I'm surprised that no one else has brought up how "The Woody Woodpecker Show" on MeTV began and ended this past Saturday morning. Here's the beginning of the version of the first cartoon that was shown:
(I think the slightly shortened version of the opening titles music was taken from "Convict Concerto".)
At least the Gracie Lantz narration was limited to that little bit at the beginning since Woody is asleep for most of "Sleep Happy". But it's heard throughout the last cartoon, "Born To Peck", which I don't think had any dialogue at all to begin with (not counting the "gibberish" by both of Woody's parents).
Also, here's the version of "The Flying Turtle" that aired on MeTV the previous Saturday:
Thankfully the Gracie Lantz narration was limited to the opening titles. And I suppose I could understand this happening with a one-shot cartoon that hasn't been released on DVD yet. But unaltered versions of "Sleep Happy" and "Born To Peck" (and all of the other Woody cartoons up through "Jittery Jester") were released on DVD, so I don't see how this happened. It's a good thing that I had already seen unaltered versions of those two cartoons (as well as "The Great Who-Dood-It" and "Under the Spreading Blacksmith Shop").
EDIT: Here's the opening of the cartoon that ended "The Woody Woodpecker Show" the previous Saturday morning:
I suppose I could understand Universal slapping their logo on the Lantz cartoons that were released by United Artists. But I don't see why they replaced the Universal-International logo with an earlier Universal logo, including replacing part of the soundtrack, which in this case was unique opening title music.
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