Pantry Panic

This short, also available on a great many public domain tapes under the alternate title of Pantry Panic, is proof that the difference between predator and prey is a matter of who is the hungriest. Entertaining but unexceptional. Fairly easy to find. Worth watching. Recommended if you like Woody.

Incredibly fun and well done. Walter Lantz delivers incredible comedy and a really darkly toned short with Woody Woodpecker. This is incredibly fun, and the humor landed with me.

Despite the warning, Woody doesn't fly south after hearing winter is coming. He becomes more and more hungry but an opportunity for a meal comes along. Unfortunately, that meal is a cat and it´s also looking for food.

I really loved the humor here and that is the highlight of this short. The text and fourth wall break really land and the jokes are good between the cat and Woody. The dark humor is also good. It´s a dark comedy where Woody is portrait as evil as the cat that is trying to eat him. It even had a dark twist I did not see coming.

The voice acting is so good. Woody and the cat is voiced so well and they land their lines so well making jokes work.

The animation is also good. The expressions of characters look dark and demented and it works well for the plot. The house and transformation from autumn to winter is also really good. The character design also really looks great here.

I loved this short, while not doing anything that unique it feels like a comedy short, I could watch again and again. The humor is good and lands, the concept is dark and fun, the animation is good, what´s not to like?

This early Woody Woodpecker cartoon is a lot more vicious than the later ones--which is exactly why I liked it! Additionally, it gives you a chance to see how different the early Woody drawings were compared to the more familiar later ones.

When the cartoon begins, the weather prognosticating groundhog tells everyone to migrate south because a bad winter is coming. All the birds take off except for cocky Woody who announces he has plenty of food and he's staying. Well, the storm arrives in cartoon fashion--quickly and taking Woody's food! Now, after a month of nothing to eat, a cat knocks on the door. The cat intends to eat Woody--and Woody intends to eat the cat. The cartoon is full of cartoony violence and is pretty funny--and edgy to see such a beloved character behaving rather viciously. Well done and about as good as any of the cartoons coming from Warner Brothers at that time.

I saw some Woody Woodpecker cartoons when I was really young, but never took to them like I did the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons. Now that I've seen "Pantry Panic" and am old enough to offer an analysis, I'll say that what it portrays doesn't look far off. Yes, it was probably intended as nothing more than a silly cartoon, as Woody and an unidentified cat try to devour each other. But the idea of being all cooped up during the winter? "The Shining" portrayed that (just imagine Woody doing what Jack Nicholson did). And because of the declining precipitation in the southwestern US, not only will there likely be water wars, but maybe food wars.

But that's merely my interpretation. It's a pretty funny cartoon. Not clever in the sense of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies genre, but worth seeing.

I never knew that Mel Blanc also did Woody's voice. And is it just me, or does the name "Woody Woodpecker" sound a little pornographic?

When the groundhog predicted an extremely bad winter, all the other birds migrated south. A cocky Woody Woodpecker chose to stay behind as he thought he is snug and safe with plenty of food.

Pantry Panic sees Woody Woodpecker starving after a spell of bad weather leaves him hungry and dispirited.

An icy tornado took his food away and he is now staring starvation in the face.

A hungry cat knocking on the door could be just the feline fricassee he badly needs.

This clever and entertaining cartoon shows Woody and the cat fighting as to who can get their prey into the banquet table first. I felt sorry for the moose.