History YMMV / WoodyWoodpecker

* {{So Okay, It's Average}}: The New Woody Woodpecker Show comes off as this. The series is far from memorable, but it's not bad, and many hilarious moments came out of the show.

* DorkAge: Pretty much all of the cartoons from 1955 onward, where the animation and art direction not only took a nosedive, but the humor of the cartoons degenerated into boring, witless filler, with the perpetually-deteriorating (and oft-incompetent) direction of Lantz veteran Paul J. Smith during this period often exposing or exacerbating these issues further. Likewise, the conversion of Woody into a bland-as-wheat everyman (a process rooted in several of Dick Lundy's late-40s shorts yet accelerated and normalized during the fifties) as opposed to the roguish trickster or comically irresponsible, destructive interloper his most well-received '40s appearances often characterized him as, further diluted the series' former comedic energy into successions of generic antics. Some even argue the decline began even earlier, right after 1949, when the last Woody cartoon directed by Dick Lundy was released before the Lantz studio was briefly shut down until the next year, but even the early fifties cartoons, despite their relatively spartan animation and cruder design work relative to the lusher, more Disney-esque articulation of the '40s, are held in higher esteem (chiefly due to director Don Patterson's oft-striking layouts and use of color composition) than their successors.

* DorkAge: Pretty much all of the cartoons from 1955 onward, where the animation and art direction not only took a nosedive, but the humor of the cartoons degenerated into boring, witless filler, not helping that Woody got turned into a bland-as-wheat everyman as opposed to the roguish trickster or comically irresponsible, destructive interloper his most well-received '40s appearances often characterized him as. Some even argue the decline began even earlier, right after 1949, when the last Woody cartoon directed by Dick Lundy was released before the Lantz studio was briefly shut down until the next year, but even the early fifties cartoons, despite their relatively spartan animation and cruder design work relative to the lusher, more Disney-esque articulation of the '40s, are held in higher esteem (chiefly due to director Don Patterson's oft-striking layouts and use of color composition) than their successors.

* DorkAge: Pretty much all of the cartoons from 1955 onward, where the animation and art direction not only took a nosedive, but the humor of the cartoons degenerated into boring, witless filler, not helping that Woody got turned into a bland as wheat everyman as opposed to the roguish trickster or comically irresponsible, destructive interloper his most well-received '40s appearances often characterized him as. Some even argue the decline began even earlier, right after 1949, when the last Woody cartoon directed by Dick Lundy was released before the Lantz studio was briefly shut down until the next year, but even the early fifties cartoons, despite their relatively spartan animation and cruder design work relative to the lusher, more Disney-esque articulation of the '40s, are held in higher esteem (chiefly due to director Don Patterson's oft-striking layouts and use of color composition) than their successors.

* DorkAge: Pretty much all of the cartoons from 1955 onward, where the animation and art direction not only took a nosedive, but the humor of the cartoons degenerated into boring, witless filler, not helping that Woody got turned into a bland as wheat protagonist. Some even argue the decline began even earlier, right after 1949, when the last Woody cartoon directed by Dick Lundy was released before the Lantz studio was briefly shut down until the next year, but even the early fifties cartoons, despite their relatively spartan animation and cruder design work relative to the lusher, more Disney-esque articulation of the '40s, are held in higher esteem (chiefly due to director Don Patterson's oft-striking layouts and use of color composition) than their successors.

* DorkAge: Pretty much all of the cartoons from 1955 onward, where the animation and art direction not only took a nosedive, but the humor of the cartoons degenerated into boring, witless filler, not helping that Woody got turned into a bland as wheat protagonist. Some even argue the decline began even earlier, right after 1951, when the last Woody cartoon directed by Dick Lundy was made before the Lantz studio was briefly shut down until the next year, but even the early fifties cartoons are held in higher esteem than what came from the mid to late 50s and on.

* ScapegoatCreator: Paul J. Smith picks up a lot of flak for the cruddier efforts produced during the 1960s and 1970s. It's debatable how much (if any) of it's deserved; while it's true that Lantz's budgets were pitiful even compared to what the likes of [=DePatie=]-Freleng and [[Creator/ChuckJones Sib Tower 12]] were working with at the time, the general consensus tends to be that the cartoons by Lantz's other director in this period, Sid Marcus, were far better than Smith's output. Either Smith was overwhelmed by the combination of budgetary problems and his (allegedly) failing eyesight, or he just plain gave up trying to make anything decent.

* {{Flanderization}}: Woody became an annoying sadist creature who does many gross and juvenile things.

* HilariousInHindsight: Two of the major characters in the series are named [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Woody and Buzz.]]

* DesignatedHero: Woody is shown to be this as he is always the protagonist of the shorts and he sometimes goes around heckling and harassing whoever he encounters and [[KarmaHoudini gets away with it]].

** [[YellowPeril Chinese]],American Indians and other racial caricatures have been featured in more than one shorts such as Scalp Treatment,Barber of Seville,and The Screwdriver.

* TheWoobie: Mr. Woodpecker, Woody's father, considering "Born to Peck" establishes that his wife left him to raise a {{Jerkass}} son all alone.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Woody is very popular in South America, especially in Brazil, to the point where all of his cartoons are still aired there to this day (even the post-1955 ones)! Brazilian TV Record even has become infamous [[AdoredByTheNetwork for having the toons frequently in their programming]], as the sole feature of their children's block, and particularly before the night news (it got worse as the Woody Woodpecker reruns aired after - and at times instead of - their 2012 UsefulNotes/OlympicGames coverage). He even got a [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/universal-making-live-actioncg-woody-woodpecker-feature-brazilians-141553.html live action/CGI hybrid film]] that was released theatrically in Brazil![[note]]It later came out straight to DVD abroad.[[/note]]

* WereStillRelevantDammit: Woody Woodpecker...''rapping''. Need we really say more?

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Woody's short rap about himself.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Timothy Omundson as Lance Walters.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The newer show had a lot of ridiculous censorship on par with the [[WesternAnimation/SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries 1990s Spider-Man cartoon]] (naturally, since both aired on Creator/FoxKids); Woody wasn't even allowed to do his signature move of pecking people on the head!

** [[YellowPeril Chinese]],American Indians and other racial caricatures have been featured in more than one shorts such as Scalp Treatment,[[WesternAnimation/BarberofSeville]]and The Screwdriver.

** [[YellowPeril Chinese]],American Indians and other racial caricatures have been featured in more than one shorts such as Scalp Treatment,{{WesternAnimation/BarberofSeville}]and The Screwdriver.

** [[YellowPeril Chinese]],American Indians and other racial caricatures have been featured in more than one shorts such as Scalp Treatment,{{BarberofSeville}]and The Screwdriver.

* ValuesDissonance: "The Screwdriver" has Woody dressing up as a rather politically incorrect depiction of a "chinaboy" with carriage for a gag. ** [[YellowPeril Chinese]],American Indians and other racial caricatures have been featured in more than one shorts such as Scalp Treatment,{{BarberofSeville}and The Screwdriver.

* ValuesDissonance: "The Screwdriver" has Woody dressing up as a rather politically incorrect depiction of a "chinaboy" with carriage for a gag.

* CrossDressingVoices: Walter Lantz's wife, Grace Stafford Lantz, succeeded Creator/MelBlanc and Ben Hardaway as Woody's voice actor. She claimed that she slipped in a recording of her own impression of Woody's voice around the time Walter Lantz was looking for Woody's new voice.