Erky Perky Explained

Genre:	Comedy Animated sitcom CGI
Creator:	David Gurney
Director:	David Webster Tim Golsby-Smith Cameron Chittock
Runtime:	approx. 22 Minutes
Starring:	Jason Barr Neil Crone Judy Marshak Adrian Truss Ron Rubin Keith Knight Melissa Jane Shaw
Composer:	Alex Khaskin Ken Wortb
Executive Producer:	Michael Boughen Mathew Street Arnie Zipursky Lisa Fitzpatrick Christopher Mapp (Seasons 2–3) Charles Falzon (Season 3) For YTV: Bonita Siegel (seasons 1–2) Delia Leandres (seasons 1–2) Coral Schoug (season 3)
Producer:	Kristine Klohk Avrill Stark (creative producer; seasons 1–2) Mandy Fanning (seasons 1–2) Barbara Stephen (season 3) Tracy Lenon (season 3)
Country:	Australia Canada
Company:	CCI Entertainment Ambience Entertainment The LaB Sydney
Num Seasons:	3^[1]
Num Episodes:	39 (78 segments)
List Episodes:	Episodes
Network:	Seven Network (Australia) YTV (Canada)

Erky Perky is an CGI-animated television series on YTV developed by CCI Entertainment and Ambience Entertainment,^[2] with CGI animation by Australian Visual Effects company The LaB Sydney.^[3] It follows two bickering, dim-witted insects, Erky and Perky, who live at a hot dog stand before accidentally being taken to a house.^[4] They try to settle into the house, living with fellow house bugs, and hunting for food in a very clean kitchen.^[5]

Plot

Two bugs, the Scottish-accented Erky, and his friend, the cowardly and impressionable Perky, live an idyllic life on a downtown hot dog stand, a cornucopia of crumbs, relish and wieners. They live the high life until one day they are swept away in a take-out bag and end up in a sterile suburban kitchen with no food in sight. The two bickering, dim-witted and lazy bugs are forced to survive in the new and scary "Land of Kitchen". Every day, they are obsessed with finding food, and eventually finding their way home to "Hot Dog Stand". Their quests are almost always befouled by 'Mad' Margaret, the self-appointed ruler of Kitchen, and her 'sidekick' Cecil.

Characters

• Erquhart "Erky" Windsor (Jason Barr) is a Scottish-accented bug who normally takes Perky for granted and makes him try to get food in a dangerous scheme. He is blue with yellow spots. It was revealed in the episode "Perky vs. McBuggy Z" that he is a natural born rapper and dancer.
• Percival "Perky" Rosenberg (Neil Crone) is Erky's friend and partner. He is very cowardly and very weak. It was made quite obvious that Perky has a crush on Margaret's niece, Sajuica. He is yellow with blue spots.
• Cecil (Adrian Truss) appears to be somewhat smitten with the tyrant Margaret, despite being a tenth her size, becoming extremely jealous of her having affairs with newcomer Pablomo, and Erky (when he was under the influence of the Love Crumb).
• Mad Margaret (Judy Marshak) is the self-appointed ruler of the kitchen, and usually stops Erky and Perky's plans and when they find food, she generally steals it.
• Sajuica (Melissa Jane Shaw) is Mad Margaret's niece and apparently the "babe" of the kitchen, attracting flies, and being flirty. Even the childish Stinks (named for his flight-inducing farts) thinks she is "fine." She fancies Perky.
• Frenzel (Ron Rubin): While Stinks may be smart, it's another bug named Frenzel who takes the cake (literally) when it comes to devising food-getting plans. He always has profitable schemes on the go, preying on other bugs' naiveté or weaknesses to get himself ahead. Often, Perky is the one suffering, being a very gullible and trusting bug. An example of this is when Frenzel was showing young bugs the dangers of Kitchen, and for the final show he tricked Perky into being the German-accented spider, Delilah's 'dinner', not telling the frightened bug that it was all an act, and that there wasn't really any danger (unlike most of Frenzel's plans).
• Moldy van Oldy (Keith Knight seasons 1–2, Rob Greenway season 3) is a senile old bug, Moldy van Oldy, who loves to talk and talk for hours, sometimes about actual events, sometimes nothing more than senseless ramblings. One true story he did tell, however, was the tale of Margaret's acquired hydrophobia. When she was about Sajuica's age, and living in an outdoor garden (along with Moldy and presumably other bugs as well), Margaret was sprayed with water from a hose, getting knocked out of the air.
• Stinks (Annick Obonsawin seasons 1–2, Stacey Depass season 3) A running gag is that Stinks would appear whenever anyone said his 'name' (or any other word that sounds similar, such as thinks); often this happens when they are bemoaning some misfortune ('This stinks').
• Delilah (Dana Brooks) is a German-accent spider who tells fortunes.
• Boof (Carter Hayden) is Frenzel's assistant; he is a digger bug and was born from an egg that Perky found.
• The Grand Armandor (Andrew Pifko) is Margaret's personal wing and purse designer.

