The May 31st broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" included a cartoon that I hadn't seen on Saturday Morning Cartoons before, "Lighthouse Keeping Blues". (Though I saw it in the syndicated "Woody Woodpecker and Friends" in the late 1980's.) But it may have been a "repeat" that I missed the original broadcast of for abovementioned reasons. Otherwise, it was all "repeats".

There's an episode of the British TV series The Goodies in which the Goodies have to take care of a lighthouse. It ends with the lighthouse taking off into outer space like a rocket. I wonder if they got the idea from "Lighthouse Keeping Blues"? It wouldn't be the only time that the Goodies used classic cartoons as a source for gags. In the famous "Kitten Kong" episode, in a scene in which all three Goodies are wearing mouse costumes, when a black maid sees them, she jumps up on a stool and yells "Thomas!".

Two cartoons from the 1940's, two from the 1950's, three from the 1960's. One directed by Shamus Culhane, one directed by Dick Lundy, one directed by Sid Marcus, three directed by Paul J. Smith, one with no director credit. Once again they showed four Woody Woodpecker cartoons (including a double dose of Gabby Gator) instead of the usual three. I wonder if this is going to become a regular thing?

EDIT: Every cartoon in the June 7th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". And this is the third time that MeTV has shown "Woody's Magic Touch", "Pigeon Holed" and "Adventures of Tom Thumb Jr.".

A whopping four cartoons from the 1940's, two from the 1950's, one from the 1970's. One directed by Burt Gillett, two directed by Dick Lundy, two directed by Alex Lovy (including one from his first directing stint at Lantz), only two directed by Paul J. Smith. And it was back to the usual three Woody Woodpecker cartoons instead of four.

EDIT #2: Every cartoon in the June 14th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". And this is the third time that MeTV has shown "Room and Wrath", "Scrambled Eggs" and "The Ostrich Egg and I".

When the little bird appears to have layed a huge egg (thanks to Peterkin) in "Scrambled Eggs", she says "Be quiet Willy". I wonder if this was a radio catchphrase? Or was it a reference to Willy Pogany?

One cartoon from the 1930's, two from the 1940's, three from the 1950's, only one from the 1960's. Two directed by Dick Lundy, three directed by Alex Lovy (including one from his first directing stint at Lantz), two directed by Paul J. Smith.

EDIT #3: MeTV managed to squeeze eight cartoons into the June 21st broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show", probably because they showed so many cartoons from the 1970's. Every cartoon was a "repeat". This is the third time that MeTV has shown "Chilly's Cold War", "Sh-h-h-h-h-h", "Astronut Woody" and "A Fishy Story". And I think that this is the fourth time that MeTV has shown "Flea For Two".

Three cartoons from the 1950's, one from the 1960's, a whopping four from the 1970's. One directed by Tex Avery, one directed by Don Patterson, a whopping six directed by Paul J. Smith. Two written by Michael Maltese. And they showed two Chilly Willy cartoons, probably because they showed eight cartoons instead of the usual seven.

EDIT #4: Every cartoon in the June 28th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". And this is the third time that MeTV has shown "Let Charlie Do It", "Nutty Pine Cabin" and "The Pied Piper of Basin Street".

Four cartoons from the 1940's, two from the 1960's, one from the 1970's. One co-directed by Emery Hawkins and Milt Schaffer, two directed by Shamus Culhane, one directed by Alex Lovy (during his first directing stint at Lantz), one directed (and written) by Jack Hannah, one directed by Sid Marcus, only one directed by Paul J. Smith.

Also, I got to watch all of Saturday Morning Cartoons because my sister had to work on a Saturday. A commercial for "The Woody Woodpecker Show" included a clip from "Andy Panda Goes Fishing". So MeTV has it (and probably "Life Begins For Andy Panda" and "100 Pygmies and Andy Panda" as well).They're just afraid to show it.

And I had never noticed that one of the "woodland friends" that "Sammy Squirrel" mentions at the beginning of "Screwball Squirrel" is Barney Bear.

EDIT #5: Every cartoon in the July 5th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". And this is the third time that MeTV has shown "Witty Kitty", "The Case of the Cold Storage Yegg" and "Three Lazy Mice".

I had never noticed that the character of "Bull" Dozer is in more than one cartoon, "Woodpecker in the Rough" and "Wrestling Wrecks", even though I've now watched both cartoons twice on MeTV. (As well as watching both cartoons on "Woody Woodpecker and Friends" on Tampa's WTOG 44 in 1979 and 1980.)

One cartoon from the 1930's, four from the 1950's, two from the 1960's. One directed by Don Patterson, one directed by Alex Lovy, one directed by Sid Marcus, three directed by Paul J. Smith, one with no director credit.

