Back at the Barnyard

Back at the Barnyard
Created by	Steve Oedekerk
Starring	Chris Hardwick Jeff Garcia Tino Insana Rob Paulsen Cam Clarke Leigh-Allyn Baker Dom Irrera Wanda Sykes Fred Tatasciore Maria Bamford Steve Oedekerk
Country of origin	USA
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	20 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	24 minutes (12 minutes per segment)
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon
Release	September 29, 2007 – Present

Back at the Barnyard is a Nickelodeon show that is a spin-off of the 2006 film Barnyard. The debut episode aired on September 29, 2007. The show is produced by Omation, the animation division of O Entertainment, in association with Nicktoons Studios. In March 2008, Nickelodeon renewed the show for a second season consisting of 20 episodes.

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

Plot

The plot generally revolves around Otis (a cow) and his barnyard friends. Otis wants to goof around, but is responsible and must protect the inhabitants of the farm. He and his friends Pip (a mouse), Pig (a Pig), Peck (a rooster), Freddy (a ferret), Abby (a cow), Duke (a dog) and Bessy (a cow) have many crazy adventures, while at the same time help Otis protect the farm.

Otis and his friends have to overtake many obstacles like Mrs. Beady trying to prove that animals can talk, and goals like to distract the farmer, so they can party every week.

Cast

• Chris Hardwick as Otis the Cow/Sheep (20 episodes)
• Jeff Garcia as Pip the Mouse (20 episodes)
• Tino Insana as Pig the Pig (20 episodes)
• Leigh-Allyn Baker as Abby the Cow/Etta the Hen (20 episodes)
• Cam Clarke as Freddy the Ferret (20 episodes)
• Rob Paulsen as Peck the Rooster/Pizza Twin/Gopher (19 episodes)
• Dom Irrera as Duke the Dog (16 episodes)
• Wanda Sykes as Bessy the Cow (16 episodes)
• Maria Bamford as Mrs. Beady (16 episodes)
• Steve Oedekerk as Snotty Boy/Mr. Beady/Snotty's Father/Pizza Twin (12 episodes)
• Fred Tatasciore as Farmer (11 episodes)

Shorts

After the movie had been released, Nickelodeon announced that Barnyard would become a spin-off series. Before the series aired, four shorts were shown:

I'm a Loopy Nut Job

Otis and Pip pull a prank on Mrs. Beady while she is watching a yoga show and a cooking show.

Cow in the Road

A family is driving and Otis, Pip, Freddy, Peck, and Pig distract them.

Sloshy Sloshy

A class goes on a field trip to the farm. Snotty Boy starts to poke Bessy's udder and then, Bessy squirts milk at him.

Pig in a Bottle

While Pig is in the mud, he gets a bottle stuck on his butt.

Notes

• The character design of "Otis" is based on a sculpture by Southern California Artist Mark Beam.
• Also, as noticed in commercials, Otis will not be played by his voice actor in the film, Kevin James. Instead, Chris Hardwick voices him here.

DVDs

Volume 1: When No One's Looking

Release Date: August 5, 2008

• 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: Cow's Night Out

Release Date: TBA 2009

• Cow's Night Out

• The Barnyard Games

• Raging Cow

• Dead Cow Walking

• Snotty's New Pet

• Home Sweet Hole

• Fowl Play

Trivia

• The pizza guys' delivery car's license plate says 1337, internet lingo for elite.
• The episode "Fowl Play", refers to the show Law & Order. The beginning shows the Fowl Play text similar to the Law & Order text, also the intermissions refer to Law & Order's intermissions that make that double bell sound but was replaced with a rooster crowing.
• Mr. and Mrs. Beady are references to Mr. and Mrs. Kravitz of the Bewitched TV series. Mrs. Beady sees the animals walking and talking nearby, and in Bewitched, Mrs. Kravitz sees witchcraft being practiced nearby.
• Oedekerk got the idea for the show when he was working on something while his friend's dog was staring at him. When he left the room, he imagined the dog standing up and saying "Jeez, I thought that guy would never leave".
• Otis appears in Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots as a Master Model used by Professor Calamitous.
• In the movie Abby did not appear but a cow named Daisy did, leading to the thought that Abby has replaced Daisy.
• Otis is a male cow,but has an udder of a female cow (Cartoon Joke). Abby, who is female, is a bull.
• An episode had a parody of THX, reading "BYX" and having a spoof of the Deep Note.
• An episode had a parody of Youtube called "Us Vids" where Pip had posted a video of the animals singing.
• Rob Paulsen and Cam Clarke also voice acted in the cartoon series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, With Clarke as Leornado and Paulsen as Raphael.

See also

• List of Back at the Barnyard Episodes
• List of Back at the Barnyard Characters
• Back at the Barnyard Hayride (roller coaster)

External links

• Official Site
• Press Release
• Mark Beam - Character Design / Associate Producer
• |The Tv.com Page