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Back at the Barnyard
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The logo.
Created bySteve Oedekerk
StarringChris Hardwick
Jeff Garcia
Leigh-Allyn Baker
Tino Insana
Cam Clarke
Rob Paulsen
Dom Irrera
Wanda Sykes
Fred Tatasciore
Maria Bamford
Steve Oedekerk
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes60 (105) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersSteve Oedekerk
Jed Springarn
(Co-Executive Producer in Season 2)
ProducersMaragret H. Dean
(Season 1)
Paul Marshal
Running time24 minutes
Original release
NetworkNickelodeon
ReleaseSeptember 29, 2007 (2007-09-29) –
present

Back at the Barnyard is a Nickelodeon CGI animated show that is a spin-off of the 2006 film Barnyard. The debut series premiered on September 29, 2007 on Nickelodeon. The show is produced by Omation, the animation division of O Entertainment, in association with Nicktoons Studios. The show mainly features pop culture references and parodies for the entertainment of the show. In March 2008, Nickelodeon renewed the show for a second season consisting of 24 episodes. On January 22, 2010, Nickelodeon ordered 16 more episodes extending it to a third season but has not aired as of yet but should air sometime this year.

This is Steve Oedekerk's second animated series for Nickelodeon, as he was one of the executive producers (but not the creator as John A. Davis was given that credit) for The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Plot

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The program's lead protagonist, Otis the Cow, with the title logo and the pre-2009 Nickelodeon "splat" logo.

The plot generally revolves around Otis (a cow) and his barnyard friends. Otis wants to goof around, but has to be responsible and protect the inhabitants of the farm. He and his friends Pip the mouse, Abby the cow, Pig, Freddy the ferret, Peck the rooster, Duke the sheepdog, and Bessy the cow have many crazy adventures, while at the same time help Otis protect the farm. The setting is unknown but it is heavily implied to be in the fictional Arizona town of Oedeville. While the setting strongly resembles Arizona (the Grand Canyon has been depicted in some episodes, i.e. Cowman and Ratboy), some have questioned whether or not it's in Arizona or a made-up setting. According to the original film and an episode of the spin off, Oedeville (in which Steve Oedekerk most likely named after himself) is 20 miles from the actual city of Phoenix. There is still debate of whether this should be the official location because there are many scenes in the show where the nature background doesn't look at all like Arizona (it is green and hilly, whereas Arizona is more of a desert-like area which is dry, arid and sandy). Otis and his friends have to overtake many obstacles like preventing Mrs. Beady in proving that animals can talk and distracting the farmer for them to throw a party. In every episode, Otis usually gets himself in a sticky situation where his friends have to come to the rescue, resulting in him learning a lesson. Sometimes, the animals dress up like people when out in public, in which nobody notices except Mrs. Beady.

Characters

Main Characters

Otis

Otis, the adopted son of Ben, who was killed in the movie by coyotes, is a black and white bull who is the leader of the barnyard. However, he is called a "cow" because of his udders. He is funny, goofy, strong, smart, extremely hunky, handsome, and serves as the show's lead protagonist. Otis is also a huge party animal (no pun intended) and enjoys anything with action or stunts and enjoys watching sports bloopers. Otis's superhero alter-ego is "Cowman, the Uddered Avenger". He has a crush on Abby. Some of his other aliases are "Professor Exposition", politician "Ned Bovine", newsman "Gil O'Malley", golfer Heifer Woods (punning off the famous golf star Tiger Woods) along with many other human disguises, and in the show's Christmas special, we learn he went to high school with two of Santa Claus's reindeer, Donner and Blitzen. He also plays a lot of pranks on Nora Beady (their next door neighbor, who claims to hear them have their wild parties). Character Design of Otis was created by Southern California Artist Mark Beam. He appeared in Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots as an NPC hidden character.

Pip

Pip is a great, gray, barn mouse who speaks with a slight Mexican accent and often rides around on his best friend Otis' shoulder. He is known for his crush on Bessy, the sassy and sarcastic cow best friend of Abby, but she always rejects him with great scorn. Pip dreams of the day when Bessy - whom he thinks is "beautiful" - will come to her senses, fall madly in love, marry him, and together they have "beautiful mouse-cow babies." So far, that day seems unlikely to come true and has a photo of Bessy in his hole, as shown in "Home Sweet Hole." His super hero alter ego is "Ratboy".