EDIT #6: The July 12th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" included a cartoon that I hadn't seen before, "St. Moritz Blitz". (And it definitely had NOT been restored.) Otherwise, all 'repeats". And this is the third time that MeTV has shown "The Unhandy Man", "Coo Coo Nuts" and "The Flying Turtle" (which was still the version with Gracie Lantz talking over the opening titles).

Once again MeTV managed to squeeze in eight cartoons instead of the usual seven, probably because they showed so many cartoons from the 1970's. Two cartoons from the 1950's, one from the 1960's, and a whopping five from the 1970's. And EVERY cartoon was directed by Paul J. Smith. Two Chilly Willy cartoons and two Beary Family cartoons.

Also, I got to watch all of Saturday Morning Cartoons because my sister had to work. "Bugs Bunny and Friends" included a cartoon that I hadn't seen before, "Chimp & Zee". But it was pretty awful. Even Mel Blanc couldn't save it. Alex Lovy directed much better cartoons for Walter Lantz.

EDIT #7: The July 19th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" included a cartoon that I hadn't seen on MeTV, "Tragic Magic". But I've seen it in the past, I think as part of the syndicated "Woody Woodpecker and Friends" in the late 1980's. I definitely remember the "Wonderland Syndrome" when Woody is in the fishbowl. Otherwise, all "repeats". And this is the third time that MeTV has shown "Kiddie Koncert" and the FOURTH time that MeTV has shown "Kittens Mittens".

I had never noticed before that the wolf in "Fair Weather Fiends" has the same voice as "Devil Andy" in "Apple Andy", whoever that was, or that there's another character named Gooney in Walter Lantz cartoons.

Three cartoons from the 1940's, two from the 1950's, two from the 1960's. One directed by Shamus Culhane, one directed by Dick Lundy, one directed by Alex Lovy (during his first directing stint at Lantz), one co-directed (and co-written) by Grant Simmons and Ray Patterson, one directed by Jack Hannah, only two directed by Paul J. Smith.

EDIT #8: Every cartoon in the July 26th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". And this is at least the third time that MeTV has shown "Mousie Come Home" and "Candyland".

In all the times that I've watched "Half Baked Alaska", I never noticed until now that Daws Butler used his "Ralph Kramden" voice for the hot-tempered customer who's so mean to Smedley.

One cartoon from the 1930's, one from the 1940's, one from the 1950's, four from the 1960's. One directed by Shamus Culhane, one directed by Jack Hannah, two directed by Sid Marcus, one directed by Paul J. Smith, two with no director credit.

EDIT #9: Every cartoon in the August 2nd broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". This is the third time that MeTV has shown "Corny Concerto" and "Moochin' Pooch". And this is the FOURTH time that MeTV has shown "The Loan Stranger".

It was interesting that a "Quick Clip" from "Dig That Dog" was shown right after "Moochin' Pooch". Even though a Great Dane named Cuddles is in both cartoons, I don't think that they're the same dog. The Cuddles in "Dig That Dog" is always affectionate, whereas the Cuddles in "Moochin' Pooch" can be quite vicious, especially if he doesn't get his way. (Sounds like my sister.)

Three cartoons from the 1940's, three from the 1960's, one from the 1970's. Two directed by Dick Lundy, one directed by Alex Lovy (during his first directing stint at Lantz), one directed by Jack Hannah, three directed by Paul J. Smith.

Also, I got to watch all of Saturday Morning Cartoons because my sister was out of town. Naturally, I get a rare chance to watch Popeye, and they show two of the three cartoons with Shorty. I was surprised that they showed "Happy Birthdaze", and even more surprised that it was shown uncensored. I can remember the ending being cut off by a local Atlanta TV station back in 1984. (Miami's WCIX showed it uncensored in the late 1970's, even though they usually only showed the color Popeye cartoons.) But "Now I've seen everything!" in "Horton Hatches the Egg" later that morning was censored. "Penny Antics" and "The Little Orphan" were also censored.

I hadn't seen any of the 1940's cartoons that were shown during "Bugs Bunny and Friends" on August 2nd since they had been restored. I definitely had never seen "Baby Bottleneck" with its original titles. It looks like the mother pig is about to say something to the baby alligator in "Baby Bottleneck", but then it abruptly cuts to the next scene. I wonder if that was "Don't touch that dial!". I didn't think that that made it into the finished cartoon. And I don't remember Horton the elephant being pink. The aap print that I used to watch on WTBS and TNT must have been really faded.

EDIT #10: Every cartoon in the August 9th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". And I think that this is the FOURTH time that MeTV has shown the first "Maw and Paw" cartoon.

