History WesternAnimation / SherlockYack

** Lion has a tendency to [[YesMan agree with whatever statement that was recently uttered]], rarely forming an opinion of his own and, to top it all off, his large mane is just a wig. KingOfBeasts he ain't.

* DIYDentistry: "Who Bugged the Porcupine?" opens with Sherlock trying to deal with a toothache by tricking Hermione into pulling out a tooth by opening a door. Unfortunately for him, the door opens the other way. It's frequently mentioned that Sherlock refuses to go to the dentist. At the end of the episode, the tooth is finally knocked out when Flamingo bumps into him, though [[HereWeGoAgain it turns out to be the wrong molar]]

* SluggishSloths: Mr. and Mrs. Sloth, always move very slow, talk in a lethargic manner, and are prone to falling asleep mid-sentence.

** In contrast with the SmellySkunk of fiction, Skunk in this show is a [[NeatFreak stickler for cleanliness]], and likes to plant flowers.

* StereotypeFlip: In contrast with the SmellySkunk of fiction, Skunk in this show is a [[NeatFreak stickler for cleanliness]], and likes to plant flowers.

* GrumpyBear: Literal example. Grizzly is often in a dour mood with his eyebrows in a perpetual furrow.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: It's not everyday you see a stoat in cartoons.
** Some of the {{recurring extra}}s are animals rarely portrayed in Western animated media (i.e. Zebu, Marabou, Tapir, Okapi, etc.)

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

'''''Sherlock Yack''''' (also known as, '''''Sherlock Yack, Zoo-detective''''') is a 2011 animated TV series created by Mondo TV, adapted from the novels of Michel Amelin, illustrated by Ruth Christelle (aka Colonel Mustard).

* TwoShorts

** Ostrich seems to be incapable of adding proper suffixes to a lot of words, occasionally mixing them up.

* MinnesotaNice: Mrs. Fennec's accent sounds like this.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: French animation being a bit liberal than US, there are some things that would not have made a pass at a kids' show.
** For example, Ostrich has referred to herself as "sexy".
** In another example, after seeing the guinea pigs smack someone in the face and calling them out:
-->'''Guinea Pig''': What a bore! Always criticizing!
-->'''Sherlock''': ''(bends to inspect tub of sports balls)'': [[DoubleEntendre You've got a lotta balls.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Sherlock Yack, not at all like his human counterpart. Especially in situations like when he becomes addicted to playing a mobile game, complete with adorable noises as he's winning.

Compare ''Anime/SherlockHound'', ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'' and ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective''.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Bobcat towards everyone. None of the misnames were even close to their actual names.

* AnimalStereotypes: Played straight for well-known animals. Peacock is a vain HandsomeLech; Warthog [[ThePigPen likes to be dirty and bathes in mud]]; the Sloths are slow-moving creatures who prefer to sleep (TruthInTelevision by the way), among others.

* CanonForeigner: Sherlock Yack is evidently a Sherlock Holmes lookalike, but none other secondary character is based on one from the book series, not even the medium's version of Watson, who is a younger female. Interestingly, Hermione is sometimes mentioned to be actually the daughter of a friend of his, which might or might not imply jokingly that her father ''is'' a Holmes canon character.

* CasanovaWannabe: Piranha, who apparently flirts with all the ladies in the Zoo which annoys them.

* CatchPhrase: Sherlock's "By all the trees and all the does, I'm on the go!" He also says the first part in a faux-Scottish inflection and as an exclamation, he does not say the second part.

* ADogNamedDog: Many side characters with the notable exception of Sherlock Yack (a yak), Hermione (a stoat), [[OldMaster Ball of Purity]] (an ancient vulture who was Sherlock's teacher back in a Buddhist monastery, seen in flashbacks and one episode's plot), and Doctor Beaky (a blue heron).

* DudeMagnet: Hermione, as shown in "Who Graffitied Hermione?" Her admirers also happen to be the three main suspects (Baboon, the Bird of Paradise, and Tiger).
** Piranha had hit on her a few times, too. Then again, [[CasanovaWannabe he does this to all the females]].

