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'''''Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man''''' is an [[Animated Series]] starring Jason Alexander as Duckman -- the cheapest, sleaziest, most incompetent private investigator in the world; he's also a lousy father, a small-time crook...and a duck. He and his family are all walking, talking, tax-paying<ref>Well, Duckman never pays his taxes, but you get the idea.</ref> ducks, and Duckman's hyper-efficient (and humorless) assistant Cornfed is a pig, despite the fact that this is not a ''[[
Very crude (right down to the deliberately ugly character designs), very cynical and very, very surreal -- sort of like if Luis Buñuel had made ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' -- it freely mixed low-brow riffs with the abstract and the intellectual. The show has an ardent cult following, and a lot of its fans are still stewing over the final episode's [[Cliff Hanger]].
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* [[Anti Role Model]]: Duckman. Explicitly lampshaded on at least one occasion.
{{quote| '''Duckman''': "Role model"? Hey, I'm a water fowl! ''I'm not a TV show!'' Even if I were, any halfway intelligent audience would know I'm not somebody to imitate. Who'd aspire to imitate someone who's gotten the stuffing kicked out of him so many times, the only reason he gets up in the morning is because either he's ''really stupid'', or somewhere, deep down inside, beats the heart of a disappointed, yet still hopeful, idealist. A yellow, [[Brick Joke|''YES YELLOW!'']], teller of truth, who's a spokesperson for the silent masses who'd love to tell it like it is, who's an idol to be emulated, nay, a ''GOD'', to be bowed down to!... But, heh, I'm... I'm not a ''role model''.}}
* [[Art Shift]]: In "I, Duckman", Duckman watches various home movies to hopefully get a clue about his past. All the home movies have a different art style: [[Steamboat Willie]] for his childhood years, [[Popeye]] for another time, [[
* [[Astronomic Zoom]]: Demonstrated at the beginning of "Days of Whining and Neurosis".
* [[Beat]]: In "Das Sub", there's a really long one after one of the arrested students ask if Duckman will take the rap for the crime, and Cornfed just stares blankly.
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* [[Big Bad]]: King Chicken, although he and Duckman had a truce near the end.
* [[Bigger Bad]]: Parodied in "The Mallardian Candidate", where the episode ends with Duckman and Cornfed solving the case and being observed by a group of villains, who are also watched over by an endless chain of other criminal masterminds.
* [[Bill, Bill, Junk, Bill]]:
{{quote| '''Bernice''': Let's see: Junk, junk, junk, summons...}}
* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: USA was a frequent target of the series.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "DWAH!", "What the hell are ''you'' starin' at!?", "Hommina hommina howah!" and others.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Duckman used a rant as a filibuster in "Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial" to irritate King Chicken into revealing his plot to the court.
** We see the ending of one at the start of "Das Sub," as Duckman stands trial for land fraud. According to the judge, Duckman had already "acted out five ''[[Leprechaun (
* [[Chew Toy]]: Fluffy and Uranus.
* [[Chirping Crickets]]: Heard at the end of "Gland of Opportunity" when Charles, Mambo, and Ajax have an extended awkward silence after Duckman says his kids are still proud of him even though he didn't perform the death-defying stunt.
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* [[Cut Short]]: The final episode of the 4th Season was not planned to be the final episode.
* [[The Danza]]: Ben Stein had a recurring role as a psychiatrist named...Ben Stein.
* [[A Date
** From "Psyche":
{{quote| '''Therapist''': Are you sexually active?<br />
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* [[Distant Prologue]]: "Ride the High School" begins in "Africa, A Long Time Ago", where a father is teaching his son how to kill animals for food. It then cuts to "Austria, A Little Later", where a father is teaching his son how to play the harpsichord. It then cuts to "Virginia, A Little Later Still", where George Washington cut down the cherry tree. Finally, it cuts to the present: "Duckman's House, Tuesday", where Duckman is watching static on TV in the vain hopes that the Bouncing Naked Flesh Channel will be temporarily unscrambled.
** Also utilized in "Joking the Chicken", for a [[2001: A Space Odyssey|2001]] parody that starts in prehistoric times and then cuts to the present.
* [[Distracted
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: In "Joking the Chicken":
{{quote| '''Iggy Catalpa''': My name is... (checks wallet) Iggy Catalpa. I was checking my wallet, like I forgot. (silence from the crowd) }}
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Used all the time, often demonstrated by Duckman.
* [[I Comma Noun]]: "I, Duckman".
* [[I'm a Doctor, Not
* [[Image Song]]: "The Funky Duckman"
* [[I'm Not a Doctor But I Play One
{{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 Csupo|klasky soup]].
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* [[Jerkass]]: Yes, it's Duckman. It's a core driver of the show's plots and comedy.
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: During most of his rants, Duckman is actually capable of making some pretty valid points about other characters or society in general.
* [[Jerk
* [[Jittercam]]: Done in "American Dicks" to simulate the [[Cops]] feel.
* [[Joker Jury]]: In "Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial", King Chicken requests that instead of going through the usual jury selection process, to just use whoever is currently (and unknowingly) sitting in the jury box. The motion is granted.
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* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Duckman can do this, rarely, when it comes to saving his or his family's ass. Even more rarely, he can do it when it comes to social situations. In certain circumstances, he can actually successfully charm women.
