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3 | '''''Andy Panda''''' was a recurring character of the Creator/WalterLantz cartoon studio, his series lasting from [[UsefulNotes/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. |
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5 | The earliest batch of cartoons portrayed Andy as a young CheerfulChild and featured the misadventures of him and his BumblingDad, Poppa Panda. Later shorts gave Andy sole top billing and had him aged up into an adult [[TheEveryman Everyman]] in the same vein as [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse another contemporary animal cartoon character]]. |
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7 | Compare [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer [=MGM=]]]'s own cartoon bear WesternAnimation/BarneyBear, which ran around the same time, had Dick Lundy directing in later years, and co-incidentally debuted in the same year. |
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9 | 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 for years after his cartoons had stopped being produced. |
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12 | [[folder: Filmography]] |
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14 | !1939 |
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16 | * Life Begins For Andy Panda: Also introduces Papa Panda, a tribe of pygmy panda hunters, and Mr. Whippletree the turtle. Also features older Lantz star Snuffy Skunk and one of two appearances by Mama Panda. (Alex Lovy) |
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18 | !1940 |
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20 | * Andy Panda Goes Fishing: Co-stars the pygmy hunters and Mr. Whippletree. (Burt Gillett) |
21 | * 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda: Co-stars Papa Panda, the pygmy hunters, and Mr. Whippletree. (Lovy) |
22 | * Crazy House: Mr. Whippletree and the pygmies are retired for a more urban setting. (Walter Lantz) |
23 | * WesternAnimation/{{Knock Knock|1940}}: The debut of WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker, albeit as a PoorlyDisguisedPilot for Woody. (Lantz) |
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25 | !1941 |
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27 | * Mouse Trappers: Co-stars Papa Panda, with Mama Panda in a cameo. (Lovy) |
28 | * Dizzy Kitty: Co-stars Papa Panda. (Lantz) |
29 | * Andy Panda's Pop: ADayInTheLimelight for Papa Panda. Renamed "Goofy Roofer" in reissued prints. Andy himself does not appear in this short, but Mama Panda makes a cameo. |
30 | * 21$ a Day (Once a Month): A Swing Symphony Cartune, with Andy making a cameo near the end. (Lantz) |
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32 | !1942 |
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34 | * Under the Spreading Blacksmith Shop: The last appearance of Papa Panda. (Lovy) |
35 | * Good-Bye Mr. Moth: Andy's first solo short. (Lantz) |
36 | * Nutty Pine Cabin: Andy's first appearance as an adult. (Lovy) |
37 | * Andy Panda's Victory Garden: One of two appearances by Charlie Chicken, who would appear more prominently in the John Stanley comics. (Lovy) |
38 | * Air Raid Warden (Lovy) |
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40 | !1943 |
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42 | * Canine Commandos (Lovy) |
43 | * Meatless Tuesday: First Andy Panda directed by Creator/ShamusCulhane. Second of two appearances by Charlie Chicken. |
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45 | !1944 |
46 | * WesternAnimation/FishFry: Received an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for best cartoon short. (Culhane) |
47 | * 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. (Culhane) |
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49 | !1945 |
50 | * Crow Crazy: First Andy Panda directed by Dick Lundy. |
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52 | !1946 |
53 | * WesternAnimation/ThePoetAndPeasant (Lundy) |
54 | * Mousie Come Home (Culhane) |
55 | * Apple Andy (Lundy) |
56 | * The Wacky Weed (Lundy) |
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58 | !1947 |
59 | * WesternAnimation/MusicalMomentsFromChopin: A Musical Miniatures cartoon, featuring both Andy and Woody Woodpecker together competing with pianos. (Lundy) |
