Erky Perky
Two bickering bugs survive a sterile kitchen.
Two bickering, not-too-bright bugs named Erky and Perky start out living at a hot dog stand. After being accidentally transported to a house, they try to make a new home there alongside other house insects. Their main challenge is finding food in an extremely clean kitchen. This CGI-animated series aired on YTV, with development by CCI Entertainment and Ambience Entertainment, and animation by The LaB Sydney.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Comedy; Animated sitcom
- Creator
- David Webster
- Director
- David Webster
- Tim Golsby-Smith
- Cameron Chittock
- Runtime
- 22 minutes
- Starring
- Jason Barr
- Neil Crone
- Judy Marshak
- Adrian Truss
- Ron Rubin
- Keith Knight
- Melissa Jane Shaw
- Composer
- Alex Khaskin; Ken Worth
- Country
- Australia; Canada
- Company
- CCI Entertainment
- Ambience Entertainment
- The LaB Sydney
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Plot
Two bugs, the Scottish-accented Erky and his cowardly friend Perky, live an idyllic life on a downtown hot dog stand. They are swept away in a take-out bag and end up in a sterile suburban kitchen with no food. The bickering, dim-witted bugs must survive in the new "Land of Kitchen," obsessed with finding food and returning to "Hot Dog Stand." Their quests are often foiled by "Mad" Margaret and her sidekick Cecil.
Characters
Erquhart "Erky" Windsor (voiced by Jason Barr) is a blue, yellow-spotted bug with a Scottish accent who takes Perky for granted and sends him into dangerous schemes for food. The episode "Perky vs. McBuggy Z" revealed Erky is a natural-born rapper and dancer. Percival "Perky" Rosenberg (voiced by Neil Crone) is a yellow, blue-spotted bug who is cowardly, impressionable, and weak; he has a crush on Margaret's niece Sajuica. Cecil (voiced by Adrian Truss) is smitten with the tyrant Margaret despite being a tenth her size, becoming jealous of her affairs with Pablomo and Erky. Mad Margaret (voiced by Judy Marshak) is the self-appointed ruler of the kitchen who stops Erky and Perky's plans and steals their food. Sajuica (voiced by Melissa Jane Shaw) is Margaret's niece, considered the "babe" of the kitchen, flirty and attracting flies; she fancies Perky. Frenzel (voiced by Ron Rubin) devises profitable food-getting schemes, preying on others' naiveté, often tricking Perky. Moldy van Oldy (voiced by Keith Knight in seasons 1–2, Rob Greenway in season 3) is a senile old bug who talks for hours, sometimes rambling; he told the story of Margaret's acquired hydrophobia from being sprayed with water as a young bug. Stinks (voiced by Annick Obonsawin in seasons 1–2, Stacey DePass in season 3) appears whenever someone says a word that sounds like his name, such as "thinks."
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