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.