Wakko

Wakko (voiced by Jess Harnell) wears a red cap and blue shirt and speaks with a Scouse accent that Harnell explicitly modeled after Ringo Starr (Initially, he created a John Lennon-esque voice for Wakko until he saw that the character was short, so he just raised the pitch). He’s the middle child, and subsequently the most weird and absurd of the bunch. Often pulls objects from his “Gag Bag” when situations call for it. More often than not, his tongue is sticking out of his mouth. He generally supplies the more crude humor sometimes featured on the show, typically prompting Yakko to blow a kiss to the audience and comment, “Goooodnight everybody!”. He is the most physical of the three, and thus tends to lean toward physical humor, whereas Yakko (being a more talkative person) favors vocal humor. Wakko can walk backwards just as well as he can forwards, and is very flexible. Wakko has a voracious appetite, and will eat almost anything, including gum found under a seat and even rocks for shock value or perhaps simply to see how they taste. He also has a phobic fear of clowns (cf. “Clown and Out”). He is a big fan of Don Knotts and, like his brother Yakko, he will also hit on any pretty girl, despite his apparant young age. According to the song “Hello Nurse” he is seven years old; this was the only reference ever made to their age, and was not considered canonical by the writers. His cap is his trademark; when the Warners wear costumes, Wakko will usually keep his cap on (occasionally he’ll take it off, which makes him look very similar to his brother, Yakko). He follows in Yakko’s footsteps by singing all the fifty US states and their capitals, in “Wakko’s America”.