History WesternAnimation / JakersTheAdventuresOfPiggleyWinks

''Jakers!'' is not without its EdutainmentShow conventions; Piggley and his friends must occasionally recruit the help of adults, who are willing to step in and administer [[AnAesop Aesops]] when things go wrong.

* AnAesop: This is an EnforcedTrope due to the show's younger audience, with several episodes having quite serious morals, despite the comedy:
** "The Salmon of Knowledge": Don't put off studying, and don't take myths at face value.

* TheParentProducedProject: The episode ''Mi Galeon'' revolves around Don Toro getting a little too excited about building a model boat with Ferny; he builds an elaborate, beautiful, fully-functional Spanish galleon, while Ferny's friends' models are crude and clearly kid-produced. The episode ends with AnAesop about the fact that even parents make mistakes sometimes.

NostalgicNarrator extraordinaire [[PunnyName Piggley]] Winks lives in the suburban United States [[note]]or England, depending on where you are[[/note]] with his daughter, Ciara, and her three children, Meg, Sean, and Seamus. The series is a [[FramingDevice frame story]] in which the tales of Grandpa Piggley's boyhood days in [[{{Arcadia}} rural Ireland]], which Piggley often relates when his grandchildren are in need of a lesson, construct the outer frame. As Grandpa's stories unfold, the audience enters the inner frame and travels to Raloo Farm in the village of Tara, where [[AgeCut eight-year-old Piggley]] lives with his parents and little sister Molly. [[TheEveryman When he's not attending to farm chores or schoolwork]], he's busy hatching dragon's eggs, turning donkeys into racehorses, searching for the legendary Salmon of Knowledge, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and sneaking a piece of Mammy Winks' apple pie.]] Grandpa Piggley often reminds his grandkids that the world of his childhood was one in which the hurly-burly of modern conveniences ''never'' distracted him from a mischievous eight-year-old's CallToAdventure. Piggley is accompanied on his exploits by his [[ThreeAmigos two best buddies]], Fernando "Ferny" Toro and Dannan O'Mallard. The three rely on their imaginations and childlike ingenuity to turn an ordinary world into an utterly fantastic one.

* BadOlBadger: Hector [=McBadger=], as he is TheBully of the show, though not without some JerkWithAHeartOfGold moments.

* MaliciousMisnaming: Hector the badger often says Piggley's last name, Winks, as "Dinks/Dink".

NostalgicNarrator extraordinaire [[PunnyName Piggley]] Winks lives in the suburban United States [[note]]or England, depending on where you are[[/note]] with his daughter, Ciara, and her three children, Meg, Sean and Seamus. The series is a [[FramingDevice frame story]] in which the tales of Grandpa Piggley's boyhood days in [[{{Arcadia}} rural Ireland]], which Piggley often relates when his grandchildren are in need of a lesson, construct the outer frame. As Grandpa's stories unfold, the audience enters the inner frame and travels to Raloo Farm in the village of Tara, where [[AgeCut eight-year-old Piggley]] lives with his parents and little sister Molly. [[TheEveryman When he's not attending to farm chores or schoolwork]], he's busy hatching dragon's eggs, turning donkeys into racehorses, searching for the legendary Salmon of Knowledge, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and sneaking a piece of Mammy Winks' apple pie.]] Grandpa Piggley often reminds his grandkids that the world of his childhood was one in which the hurly-burly of modern conveniences ''never'' distracted him from a mischievous eight-year-old's CallToAdventure. Piggley is accompanied on his exploits by his [[ThreeAmigos two best buddies]], Fernando "Ferny" Toro and Dannan O'Mallard. The three rely on their imaginations and childlike ingenuity to turn an ordinary world into an utterly fantastic one.

The series' subplot involves Wiley, a wisecracking sheep who has been imported from America to join the flock at Raloo Farm. He is considerably more intelligent, aware and curious than the rest of the sheep, and thus considers himself the OnlySaneMan. Wiley tries desperately to coax his flock to participate in "high culture"; singing, dancing, filmmaking, and anything else that might add a little pizzazz to a life of munching grass. [[Creator/MelBrooks His voice might sound familiar.]]

The show has won ''six'' Emmy awards, which include Oustanding Children's Animated Program, Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program, Individual Achievement in Production Design and Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition.

All of the characters are [[FunnyAnimal anthromorphic farm animals]], which leads to much FurryConfusion, especially considering that some of these characters live on ''farms'' on which they tend to... well, ''farm animals''. [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Just go with it.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: The show's website features trading cards of each of the characters on which information such as the characters' hobbies, secrets and favorite foods is given. The series takes great care in developing its characters, but some of these details are never even hinted at, especially those associated with characters who only appear for one or two episodes.

* CoolOldGuy: Grandpa Piggley. He's still quite the rock-and-roll guitarist fifty some-odd years after he learned to play.

* FramingDevice: Every episode is told in flashback by an adult Piggly to his grandchildren.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Dannan wears only a blouse, sweater and bow. Among the supporting characters that fit this trope are bird characters Mr. [=McGandry=] and Gosford, as well as Fergal O'Hopper the rabbit.

* ThemeTuneRollCall: The theme song introduces Piggly and his friends.

''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'' (simply ''Jakers!'' in Europe) is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI-]][[WesternAnimation animated]] children's television show produced by Entara Ltd. and Mike Young Productions which ran in the United States on Creator/PBSKids from 2003 to 2008 and on Creator/{{Univision}}, dubbed in Spanish, from April 2008 to September 2010. It has been broadcast in Ireland on Creator/{{RTE}}'s children's block, ''The Den'', and in the UK on [[Creator/TheBBC Cbeebies]]. [[AdoredByTheNetwork Adored by networks worldwide]], the series has been dubbed in [[LongList Spanish, Scottish Gaelic, German, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Italian.]]

* FurryConfusion: Being a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, it is common that non-anthropomorphic animals appear in the show. However, in the episode, ''Salmon of Knowledge'', there is a scene showing a ''non-anthropomorphic'' cow and the show already featurs a cow character named Ferny Toro.

* SliceOfLife

* TitleThemeTune

* PeelingPotatoes: In Piggley's ImagineSpot in "Teacher Creature" has Dannan being forced to do this while wearing a DunceCap.

--> '''Mr. Winks:''' ''(pretending to scold Piggley, Ferny, and Dannan)'' A lifetime of peeling potatoes is too good for the likes of you!

''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'' (simply ''Jakers!'' in Europe) is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI-]][[WesternAnimation animated]] children's television show produced by Entara Ltd. and Mike Young Productions which ran in the United States on Creator/PBSKids from 2003 to 2008 and on Univision, dubbed in Spanish, from April 2008 to September 2010. It has been broadcast in Ireland on Creator/{{RTE}}'s children's block, ''The Den'', and in the UK on [[Creator/TheBBC Cbeebies]]. [[AdoredByTheNetwork Adored by networks worldwide]], the series has been dubbed in [[LongList Spanish, Scottish Gaelic, German, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Italian.]]

'''Molly:''' I'm a princess!\\

* {{Antidisestablishmentarianism}}: One of Piggley's grandsons uses the "Bet you I can spell it!" trick on the other. He spells "it" thus: "I-T".

* BadOlBadger: Hector Mc Badger, as he is TheBully of the show, though not without some JerkWithAHeartOfGold moments.

* DisappearedDad: Ciara's husband and the father of her children is never even mentioned. According to WordOfGod, her marital status is kept vague so she can be perceived in any role: married, divorced, or single.

* DisappearedDad: Ciara's husband sand the father of her children is never even mentioned.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Piggley, Ferny and Dannan.

* MissingMom: Ferny's mom. While it's initially unclear whether or not she's simply not around, it's eventually revealed that she sadly passed away.

* {{Oireland}}: The home of Piggley's childhood.

* [[MrImagination Mister Imagination]]: Piggley, past and present.

* SuddenlyVoiced: In later episodes, Shirley, a sheep in Wiley's flock who had given birth to a lamb in ''Growing Pains'', is able to talk; Wiley even assumes the role of her HenpeckedHusband. She is voiced by Joan Rivers.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be Banshees]]: Dannan's known among her friends for being absolutely fearless... except when it comes to the spooky wailing ghost that's supposedly taken up residence in Piggley's barn in ''Song of the Banshee''.

''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'' (simply ''Jakers!'' in Europe) is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI-]][[WesternAnimation animated]] children's television show produced by Entara Ltd. and Mike Young Productions which ran in the United States on Creator/PBSKids from 2003 to 2008 and on Univision, dubbed in Spanish, from April 2008 to September 2010. It has been broadcast in [[CaptainObvious Ireland]] on Creator/{{RTE}}'s children's block, ''The Den'', and in the UK on [[Creator/TheBBC Cbeebies]]. [[AdoredByTheNetwork Adored by networks worldwide]], the series has been dubbed in [[LongList Spanish, Scottish Gaelic, German, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Italian.]]

* TheParentProducedProject: The episode ''Mi Galeon'' revolves around Don Toro getting a little too excited about building a model boat with Ferny; he builds an elaborate, beautiful, fully-functional Spanish galleon, while Ferny's friends' models are crude and clearly kid-produced. The episode ends with a rather [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]] [[AnAesop Aesop]] about the fact that even parents make mistakes sometimes.