Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man
A crass, womanizing duck works as a private eye with his level-headed pig sidekick, all the while raising a family as a single dad.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Cast:Jason Alexander , Gregg Berger , Nancy Travis , Dweezil Zappa , Elizabeth Daily , Pat Musick , Dana Hill , Walt Reno Jr. , Tim Curry , Ben Stein , Maurice LaMarche , John Astin , Robert Cait , Andy Houts , Charles Shaughnessy , Gilbert Gottfried , Nancy Linari , Danny Mann
S1.E2 ∙ T.V. or Not to Be
A televangelist hires a skeptical Duckman to find a painting that she claims creates miracles, and has a near-death experience.
S1.E3 ∙ Gripes of Wrath
Duckman would rather go see mud wrestling, but is forced to take the kids to the unveiling of a supercomputer, where he makes a comment that inspires the computer to make the world a better place, for a while anyway.
S1.E4 ∙ Psyche
Feeling inadequate, Duckman gets a bill job, leading to other problems.
S1.E5 ∙ Gland of Opportunity
Receiving the gland of a daredevil gives Duckman a new outlook on life.
S1.E6 ∙ Ride the High School
Ajax is sent to a boarding school for gifted children.
S1.E7 ∙ A Civil War
While investigating a murder, Duckman becomes jealous of the attention being given to his partner, Cornfed, and fires him.
S1.E8 ∙ Not So Easy Riders
Evading the IRS, Duckman and Cornfed go on a road trip.
S1.E9 ∙ It's the Thing of the Principal
Ajax falls in love with his vice principal.
S1.E10 ∙ Cellar Beware
Duckman purchases an expensive home protection system. The next morning, when the family is robbed, Duckman poorly rewires the system, leading them to run to the basement to avoid being killed by it.
S1.E11 ∙ American Dicks
Duckman and Cornfed appear on a "Cops"-like reality show detailing the lives of famous private detectives.
S1.E12 ∙ About Face
After falling for an emergency phone operator named Angela, Duckman agrees to go out with her, unaware that she is less attractive than her voice. Embarresed by his reaction to her, Angela decides to have a makeover, but even this causes problems for her and Duckman.
S1.E13 ∙ Joking the Chicken
Duckman cannot understand the inexplicable popularity of a non-offensive comedian, until he learns the hack comic's secret.
S2.E1 ∙ Papa Oom M.O.W. M.O.W.
While trying to pinch a woman's behind, Duckman is inadvertently saves the President's life and becomes a media sensation. He produces a live-action TV movie for USA Network based on his life. With live-action guest appearance by Charles Shaughnessy as the movie "Duckman", Tasia Valenza as "Bernice" and Gregg Berger (voice of animated Cornfed) as "Cornfed" - the movie insults Duckman's entire family and abruptly ends his 15 minutes of fame.
S2.E2 ∙ Married Alive
When a billionaire media magnate asks Bernice to marry him, Duckman suspects he's either crazy ... or up to no good.
S2.E3 ∙ Days of Whining and Neurosis
When Duckman and Cornfed go undercover at a celebrity detox center to solve a murder, Duckman discovers he's got the most addictive personality of all.
S2.E4 ∙ Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial
After Duckman's family's car breaks down in King Chicken's hometown, Duckman is put on trial for making a claim that the egg came before the chicken.
S2.E5 ∙ America the Beautiful
Duckman and Cornfed are hired to find a beautiful woman, America, but discover the country instead.
S2.E6 ∙ The Germ Turns
After a meeting with a new age guru, Duckman sees his mother's reincarnated form as a germ. Fearing for his own future karma, he begins to lavish his children with much unneeded attention.
S2.E7 ∙ In the Nam of the Father
After a visit from someone claiming to be his illegitimate son from during the war, Cornfed returns to Vietnam to find his mother. Along the way, Duckman relays his own war stories.
