Talk:Woody Woodpecker

Keep an eye on vandalism
I recently noticed that the article has been edited to say that Dal McKennon voiced Woody from 1950 to 1957, with Grace Stafford taking the role thereafter. This is false, Stafford did the voice in all the theatrical cartoons from 1950 on. Since this is a new account, I can’t correct this information, but I hope someone able to edit the page can. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pokeboy47 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Grace Stafford first voiced Woody Woodpecker in Destination Moon (1950) and did his laugh at the beginning of the 1950-1972 cartoons, but there is this person on Twitter named John Hardel, who posted clips of Woody's voice in the 1952-1957 cartoons pitched down, which say that Dallas McKennon provided the voice (McKennon's first voicework in a cartoon was The Great Who-Dood-It in 1952). Listening to most of the pitched-down clips, Woody's voice sounds more male than female, which is noticeable in cartoons such as Woodpecker from Mars (when he screams upon finding himself in space) and Niagara Fools. This seems to imply that McKennon filled in for Stafford during this time (you still hear Stafford's Woody laugh at the end of cartoons like Termites from Mars, Niagra Falls and To Catch a Woodpecker) before she was credited as Woody's voice in 1958, beginning with Misguided Missile.
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1728923381335273572 (Termites from Mars)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1728929811127759106 (Operation Sawdust)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1756482854811222512 (Alley to Bali)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1757234764975652986 (Under the Counter Spy)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1750295945676247203 (Real Gone Woody)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1756475769008673141 (A Fine Feathered Frenzy)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1750271593211691482 (Convict Concerto)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1756493215895539775 (Helter Shelter)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1756501622295810197 (Witch Crafty)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1747767274495160809 (Bedtime Bedlam)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1749972751832568268 (Square Shootin' Square)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1749989013677629666 (Bunco Busters)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1750265092837380563 (Woodpecker from Mars)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1751412837384114533 (Niagara Fools)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1747772631527395340 (Arts and Flowers)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1750163448158093548 (Woody Meets Davy Crewcut)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1736094478736281665 (Red Riding Hoodlum)
 * https://twitter.com/hardel_john/status/1750470886413434899 (To Catch a Woodpecker) Bladerunner09 (talk) 12:04, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * One Twitter user’s random tweets aren’t enough to indicate that a change in casting took place. Keep in mind, not crediting actors for cartoon roles was not uncommon at this point (a good example is Arthur Q. Bryan as Elmer Fudd), and Keith Scott’s voice acting book indicates that Stafford did indeed do the voice of Woody for all cartoons after the studio re-opened in 1950 Pokeboy47 (talk) 15:28, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Untitled
Woody Woodpecker is shown to be a ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) in the 1964 cartoon 'Dumb Like a Fox': https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PvA9DoUV8Ss&t=128s — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7E:F84:8100:F5AE:4B9D:A49D:366C (talk) 04:55, 1 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't this be the source for the species in the infobox? Otherwise, it will be unsourced and could be deleted... 46.132.75.217 (talk) 00:27, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Typo ‘Watler Lantz’ in box 2A01:599:917:3B58:E85C:6DF6:52F7:F8DF (talk) 18:58, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Music Video
There is a music video of Credence Clearwater Revival's song Bad Moon Rising that is composed entire of segments from some halloween themed Woody Woodpecker cartoon. I remember seeing this for certain in 1985-1986 early in the morning on WDBB in Tuscaloosa, AL (USA) and vaguely remember seeing it also at another station in West Virginia, which suggests that this was distributed. Today, I find absolutely so reference that this video ever existed. Certainly, I must not be the only one that is aware of this video existing. I'd like to check back here and see what people remember. timothylegg 76.10.81.17 (talk) 14:28, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Disputed
The correctness of the date of Lantz's marriage as 1941 (and the conclusion that the origin story is fictional) is in doubt. IMDB lists it at 1940, but the article claims it is 1941, probably based on Lantz's obituary in the LA Times as linked from davidbrady.com. Given that the text of the LA Times article is not even self-consistent (as noted), I sway towards 1940 but have no means to corroborate it. TheGoblin 15:07, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Every animation book I've ever read that mentions Lantz says "1941" The "1940" date given at imdb is likely an error. --FuriousFreddy 00:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

episode list
bouth for classic and the new are missingThe Tramp 22:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

