight over the bag of food, Woody finally getting away with it, only to find Wally hiding in the bag. He gives Wally a good choking for his trouble as we iris out.
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#20 - Woody Dines Out
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1945 - Episode 4
Woody Woodpecker is looking for a meal, but his favorite eatery, The Coffee Pot, has shut down (a sign reads "Closed by Popular Demand"). Unable to find a restaurant that's open, he finally mistakes a feline taxidermist's shop for a restaurant (with a sign reading "We specialize in stuffing birds"). Going inside, he orders a meal, not realizing that he's in a taxidermist's shop. Evidently, Woody's just just what the taxidermist (a cat) has been looking for, since he has a poster offering $100,000 for a king-size woodpecker, stuffed.
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#21 - The Dippy Diplomat
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1945 - Episode 6
Woody Woodpecker's sleeping in the arms of a statue in the city park, dreaming of a big, juicy steak. Across the street from the park lives Wally Walrus, who's preparing to entertain famous Russian ambassador Ivan Awfulitch. Wally starts to barbecue some steaks, and the aroma from the sizzling meat wafts its way across the street into Woody's nostrils, picks Woody up, and carries him to the fence surrounding Wally's patio. Woody wakes up and, peeking through a hole in the fence, sees a table loaded with food. Woody reaches through the hole and helps himself to several ears of corn before Wally, who's a little slow to realize what's happening, nails a board over the hole.
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#22 - Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1940 - Episode 11
No dogs are allowed on Pete's train, so Mickey tries to smuggle Pluto aboard with a variety of disguises.
#23 - The Loose Nut
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1945 - Episode 7
Woody Woodpecker is playing golf and drives his ball into a sand trap. Woody takes a wild swing at the ball in an effort to land it on the green, but the ball lands instead at the feet of a workman, who's laying wet cement on a sidewalk. Searching finally finds the ball lodged in the cement, and Woody attempts to drive it out. In so doing, he completely covers the workman with the wet mortar. Enraged, the workman fashions a bowling ball out of the cement and rolls it toward Woody, scoring a "strike." Woody switches from bowling to croquet and, picking up a huge mallet, drives the ball back to the workman. It hits the workman and knocks him into the sidewalk. The cement quickly congeals around the workman, creating a big bulge in the walk.
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#24 - Bathing Buddies
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1946 - Episode 5
Woody Woodpecker, who lives upstairs at Wally Walrus' boarding house, is enjoying a game of indoor golf while Wally takes a bath. The ball lands on Wally's head, causing a sudden end to the golf game. With nothing to do but take a bath, Woody's dime for the hot water meter falls down the drain. Retrieving his dime requires a bit of ingenuity and the help of a long wire, a wrench, a jack, a sledgehammer and finally some dynamite. The combined operations reunite Woody and his dime, but they're too much for Wally and his rooming house, each of which ends up a complete wreck.
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#25 - The New Neighbor
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 8
Donald moves into a new house and tries to get along with new next-door neighbor, Pete. If good fences make good neighbors, then Pete and Donald must be the best neighbors of all!
#26 - Fair Weather Fiends
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1946 - Episode 7
Palsy Walsy, somewhere in the romantic South Seas. Suddenly, a terrible storm sinks their ship at sea and casts them ashore on a tiny, deserted tropical island. When scant food is the order of the day, they each think that the other would make a great dinner. Famished, they dream of roast woodpecker and roast wolf. They begin a chase in their efforts to eat each other. A gooney bird sidetracks their cannibalistic urges temporarily, but they soon revert to numerous tricks and subterfuges, such as Woody's wooden fish on a trout line to lure Wolfie into a pot of soup, or Wolfie trying to put Woody through a bread slicer while Woody grinds the wolf through a meat grinder. The gooney bird stops the assorted mayhem by donating a tableful of food, but Woody tricks Wolfie into sampling a wolfburger, the meat portion of which is the wolf's own leg.
