Yakky Doodle

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Yakky Doodle
The Huckleberry Hound Show , The Quick Draw McGraw Show and The Yogi Bear Show character
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First appearance"Slumber Party Smarty" (1958)
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Voiced by
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Species Duck
GenderMale, Female (in Jellystone! )

Yakky Doodle is a fictional anthropomorphic yellow duckling with green wings, who appears for the first time in prototype form on The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1958 and on The Quick Draw McGraw Show in 1960, and in regular design on The Yogi Bear Show in 1961, on his own segment. [1] Yakky's name is a spoof of "Yankee Doodle".

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Character description

Yakky Doodle (voiced by Jimmy Weldon using buccal speech technique) is an anthropomorphic yellow duckling with green wings who lives with his best friend and adoptive father Chopper the bulldog. [2] Yakky is always one to run into danger. This usually comes in the form of the show's main antagonist Fibber Fox or secondary villain Alfy Gator. [3] Chopper defends his "Little Buddy" fiercely, and is always ready to pound Fibber or any other enemy into oblivion if necessary. Yakky's tendency to put himself in great danger never draws a rebuke from Chopper, who presumably enjoys his protective role. One of Yakky's repeated lines is "Are you my mama?", and one of the songs Yakky loves to sing was "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay".

The template for Yakky was Quacker, a similar duckling character voiced by Red Coffey who appeared in a number of classic Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoons, debuting in the 1950 short subject Little Quacker. [4] Weldon, a former children's television series host and ventriloquist, had based this character on his "partner" Webster Webfoot. The same design was also used for a duckling in The Huckleberry Hound Show's Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks segment "A Wise Quack" (Episode 48), as a blue duckling in Yogi Bear segment "Slumber Party Smarty" (Episode 2) and "Duck in Luck" (Episode 18) and as a purple duckling in the Loopy De Loop segment "This is my Ducky Day" (Episode 13).

Main characters

Besides Yakky, the main characters in his cartoons are:

List of episodes

  1. Out of Luck Duck
  2. Hop, Duck and Listen
  3. Dog Flight
  4. Easter Duck
  5. Foxy Duck
  6. Railroaded Duck
  7. Duck Hunting
  8. Whistle-Stop and Go
  9. Duck the Music
  10. School Fool
  11. Oh Duckter
  12. It's a Duck's Life
  13. Happy Birthdaze
  14. Horse Collared
  15. Ha-Choo to You!
  16. Foxy Proxy
  17. Count to Tenant
  18. Shrunken Headache
  19. The Most Ghost
  20. Stamp Scamp
  21. All's Well That Eats Well
  22. Foxy Friends
  23. Mad Mix Up
  24. Beach Brawl
  25. Duck Seasoning
  26. Hasty Tasty
  27. Nobody Home Duck
  28. Dog Pounded
  29. Witch Duck-ter
  30. Full Course Meal
  31. Baddie Buddies
  32. Judo Ex-Expert

Other appearances

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