DVD news
In a January 2007 radio interview on Time Travel with Dan Hollis and Jeff O'Boyle, animation historian Jerry Beck announced that he was working with Universal to prepare a 4-disc DVD set of Woody Woodpecker and other Walter Lantz cartoons. Although no official announcement from Universal has been issued yet, Beck states that the collection will include 75 cartoons, including Knock Knock, the first forty-five Woody Woodpecker cartoons (from 1941's Woody Woodpecker to 1952's Termites from Mars), the four cartoons Tex Avery directed for Lantz, several Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons, several Pooch the Pup cartoons, and several Swing Symphonies cartoons as well.

The apparition of the Woody Woodpecker at the Williams F1 car wasn't in 1999, but in 1998!

A Better Image
This image from Woody's look throughout the years would be perfect for the image up at the top of the screen. It displays his original 1940's look, his second 1940's look, and his 1951-1972 look. It serves a better purpose than the current image and isn't as violent. Woody is the only character on this site to have a picture with the character pointing a gun to the head at the top of the page. I vote for a change. Any naysayers? -- Magic-Man 08:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC)


 * You're probably not going to get a response from anybody but me on here, because Woody Woodpecker isn't exactly a high-traffic article. It's not a better image because it's not an image done by a Walter Lantz employee. It's someone else's rendition of Woody Woodpecker. Not only that, but it's not a finished piece - it's interim art; a sketch. For those purposes and others, it is something that we can't properly license for use on this site under fair use (and will eventually be deleted). As I said on your talk page (why didn't you reply back to me?), when I get the Woody Woodpecker DVD, I'll make a crisp screen capture of an opening title card, and replace the image (I'll also be replacing some of the images already here as well). As for showing Woody's various looks, that's what the sequence of images already in the article is for, because we can claim fair use for a handful of screenshots a lot easier than we can someone's sketch for a Woody maquette. --FuriousFreddy 23:56, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

What is Woody?
Which kind of woodpecker is Woody Woodpecker based?--4444hhhh (talk) 16:56, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The page says Pileated, but the color does not agree. Red-headed with Pileated's crest more likely. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 19:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * this says an acorn woodpecker.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.68.152.245 (talk) 21:54, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Bot report : Found duplicate references !
In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :) DumZiBoT (talk) 22:11, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
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 * Adamson, Joe (1985). Pg. 172-175
 * Adamson, Joe (1985). Pg. 185-186

Comics?
This article lacks any mention of Woody's comics career which according to at least this reference began not long after the animation.

On the one hand,

Except for a single 1946 story drawn by Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, not one of the hundreds of American comics featuring Woody was notable for outstanding quality.

On the other hand,

It was, however, in the comic books that a couple of supporting characters were introduced. In New Funnies #182 (1952), Woody rescues a pair of woodpecker boys named Nuthead and Splinter from a tiger. Over the next few months, Nuthead's name metamorphosed into Knothead, Splinter metamorphosed into a girl, and they were retconned into Woody's nephew and niece. As such, Knothead and Splinter later turned up in the cartoons.


 * The comics are a huge ommission. Over a hundred of them were produced. They were published by at least two companies that I know of: Dell and Gold Key.

honeymoon story questionable?
This article currently says the honeymoon woodpecker origin story is questionable, so I clicked the links. From what I can tell, all of the events seemed to occur in 1940, so that doesn't seem so extremely questionable, it's not like "5 years went by" or something. Anyway, I wanted to add that since at that time a woman's virtue was more important, it's quite possible that they said it was their honeymoon when perhaps they had shared a cabin on some previous occasion, i.e. the questionableness of the story doesn't mean that it's not essentially true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.68.152.245 (talk) 21:47, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Acorn Woodpecker call
"Also, their story that the bird's cry inspired Woody's trademark 'Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha!' is also questionable, as Mel Blanc had already used a similar laugh in earlier Warner Bros"... is questionable, but the call of the Acorn Woodpecker has a similar melody (but obviously less anthropomorphic). That bird can be found in southern California's Oak Woodlands.98.176.116.217 (talk) 07:42, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Here's a link to an Acorn Woodpecker call: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Acorn_Woodpecker/sounds —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.176.116.217 (talk) 07:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Voice Actors
Danny Webb (1941–1942)?? I can't find anywhere that confirms he ever lent his voice to the character.

