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Yakkity Yak
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Ugly, bizarre cartoon for grade schoolers and up.

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Parents need to know that this cartoon is full of ugly creatures, including what appears to be an elderly pineapple who lives in a salad bowl but is meant to be a mad genius. The characters spend most of their time yelling at each other. Yakkity Yak is left to find his own way home by his grandmother, who also force feeds him and mocks his fears and good instincts. There's some cartoon violence, of the smacking-upside-the-head variety.

Families can find things to talk about here ... if the adults in the family can bring themselves to watch. For example, it's clearly wrong to cheat, and cheating at various games and competitions is a regular part of the series. Probably the most interesting thing to discuss would be the absurdity of the surreal world depicted in the show, in which a yak and a kid with a pineapple head can be best friends. Can kids think of anything more surreal? What?

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Reviewed By: KJ Dell'Antonia

YAKKITY YAK relates the adventures of a teenage yak whose life dream is to be a comedian. His best friend is a hyper-intelligent kid with a pineapple for a head, and he lives with Granny Yak, who rents a room to a mad scientist with crazy hair who actually looks remarkably like a pineapple himself. If that sounds like an interesting premise, be forewarned: It's not.

This cartoon isn't quite ironic, isn't quite clever, and isn't quite funny. It's not a storytelling cartoon, an adventure, or filled with Looney Tunes-style antics. It isn't really quite anything. Each 30-minute episode consists of two short segments, in which Yakkity tries to achieve something in the dumbest way possible, his friend Keo tries to rescue him, and both of them usually end up suffering for their schemes in one way or another. The day is never saved, and lessons are never learned.

This is a mild but mindless program. There's no excessive violence, no swearing, no sexual overtones. Call it starter junk TV.

Kids who find Yakkity entertaining will also like the far-better Rocko's Modern Life and Ed, Edd n Eddy .

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Characters may strike or mock-strangle each other when angry.

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Social Behavior

Characters never learn anything; they just continue to behave in the same stupid, predictable ways. The people supposedly taking care of the children aren't particularly caring or careful.

 

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