| Series Name | |
| Season 2, Episode 2 | |
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| Air date | October 16, 1944 |
| Written by | Ben Hardaway, Milt Schaffer |
| Directed by | Shamus Culhane (as James Culhane) |
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The Beach Nut is the 2nd episode of the Season 2 of The Woody Woodpecker Show, and the 11th episode in all. Originally released theatrically on October 16, 1944, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Title[]
The title is a play on "beech nut".
Plot[]
The film opens in medias res with vacationer Wally Walrus beating Woody Woodpecker into submission on a beach boardwalk. Wally explains to the gathered crowd what happened earlier to provoke his anger:
Wally decides to go to the beach to relax, but is constantly disturbed by surfer Woody. Returning to the present, Wally ties Woody to an anchor and hurls him into the ocean. The rope snags on the pier, demolishing first the pier and then the entire marina. The cartoon ends with Woody swimming away toward the horizon, pursued by Wally, and both of them pursued by the other beachgoers.
Characters[]
- Woody Woodpecker
- Wally Walrus (debut)
Wally Walrus[]
The Beach Nut marked the debut of Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, Wally Walrus. Voiced by actor Jack Mather, Wally became Woody's primary arch enemy until 1948, before being more or less replaced with Buzz Buzzard in Wet Blanket Policy.
Censorship[]
- It was cut the part that Woody steps on the face of the Wally Walrus, who, angry, throws the board away and then Woody (that part that plays the Woodpecker, Lantz did not even show in the USA).
- It was cut the part that Woody was surfing in the water and Wally Walrus prepared a lot of food, like fruit and pie (this part was exhibited in the US and in some countries).
- The part that Woody hummed, before the scene that the Woody trod on the face of the Wally Walrus from which Woody hummed "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean", was not exhibited in any country, except in Brazil (when was in the SBT and Rede Record) and United States.