S2.E8 ∙ Research and Destroy
A slimy agent discovers Ajax's hidden talent for poetry and lands him a lucrative job with a greeting card company - which immediately subjects Ajax's work to market research tripping away its uniqueness. Laurie Metcalf and Ed Begley, Jr. are guest voices.
S2.E9 ∙ Clip Job
Duckman is kidnapped by a psychopath who forces him to watch clips from past episodes of the series.
S3.E1 ∙ Noir Gang
Cornfed and Duckman both fall in love with a client in this black and white neo-noir tribute.
S3.E2 ∙ Forbidden Fruit
When Bernice hires an attractive nanny to tutor Ajax and the twins, Duckman tries to avoid making any advances toward her, but is sued for sexual harassment when he offers her an apple.
S3.E3 ∙ Grandma-ma's Flatulent Adventure
Growing tired of consistently taking care of Grandma-ma, Duckman decides to leave her in a car one night while engaging in his usual debauchery. However, when he returns, he finds the car and Grandma-ma missing.
S3.E4 ∙ Color of Naught
Lolita Davidovich reprises her role as the voice of Angela, an unwitting pawn in yet another diabolical plot by Duckman's arch-enemy, the evil genius King Chicken (Tim Curry). This time, King Chicken's scheme involves destroying the entire city, leaving Duckman alone to suffer.
S3.E5 ∙ Sperms of Endearment
Bernice decides to have children, and is artificially inseminated at a sperm bank. Later, she finds out that the donor is none other than Duckman!
S3.E6 ∙ A Room with a Bellevue
Duckman pleads insanity to avoid paying a $10 fine, ends up trapped in an asylum - and loves it. Things get even better when he's given electro-shock and released: finally our hero is at peace with the world's madness. John Byner guest voices as Dr. Morsink, Bronson Pinchot as Dr. Ducharme, and Victoria Jackson as the sing-songy nurse in this insane asylum.
S3.E7 ∙ Apocalypse Not
During an emergency drill which called for the city to be evacuated, Duckman is the only one who missed all of the notices and the drill, leaving him to believe that he is the only person left alive on Earth.
S3.E8 ∙ Clear and Presidente Danger
In a third-world country, Duckman inadvertably becomes the leader of a revolution, and is placed as the country's leader.
S3.E9 ∙ The Girls of Route Canal
In a sappy flashback quite reminiscent of "The Bridges of Madison County", Duckman recalls his courtship of Beatrice back when he was a traveling nudie photographer. David Duchovny guest as the voice of Robert, the loving husband who stands between Duckman's and Beatrice's unbridled passion.
S3.E10 ∙ The Mallardian Candidate
Duckman is hypnotized to kill Cornfed, in a spoof of "The Manchurian Candidate."
S3.E11 ∙ Pig Amok
Upon learning that unless Cornfed has sex, he will die in twenty four hours, Duckman sets out to help Cornfed lose his virginity. However, the woman who ends up saving him is Bernice.
S3.E12 ∙ The Once and Future Duck
One night, Duckman is visited by a future version of himself that warns him of impending doom. Soon, he's being visited by all of his future selves, which are warning him about every decision that he's going to make in life.
S3.E13 ∙ The One with Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role
Ajax is abducted by inferior beings and taken to their happy, yet backward, planet called Beta Max where they worship him as a leader. The Beta Maxians follow his Duckman-inspired wisdom as if it were gospel, and soon enough their simplistic existence becomes corrupted with hate, bile, rage and nudie shows. Lisa Kudrow provides the voices for all of the female Beta Maxians (as they all sound exactly alike).
S3.E14 ∙ Aged Heat
A vicious killer holds the Duckman household hostage for many desperate hours - and she's a dead ringer for Grandma-ma. Brian Doyle Murray provides the voice for Agnes, the evil imposter for Grandma-ma.
S3.E15 ∙ They Craved Duckman's Brain!
