History WesternAnimation / WoodyWoodpecker

* BorrowedCatchphrase: Often in shorts where Woody is on the losing end, another character imitates his signature laugh. Examples include the quail from "The Coo-Coo Bird", one of the chicks from "Solid Ivory" and Wally Walrus in "Ski for Two", "Well Oiled" and "What's Sweepin'".

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: At the end of "Pinheads", when Woody finds Buzz's wanted poster, he calls the police for the reward. But with the bowling alley where they are being 500 rmiles away from the nearest civilization, the officer on the other end [[PoliceAreUseless initially doesn't pay him any mind]] despite the wanted poster. Then Woody mentions that Buzz's car, the car that Woody just bet and lost against him, is parked in a Red Zone. One BigWhat and two seconds later, the police have Buzz surrounded.

[[folder: Theatrical Cartoon Filmography]]

!1945 (All cartoons directed by James Culhane)

!1951 (All cartoons directed by Walter Lantz - no onscreen credit)

--> ''YOU CAN'T HARDLY GET THEM THIS SIZE NO MORE''

* 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.

--> '''Lion:''' ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall What do you know? Just call me stubby!]]''

--> '''Crowd:''' [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing ''HOORAY!'']]

--> '''Main officer:''' Now, before we proceed: is there anyone here without a barrel?

--> ''So I'm crazy, what what what can I do?''
--> ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall So are you]]!''

--> '''Woody:''' Sure it's necessary! ''I'm'' a [[NecessarilyEvil NECESSARY EVIL!]]

--> "Hiya buddy."

-->'''Woody''': I know! I'll throw a Bagpipe Appreciation Day party! ''(Scottish accent)'' The likes of which the Scottish have never seen!
-->'''Miss Meany''': ''(barges in)'' WOODPECKER, I HEARD THAT! Your lease specifically says "no parties!"

-->'''Winnie''': ''(pointing at the mural on the front of the pyramid)'' Ooh, look, professor! Is he the court jester?
-->'''Wally''': Yah, Izzy.
-->'''Winnie''': I asked you first, who is he?
-->'''Wally''': No, ''Izzy.''
-->'''Winnie''': That's what I'm asking you, is he the court jester?
-->'''Wally''': He's the court yester, Izzy!
-->'''Winnie''': Yeah, is he? What's up with that?
-->'''Wally''': EXACTLY! Izzy Vatsupwithat! Yeepers...

* CaughtUpInARobbery: In "Convict Concert", after robbing a nearby bank, a crook named Mugsy enters a music shop where Woody is working as a piano tuner to hide from the officer hot on his trail. He forces Woody at gunpoint to keep playing while he hides inside the piano and waits for his associates to get him. Though the officer does enter Woody's shop to search for Mugsy, he fails to notice the bag of stolen money and Woody's not-so-subtle indications about the bandit in the piano. Woody is eventually kidnapped with the piano and Mugsy inside of it, but during the police chase the instrument slides out of the truck and off a cliff, right into a penitentiary, leading to Mugsy's arrest while [[HeroicBSOD Woody goes crazy from the experience]].

* The Screwball (Lovy)

* GagDub: A poster on Website/YouTube, who has also done several Looney Tunes gag dubs (no longer on Website/YouTube, however) was apparently making a gag dub series using footage of the older Woody Woodpecker cartoons. For unknown reasons, he has ceased production of them for a long time now. Here is the trailer for it: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=290w4Ec08O8]

* MobileShrubbery: Attempted by the witch in "Witch Crafty" to enter the building Woody is guarding, by hiding herself in a package. Woody dosen't buy it for a second.

On a side note, Lantz told an apocryphal story that he got the idea for Woody from a [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real woodpecker that was pestering him and his wife when they were staying in a log cabin on their honeymoon]]. But its obvious that this was a fabricated story to draw attention from the fact that Woody was, so to speak, "inspired" by the likes of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Another hole in the story is that Lantz's honeymoon didn't take place until a year after Woody's debut in "Knock Knock" took place!

** ''Film/DestinationMoon'' of all things. In an animated short within the film, the narrator explains to the doubting Woodpecker how a rocket could get to the Moon.

''Woody Woodpecker'' is an iconic cartoon star, the mascot and [[BreakthroughHit most successful cartoon series]] of the Creator/WalterLantz and Creator/{{Universal}} studios, from his [[BreakoutCharacter breakout debut]] in the WesternAnimation/AndyPanda short "WesternAnimation/{{Knock Knock|1940}}" [[note]]Although ''WesternAnimation/TheCrackedNut'', released the following year, was the debut of his own series.[[/note]], in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940]], to the end of his theatrical run in [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation 1972]], lasting for 198 shorts, supplemented by appearances in comics, merchandise, a long-running TV anthology show, a short-lived contemporary TV revival, and a [[Film/WoodyWoodpecker live-action/CGI feature film]] and a late 2018 Website/YouTube revival, thus establishing him as an animation {{Long Runner|s}}. In 2020, the character turned 80 years old and a second season of the [=YouTube=] series was released. In 2022, a third season was released, nine episodes were released on the [=YouTube=] channel and one on the Facebook page.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Two early 1960s Chilly Willy shorts had Wally Walrus showing up.