Pantry Panic

Pantry Panic (1941)

Woody's friends warn him that the groundhog has predicted a blizzard. Unconcerned, Woody decides not to go South with his pals. Soon enough, the blizzard sweeps in and destroys the loony woodpecker's stash of food. Facing starvation, a glimmer of hope arrives in the form of a cat. The cat is also starving and it turns into a match of brawn and wits to see who eats who.

Date of release
1941-11-23
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (20)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Walter Lantz

Casting

Interesting facts

Pantry Panic is the third animated cartoon short in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on November 24, 1941, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. This short is one of the few cartoons where Woody does not say "Guess Who?" in the opening titles, although his trademark laugh in the cartoon itself is still present.

Production notes

Like most of early 1940s Lantz cartoons, Pantry Panic carried no director's credit. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon.

Pantry Panic was the third cartoon in the Woody Woodpecker series, featuring an early, garish Woody Woodpecker design. It was the only short with Danny Webb as Woody's voice, and also the last short to feature Mel Blanc since the latter had recorded some of Woody's dialogue for this short before he got an exclusive contract to do voice work for cartoons solely for Leon Schlesinger Productions, so Webb was hired to fill in for Blanc to complete Wo…

Pantry Panic was reworked in 1946 as Who's Cookin' Who?. The starvation personification would also reappear in the remake as well as 1951's The Redwood Sap. Due to copyright neglect, this entry is currently the only Woody Woodpecker cartoon in the public domain as of 2026. As such, it is freely distributed, and can be downloaded from the Internet Archive and seen on YouTube.

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