Cartoonland Mysteries is a 1936 Going Places documentary short. It features the making of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short Soft Ball Game, which was released the same year.
The first theatrical cartoon released by the Walter Lantz studio as well as the first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon produced by Walter Lantz.
Oswald wants to marry his girlfriend but problems in the latter's household are getting in the way.
Rough seas makes it difficult for Captain Peg Leg Pete. Oswald tries to make his captain soup, but a duck steals Pete's dinner. Oswald leaves the ship and falls head over heels for a mermaid, and Pete tries to capture the mermaid.
Pete is a organ grinder, until Oswald spits out his gum and Pete's monkey gets tangled in the gum. Pete then uses Oswald as the monkey.
Oswald and his cat head to the fair grounds to have some fun.
Oswald participates in a bull-fighting event.
Oswald comes to a music theater to see some performances. A brawl is triggered when he accidentally disturbs a patron.
Oswald is a wise-cracking waiter. One diner tells the rabbit he can eat a horse, so Oswald actually gives him his dinner.... a live horse.
A prisoner breaks out of jail. Oswald, who is the prison guard, goes to get him back.
Oswald and Pete stroll along the railway tracks,the former playing harmonica.they soon stumble upon a nearby farm where the lady of the house is setting a pie to cool
The sheriff runs Oswald the Rabbit out of town; but then Oswald finds the sheriff's infant son out in the desert.
Oswald tries to hang himself, but is stopped by Paul Whiteman, followed by some wild musical sequences.
Oswald is a soldier whose mission is to carry a message to the enemy forces.
The Phantom of a cheap opera house helps an aspiring singer by putting a phonograph machine down her skirt. When she spurns him for Oswald the Rabbit, the Phantom takes his revenge.
Oswald and his girlfriend are dwellers in the Swiss Alps.
Oswald tries to sell musical instruments to a pack of troublesome children.
Oswald was demanded by his neighbor not to cause noise within the apartment. However, a visit from his hyperactive nephews made things more difficult.
Oswald tries to salvage a troubled swimmer at sea.
Oswald and a group of frogs form an orchestra.
After working at the pier, Oswald goes to meet his love-interest at the lighthouse.
In beautiful Mexico, the big boxing chicken fight has Pete's muscle bound chicken pitted against Oswald's skinny rooster. When his chicken wins, Oswald is honored (in a tickertape parade) and falls for a beautiful senorita.
While venturing the desert, Oswald finds an oasis with a palace in it. There, he meets a queen who asks him to be her king.
Oswald aims to looks for gold in the mountains. After losing his gear on the way, he heads to a saloon where he spends the rest of cartoon.
Rural hijinks as Oswald milks a cow who's wearing a skirt to cover up her udder and a country barn square dance with a peg-legged tough guy are among the crude gags in this funky cartoon.
Oswald tries to entertain a sad infant with his musical talents.
A piano player gets zapped by a Twilight Zone-style radio set.
About a horse race.
The mortgage is due by 6 p.m. or Grandma and Oswald will lose the homestead. Oswald is forced to take the beloved old milk cow to market. On the way, he's accosted by a scary old witch. She wants the cow and gives Oswald a bag of magic beans in exchange. The beans grow into a huge beanstalk which transports Oswald to a giant ogre's castle in the clouds.
Oswald and his girlfriend start out on a fishing trip and end up on an island with all kinds of crazy stuff going on.
Oswald dreams of accompanying Little Red Riding Hood in carrying goods to her grandmother.
A peg-legged, mean-spirited inventor attempts to secure a human heart for his latest creation, a robot as nasty as he is. In the best horror film tradition, he overcomes an innocent damsel and prepares her for sacrifice. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, her friend, surely will come to her rescue.
Oswald and his companion enter an eerie castle to take shelter from the rain. Trouble awaits them when a vicious simian also comes in.
Oswald runs a barber shop. He cuts the tail off a sleeping tiger with a saw to make his barber pole. Then he serves his customers in bizarre methods. The tiger comes in and confronts Oswald, and swallows him. Oswald, however, gets out of the tiger with a help of one of his colleagues. Oswald manages to drive the tiger out of the shop before giving back its tail.
Pooch delivers fresh chicken to his love interest. Troubles occur when the cat at the receiver's place snatches the delivery.
Oswald and his girl enjoy the carnival, but a bully tries to spoil their fun.
In Pooch's efforts to find food, he comes across a gang of nasty bees and a tornado that is pure evil. The farmers won't let him in (a sign reads "No Tramps Allowed"). Even a worm won't let him eat an apple. Fortunately(?), a cyclone comes along and lets Pooch save the farmers. At last- acceptance.
A wild football game of the cats vs. the dogs.
Oswald's girlfriend is having plumbing problems (largely caused by her pesky little brother!). Oswald gets the last laugh, though, in spite of Junior, two Mickey-ish mice, and assorted fish.
Pooch the Pup wants the hand of a lovely lady, but her guardian says no. When a bull gets loose, it's up to Pooch to save the day and his lady fair. Great music from the early '30s, including the hit "Lady of Spain," and, out of nowhere, a little segment with Mills Brothers lookalikes singing "Hold That Bull."
Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking skeletons, animate hieroglyphics and other strange sights.
Oswald is a firefighter who puts out anthropomorphic flames at his own firehouse. He has to contend with a gay fireman, as well as a pesky kid helper
Oswald cooks and deals with a series of rude customers at a restaurant. He's fond of the waitress, and whips up a very "special" egg sandwich for a "big bad wolf" customer that gets way too fresh with her.
Pooch encounters a young bird who he first assists in learning to fly, and then in learning to sing. Later, the bird is abducted by a hungry cat. Pooch comes to the rescue by enlisting the aid of some other birds, and also some dogs, to pursue and capture the cat.
When his farm is hit by the Depression, Oswald visits President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a prescription of "Confidence," with which he injects all the locals.
A cartoon parody of "King Kong," complete with racial stereotypes of native villagers (from the "Hot Cha" Tribe).
A terrible rainstorm takes over the city so everyone goes into the store, and Oswald breaks into song.
Poodles (Mae West) comes to town and everyone is in love.
Oswald and some other entertainers try to make a depressed Old King Cole laugh. He gathers up a collection of comics including Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. At the castle, they start singing off-kilter versions of Mother Goose rhymes, complete with Al Jolson in a blackface routine.
Oswald and his sister star as Hansel and Gretel.
Oswald looks after two lambs and tells them to call for help if they're in trouble. However, the lambs started making false-alarms just for enjoyment.
Oswald and his buddies are hanging out by the radio listening to the story of the gingerbread boy. They end up in a cookie-dough mess themselves.
Come take a stroll through Oswald's waxworks, where all the characters come alive. Such historical and literary figures as Nero, Napoleon Bonaparte, Romeo and Juliet, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame mingle with such celebrities as Groucho Marx and Sally Rand. There's also a gallery of Universal's famous monsters, including Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, the Mummy and the Invisible Man.
Oswald is cast as the son of William Tell who's being forced to shoot an arrow at an apple on his head.
The whole nutty story of Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World, as played by Oswald and his cast of characters.
Oswald retells the tale of Rumplestiltsskin.
The poor old shoemaker and his wife are facing starvation. Yet they extend their kindness to a freezing elf who comes in from the cold, and the three share coffee and the last, rock-hard donut in the cupboard. After the shoemaker and his spouse make their way to bed, the little elf returns with a mini-army of his elf associates to return the favor by fixing up all the shoes.
Santa comes to the big city to be grand marshal of the famous pre-Christmas department store parade through the streets and the guest of honor at its Christmas dinner. The host of the dinner, where all the toys come to life, is Oswald The Rabbit. All of Hollywood's most famous performers- Johnny Weissmuller, Shirley Temple, Al Jolson, Frankenstein's Monster, Lupe Velez, and Laurel and Hardy- perform at the party.
Historian Tom Klein speculates this short to be an uncredited Tex Avery-directed effort.
Two little lambs steal Oswald's airplane and take a wild joyride at and through an air-meet. They soon drive the other contestants out of the sky and the race and win the meet for Oswald who has managed to get on board by lassoing the airplane.
Oswald is running a boy's camp and has taught the boys do do a good deed a day. This is borne out as wise advice when a bear attacks the camp, and the many animals, birds and bees befriended by the boys come to their rescue and run the bear away.
It's the story of a young boy who can't sleep because he wants candy. The sandman is busy putting everyone to sleep until he meets the boy's father who is kept up late at night by his constant crying...
Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Rabbit are preparing their summer home, confident that winter has ended. Professor Groundhog, unable to see his shadow, predicts several more weeks of cold weather. The rabbit-family and their woodland neighbors choose to disbelieve the groundhog's pessimistic forecast, until suddenly it begins to snow and the forest animals are driven back into hibernation.
Historians Joe Adamson and Tom Klein speculate this short to be an uncredited Tex Avery-directed effort.
The King of Mouseland issues an edict that all of his Mouse subjects must work for their cheese. But three mice, too lazy to work (and too scared to steal) put on dark glasses and claim to be blind. But they wander out of Mouseland and encounter a big ugly cat who figures they'll make him a nice meal.
Oswald and his dog go bird hunting.
A child rabbit is sent to school by his mother. On the way, he passes a carrot patch, which is actually a trap set by a hungry wolf. He remembers what his mother told him before he left; "Don't be late to school. And remember, don't play hookey.", so he decides to walk on by. While at school, the rabbit remembers the carrot patch he passed and begins to get anxious. He pretends to have the measels, and his teacher kicks him out of school. He returns to the carrot patch, and isn't aware that the wolf is wating for him...
The bunny highway patrol- motorcycle cop Oswald Rabbit and his sidekick Humpty Dumpty- are called in when Bo Peep's two small sheep run off and begin a crime spree. They even steal a full pie truck, and wreak havoc with the pies.
It's a dark and stormy night when Elmer The Great Dane gets sick and Oswald has to nurse him back to health.
A big sign says "Oswald's Torn Sox vs. Jungle Giants," and the big game is on! Big apes and huge elephants take their best shots against Oswald's often confused group of hapless barnyard ballers. Will Oswald and his team cheat their way to win against the opposing big guys' team? Is this not a 1930s cartoon? Of course the good guys will cheat... and win!
Oswald competes in the "Alaska Sweepstakes," a dog team race with a $10,000 first prize.
Oswald takes a trip to Nightmareland. This cartoon is mostly in music, like a 1930s operetta.
A worried duck is sweating it out while Mama Duck is hatching out quintuplets. Afterwards, Papa Duck receives a telegram of congratulations from his friend Oswald Rabbit and an invitation to have dinner at Oswald's house and bring the kids.
Oswald the Rabbit and his (rabbit) girlfriend go to an amusement park but Oswald's dog is refused admittance. This does not set well with the pooch so he sneaks in through a trap-door that comes up into the shooting gallery, The park police are soon chasing Ozzie's dog through the skating rink.
Meany, Miny, Moe- three hitchhiking, hobo chimpanzees who are work-dodgers and followers of the open road- are put to work on Oswald Rabbit's farm in payment for pies stolen from the hard-working rabbit. The simians find it hard to milk a cow, paint a house, and haul water from the well.
Boxer Oswald battles it out in a "boxer vs. wrestler" match at the Punch Bowl Arena with Punchy Pig.
Oswald (who had been given a makeover and was no longer lucky) runs a puppet show. Almost the entire film is comprised of live action footage of puppets with only a small bit of animation by Manuel Moreno.
Meany, Miny and Moe, three monkeys, have their hearts set on a turkey dinner but the turkey thinks otherwise. While they are out hunting the turkey, the turkey sneaks into their house and gobbles up all their food. The monkeys end up eating their Thanksgiving dinner at a hot-dog stand.
Billy Gopher is digging holes and wrecking everything in Henrietta Hen' beautiful garden, so she calls in a pest exterminator, Oswald Rabbit. He shows up with his assistant, Elmer Pooch. When it comes to getting rid of gophers, Elmer is not adverse to using dynamite. Lots of dynamite.
Meany, Miny and Moe, the three monkeys, start out to sing Christmas carols, but wind up doing a good deed for Widow Duck and her family. The stockings were empty at the Duck house so they go to the home of the rich Henrietta Hen and move out the Christmas tree and all the presents to the home of the poverty-stricken Ducks. Mrs. Hen forgives all when she sees how happy the four Duck kids are.
The three monkeys try out their luck on the links. The "boys" get attacked by a mechanical golf cart that looks like a robot.
First seen as incidental characters in an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon, these three monkeys act is reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Acting out in pantomime, the monkeys were a bit hit with audiences in the mid-1930's.
Oswald is the conductor of an orchestra composed of several birds. Things are going well until three crows ransack their place.
Oswald throws a birthday party for obnoxious duckling quintuplets Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum and Fooey. The quints and a crazy dog decide to tear the entire place down- all in the name of fun.
Oswald, along with his animated car and trailer, go into a rough and troublesome journey.
Oswald and his two dogs try to catch an egg-snatching weasel on the farm, but with disappointing results.
The poor monkeys are no match for a hungry ostrich when they try to fly an airplane and deliver a million dollars in diamonds.
Oswald's dog Dixie Mutt flirts with snooty Fifi Poodle, but he's ignored. He offers a bone, but gets the brush-off with hilarious consequences. The bewildered owner takes him to Dr. Quack's animal hospital for treatment. Dixie digs up a whole dinosaur skeleton. Fifi discloses that she has other attachments: a whole litter.
Oswald is a lion keeper assisted by his incompetent partner, Dumb Cluck. Cluck never quite clicked with Oswald fans, but is amusing as he attempts to "help" Oswald from being eaten by an escaped and hungry gang of lions. Oswald has a hard time getting the lions back in their cages, but pulls a startling ruse to round up the ferocious cats.
Oswald the Rabbit matches his football team up against the tough Ruffians, but it is a pitiful mismatch as Oswald has a lot of ducks on his outweighed team. But just as it looked as if Oswald's team was heading for a certain loss, it began to rain...and the tide turned in favor of the swimmers versus the waders.
Oswald the Rabbit goes snooping around a junk yard with his dog, Doxie. He fins a bottle marked "The Magic Jug," and when he uncorks it out jumps a genii with his magic wand.
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.
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).
The first of many 1890's melodrama lampoons produced by the Lantz studio during 1938 and 1939.
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
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).
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).
Oswald and his Scouts (members of Oswald's Scouts Duck Troop 13) are marching on a camping trip. Blackie Duck loses his diaper and falls behind.
Baby Face Mouse learns that crime does not pay when he crosses the railroad tracks and Public Enemy #1, Butch Face Rat, tries to lead him astray on a cheese heist.
It's midnight in Walter Lantz's animation studio when an ink bottle spills. Out come dancing, singing cannibals.
In a North Pole classroom, Professor Seal is teaching th young seals all about fishing. One little seal would rather practice snowball-juggling and plays hookey, and gets into trouble with the teacher. But back in the classroom a hungry polar bear is waiting to make food out of the seals. The juggling seal does his act and the bear is so impressed that he decides to stay in school and learn to juggle.
