Were these Woody Woodpecker scenes edited?

[Brandon Pierce]

In Screwdriver there's a scene where Woody's deguised as a China boy to hide from the police officer.

I forgot the title of this cartoon (it's the 1 where Woody pretends to be a baby so he can live with Wally Walrus, a millionaire). At the start, Woody says he has no home, friends, or money. And Woody takes a gun out to shoot himself.

Were these scenes ever edited? I checked the Censored Misc. Guide and these episodes aren't listed.

[Matt Yorston]

Here, in Canada, there was a station named YTV which used to broadcast Woody Woodpecker regularly. When they showed "The Screwdriver", the Chinaman scene was indeed left in. For some reason, "Wacky Bye Baby" (that's the title of the cartoon you forgot the title to) never surfaced on YTV's broadcasts (at least whenever I saw it) so I can't comment on that one.

The edits of YTV's Woody Woodpecker were rather hit-and-miss. They left in the scene with the Indian in "The Barber of Seville" for example but the reason for Woody's entering the barber shop in the first place (to get a patriotic, WW-II style "Victory Haircut") was removed outright. They also edited out some of Buzz Buzzard's dialogue directed as us, the viewers, during the opening theme song of "Wet Blanket Policy". They also removed the reference to "opium smoking" (it's one of the things forbade in Wally Walrus' list of rules) in "Bathing Buddies".

[Larry T]

Here's some more:

When "Wacky-Bye Baby" aired on "Woody Woodpecker and Friends" (the one that featured the new animation titles sometime in 1989), the "if I had a gun I'd shoot myself" scene WAS edited.

On YTV's airings (and you're right Matt, their edits were really hit-and-miss.....why they would air "1000 Pygmies and Andy Panda" totally unedited but censor out the "Victory Haircut" from "Barber of Seville was beyond me) there were more weird edits. In "Reckless Driver" the scene where Woody spits the soup out at the policeman was removed ("Roses are red, violets are blue, this test stinks, and so do you"). In "Operation Sawdust" they removed the scene where Buzz comes out of the cabin and the roving saw blade flies past ( and I still don't know what really happened here, even my 16mm print of it is cut here too!?!). Plus they edited the scene from "Jukebox Jambouree" when the mouse falls into the martini and comes out drunk (which loses the explanation why the whole cartoon takes place first off). In addition, we never see what Woody is supposed not to do in "Bathing Buddies" (No roller skating, No horseback riding, No opium smoking.....).

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by Larry T
In "Operation Sawdust" they removed the scene where Buzz comes out of the cabin and the roving saw blade flies past ( and I still don't know what really happened here, even my 16mm print of it is cut here too!?!)



I saw it uncut long ago. Buzz gets sawed in half, right down the middle, and both halves fall over.

[Pietro]

Didn't they edit Woody's line "You can't do that to me, where the hell do ya get that stuff"
in "Woody Woodpecker" on that Woody video collection released in the early 90's?

-Pietro

[Matt Yorston]

You must be referring to the scene from "Woody Woodpecker (a/k/a/ The Cracked Nut)" (1941) in which, after the bird lays an egg on Woody's head (as per his apparent instructions), Woody removes the egg and utters various threats to the bird such as, "You can't do that to me." However, each time I saw that cartoon, I never heard "Where the *hell* do you get that stuff?". It's always just "Where do you get that stuff?" However, there also appeared to be a slight jump in the soundtrack so maybe it *was* edited each time.

I know I was surprised when I read at this board that there was a mention of the word "hell" in an Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog cartoon....

[Pietro]

In the Flip the Frog cartoon ("The Milkman") Flip's horse says "hell."
There are also a few times when Flip utters the word damn.
In a rare Van Beuren cartoon, "Goofy Goat Antics" a female hippo utters damn also.

-Pietro