The BEST episodes written by Lowell Elliot
#1 - Knock Knock
The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1940 - Episode 1
Andy Panda asks Pop if you can really catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. Pop tells Andy not to bother him only to hear a knocking at the door. The "knocking" is really coming from a woodpecker pecking against their roof. Pop sets out to trap the bird but is no match for its screwiness. He uses a wind-up explosive decoy that the bird falls for but when it explodes, he just feels "betrayed!" After giving Pop a wild ride through the sky, Andy pours salt on his tail and traps it! Two ambulance attendants come to take the bird away but they too are just as looney!
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#2 - Pantry Panic
The Woody Woodpecker Show - Season 1941 - Episode 3
Woody's friends warn him that the groundhog has predicted a blizzard. Unconcerned, Woody decides not to go South with his pals. Soon enough, the blizzard sweeps in and destroys the loony woodpecker's stash of food. Facing starvation, a glimmer of hope arrives in the form of a cat. The cat is also starving and it turns into a match of brawn and wits to see who eats who.
#3 - Pantry Panic
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1941 - Episode 12
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.
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#4 - The Hollywood Matador
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 2
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.
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#5 - Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1941 - Episode 7
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.
#6 - Knock Knock
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 7
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.
#7 - Recruiting Daze
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 6
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!
#8 - Syncopated Sioux
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 8
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.
#9 - Salt Water Daffy
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1941 - Episode 6
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.
#10 - Andy Panda's Pop
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1941 - Episode 8
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!"
#11 - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B'
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1941 - Episode 10
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.
#12 - Under the Spreading Blacksmith Shop
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 1
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.
#13 - The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 3
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.
#14 - Mother Goose on the Loose
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1942 - Episode 4
Sight gags satirize famous Mother Goose stories. In one scene, Little Bo Peep loses her sheep on a bad throw of the dice.