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The Screwball
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The Screwball is a 1943 short directed by Alex Lovy, starring Walter Lantz's batty bird, Woody Woodpecker.A baseball game for the Droops and the Drips is currently in session, but Woody is kicked out by a local policeman before he can enter due to not paying to see said game.However, he manages to sneak in and get into a series of baseball hijinks. | |
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2023-08-25T19:44:31Z | |
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2023-08-25T19:44:31Z | |
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Title Drop | |
| The Screwball / int_18d15922 | comment |
Title Drop: Almost. When Woody first participates in the game, the catcher pushes a button on his baseball mitt that causes it to display "SCREWBALL". | |
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Baseball Episode | |
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Baseball Episode: Need we say more? | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: The policeman sticking his baton through several holes and into the eyes of people peeking through. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
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Agony of the Feet: When Woody manages to get into the baseball game, he finds a folded up seat with a sleeping audience member's feet underneath it. He gets up on the seat and tries to get it open by bouncing on it, and when he does, said audience member is pulled up, cries out in pain and demands that Woody get off. The woodpecker obliges, leaving the audience member with bent feet. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
| The Screwball / int_407d3e6d | comment |
Morton's Fork: Near the end of the short, Woody runs away from the policeman, only to find some baseball players charging towards him, and when he looks back, the officer is now hot on his tail. Eventually, he manages to find a way out by flying towards the baseball players and pecking their bats in half. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
| The Screwball / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: One of the many people who gets poked in the eye by the policeman is a young boy. | |
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| The Screwball / int_5ce2c9c6 | type |
Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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| The Screwball / int_6b6ac319 | type |
Painfully Slow Projectile | |
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Painfully Slow Projectile: The pitcher tosses a ridiculously slow-moving baseball that Woody fails to hit and is caught by the catcher. | |
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The Worst Seat in the House | |
| The Screwball / int_762b9ea8 | comment |
The Worst Seat in the House: Woody relocates to a different seat after his first choice leaves an audience member with a feet injury, only for a cowboy with a massive hat to come in and take the seat in front. Woody has trouble seeing the game as a result, so he asks the cowboy to remove his hat. The cowboy nonchalantly obliges, but his hair is revealed to be just as big underneath, so Woody ultimately uses a lawnmower to shave the middle part of the cowboy's hair off, allowing him to get a good view again. | |
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| The Screwball / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| The Screwball / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: After all of the mischief Woody has caused, he finally gets his just desserts when he is assaulted by a barrage of baseballs, three of which are even impaled through his beak. | |
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Soda Can Shakeup | |
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Soda Can Shakeup: Woody is about to drink a bottle of soda when he is suddenly confronted by the policeman from earlier, so he shakes the bottle and hands it to him, resulting in the officer getting a faceful of soda. | |
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| The Screwball / int_9d4f79e2 | type |
Animal Athlete Loophole | |
| The Screwball / int_9d4f79e2 | comment |
Animal Athlete Loophole: Woody participates in the baseball game itself without any repercussions. | |
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| The Screwball / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
| The Screwball / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: At the beginning of the short, a guy bores a hole into the fence to peek through and see the game, only to be poked in the eye by the policeman's baton. The officer then does the same to some other people, but eventually has his baton pecked into a stake by Woody. | |
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| The Screwball / int_a6cda066 | type |
Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Woody's beak gets three baseballs skewered through it at the end of the cartoon. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
| The Screwball / int_b1dde8fd | comment |
Loophole Abuse: When Woody realizes that kids can get a free admission into the game for returning baseballs, he grabs a cannonball and hands it to the policeman, allowing him to sneak in while the officer is driven into the ground by the cannonball's weight. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
| The Screwball / int_e2a41c3b | comment |
Literal-Minded: When the pitcher demands that Woody toss him "the lil' apple", Woody assumes that he means an actual apple and tosses one at him. | |
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| The Screwball / int_e462893a | type |
Artistic License – Sports | |
| The Screwball / int_e462893a | comment |
Artistic License – Sports: Just like the Looney Tunes cartoon, Baseball Bugs (despite The Screwball predating it by three years), the short is riddled with this all over, and one scene has Woody even tossing his glove at the ball to catch it, which would result in a three-base penalty. | |
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Impact Silhouette | |
| The Screwball / int_fcadd0e3 | comment |
Impact Silhouette: Woody makes his entrance by pecking an outline of himself in the fence and opening it like a door to walk inside, only to be caught and evicted by the policeman. | |
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