Puny Express

Puny Express is a 1950 Woody Woodpecker cartoon.
==Summary==
In the Old West, daring "Puny Express" rider Woody Woodpecker tries to get the mail through and elude gunman Buzz Buzzard in the meantime. Woody and his horse run onto many obstacles- including a "horned toad." Desperado Buzz waits for Woody as he crosses the river. Buzz plans to bomb Woody with a big boulder from above...
==Plot==
Woody is a wandering cowboy who notices an ad at a western post office advertising for a new mail delivery rider. Woody accepts but is warned of mail thief Buzz Buzzard. Woody regards the buzzard as a pushover and begins his trek. Sure enough, Woody eventually encounters the buzzard who uses every trick possible to snatch the mail from Woody's hands spreading tacks across the road and dynamiting a bridge. But Woody is prepared for Buzz's antics...
==Trivia==
Grace Stafford, Lantz's wife and the future permanent voice of the woodpecker, provides Woody's trademark laugh for the first time in this cartoon. It can be heard at the beginning and end. Oddly, the original Mel Blanc Woody laugh can be heard at one point during the short as well.
Woody went through several design changes in the 1950s, courtesy of Paul Smith and Alex Lovy. The new look for the new Woody is said to have been done by Laverne Harding. Woody was now cuter, slimmer, and had a comb similar to Warner Bros. Road Runner.
This is the first cartoon to exhibit a significant change in Woody's height and red plummage.
With this release, Walter Lantz cartunes are now once again released through Universal, as they would for the rest of the studio's history.
Category:Cartoons
Category:Woody Woodpecker Cartoons
Category:Buzz Buzzard Cartoons
Category:1950 cartoons
Category:Walter Lantz Productions Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with music by Clarence Wheeler
Category:Cartoons produced by Walter Lantz
Category:Cartoons written by Ben Hardaway
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Patterson
Category:Cartoons animated by Laverne Harding
Category:Cartoons animated by Ray Abrams
Category:Cartoons with sets by Fred Brunish
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Fred Brunish
Category:Universal Cartoons