60 | * The Bandmaster: His name is as a 1930's WesternAnimation/WalterLantz cartoon starring WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit. (Lundy) [[invoked]] |
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62 | !1948 |
63 | * Banquet Busters: A Woody Woodpecker cartoon, in which Andy shares the spotlight with Woody. Also co-stars Woody's archenemy, Wally Walrus. (Lundy) |
64 | * Playful Pelican (Lundy) |
65 | * Dog Tax Dodgers: Wally Walrus co-stars. (Lundy) |
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67 | !1949 |
68 | * Scrappy Birthday: Final Andy Panda cartoon and only appearance of girlfriend Miranda Panda. (Lundy) |
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70 | !1951 |
71 | * The Woody Woodpecker Polka: Makes a voiceless cameo early on alongside Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. |
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73 | !1952 |
74 | * Team Play: A commerical co-staring Miranda Panda and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. |
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76 | !1964 |
77 | * Spook-A-Nanny: A made-for-TV Woody Woodpecker cartoon, in which Andy plays a small role. |
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80 | !!Tropes: |
81 | * AmusementParkOfDoom: In "Crazy House", Andy and his Poppa seek shelter from a storm in what they think is a residential home but turns out to be an abandoned funhouse amusement park, which is full of various booby traps that drive them nuts. |
82 | * AnimationBump: The Creator/ShamusCulhane and Dick Lundy shorts. |
83 | ** Any scene animated by 30s and 40s Disney mainstay Fred Moore within the final United Artists-era shorts (namely "Playful Pelican", "Dog Tax Dodgers" and "Scrappy Birthday") - the opening scene in "Dog Tax Dodgers", featuring a remarkably fluid and three-dimensional (and simultaneously appealing) depiction of Andy, is arguably the most notable example, drawing comparison with the significantly higher-budgeted contemporary Disney shorts over the conspicuously cruder visuals of Andy's appearances during the early 40s. |
84 | * ArtEvolution: The early shorts were pretty crudely drawn, looking more like ragdolls than animals. Things improved when Creator/ShamusCulhane brought a little more form to the designs (although most agree that his redesign in "The Painter and the Pointer" was a step in the wrong direction), and Dick Lundy refined the animation considerably by the end of the series. |
85 | * BadassAdorable: He's a cute-looking panda, yet has performed awesome feats against enemies. His [[GoodAngelBadAngel angel]] in "Apple Andy" [[BewareTheNiceOnes eventually had enough of the devil's abuse]] and gave him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. |
86 | * BlackfaceStyleCaricature: The Pygmies in the early cartoons, which is why they are seldom shown on TV anymore. |
87 | %%* BrattyHalfPint: In his early appearances. |
88 | * BreakoutCharacter: Woody Woodpecker got his first starring role in Andy's fifth cartoon. |
89 | %%* BumblingDad: Poppa Panda. |
90 | * ButtMonkey: Andy's poppa in the early cartoons and Andy himself in the later ones. |
91 | * TheBusCameBack: He returns in the 2018 web series of ''Woody Woodpecker'' as a supporting character. |
92 | * TheCameo: In the Woody Woodpecker cartoons "Wet Blanket Policy" (in the opening, as a ad for his comics) and "The Woody Woodpecker Polka". A mascot costume of him appears briefly in the film ''Film/TheWizard''. |
93 | * CanonImmigrant: Miranda Panda. She was a regular in the Lantz "Funnies" comic books before making her only animated appearance in "Scrappy Birthday" (and a cameo in "The Woody Woodpecker Polka"). |
94 | * CaptainErsatz: Andy owned a series of dogs in cartoons such as "The Painter and the Pointer" and "Dog Tax Dodgers", all of whom were basically just [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]] moonlighting in Lantz cartoons. |
95 | %%* CheerfulChild: Andy in his earlier appearances. |
96 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Andy's dad dissapears after the first few shorts (and his own one-shot short subject), and Andy himself was retired by Universal after Lantz died. Mama Panda makes no further appearances after "Andy Panda's Pop". |
97 | * CousinOliver: Miranda Panda, who made one animated appearance in "Scrappy Birthday", with Andy DemotedToExtra in "The Woody Woodpecker Polka". She would get more appearances in the comic books. |
