Woody Woodpecker: Difference between revisions

** With few exceptions such as his girlfriend Winnie Woopdecker this seems to work against his favor with other female animals though, with them becoming [[Abhorrent Admirer|Abhorrent Admirers]]. Gorgeous Gal of "A Fine Feathered Frenzy" had a lovely voice but was an overweight and elderly dowager crow. When Gorgeous met Woody Woodpecker she batted her eyelashes, gave him a giant wink and clicked her heels in excitement. Then she rushed to hug, kiss and marry him right away even though he was not interested. She even offered to bathe with him! Woody also caught the fancy of a gigantic female pink octopus in "Alley To Bali" who kissed him on the cheek twice.

* [[Chronically Crashed Car]]: Woody's beat-up old car, presumably a [http://geocitiessites.com/MotorCity/Garage/7896/313car2.jpg scaled down 313 type car], was very unstable in its early appearances.

** Also a [[Running Gag]] in "International Woodpecker".

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Woody veered between being this and a [[Screwy Squirrel]] in the earliest shorts.

* [[Comes Great Insanity]]: If you value your life, do '''not''', under any circumstances, give Woody the position of a barber. He will go completely nuts with the position.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: In the end of the short ''Ace in the Hole'' after Woody ejects himself and the Sergeant who is chasing him a plane, all but completely crippling the Sarge of the military airport that employed Woody at the time from the fall, he is forced to tediously shave all of the hair off a very, ''very'' long line of horses, one by one, under the threat of a shotgun aimed at him.

** [[June Foray]] has also done voice work in some of the older Woody Woodpecker cartoons.

* [[Death Glare]]: Used by Evil Woody [http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/2008/03/woody-mistery.html in this] [http://bp1.blogger.com/_iugexeWqLbs/R9_73eBP92I/AAAAAAAAEa4/GqaLhgArua0/s1600-h/4C169_39.jpg comic] to get gang members under his control.

* [[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''.

{{quote| '''Lion''': ''[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|What do you know? Just call me stubby!]]''}}

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

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: An elderly Woody attempts this in the climax of "Born to Peck" only for [[No Fourth Wall|the animator]] to step in and save the day.

* [[Evil vs. Evil]]: Woody VS. the Cat in "Pantry Panic", and Woody VS. The Wolf in "Who's Cookin Who" and "Fair Weather Fiends".

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Very rare for this series, but it has happened. For example, the ending of the short "Knock Knock" was edited out of the cartoons early TV airing due to showing the asylum staff whom were trying to catch Woody turn out to be just as crazy as Woody himself. This ending was a shameless ripoff of the ending of WB's 1938 cartoon ''[[Daffy Duck and Egghead (Animation)|Daffy Duck and Egghead]]''.

* [[Eye Scream]]: The beginning of "The Screwball", where a policeman uses his nightstick to poke the eyes of people outside the ball park through holes on the fence.

* [[Faking the Dead]]: See [[Disney Death]] earlier.

* [[Jerkass]]: Pre-[[Flanderization]] Woody, especially in the Culhane-directed shorts. Also, Ms. Meany.

* [[Just for Pun]]: Every single title of each short used this trope.

** By the late 1960s this trope became more and more averted. His last cartoon ever, ''Bye Bye Blackboard'', ended with Woody being spanked.

* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: Andy Panda, the very character that Woody upstaged in popularity, and (the later, redesigned) Oswald the Rabbit make brief cameos in the short ''The Woody Woodpecker Polka''. In fact, it was Oswald's very last cartoon appearance.

** Also, Woody himself made a speaking cameo along with many other Golden Age cartoon characters in the ending of the film [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]].

* [[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.

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: This and [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum]] are combined in [http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/2008/03/woody-mistery.html this Woody Woodpecker comic] in the moment Woody turns evil:

** "But there's no reason a brainy man can't make a success out of it [crime]! After all, it's a simple formula—[[You Fail Physics Forever|the thermodynamics]] [[TV Genius|of the psychognosis verticillated]] [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum|by the metaplasm proves my point!"]]

* [[Sitting Sexy On a Piano]]: The Mexican girl from the opening of ''Hot Noon''.

* [[Smooch of Victory]]: Woody gets one at the end of ''Hot Noon'' and ''Socko in Morocco''.

* [[Stock Footage]]: Footage from the short ''Wild and Woody'' was later recycled for the later short ''Puny Express'', as well as three more future shorts.

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

{{quote| '''Dooley''': "I hate you!"<br />

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

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Due to Fox Kids Policies, Woody was not allowed to peck people on the head. However, they ''did'' manage to sneak in Woody pecking someones head once in a blue moon.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: There was a Cartoon Network trailer for ''The New Woody Woodpecker Show'' which consisted entirely of classic Woody Woodpecker cartoon clips, and thought that CN was going to put more classic toons on, a reverse of the trend which had seen classics dwindled to just [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]. Instead, it turned out to be a modern revival of Woody.

* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]

* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Aside from wearing a skirt and having her hair (feathers) bent forward, Winnie is almost indistinguishable from Woody.

* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: ''He Wouldn't Woody''.

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