Notes
- There is no director's credit for this film. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed Sleep Happy, but does not receive on-screen credit.
- Sleep Happy was one of two 1951 Woody Woodpecker shorts that storymen Ben Hardaway and Heck Allen had storyboarded and scripted before the 1948 layoff (the other being Puny Express). When the studio reopened for business in 1950, Lantz wrote some addition material for both films but does not receive on-screen credit as writer.
- Sleep Happy marks the first use the more famous opening title card animation sequence (where Woody completely bursts through the wood plank, pecks out his name, and dances around while saying his signature line and laughing), which would be used for the remainder of the series. Also, a new big band rendition of the Woody Woodpecker theme song was first used here, which was later modified into a jazzier version, and continued until The Great Who-Dood-It when it was shortened.
- The scene of Woody walking away from the screen at the tail end was recycled from Puny Express.
- There is no dialogue in this film.
- On some re-issues of this, such as with Wet Blanket Policy and Wild and Woody!, in the beginning Grace Stafford does a voice-over of what Woody's thinking.
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