The Coo Coo Bird

The Coo Coo Bird
Woody Woodpecker series
Directed by	Dick Lundy
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Story by	Ben Hardaway Milt Schaffer
Voices by	Ben Hardaway
Music by	Darrell Calker
Animation by	Hal Mason Sidney Pillet LaVerne Harding Grim Natwick Les Kline Stanley C. Onaitis
Backgrounds by	Fred Brunish
Studio	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	June 9, 1947
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6' 46"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Smoked Hams
Followed by	Well Oiled

The Coo Coo Bird is the 22nd animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on June 9, 1947, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Plot

Woody decides to go to bed early so he can get a head start on quail season the next morning. However, circumstances conspire to keep him awake: first a bright flashing sign on a nearby building, then a loudly ticking cuckoo clock, and finally an insubordinate folding table that he tries (and fails) to use as a bed after inadvertently destroying his own. Acting like a bucking bronco, the table eventually throws him out the window and into a bush; three quails, in turn, toss him out into the open, where he literally gets mixed up with a hunter's dogs.

References

• Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1947". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.