Abby

Abby is a blonde, physically attractive cow who lives on the barnyard, and in the series, serves as the replacement for Daisy. However, Abby is a bit of a tomboy, a gifted wrestler and former trapeze artist. Abby still shows a girly personality at certain points, has a major crush on Otis and is thought to be his girlfriend, and also is friends with everyone in the barnyard. There have been certain points on the show where she and Otis seem to have romantic feelings for each other, especially when their mini-clones fell in love. She has a love-shrine to Otis revealed in "Cupig". Two relatives of Abby mentioned on the show were her unnamed crazy uncle, and her cousin Veronica, who made an appearance in the episode "Abby and Veronica". Her superhero alter-ego is "Cowgirl."

Pig

Pig is filthy, overweight and is the only character in the show to be named after his own species living in a mudhole. Pig has various segments on the show that often interrupt the episode at its most important parts, with a few memorable segments are "Viewer Mail", "Ask Dr. Pig", a makeover segment and "Hollywood: Fact or Fiction?" Pig has a strong, but quite strange, love for unicorns, and he wished for one in the Christmas special, and is also the animal on the barnyard to dress up and disguise as humans the most times. He has a pet skunk named Skunky, and in one episode he is shown to have a beautiful singing voice. In another episode, it was shown that Pig is related to the pet pigs of Prince Fripplehoot, telling by a birthmark on his backside and is therefore royal, but the stuck-up pigs turned him down. His superhero name is "Mr. Hamtastic." He really likes playing in the mud and in one episode he was proven to have his own boy band.

Freddy and Peck

Freddy is a very funny ferret and is best friends with Peck, a weak rooster who he is often tempted to eat. Throughout the series, Freddy's urge to eat Peck seems to melt away more and more (but still he almost eats Peck even when his urge seems to be gone for good, showing that perhaps that he will never truly grow out of his temptation probably because of his instincts or he gets that from his parents.) Freddy may not be a barn animal, but still he hangs around the barnyard with his pals and suffers from paranoid delusions and has multiple personality disorder. Peck seems to share a slight rivalry with Root, a larger, braver rooster on the barnyard, such as in "Pecky Suave", where we learn that Peck (as the titular alter ego) is shown to have a crush on a beautiful hen named Hannah. Peck and Freddy are the show's resident comic relief as it were, and are considered to be accident prone, especially with flying meteorites. Freddy's superhero name is "Paranoid Man," and Peck's is "Green Rooster."

Duke

Duke is the dumb sheepdog who is in charge of the Farmer's flock of intelligent sheep. Duke is clearly no match for the intellect possessed by the sheep he herds. Duke loves being a leader and being in charge of things. This was first shown in the movie after Ben, the barnyard leader, was killed and Duke wanted to take his position as leader, but no other animal wanted him to take the place of Ben and wanted Otis instead. So in the series, Duke fancies himself as the barnyard's unofficial safety inspector and makes the barnyard watch a boring safety film once every year.

Bessy

Bessy is a sassy brown cow who lives on the barnyard, and is best with sarcastic comments toward the others. In the movie she was Daisy's best friend, but after Daisy was replaced by the more tomboyish Abby, she now serves as her best friend. Although Bessy is known to be the object of Pip's affections, she scornfully fails to return the same feelings as only in Pip's daydreams is Bessy his girlfriend or bride. In one episode Bessy reveals that she lost her little son at a county fair, and mistakenly believes it is Otis.

Nora Beady

Mrs. Nora Beady is a crazy old woman who lives close by to the barnyard and serves as the show's antagonist. She knows that the barnyard animals are anthropomorphic and wants everyone to know that, but only ends up making herself appear crazier instead. Her nephew is Eugene (a.k.a. Snotty Boy). She is the main antagonist of the series.

Farmer Buyer

Farmer Buyer is the vegan owner of the barnyard who Otis cares deeply for. Still, when the animals need some time alone to work on a private project (a movie they are trying to make, a theme park they are attempting to build, etc.), that doesn't stop them from trying to driving him away with a prank phone call.

Etta the Hen

Etta is the lead hen and the mother of Maddy, as seen in the original movie. She was a good friend of Ben.

