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Welcome to Birdbrain Week at ReFrederator! Well, look, here we are in one of those late thirtyish animated communities, where the woodland folk are all chipper, making busy, and everything is so darn cute! Guess again. Two minutes into the film Woody Woodpecker shows up, in all his early goony-bird-design glory (buck teeth, cock-eyes and Little Lotta legs) and suddenly we’re in downtown 1940’s cartoonland, with two psycho protagonists trying to consume each other!

This is “Pantry Panic” (1941) directed by Walter Lantz himself . Of all the wisenheimer cartoon stars (Bugs Bunny, Screwy Squirrel, et al) Woody certainly seemed the most ravenous, and here, in one of his first films, he already has a murderous case of the munchies! Seems to me the little guy was usually obsessed with eating, and when he got really hungry, he wasn’t above reversing the food chain to get a decent meal! What do you think about the scene where our hero facesstarvation?

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Dave Kirwan