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  • Home Improvement: In "Bye Bye Birdie", Tim believes he's gotten rid of the woodpecker that's been keeping him up at night and says that it's "checking into the Walter Lantz clinic".
  • Pam & Tommy: In the episode "I Love You, Tommy", Pamela Anderson wears a Woody Woodpecker t-shirt.
  • Stranger Things: In "The Bite", Alexei wins a Woody Woodpecker plushie from the fair shortly before he is killed by Grigori.

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  • Cuphead: The woodpeckers from "Treetop Trouble", are designed to look very similar to the early incarnations of Woody Woodpecker.
  • In Tiny Toon Adventures: Plucky's Big Adventure for the PS1, one of the jokes Gogo Dodo tells in the auditorium is "What is green and pecks on trees? Woody Wood Pickle!".

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Western Animation

  • Animaniacs (1993):
    • In "Frontier Slappy", Daniel Boone disguises himself as a woodpecker as part of his plan to get wood from Slappy Squirrel's tree. After feeding Boone a lunch of bugs, Slappy tells him "Yeah, there's nothing like dead bugs mixed with manure and served on a big piece of rotten bug, eh, Woody?"
    • In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock", among the residents of the Cartoon Motion Picture Rest home are elderly Captain Ersatz versions of Woody Woodpecker and Wally Walrus (who are respectively credited as "Woodpeckerman" and "Walrusman").
  • In an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head where the duo went to a hair stylist they had a crush on, Butt-head comments that Beavis's hair resembles Woody Woodpecker's, which makes him imitate his laugh in response.
  • In Drawn Together episode "Gay Bash", Foxxy Love is giving Xandir a Rorschach test full of imagery that elicitis Xandir responding with homosexually charged slang. Three of the images are vaguely shaped like Woody, which makes Xandir just say each part of his name, the joke being "woody", "wood" and "pecker" are all euphemisms for "penis".
  • Garfield and Friends: In the U.S. Acres segment, "Deja Vu", Wade struggles to announces the Weasel's appearance to Orson and Roy. When he finally does, Roy states that he was about to assume that Wade was trying to say "Woody Woodpecker".
  • Inspector Gadget: In "Birds of a Feather", Mr. Finch's trained woodpecker flies at Gadget as he opens a door, causing the woodpecker to fly into it and get stuck. Gadget then remarks, "Hey, a woodpecker!" and laughs similarly to Woody.
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot: According to Word of God, minor villain The Lancer is based on how Woody Woodpecker appears carrying a lance at the beginning of many Walter Lantz cartoons. His helmet even has Woody's topknot.
  • Robot Chicken:
    • In a sketch from "Crushed by a Steamroller on My 53rd Birthday", has Woody being heckled by some inner-city thugs for his name ("I got some wood for you to peck on!").
    • A sketch from "El Skeletorito", Woody gets a call from his dad saying that someone he knew has died, making him a "mourning wood".
  • The Simpsons:
    • In "A Tale of Two Springfields", a woodpecker that Bart tries to feed a badger laughs like Woody.
    • In "Love, Springfieldian Style", the first segment, "Bonnie and Clyde" features the Sheriff (played by Chief Wiggum) watching a Robby Robin cartoon called in "Tijuana Trouble" in a movie theater. In the cartoon, Robby eats a taco that causes him to throw up when he tries to laugh, then launches him into a tree, where young mice mistake him for a piƱata and hit him.
      Sheriff: Even I'm offended by this, and I'm a fat Southern Sheriff!
  • Tiny Toon Adventures:
    • In the prologue to "Scentimental Pig" (part of "Strange Tales of Weird Science"), after Buster and Babs trick Elmyra into thinking she is a woodpecker so they escape from her, Buster tells Elmyra, "See you, Woody!"
    • In "The ACME Bowl", one of the football teams that ACME Looniversity loses to is the University of Woodpeckers, who peck them into the ground and laugh similarly to Woody.

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