Recurring Characters

Nathan Randal Beady III

Mr. Nathan Beady, or simply called Nathan, is Mrs. Beady's reluctant husband who miserably tries to convince his wife that animals don't talk. Ms. Beady often calls him "Mr. Lump" because he always sits on a chair watching TV and rejects everything Ms. Beedy said about the "talking barn animals"

Eugene "Snotty Boy" Beady

Eugene is the obnoxious, hateful, and bratty nephew of Nora Beady. He easily falls for pranks pulled on him by the barn animals, being very unintelligent, and is the object of their hatred, calling him "Snotty Boy." Eugene, whose dad is a clown, is extremely obese and the only person who he is ever nice to is his aunt and tortures his uncle.

Snotty Boy and his two gang members may be parodies of Joe, Plug, and Bradley from How to Eat Fried Worms.

Sheep

The sheep are hang around together in an eternally-close herd and are more intelligent than their sheepdog Duke, who they often scoff at because of his stupidity, and in one episode the sheep try to escape from the barnyard and away from Duke's unintelligent leadership.

Everett

Everett is the farmer's old brown dog and is the barnyard's local senior citizen. The elderly dog first appeared in the movie, where he celebrated his thirteenth birthday, making him 91 in dog years. As the oldest animal on the barnyard, Everett is depicted as being droopy and is as thin as his own skeleton, which can easily be seen. Everett uses a walker to get around, except for when he is playing an instrument, and hardly ever talks, but in very few episodes he does have speaking lines.

Skunky

Skunky is Pig's pet skunk who is considered as the latter's best friend, much to Otis' chagrin, as seen in Pig Amok. In Doogleganger, it is revealed he doesn't like Duke's tone. He appeared in Snotty's New Pet where Pig threw him through the window to skunk Snotty. He appeared in later episodes.

Tony Twocheeks

Tony Twocheeks is a gopher entrepreneur who lives near the barnyard. He often rips off those who buy his goods. He has an Elvis-like hairdo, sunglasses, and is sometimes seen chewing on a toothpick, giving him a "tough" appearance.

Root the Rooster

First seen in the movie as a minor rival of Peck, Root hosts the weekly talent show at the barn.

Baxter

Baxter is a small white dog with pointed ears who became Duke's nemesis after he met him at an animal clinic. He disguised as Duke with the help of dark brown spray paint to give him spots and markings like Duke's. Although Baxter seems to be a stray, he might have an owner in order to be able to afford medical care. He made two more appearances, first as Duke's replacement on the farm, and then tried to marry Duke's sister Stamps only for the fact she was second in line to a relative's priceless bone collection.

Buck

Buck is a brown horse who lives on the barnyard who has a terrible temper and despises Otis. In the episode "Some Like It Snotty" where Otis dresses up as a girl to prove that they live easier lives than boys and ends up becoming Snotty Boy's temporary girlfriend, Buck also dressed up as a girl - but only with a more realistic costume and was Snotty Boy's second girlfriend - who he went out with behind Otis' back.

Bigfoot

Bigfoot, who debuted in "Otis vs. Bigfoot" was in love with Abby and wanted to live at the barnyard, but opted to go away. He was seen in several episodes since as a minor character, such as a judge in "Barnyard Idol", a mayoral candidate in "Otis for Mayor" and was also a singer.

Goat

Goat is a brownish-gray goat who is known for giving rides to Otis (i.e. The Great Sheep Escape, The Chronicles of Barnia). The goat has also played saxophone and even given advice to the others.

Pizza Twins

The pizza twins are identical twin pizza delivery boys who first appeared in the original movie and often deliver pizza to the barnyard. The duo are very unintelligent and whenever they manage to successfully perform a task (either good or bad) they chant their famous line, "Doodley-doo-doo doo." One of them is of the Lutheran religion and got a fake arm.

Hilly Burford[1]

Hilly Burford is the series' news anchor who also is a judge in "Do You Gots It?", served as Santa Claus in "It's an Udderful Life" and hosts the game show "Trivia Cash A-Ding-Dong" in the Back at the Barnyard episode "A Beautiful Freddy". His voice and characterization is a tribute to Will Ferrell's impression of longtime baseball announcer Harry Caray.

Officer Fred O'Halon

Officer Fred O'Halon is the series' police officer. In "Chain Gang" he also serves as the prison warden because of budget cuts. He is the main antagonist in "Cow's Night Out". He teamed up with Mrs. Beady to capture Bigfoot in "Otis vs. Bigfoot".

Jessica Allspice

Jessica Allspice is a celebrity pop diva and was featured as a judge on the show Do You Gots It? Her catchphrase is, "I wanna party with you." She is a spoof of Jessica Simpson.