Optimussolo (talk) 19:52, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Webb voiced Woody in Pantry Panic (1941) Controlrabbit (talk) 16:29, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

funny = NPOV
The phrase "Woody Woodpecker is funny" is an offense against Wikipedia's most important rule, the NPOV (no point of view). Correct would be "supposedly funny". 93.219.164.213 (talk) 10:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 May 2016
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Change "Sherwood Lake" to "Lake Sherwood".The linked article is correct. I was raised in the house Woody Woodpecker was conceived in. It is still standing at 2220 Thorsby Road, Lake Sherwood, CA.

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Summary needed
I think that the article is too long now and this detracts from comprehension. For instance in the "history" section, many technical details are given about the production, but the overall basic understanding is diluted. Possibly a solution that could work for both the general reader and afficionados of animation, would be to include a summary paragraph at the head of each section. - 86.40.29.139 (talk) 15:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * Woody Woodpecker title card.jpg

Woody Woodpecker (series) was redirected again
The character of Woody Woodpecker is not based, only in the series only in the series of short film is the series that was based and adapted with The Woody Woodpecker Show and The New Woody Woodpecker Show, Woody Woodpecker (2017 film), it does not stop redirecting my new page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fwamerson1302 (talk • contribs) 02:30, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * the main article covers the original material and serves as the launching point of the adaptations. The (series) page you keep creating does not add any value. Please stop adding this until you can get consensus that such a franchise article should be split. AngusWOOF  ( bark  •  sniff ) 02:56, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I re-edit the Woody Woodpecker short film series, but remember, the Woody Woodpecker character does not is that based with the series of TV and films, only the series of the short films of the Woody Woodpecker, he based the TV series and a movie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fwamerson1302 (talk • contribs) 06:47, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * It's what I always say, the characters of Woody Woodpecker, not that they base, only the series Woody Woodpecker (series). Fwamerson1302 (talk) 06:53, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * This doesn't make any sense. The television series that were created are based on the original short films characters. See the similar cartoon franchise Tom and Jerry (series) goes to Tom and Jerry. Also if you were planning on making a list of television series, then it should be something like List of Woody Woodpecker television series but I don't believe that's big enough to expand out of the article, and you would end up redirecting to Woody Woodpecker anyways as with the Scooby Doo (film series)  AngusWOOF  ( bark  •  sniff ) 19:03, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * There is no need to split it right now. Also, the mass WP:NFCC violations need to stop. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 18:58, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Use by NASA
In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, astronauts doing public outreach use apparently-authentic cartoons of Woody Woodpecker going to to the moon (and showing the audience cracking up at them). Does anyone know more about this? It seems noteworthy in this article. Jstuby (talk) 15:38, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Logotype is back
The Woody Woodpecker cartoon file. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.246.135.90 (talk) 11:17, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Legacy - Woodpeckers From Space
The 1985 Italo Disco track "Woodpeckers From Space (YouTube)" by VideoKids is also making extensive use of Woodys style of laughing. --89.183.70.215 (talk) 17:14, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Relations
It is revealed in the 2024 live action animation sequel 'Woody Woodpecker goes to camp' that woodpecker has a family relation by the name of "Woodthalemew Woodpeckerton" and is referred to as his "ancestor". This account is unable to make a change to the 'family' box section of the article and hopefully should be done by someone who is able too.

Reference: Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp(2024) [Time stamp: 87:30-87:50 mins] Botledge (talk) 13:18, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Releases for 3DO
These three CDs are no games but compilations of cartoons. 95.91.193.10 (talk) 20:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Mr Horsepower, Clay Smith Cams
reference to this? 120.18.194.7 (talk) 14:01, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Voiced by
1969 Dal McKennon Jbakst (talk) 12:39, 20 July 2024 (UTC)