History WesternAnimation / Duckman

* {{Crossover}}: The end of "Haunted Society Plumbers" reveals a supposed ghost to be [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] under a sheet.

** King Chicken developed a hatred for Duckman because Duckman used to bully him in High School... at least according to the Topps Comics adaptation.

* FakeOutOpening: Occurs all the time; much in the tradition of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' (another Creator/KlaskyCsupo show produced in association with a [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} division]] of Creator/{{Viacom}}), many episodes open with something puzzling, only for the camera to zoom out and reveal what it actually is. Alternatively, the episode will open on a show or movie that one of the characters is watching. Example from "America the Beautiful": A bunch of beauty contestants fighting (with one eventually pulling out a machine gun and wasting everyone). It turns out it's just a video game Ajax is playing.

** Klasky-Csupo also animated several shows for another Creator/{{Viacom}} division, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}.

** In "The Once and Future Duck", UsefulNotes/JamesMadison takes advantage of the time portals that keep appearing throughout the episode to "send a message" to audiences: that the First Amendment is absolute, applies to everyone and everything, and has no exceptions; and that the Second Amendment doesn't mean that the average person has the right to own a gun. Not coincidentally, both of these opinions are very much in-line with mainstream American liberalism of TheNineties; they really don't apply to what Madison would have ''actually'' thought (most of the Founding Fathers were ''big'' fans of private gun ownership), nor have they aged particularly well (the American left has generally moved towards favoring restrictions on free speech in the name of deplatforming bigotry and fighting misinformation).

* {{Sting}}: In "The Mallardian Candidate", every time "a conspiracy!" is said, a three note, dramatic sting is played. Eventually, Duckman gets irritated at it, especially when the sting interrupts his sentences and, in one instance, plays upon showing him merely walking into a building.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Demonstrated in "They Craved Duckman's Brain!", when bystanders overhear that Duckman has a cure for cancer in his brain. Once they start to riot when trying to grab Duckman, the doctor from the episode appeals to the crowd with AnAesop:

* AnAesop: Tends to get dropped now and then, particularly in regards to censorship.
** "The Once and Future Duck" highlights just how much of a minefield trying to control the future would be, through liberal use of chaos theory (e.g. Duckman going outside leads to his getting an I-beam through his skull, but staying inside leads to his becoming a SassyBlackWoman), leading to his becoming paralyzed by indecision.

-->'''A video presentation:''' ''Ladies and Gentlemans, here are your cancer profiteers: doctors, lab workers, pharmaceutical manufactures, probate lawyers, obituaries writers, coffin makers, New Yorkers who need apartments, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers The Republican Party]]...''

Created by the late Everett Peck, who would later move on to create Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'' (in the interim he did design work for [[WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} a]] [[WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters bunch]] [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries of]] [[WesternAnimation/GodzillatheSeries shows]] for Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision).

** King Chicken clearly doesn't appreciate the time his name is revealed to be [[spoiler: [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George Herbert Walker]]]].

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* InJoke: 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 [[Creator/KlaskyCsupo klasky soup]].

* NegativeContinuity: In "You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby", Grandma-ma is [[spoiler: revealed to still be Agnes Delrooney from several months earlier and even waking up and participating in the plot. This is an interesting example, since in "Crime, Punishment, War, Peace, and the Idiot" before this episode we'd seen a flashback inside Grandma-ma's mind implying she was still Grandma-ma and suggesting the show was going to have no continuity with respect to Agnes replacing her, only for Agnes to show up in a later episode.]]

* NoEnding: The series' 4th season final episode ended with a CliffHanger involving [[spoiler: Duckman's wife Beatrice, whose death aggravated most of Duckman's self-destructive tendencies, being revealed to be alive]]. Naturally, the first time the show's creators were confident of the show being picked up for another season, it wasn't.

* OrgyOfEvidence: In "A Civil War," Duckman's lust for Val de Ree, the hot widow of a murdered business executive, leads him to ignoring multiple clues, including a bloody knife, an actual SmokingGun, a recording of the murder, [[NotInFrontOfTheParrot a parrot yelling "Stop it Val! You're killing me!"]], and the victim's still-warm body. [[spoiler: It was actually the factory's burly foreman in a [[LatexPerfection disturbingly form-fitting Val costume]].]]

''Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man'' (1994-1997) is an AnimatedSeries from Creator/KlaskyCsupo that aired on Creator/USANetwork; starring Creator/JasonAlexander as the titular Duckman. Duckman is 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 [[note]]Well, Duckman never pays his taxes, but you get the idea.[[/note]] ducks, and Duckman's [[HypercompetentSidekick hyper-efficient]] (and humorless) assistant Cornfed is a pig, despite the fact that this is not a ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''-type animal world. While Duckman himself walks around naked in the tradition of WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, everyone else wears clothes.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** From "Psyche":
--> '''Therapist''': Are you sexually active?
--> '''Duckman''': I'm very sexually active!
--> '''Therapist''': I mean, with another person.
--> '''Duckman''': Oh, uh, no.
** Duckman's schedule in "The Once and Future Duck" has "Touch myself" written as the only thing on every page.
** Of all people, Beverley is alluded to do this as well. In "Love! Anger! Kvetching!", Beverley says it would be hypocritical to throw out Duckman's porno mags, because then she'd have to throw out hers. Then she goes to her bedroom, which is lampshaded by Duckman and Cornfed's chuckles.

* MistakenForMasturbating: In "Forbidden Fruit", Fluffy and Uranus are in the top bunk of their bed while Duckman is in the bottom (Duckman having been kicked out of his own house for being politically-incorrect). All of a sudden, the bed starts shaking, and Fluffly and Uranus believe their housemate is having ADateWithRosiePalms. However, when they look, Duckman is actually doing leg exercises, and is none too pleased that his assistants are watching him.

** In "Not So Easy Riders", Duckman manages to enrage a bunch of bikers and Cornfed tells him that he should try what [[Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure Pee-wee Herman did in that one movie]]. Duckman retorts that [[ADateWithRosiePalms he doesn't think its appropriate, nor is he in the mood]].

* BreastExpansion: When Duckman goes to get a billjob in "Psyche", there is a woman in the background getting a similar procedure on her chest. She starts off relatively normal sized until they become [[GagBoobs bigger than her body]], at which point they pop and she's sent flying.

* GagBoobs: Seen in many episodes, but perhaps most pronounced in "All About Elliott" when Elliott's final ingredient to make Duckman overload on pleasure is a stripper with boobs that are practically as long as she is tall. And that's not all; she's one of identical sextuplets!
* {{Gasshole}}: Grandma-ma