History WesternAnimation / AndyPanda

* WartimeCartoon: "Andy Panda's Victory Garden" and "Air Raid Warden".
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Lantz based Andy off of the first baby panda to be born in the US, Su Lin.

* CaptainErsatz: Andy's everyman incarnation is pretty much Lantz's answer to MickeyMouse. His one-time appearing girlfriend, Miranda Panda, is also a shameless ersatz of MinnieMouse.

* DistaffCounterpart: The onetime appearance of Miranda Panda, an unmistakable ersatz of MinnieMouse.

While WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker might have ended up being more of a success than Andy Panda in terms of cartoons, he did appear in a good number of comics by John Stanley.

* Andy Panda's Pop: A oneshot SpinOff featuring Andy's poppa in his own cartoon short. Renamed "Goofy Roofer" in reissued prints. Curiously, Andy himself does not appear in this short.

* Meatless Tuesday: First Andy Panda directed by ShamusCulhane.

* Dog Tax Dodgers (Lundy)

* Scrappy Birthday (Lundy)

* The Woody Woodpecker Polka: Makes a cameo early on alongside Oswald The Lucky Rabbit.

A history of the series can be found [[http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/profiles/andy/ here.]]

'''''Andy Panda''''' was a recurring character of the Creator/WalterLantz cartoon studio, his series lasting from [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1939 to 1949,]] and supported by cameos in other cartoons, as well as appearances in comic books and merchandise. While virtually unknown [[OvershadowedByAwesome compared to]] Lantz's [[WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker other major star]], the Andy Panda series still managed to crank out some fairly entertaining cartoons in its run.

* Fish Fry: Recieved an AcademyAward nomination for best cartoon short.

* ButtMonkey: Andy's poppa.

** Andy's dog in "The Painter and the Pointer" is really just [[PlutoThePup Pluto]] moonlighting in a Lantz cartoon.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Andy's dad dissapears after the first few shorts (and his own oneshot short subject), and Andy himself was retired by Universal after Lantz died.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Andy got hit with this ''hard'' in "The Painter and the Pointer", not only receiving an ugly redesign, but also receiving a nasty, Foul tempered personality, going as far as rigging a shotgun to his dog that will fire if he even budges, [[DisproportionateRetribution all just for messing up one of his paintings.]] Thankfuly, he immediately regressed to his softer persona in shorts afterwards.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Lantz based Andy off of the first baby panda to be born in the Us, Su Lin

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Andy got hit with this ''hard'' in "The Painter and the Pointer", not only receiving an ugly redesign, but also receiving a nasty, Foul tempered personality, goin as far as rigging a shotgun to his dog that will fire if he even budges, [[DisproportionateRetribution all just for messing up one of his paintings.]] Thankfuly, he immediately regressed to his softer persona in shorts afterwards.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Andy got hit with this ''hard'' in "The Painter and the Pointer", not only receiving an ugly redesign, but also receiving a nasty, Foul tempered personality, goin as far as rigging a shotgun to his dog that will fire if he even budges, [[DisproportinateRetribution all just for messing up one of his paintings.]] Thankfuly, he immediately regressed to his softer persona in shorts afterwards.

* {{Jerkass}}: In "The Painter and the Pointer". Also, Miranda Panda displays very JerkAss behavior towards Andy in "Scrappy Birthday".

* AnimationBump: The Dick Lundy shorts.

* PandaIngToTheAudience
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: ''Knock Knock'' for the WoodyWoodpecker series.

'''''Andy Panda''''' was a recurring character of the WalterLantz cartoon studio, his series lasting from [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1939 to 1949,]] and supported by cameos in other cartoons, as well as appearances in comic books and merchandise. While virtually unknown [[OvershadowedByAwesome compared to]] Lantz's [[WoodyWoodpecker other major star]], the Andy Panda series still managed to crank out some fairly entertaining cartoons in its run.

Compare {{MGM}}'s own cartoon bear BarneyBear, which ran around the same time (and co-incidentally debuted in the same year).

* Knock Knock: The debut of WoodyWoodpecker. (Walter Lantz)

* The Painter and the Pointer: A brief, ill-fated attempt at reinventing Andy into a JerkAss character, not unlike what Culhane had recently did to Woody.

* The Bandmaster: NamesTheSame as a 1930's WalterLantz cartoon starring OswaldTheLuckyRabbit.

* The Woody Woodpecker Polka: Makes a cameo early on alongside OswaldTheLuckyRabbit.

* BreakoutCharacter: WoodyWoodpecker got his first starring role in Andy's fifth cartoon.

* JerkAss: In "The Painter and the Pointer". Also, Miranda Panda displays very JerkAss behavior towards Andy in "Scrappy Birthday".

* DontEatAndSim: This happened to Wally Walrus in an issue of the comic book.

'''''Andy Panda''''' was a recurring character of the WalterLantz cartoon studio, his series lasting from [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1939 to 1949,]] and supported by cameos in other cartoons, as well as appearances in comic books and merchandise. While virtually unknown [[OvershadowedByAwesome compared to]] Lantz's [[WoodyWoodpecker other major star]], the Andy Panda series still managed to crank out some fairly entertaining cartoons in it's run.

* CaptainErsatz: Andy's everyman incarnation is pretty much Lantz's answer to MickeyMouse.

* DistaffCounterpart: The onetime appearance of Miranda Panda, an unmistakable ersatz of Minnie Mouse.

* Andy Panda's Pop: A oneshot SpinOff featuring Andy's poppa in his own cartoon short. Renamed "Goofy Roofers" in reissued prints. Curiously, Andy himself does not appear in this short.

* Andy Panda's Pop: A oneshot SpinOff featuring Andy's poppa in his own cartoon short. Renamed "Goofy Roofers" in reissued prints.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Andy's dad dissapears after the first few shorts, and Andy himself was retired by Universal after Lantz died.

* {{Directors}}:
** Alex Lovy: Directed eight of his shorts.
** [[NoteworthyDisneyStaff Burt Gillett]]: Sole effort was "Andy Panda Goes Fishing"
** [[NoteworthyDisneyStaff Dick Lundy]]: Directed 10 of his shorts.
** ShamusCulhane: Directed four of his shorts.
** WalterLantz: Directed four of his shorts and two of his cameo roles.

* HeyItsThatVoice: DawsButler voices Andy in the Spook-A-Nanny special.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Let's be honest, can you find ''anybody'' today who remembers this guy?[[hottip:*: Classic cartoon fans in the back, please sit down.]]