Is a satire of the American health system, Duckman's brain tissue is discovered to hold the cure for cancer - and the profit-obsessed medical establishment will stop at nothing to suppress it. Guest voices are Maureen McGovern, Judith Light and Joe Walsh, as himself.
S3.E16 ∙ The Road to Dendron
In homage to the Hope-Crosby "Road" pictures, Duckman and Cornfed travel to the sand-swept Sahara in search of the kidnapped Ajax and stumble on a plot to kill an exotic desert Prince - who is an exact double for Ajax! Guest voices provided by Amanda Plummer, James Avery, Jay Thomas and John Rhys-Davies.
S3.E17 ∙ Exile in Guyville
A televised argument between Duckman and Bernice results in the country being split between the male and female populations.
S3.E18 ∙ The Longest Weekend
In satire of nationalism, the Dutch Elm Street Association gets special favor for its block, spurring Duckman's North Phlegm Street to form it's own group, with Duckman as President. Despite Cornfed's peace-keeping efforts, an actual war breaks out between the two neighborhoods. Gilbert Gottfried guest voices as Art DeSalvo, Andrea Martin as Mayor Gallagher, and Judy Tenuta as Edna.
S3.E19 ∙ The Amazing Colossal Duckman
Discovering that his anger causes his entire body to grow to mammoth proportions, Duckman soon realizes that his anger has become his own worst enemy.
S3.E20 ∙ Cock Tales for Four
Ajax's new girlfriend's parents turn out to be King Chicken and his wife. While visiting them for dinner, Duckman and King Chicken's rivalry is confronted.
S4.E1 ∙ Dammit, Hollywood
When Duckman becomes a movie mogul, the glamour, fame and opulence quickly go to his head. Only when he is forced to confront the people he's alienated is he brought - quickly - back to earth, in action scenes featuring the three biggest stars in Hollywood. Julie Moran of "Entertainment Tonight" guests voices as herself with Brendan Fraser.
S4.E2 ∙ Coolio Runnings
When Duckman makes an expensive bet hinging on Ajax performing well during an athletic competition, he finds that he has no athletic skills, and ends up adopting a fellow student in better physical shape -- popular rapper Coolio.
S4.E3 ∙ Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat
After killing Fluffy and Uranus once more, Duckman is arrested and sent to prison. A women's prison, to his surprise.
S4.E4 ∙ All About Elliott
The agency gets a college intern who simultaneously indulges Duckman's self-destructive behavior and undermines Cornfed's reputation. Duckman must finally choose between his loyal companion and the flashy new assistant - who may be trying to kill him. Guest voice by Chris Elliot.
S4.E5 ∙ From Brad to Worse
Duckman discovers that an old high school classmate has become homeless due to something Duckman did 20 years ago, and his guilt-ridden attempts to help miraculously make the guy's life even worse. Peter Scolari guests as Brad.
S4.E6 ∙ Bonfire of the Panties
Cornfed, Charles and Mambo take pity on Duckman and his pathetic love life, combining their vast scientific knowledge to create the ultimate aphrodisiac for him. Beautiful women by the dozens start finding him irresistible, but when one very special (and famous) woman falls for him after he runs out of love potion, no one believes it's for real.
S4.E7 ∙ Role with It
Duckman and his family take a vacation to an "Indian Reservation" - which ends up being a casino. Obnoxious and crass as usual, Duckman captures the attention of an esteemed psychologist who attempts to help the family before it violently self-destructs. Finding "common ground" by bashing on Duckman, they all realize that, no matter what, they are the only family they've got. Guest voices include the Native American actor Russell Means, Steven Weber and Dana Delany.
S4.E8 ∙ Ajax & Ajaxer
Cornfed accidentally drinks a potion that reduces his intelligence to the point where he is as stupid as Ajax.
