Yakkity Yak

Yakkity Yak is a Flash animated television series produced by the Vancouver-based animation studio Studio B Productions and Kapow Pictures. It was created by Mark Gravas and aired on Teletoon (now Cartoon Network) in Canada and on Nickelodeon in Australia and the United States from 9 November 2002 until 12 December 2003. 26 episodes were produced.

The copyright to the show is owned by DHX Media (now known as WildBrain), which bought Studio B Productions in 2007.

Premise
The story focuses around an anthropomorphic yak named Yakkity who aspires to become a best-known comedian and his friends, Keo (an anthropomorphic pineapple) and Lemony (a young human girl) in the fictitious Australian town Onion Falls (based on Lithgow, New South Wales).

Theme song
A modified version of the 1958 song Yakety Yak by The Coasters (in which children and some cast members sing some portions) is used as the show's theme song.

Characters

 * Yakkity Yak (Lee Tockar): A preteen yak student in Onion Falls High School and the school's mascot who wishes to be a comedian. Yakkity works as the school mascot since his grandfather also served as mascot when the (rugby) football team won the state championship in 1925. The football team, instead of the mascot, got all the glory (despite not winning a match in 77 years), much to Yakkity's distaste. Yakkity lives with his Granny and her boarder Professor Crazyhair. He wears a coat over his bare body. His best friends are Keo (who lives next door) and Lemony. Over the course of the series, his parents have never been seen or mentioned.
 * Keo (Brian Drummond): An anthropomorphic pineapple who is actually a human with a pineapple for a head. He has a crush on Lemony but she is oblivious to it. He is very intelligent but is camera shy and has stage fright. He has rivalries with his father, who is only a pineapple, but deep down, he loves him.
 * Lemony (Andrea Libman): A pretty blonde-haired human girl and Keo's love interest who has a vivid imagination.
 * Reginald Highpants (Ian James Corlett): The town's leading vendor of candy and all things sugar. He also runs many small businesses.
 * Trilo (Jason Schombing): Yakkity's trilobite agent and retired circus performer who owns his own Entertainment Agency, does children's parties for the characters, and is always looking for money. His clients are Yakkity, Fairy Wanda and Chuck Damage, who he uses for parties.
 * Granny Yak (Pam Hyatt): Yakkity's grandmother. While she is a good sounding board in a parental way, she also has some of Yakkity's impulsive genes.
 * Professor Crazyhair (Scott McNeil): A scientist and teacher at Onion Falls High whose hair changes colour like a mood ring, hence his name. He lives in Yakkity's basement, where he built a laboratory. His egg salad recipe is very sought after by evil geniuses who wish to use it to take over the world.
 * Penelope (Tabitha St. Germain): A robot who is Lemony's best friend and works as Professor Crazyhair's assistant but lacks any social skills or confidence. Whenever she's embarrassed, her face turns red and she squirts out fire fighting foams from her arms transforming into fire hoses, squirting everything around her.
 * Rondo (Ian James Corlett): Lemony's (rugby) football playing older brother who is a senior in high school. He is one of Yakkity's enemies often competing for the spotlight.
 * Keo's Dad (Michael Daingerfield): A pineapple who can be bossy and rude at many times, and Keo's father. The identity of his wife (Keo's mother) is unknown and never explored; it can be assumed that they’re divorced or she died before the events of Yakkity Yak. He's only a disembodied pineapple head; as the only time he ever had a body with limbs was in "My Dad the Robot".
 * Wanda Harper (Brenda Crichlow): an African-Australian fairy who works as Onion Falls High's librarian.
 * Jackie Pachyderm: An elephant comedian and successful movie star who is Yakkity's idol.
 * Gary (Terry Klassen): A short, evil, mean-spirited, sadistic, bad-tempered arch-enemy of Yakkity. He tried to steal Professor Crazyhair's egg salad to take over Onion Falls. He hates Yakkity because he once again interfered in his plans and decides to use the giant robot to destroy Onion Falls.

Telecast
Yakkity Yak first premiered on Teletoon in Canada on 4 January 2003, with the final episode's airing on 28 January 2004. It also aired on BBC Kids. In the United Kingdom, it aired on CBBC. In Italy, it previously aired on Nickelodeon and Canale 21. In Australia, it aired on Nickelodeon and Network 10, and would later air on ABC, ABC1, and ABC3. In the US, it briefly aired on Nickelodeon, from 9 November 2003 to 4 September 2004. It was later run on the Nicktoons channel starting from 22 May 2004 until 23 September 2007. The show also aired on Nickelodeon in Latin America and Europe.

Episodes
The episode list is listed by production code, not by airdate.

Awards
The show was nominated for a Leo Award for "Best Musical Score" in 2004.