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

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. 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. 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. 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

• # Out of Luck Duck • # Hop, Duck and Listen • # Dog Flight • # Easter Duck • # Foxy Duck • # Railroaded Duck • # Duck Hunting • # Whistle-Stop and Go • # Duck the Music • # School Fool • # Oh Duckter • # It's a Duck's Life • # Happy Birthdaze • # Horse Collared • # Ha-Choo to You! • # Foxy Proxy • # Count to Tenant • # Shrunken Headache • # The Most Ghost • # Stamp Scamp • # All's Well That Eats Well • # Foxy Friends • # Mad Mix Up • # Beach Brawl • # Duck Seasoning • # Hasty Tasty • # Nobody Home Duck • # Dog Pounded • # Witch Duck-ter • # Full Course Meal • # Baddie Buddies • # Judo Ex-Expert

Other appearances