Southern Fried Hospitality

This is an exceedingly strong late Woody Woodpecker, directed by Jack Hannah -- producer Walter Lantz had a habit of picking up talent on the run from other cartoon factories, and Disney was out of regular short cartoon production by this time. With a well-timed series of gags, good, simplified animation style and choice of bright colors, this shows what could still be done with a decent script and good talent.The story is fairly simple: Gabby Gator, voiced in Kentucky Colonel mode by Daws Butler, is starving. He comes upon a recipe for southern-fried woodpecker and writes Woody a fan letter. Woody shows up to perform an act and about the three-quarter mark, realizes what is going on, and proceeds to take his revenge.Although nowhere near the inspired insanity of the 1940s Woody Woodpecker cartoons, this is a good entry for the series at this stage.