* FantasticFightingStyle: Sherlocks is supposedly trained in Yack Fu, which appears to be the typical Shaolin kung fu.

* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter: Subverted. As per the AnthropomorphicAnimal rule, Hermione walks in two legs despite being a cuadrupedal species, but she often drops to four when needing to sprint.

* GrayAndGreyMorality: In some episodes, it's made clear that the victim is no better than the culprit, especially if said culprit has a good reason for doing said crime in the first place. Sometimes, the one who needs help is also doing some sort of crime which is only revealed when Sherlock is in the case and as a result, both parties can be punished by the end.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is entitled "Who [past tense verb] the [noun]?"
** QuestioningTitle
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Hermione is literally as thin as a stick.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Tiger channels Creator/JohnWayne in his speech cadence and patterns. Old Horse is based in design, and Brooklyn accent, on Burgess Meredith's [[Film/{{Rocky}} Mickey Goldmill]].

* NonMammalianMammaries: Ostrich has ''very'' noticeable, erm, features which is jarring because the other female birds (like Stork and Crane) lack them.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Sherlock Yack (in a OnceAnEpisode, {{Flashback}} sequence) credits his old master Ball of Purity for being able to conquer getting into unimportant matters but as the episodes go on, that turns out not to be the case. Guess his master didn't do a very good job...

* SherlockScan: Well, duh.
** A few episodes show that Hermione is capable of this, too.

* StrawMisogynist: A CompressedVice of Sherlock Yack's, as revealed in "Who Ridiculed the Lion?" (albeit formerly or somewhat downplayed). He insists that his old master, Ball of Purity, taught him not to think that way...by having him fight Gazelle, who [[LaserGuidedKarma defeat him after he sorely misjudged her fighting capabilities]]. Also applies to the Feline Club members Tiger and Bobcat, who have a strict no-girls rule for the sake of the episode.

* TheUnishment: Mrs. Panda turns out to be the culprit in "Who Crushed the Panda?". Her crime was crushing her husband's stove so he would stop working and take a break. While her heart is in the right place, Sherlock still dishes out the punishment which is to leave the zoo and take a vacation with her husband. Which was exactly what they both needed.

* VagueAge: Hermione. Her personality and character design makes one think on a teenager, but an episode shows she has both a driver license and her own car, implying she is at least in her late teens or the equivalent on her species's life expectancy.
* VerbalTic: The flamingo postman has the tendency to speak in DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment via two synonyms of a word he just used at the end of a phrase.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In the English dub, most everybody seems to have a vaguely American accent (despite being voiced by UK-based actors) including Hermione (voiced by Teresa Gallagher, an Australian-born voice actress) and Sherlock Yack himself despite being based-off of Holmes (voiced by Tom Clarke-Hill, a UK-based Californian). Meanwhile, a selected few seem to be foreign [[JustAStupidAccent based on what they sound like when speaking]] like speedy Cheetah who has an Italian accent; Vampire Bat who has a Spanish accent; the snooty Bird of Paradise who has a French accent and so on.

* ADogNamedDog: Many side characters with the notable exception of Sherlock Yack ([[CaptainObvious a yak]]), Hermione (a stoat), [[OldMaster Ball of Purity]] (an ancient vulture who was Sherlock's teacher back in a Buddhist monastery, seen in flashbacks and one episode's plot), and Doctor Beaky (a blue heron).

* SherlockScan: [[CaptainObvious Well, duh]].

* NeverSayDie: Averted. There have been cases where the culprits seem to actually want their victim dead like in "Who Wants to Fry the Piranha"? Sherlock and Hermione investigate a threatening letter sent to Piranha that told him to leave the zoo or he'll be turned to a breaded fish stick.
** According to Doctor Beaky in "Who Chocked Up the Grizzly?" Grizzly "almost laughed himself to death".