Additional voices provided by Danny Wells, John Stocker, Linda Sorenson, Lawrence Bayne, Rick Miller, Robin Duke and Robert Tinkler.

Episodes

Season 1

1. Where Are We? / A Toast to Erky
2. Flights of Fancy / Web of Death
3. Burst My Bubble / Sticky Situations
4. Sucked In / Tongue Tied
5. Ghostly Goodies / All That Cheese
6. Cereal Thriller / She Loves Me Not
7. Erky's Birthday / Location, Location, Location
8. Got Ya! / Perky the Brave
9. Little Erky / Go Team
10. Key to the Kitchen / Cold Snap
11. The Good Days / Double Dare
12. Stinks Sinks / Make Me Laugh
13. The Intruder / Return to Sender

Season 2

1. Buggy Bug Buggleson / Boof is Born
2. Broken Wings / The Party
3. Wildberry Implosion / Party Pooper
4. You Nut! / Tomorrow's Outlook Fine
5. Beautiful Music / The Principle of the Thing
6. Funny Bum / Pantry of Horrors
7. A Zen Tale / Perky vs. MC Buggy Z
8. Robobug / A Dance in a Trance
9. The Inseparables / Pangs & Peaceful Protests
10. Pablobo Returns / Danger on the Windowsill
11. Monument to Margaret / Bug Bags
12. Kitchen Day / Bug in Baby's Clothes
13. Roamin' Holiday / Blueboy's Treasure

Season 3

1. Zapped / Flying High
2. Bug Eater / Mind Over Matter
3. Car Trouble / A Trojan Scheme
4. Erky's Worst Nightmare / Soldier Bugged
5. Slim Perky / Talking Tum
6. Bug in From the Cold / Alien Invasion
7. Where's Cecil / Bug in the Bubble
8. To Bug or Not To Bug / The Miracle Shootout
9. Bug House / Perky in Charge
10. Magic Box / Bugliebeard
11. Pancake on the Fan / Swat!
12. Future Crumb / Paddle Whacker
13. Pop Culture / Up and Away

External links

• • YTV Erky Perky page

Notes and References

1. News: Ball . Ryan . Animania HD Serves Up More Erky Perky . 11 March 2020 . Animation Magazine . September 20, 2006.
2. Book: Torre . Dan . Torre . Lienors . Australian Animation: An International History . 2018 . Springer International Publishing . 9783319954929 . 206 . 11 March 2020.
3. Erky Perky Swarms Into Season Two . CCI Entertainment, Ltd. . October 6, 2006 . December 29, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100427203547/http://www.ccientertainment.com/news/releases/ErkyPerky_Season2.html . April 27, 2010 .
4. Web site: YTV announces its fall programming highlights . July 13, 2006 . December 29, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100208031931/http://channelcanada.com/Article1462.html . February 8, 2010 . dead .
5. Book: Perlmutter . David . The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows . 2018 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1538103739 . 182 .