The ghosts in an abandoned hotel are not happy. They idle away their time getting drunk, playing pinball and slot machines, and collecting their relief checks. What they want is someone to scare. They finally get their opportunity when two chimpanzees and a big, sad-faced dog step inside.
A mad scientist injects his serum and sees the unexpected consequences. When our goofy scientist hits a flea on a little puppy, the folks of Pixie Land are about to have some very big problems. A montage of them getting ready to go to war has the feel of RKO's "King Kong."
The stars come out to the Hollywood Bowl for a night of musical fun.
A boy and his dog hunt rabbit in the forest.
Willie Mouse (Baby Face Mouse) leaves a note at home saying that he is running away to go to sea, but the thugs he meets up with make him change his mind quickly. He should have stayed home rather than mix it up with cigar- smoking, gun-toting, hook-armed boat rats of every size and description
Mother Mouse warns her son Baby Face to stay in the yard... so the first thing that he does when Mom's eye strays is wander across the railroad tracks. In no time, he encounters Rat Face the wharf rat, who runs a school for crime in which the subtle art of picking pockets is matriculated
A mother blackbird hatches out two normal offspring and one featherless nitwit. The nitwit refuses to learn to fly and learn the other aspects of bird-life, but when he battles wicked hawks and saves his siblings from been eaten up, all is forgiven at the family nest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The first of only three Lil' Eightball cartoons. The character was seen again in 1940s Walter Lantz comic books.
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.
Lil' Eightball visits a house haunted by ghosts.
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.
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.
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.
Andy Panda decides to go on a fishing expedition, but he has no luck until he meets a friendly turtle who shows him many ingenous ways to catch fish. While they're busy fishing, evil pymgy panda hunters sneak up on them and try to capture Andy to sell him to the zoo. Just as it appears that Andy will be captured, he's saved by an electric eel who frightens off the natives.
Three little kittens go out walking and ridicule a little orphan tramp kitten because he doesn't have any mittens. They lose their mittens, just like in the nursery rhyme. Fearing that their mother won't let them have pie, they pretend that their mittens were stolen. Their mother calls the police, who arrest every criminal in town. In the police lineup, the boys accuse the vagabond kitten they met. When asked to name the culprit, they name the kitten. He denies committing the crime, and the cops threaten to hang him. This causes the boys to relent and tell the truth. Their friend is off the hook, and the kittens adopt him.
Tom Thumb Jr. and his friend are cast ashore on an island where they are found by a lady who thinks Tom is a baby and puts him to sleep in a sewing basket. Left alone, Tom and his pal seek food and have a series of misadventures with a mouse, duck and a cat.
Andy Panda (still an infant) pesters Papa, who's trying to take a nap. When he gets his magic wand in the mail, he practices on Papa and competes against the witch doctor of the Pygmies, who wants to see who has more magic.
When Andy Panda and his father are stranded miles away from home by a thunderstorm, they take shelter in a nearby house. Little do they realize that the house where they're spending the night is actually a fun house, with hidden practical jokes everywhere. The house also has a noisy merry go-round, a trick drinking fountain,and a dance floor with an ever-changing background.
Military humor featuring military equipment, Punchy, and an assortment of other characters. It's a whole army in a daze throughout this wacky nonsense in a soldier camp where the awkward squad makes everything awkward until powder magazines blow up, sausage balloons are sliced for lunch, and a Big Brass council of war argues over tic-tac-toe! This army would make an enemy laugh himself helpless!
When Woody Woodpecker interrupts the peace and quiet at the Panda home, Andy's poppa tries to run the pest off while Andy tries to catch him by putting salt on his tail.
Wild, musical Indians in a cartoon with minimal dialogue, but lots of swing jive music and hilarious war dances. The Indians whistle at a "hot squaw number" and salute "The Chief," which rolls along at 90 miles an hour. Palefaces get red faces as a few cowboys get arrows. A tepee makes like a toupee. When the Indians do a war dance, one gets ambitious and dons a suit of armor, then shoots down a big bird that turns out to be an airplane.
Andy Panda's dad is bragging about his prowess as a hunter when Mom directs his attention to a severe mouse problem. Andy's father is trying to catch a pesky mouse with his own "scientific" approach, while young Andy keeps pushing the idea of an old-fashioned mousetrap. Dad "shows" Andy how to catch a mouse, one failed attempt after another. The help of a cat proves ineffective, as it turns out that the cat and mouse are drinking buddies.
Fairs, rides, attractions and horses at the county fair are all made fun of. Like a world's fair, there are some ultra-modern exhibits. You'll see the Rubber Man, the Fat Lady, the Tattoo Man, the Sword Swallower, elephants, lions and a giraffe... but the real problem is a little old lady looking for her dog. A "Cream Separator" is operated by a small child with a bowl. A "Crazy Quilt" lives up to its name. Announcer: "Say, this turkey has no neck!" Turkey: "Aw, nobody eats the neck, anyway!" There's a hog-calling contest ("You're a hog!").
Lazy folks in Lazy Town (Pop. 123½) are napping and attracting flies. They are so lethargic they even fight in slow motion. Then a riverboat arrives with a red hot mama on board and she quickly has everyone moving to a Harlem boogie beat, dancing, scrubbing clothes, and eating watermelon. As the boogie-woogie comes to a close, Mammy hoists her skirt. Her big bottom reads "The End".
A comical twist on the history of America.
Pop throws out Andy's dopey cat Romeo, but when he finds out that the feline can win $25 at a cat show, he catches Romeo, figuring that the prize money should not go unclaimed by a member of the family. Andy and his dad try to pretty up Romeo. They try bathing him, resulting in a riot of claws, fur and water. Furious fun on a springboard leads to a yowling climax.
A narrator tells how military recruits are trained on land and sea. Men get a physical, undergo basic training, do duties on board ship for gunnery practice, clean the decks, and prepare for battle. Lots of gags (very similar to Abbott and Costello's "In the Navy") concerning naval training, recruits' love of the ladies and tattoos, hatred of physical exams and their inability to fire a shot that hits the target. A sailor kisses his gal with such vigor that he gets the porthole ripped right out of the ship.
The peace and quiet of Birdland comes to an end when Woody Woodpecker begins to annoy the inhabitants with zany antics. Their countermeasures are hilarious, but they fail to dim Woody's zest and enthusiasm. Woody sings, "Everybody thinks I'm crazy." The other animals manage to convince him that he is, so he sees a shrink named Dr. Horace N. Buggy, a fox who's as crazy as he is. Woody heckles Dr. Buggy.
Andrew P. Panda (Andy's pop) asks the Acme Roofing Company if it will repair his shoddy roof. He is quickly turned off by the exorbitant price ($200) and determines, "I'll fix it myself!" Naturally, Pop isn't the most skilled of workers, but does his best anyway. The ladder collapses, so Andy's pop tries hurling rolls of roofing paper. However, the flying paper snatches him to the roof. His best turns to his worst when an annoying pelican distracts him by making the roof his new home. Pop angrily tries to rid himself of the feathered pest (who just wants to mind his own business) and destroys the roof more than ever in the process. Furious, Pop falls through the skylight, landing (conveniently) near the telephone. Admitting defeat, he again calls the roofing company, only to be irately told, "Fix it yourself!"
Woody Woodpecker is driving along a country road when his car breaks down. The redhead does such a good repair job that he's unable to restrain the car when he starts off again. He drives a policeman crazy in various disguises on the highway. The TV version of the cartoon re-titled as Woody's Jalopy.
Walter Lantz uses an all-black cast and swings the heck out of the story. Hot-Breath Harry (The Harlem Heatwave) is "the hottest trumpet man in town" until he's drafted by the army. When he gets his draft notice, he's sure that he can get out of serving, but no such luck. His sarge assigns him as the new bugle boy. But that's no great honor- the last one was done in by the guys in the squad. Harry's only chance is to swing it. Like many Lantz cartoons of the era, this combines a hit song of the day with broadly-drawn racial stereotypes.
Overworked, overtired hunting dog Snoozer has a hard time trying to get plenty of sleep to go hunting with his master the following day. Due to noise, lights, etc., he's up all night. The put-upon dog must put up with an assortment of classic cartoon annoyances from chirping crickets to loudly clicking clocks to a house fire. A classic end gag has the dog turning the tables on the hunter.
In a peaceful bird village in the heart of the forest, a weatherman, Professor Groundhog, predicts a terrible cold front. He reports a storm warning that a blizzard is coming, and that all birds are to go south immediately. The birds close their houses and start leaving. Seeing the birds flying away, Woody Woodpecker asks why, and he's told of the coming storm. Enjoying himself in a swimming pool, Woody doesn't pay any attention. Suddenly, a blizzard hits. Woody's caught in midair as he makes a dive, and he's blown right to his door and into the house. Weeks later, Woody runs out of food- a roaring wind takes all his rations- and starvation stares him in the face. A hungry tomcat knocks at his door, and Woody lets him in. Each eyes the other as a source of food: visions of roast woodpecker to the cat, roast cat to Woody. A battle of wits ensues as to who shall feed on whom. There's a wild riot in the kitchen for a morsel of food. Woody and the cat try to eat each other for supper.
Woody Woodpecker makes an appearance in this cartoon, the first in Walter Lantz's Swing Symphony series. The story is built around a performance of the title song, an original by Felix Bernard and Ray Klages about army life. It's set at "Camp Pain," situated within the Toyland Army section of the Toy Department of the "Maybe So Dept. Store" and features the toy soldiers and animals on the shelves coming to life and joining in to do all the orchestral and vocal parts. There's nothing more to it than that, but it's a lively song with some great jazz bits and it benefits from creative musical arrangements by Darrell Calker, Lantz's talented longtime music supervisor.
Teased by his son to allow him to shoe a horse, Andy Panda's dad decides to have some fun with the little guy by dressing up as "Charlie Horse," who wants new horseshoes. A riot of fun begins. Mixed up with magnets, a plow, flying anvils and red-hot horseshoes, Pop finally runs for his life. Andy chases him and proves that he can nail on a shoe.
A day of the big bullfight has arrived. The stands are packed. The spectators are in a frenzy of excitement. A trumpeter signals the entrance of the contestants. Woody Woodpecker, the matador ("Woody the Terribull"), enters the arena through a maze of doors and acknowledges the crowd's plaudits by waving his sword and bowing to the delirious mob. The vicious bull is being held by the tail through a knothole in the fence. He's fighting and straining to get into the arena. The starter's gun is fired, and the bull leaps into the arena, dragging the fat attendant through the knothole and into the battle area. The bull's first rush whirls Woody around so fast that he finds himself closely wrapped up in his cape, unable to move. From here on, the bullfight resolves itself into a battle between Woody, the bull and the cape.
Algernon Wolf is about to be hanged for trying to take the lives of the Three Little Pigs. The wolf pleads for mercy. Via flashback, the wolf proves that the pigs actually tormented him! It seems that the wolf is a classical music teacher, but the pigs want to play that jive music. They wreck the wolf's home.
Sight gags satirize famous Mother Goose stories. In one scene, Little Bo Peep loses her sheep on a bad throw of the dice.
Andy has a problem: he operates a tailor shop ("Zut Suits," the sign reads) and has a troublesome moth. The moth can eat a suit in minutes, a fur coat just as fast. Andy hangs a fur coat made of skunk fur in the closet, and it halts the moth. Then, Andy hangs a rubber raincoat on the rack; the moth almost loses his teeth chewing on it.
Andy is trying to build a cabin in the peace and quiet of a primeval forest with new lumber (and the assistance of various woodland friends). The lumber twists and turns, and the cabin falls. A bunch of eager beavers are trying to build a dam. They learn that Andy has some lumber, and they come to borrow some. Andy thinks that they are cute, and, in a generous (and joking) mood, he gives a curious little beaver a piece of beaverboard. The beavers get serious, and they try to carry off all his lumber. Taking it for granted that they can have whatever building materials they can carry away, they also take apart Andy's cabin for their dam. When they steal his lumber, Andy declares war.
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).
A cute little mouse living in a cafe is awakened from his sleep by ghosts playing the jukebox upstairs. The mouse climbs inside the machine and runs into trouble with an automatic record changer. Falling into a glass of Zowie Alcohol, he gets rip-roaring drunk. Derby-hatted "alcohol spirits" emerge from empty beer glasses. All the inhabitants of the bar come to life and sing and dance. A lobster dinner comes to life in the person of Carmen Miranda and dances a typical Brazilian dance. A big band plays rumbas in the Xavier Cugat style. Brazilian dancers are also seen dancing around a lampshade, and Latin "matchstick men" move to the beat, as well.
Homer, a drawling country pigeon, calls on his girl Mazie, but she gives him the cold shoulder when a squadron of carrier pigeons flies over. Homer resolves to win her favor by joining the Pigeon Patrol. Try as he does, he can't win the grade because he hasn't enough chest. Trudging home, he witnesses an aerial combat between a carrier pigeon and a Japanese vulture. When the pigeon crashes to the ground, Homer volunteers to carry the vital message through. He battles and defeats the vulture, delivers the message, wins the girl, and raises a family of bright young fledglings for the Pigeon Patrol.
Andy Panda and his dog Balmer plant a victory garden, while a pesky rooster eats their plants. Andy wants to plant a new garden with the help of his dog. Unfortunately, everything goes wrong for both of them. Andy finds that the ground is hard as rocks and he can't dig; he has to use a drill. The dog chases a worm and gets stuck in a rake. The worm whacks him and leads him on a merry chase through a garden hose, turning it into a snake which blasts the poor dog in the face with water. Meanwhile, Andy's seeds are vacuumed up by a rooster, which he attacks with a sickle. The rooster lands on the dog. The battle rages with everything in a heap. The garden is ruined... or is it? The super-grow fertilizer is working wonders.
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.
Big Band swing music from the 1940s combines with some politically incorrect overtones about Arizona Indians. Characters include "Tommy Hawk and His 5 Scalpers." In this madcap musical, an Indian chief fires his rainmaker and hires Tommy Hawk, whose trap drums produce some amusing results.
Hilarious film of a herd of Herefords on a cattle ranch. The cattle on the "Lazy S Ranch" are slow-moving until an outrageous Stepin Fetchit-style black boogie-woogie musician arrives and sings the boogie-woogie, bringing sweet syncopation to the bored white cowpokes back home on the range. They literally rope him up like a lynch mob- but they just want to hear him play the piano! He lures the cattlemen's doomed steer into the boxcars to slaughter with the swinging title tune. The herd's "lead singer" has animated lips and sings the boogie as she rambles along the inside of a wooden fence. She's backed up by the rest of the herd.
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.
Oswald and other Easter Bunnies in an Easter egg plant get the eggs ready and colored in time for Easter. They make colors out of flowers and use baby rabbits as molds to make chocolate bunnies.
A horse (with a Jack Benny attitude and voice) is treated like a horse and doesn't like it, so he gets even with his owner. Homer Pigeon incurs the animosity of his horse Hank, first by routing him out of bed to go to the barn dance, then by cracking him repeatedly on the back of the head with his buggy whip. Insult is added to injury when the halter weight drags him into a deep mud hole. Throughout the hectic gaiety of the barn dance, Hank, still in the mud hole, dreams up dire bodily harm for Homer. All of the barnyard animals, except Hank, are having a smell time. Finally, Hank can stand it no longer. He stalks into the barn and promptly, but effectively, breaks up the dance. The last we see of Homer is his trotting home pulling the buggy while Hank, sitting beside Homer's girl, cracks the buggy whip and sings, "The ol' grey mare, she's smarter than she used to be, smarter than she used to be..."
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.
Dogs train in the United States Army.
Woody Woodpecker tries to get gas without a ration book and finds that pleasure driving can be a mighty unpleasurable chore.
Mirandy's biscuits are legendary. A hillbilly family fights at the dinner table to get some, but Mirandy's biscuits are hard as rocks. We are treated to scenes of teeth breaking when they bite in. What to do with Mirandy's biscuits? "We'll use her biscuits for bullets- We'll fight the Axis 'till they're dead."
The Spook of the Month Club Swing Convention (consisting of black ghosts) convenes to add some hot jumpin' jive to their scary retinue! Sexy ghost gals and zoot suited jitterboo-ers strut their stuff and show that there's a lot of life in those no longer among us. Brother, can they sing and dance! Some politically incorrect caricatures will certainly keep this one off TV, but who can be offended once Spook Jones and His Creepy Crooners (a parody of Spike Jones) start boppin' to raise the dead?
Andy Panda wants roast chicken for his Meatless Tuesday dinner...but the farmyard rooster isn't being cooperative.
The Sultan offers his beautiful daughter as wife to the "Greatest Man in Siam." (A sign reads, "King's Daughter Contest/Also Bowling at 1:10 p.m./Lockheed vs. Kaiser Welders".) A number of contestants vie for her, but the winner is a jazz trumpet player who is "The Hottest Man in Siam."
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.
At the Sandwich Islands, which includes the "deviled egg" island, the "hot dog on a bun" island, and the "hamburger" island (with a sign, "Hold the Onions"), we see a man on the "tunaville" island surveying the area with a telescope. He notices a crate full of musical instruments wash ashore and alerts the others. The tribe finds these instruments strange and unusual at first but eventually really get the hang of them, particularly one member who plays a hot piano, his playing being somewhat interrupted by a pestiferous crab.
Andy Panda is fascinated by a cute little goldfish in a pet shop window, buys it, and starts to take it home. He's stalked by a mangy, hungry alley cat who tries to eat it. The big tomcat tries to get the baby fish by sneaking up and grabbing it, then by disguising himself as a thirst-crazed desert traveler dying for a drink of water, and finally, by crude by effective brute force. Andy's stuck in the middle of a guerrilla war between the ravenous cat and the goldfish. Guess who's more sadistic? In his haste, the cat loses the fish down the gutter, but retrieves it, only to lose it again. Andy catches the fish and is promptly chases back to the pet shop. The cat's ambush outside the shop is foiled by a big bulldog at Andy's side who disposes of the cat without lifting an eyebrow.
The "Adobe Club" ("Here's Mud In Your Eye," the sign reads) meets somewhere in the sandy Sahara. Classic 1940s animation full of eroticism, mysticism... and camels. When Ben the Turk goes boogie-mad, he becomes an "Oriental rug cutter" like Abou Ben Boogie. A "lovely" in baggy trousers sings "Oriental Boogie Man," and she knocks 'em dead. Even the camels go boogie, and Ben becomes a wolf.
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.
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.
Andy Panda is the painter and his dog, Butch, is the pointer, and Andy is trying to paint a portrait of Butch doing what a bird-dog is supposed to do...standing still and pointing to the game-bird. But Butch won't stand still. Andy's solution is to rig a gun to go off if Butch moves a muscle. Butch gamely resists all temptations to move but a couple of spiders carry him off in their web, with the gun going off repeatedly and peppering Butch's posterior.
In this swing version of the famous tale, a small town of no distinction is overrun with rats. Stores and homes of every kind and description are infected with a plague of rats. The mayor of the town is in a quandary. His phones are busy with demands to do something about the rats. Finally, he hears a voice say: "Listen. Mister, what you need is a Pied Piper." Looking up, he sees a young man with a trombone (a caricature of Jimmy Durante) who claims that he can run every rat out of town for a small financial consideration. The mayor makes a deal with him, and the trombone player goes to work leading the rats out of town with his hot music. He gets rid of the rats with the playing of his trombone, and he locks them in a large cage. Returning to the mayor's office, he's handed a bag which is full of peanuts.
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.
The show opens with a tremendous storm at sea. The lone survivor is Jackson, a lion who also happens to be a jazz trombone player. The boat is finally shipwrecked in the Arctic, where the lion floats ashore, lands on an ice floe of some sort, and is rescued by penguins. He's so admired for his trombone playing that he's crowned king of the mystical kingdom of Polaroo. The usual "natives embracing the white explorer" phenomenon, but tongue in cheek.
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.
Andy Panda, as a farmer, has a fine-looking field of corn about ready for the harvest. However, a flock of crows has discovered the corn and is busily devouring every kernel in sight when Andy discovers what's going on. He rushes out into the cornfield and fires a shotgun into the air. The crows fly away in every direction- all, that is to say, but one crow who continues to eat undisturbed. After many futile attempts to get rid of the wise-guy crow, Andy finds that he's unable to cope with the crow's sagacity. Andy then calls in his dumb dog Milo for assistance in keeping the crows from eating his corn, especially the one who's causing all the trouble. Again, the crow outsmarts the dog, with disastrous results for both Andy and Milo. Finally, the crow is seen rowing a boat filled with corn away into the sunset as Andy and Milo watch his departure with undisguised chagrin, and not a little relief.
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.
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.
Andy Panda is conducting the Hollywood Washbowl Orchestra in a Sunday afternoon concert. It's one of those afternoons when everything goes wrong. A frog gets entangled in Andy's wig, but he finally manages to extricate himself. Andy's stiff shirt front catches on a nail. Yank and jerk as he will, it won't come loose. The orchestra, following every yank and jerk, goes into a very snappy jam session. A pig, a squirrel, a flock of birds and a cat do their best to interrupt the concert, but in spite of everything, Andy manages to hold forth and keep the musicians playing. An adagio dance by two ducks is interrupted by a hungry fox who starts to chase the ducks.
Andy and his dog, Milo, share their house with an obnoxious rodent who enjoys tormenting the two above anything else. Finally, the two decide the only way they can rid themselves of the pest is for the two to just plain move out. They pack their bags and move to a new house leaving the mouse behind. With no one to torment, the mouse decides life isn't worth living anymore and attempts to end it all until he finally discovers their new address, moves in with them, and resumes tormenting the two.
Andy Panda is very fond of apples and he eats a bushel of green apples, falls asleep and has a nightmare in which the devil is trying to entice him into Hades and stuffs him full of apple juice, applesauce and more apples. (In Andy's defense, since Andy was taught not to eat green apples, the devil had spray-painted the green apples red.)
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."
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.
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.
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.
Andy Panda goes shopping for a flower to decorate his lawn but the poor flower is attacked by a very nasty weed that threatens to choke the life out of it. Andy does his best to get rid of the menacing and stubborn weed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Woody Woodpecker, dreaming of becoming a great screen lover, is awakened by a telegram from the studio telling him to come to work. His screen test starts at 9 a.m., and he must be wearing a top hat. The months have wrecked Woody's hat, so he has to buy a new one. Wally Walrus, proprietor of a hat store, makes a stubborn hat stay on Woody's head by screwing it on. An electric fan, however, soon blows the ornery hat off, and it lands on a frog. In trying to get the hat away from the frog, Woody becomes involved with a bucket and a goose. He fastens a skyrocket onto the goose to get it out of his hat, but he goes up into the sky himself. He arrives at his new job by crashing through the roof, and he's fired immediately. He throws the hat away, but it boomerangs and knocks him out. Woody's dream of fame as a great screen lover ends with a spat with his dream glamour girl.
Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker are two cold, hungry, unemployed musicians trying to keep alive in a heatless, foodless house. After fighting over a stale bean and losing it to a hungry mouse, they happen to read about Mrs. Gloria Van Glutton's musicale and dinner. Eluding butler Wally Walrus, they slip unobserved into the orchestra, where the aroma of a roast pig is too much for Woody. While the hungry mouse swallows a piece of cheese whole, Andy snags a roast turkey with a rod and reel fastened to his violin bow. Wally watches Woody make a sandwich, gets too close, and becomes part of it. Fortunately, a sneeze starts a free-for-all, with Mrs. Van Glutton a leading contender. The guests throw food at each other while Andy, Woody and the mouse stuff themselves- that is, until Wally starts using a shotgun. This breaks up the party and is a great help in sending Woody hopping madly over the hill.
Wally Walrus is the conductor at a local schoolhouse who conducts the entire school band to the tune of "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna". Among the gags set to music: A skunk is forced to play his instrument outside, a caterpillar resting on a guitar is pursued by the rooster playing it, and one boy uses his knitting needles to play the drums (when he plays a rather long piece, he knits two pairs of socks!). The piece ends when Wally becomes entangled with bubble gum that one boy has been blowing through his trumpet.
Woody Woodpecker, a homeless nobody, is rudely awakened from his park bench and tossed into a garbage can. He finds a news item announcing that billionaire Wally Walrus is planning to adopt a new baby boy. To get free room and board, Woody shows up on his doorstep disguised as a baby foundling. He gives Wally a tough time playing horsie, which leads to Wally's safe. He dishes out great piles of his money via an improvised slot machine. A trick ball that returns to the thrower fools Woody a couple of times, but when he substitutes an iron ball, Wally moves to the basement, but suddenly. Wally tries to discipline Woody with a stick of dynamite inside the trick ball, but his trick boomerangs, and he's blown into a hospital wheelchair that's equipped with a machine gun. Woody escapes by diving through the end title.
The Pixies of the forest are having a picnic. Their band is playing "La Gazza Ladra Overture," led by a little old bewhiskered Pixie on a toadstool. Their instruments are improvised from flowers, spider webs, etc. A bee pesters one Pixie, while a box of pepper causes several others to sneeze. The cooks get too much stuffing in the turkey, which explodes, scrambling the food and musicians. One Pixie almost drowns in the cider well, but he hiccups himself out and onto the bowling green, where he tries to bowl. He finally fires the ball out of a cannon, lets loose an avalanche of giant pumpkins, squash, melons, etc., and breaks up the picnic.
Underhanded insurance agent A. Welcher forces Woody into signing a "Low Life" insurance policy- a document stating that the agent will get $10,000 if Woody kicks the bucket.
Captain Andy Panda is bothered by a pelican sleeping on his boat and throws her off, not knowing that she left an egg. When a baby pelican hatches and hungrily gulps a frog, things really start to hop. The "playful pelican" believes that Andy's his mother. Andy prays for rescue.
Andy reads in the newspaper that dog catcher Wally Walrus is coming to collect $3.00 worth of dog tax from every dog owner. Being kind of a cheapskate, he hides his dog in the closet from Wally's presence but, upon entering Andy's house, Wally still suspects something is amiss. He uses a trained flea to reveal the dog who gets chased by Wally into a pond in the backyard. After "fishing" the dog out, Wally demands Andy pay his $3.00 but both are in for a surprise: the dog has an entire litter of puppies each worth an additional $3.00!
Just as cowpoke Woody Woodpecker rides into the Wild West town of Rigor Mortis, New Mexico, outlaw Buzz Buzzard is disposing of the 274th new sheriff. With a price on badman Buzz's head, Woody takes on the sheriff's job. Gunslinger Woody tries to bring down tough hombre Buzz. Lots of crazy sight gags, including politically incorrect images of the two characters rolling cigarettes and smoking up a storm.
For her birthday, Andy presents his sweetheart, Miranda, with her usual present, candy and flowers. Miranda complains she wants something decent for her birthday like a fur coat...which Andy can't afford. A con man tells him he doesn't need money. He sells him a tracking hound and tells him he can hunt for the fox himself. Unfortunately, the fox Andy and his hound find has no intentions of being caught. Eventually, Andy does capture an animal to make a fur stole with. It's not the fox but, rather, something that's more of a surprise.
Woody Woodpecker, suffering from heat and commercials, plans to spend his last quarter to cool off with a "super-duper delight ice cream soda," the "Drooler's Delight," but con man Buzz Buzzard has other ideas. Woody finds that he must outsmart Buzz on his way to the fountain.
In the Old West, daring "Puny Express" rider Woody Woodpecker tries to get the mail through and elude gunman Buzz Buzzard in the meantime. Woody and his horse run onto many obstacles- including a "horned toad." Desperado Buzz waits for Woody as he crosses the river. Buzz plans to bomb Woody with a big boulder from above...
A sleep-deprived Woody crashes for the night at Wally Walrus's boarding home. Seeking a night's rest, he finds that the only lodging available is a spare bed in the hotel manager's office. But pretty soon, it's Wally who ends up not sleeping. Wally finds his ears full as soon as Woody's head hits the pillow. Woody's snoring is keeping Wally awake, so Wally attempts to stifle Woody's snoring in some unique ways.
Woody Woodpecker has a way of making things happen even when all is quiet and peaceful, as it is while he plays a solitary game of croquet. Quiet, that is, until he hits the goal stake and knocks it over. When Woody pounds the stake into the ground, he sends it through the roof of a gopher's parlor and finds himself in a territorial dispute.
A shooting contest (carrying a $1,000 prize) in a Western frontier town narrows itself down to two pretty sharp-eyed finalists: Indian Buzz Buzzard and his bow and arrow, and tenderfoot Woody Woodpecker. In Woody's hands, "Slingshot 6 7/8" is a weapon to be reckoned with.
Woody Woodpecker's pursuing his favorite pastime, writing a tome on "Work and How to Avoid It," while all his friends of the forest work industriously to store food for the long winter ahead. He's warned by the other forest animals to store food, but he doesn't heed their warnings. With the first snow, the laugh's on Woody, who finds himself cold and starving during wintertime, a la "The Grasshopper and the Ants." He nearly starves to death sponging food off animals. They pour on the ice, but Woody merrily thaws his way out.
The story opens with various couples going into a barn to attend a barn dance. All of them sway to the rhythm of the music. Wally Walrus is the doorman who collects the tickets as they enter. Admission to the dance is $1, which entitles each purchaser to a ticket to "Free Eats." Woody Woodpecker is in a haystack sleepily watching the dancers go by. He sees by his watch that it's dinnertime, and he realizes that he's hungry. His glance falls on the "Free Eats" sign, so he proceeds to follow the crowd into the barn. He hands a rubber dollar bill to Wally, who discovers it after Woody has entered the barn. Woody's hungrily standing by a table laden with food, and just as he's about to really feast, Wally ejects him from the barn. Woody then dresses up as a femme fatale and vamps Wally into letting him enter the barn dance. Woody's main object is to get food; Wally's, to dance with this new gal who has really excited him. Thus, we see a struggle on the one hand for food; on the other, the enjoyment of dancing. Woody finally gets to the food-laden table and ultimately obtains more than his share of the food, storing the excess in his dress in spite of Wally's efforts to keep him dancing. Wally finally discovers that his exciting gal is really Woody in disguise, and realizing that a fool he has made of himself, he violently kicks himself.