Two cartoons from the 1940's, four from the 1950's, one from the 1960's. One directed by Shamus Culhane, one directed by Dick Lundy, one directed by Don Patterson, one directed by Alex Lovy, three directed by Paul J. Smith.

Also, I got to watch all of Saturday Morning Cartoons because my sister was out of town (again). I don't think that I had ever seen "Goldimouse and the Three Cats" before. I had always assumed that Sylvester's son was McKimson's character exclusively. But there he was in a cartoon directed by Freleng, right down to being so ashamed of his father that he puts a paper bag over his head.

I also hadn't seen "The Mouse-Merized Cat" in a long time. I'm surprised that MeTV showed it uncensored. (Though "A Jolly Good Furlough" earlier that morning was censored, though not as much as it was the first time that it was shown on Saturday Morning Cartoons.) And it looks like they tried to slip in a reference to (Kraft) Philadelphia Cream Cheese at the end, by not showing all of the package.

That certainly sounded like Tex Avery voicing the hippo in "Hold the Lion, Please", with Tex's distinctive laugh. But Tex would have been at MGM when this cartoon was released. I wonder how far in advance the dialogue in this cartoon was recorded?

And it was interesting that a "Quick Clip" from "Barbecue Brawl" was shown right after "Pup on a Picnic" during "The Tom and Jerry Show", since both cartoons have a similar plot.

"Toon In With Me" on Friday, August 29th:

"Happy Birthday Speedy!": "Bill and Toony celebrate the debut of Speedy Gonzales."

The August 16th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" included a cartoon that I hadn't seen before, "Hook, Line and Stinker". (But it was nothing to write home about.) I also hadn't seen "Operation Cold Feet" on MeTV before. But I definitely saw it in the past, probably as part of the syndicated "Woody Woodpecker and Friends" from the late 1980's. I remember the running gag with the polar bear. Otherwise, all "repeats". And I think that this is at least the third time that MeTV has shown "Plumber of Seville" and "Jungle Medics".

"Operation Cold Feet" was either storyboarded by Tex, or Homer Brightman must have really liked "Room and Wrath". Smedley ends a sentence with "man". The "Do that trick again." "One more time boy" bit was recycled. And both cartoons end with Smedley actually getting the best of Chilly.

One cartoon from the 1940's, three from the 1950's, three from the 1960's. One directed by Shamus Culhane, one directed by Don Patterson, two directed by Alex Lovy, two directed by Paul J. Smith, one with no director credit. (But I wouldn't be surprised if "Jungle Medics" was directed by Paul J. Smith, because it isn't very good.)

Once again, I got to watch all of Saturday Morning Cartoons because my sister was out of town again, this time taking my oldest nephew to the University of Florida to start college. I hadn't seen a restored version of "Service With A Guile" before. But I can't believe that there was a disclaimer before it, I assume because the admiral is completely black when he gets spit out of the exhaust pipe of his car. But the admiral doesn't have huge lips. He doesn't say "Mammy!" or "Now I can work for Mr. Benny!". And he doesn't eat watermelon or play with dice. He's just covered with soot. And not surprisingly, "Cartoons Ain't Human" was censored.

This was the first time that I had seen "The Shooting of Dan McGoo" since finding out from Jerry Beck's original titles page that a scene was reanimated to remove a wartime reference to cigarette rationing. I think that it would have been easier (and cheaper) to just edit out that scene, like they did with "The Yankee Doodle Mouse".

I hadn't seen most of the cartoons in "Bugs Bunny and Friends" in a long time. I hadn't noticed before that "The Old Grey Hare" has "PRODUCED BY WARNER BROS CARTOONS INC" titles. So at least four cartoons had them: "The Old Grey Hare", "Plane Daffy", "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" (The Blue Ribbon Print still has the original end title.) and "The Stupid Cupid" (It's on the lobby card.). And it was nice to see the original ending restored, after years of being a "Dubbed Version".

""Mouse Menace" was definitely censored. I remember a scene with the mouse playing with some kind of toy. He won't let the cat play with it, so the cat starts crying like Stan Laurel. The mouse finally lets the cat play with the toy. While he's playing with it, the cat starts turning red...because the mouse is blasting him with a blowtorch. I'm guessing that the toy was offensive in some way?

When I watched "Helter Shelter" for the first time in years on "The Woody Woodpecker Show", I noticed similarities with "Hare Force". So I assumed that "Hare Force" was also written by Michael Maltese. But it turned out to have been written by Tedd Pierce.