98 | %%* DarkestAfrica: Where the first three shorts are apparently set. |
99 | * DistaffCounterpart: The onetime appearance of Miranda Panda, an unmistakable ersatz of WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse. |
100 | %%* DontEatAndSwim: This happened to Wally Walrus in an issue of the comic book. |
101 | %%* TheEveryman: His post-baby incarnation. |
102 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: He starts wearing clothes and shoes in "Nutty Pine Cabin". |
103 | * HollywoodNatives: The pygmy hunters in the first three shorts. |
104 | * {{Jerkass}}: Miranda Panda displays very JerkAss behavior towards Andy in "Scrappy Birthday", wanting a fox-skin coat for her birthday which is far beyond Andy's own means. [[TookALevelInKindness Though, she does become much nicer in her later appearances, especially the comic books]]. |
105 | * JerkassBall: Andy grabs it as he [[TookALevelInJerkass briefly lapses into being an unpleasant person]] in "The Painter and the Pointer" as he threatens his dog Butch by forcing him to point by attaching his paw to ''a loaded shotgun''. |
106 | %%** He's also had his moments in the earlier shorts.%%Such as? |
107 | * LightIsNotGood: In "Apple Andy", Andy encounters a devil in a white nightgown (also the subject of a song) who tempts him to steal from an apple orchard. |
108 | * LowerDeckEpisode: "The Painter and the Pointer" has Andy appear only in the opening and ending, focusing otherwise on his dog, the fly and the spiders. |
109 | * MisplacedWildlife: The first shorts depict Andy and his parents living in DarkestAfrica instead of China. |
110 | * MockyMouse: Andy's everyman incarnation is pretty much Lantz's answer to WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, even wearing red pants and yellow shoes. His one-time appearing girlfriend, Miranda Panda, is also a shameless ersatz of WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse. |
111 | * NiceGuy: Andy is generally shown to be friendly and upbeat when not being mischievous. |
112 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Poppa Panda's voice characterization in "Andy Panda's Pop" is abruptly changed from previous shorts to be a Creator/WCFields impersonation. |
113 | * OutOfFocus: As Woody Woodpecker got more popular, Andy got considerably less showtime than before. |
114 | * PainPoweredLeap: In "Fish Fry", a fish bites a cat on the finger, who reacts by jumping up hundreds of feet in the air. |
115 | * PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "Knock Knock" for the Woody Woodpecker series. |
116 | * PublicDomainSoundtrack: The short "The Bandmaster" is built around Louis-Ferdinand Hérold's "Overture to Zampa". |
117 | %%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: In his infant appearances. |
118 | * RogerRabbitEffect: The ending of "100 Pygmies and Andy Panda", where teleporting the pygmies sends them into a live action city--and the turtle onto a barrel near the Niagara Falls. |
119 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Wally Walrus, ordinarily Woody Woodpecker’s nemesis, appears in "Dog Tax Dodgers" as a DiabolicalDogcatcher with his sights on Andy’s pooch. |
120 | %%* SmellySkunk: Featured in "Scrappy Birthday". |
121 | * TamerAndChaster: The folk/blues standard "Up Comes the Devil (In a White Nightgown)" is about a FemmeFatale. When the song shows up in "Apple Andy" it's about a literal [[FlamingDevil devil with questionable fashion sense.]] |
122 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Miranda Panda is pretty much just Andy's design with a bow, skirt and high heels. |
123 | * 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.]] [[TookALevelInKindness Thankfully, he immediately regressed to his softer persona in shorts afterwards]]. |
124 | * TookALevelInKindness: Miranda Panda, Andy's girlfriend seems to be much nicer and sensible in the comic books and even in the "Team Play" Auto-Lite commercial as opposed to her meaner self in her debut "Scrappy Birthday". |
125 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Apples, which sets off the plot of "Apple Andy" where he breaks into an orchard. |
126 | %%* WartimeCartoon: "Andy Panda's Victory Garden" and "Air Raid Warden". |
127 | * WoodlandCreatures: A bunch of forest animals (plus kangaroos) show up in "Life Begins for Andy Panda". |
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