A line of people (including Woody) drool at the window of the shop of market butcher Buzz Buzzard. A short series of gags ensues about how Buzz dishonestly (and literally) "jacks" up all his prices. Since Woody is broke as usual, he sneaks in and gets thrown out by Buzz. On the way out, Woody collides with a bottle of invisible ink and turns partially invisible. Buzz can only see parts of Woody's body, and, in a somewhat gruesome scene, thinks that he's been dismembered, so he sweeps him into a trap door to get rid of him. When Woody awakes, he realizes what is happening, and he douses himself with the rest of the ink in order to pose as a ghost.
A very old Woody Woodpecker reflects on his life, starting with his infancy. Woody's funny life is traced in amusing verse.
Woody Woodpecker, tired and perspiring, is walking down a dusty road of the old West carrying a heavy suitcase. Hearing a stagecoach approaching, he stands in the road thumbing a ride, but the stage passes him by in a swirl of dust. He opens his suitcase, which contains an assortment of artificial limbs used to display women's stockings, wigs, dresses, etc. Woody transforms himself into a young woman by putting on artificial limbs, a wig and a dress. Wally Walrus, driver of a stagecoach, approaches Woody in the road. Woody coyly lifts his skirt to display the shapely limbs. Wally quickly stops the stage, and Woody enters. Woody, in the coach's dining room, orders a sumptuous meal from Wally, now dresses as a waiter. Woody's wig falls off. Wally realizes his mistake, and he hands Woody a check for $30. Woody and Wally argue over the price, and Wally pulls a lever, which ejects Woody over the stagecoach roof. Woody jumps from the stagecoach and runs away. Woody then drives the stagecoach and meets the real "Buzz Buzzard the Bandit" astride a horse. Buzz forces Woody to drive to his hideout cottage. Woody, again disguised as a woman, causes Buzz's heart to flutter as he hastens to put his house in order, dress in "full dress and silk hat," and get ready to welcome Woody. A giant commotion emanates from the cottage. Woody rushes out the door with Buzz in full chase. Woody jumps into the stage, with Buzz making a close second.
When the golfing bug bites Woody Woodpecker, he's ready for the game, but the question is: "Is the game ready for him?" as he tries to match play with a power golfer. Woody's attempts to play golf are interrupted by a big, burly man who makes a bet with him.
In a long shot of an Indian village way out West, all of the tepees have TV antennas, and some of the tepees are shops displaying Indian-made wares and merchandise. In the foreground is a millinery shop with a window full of feathered hats and coats, etc.; in the rear is a barber shop, complete with revolving barber pole. We discover Woody Woodpecker in the barber's chair reading a magazine, with Indian barber Buzz Buzzard stropping the blade of a tomahawk. Buzz tests the blade's sharpness by dropping a feather, which lands on the blade and slowly splits into two parts, each part floating in the air. Buzz trims the feathers on Woody's head, then, with "Feather Tonic," he gives Woody a vigorous scalp massage which, when finished, gives Woody's head the appearance of an Indian headdress, beautiful to behold. At this time, they discover a cute Indian maiden looking in the window and admiring a feathered bonnet, so they both zip out of the shop and tip their feathers to the maid. She continues to admire the bonnet, which carries a "$2,000.00 Wampum" price tag. She first asks Woody to buy the bonnet, but he's broke; she then asks Buzz, who's also without the necessary funds. The maid, with scorn, turns up her nose and walks away, leaving the two rejected swains very dejected and alone. Buzz then suddenly spies the beautiful feather-do that Woody has and, in a vision, dreams how it would look if transferred to the maid. With a malicious grin on his face, Buzz pulls out his tomahawk and starts for Woody, intending to acquire Woody's feather bonnet for the maid. From here on, there's a fast series of gags, with Buzz determined to get the feathers and Woody avoiding him at all times. Woody finally disposes of Buzz. In the final scene, we see Woody, his feathers all gone, now adorning the Indian maiden; Woody is stripped but happy.
Woody Woodpecker lands in a sideshow at a small-town circus, where his heckling proves too much for magician Buzz Buzzard to handle. Woody's pursued by Buzz throughout the fair.
Woody's home is beset by an invasion of voracious alien termites.
Woody is a street sweeper and gets into trouble with Officer Wally Walrus. He tries to get even for Wally throwing a banana peel on the sidewalk. He steals the cop's uniform and gets into the Jingling Bros. Circus because he is wearing it. Wally tries to get in, but he gets thrown out. He sneaks in under a tent, and Woody gives him a merry chase. Wally disguises himself as an elephant to catch the bird.
A sheep rancher entrusts his goofy sheepdog Dizzy to guard his herd one night. The dog is told to blow a whistle when he sees a wolf, but he spends his time fooling his master by "crying wolf," and he proceeds to blow the whistle for no reason other than to excite the farmer. The fun begins when a real wolf shows up to steal the flock after Dizzy has worn out his warning. Taken from the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" story.
When Woody Woodpecker ventures out to claim a large reward for capturing pirate Captain Buzz Buzzard, he learns that a wooden plank can be used for much more than eating.
The Lion, the King of the Jungle, is taking his royal snooze when a mouse comes on a safari to his royal hideaway. The mouse is from Bungling Brothers Circus [us], and his mission is to take HRH back to the states as a circus act. The mouse then goes about his business of capturing the lion. At the fadeout, back in the USA, the lion of performing on a precarious tight-rope, high above the arena sawdust, while the mouse whip lashes him.
Lumber mill workers Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard are friends when they are sawing trees, but when Wally Walrus (making a brief cameo as the lumber camp chef) rings the dinner bell, they become bitter enemies. Woody and Buzz duke it out over food, with the woods being pecked to death in the process.
Herman the turtle has a great ambition: to fly like a bird! He salvages jewels from the deep to pay an avaricious eagle to teach him. The eagle carries him up, up and up. The eagle lets go and starts to give instructions. The turtle falls immediately and crashes. Fortunately, he lands in "Turtle Heaven," where he becomes an angel and wins his wings for keeps!
With his TV busted, and not content to sit at home, Woody Woodpecker dashes off to the arena to attend a wrestling match. His heckling leads to one thing: an apparently one-sided match with the champ. Woody ends up becoming the new champ!
One morning at breakfast, Milford gets a phone call from a radio game show. He answers a question from the host and wins a new super-deluxe automobile for the family. The car is delivered to the house, and everyone is admiring the car. The problem is that no one in the family knows how to drive it (Maw thinks that the antenna is a "new-fangled clothesline"). Eventually, Milford goes for a joyride around the farm, chasing most of the residents, before finally crashing into a tree, reducing the vehicle to the size of a Model T. It is now the right size for the family! The joy is short-lived, however, as the "Model T" goes into a mudhole and sinks into the horizon.
Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard, bellboys at a ritzy hotel, are visited by a very glamorous French actress, Ga Ga Gazoo. They fight for the privilege of serving Miss Gazoo in a laugh-loaded mix-up. They also fight off her French poodle!
Woody is asked by a law officer to serve a court summons on Buzz Buzzard.
Milford the pig gets the mail and informs Paw that the family has won a brand new house after Maw and Paw have accumulated a million boxtops. Their joy turns to frustration when they learn the catch: the house is prefabricated, and they must put the entire house together themselves. With the family's intelligence (especially Paw's competence), this isn't an easy task. Examples: Paw is shrouded in measuring tape when Milford lets go too suddenly. When Maw carries a board, it starts vibrating to the point where it carries her into the air, dropping her into the washing machine (Paw thinks that he's watching Maw on TV). Finally, the house is finished, and the family moves inside. Unfortunately, Paw steps on a loose floorboard, causing the house to disassemble into a pile of rubble.
When Western bad guy Buzz Buzzard returns to town to settle a score with the sheriff, the sheriff gets the bright idea of pinning his badge on an unsuspecting little saloon piano player named Woody Woodpecker. Woody goes after Buzz in order to protect his small Western town and impress his Tex-Mex girlfriend. While he doesn't have enough sense to run from a showdown, Woody proves that there's a lot of imagination in being brave as he faces Buzz.
A schooner anchors at the South Pole, and the skipper goes ashore and leaves the ship's mascot, a St. Bernard dog, to stand watch and guard the ship. A small penguin, Chilly Willy (the only penguin not equipped for cold weather...anywhere), sees the ship and tries to get warm by its stove. The watchdog attempts to get rid of him, but Willy manages to get the dog drunk from the rum in its own cask. The captain returns to find Willy saving the ship from sinking, while the dog is found sleeping it off. Willy is made mascot and the dog is tossed in the ship's brig.
Woody Woodpecker is in the Foreign Legion, where he and his commander are guarding a dancing girl. A neighboring sheik wants her for his harem, and he kidnaps her. Woody goes to the sheik's palace and finally frees her by disguising her to be as ugly as homemade sin.
Sugarfoot, the faithful old plow-horse, fearing his days and place on the farm are numbered since his master had purchased a tractor, destroys it. The farmer is outraged and banishes Sugarfoot from the farm. Sugarfoot is determined to make the money needed to buy his master a new tractor, and he becomes a movie-double for a screen Wonder Horse of the Movies, and makes enough money to buy a new tractor. The farmer forgives him and, as a reward, takes him to the movies, where Sugarfoot sees the star-horse getting all the credit for all of Sugarfoot's stunt-doubling.
Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard are just a couple of sailors visiting a lovely tropical island in the South Pacific when a native girl invites them to lunch. The fun begins when they find out that they're the "lunch." The pair vie for the attention of the girl, who's more interested in sacrificing them to her volcano God than in romance.
Mr. Petipoint, a quiet little man on a quiet little street, looks for a little dog to share his life, but he buys a Great Dane pup! He decides to make a prefabricated domicile for his pedigreed pooch in this rollicking roarer. He tries to teach "Cuddles" to do things right. He shows the pup how to bury a bone. As the Great Dane grows, he starts burying... everything in sight.
A criminal known as "The Bat" (X 490231, alias Willy Garrity, alias Cornball Smith, etc.) unwittingly hides a top secret formula in Woody's house. The bird mistakes "Formula 7 3/8 (One Drop = 50,000 Horsepower)" for his "Redwood Sap" tonic and turns into a multicolored Superman, gaining super strength whenever he ingests it. The chase is on.
The Jingling Bros. Circus is performing for one night only in the town that farm horse Sugarfoot lives in. Paw has Sugarfoot pulling a plow. A new billboard goes up with pretty circus horse Starbrite's picture on it. She is a star at the circus. Sugarfoot falls for her and leaves his farm to meet her. Once he arrives, he sees Starbrite's trainer beating her. Sugarfoot kicks the villainous circus trainer. Sugarfoot woos the crowd with his ability to thwart the angry trainer, who keeps shooting at him with a rifle and missing every shot while, at the same time, getting the worst end of each thing he attempts to do to wrangle the horse. Paw is discouraged until Sugarfoot shows up again... this time with a bride and four little ponies.
In a used car town, happy Woody's car is wrecked by sleazy auto salesman Buzz Buzzard. Woody suddenly gets the feeling that he wants a new used car just as crafty Buzz just happens to be on hands to sell him one. Woody soon turns the dishonest dealer's lot into a junkyard.
A suicidal dog named John, about to jump off a bridge, relates the story about how he and his former wife and dancing partner, Mary, rose to the top from their days in vaudeville to playing at the Palace.
While Maw and Paw celebrate the birthday of their pet pig Milford, the 39 Boomer Brothers pignap the little guy for their pig roast. Milford's abducted as he blows out the candles on his cake. Maw and Paw try to save Milford, but it's more a result of the Boomer Brothers' incompetence that the little pig is able to return home to his family after a fast chase ensues.
Woody and Buzz Buzzard are younger teenagers fighting over a crush. They try to outdo each other in order to win the girl! Like Popeye and Bluto fighting for Olive, Woody and Buzz battle for Winnie's affection as they go to the Sock Hop followed by the Jive In-Drive In.
When Woody undertips in a posh restaurant, the waiters immediately throw him out on his ear. Tired of his petty lifestyle, he notices an ad in the paper for a rich woman with a big mansion and lots of food looking for a husband. Of course, he volunteers and is pleased when he overhears the woman's sexy voice on the telephone. Unfortunately, when he meets the lady in person, her sexy voice belies the fact that she is largely unattractive. She chases the unwilling Woody all over her mansion until he, finally, is reluctantly married to her.
Piano tuner Woody won't let distractions- like the police chasing crooks hiding in his piano shop- distract him from his mission. When a burglar, trying to escape the law by hiding under the piano, makes Woody play, our hero strikes up a "Convict Concerto."
Chilly Willy, the always-shivering penguin, tries to find warm shelter in a fur warehouse because, he says, "I'm cold." He attempts to get a fur coat in the storage house, but he has to get by a dog first.
A mean dog named Happy ruins Woody's attempts to make a home before a big storm comes. The dog's owner takes Woody in, and their skirmishes cause problems between Happy and his master Claude. The unfriendly dog tries by devious means to make Woody move. When Woody strikes back, the pair, now both homeless, take refuge in the same house, and the fun begins again.
Sam and Rover are run over by a car crossing the street. An ambulance arrives to "treat" them. The cross-eyed attendant mixes up the plasma bottles. He gives the human dog plasma, and the dog gets human plasma. The result is a dog who acts human and a human who acts like a dog. Sam's wife Maggie is very confused.
A witch is riding her broom gaily through the night skies when she crashes and breaks the broom handle. She goes to a nearby broom factory and asks Woody (who works there) for a new one. He makes her one, but she refuses to pay the 50-cent check. Woody takes the magic broom back, and the rest of the picture deals with her attempts to gain access to the factory and get the broom without paying for it.
Chilly Willy tries to get a dopey fish-stealing polar bear in trouble by making noise to disturb a monstrous watchdog, thus getting him to bite the bear. Chilly outsmarts two sizable adversaries.
Professor Dingledong the taxidermist school instructor is about to teach his students "how to stuff a woodpecker in one easy lesson." For this purpose, he goes to a jail-like room with cells, and from one of these cells, he picks Woody. Escaping the nutty taxidermist's clutches, Woody is pursued by an unforgettable private eye, Strongnose the bloodhound. The remaining cartoon deals with the bloodhound's attempts to capture Woody, and with Woody's frustration of same. The chase leads through a hollow log, a railroad tunnel, a lumber yard, an ice machine and a door factory, and finally, back to the taxidermy school, where the instructor threatens to stuff the bloodhound for his failure. Woody intervenes, and he and Strongnose team up and lock up the professor, with plans to stuff him.
Mr. Twiddle plays trumpet for a living. He is overworked and a bit shell-shocked. His doctor suggest a quiet mountain retreat. The place is so quiet that people communicate using signs. The man gets into his room and settles in for a good night's sleep. But before he can nod off, the people in the next room start playing a trombone and laughing (the original Okeh Laughing Record is used as the soundtrack). After several unsuccessful attempts to get them to stop, he finally rushes into the room to find his doctor in there.
