The BEST episodes written by Jack Cosgriff
#1 - Woody Woodpecker
The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1941 - Episode 1
Woody Woodpecker spends his day singing loudly and pecking holes in trees. He infuriates the other woodland creatures - when he isn't baffling them with his bizarre behavior. Woody overhears a squirrel and a group of birds gossiping about him. Even though he just sang a song proclaiming his craziness, he denies their whispered accusations that he's nuts. But after they trick him into knocking his head on a statue, the poor bird hears voices in his head and decides the animals might be right. He decides to see a doctor. But leave it to Woody to choose Dr. Horace N. Buggy, a Scottish-brogue-burring fox, who is, if it's impossible, even madder than he is.
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#2 - The Screwdriver
The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1941 - Episode 2
Woody Woodpecker is driving through the countryside and is, shall we say, not a stickler for the rules. He's practically asking for trouble when he confronts a traffic cop who explains he is looking for speeders. Woody reveals himself to be a speeder by driving to Alaska and back in less than a minute. The cop tries to arrest him but Woody states, "I bet ya wouldn't be so tough without that uniform." The officer undresses but Woody attacks him with a boxing glove camera. Woody also gets his goat by dressing as a farmer on horse-and-buggy and as a Chinaboy with rickshaw. Finally, the cop flips out and is sent to a mental hospital with Woody as his caretaker. The TV version of the cartoon re-titled as Woody's Jalopy.
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#3 - Banquet Busters
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 2
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.
#4 - Wacky-Bye Baby
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 4
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.
#5 - After the Ball
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 2
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.
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#6 - Get Lost
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 3
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.
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#7 - Chief Charlie Horse
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 5
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.
#8 - Man's Best Friend
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1941 - Episode 11
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.
#9 - Kiddie Koncert
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 3
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.
#10 - Pixie Picnic
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 5
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.
#11 - Playful Pelican
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 7
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.