Woody Woodpecker: Difference between revisions

* [[Baseball Episode]]: ''The Screwball''.

* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: Done in the intro of the short ''Under the Counter Spy'':

* [[Berserk Button]]: Woody doesn't like cheesecake. The Loan Shark from ''The Loan Stranger'' learned this the hard way.

** Also, in the short ''Knock Knock'', Woody pulls this on Andy Panda when he first tries to salt him:

* [[Big Eater]]: Woody's desire to get a quick meal (usually on the cheap) is the source for many of the plots.

* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: In an issue of an old Woody Woodpecker comic, Woody goes with his (niece and nephew?) over to Asia to film the abominable snowman. His camera is taken by a band of thieves using the legend of the snowman to scare people into giving them gift to appease them. {{spoiler|And then the real deal come along and scares the band away.}}

* [[Born in the Theatre]]: In the short "Who's Cookin' Who?", at one point where Woody is deprived of food, he asks the audience if somebody could "please go up to the lobby and get me a candy bar?"

** Also, an example appeared earlier in ''The Screwdriver'', when Woody is quizzing the cop he is harassing:

** ''The Cracked Nut'' ended with Woody sitting in the theater in which his own cartoon is being watched, commenting on the action and annoying the people next to him ( "I like cartoons! Do you like cartoons?")

* [[Bragging Theme Tune]]: The opening song from his first solo cartoon, "Woody Woodpecker" AKA "The Cracked Nut". It appeared again in ''The Screwdriver'' and ''Hot Rod Huckster'', in both instances with the lyrics adapted to car-driving.

* [[Disney Death]]: Woody ''deliberately'' pulls this at the end of ''The Loan Stranger'' in order to get the Loan Shark who was harassing him throughout the short to tear up the loan out of sheer guilt: he placed a vase on his head before the loan shark punched him, and then pretended he had broken his skull.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In ''The Dizzy Acrobat'', a lion eats Woody's hot dog when Woody is looking away. Without a second thought, Woody gets back at him by putting the lion's tail into the hot dog buns, and tricks the lion to thinking that it's another hot dog—prompting the lion to ''bite his own tail off''.

* [[Dolled-Up Installment]]: ''Woody Woodpecker in Crazy Castle 5''...(sighs) Just scroll down to [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] and/or [[The Problem With Licensed Video Games]] on this page to figure out why.

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: The general from "Ace in the Hole".

* [[Humanlike Foot Anatomy]]

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In "Ace in the Hole", when the Drill Sergeant gets angry at Woody:

* [["I Am" Song]]: "Everybody Thinks I'm Crazy".

* [[I See London]]: In the featurette, "Janie Get Your Gun" (with Ms. Meany appearing here as Calamity Jane), near the end of it, when Woody is carrying a train attached to Calamity Jane's hat at the wedding reception, he falls into a hole and somehow even though the train isn't attached to her dress, the dress still gets pulled off. She's left in her pink bloomers/pantalets and is mortified.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: ''Slingshot 6 7/8''.

* [[Inevitable Waterfall]]: The subject of ''Niagara Fools''. Woody wants to go down the falls in a barrel. A officer tries to stop him, only to repeatedly end inside the barrel and take the trip numerous times.

** The most ridiculous extreme is when Woody drives ''a truck full of barrels'' to do this, and the officer calls his companions to stop him. When they arrive, Woody dumps the barrels on them, so we have 20-30 officers going down the falls.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Done between Woody and a rather shapely senorita in ''Hot Noon''.

* [[Iris Out]]: A Walter Lantz short from the Woody Woodpecker family ended with a shrinking iris ''decapitating'' the character. But it was Played For Laughs.

* [[Mad Doctor]]: In "The Cracked Nut", Woody, told he's crazy by his fellow [[Woodland Creatures]], goes to seek help...from a psychologist who's even more nuts than he is. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity]] (and much [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]]) [[Hilarity Ensues|Ensues]].

* [[Mad Hatter]]:

''[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|So are you]]!'' }}

* [[Massive Numbered Siblings]]: In "Born to Peck", Woody is shown to have seven older sisters, although their mother takes off with them before he's hatched.

* [[Roger Rabbit Effect]]: Done in some of the live action segments of ''The Woody Woodpecker Show''.

* [[Running Gag]]: Pulled in ''Niagara Fools'', in which the officer trying to stop Woody from going over keeps going over the falls himself by accident.

* [[Schmuck Bait]]: In ''Woody Dines Out'', Woody is lured into a taxidermist's shop under the impression that it's a place that serves food. (He saw the sign outside which read ''We Specialize in Stuffing Birds'' - he just didn't realize what ''kind'' of "stuffing" was done there.)

* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: One of the earliest popular characters to employ this trope, actually.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: Wally Walrus, Woody's later established rival.

* [["Take That!" Kiss]]: From ''Square Shootin' Square'' (in fact this is also seen in two later shorts, ''Box Car Bandit'' and ''Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale'' featuring the same characters):

'''Woody''': "I like you!" (smooch) }}

* [[Talking Animal]]

* [[They Killed Kenny|They Killed Buzz]]: "Wild and Woody" and "Buccaneer Woodpecker".

* [[This Is Sparta]]: Occurs near the end of the short "The Loan Stranger":

** See [[Berserk Button]] above for an early example of Woody doing this.

* 3DMovie: ''Hypnotic Hick''.

** This also happens with the earlier Lantz shorts that had Grace Lantz, Woody's third voice, add new dialogue to read signs.

* [[Wartime Cartoon]]: Many of the 40's cartoons have references to home front conditions or the wartime rationing of that time period. ''Ration Bored'' also parodies wartime rationing that was going on with the U.S. at the time period the short was made. The title is even a pun on the Ration Board. The end of the short also asks the audience to buy war bonds. A running gag in some of these shorts is the slogan "Is this trip really necessary?"

* [[White Gloves]]: Yellow in some of the 1940s shorts.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: ''The Woody Woodpecker Polka''. But that was not the first time he did it (''Chew-Chew Baby'') and wouldn't be the last (''Stage Hoax'', ''Real Gone Woody'', ''Tumble Weed Greed'').