# Woody Woodpecker cartoons on tv **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845 "2004-09-02T22:09:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Manasaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Manasaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manasaurus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/1 "2004-09-02T22:09:42Z")
Do they show Woody Woodpecker cartoons on network tv, or on cable/satellite tv on Cartoon Network or Boomerang!? I’m a bit nostalgic-please let me know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sulamith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sulamith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulamith)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/2 "2004-09-03T00:20:15Z")
I have never seen them, and I have always wondered why. One of my earliest memories of anything having to do with TV is a Woody Woodpecker cartoon and that crazy laugh of his. Ol’ WWP must have been pretty popular at one time because there are pictures of me with a WWP bib and cereal bowl. Why is there no Woody Woodpecker on Cartoon Network? I mean seriously… I would think, not one, but two penis euphemisms in one vintage cartoon character’s name would be considered golden. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/3 "2004-09-03T00:44:04Z")
Awhile back a local TV station was showing them as afternoon kiddie fare; but now that I think of it, I haven’t seen W.W. anywhere in years. Did someone pull the plug on the syndication rights? ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/4 "2004-09-03T00:48:56Z")
I work for a cable company, and about six years ago a rep from Cartoon Network visited us. I asked her the same question…and she had no answer. She acted as though it had never come up before. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/5 "2004-09-03T02:58:36Z")
Obviously a conspiracy. Space aliens? Republicans? Bill Clinton? ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/6 "2004-09-03T03:43:17Z")
[This site](http://www.cartoonresearch.com/lantz.html) confirms that the Lantz characters are out of circulation, but doesn’t say why. Woody and the rest are owned by Universal today and Woody does have [his own site](http://www.woodywoodpecker.com) but it appears to be out of date (what little there is of it). ---
**Author:** ![Manasaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Manasaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manasaurus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/7 "2004-09-03T04:05:46Z")
Well, Woody Woodpecker cartoons were popular and on TV in the '80s and early 90’s. There was a New Woody Woodpecker show on Fox in the late '90’s, which featured some old Ww cartoons mixed with new ones. I was told a while ago taht they were showing ww cartoons on the Tex Avery show. They don’t show WW cartoons on CArtoon Network? What about Boomerang? ---
**Author:** ![Manasaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Manasaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manasaurus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/8 "2004-09-03T04:27:47Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > [This site](http://www.cartoonresearch.com/lantz.html) confirms that the Lantz characters are out of circulation, but doesn’t say why. Woody and the rest are owned by Universal today and Woody does have [his own site](http://www.woodywoodpecker.com) but it appears to be out of date (what little there is of it). I’ve went to that first site, but I see no indication that the characters are out of circulation. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/9 "2004-09-03T06:26:44Z")
Have you noticed how hard it is today to see _any_ old cartoons on TV? Disney has two cartoon channels, and I can’t find their stuff from the 1930s-1950s anywhere on them. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/10 "2004-09-03T14:04:38Z")
> [@Manasaurus](#): > > I’ve went to that first site, but I see no indication that the characters are out of circulation. _“The original Walter Lantz cartoons have been off U.S. television for years - and their presence on home video is practically non-existent.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/11 "2004-09-03T14:13:55Z")
> [@sulamith](#): > > Why is there no Woody Woodpecker on Cartoon Network? I mean seriously… I would think, not one, but two penis euphemisms in one vintage cartoon character’s name would be considered golden. > > 😛 You’ve just ruined the woodpecker for me now! I hadn’t even thought of that till I read this thread! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-cartoons-on-tv/262845/12 "2004-09-03T14:16:38Z")
I guess that explains the laugh…