YMMV / Sitting Ducks

• Accidental Innuendo: In one episode, Bill tries to tell Bev that he likes her, but ends up saying he likes her pie.
• Awesome Music: The opening theme music.
• Fridge Horror: Every time you see Swampwood in the show, you are guaranteed to find restaurants and stores selling duck meat. While that's already dark enough, it's revealed in an episode that a restaurant kidnaps citizens of Ducktown and harvests their meat. Another episode shows alligators about to kidnap and eat Bev. Those two instances alone imply that every moment of the day, a countless amount of Ducktown citizens are kidnapped, and turned into nothing more than morsels for the alligators of Swampwood.
  • This is made even worse by the fact that the only alligators who see ducks as people are Aldo, his uncle Artie, and Waddle's girlfriend Ally (yes, Waddle DID have an alligator as a girlfriend). Everyone else, even the babies, see them as food.
• Funny Moments: In the beginning of "Duck Naked", Bill runs around in panic at his feathers falling off and yells "HELP! I'M COMING UNDONE!" outside the window, prompting a mother duck to tell her child not to look at him.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While the show has always had a decent following in America, it is immensely popular in Europe, particularly the United Kingdom, to the point where it still aired more frequently there even after Cartoon Network canceled it.
• Ho Yay: The unnamed duck and alligator that Bill and Aldo are based on actually sleep in the same bed◊ and go out on dinner dates in the book. But of course as this was a cartoon marketed to children, they had to tone the gay back quite a bit, to the point where there wasn't a trace of it in the series. As a result, Bill and Aldo are just two guys who have a very close, physical relationship. One that is scorned by many as being "wrong" or "unnatural". One where people are constantly trying to break them up and make them behave "normally". One where one group of people feels threatened by it and the other group feels disgusted by it. In fact, the pressure is so great that both of them even keep it a secret from their families and wear masks to better keep the charade and wait a minute.
  • The episode Duck Lover may as well be a Coming-Out Story for how subtle it is about this.
• Moment of Awesome: In the episode, Duck Lover, Aldo's alligator co-workers find out he's friends with ducks and tease him relentlessly about it. It's even worse in Duck Town because the ducks now see him as a sideshow attraction and don't take him seriously anymore. Upset, Aldo runs away to learn a lesson about belonging from a wise llama. Meanwhile, Bill finds out Aldo's co-workers are going to raid Duck Town. He gathers everyone and prepares them to attack...but they all run away as soon as the alligators come. Then Aldo comes to confront the alligators.
  Aldo: I was born a gator! That's who I am!
  Alligator: Prove it! Eat the duck! *Shoves Bill in Aldo's hand*
  *Aldo does nothing...*
  Alligator: Do it!
  Random Duck: Eat the duck! *everyone gasps*
  Aldo: You didn't let me finish. I was born a gator, and nature is nature, but if you spent anytime getting to know these ducks, you wouldn't be so quick to eat them. *a duck quacks; Aldo roars* And you ducks have to respect me because I am a predator! And I'm proud of my alligator roots! *to the alligators* Now go home! This is over! *The alligators push Aldo aside, but stop when they see all of Duck Town armed to the bills and glaring at them.* That means EVERYBODY!!!!
  *The alligators grumble as they leave.*
• Nightmare Fuel: At any moment, a duck could get eaten by an alligator off-screen.
  • The very first episode, "Running Ducks," has Bill and Aldo's first meeting, which consists of the latter chasing the former into an alley and cornering him. Thankfully, the rest of the episode is about how they end up becoming friends instead, but the whole sequence is still pretty intense.
  • In "The Fly who Loved Me," a rogue alligator holds Bev hostage in her own diner, and also manages to capture Bill. If the titular fly hadn't gone back to Bill's apartment to get Aldo, it's not hard to imagine what the gator was planning to do to them...
  • In 'Aldo the Duck', Aldo's urge to eat duck strikes back, leading him to becoming afraid of eating Bill. So, he goes to Cecil who gives him duck hormone patches to suppress the urges, but warns him of possible side effects. Aldo, believing he needs big doses due to his big body, overdoses the hormones and slowly begins to turn into a duck. He starts eating duck food, feathers start popping out, he becomes afraid of alligators, his snout turns into a duck bill, and when Bill and Cecil remove all the patches before he turns into a duck permanently, he regresses into a primal duck and starts quacking and flapping his arms like they were wings. Finally, his body is able to rid itself of the hormones by making Aldo explode in a shower of feathers (he's actually back to normal, but still).
  • The urban legend of Swampwood, Quack the Ripper. A demon duck who lives in the sewers and only comes out at night to eat alligators. All of Swampwood is afraid of him, legend or not.
    • Ed, Olie and Waddle find out the hard way not to mess with with the alligators when they realize they were being tricked and tie up Waddle so he can get eaten.
    • Near the end of the episode, Aldo and the mob of alligators are chased away by a large shadow of a duck with fangs, which the group suspects might have just been Bill, who is still missing; cue Bill himself reappearing, revealing that he spent all night in the sewers unconscious after being knocked out. So if the shadow wasn't Bill, then that means...

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