Acting in the Dark: Gorgeous Gal from "A Fine Feathered Frenzy" was voiced by Gladys Holland; she was chosen to perform the voice as she was good at foreign accents. Gladys admitted she knew nothing about the character being a heavyset dowager; she did watch the finished short though and found it hilarious.
Breakthrough Hit: Woody Woodpecker is this for the Walter Lantz studio; while they had enjoyed some mild success in the past, this series is unambiguously what put them on the map, and with Andy Panda, what pulled the studio out of its slump from the late 1930's and the decline of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Cash-Cow Franchise: Woody Woodpecker was this once upon a time, enough to have many comics and merchandising tie-ins. Nowadays, you'll be lucky to even see him outside of a mascot theme park costume or his DVD re-releases.
Cross-Dressing Voices: Walter Lantz's wife, Grace Stafford Lantz, succeeded Mel Blanc 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.
In Japan, Woody has traditional been voiced by women in past and present animated projects. Most notably Kumiko Watanabe (best-known as Keroro in Sgt. Frog and Klonoa in the aforementioned video game series) who provided the voice of Woody in the Japanese dub of The New Woody Woodpecker Show.
Descended Creator: Ben Hardaway, Woody's co-creator, provided the voice for Woody for the bulk of his 1940's cartoons.
Development Hell: The Illumination Woody Woodpecker feature was initially slated for a 2015 release, but as of late 2015, it hasn't even entered production yet.
Executive Meddling: Like many other Fox Kids series, the revival suffered heavy censorship- ie. Woody being unable to peck people on the head (he did do it on occasion, presumably when the censors were distracted). It wasn't the only show to suffer- the stuff they did to Spider-Man: The Animated Series is legendary.
Fan Nickname: "Pica-Pau Biruta" (Crazy Woodpecker), the nickname given by Brazilian fans for the earliest version of Woody from the earlier 1940s, with the name originating from the official translated title of the first episode.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: All of the original shorts from the 1940s to around the mid 1950s are available on DVD collections with some shorts from other Walter Lantz series sandwiched in, but there are currently no plans for a release of the remaining cartoons; and this is just the original cartoons as shown in theaters, not the versions with live action intermissions that aired on the original Woody Woodpecker Show (while both of the official DVD sets include several of these excerpts as extras, its not all of them). Likewise, there are no plans for a rerelease of The New Woody Woodpecker Show either (typical for Fox Kids series- The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper is also another Universal/FK series that hasn't been released either), or any DVD releases of Walter Lantz's other animated properties.
While "Hypnotic Hick" is available on DVD, it's only a standard 2D print of the film—the original 3-D print of the cartoon remains in limbo.
As of now, only one episode of The New Woody Woodpecker Show ("Frankenwoody/The Meany Witch Project/Fright Movie Woody") has been released on DVD as as a bonus feature on Woody Woodpecker and Friends Halloween Favorites.
The 1999 series was added to Peacock at launch but was removed in June 2021. It has returned as of January 2022, though.
Kids' Meal Toy: Dairy Queen released a set of six toys in their kids' meals in 2000.
Long Runner: Woody first appeared in 1940 and new cartoons with the character were being made until Lantz shut down his studio in 1972, with a 30 year run. (Note that there was a hiatus between 1948-1950)
The Other Darrin: As mentioned above, Woody has gone through several different voice actors, although voice clips from his original actor, Mel Blanc, were used up to the 1950's shorts.
Throw It In!: The Woody Woodpecker short Wet Blanket Policy originally didn't have "The Woody Woodpecker Song" in the opening, but it was added in at the last minute by Walter Lantz, when he discovered how much of a surprise hit the single had become.
The film
Box Office Bomb: The film grossed around $15 million on an estimated $10 million budget and wasn't even deemed worthy of a theatrical release outside Latin America and the Carribean.
Direct-to-DVD: In many places outside of the LATAM region, the film was released either on DVD or Netflix.
Short Run in Peru: Was released first in Brazil and other Latin American countries, before finally reaching it's home country of the United States in 2018.
Sequel Gap: If someone counts Woody's appearance in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, that leaves a good gap of 29 years between that film and this film.