Woody is running a babysitting service and is offered $50 by one couple if he will look after their "baby". Not one to pass up this much money, he jumps at the chance. He shows the parents out and settles in. Unfortunately, when he checks in on the infant, the "baby" is revealed to be a pet gorilla! Woody is reluctant but realizes, if he sticks it out, he will be rewarded with $50. After a nightmarish experience looking after the ape (and trying to put it to sleep), Woody finally is able to at least watch TV where he sees a news report about the gorilla's parents who just left and are now going on a 20-year-long vacation!
A city flea steals a country flea's girl at a barn dance on a sleeping dog's butt! He hops on a greyhound (the dog, not the bus) to the big city to win her back. Comedy ensues as a group of fleas decide to hold an engagement ceremony on the obliging dog's back. Watch for the Fleastone Kops!
Paw has been out all night with his friends. When he gets home, he finds that he's locked out of the house, having lost his key to the front door. Fearful of incurring Maw's wrath, he wakes up Milford to try and find a means of getting into the house quietly. After several tries, Paw finally gets in via the back door... only to find that his wife is not home. Maw has also come home from a night out with her friends. When she finds her husband at the back door of the house and not in bed, she grabs him and hauls him into the house, where all hell breaks loose.
Western outlaw Dapper Denver Dooley is making his getaway from a small Western town and hides his loot in a large hole in a tree. The tree is Woody Woodpecker's home. Woody runs out of the tree with the bag containing the money, yelling, "Yippee, I'm rich." The robber, seeing Woody with the money, endeavors to retrieve his loot, but Woody escapes and runs, with the money, into town- the bandit following closely behind Woody. From here on is a series of episodes where the gunman tries to get the money from Woody, but at every turn, Woody outsmarts him. A posse attempting to follow the bandit finally arrives back in town, and Woody delivers both the money and the bandit to the sheriff.
For the fourth Chilly Willy cartoon the setting is the Antarctic. Chilly tries making a fire to get warm but even the fire freezes. He then spots the general headquarter for Little America and inside he spots a warm furnace. Unfortunately Smedley the dog is guarding it and headquarters. After a series of skirmishes Chilly finally prevails and finds the warmth he has been seeking.
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.
A tree surgeon arrives in a forest to inspect a tree, specifically Woody's. He destroys Woody's bed with a drill and Woody plans to get even. First, he sticks a pan over said drill, then sticks his foot in the tree's branch and kicks the doctor in the face with it. He also inflates the doctor's stethoscope with a bellows until it explodes and holds up a sexy pin-up when the doctor x-rays the tree. Finally, Doc discovers Woody and gives chase but Woody inevitably outsmarts him knocking the doc unconscious. The pest gone, Woody can now continue his rest.
Homer Pigeon's eyesight is pretty bad, so he goes to a doctor for glasses- only to find out that he has arrived at an induction center for the Pigeonaire Corps instead.
Pierre Bear runs a bowling ball factory in the great North. His bowling balls are made of wood. When Pierre mistakenly chops Woody's tree house, turning it into a bowling ball, Woody decides to still reside in it- whether Pierre wants him to or not- and goes about trying to outwit the bear. Pierre uses a water hose, air pump, deep freeze and even hocus-pocus to evict the tree's tenant, but all he gets are knotted bowler's fingers.
Woody Woodpecker is reading "Hansel and Gretel" to his two young cousins, Knothead, a boy, and Splinter,a girl. The children decide to get lost in a forest. A cat spots them and lures them to a gingerbread house. The cat tries to make woodpecker-pie out of the kids, but they outsmart him and escape.
Sam acquires and ostrich from which hatches, no surprise, an ostrich. The ostrich attach's itself to Sam, in addition to eating everything in sight, and Maggie orders him to get rid of it. When Sam thinks he has lost the bird, he returns home where Maggie leads him to the bedroom, where Sam finds the ostrich with a family of her own.
Woody Woodpecker is working as a woodcarver, a very apt occupation for a woodpecker, and is carving a wooden when the outlaw, Chief Charley Horse, being pursued by the sheriff, ducks into Woody's shop. The sheriff also arrives and there is much confusion on the premises before Woody gets the reward for capturing the chief.
Smedley, manager of the "Snowtel" where Chilly Willy is visiting, notices Chilly has not paid his bill. When Chilly still refuses to pay, Smedley tries various methods of evicting him but all his attempts are thwarted either by Chilly or his own ineptitude. Eventually, the scenario culminates in Smedley chasing Chilly outside with Chilly tricking him into running into a whale's mouth. Finally, Chilly believes Smedley to be gone and returns to the "Snowtel"...only to find Smedley in bed next to him and still asking, "How 'bout this bill, Boy?"
Woody Woodpecker is a guest at a television show and walks off with a space helmet and a space gun as souvenirs. He pretends to be a man from Mars, and is believed to the extent that he is caught and sent to an atomic laboratory for testing, which convinces the scientists he does belong on Mars. They send him to Mars on a rocket-ship and, once there, the Martians are convinced he is a crazy alien from Earth, and start testing him in their laboratories.
Smedley is the manager of Balancing Rock Canyon where various boulders are perched atop high poles. As Smedley explains, the slightest noise is enough to send the rocks tumbling ("You gotta be quieter than a goldfish in a sound-proof aquarium") so it's hardly a surprise that he panics when Chilly Willy arrives selling various loud noisemakers among them firecrackers, a "boomerang brick", a joy buzzer, novelty gun, and exploding telephone. Eventually, the rocks fall landing Smedley in the hospital where Chilly arrives to sell one last noisemaker to "cheer him up" with.
Maggie and Sam have finally saved enough money to be able to pay off the mortgage on their home, and Maggie warns Sam to be careful on his way to the bank. Sam immediately runs into a shady character who offers many ways for Sam to lose his money, but Sam resists them all until he is offered a talking dog. San, figuring a talking dog is a way to get rich immediately buys it. He has many rejections before he can get the dog a booking at a theatre. Before the dog can exhibit his skills, a cat shows up and ruins the act. Maggie and Sam lose their home, and Sam ends up in the dog house, with a talking dog as his companion.
A clockmaker goes into the woods in search of a cuckoo and finds Woodpecker. Figuring a coo-coo could double as a cuckoo, the clockmaker sets out to capture Woody, take him home and put him to work on the clock. Woody figures otherwise, and introduces the clockmaker to an angry bear. Chaos follows.
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.
Art, the artist, receives a circular announcing a prize for the best painting of a desert flower. Woody Woodpecker also reads it and decides to enter the competition. He and Art wage a battle all over the desert regarding who is to paint the only desert flower in the area. Woody wins the battle and the contest, and is awarded a painting of a bag of gold.
From the time he was a baby, Little Davy Crewcut learns to shoot at bears with a variety of weapons, but when he gets grown and starts taking serious potshots at Mr. Bear with a rifle, Mr. Bear gets rightfully upset at being shot at, and suggest to Davy Crewcut that he turn his shooting in the direction of a more suitable target, such as a woodpecker. The woodpecker turns out to be Woody, and Woody also objects to being shot at.
Sam and Maggie are on their merry way to a costume party, and Sam is wearing a Rooster costume. They run out of gas on the way and Sam hikes off looking for a gas station. He gets no further than the nearest farm house and encounters a huge dog who likes nothing better then chicken as the dinner item of his choice, and he is really thrilled over the prospect of just how many dinners the biggest rooster he has ever seen will provide.
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.
Hercules, a small, bulbous-nosed plumber, receives a note saying he must "fix leak at Carnegie Hall". He arrives but, unfortunately, on the same night, various musical pieces are being conducted and, while Hercules noisily repairs the leaky pipe, manages to disrupt the concert in no uncertain terms. To make matters worse, he has wine with lunch, gets drunk, and falls in love with the female harp player. Finally, he fixes the pipe and presents the conductor with his enormous bill. The conductor throws him out where the harp player catches him and drives off to the park so they can continue "pitching woo".
A bandit and his horse (a bigger crook than the bandit) find out that a big shipment of gold bullion is being shipped by train, so they make immediate plans to hijack it. But, Woody Woodpecker is the guard in the baggage car, and foils all their attempts to steal it, and soon horse and rider are in the jail-house.
A sentry is posted to guard the food supply at a South Pole expedition location, but Chilly Willy the penguin is hungry and has his eyes on the canned sardines and other sea-food choices at the post. Lots of chase and pursuit but Willy ends up well fed.
Knothead and Splinter, sitting on Woody Woodpecker's knee, ask Woody to tell them how he acquired his bearskin rug. So Woody starts: "Once upon a time...
Woody Woodpecker helps his nephews, Knothead and Splinter, in their studies of Woodpecker History, by telling them how he figured in the cave-man era, and Greece, and was responsible for making the Lean Tower of Pisa lean, and also for discovering America. They then take off for a picnic on the moon, via Woody's rocket-ship.
Woody Woodpecker has become an endless source of frustration for the Miracle Telephone Co. ("If you get your call, it's a miracle") by pecking holes in their telephone poles. After a company henchman fails to apprehend him, the company President goes after Woody himself using a woodpecker disguise. Hijinks ensue.
Herman, a gardener employed at a ritzy estate lets nothing divert him from his gardening chores, and continues to perform them in the midst of a big, outdoor party being held on the grounds by the owner. Herman them blames the host for all the mistakes, mishaps and problems the guest have to endure.
Forest ranger Clyde is given an order to make sure the park bears are not disturbed from their winter hibernation. He inspects their cave and finds Chilly Willy trying to sleep among them. He hollers at Chilly not to wake them up, waking one bear up himself. He sends the sleepwalking bear back to bed but it isn't that simple. The bear continues to sleepwalk going on a wild ride through the woods after Chilly gets him to put some skis on. The bear finally stops... and is now sleeping in Clyde's bed. Clyde returns to the cave where all the bears are now sleepwalking and Chilly is giving each one a lit dynamite stick!
In the middle of the desert just outside Las Vegas is the Oasis Hotel, and in the center of the swimming pool near the hotel is Woody Woodpecker, restfully relaxing in an auto tube. Suddenly, the rat-tap-tap of an automatic riveter interrupts Woody's peace and quiet. Investigation discloses Professor Dingledong putting the last rivets into a space rocket, into which he's about to visit the planet Mars.
Woody Woodpecker is on a whaler-ship searching for Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale. When sighted, the ship captain sens Wood out in a rowboat to capture Dopey. The whale wrecks the ship but takes a liking to Woody, and off they go across the ocean with Woody water-skiing behind his new friend.
Woody goes to Yellowstone National Park, where he encounters a bear who does anything to get food from people.
In a rescue station high in the mountains of Switzerland, the keeper of the rescue St. Bernard dogs is angry bawling out one of them for having no rescues to his credit. He points with pride to pictures on the wall of medaled dogs who have distinguished records in this respect. He winds up by saying that he will give the rescue dog one more chance. The lovable dog, with a small barrel of brandy attached to a collar around his neck, leaves the station, determined to effect his first rescue.
Woody is an insurance salesman who tries to sell Dapper Denver Dooley a policy. When Dooley fails to pay on the policy, Woody goes after him with a guided missile.
Deep in the woods, a birdwatcher is studying the various bird species found there. First, he discovers "love birds" (a henpecked husband bird and his grumbling bird spouse), and a "humming bird" (who hums rock tunes). Then he discovers Woody who gives him all sorts of trouble such as attaching his stethoscope to a running faucet, stretching the lens on his camera and then snapping it back on him, and sending all manner of trees tumbling down onto him.
Instead of fishing for salmon in the stream Windy the bear tries to show his son Breezy a shortcut method...by looting a cannery. The guard makes this a difficult task.
Woody Woodpecker is wandering around the wild west again seeking to find some buried gold and he tangles with a crook who wishes to find the gold for himself. Woody finally disposes of the villain by shooting him into outer space via a rocket, another favorite method used by Woody to rid himself of whatever he wanted rid of at the moment. The horse steals the film.
A group of tourists are being conducted on a trip through the Kalamazoo Zoo. The guide calls their attention to a laughing hyena (with a sour face), a jaguar (an automobile), and then to that rare specimen from the South Pole: a penguin. But the cage housing the penguin is missing, and the visitors see only a sign reading, "Gone South for the Winter."
In the Antarctic Ocean, the icebreaker U.S.S. Icepick is busy clearing the sea lanes. As is usual in the tradition of the sea, she carries a mascot- in this instance a large dog who lives in the lap of luxury, and whose every need, covering lodging, food and care, is of the best. The dog mascot's undisturbed existence is somewhat upset by the arrival of Chilly Willy, who goes aboard the ship when it gets stalled in the ice.
Woody Woodpecker lives in a slum, and is fed up with his bills, wishing aloud that he were rich. At that moment, a four-leaf clover appears in the floorboards, and transforms into a leprechaun woodpecker, which grants Woody three wishes. Woody immediately wishes for immense wealth, and he gets it-- by robbing a bank without realizing it. A police chase follows; will Woody escape, and what will his other two wishes be?
Woody Woodpecker's in bed reading a paper's "Business Opportunity" section. His eyes light up as he reads an ad: "Tourists!! Visit the Everglades and make big money in alligator bags.
A sightseeing bus enters the gates of a large estate through the courtesy of its owner, tree-loving millionaire Colonel Mulch. Woody, a hitchhiker atop the bus, hears the driver (a Ralph Kramden clone) announce that the estate is noted for its rare and priceless trees. Woody immediately prepares for a delectable treat by putting on his napkin, and he goes to the arbor to sample the trees.
Breezy gets into the circus for free on kids' day, but penniless Windy has to resort to guile and intrigue in order to obtain a painful entrance.
A king, seated on the throne, says to official court jester Dapper Denver Dooley, "Make me laugh, jester." The jester does his best to comply, but his gags are old and stale, and they evoke no response from the king. The king goes to the window and sees Woody Woodpecker busy in a tree. Woody's antics so please the king that he laughs long and loud, and he orders the jester to bring Woody to him.
Smedley (a dog), the hottest thing on television and the star of his own I Love Smedley show, achieved his present status quite by accident. It all began when Smedley was hired by the station's boss to be his personal bodyguard. Smedley's orders were to let no one disturb the boss. These were not too difficult to carry out until, one day, drummer Chilly Willy arrives on the scene, determined upon having an audition with the boss.
Windy Bear notices his son heading off for school but, after he has left, notices he forgot his school books. He chases after him with them but is distracted by a nearby river stocked with trout. He decides to go fishing but is interrupted by Truant Officer Willoughby who mistakes him for a very large schoolboy playing hookey. Afterwards, Willoughby tries various methods to get Windy to go to school and, likewise, Windy tries various methods to avoid having to go to school. Finally, Windy is sent to school and, as punishment, must serve as the chime in the school's bell!
It seems Chilly Willy is doomed. He is marooned on a floating iceberg that is quickly melting away. Luckily, he hits dry land just as the last of the iceberg disappears into the sea. He has landed on a tropical island, the home of the lonely Robinson Gruesome. "28 years in the same location" as the sign outside his hut informs the nonexistent passersby. Now, finally, Gruesome has his first visitor. But the drawling dog is less interested in the penguin's companionship than he is in the bird's tasty flesh. For nearly three decades he has had nothing to eat but bananas. Sadly, his luck hasn't changed; it's only gotten worse. Chilly Willy is too wily to allow himself to get eaten. And somehow Gruesome's every attempt to catch Chilly puts him in the path of an angry ape.
Woody Woodpecker is engaged in combat with a big tomcat and after several break-even escapades, Woody finally tricks the cat into a dogcatcher's truck which is filled with dogs with a sour disposition, especially regarding cats. Woody finally shoots the cat off into outer space using a giant rocket (not from Acme.)
A hungry Chilly Willy notices the good food the mounties get and enrolls for the job. Unfortunately, his enrollment photo is placed over a wanted poster for criminal Caribou Lou and officer Smedley presumes Chilly is Lou and gives chase. Often, Smedley ends up asking the real Caribou Lou for directions (with Lou always explaining, "Him go that-a-way."). Smedley chases Chilly to a buffalo crossing where he is chased by the inevitable buffalo herd. After eluding Smedley long enough to capture the real Caribou Lou, Chilly is deemed an honorary Mountie replacing Smedley whom Chilly tosses a chicken bone to.
Woody Woodpecker gets into a mêlée with a lumberjack in the north woods. When the woodchopper chops down Woody's tree (home), and it winds up in the middle of a huge log-jam in the river, Woody grabs an axe and begins trying to chop his tree away from the others. The woodsmen is trying to keep him from doing so, since Woody's tree is the key log in the log-float. Years later, after they have both become aged, the fight continues.
Bandit Denver Dooley travels to a lawless western town where he notices a sign, "No Bandits Allowed. Signed, Marshall Woody Woodpecker". Dooley pays no heed to the sign and confronts a Mexican who claims to know about the bird but in the end, just says, "I don't know him, Senor!" Dooley causes trouble at a bar and marshall Woody steps in. Dooley demands a showdown which Woody keeps besting him at. Dooley chases after the redhead asking the Mexican for directions (The Mexican again says, "I don't know him, Senor!"). After a few more chase gags, Dooley again encounters the Mexican and asks for directions. At this point, the Mexican reveals himself to have been Marshall Woody all along and arrests Dooley (still saying, "I don't know him, Senor!").
After a short history on bees and bee-keeping, we find Windy the bear's attempts to steal honey from a bee hive (he is teaching his son the "right" way to get honey) only to be attacked by the bee inside. Windy tries a number of attempts to outsmart the bee. He floods the hive, dresses as a queen bee, uses a bathroom plunger to trap the bee (only to get it stuck to various parts of his body) and finally tries to dynamite it, only succeeding in blowing himself up. At the hospital, he is served honey and hotcakes in bed... by a male nurse who looks suspiciously like the bee he just tangled with!
The local rocket society is looking for a new volunteer to blast to the moon, the only other person having been sent there being Professor Dingledong who has not returned thus far. They decide to send mailman Woody Woodpecker who, upon landing on the moon's surface, encounters the aforementioned Dingledong who demands possession of Woody's rocket so that he may return to Earth. After many a tussle, Woody and Dingledong are both returned to Earth's atmosphere whereupon Dingledong takes revenge on the rocket society chairman by blasting *him* into space!
On the Pebbley Beach Golf Course, Dapper Denver Dooley and Woody Woodpecker are in a championship playoff. The prize: $25,000. After both contenders make holes in one, a psychological battle begins. Woody crunches celery. Dapper drives himself into a sand trap. Woody proves himself too light for quicksand; Dapper sinks. At every turn, Dapper proceeds to lure and trick poor Woody until Woody's game seems lost. All that Dapper needs to win is a short putt into the cup, but he's seized with a magnificent case of hiccups. Woody wins and hiccups dollar bills!
Woody tricks Ali Gator into a swampland chase. The banjo-plucking alligator shoots down what he thinks is a southbound duckling, except that it's a woodpecker. Woodpecker stew is better than none. The trouble is that Woody is hungry, too... and alligator stew will do.
Doc the cat tries to catch Hickory and Dickory, to sell to NASA as laboratory mice.
The final (and championship) baseball game of the Kiddie League pits pitcher Woody Woodpecker and his team (the Woody Woodpeckers) against a zany team, the Bubble Gummers.
Hickory and Dickory, the two mice, overhear a news report that all black cats will be exterminated because it is Friday the 13th. Doc, who is a black cat, is being hounded by the police. They try to "help" him but their attempts cause more harm than good (they tell him to hide in Cecil the bulldog's doghouse and inside a running dishwasher). When he discovers he's being given the "run-around", he tries to get his revenge on them (and on Cecil the bulldog) but all his attempts fail miserably.
This short begins with King-Size in conference with his financial minister when a coded message arrives warning of an planned invasion by cats from the Planet Feline (pronounced Fa Lean). A call for Space Mouse is dispatched, He appears in the conference room instantly. The king orders him to go to Feline, disguised as a cat, and destroy their rocket ship.
Sam & Simian must help a lion but they was making many tricks to heart him.
Two alley cats craving food decide to pull "the old raffle game". They enlist Doc to enter their raffle drawing (one) name out of a fish bowl. Being the only contestant, he naturally wins and is told his prize is a roast turkey and is given the whereabouts of the prize. Unfortunately, the turkey is in a refrigerator guarded by watchdog Cecil. Doc invents a number of ways to get past Cecil (sawing a hole around the fridge from the basement, feeding Cecil knockout drops, trying to catapult the fridge out of the kitchen), finally putting roller skates on Cecil enabling him to make off with the turkey. But he hasn't quite won yet...
On a quiet and peaceful street, the serenity of one house is suddenly disturbed by the noise of Woody Woodpecker pecking away inside on a chest of drawers. The owner, Terrance O'Hoolihan, goes after Woody, and just as he catches him, the doorbell rings.
Woody Woodpecker, hot, hungry and thirsty, is walking across a dry, bleak Western desert and suddenly sees a large tree stump in the distance. He hastens to the tree, climbs on a broken stump, and begins pecking away.
Loose face, a young Indian brave turned TV star, completes his role in a picture and is told to go home for a vacation. He hurries to the Indian reservation to greet his sweetheart Hummingbird. The two rush into each other's arms, but they're immediately separated by the girl's father, who's chief of the tribe.
After a short history of television, the high towers of a TV station transmit waves. Woody turns on his TV set to watch his favorite quiz show, "Win the Whole Wide World." He waits for a question, the answer to which is "The Whole Wide World." But the program keeps being interrupted by endless annoying (yet amusing) commercials.
Professor Strudel relates the story of how he managed to catch and stuff Woody Woodpecker... or did he?
A nervous and high-strung colonel is visited by his doctor, who conducts a series of tests in an endeavor to ascertain the cause of his trouble.
All is quiet in the Ozark Mountains since the Martins and the Coys stopped feudin'. On the porch of a tumbledown shack, there lies snoozing Jeeter Martin, the last surviving member of the Martin family. Woody Woodpecker, fishing rod in hand, is entering the nearby Coy cabin, now a museum containing relics of the feud.
The Oceanland Aquarium features, in its various tanks, the strange and colorful fish from below the ocean's surface. At the aquarium, the catfish and dogfish are always fighting, and the swordfish are constantly dueling. Feeding time at the large outdoor porpoise tank is an exciting event. Smedley, a dog, is the attendant who's about to feed the porpoise from a platform high above the tank.
In a big city penthouse atop a skyscraper, a big society party is in progress. Far below, in Dish Pan Alley, the cars are whooping it up as Doc emerges from his dilapidated but tidy packing box and nonchalantly rings a gong. Champ, a punch-drunk bulldog, comes to life and starts punching a bag. The bag hits Champ's glass jaw, and down he goes.
It's the first day of tourist season at Peachstone National Park and Ranger Willoughby is told by his superior to "keep things ship-shape". When the tourists arrive, Willoughby tells the park bears they are free to take whatever food the tourists give them... all except Fatso, whom the ranger deems way too out-of-shape and instructs to diet intensely. Craving food, the bear tries to elude Willoughby and "pig out" but the omnipresent ranger always puts a stop to his antics. Finally, tourist season ends and Fatso, having gotten no food, is thin as a rail. Says the ranger, "Fatso, you're a mess. Have you been dieting?"
A building boom is sweeping the state of Florida to such an extent that even the wildlife is fighting for space to live in. Among the hardest hit is the alligator. Take the case of Seminole Sam: he's hard-put to find food. After failing to beg or borrow something to eat, he's finally reduced to reading a cookbook for ideas.
The history of falconry is turned upside-down when Woody is the prey of a falcon bent on destroying him.
Jungle Medics is a Misc Short featuring Sam & Simian. In this cartoon, Sam & Simian must help a lion. The cartoon was a pilot for a possible TV series and also released theatrically in 1960 without standard production number or release date.
A narrator tells us that in the days of the Old West, times were tough. With no law and order, bandits roamed around free to commit any crime with western outlaw, "Pretty Boy" McCoy being the worst of the bunch. Fortunately, a famous detective, Inspector Willoughby, is called in at last to capture McCoy.
Woody's sleep is rudely disturbed by the early-morning noises of yowling cats, screeching automobile tires, factory whistles and such until he can't stand it any more.
Tourist season is over and Ranger Willoughby closes the park for the winter, telling the bears they will have to forage for themselves from now on. Fatso Bear is not up to this. Fortunately, he doesn't have to since there is a henhouse nearby with plenty of fresh eggs. Unfortunately, said henhouse is guarded by a tough rooster.
A street vendor is selling walking toy woodpeckers on a street corner. A large limousine stops, and a richly-dressed dowager steps out to purchase a toy for her son. Woody Woodpecker, peering around the corner of the building, pictures a luxurious future in a home as she would have to offer, so he quickly steps out and imitates the walking toy, and pulls on the dowager's fur coat. She picks Woody up and enters the limousine.
In a Florida swamp, starving Gabby Gator has a little diner. Things are slow; he is just waiting for a good meal to come along. While looking out of the window of his hut, he sees a flock of geese flying around overhead. He gets his gun and shoots at them, but all that floats down is a feather. Woody, overhead, is happily humming when Gabby sees him. He decides to use strategy to entice Woody down.
A little papoose, bent on hunting bear, is stopped by his father, the chief, and told to forget the idea. The papoose responds by shooting a rubber-tipped arrow onto the father's nose, and the chief decides to teach his progeny a good lesson.
Chilly Willy cons grocery store proprietor Wally Walrus out of all his fish. Chilly, walking by a fish market, sees a large fish in the window. Chilly goes inside and sneaks along under the counter. Arriving at the fish bin, Chilly reaches up and takes a large fish.
It's springtime and Cupid is bringing romance into the lives of every woodland creature... except for Fatso the bear who "ain't got no romance in his soul." Cupid sets out to remedy this and shows Fatso a female bear, then injects him with about 50 love arrows.
The register of the hotel in St. Moritz is receiving its annual "dust off" in prepration for the influx of guests at the opening of the skating season. The hotel boasts that it has the best skating rink in St. Moritz.
Woody Woodpecker has been a source of aggravating annoyance to a certain householder, due to Woody's pecking the antenna of a TV set, and thus interfering with its reception. Three badly crippled cats, hired to get rid of Woody, testify to their futile efforts in this regard.
Inspector Willoughby is a Fells Bargo agent who has captured some bandits and is shipping them (and a big bag of money), via steamboat, down the Mississippi to New Orleans. As the bandits, bound together by a rope, are lowered into the hold, Willoughby walks the gangplank to accompany the prisoners to their destination.
In a thunderstorm, the tree in which Woody Woodpecker makes his home is struck by lightning and utterly destroyed. Completely dazed by his misfortune, Woody doesn't know what to do or where to turn. Looking around, he sees a castle in the distance and starts toward it, the storm impeding his progress.
As the scene opens, window washer Woody washes the window of Pierre's bakery. His first mishap is to cause Pierre to mess up a cake that he's decorating, and Pierre tells him off. Since this job is finished, Woody gets on a bus with his automatic extension ladder, which keeps hitting the bus driver in the head every time that the bus stops. The driver finally throws Woody off, but Woody manages to get back on. The comedy with the ladder continues, finally involving a traffic cop, a motorcycle policeman and Pierre, as well as Woody and the driver. The story ends with all the participants, on the motorcycle, crashing into a brick wall.
Wally Walrus is the keeper of a fish hatchery in which trout are incubated and raised. The ever-hungry Chilly Willy, tramping through the country and always looking for an easy meal, suddenly spies Wally Walrus' Fish Hatchery and, going to a window, sees myriads of small fish swimming around in the tanks.
In the ghost town of Spooksville, Arizona, Woody Woodpecker tangles with an outlaw who disguises himself as a ghost to scare Woody away.
In Florida, a starving Gabby Gator is fishing in the swamp for his dinner. He only succeeds in catching a news magazine which has an article about movie star, Woody Woodpecker who says, "Southern cooking is my favorite!" The crafty gator lures the woodpecker to his shack with a letter promising him a luxurious feast. As it turns out, the luxurious feast turns out to be HIM!
Doc, a feline with musical talents, conducts an all-alley-cat symphony orchestra in a rendition of Giacomo Rossini's Cinderella overture.
Inspector Willoughby, seated on a camel trudging through the vast Sahara Desert, is on his way to return the fabulous Red-Eyed Ruby stolen from the forehead of an idol in the tomb of King Tut Tut Almond. His archenemy, notorious jewel thief Yeggs Benedict, who had previously stolen the jewel, follows Willoughby with only one thought in mind: repossession of the ruby.
Doc and Champ run a travelling store, a wagon of goods which they pull into an Indian reservation, "Scalpum Village". They succeed in selling goods to the various Indians but one lovesick Indian requires female companionship... and will pay big money for it. Not one to pass up a quick buck, Doc decides to disguise Champ as a female Indian.
It's a little-known fact that alligators in the Everglades actually hibernate! During this time, birds are able to nest without danger, and Woody Woodpecker just happens to be stopping by for a rest. However, one gator is wide awake, on account of his extreme hunger: Gabby Gator, who intends to have Woody for dinner. But Woody knows a certain lullaby guaranteed to put Gabby to sleep...
Woody has a tit-for-tat with Bucky Beaver as they attempt to destroy each other's house in this riotous cartoon that has some of the insanity usually found in Road Runner cartoons.
Doc, the freeloading cat, is painting a portrait of a ballet dancer using as a model homely, punch-drunk bulldog Champ, wearing an abbreviated skirt. Two alley cats, looking over a fence, see Champ in his attire and begin razzing him. Champ does a slow turn and starts after the cats and, in no time, the studio is a shambles.
Woody decides to make a home in a telephone pole where he encounters Smedley, a lineman determined to stop his company's property from trespass.
