Mike the Knight

Yip, Sparkie, Evie, Mike, Squirt, Fernando, Queen Martha and Yap.

Mike the Knight is a children's animated series about the adventures of Mike the Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.

No, wait; that's Michael Knight.

Mike the Knight is a trainee knight (false advertising, right there) who is apparently too young to be allowed a sword and instead is armed with an expanding shield and a sword hilt which is attached to a random thing (a feather, a scroll, a candle, a handle) that is inevitably exactly what he needs to make good at the end of the episode. Each episode, he goes on adventures with his friends, invariably acts like a complete douchebag, then declares it is 'time to be a knight and do it right!' and makes amends for his dickish behaviour.

Think I'm exaggerating? In one episode he persuades his friend Trolly to take part in a tournament - with no training and crappy equipment - just so that he has someone to beat and can therefore 'win'. In another, he offers to take his dragon friend Squirt on his own adventure, but keeps showboating and hogging the glory while trying to shoehorn Squirt into a knightly (rather than dragonly) adventure.

In fairness, he always makes amends and feels bad when he realises that he's being a dick, but you'd think eventually he might learn to be more mindful of his actions.