S4.E9 ∙ With Friends Like These
Cornfed throws Duckman a surprise party but he is the only one who shows up. Duckman realizes that there is a reason he doesn't have any friends and must change. In a quest for friends, he happens upon a trendy coffee shop where he scalds himself, gaining the friendship of five hip "twentysomethings" in the process. The gang of "friends" embrace Duckman and meet daily to talk about obscure pop culture references. The "friends" are guest voices by Alison LaPlaca, Teresa Randle, Laura Leighton, Ayre Gross and Jeremy Sisto.
S4.E10 ∙ A Trophied Duck
Duckman and Cornfed travel to a private investigator's convention where Duckman is slated to receive the "Lifetime Achievement Award". There Duckman runs into his former rival from his detective school days, Lauren Simone, who's become a successful sleuth. The two attempt to humiliate each other in front of their peers at the expense of Cornfed. Amy Brenneman guest voices as Lauren.
S4.E11 ∙ A Star Is Abhorred
In a send-up of the music industry, Bernice's passionate harangue of Duckman at a karaoke contest leads to a new career as a singing sensation. The family is supportive of Bernice's new profession (as horrible as she is) until she loses herself in a fast-paced world of rock'n roll. Joe Mantegna guest voices as Rube Rector, and Kurt Loder voices as himself. Dom De Luise, Flea and Ice-T also guest voice.
S4.E12 ∙ Bev Takes a Holiday
While chasing after Beverly, (Bernice and Beatrice's long lost sister) - they are triplets), and mistaking her for his dead wife Beatrice, Duckman gets hit by a bus. The only way to save him is to make him believe that Beatrice is actually alive. When Duckman is better, the family decides that Beverly will stay on with them while Bernice is in Washington fulfilling her duties as a Congresswoman. Vicki Lawrence, Eugene Levy, Ben Stein, John Rubano and Kathleen Freeman guest voice.
S4.E13 ∙ Love! Anger! Kvetching!
Duckman's bitter Uncle Moe announces that he has only weeks to live and wants to spend them with his least favorite relative - Duckman. Duckman is convinced by his family to do his best for Moe in his last days. Duckman tries so hard that Moe admits to faking his illness just to torture Duckman. They get in a heated argument, Moe keels over ... and dies. Robert Klein provides the voice for Uncle Moe, and Joe Walsh is himself, singing a song written by Duckman in Moe's honor. Other guest voices include Bob Guccione and Joe Mantegna.
S4.E14 ∙ Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'
After Duckman and Cornfed are evicted, they become plumbers, and are hired to work during a high-society party for the unveiling of a jewel said to be cursed.
S4.E15 ∙ Ebony, Baby
A blaxploitation spoof involves Duckman getting involved with Ebony Sable, a model/private eye.
S4.E16 ∙ Vuuck, as in Duck
After hearing Duckman rant about the stupidity of baseball in a bar, an old geezer drops dead - and wills him his minor-league baseball team. In an attempt to increase attendance, Duckman stages wacky and dangerous promotional nights. When the humiliated players quit, Duckman is forced to come up with a new team. Inspired by a supermodel commercial with Kathy Ireland, Duckman pulls together a team of scantily clad supermodel ballplayers. The models are voiced by Kathy Ireland herself, Jill Goodacre, Nicole Eggert, Maureen McGovern, and Alison Moir. Chick Hern voices the sportscaster.
S4.E17 ∙ Crime, Punishment, War, Peace, and the Idiot
As the family wonders if Grandma-ma's mind is active, she recalls her youth in a series of flashbacks. The flashbacks hilariously parody the immigrant experiences as portrayed in films like Ragtime and Hester Street, with some Tolstoy and Doctor Zhivago thrown in. Nancy Travis voices Grandma-ma as a young woman.
S4.E18 ∙ Kidney, Popsicle, and Nuts
Duckman needs a new kidney in order to survive, but his only living relatives are not suitable donors. When Duckman thaws out his cryogenically-frozen father, the kidney does not match: his father is not his father! Duckman finds his biological father, who turns out to be a loony militia-man. Still, father and son bond and the old man is touched by Duckman. Thus, he cuts out his own kidney and gives it to him. James Brown guest voices as himself offering Duckman some soulful advice, along with Brian Keith and John Astin.