Joey, Macy and Boil

Three children are in the Barnyard that go to school where Peck is the teacher. they are Joey the Calf, Macy the Lamb and Boil the Chick.

Very minor characters

"Weird Al" Yankovic

"Weird Al" Yankovic - portrayed in the series as himself as a talking horse - is Bessy's famous accordion-playing friend. Weird Al was seen in the episode "Get Bessy".

Film Only Characters

Main article: Barnyard (film) § Characters

Daisy

Daisy was Otis's love interest in the movie. She later gave birth to a male calf and named it Ben after Otis's father, and because Daisy's husband was probably killed after a storm blew Daisy and Bessy's herd away, Otis became baby Ben's adoptive father. In the series, Daisy was replaced by Abby, who was more of a tomboy. No mention of Daisy or her son Ben has come up in the series ever since.

Ben

Ben is the deceased former leader of the barnyard. In the movie, he was killed by a pack of evil coyotes. He is Otis's adoptive father. He is more strict than Otis, who likes to party. Daisy also named her baby calf after him. Ben has only been mentioned on the show once but seems to have completely vanished from the barnyard after his death.

Cast

United States

Regular cast

Much of the original cast from the movie returned to voice their characters in the series except where noted. Others, such as Abby the Cow, Hilly Bursford and Dr. Glove, were specially created for the series.

Minor Characters

Guest Stars

Airing History

History

Beginning Origin (2004-2007)

Around Summer 2004, Steve Oedekerk began pre-production of creating a new film that stars barnyard animals. Later in Fall 2005, Steve has ended production of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius after working with Butch Hartman with the last two Jimmy Timmy Movies, which Production officially closed November 2006. Through April 2006 and August 2006, commercial shorts, and teasers begin to be released. Nickelodeon then released Steve's new movie, Barnyard in August 2006. After the movie's successful reception, Nickelodeon has given the green light for his new 3-D Nicktoon, "Back at the Barnyard". In March 2007, Nickelodeon released promotional commercials for the new series during the 2007 Kids' Choice Awards.

Popularity (2007-2009)

Back at the Barnyard premiered on Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play in September 2007. After its premiere, the new series was classified as a hit. Back at the Barnyard remained a popular Nicktoon into 2008. In fact, Back at the Barnyard characters Otis and Pip made appearances with Miranda Cosgrove of iCarly and Lil' JJ of Just Jordan at the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards. During the return on SuperStuffed Nicktoons Weekend, a brand new Back at the Barnyard movie aired on November 29, 2008. On January 19, 2009, the Original movie "Barnyard" aired for the first time on television.

In March 2008, because of the high ratings, Nickelodeon gave the series another season, which debuted October 24, 2008. On August 29, 2009, Back at the Barnyard was presented a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program".

Episodes

Main article: List of Back at the Barnyard episodes
Season Episodes First Airdate Last Airdate
Season 1 20 September 29, 2007 September 26, 2008
Season 2 25 October 24, 2008 TBA
Season 3 16 TBA,2010 TBA,2011

DVDs

  • Volume 1: When No One's Looking

Release Date: August 5, 2008 (8 episodes) 96 min.

    • The Good, the Bad, and the Snotty
    • Escape From the Barnyard
    • Cowman and Ratboy
    • Cow's Best Friend
    • Chez Pig
    • The Right Cow
    • Saving Mrs. Beady
    • The Farmer Takes a Woman
  • Volume 2: Cowman the uddered advenger

Release Date: January 20, 2009 (1 TV Movie and 4 episodes) 97 min.

    • Cowman The Uddered Advenger
    • Hypno A-go-go
    • Fowl Play
    • The Barnyard Games
    • War Of The Pranks
  • Volume 3: Lights Camera Moo

Release Date: April 13, 2010 (8 episodes) 96 min.

    • Lights Camera Moo
    • Animal Farmers
    • Raging Hedgehog
    • The Big Barnyard Broadcast
    • Dead Cow Walking
    • The Great Sheep Escape
    • Cow's Night Out
    • Otis Season
  • Volume 4: Bigtop Barnyard

Release Date: TBA, 2010 (10 episodes) 120 min.

    • Bigtop Barnyard
    • Pigmallion
    • Barn Band
    • Meet The Ferrets
    • A Tale Of Two Snottys
    • Snottys Pet
    • Hole Sweet Hole
    • Otis Mom
    • Club Otis
    • The Chronicles Of Barnia

Video Game

References

  1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Back_at_the_Barnyard_episodes
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