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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Ajax. Also, Cornfed in "Ajax and Ajaxer".
* [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship]]: Unfortunately, the DVD releases had to remove a few of the licensed songs; in one instance, an entire scene was spliced out because of this. On the plus side, none of the removed songs were the ones by [[Frank Zappa]].
* [[Cold Opening]]:
** "Bev Takes a Holiday".
** "Clip Job" as well.
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* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: King Chicken sometimes starts plots against Duckman in the middle of another plot.
* [[Creepy Monotone]]:
** Cornfed's ''[[Dragnet]]''-Joe Friday voice.
** [[wikipedia:Ben Stein|Dr. Stein]].
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* [[Excited Episode Title]]: True to parodying B-movie titles: "They Craved Duckman's Brain!"
* [[Expansion Pack Past]]: Cornfed has seen it all, done it all. Although, come to think of it, almost every character gets one of these at one point. Even Duckman's list of acquired sex fetishes gets longer and longer.
* [[Exposition]]:
** In the first episode, "I, Duckman", Duckman delivers a bit of exposition about how Beatrice died and Bernice moved in to help care for the boys when he's irritated that the family is ignoring him.
** Lampshaded brilliantly in "The Color of Naught" when Charles and Mambo tell Duckman that Angela has returned, and proceed to explain (in great detail) their relationship from season 1's "About Face". Duckman snaps: "Don't you think I ''know'' that?!" The twins reply that they were spouting exposition for the benefit of the many non-regular viewers who stumbled upon this while trying to find softcore porn.
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** King Chicken always felt the need to explain his vendetta against Duckman was because of being made fun of when they were kids. After his first appearance, though, this tended to be done more for parody - with other characters clearly bored/irritated by repeat utterances. The crowning example was "The Color of Naught," in which a news reporter claims [[Tim Curry]] has gone into hiding because he doesn't want to be forced to say those lines anymore.
* [[Eye Glasses]]: Somehow, Duckman's eyes are his glasses. He will pull them off his face to clean them, leaving his face unnervingly lacking features.
* [[Fake-Out Opening]]: Occurs all the time; much in the tradition of [[Rugrats]] (another [[Klasky
* [[The Fifties]]: The episode "America the Beautiful" had Duckman and Cornfed venturing to different cities, all of which are a different stereotype of a certain period of time. Their first stop is in a suburban neighborhood literally in black and white and which is mentally stuck in the 1950's, right down to one of the people accusing Duckman and Cornfed of being communists.
* [[Flashback Cut]]: Seen in numerous episodes.
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* [[Grande Dame]]: There's one in "Haunted Society Plumbers".
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: The premise of "A Civil War": Duckman being jealous of Cornfed's limitless abilities in virtually every category.
* [[Hand Wave]]:
** Utilized in "The Road to Dendron" when the villain explains why he performed his evil plan. The instant he begins to explain, a cow walks in front of the camera and munches so loudly you can't hear him. A few seconds later, the cow walks away, only to hear the villain concluding, "And that's why I did it!"
** In "Westward No!", Big Jack McBastard comes back at the end of the episode, alive and well. When Duckman and Cornfed are baffled how he could've survived being trampled and eaten by vultures, McBastard simply says, "Long story."
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* [[I'm Not a Doctor But I Play One on TV]]: Parodied in "A Civil War":
{{quote|'''Actor''': Hi, I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.}}
* [[In Joke]]: One episode has Confed explaining in great detail how a murder was carried out by {{spoiler|a group of celebrities in detox}}. One step involves [[Klasky
* [[Inkblot Test]]:
** Administered to Duckman in "A Room With a Bellevue". His answer disturbs the psychiatrists. Cornfed later "correctly" identifies the image in the inkblot test.
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* [[Phone Trace Race]]: Utilized in "Not So Easy Riders" when some IRS agents are tracing Duckman's phone call: Bernice keeps Duckman on the line by asking him if he's read any good books lately.
{{quote|''Bernice'': What's that one about? (listens) ...With her own ''sisters''? Oh my God.}}
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Not a specific actor, but ''studio''; so this cartoon was brought by... [[Klasky
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: Parodied in "Joking the Chicken".
** In "It's the Thing of the Principal", Duckman and Cornfed try to get into the vice principal's office of Ajax's school, all to no avail. But the second Duckman mentions God in passing, a school cop confronts Duckman and says he won't stand for prayer in public school, and that he has to go to the vice principal's office.
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* [[Running Gag]]:
** Duckman screwing up Mambo's name.
** From "Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial", the sunglasses-wearing cop.
{{quote|'''Cop''': "You folks lost?"}}
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: While USA treated the first three seasons fairly well (even though it did air on Saturday evenings), most of season 4 aired in the wee hours of the morning. Is it any surprise it was canceled after that?
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* [[Take That, Critics!]]: "And to think, Entertainment Weekly panned us."
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: A flashback in "A Civil War" showed that Cornfed protected Duckman from bullets shot by a gunman. ''Twice''.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: This is essentially Fluffy and Uranus' entire schtick. Duckman hates it.
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Duckman, of course.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Fluffy and Uranus tell house-crasher Duckman about some of their prized possessions in "Forbidden Fruit". The next morning, said items are ruined by Duckman.
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** In "Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial", after the family drinks a bunch of water, Duckman says, "No time for bathrooms; we'll sweat it out in the car."
** In "Where No Duckman Has Gone Before", Duckman says he has to go to the bathroom to give new meaning to the term "Captain's Log".
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Fluffy and Uranus of all people, when they're finally fed up with how Duckman is treating them in their own home and demands his respect by screwing over their usual [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|PC-obsessive schtick]] and actually [[Cluster F-Bomb|cussing him out]]. Duckman's sole response is to walk out in silent shock and awe.
* [[Toothy Bird]]: Just look at the page image.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: For some reason, Cornfed, Fluffy and Uranus are consistently loyal to Duckman.
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* [[Utopia]]: The city briefly became one in "The Gripes of Wrath" when Duckman made an off-hand complaint about short-lasting deodorant and a supercomputer used his criticism to change society for the better. Something happened between acts two and three to cause [[Dystopia|a complete reversal of this scenario, though.]]
* [[The Voiceless]]: Grandma-ma, who can't speak due to her coma. She makes up for it by farting instead, and using morse code on one occasion.
** In a couple episodes, though, we do hear her speak: In
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Art De Salvo vomits into a paper bag in "Papa Oom M.O.W. M.O.W.", but we never see the vomit itself.
* [[Wedding Day]]: In the final ep, "Four Weddings Inconceivable", which ended with a [[Cliff Hanger]] that was [[Left Hanging|never resolved]].
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: Cornfed, from the episode "Clear and Presidente Danger", 'For a complete list, please send $12 to Journal Graphics, Washington, DC, 20300.'
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]:
** "The Girls of Route Canal", which is about Duckman telling Charles and Mambo how he and Beatrice met.
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* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: "[[Hamlet]] 2: This Time, It's Personal".
* [[Wraparound Background]]: Used during the [[Yogi Bear]] parody in "I, Duckman".
* [[Yandere (disambiguation)]]: Tami from "The Tami Show".
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