Back at the Barnyard (originally advertised as Barnyard: The Series) is an American animated comedy television series created and executively produced by filmmaker Steve Oedekerk. The series follows the film Barnyard (2006), which he wrote, co-produced, and directed. The series features the voice of Chris Hardwick as Otis, replacing Kevin James from the film, while Jeff Garcia, Tino Insana, Cam Clarke, Rob Paulsen, Dom Irrera, Wanda Sykes, Maria Bamford, Fred Tatasciore and Oedekerk reprise their roles from the film. It aired from September 29, 2007 to September 18, 2010 on Nickelodeon for two seasons. The show was a co-production between Oedekerk's Omation Animation Studio and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. The last five episodes aired from September 12, 2011 to November 12, 2011, on Nicktoons.
Following the film's events, Otis and his friends continue going on various misadventures and trying to keep their anthropomorphism a secret from humans.
Back at the Barnyard: Slop Bucket Games (released in European regions under the name Back at the Barnyard: Barnyard Games) is an action video game released by THQ in 2008 exclusively for the Nintendo DS, a system not among the platforms the Barnyard tie-in game was released on to promote the preceding film. It received generally negative reviews from critics, with a score of 49 from review aggregator Metacritic.