Citations:Woody Woodpecker

English citations of Woody Woodpecker

1970 January 30, Albert Goldman, “Portnoy in the playpen”, Life, Time Inc., ISSN 0024-3019, volume 68, number 3, page 13:
A Coke-jerking rhythm, a Woody Woodpecker voice, a scoopful of clichés from a bin labeled “sweet talk” and you've got—bubble-gum music.
1995, Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Penguin Books, →ISBN, unpaged:
It always started with two or three Woody Woodpeckers. I could do Woody Woodpecker’s voice.
2006, Thomas Urquhart, For the Beauty of the Earth, Birding, Opera, and Other Journeys, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, illustrated, page 173:
I was awakened the next morning by the most amazing cacophony, like a dozen Woody Woodpeckers on speed.
2007, Randi Reisfeld, Partiers Preferred, summer share, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 16:
Famously ticklish, she was best known for her throaty, staccato, hiccupy giggle-fits. One insensitive critic dubbed her the Woody Woodpecker of child stars.
2008, Tana French, In the Woods, Penguin, →ISBN, page 11:
his idea of humor was to reenact large segments of Wallace & Gromit and then do a Woody Woodpecker laugh to show you they were funny

1999, Briony Penn, A Year on the Wild Side, TouchWood Editions, →ISBN, illustrated, page 80:
Nuthatches, owls, squirrels, martens, raccoons and bats — you name it, they rely on old Woody Woodpecker to open up the holes for their nests. The Pileated Woodpecker, the elusive but spectacular king of woodpeckers, is the archetypical Woody Woodpecker.
2005, Darrell Spencer, One Mile Past Dangerous Curve, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 1:
The maples full of greeting-card blue jays. Woody Woodpeckers hammering tree trunks. Song sparrows chipping in.
2006, Dana Gardner with Nancy Overcott, 50 common birds of the upper Midwest:
One day many years ago, before I was a birdwatcher, I glimpsed a live cartoon character, Woody Woodpecker, while driving through the Big Woods

2000, Loren D. Estleman, A Smile on the Face of the Tiger, Amos Walker Novels, Hachette Digital, →ISBN, chapter 24, unpaged:
She wore her gray hair short in back and swept into a Woody Woodpecker crest in front and glasses with heavy black frames.
2001, Gerald Petievich, Paramour, Gerald Petievich, →ISBN, unpaged:
Her bright red hair was cut garishly short and styled high in front to give her-well, a Woody Woodpecker look.

1989, Charles Solomon, Enchanted Drawings, The History of Animation, Knopf, →ISBN, illustrated, page 173:
The ubiquitous song sparked a brief craze for Woody Woodpecker fan clubs, special Woody Woodpecker matinees, a Woody Woodpecker haircut.
2004, Mockingbird Foundation, The Phish Companion, A Guide to the Band and Their Music, Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN, edition 2, illustrated, unpaged:
Antelope included a Woody Woodpecker tease and a Random Note signal.
2004, Gary Giddins, Weather Bird, Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 142:
Ranger’s “Le Pingouin” is the most comical selection, a Woody Woodpecker riff dilated over an odd 24-bar (16 plus 8) structure.
2010, Krishna Winston (translator), Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless, Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo, HarperCollins, →ISBN, unpaged:
Next to me a parrot screeched and giggled like a human being. It kept calling in Spanish, “Run, Aureliano,” and would not stop. It was like the soundtrack of a Woody Woodpecker film.