The first in a series of "Beary Family" cartoons, Walter Lantz's last original cartoon series. Bessie Beary, wife of Charlie Beary, introduces us to the family which also includes son, Junior, daughter, Suzy, and pet, Goose, which, as Bessie explains, does not get along with Charlie. The story which unfolds explains why. It was Suzy's birthday and Charlie went to get a goose for her birthday supper. Unfortunately, Suzy thought the goose was intended as a pet and untied it leaving Charlie at its mercy. Goose settles into the family unit although Charlie declares, "Someday I'm gonna cook that goose!"
Chilly Willy's on a wharf fishing, using his accordion as a sea bag. As he catches a fish, he puts it in the sea bag. A large pelican comes up behind Chilly and gobbles up each fish as fast as it's caught. Chilly looks in his bag, finds it empty, and does a slow burn.
Gabby Gator lives in the Okeedokee Swamp. Wally's watching one of those "cook" shows on TV about how to prepare a bird for dinner. Gabby's starving so bad that he licks the TV screen, but that doesn't help. He sends a telegram to Woody: his country needs him. Woody needs to try out the new "Atlas (But Not Least) Space Rocket." Woody arrives, suitcase in hand, ready for anything- except being an alligator's dinner...
Inspector Willoughby is in Paris looking to capture the famous international spy, Agent X-13. He finds the spy "disguised" (with his head upside down) but Willoughby uncovers the "disguise" and gives chase.
Smedley's the caretaker of Greenleaf Park, a job that he likes very much because he cares for all the trees, and he just loves trees. He suddenly is distressed, however, to find Woody Woodpecker pecking away at Gertrude, the oldest tree in the park.
Bessie Beary complains she is tired of always having to do the housework. Charlie offers to take care of things while she goes to the beauty parlor. Bessie, with good reason, does not trust Charlie and advises Goose to keep an eye out. Sure enough, Charlie does his chores as sloppily as possible leaving Goose to head over to the beauty parlor to tattle to Bessie who berates Charlie over the phone. Charlie soon discovers what a snitch Goose is and tries to "close that big beak".
Woody goes to a magic show. He chomps popcorn and continually ribs the magician about his "easy" tricks, finally driving most of the audience away. Then the magician calls Woody on stage to "assist" him in a few "tricks," which enables him to get back at Woody for some of his taunts.
Inspector Willoughby is in London this time trying to track down famous jewel thief, Vampira Hyde. Sure enough, he encounters Hyde serving him tea at the local tea house but she turns out to be smarter than Willoughby thinks. Whenever Willoughby isn't looking, she swallows a "Jeckyll and Hyde" pill transforming her from the vamp that she is into a helpless, kindly old lady.
At the carnival, Champ is persuaded to enter a boxing attraction with "The Australian Bounder", a fighting kangaroo. The winner receives $500.00 if he can stay 4 rounds with the animal. Doc and Champ are pleased to accept but the kangaroo and its manager don't exactly fight fair. To help Champ win, Doc comes up with a variety of schemes such as convincing the kangaroo that Champ is a mother with child, then that Champ has the measles, and, in the final round, by putting Champ on a unicycle so he can outrun his foe.
Woody's take on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but Gabby Gator tries to steal the wolf's part.
Woody wakes up from his home in the big city and tries to get some food. After being attacked by a little old lady (for trying to steal her popcorn), he flies to the country where he notices a farmer and his pet crow, Jubilee, the latter of which is well fed. Woody makes a deal with the crow (they'll trade places) and Jubilee heads to the city while Woody disguises himself as the crow.
Doc prepares Champ for a comeback in the boxing ring when the punching bag breaks. Upon repairing it, Doc mistakingly drops the hammer on Champ's foot causing him to throw a painful fit.
Smedley, Colonel Blooblud’s faithful watchdog, accepts a package from Little America, Antarctica during the colonel’s absence. Suspecting foul play, Smedley opens it and is delighted to find Chilly Willy, a real live penguin. While Smedley’s getting Chilly a sardine to eat, Chilly steals the colonel’s prize trophy- a stuffed marlin. Horrified to find Chilly putting the marlin through a meat grinder, Smedley glues it back together piece by piece. Carrying the marlin in his arms, Smedley slips on the floor, freshly waxes for this purpose by Chilly. The marlin comes apart as a result of the fall, and Chilly fools Smedley several times in different guises until Smedley becomes disgusted and mails Chilly back to Little America. Returning the much-glued marlin to its place over the mantle, Smedley gets a package in the mail from Chilly in which he discovers the marlin’s sword and tail just as the colonel returns. We iris out on Smedley posing as the marlin on the wall over the mantle.
Gabby Gator tries to cook Woody for dinner, but he instead finds himself the pursued when an unfriendly cousin, a crocodile, decides that an alligator would be a tasty dish. Gabby's radar spies Woody heading toward the Okedokee Swamp, so he snares Woody in a set and tries to make Woody think that he's arrived at Gabby's Health Resort. Woody soon finds that he's destined to be the main ingredient in a Woodpecker stew. He managed to escape from Gabby with the help of the crocodile, who occupies Gabby with his own chase.
Inspector Willoughby is assigned to foil the attempts of a criminal named Crash McDash to escape from Sing Song Prison.
The evil king is busy counting his money. Woody and his Merry Men are dancing in Sherwood Forest. The old king's tax money comes up short because of Woody and his men. The king challenges Woody to a duel. The king uses cannonballs; Woody uses apple pies. The King is so angry that he starts throwing bags of money at Woody.
Notorious criminal Yeggs Benedict, having just pulled a $50,000 bank robbery, hears a radio report in his hideout that Inspector Willoughby has been assigned the case.
Woody flies onto a Hawaii-bound ocean liner, causing havoc for a captain and his dog. The ship's dog tries to catch him, with no luck.
Charlie Beary's awakened bright and early by the honking of his fishing pal's auto horn. Leaping into his fishing outfit, he kisses Bessie goodbye and runs smack into Bessie's mother at the front door, over early to supervise the spring cleaning.
In the old days, sailing the seven seas was dangerous as pirates were at large. But, as the narrator tells us, "That was all in the past!" Not so. A modern-day pirate, "One-Eyed" Jack Hook, is caught holding up a battleship. Everyone flees the ship but Inspector Willoughby is assigned to bring justice to the lawbreaker.
Glamorous screen star Woody Woodpecker is constantly beset by a publicity photographer who wants to take his picture. Finally, Woody gets away for a vacation in the woods, thinking that he has escaped the bright lights and publicity men for a while. However, who shows up but the pesky photographer?
Chilly Willy goes deep sea fishing coming up with an old shoe which he proceeds to cook. Smedley explains normally he would be stealing fish from his salmon cannery but the salmon aren't running... until now.
While flying south with a flock of ducks, Woody is shot at and hunted by a hunter and his dog.
It's spring! All the birds are nesting- that is, all but Goose Beary. She just sits, gazing longingly out the window at happy birds. A car horn and loud voice brings Charlie Beary to the window. It seems that Charlie and his friend Pete have a golf date.
Woody Woodpecker goes out West.
As Pesky Pelican flies south for the winter, his wings begin to ice up. He's puzzled until he finds the South Pole. He slides down the "pole," and he watches Chilly Willy bore a circle in the ice and fill his wheelbarrow with fish. While Chilly takes his fish to the igloo, Pesky tries the same routine.
Charlie Beary, furiously plowing through a mountain of bills, vows that he's going to cut expenses. Growling goodbye at Bessie as she leaves to go shopping, he's annoyed to see Goose making muddy tracks toward the icebox. Goose treats himself to a snack, but Charlie grabs him on the way.
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! He decides he'd be better off living in the "wide open spaces" anyway and makes himself a home out west... on top of an Indian's tepee.
A mad scientist introduces himself to us ("Come! I show you around!") and explains his specialty is crossing things ("I cross a pine mit a apple and I get a pineapple!"). His biggest ambition is cross his pet ape with something but doesn't know what. Enter Woody who comes to his door selling magazines.
Woody impersonates a doctor with the usual madcap events.
Woody and Fink Fox are teamed up as buddies roaming the Western Plains. The vagabonds try to jump up on a moving train, but the train turns and they slam into a cactus. Angered, they decide to separate.
Inspector Willoughby tries to retrieve The Maltese Chicken from the evil oriental villain Egg Foo Yung.
Marooned on a ship in wintertime, Chilly Willy and Smedley try to eat one another.
Dirty McNasty wants Woody's horse and horsenaps it! Woody follows the villain into town and proceeds to wreck the place in order to get his horse back.
An exhausted Charlie returns from work hoping to get some rest. However, Bessie informs him that their children, Junior and Suzy, have become school cheerleaders who (rather noisily) practice their routines at home. Charlie is displeased by this (he loses more than one newspaper to their antics) and tries to stop practice but fails constantly.
The construction of a freeway threatens to destroy Woody's tree trunk home. Woody fights for the right to keep his home away from evil contractors.
Woody is freezing and hungry, too. To get warm, he burns his furniture and begins to burn pages from the family album... till he comes across one of his Uncle Scrooge Woodpecker. He goes to visit Uncle Scrooge in hopes of a handout and finds his house guarded by 10 crocodiles. Even worse than the crocodiles is Uncle Scrooge.
Chilly Willy goes face to face with lighthouse keeper Smedley for constantly disrupting his sleep.
Woody is getting his hair cut at the local barber shop, but the lunch whistle blows and the barber leaves for lunch right in the middle of Woody's haircut. Shortly after this, Woody hears on the radio that King Louie the lion has escaped from the circus.
Charlie has a present for his family... a brand new TV set. However, once he turns it on, he gets nothing but "zig-zag lines". He complains over the phone and is told he needs to install an aerial. He refuses to pay someone else to do it and is convinced he can do it himself. Bad decision! First he must get up to the roof after his ladder falls apart. Once making it to the roof, he has difficulty staying up there. Eventually, the TV winds up at the bottom of their swimming pool but Charlie isn't licked yet. Wearing scuba gear, the family watches TV from the pool's bottom!
While walking past a pet shop, a dog catches Woody's attention, Woody buys him, names him Duffy and takes him home., Woody lives at Mrs. Meany's Boarding House and no dog are allowed, so Woody goes through many attempts to sneak Duffy in under Mrs. Meany's nose.
Woody and his friends celebrating Halloween as they sing the Spook-a-Nanny song.
Chilly Willy is living in the Alps and just can't stay warm. A snowstorm keeps blowing Chilly's door open, and he is freezing. He gives up and goes to a ski resort where they might have a fire, but Smedley the guard dog won't let him check in- there's no vacancy. He tries to steal some coal from the ski lodge, but Smedley stops him, so he decides to steal some skis to burn in his fireplace instead.
Woody is in Rome and is upsetting the Emperor, so he has his guard chase him down.
Woody and his friends Knothead and Splinter follow the plot of the Three Little Pigs. Knothead Woodpecker, Splinter Woodpecker and Woody Woodpecker each lives in his own unique tree. Set on having a woodpecker pie, the Big Bad Wolf comes after them to huff and puff and blow their houses down. Fortunately, Knothead and Splinter are able to flee to Woody's solid wood house. The Big Bad Wolf is determined to have a woodpecker pie, so Woody gives him one...
Inspector Willoughby, the famed criminologist and master of mystery, travels to India to aid a rajah whose favorite royal elephant has been abducted by an evil swami. Encouraged at the prospect of a large reward, our heroic sleuth is hot in pursuit of the princely pachyderm and his kidnapper.
Woody Woodpecker causes all kinds of problems for a bank robber with hilarious results. Woody is insulted by the paltry bounty on woodpeckers, so he raises the price himself. Unfortunately, Dirty McNasty wants that "reward."
Chilly Willy tries to thwart his best friend Smedley's attempts to leave the frozen tundra and move to Hawaii. The freezing Arctic weather proves too much for thin-blooded Smedley, and he decides to move to Hawaii to enjoy the warm, tropical climate.
Junior wins a dance contest at the Pepper Pot nightclub. His prize is a live monkey, which he names Bunky. On the way home, Junior warns Bunky to be quiet, and not to disturb his sleep. He hides his new friend in a closet, but Bunky escapes and promptly goes ape.
Mrs. Meany is a bird watcher. Of course, she stumbles across Woody. Woody teaches Mrs. Meany "everything you need to know about bird watching." She finds that a bird is hunting her. It's an eagle who wants her as a mate and who chases her endlessly.
In order to afford money to eat Smedley's flapjacks, Chilly Willy tries various jobs that don't go well for him. When Chilly Willy discovers that Smedley has to make 200 flapjacks for a tough lumberjack, Chilly Willy ends up pillaging some of them getting Smedley into trouble until Chilly Willy drives the lumberjack away.
Woody is the object of desire between two feuding hillbillies' hound dogs.
Charlie Beary tries to relax but is unaware of a cricket loose in the house. He hears a squeak coming from Bessie's vacuum cleaner, Suzy's doll, and Junior's saxophone. He applies oil to each item. He eventually finds the real source of the squeak, the cricket, and angrily chases it using a bathroom plunger and a baseball bat to help capture it. The result leaves him in bandages but at least things are quiet once more... for a while, at least.
A wanted man out West pastes Woody's picture over his own wanted poster, and Calamity Jane goes after the reward. Woody outsmarts Jane, but she falls in love with the outlaw when she sees his ugly face.
An Indian tribe is in need of rain and believe they can get it by sacrificing a woodpecker. Along comes Woody.
Chilly Willy is dying of thirst in the desert- how he got there is unknown- and sees a sign for a hotel: "It's a treat to beat the heat at the Hotel E'lite." He looks over and sees the Empire State Building. Smedley the dog is running the hotel. Chilly is after the ice at the establishment. A hunter checks in, and threatens the dog if he is disturbed. Chilly causes all kinds of hilarious problems for Smedley as he tries to keep cool while bothering the hunter.
Woody is costing the utility companies millions by damaging their poles. Professor Grossenfibber has secret inventions to try and stop Woody.
Satire of the Little Red Riding Hood story, with Woody Woodpecker taking the place of Little Red Riding Hood and playing tricks on the wolf who's after Grandma.
Charlie Beary, rummaging through a trunk in the attic, reminisces about his college football days. Chided by his wife for being "just the waterboy," Charlie's determined to prove his athletic prowess by coaching Junior in the finer points of gridiron play.
Woody makes it difficult for a lone forest ranger that is just trying to do his job.
Smedley is sent to the Antarctic by an anthropological society to bring back an Emperor Penguin for its exhibit. Smedley tries to capture Chilly Willy while a large muscular Emperor Penguin thwarts his every attempt.
Woody climbs up a magical giant beanstalk, and a giant started harassing him.
Chilly helps protect his polar bear friend from an Eskimo who wants to hunt him.
A king looks for a groom for his daughter, who must be married before midnight, or else she will be turned into a witch.
Chilly and his Pal Maxie are playing football with fish. One day, a Eskimo tries to catch Maxie to win $100. The Penguin tries to protect his friend.
Woody rescues his dog Duffy from a bully dogcatcher.
On a tuna boat, Chilly gives a dog a hard time by stealing the fish that he catches. Chilly also gives the captain a hard time by stealing his fish meals.
Woody mistakes an about-to-be-launched rocket for a high-rise luxury tree house. He becomes a space traveler and causes havoc along the way.