* [[Logo Joke]]: In "Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial," after Duckman is acquitted he mentions he had faith in a higher power, looks up towards the sky... the camera follows his gaze as it goes through the clouds... and stops on a mountain surrounded by stars with the word "Paramount" above the peak. [[Paramount|Three guesses as to which company made this.]]
* [[Long List]]: In "You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby", there's a parody of the scene from ''[[The Fugitive (
{{quote| '''Walt Evergreen''': OK people, listen up. I want a hard target search of every outhouse, beach house, warehouse, boat house, smoke house, clubhouse, ice house, hot house, White House, crack house, bath house, dog house, cat house, reptile house, halfway house, slaughter house, haunted house, gingerbread house, and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Joe Eszterhas]] in the tri-swamp area.}}
** In "Papa Oom M.O.W. M.O.W.", Cornfed rattled off the merchandise created when Duckman had his fifteen minutes of fame.
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* [[Notable Commercial Campaigns]]: In-between the third and fourth seasons, USA ran a series of commercials asking, "Where is Duckman?", and showing Duckman at various locations like at a political rally and on the moon.
* [[Not So Different]]: In "Cock Tales For Four", King Chicken blames Duckman for his life being a failure, due to Duckman ridiculing him to the other children when they were kids. However, after King Chicken says that Duckman couldn't possibly know what it's like to be an outcast, Duckman snaps: "I know ''exactly'' what that's like! (long pause) After you ran home, they made fun of me, too." This revelation causes the two to realize they have a lot in common, and temporarily become friends... until King Chicken's wife comes onto Duckman and King Chicken blames Duckman for it, thereby reinstating the long-standing feud between the two.
* [[Off
{{quote| '''King Chicken:''' Ignorance of the law is no excuse.<br />
'''Cornfed:''' ''(reading the boys' paper)'' Actually, this is the one town where ignorance ''is'' a legal excuse.<br />
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** "Hannah Does Her Sisters"
** "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Howard's End]]"
* [[Parent
* [[Parental Neglect]]: Duckman, who learned all too well from his own mother.
* [[Parody Episode]]: "The Road to Dendron" is a parody of all those Bing Crosby/Bob Hope "Road To" movies.
** "The Mallardian Candidate" is a parody of [[The Manchurian Candidate]].
** "Where No Duckman Has Gone Before"... [[Star Trek:
** "My Feral Lady" is a parody of [[My Fair Lady]], obviously.
** "The Girls of Route Canal" parodies [[The Bridges of Madison County]].
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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 Csupo|the creators]] of ''[[Rugrats]]'', ''[[The Wild Thornberries]]'' and ''[[As Told
* [[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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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: In "Role With It," during a group therapy session involving role playing, Duckman winds up taking a lot of abuse from everyone else in the cast. When he gets his nerve back, though, he very calmly gives it back - doing a little role playing of his own and pointing out all of their faults.
* [[Red Shirt]]: The waiter in "Apocalypse Not", who even protests that he's not going to perform a dangerous task instead of the main characters, because he's a one-shot and nobody will care if he dies. Bernice says that's nonsense, and after the waiter predictably dies, she half-heartedly mourns his loss, but screws it when she can't remember the waiter's name.
** And in "Where No Duckman Has Gone Before", Fluffy and Uranus appropriately play the "red shirt" characters from [[
* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
* [[Reinventing the Telephone]]: A smoke signal--[[Lampshaded]] when they use a telephone after it doesn't work.)
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** From "Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial", the sunglasses-wearing cop.
{{quote| '''Cop''': "You folks lost?"}}
* [[Screwed
* [[The Seventies]]: 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 third stop was a disco club.
* [[Shameless Self Promoter]]: In "Days of Whining and Neurosis", Cornfed plugs [[Murder, She Wrote]] reruns on USA.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Duckman's middle name, Tiberius, is a reference to the middle name of [[Star Trek
** In "The Road to Dendron", Duckman is forced into a metal cage and lowered towards lava. This is definitely a reference to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
** In "Das Sub," a parody of 1995's ''Nixon'' sees Duckman re-enact the part where Nixon looks at a picture of JFK. As Duckman is filling the Nixon role, [[Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist|Dr. Katz]] is in the picture.
{{quote| "They look at you and see what they wanna watch. They look at me and know it's the wrong channel."}}
* [[Single-Minded Twins]]: Sharing a body, Charles and Mambo displayed this sometimes, although they were also known to argue with each other. They've been known to ''headbutt'' each other!
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** "Joking the Chicken" featured a take-off of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" which played, appropriately enough, during a ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' parody.
** "The Gripes of Wrath" has a musical parody of the song "Holiday for Strings", aka the theme to "The Red Skeleton Show".
** During a couple episodes of season 4, Bernice was accompanied by a brief [[Leitmotif]] which sounded very similar to the Wicked Witch of the West's theme from ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
** And, of course, the ''[[Friends]]'' theme was parodied in "With Friends Like These".
* [[Take That]]: In "Clip Job", Ajax basically equates [[Walker, Texas Ranger]] with sewage.
** King Chicken's full name is [[George HW Bush|George Herbert Walker]] Chicken.
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: "And to think, Entertainment Weekly panned us."
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** "Exile in Guyville", which uses the wraparounds of a future society where a mother tells her son bedtime stories of Duckman.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: "[[Hamlet]] 2: This Time, It's Personal".
* [[Wraparound Background]]: Used during the [[
* [[Yandere]]: Tami from "The Tami Show".
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