Angry Kid is a British animated comedy web series created, directed, written, and designed by Darren Walsh and produced by Aardman Animations for Series 1 and 2 and by Mr Morris Productions for Series 3 and 4.

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Angry Kid
Logo from the first and second series. The logo is green in the third and fourth series.
Genre	Black comedy Surreal humour
Created by	Darren Walsh
Written by	Darren Walsh Mike Booth Mike Cooper
Directed by	Darren Walsh
Starring	Darren Walsh David Holt Mike Cooper Beth Chalmers Kevin Eldon Jo Allen Lee Evans
Theme music composer	Will Hodge
Opening theme	"Angry Kid"
Ending theme	"Angry Kid"
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	66
Production
Executive producers	Peter Lord (S1-2) David Sproxton (S1-2) Liz Keynes (S1)
Producers	Michael Rose (S1) Jo Allen (S1) Jacky Chrisp (S2) Julie Lockhart (S2) Russell McLean (S3-4)
Cinematography	Mark Chamberlain
Running time	1-22 minutes
Production companies	Aardman Animations Mr Morris Productions
Original release
Network	Channel 4 (1998–2002) BBC Three (2003–2006) Atom.com (1999–2012) YouTube (2007–2019)
Release	5 December 1998 (1998-12-05) [1] – 8 November 2019 (2019-11-08)

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Unlike most Aardman productions, Angry Kid was not created using clay animation but a combination of pixilation (using actors in a form of stop motion puppetry) with masks for facial expressions.^[2] Series 3 onwards uses CGI for Angry Kid's head, along with live action. The series also aired in the United States on MTV.

Series 1 and 2 have been released on DVD by Pathé and 2Entertain respectively. All the Angry Kid animations from before the third series were on Atom.com before the site was absorbed into Comedy Central. A compilation DVD called Aardman's Dark Side was also released, and it contains several Series 2 episodes and an exclusive episode. The vast majority of Angry Kid has since been released on YouTube.

After an 8-year hiatus, Series 3 was launched on 3 July 2015 with the episode 'Interview'. Series 4 launched 4 years later in September 2019.

Unlike the first two series, Series 3 and 4 were exclusively released on the official Angry Kid YouTube page, with new episodes appearing every three weeks.

The fourth series concluded on 27 December 2019, and, as of December 2022, no further posts have been made to the Angry Kid page.

• Darren Walsh as Angry Kid, the title protagonist and antihero. He is a redheaded teenage boy who has a foul mouth and a terrible attitude. He is a mean-spirited brat who gains great enjoyment out of irritating and enraging others. He does not care who he steps on or what trouble he causes as long as it gets him what he needs or wants. Angry Kid is almost always seen wearing a dark blue parka jacket with a furry hood (even over his pyjamas). He is known by police officers as "the little ginger git on the bike" and he is also known as "Stanners." Angry Kid lives with his parents and his younger sister in the TV series but in the special episode "Who Do I Think I Am?", his mother abandons the family, though by Series 3, she has reconnected with Angry Kid and is now in a relationship with a man named Stephen. He also has a pet dog. Angry Kid also regularly falls victim to dog attacks, as he is seen being attacked by a dog multiple times throughout the series.
• David Holt as Dad, Angry Kid's unseen father. He has an obsession for country and western music which he often plays in the car. He usually hits Angry Kid with his newspaper when Angry Kid says or does something stupid or annoying (but only his hand is shown when he hits him). In Who Do You Think You Are?, when he shows Angry Kid some home videos, his full body (apart from his face) is shown. He also plays the Teacher, who only appears in the setting of Angry Kid and Speccy's classroom. According to Who Do I Think I Am, the teacher is a male who happens to have a feminine-sounding voice, much to Angry Kid's confusion^[3] So far, he has only been in two episodes, both of which are specials: Darkside and Who do I Think I Am?
• Jo Allen / Beth Chalmers as Lil' Sis, Angry Kid's younger sister. Her brother usually torments and teases her, but she gets her own back sometimes. Even though she is smaller and younger than Angry Kid, she is a lot smarter. She very rarely speaks, but she has a speaking part in the episode "Horror," in which she was possessed by an evil spirit and her head turned all the way around. She also talks in the Who Do I Think I Am? specials, the Aardman's Dark Side exclusive episode and in Series 4.
• Mike Cooper / Kevin Eldon / Lee Evans as Speccy, Angry Kid's nerdy "best friend". Speccy is allergic to nuts (as revealed in "Swollen"), and when Angry Kid shoved a handful down his throat, he became severely disfigured, and he was then rushed to hospital by Dad. Speccy is always picked on by Angry Kid, who is cruel to him (e.g. making Speccy do his homework for him or not letting him watch movies with him). In Who Do I Think I Am?, it is revealed that Speccy's real name is Myles.

• Rex the Runt - The Aardman Adult show starring Richard Goleszowski.