Woody lives in a pyramid. Woody finds famous explorer Mrs. Meany dressed in a helmet and shorts on a dig in Egypt. Riding a camel, she's looking for ancient Egyptian eggs. Every so often, she finds some old eggs. Woody has not had a square meal in three weeks, and he needs eggs, too. Every time that Mrs. Meany finds some old eggs, Woody somehow destroys them.
Woody meets a crazy professor who makes monsters by shooting them with a machine ray. On the second shot, they return to normal.
Pirates of Penzance." The pirate ship (the Old Eyesore) is run by Captain Blah (pronounced Blaaaaaaaah) with first mate Smedley. In fact, Smedley is the only crew member, and he has too much work to do, so he goes off to shanghai a crew. He catches Chilly Willy and tries to force him to go to work- but Willy won't have any of it ("Don't like work. I go home now."), and all hell breaks loose. The captain tries to sleep, but Willy keeps shooting off cannons, crashing into things, rocking the boat, throwing Smedley overboard, etc. Finally, he fires the cannon right in the captain's face. This doesn't make him any too happy.
Bessie decides to call a professional window washer, but Charlie puts a stop to it, deciding to save money by doing it himself. After cleaning the first window he breaks it by putting the ladder through it. He eventually breaks them all, by accident, except the attic window. When Bessie points out to him that he missed that one, he picks up his bucket and hurls in through the glass.
After losing 12 sheriffs in twelve days, the town of Lizzard Gizzard Gulch makes Woody sheriff number 13, with the task of arresting notorious bank robber Dirty McNasty.
Chilly Willy and Smedley inadvertently free a Viking from the ice, and the mean savage tries to eat the two hapless heroes.
A villain rides into town on a horse in the old West. Woody is hanging his "wanted" posters out. The villain's horse pleads with Woody to turn the louse in so that they can split the reward. The villain shaves his mustache off as a disguise. The horse paints it back on so that Woody will know him.
Woody is mistakenly captured and brought aboard a ship, where he makes things difficult for the captain and his first mate.
Buried under the ice and snow of Antarctica's polar regions is the nerve center of a weather station. The captain gets word that food is running low, and he orders Smedley to fly to Camp Century for supplies. Smedley scurries to the plane, only to find a mass of holes in the ice runway. The culprit is our fish-loving penguin, Chilly Willy.
Woody's dog Duffy is extremely hungry. When a mean chef sees Duffy after throwing out food scraps, he kicks him out of his sight. Duffy gets revenge by repeatedly biting the chef, while Woody pecks the chef, catapults pies in his face, locks him out of his restaurant, and electrocutes him. The chef retaliates by trying to grind Duffy into sausage meat (Duffy escapes from the grinder and throws in steak). When the chef presents Woody with the result, Woody sadly walks down the street, thinking that Duffy is dead. However, Duffy sneaks behind Woody, eats the sausage, and barks. When Woody discovers the truth, he and Duffy rejoice, and Duffy bites the pants off the chef.
The domestic tranquility of the Beary household is shattered by a screaming Bessie when a mouse starts playing around on her slippers. When an exterminator quotes a price of $25 to dispose of it, Charlie balks and take on the job himself.
Woody has a run-in with an Indian who has a bad taste for Woody's horse.
Chilly stows away in a woodchopper's travel bag while the woodchopper is on his way to Smedley's Rest Home. Smedley tries to get rid of Chilly while trying to make the woodchopper enjoy a quiet vacation. With Smedley unsuccessfully doing this, the woodchopper comes after him with his axe and is just about to chop Smedley, when Chilly comes to the rescue.
Woody mistakenly drinks a strength giving, secret tonic stolen by a master spy.
When Chilly Willy rescues drowning Maxie the Polar Bear from freezing Arctic waters, he gains a grateful lifetime friend- and a long-term liability.
Woody Woodpecker and his friend Sugarfoot the horse are having all kinks of bad luck... then Woody finds a four-leaf clover. From there, his luck only gets worse! Woody foils a bank holdup, but gets accused of the robbery himself. He lands in jail and the crook gets the reward. Sugarfoot breaks Woody out of jail and then Woody captures the crook.
Chilly and Maxie the Polar Bear are sleeping in their igloo. A submarine breaks through the ice and into their house. Chilly's polar bear pal decides to have fun with the submarine's explorer.
Charlie Beary buys a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. Junior doesn't want the turkey cooked for the holiday meal, so he tries to prevent his parents from killing the bird. The film ends with The Bear's eating a hot dog dinner instead and the turkey joining them.
Woody fakes an illness to get all the comforts of home from a little old lady, but her dog knows better.
Woody takes a job as a Pony Express rider. It seems that no one can get the mail to go through. A notorious Indian bandit causes Woody and his horse all kinds of trouble.
Woody Woodpecker tangles with a hillbilly couple who are trying to catch him for dinner.
Charlie, all set for a day's golf game, is horrified to discover it is pouring rain outside. Bessie suggests that since he can't play golf, he can help wallpaper the house instead. Charlie reluctantly agrees but is generally inept at everything he attempts.
Woody drives the two park rangers of Gallstone National forest insane by pecking holes in all the trees.
While visiting in Baghdad, Woody runs into a a crooked Magic Lamp salesman. The salesman sells a Woody one of his many lamps, but it turns out that this one really is magic & the salesman tries to get it back.
Charlie trips on a hole in his carpet and decides the family needs a new one. He buys one but decides to install it himself (rather than hiring a professional). Things do not go smoothly.
Woody and Sugarfoot try to settle down in a town set in the old west, but Dirty Dan, the town bully, claims that it's a one horse town and chases Woody off. Woody just keeps coming back.
Chilly and Maxie are playing music. It is disturbing a man who then tries to catch the two to make money with them.
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Charlie Beary tries to chase a gopher from his yard.
A mosquito flies around (and bites) Woody. Woody tries unsuccessfully to kill the mosquito, so he calls in an incompetent "exterminator".
An Air Force base sets up camp next to Chilly Willy's igloo, which keeps on melting every time that a jet takes off.
While in England, the ruthless King John has placed his gold crown on a pole and everyone has to bow down to it as they pass. Woody refuses to bow down to it and is chased by the king's guard.
Charlie buys a camping trailer from a friend and he and Junior surprise Bessie with it. Charlie gets into many mishaps during the ensuing camping trip, and as a result, gets whacked on the on the head with a skillet by Bessie several times.
Woody wins a cash prize and goes on a vacation with it. Buzz Buzzard stops at nothing to get the cash away from Woody.
Chilly's friend, the Gooney bird, is pursued by the hunter Colonel Pot Shot.
Woody, a swabby on a pirate ship, must protect the ship's massive supply of doubloons from bartender-cum-crook Buzz Buzzard.
Knick-knack salesman Woody Woodpecker is sent back in time to the Stone Age by a mad scientist and his time tunnel.
When the temperature reaches 110 degrees, Bessie decides to buy an air conditioner. After being threatened with a rolling pin, Charlie agrees, but decides to install it himself to save money. A series of mishaps ensues and by the end of the cartoon, half the house is ruined.
Two convicts escape from prison in the Wild West and disguise themselves as a horse. Sugarfoot sees the "horse" and falls in love. Later, Woody and Sugarfoot learn about the phony pony, and they try to send the convicts back to jail.
Chilly protects hibernating Maxie the Polar Bear from a hunter.
Not wanting to pay the professional, Charlie decides to fix the hot water tank himself. However, he ended up making the tank worse.
The Gooney Bird does not know how to land without crashing. Chilly Willy and Smedley try to teach him how to land with more dignity. A movie producer comes to film his goofy landings, but Chilly and Smedley teach him to land safely, so the producer leaves.
Woody lives in Mrs. Meany's Boarding House and she does not want any animals or pets living there. Woody returning home from releasing his pet goldfish, a circus vehicle passes by that looses a box with a seal in it. So would sneaks the seal in and has to hide it from Mrs. Meany.
Wild Bill Hiccup chases Woody around a haunted house.
In order to save money on golf lessons, Charlie Beary tries to teach his wife Bessie how to play the game. But his teaching methods are useless and the lessons are turned into a hilarious disaster.
Chilly and Maxie are warming by a fire and thaw out a baby woolly mammoth.
Stowaway Woody washes up on a tropical island, and must contend with a hungry castaway.
Woody's sleep is interrupted by all the noise coming from the new Hi-Rise construction site. Woody decides to take it up with the foreman, Jack Hammer, that prides himself on his perfect safety record. Woody uses this to his advantage & puts the foreman to the test.
On a rainy afternoon, exasperated Bessie is fed up with getting soaked opening and closing the garage door, and tells Charlie to buy her an automatic door opener. However, Charlie insists on making one himself and does just that.
An Indian tries to scalp Woody in order to use his feathers to make a headdress and win the hand of the Indian Chief's daughter.
Woody is at home being bored and watching TV and hears a special bulletin about pirated gold by Captain Blah. Woody still bored and ignoring the bulletin decides to go to bed. While drifting off to sleep, dirt is slung through Woody's bedroom window & when investigates, he finds Captain Blah digging a hole to bury his gold. Seeing where Blah buried his gold, he chases after Woody.
Buzz Buzzard tries to con Woody into buying the Fountain of Youth. With the help of Knothead and Splinter, Woody not only gets his money back, but gets even.
A timely storyline has planes menaced by flocks of Gooney birds! When a crazed hunter is hired to get rid of the birds, Chilly adopts one of the eggs left behind (kind of sad, really) and is determined to protect the little guy against the rifle-toting Colonel Potshot. In light of what birds do to planes, we're rooting for CP, but in the end, Chilly realizes there's only one thing to do with a hunter determined to wipe out a species: kill him (we kid you not)!
While walking down the street, Woody comes across a sign that promises tropical sands and free travel. He followed the signs directions and sees the agent across the street, but it's not travel agency, it's a Foreign Legion Recruiting Station. Woody unknowingly signs up and us dropped in the Sahara Desert.
While migrating south, Woody gets tired and decides to stop and rest in a clock tower in Switzerland. Every time the clock chimes, it disturbs Woody, so he throws objects into the gears to make it stop. The local repairman is then called out to fix the problem and it's back and forth with Woody and him.
While Charlie was watering his lawn, Bessie tells him she ordered a sprinkler. Not wanting to spend money on installing, Charlie decides to install it himself. Charlie finally installs it after several unsuccessful attempts. However, water doesn't come out, since Charlie forgot to pay the water bill.
George the woodsman's wife, fed up with life in the wilderness, shows him an ad for a fancy but expensive hat. She then kicks him out of his log cabin and sends him on a quest to trap Woody and obtain his feathers to make such a hat. However, all of George's attempts to trap Woody backfire on him.
Chilly invites Maxie to dinner and has only one bean. They can't get to the store over the snow, so Gooney lends a hand (or wing) and flies Chilly to the store while Maxie fishes. Several attempts are made by Chilly and Gooney to mooch food from Smedley, who's guarding the store.
In medieval times, Woody goes on a quest to transform a dragon back into the king's son with the aid of a witch's magic wand.
Bessie wants to hire a builder to make a sewing room, but Charlie and Junior decide to build it themselves. This, of course, is a mistake.
On vacation, a married city couple and their kitty, Precious, hop in their RV and drive out to the woods for camping trip. Seeing that Precious is a real scared y-cat, Woody takes advantage and plays jokes on the cat.
A hibernating bear decides to sleep in Woody's tree, his snoring is loud and Woody does everything he can to wake the bear up and get him to move.
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.
A Captain and his first mate shanghai Woody and with plans of having him swab the deck aboard their ship.
A man wants to build a oil well on top of Chilly's and Maxie's igloo, but the two put up a fight.
A young Indian, sent on a quest by his chief to capture a woodpecker, sees Woody riding through the desert on a motor scooter shooting cans off of cacti. Buzz Buzzard witnesses the Indian's unsuccessful first attempt to capture Woody and offers to give the Indian a hand.
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.
While Woody and Sugarfoot are traveling out west, they discover gold and an abandoned mine. Another miner (Joe Abandoned) hears about their findings and tries to claim jump, but Woody and Sugarfoot do what they do to stop him.
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.
Woody has pecked dozens of telephone poles full of holes, so much so that telephone company employee Floyd Farkle is threatened with being fired if he doesn't catch him this time.
Nothing goes right for Charlie. First his golf game is rained out, then the TV won't start, then Junior is too busy to play
Woody has a hot time with his chili at Ms. Meany's Cafe.
Buzz Buzzard scams Woody into buying a talking dog when actually, it's a mouse under the dog's hat who does the talking. Woody gets wise, but he also learns that the dog actually can talk. Woody becomes rich and famous, and Buzz tries to get the dog back.
A "woodpecker's take" on the Red Riding Hood tale. Woody meets Mrs. Meany, who is taking pizza to her Grandma. Being very hungry, he quickly goes to Grandma's house, convinces her to go out of the house, and replaces her in bed. Mrs. Meany finds Grandma and, understanding Woody's plan, wants to make him pay. At the house, after the customary dialogue ("what big eyes... what big nose...."), Mrs. Meany gives Woody the pizza, loaded with hot chili.
After Charlie, Bessie, and Junior fall victim to a loose board in the front steps, he tells Junior to fix and paint the steps. Junior paints both the front and back steps, thinking it will make Charlie happier when he comes home from work.
Buzz Buzzard attempts to con Woody once more, using a fake magic lamp and a mouse as the genie.
Woody Woodpecker goes to school with his dog. Mrs. Meany tries to get the dog out of her classroom. This is the final Woody Woodpecker cartoon produced. This was the last cartoon made by Walter Lantz, and the Walter Lantz studios shut down after this production.
Robin Williams presents an Honorary Award to Walter Lantz at the Oscars
Long before TCM there was CLASSICS 34, an atmospheric cinéma showcase hosted by Chris Buchman for WNIT (PBS) in Elkhart, Indiana. In 1981 Walter and Gracie Lantz visited Chris for an engaging chat and to celebrate Woody Woodpecker’s 40th birthday. Act Two presents an overview of CLASSICS 34; and Chris Buchman recounts his first encounter with Walter Lantz, the origin of the Lantzes’ visit to his show and the unforeseen technical dilemmas of the taping session in his affectionate memoir WALTER & ME. Act Three highlights Chris’ pre-Classics 34 movie exhibitions including turns at Baltimore’s famous Peabody Bookshop & Beerstube, Corner Theatre and Johns Hopkins University. The Finalé is comprised of delightful vignettes from CLASSICS 34.
Woody Woodpecker makes an appearance in this cartoon, the first in Walter Lantz's Swing Symphony series. The story is built around a performance of the title song, an original by Felix Bernard and Ray Klages about army life. It's set at "Camp Pain," situated within the Toyland Army section of the Toy Department of the "Maybe So Dept. Store" and features the toy soldiers and animals on the shelves coming to life and joining in to do all the orchestral and vocal parts. There's nothing more to it than that, but it's a lively song with some great jazz bits and it benefits from creative musical arrangements by Darrell Calker, Lantz's talented longtime music supervisor.
