Yakky Doodle
Yakky Doodle is a cartoon duck created by Hanna-Barbera Productions for the 1961 series "The Yogi Bear Show". Yakky's name is a spoof of "Yankee Doodle". History. Yakky Doodle (voiced by Jimmy Weldon using the same buccal speech technique used for the voice of Donald Duck) 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 when it is most expected. 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 loved 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 the a purple duckling in the "Loopy De Loop" segment "This is my Ducky Day" (Episode 13). Yakky debuted as Biddy Buddy in the "Slumber Party Smarty" and  Duck in Luck episodes of the "Yogi Bear" segments of "The Huckleberry Hound Show", and the "Gone to the Ducks", "Yuk Yuk Duck" and "Let's the Duck Out" episodes of the "Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy" segments of "The Quick Draw McGraw Show." He later had his own segment on "The Yogi Bear Show" in 1961 and he also appeared in the episode "Live and Lion" of the animated series "Snagglepuss". Main characters. Besides Yakky, the main characters in his cartoons are: