- Austin Moon from Austin & Ally. Minus the "small" part (his actor, Ross Lynch, was 6' tall by age fifteen)."I'm Austin, and I like pancakes!"
- Same with his actor, Ross Lynch. The man's an explosion of perky adorable elfin cuteness.
- Andrew from Buffy the Vampire Slayer embodies this trope.
- Drake & Josh: Josh Nichols is very hyperactive, loud, excitable, and overemotional. He especially gets giddy when it comes to Oprah.
- Jonathan Mangum from Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza is a good example of this trope. Despite being 40, he is often thought to be the youngest performer due to his constant usage of this trope.
- David Arquette, who always seems to be freebasing sugar. He's fully capable of playing serious roles, though he's more famous in the "hyper" persona.
- The Eighth, Tenth (provided he's not brooding) and Eleventh (even when he is brooding) Doctors from Doctor Who.
- Boober Fraggle, Fraggle Rock's resident Eeyore, has an alter-ego named Sidebottom who is a textbook example of this trope.
- Klus The Gnome from Studio100's Kabouter Plop series is the most energetic of the gnomes and loves playing pranks and showing off. He once tried to fly after seeing birds fly around him.
- Kido Shinji from Kamen Rider Ryuki is almost certainly the Keet-iest of all the Kamen Rider main protagonists. (Probably for the best considering that he resides in a Crapsack Black And Gray Morality World that has a very high death quotient up to and including Shinji himself).
- Kamen Rider Zero-One: Jin, the giggly, bouncy Psychopathic Manchild of the terroristic group / apocalypse cult MetsuboJinrai.NET. Notably, his excitement and attention span of a caffeinated fruitfly do not make him any less dangerous.
- Ky Lee from The Librarians (2007).
- Nobuta Wo Produce has the hyperactive touchy rich-boy Akira as its Keet.
- Pee-wee Herman on Pee-wee's Playhouse embodies this trope.
- Ziggy from Power Rangers RPM (counterpart of Hanto, below) fits this rather nicely, as well as Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon portrays Motoki this way. His best friend in the world is a pet turtle named Kamekichi, he always smiles and he doesn't quite know the meaning of subtlety.
- Rich Fields on The Price Is Right is this on occasion, especially in the opening speech and when he says IT'S A NEW CAR/TRUCK/VIPER/LINCOLN!!.
- The Canadian show The Red Green Show has Red's nerdy nephew Harold, as well as the town criminal, Mike Hamar. Both are skinny, shrill and overly enthusiastic, though Harold isn't exactly small. Mike, for one, tends to squeal like an excited schoolgirl when hosting the "Possum Lodge Word Game" segment.
- JD from Scrubs. One of the personality traits Dr. Cox likes to mock him for the most.
- Ban from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger takes the standard anime personality for The Hero to galactic proportions. He's ultra-loud and ultra-hyperactive 24/7. Having this personality archetype as a Red is somewhat of a Creator Thumbprint for producer Hideaki Tsukada, since it also carried into Kai from Mahou Sentai Magiranger, Jan from Juken Sentai Gekiranger, and Juru from Mashin Sentai Kiramager.
- Hanto/Go-on Green in Engine Sentai Go-onger
- Wizards of Waverly Place has Zeke. He was once compared in-show to a hummingbird.
- Don't forget "Bouncing Chipmunk."
- Rick from The Young Ones (while not a generally happy person and moreso angry) is very loud, hyperactive, and feminine. Right down to his pigtails and closet transvestism.
- Jeremy from the Korean drama You're Beautiful fits this trope to the letter. Unfortunately, he's not always happy as he seems.
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