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#27 - The Dizzy Acrobat
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1943 - Episode 5
Unimpressed by the sideshow barkers' astounding claims, Woody goes to the circus without a ticket, and the circus cop kicks him out. Woody comes back, and the cop tells him that he'll have to work watering an elephant if he stays. A little thing like that doesn't detain Woody for long. Woody connects the elephant's trunk to the fire hydrant and blows up the elephant. The cop isn't pleased with Woody's work and tries to get tough with him, but he doesn't know Woody very well! The circus performance struggles on while Woody, with the hel of a few lions, tigers, elephants and unscheduled acrobatics, that trying to keep him from seeing the circus is unethical, ungentlemanly, and very unlikely to succeed! Woody runs hrough circus tents, gets the animals in an uproar (making the lion bite off his own tail), and leads cops to the high wire on a bicycle. Chased by the cops, Woody makes the crowd roar as he does wild trapeze stunts.
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#28 - Up a Tree
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1955 - Episode 4
Chip 'n' Dale once again try to save their tree home from lumberjack Donald. Donald, in return, shows us how many ways he can fall of the side of a tree.
#29 - The Beach Nut
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1944 - Episode 6
My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean." It seems that Woody, among other things, walked on his face, jammed his face into a nice, big cake, and ran over him with a surfboard, swiping his lunch (including his hot dogs) on the way. Practically choked him to death with smoke from a bonfire, burned his beach umbrella from over him and his beach chair from under him. Almost drowned him with a fire hose. Chasing him to the amusement center, Woody, disguised as a yogi, persuaded him to dive through a plate glass window. Fastening Woody to an anchor, Wally throws him into the sea, but the anchor rope pulls the pier and everything else in after it, and we iris out on Woody swimming into the sunset with the walrus and thousands of people swimming after him.
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#30 - The Coo Coo Bird
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 3
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.
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#31 - Well Oiled
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 5
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.
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#32 - Hold That Pose
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 16
Goofy finds a new hobby to while away his free time : photography. And what better subject for the amateur photographer than nature? Ask a cantankerous grizzly bear, who doesn't seem to appreciate Goofy's attempts to get him to pose.
#33 - Solid Ivory
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 6
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.
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#34 - Chew-Chew Baby
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1945 - Episode 2
For not paying his board and room rent, Woody is unceremoniously kicked out of Wally's square boarding house, where you get four square meals a day. Woody is broke. He finds an ad in the newspaper: a millionaire is looking for his sweetie and is willing to pay a fortune for her- including four square meals a day. Woody has an idea. He dresses as "Clementine" to get food from Wally. Calling on Wally, Woody coyly leads him on while he eats his fill of Wally's home-cooked food. The flirtation soon gets out of hand, Woody loses his wig, and the deception is discovered. Wally tries his best to eliminate Woody and rescue his food, but he's foiled in each attempt. A big firecracker finally backfires on him, putting an end to his efforts.
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#35 - Pluto's Christmas Tree
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 16
Pluto comes bounding outside to help Mickey get a Christmas tree. Chip 'n Dale see him and make fun of him, but the tree they take refuge in is the one Mickey chops down. They like the decorations, especially the candy canes and Mickey's bowl of mixed nuts. But Pluto spots them and goes after them long before Mickey spots them. Minnie, Donald, and Goofy drop by to sing carols.
#36 - Who's Cookin Who?
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1946 - Episode 4
Woody Woodpecker, reading the story of "The Grasshopper and the Ant," is unimpressed. What saps the ants are storing food for winter! says lazy Woody. Work isn't for Woody, so he flops into a hammock. Six months later, he wakes up under a blanket of snow, famished. With starvation staring him in the face, he hears a wolf (literally) at his door. Woody grabs a book, "How to Cook a Wolf."
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#37 - How to Dance
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 7
A history of the dance, from primitive man down to modern times shows that man maybe hasn't progressed as far as he thinks he has.
#38 - The Reckless Driver
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1946 - Episode 6
Driving along a mountain road, Woody Woodpecker sees a sign which asks: "Have you renewed your driver's license?" Woody comes to a quick stop, looks at his driver's license, and discovers that it will expire in three minutes. Woody steps on the gas and soon arrives at the license bureau, where the cop in charge (Officer Wally Walrus) is fast asleep.
