Poll: Favorite Woody Woodpecker decades

[Tintin]

Vote for your favorite Woody Woodpecker decades!

[Thad Komorowski]

I've always loved his 1940s cartunes, his best from that period (IMO) were"Barber of Seville", "Ski for Two", "Who's Cookin' Who?", "Smoked Hams", and "Drooler's Delight". He was in some swell cartunes in the early 50s as well, including "The Woody Woodpecker Polka", "Termites from Mars", and "What's Sweepin'?" So I'd have to say the 1940-1954 period was my favorite.

-Thad:D

[Tintin]

I think was the 1948-1949 and today's Woody was very similar.

My favorite are 60-70's years

[Pietro]

This is TOO easy, the 40s is the all-time best decade for Woody cartunes. I've always liked the early Woody, probably because he acted like Daffy Duck. If this poll was just about Lantz cartunes in general, my favorite period would be the 1929-1934 period. I'm just as nuts over the early Oswalds as I am with the early Woodys.

-Pietro:D

[Jack]

The 40s and early-mid 50s, of course (anyone here notice a pattern with me?). Those cartoons are great! Like the Barber of Seville, The Beach Nut, Woody Dines Out, The Screwdriver, or Convict Concerto!



Jack:D

[Matt Yorston]

As a big Woody fan, I too would have to go with the 1940's-early 1950's period of "cartunes". I mean, some of those are simply classic. Listen to him recite opera in "Barber of Seville" (1944) while trying to shave a scared-silly customer. Look at him deal with martin termites bent on destroying his only home in "Termites From Mars" (1952) which many consider one of the best Woody cartoons over. All of his classic tussles with Wally Walrus came from this period (among the best: "The Beach Nut", "Chew Chew Baby", "Smoked Hams", "Banquet Busters", "Sleep Happy", "What's Sweepin'?"). I can't say too much about this era.

[Geezil]

The 1940s for me, thanks! Yes, there were some isolated flashes of the Lantz studio's former magic through the early 1950s, but IMHO, it never recovered from the loss of Dick Lundy as director (who took Andy Panda with him for all time) and Darrell Calker as music director (whose wild jazz touch really gave those early Woody and Andy shorts their lasting energy)!!

(P.S.: I've yet to see any of the folks here mention "Peterkin," possibly the most sadly cast aside of all the Lantz 1940s one-shots. If anyone's petitioning to have this one included on a future Lantz DVD, count me in!!!)

[Jack]

I've never heard of "Peterkin." What's it about, and is it available anywhere?


Jack:D

[Matt Yorston]

IIRC, Peterkin appeared only in the Lantz cartoon, "Scrambled Eggs" (1939). Peterkin, BTW, is an impish child who loves playing practical jokes. He swaps the eggs of various birds in the cartoon but when all the birds leave, the eggs hatch and Peterkin now has to look after all the children!