The Beach Nut is the 11th animated cartoon

Animated cartoon

An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...

 short subject

Short subject

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 in the Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures...

series. Released theatrically on October 16, 1944, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures

Universal Studios

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. The title is a play on "beech nut

Beech

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".

Plot

The film opens in medias res

In medias res

In medias res or medias in res is a Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique wherein the relation of a story begins either at the mid-point or at the conclusion, rather than at the beginning In medias res or medias in res (into the middle of things) is a Latin phrase...

 with vacationer Wally Walrus beating Woody Woodpecker into submission on a beach

Beach

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 boardwalk

Boardwalk

A boardwalk, in the conventional sense, is a wooden walkway for pedestrians and sometimes vehicles, often found along beaches, but they are also common as paths through wetlands, coastal dunes, and other sensitive environments....

. Wally explains to the gathered crowd what happened earlier to provoke his anger:

Wally decides to go to the beach to relax, but is constantly disturbed by surfer Woody. Returning to the present, Wally ties Woody to an anchor and hurls him into the ocean. The rope snags on the pier, demolishing first the pier and then the entire marina. The cartoon ends with Woody swimming away toward the horizon, pursued by Wally, and both of them pursued by the other beachgoers.

Wally Walrus

The Beach Nut marked the debut of Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, Wally Walrus

Wally Walrus

Wally Walrus is a fictional animated cartoon character who appeared in several films produced by Walter Lantz Productions in the 1940s and '50s....

. Voiced by actor Hans Conried

Hans Conried

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, Wally became Woody's primary arch enemy until 1948, before being more or less replaced with Buzz Buzzard

Buzz Buzzard

Buzz Buzzard is a fictional animated cartoon character who appeared in several films produced by Walter Lantz Productions in the 1940s, '50s, and 70’s.-History:...

 in Wet Blanket Policy

Wet Blanket Policy

Wet Blanket Policy is the 29th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on August 20, 1948, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by United Artists. The title is a play-on-words about a type of insurance policy.- Plot...

. Wally would become the most steady foil for Woody as Woody would loose more battles to Wally than any other of Woody's enemies. (as for Buzz Buzzard, Woody's most primary foil, Woody would almost always win against him)

Cultural references

• While surfing (also when he arrives at the beach and inadvertently tramples Wally, who slept buried in the sand), Woody sings "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
  My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
  "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" is a traditional Scottish folk songwhich remains popular in Western culture.-History:The origin of the song is unknown, though it is often suggested that the subject of the song may be...
  
  ", albeit somewhat off-key.