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#39 - Smoked Hams
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 2
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.
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#40 - How to Sleep
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 14
Goofy falls asleep everywhere - at work, in the car - everywhere except when his head hits the pillow at night.
#41 - Niagara Fools
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 11
Woody Woodpecker visits Niagara Falls---on the Canadian and American side both, according to some viewers---and asks about going over the famous falls in a barrel which the guard tells him it is forbidden, which immediately makes Woody decide to do it, anyway. Woody uses everything BUT a ladder in his attempts, and the guard prevents him going over several times, but the guard winds up in a barrel and goes over himself. Woody, dressed as a policeman, is awaiting him at the bottom to give him a ticket for breaking the law.
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#42 - Red Riding Hoodlum
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 2
Knothead and Splinters, Woody Woodpecker's nephews, are reading "Little Red Riding Hood" and are requested to deliver a bag of goodies to Grandma in the forest. They meet a wolf, who takes a short-cut to Grandmas, but Slinters and Knothead take an even shorter cut and get there before him. After the get through wearing him out, Grandma decides the wolf is a good prospect for matrimony and drags him off to the altar.
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#43 - The Beach Nut
The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1944 - Episode 2
Woody Woodpecker torments Wally Walrus on the beach. Their conflict leads to the amusement pier where Woody disguises himself as a yogi.
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#44 - Bunco Busters
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 12
Woody inherits a large sum of money, and Buzz Buzzard enacts an elaborate scheme to steal all of it, all the while being tailed by a detective.
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#45 - Social Lion
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 8
A lion decides to get a taste of civilization by letting himself be captured.
#46 - Chew-Chew Baby
The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1945 - Episode 1
Wally Walrus kicks the delinquent Woody Woodpecker out of his boarding house. But the mooching bird finds the walrus's personal ad in the newspaper and comes back, disguised as a woman.
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#47 - Ace in the Hole
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 7
Woody Woodpecker is at an Army Air Corps military base, and is dreaming of taking one of the planes up in the air. His enthusiasm in this respect gets him into a lot of trouble with his sergeant. Finally, the sergeant, fed up with Woody's actions in trying to imitate a pilot, throws Woody out of the barracks and into the pilots' quarters. Woody reads a textbook ("How to Fly a Plane From the Ground Up"). In the quarters, he stumbles over a clothes tree and into a flying suit. Woody's attempts to zipper the suit get him into more trouble as he knocks over a box of flares, one of which lands in the collar of the flying suit. Attempting to zipper the suit, Woody mistakenly pulls the pin from the flare, and he's violently projected into the air. The suit swells up and bursts, and Woody floats down by parachute into the cockpit of the plane (the PU-2).
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#48 - The Loan Stranger
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 12
Woody Woodpecker's so happy that he forgets to pay attention to where he's driving, and he crashes his car into a pole. When his car fails, Woody goes to the Sympathy Loan Co. ("You'll Need It") to borrow money for a new car. A loanshark tricks Woody into signing for a loan of $1. Woody finds the sleazy loanshark very sympathetic until he gets his loan. However, the loanshark underestimates Woody's capacity for befuddling anyone.
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#49 - Grand Canyonscope
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 10
The Ranger takes a tour group on a guided tour of the Grand Canyon. However, Donald is in the group and gets into a tussle with Louie to environmentally disatrous results.
#50 - The Screwball
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1943 - Episode 2
Woody Woodpecker is a knothole spectator at a baseball game ("Droops vs. Drips- guaranteed a good game to the last Drip")- until a cop comes along and covers up the hole. After several futile attempts to gain admittance to the grounds, Woody manages to outsmart the angry policeman and get into the ballpark. As Woody settles down to watch the game, a man in a 50-gallon hat sits down directly in front of him, and Woody can't see a thing. At Woody's request, the man removes his hat, revealing a huge head of hair, which is as obstructive as the hat. Since Woody cannot ask the man to remove his hair, Woody gets a lawnmower and cuts an opening through the hair for him to see through. Indulging in a bottle of pop, Woody's thoroughly enjoying the game when the cop suddenly looms up in front of him.
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