I guess that I hadn't seen "Bugs' Bonnets" in a long time, because I hadn't noticed "Sergeant Monahan", which I'm assuming was a reference to Dave Monahan. But I don't think that he was still at Termite Terrace in the 1950's.

Since one of the cartoons was "Dog Pounded", there was a double dose of Pepe Le Pew. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that there was talk of banning his cartoons from TV. ("Popeye cartoons and Pepe Le Pew cartoons mine humor out of attempted rape."-from an issue of Animato! magazine, probably not an exact quote)

After being out of town for three Saturdays in a row, my sister came over here on August 23rd. Early. (And she was being awful, as usual.) So I didn't even get to watch "The Woody Woodpecker Show" that day. So you all get spared from my "color commentary" for a week.

"Toon In With Me" on Thursday, September 4th:

"1000th Episode": "Yep, it's our 1000th episode! Quizzer takes Bill on a stroll down memory lane. Plus, five cartoon premieres!"

The August 30th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" included a cartoon that I hadn't seen before, "Home Sweet Homewrecker", and a cartoon that I hadn't seen since "Woody Woodpecker and Friends" on Tampa's WTOG 44 in 1979 or 1980, "Woody's Clip Joint". (But I did NOT like seeing Woody get his head shaved at the end, then or now, probably because I got ridiculed at school after I got my hair cut. One day in junior high school, when I got off the school bus the day after I got my hair cut, someone yelled "Goddamn! Look at that boy!". I also was called "buzzchild", and I was told that I looked like a Vietnamese prisoner of war. Is it any wonder that I was known as "the kid that hates haircuts"?) Otherwise all "repeats". And this is at least the third time that MeTV has shown "A Horse's Tale" and "Knock Knock".

"Home Sweet Homewrecker" reminded me of the Laurel and Hardy short "Them Thar Hills" and its sequel "Tit For Tat", with the battling between the characters escalating to all-out war, with increasingly more destructive acts. And whoever did the "vocal effects" for Buck Beaver (I'm guessing Daws Butler) seemed to be trying to do his own version of the famous Don Messick wheezy snicker.

In all the times that I've seen "A Horse's Tale" over the years, I never noticed until the most recent viewing that Sugarfoot and his owner went to the drive-in theater in the new tractor.

One cartoon from the 1940's, three from the 1950's, three from the 1960's. One directed by Alex Lovy, one directed by Jack Hannah, one directed by Sid Marcus, three directed by Paul J. Smith, one with no director credit.

(Now I'm wondering if the August 23rd broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show", which I didn't get to see, thanks to my sister, also included a cartoon that I hadn't seen before and a cartoon that I hadn't seen in a long time, like the August 16th broadcast and the August 30th broadcast.)

EDIT: Every cartoon in the September 6th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". And this is the third time that MeTV has shown "Paw's Night Out", "The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured" and "The Hollywood Matador".

A whopping five cartoons from the 1940's, one from the 1950's, one from the 1960's. Two directed by Shamus Culhane, one directed by Dick Lundy, one directed by Jack Hannah, one directed by Paul J. Smith, two with no director credit. And Wally Walrus was in two of the cartoons, but neither one was a Woody Woodpecker cartoon.

EDIT #2: Every cartoon in the September 13th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" was a "repeat". And this is the third time that MeTV has shown "Dig That Dog", "The Coo Coo Bird", "Mouse Trappers" and "Three Ring Fling".

I had forgotten that the con artist who sells Woody the magic beans in "Woody the Giant Killer" is named Buck Beaver. Obviously not the same Buck Beaver who's in "Home Sweet Homewrecker".

A whopping four cartoons from the 1940's, three from the 1950's. Three directed by Dick Lundy, one directed by Tex Avery, one co-directed (and co-written) by Grant Simmons and Ray Patterson, one directed by Alex Lovy, one with no director credit.

So anyone know what the cartoons were for the 1,000th episode?

Off the top of my head, "Hiss and Make Up" (1943) was one of them. The rest may be on the Wikipedia episode guide.

Hiss and Make Up (1943)

House Tricks? (1946)

Two Little Indians (1953)

Boyhood Daze (1957)

Polar Pests (1958)

After making it's debut on MeTV Toons on Nov 2, the Terrytoons library will now be showcased on Toon In With Me starting Monday, Nov 10th
It will be the first MeTV Toons "exclusive" library to be added to the program
(Harveytoons and UPA shorts were not added to TIWM)

In a promo for the upcoming Toon In With Me episode featuring the Terrytoons, some of the cartoons I noticed were "Prehistoric Perils" (1952), "Plumber's Helpers" (1953), and surprisingly, the 1967 Paramount short "Mouse Trek"! And by the looks of it, It could be a brand new restoration.