S4.E19 ∙ The Tami Show
When Tami, a cute but impoverished college coed twists her ankle in front of his house, an infatuated Duckman offers her a job working for the family. She turns out to be wonderful, but the only problem is Beverly who often has embarrassing drunken escapades. The truth is that a deranged Tami has been drugging her morning tea. As Tami turns the family into a seething cauldron of hatred, a suspicious Cornfed finds a clipping in the library revealing her as a raging psychopath who falls in love with married men, killing her wives and then them. Kim Cattrall guest voices Tami.
S4.E20 ∙ My Feral Lady
Bev's arrival in the house makes Duckman miss Beatrice desperately. He gives into the persuasive sales pitch of Terry "Duke" Tetzloff and buys a "factory-second, slightly-blemished bride". The bride arrives ... and she is a feral jungle savage, whom Duckman names "Kathie Lee". Duckman proposes marriage to Kathie Lee on a "Surprise Proposals" episode of Leeza (a live-action sequence), which goes tragically awry. Guest voices include Kristen Johnston as Kathie Lee, Leeza Gibbons as herself, John Astin and Harve Presnell.
S4.E21 ∙ Westward, No!
The Duckman family hones in on Cornfeld's plans to visit his Aunt Jane's ranch in Louisiana. They arrive on the eve of a massive catfish drive - and in an obvious but legally defensible rip-off of every cliché from classic Westerns, especially "Red River" - they're beset by raging rivers and terrifying stampedes. Guest voices include Estelle Getty as Aunt Jane and Ron Palillo as himself.
S4.E22 ∙ Short, Plush and Deadly
Beverly and Bernice are having trouble dealing with the idea of having a stranger for a twin, and decide to go on a camping trip to bond. Their plans are thwarted when Duckman latches on, bringing Cornfed as his guide, and Fluffy and Uranus as his trash collectors. Duckmsn's ranting causes the family to be exiled from the campground, and forced into a more untamed area. In a gripping of series of action sequences in the jungle, Duckman's self-reliance comes up short and he keeps injuring Cornfed, Clouseau-style. Tom Wilson, Jim Bailey and Maureen McGovern guest voice.
S4.E23 ∙ How to Suck in Business Without Really Trying
In this nightmare of modern marketing, Duckman sells his identity to a giant corporation which leaves him penniless and nameless. Forced to work as a Wacky "Duckman" Mascot, he conceives a desperate plan to get back his name and/or self-respect. Guest voices include Paul Sorvino, Gilbert Gottfried and Alan Rosenberg.
S4.E24 ∙ You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby
Congresswoman Bernice is attracting national attention as an anti-smoking activist, but no one pays more heed than the heads of the tobacco companies. A CEO invites Bernice and her family on a fact-finding mission to "Tabaccyland" to see for themselves that the industry is just decent hard-working folk who happen to make their livelihood from a product that kills people. Brian Doyle Murray and Jim Varney guest voice.
S4.E25 ∙ Hamlet 2: This Time It's Personal
Working late one night, Duckman and Cornfed see the ghost of Duckman's father, who says he was murdered - by King Chicken. With his wife out of town, King is currently seeing Bernice, so Duckman decides to hang out with them, trying to determine the truth without seeming suspicious. Cornfed quickly recognizes that Duckman is living the plot of "Hamlet" with King as Claudius, Bernice as Gertrude and himself as Horatio. Duckman doesn't care; he must have his revenge. Robert Klein guest voices as Duckman's deceased Uncle Moe and Jeffrey Tambor voices Jacobs.
S4.E26 ∙ Das Sub
Having been convicted of a wide assortment of morals charges, Duckman is sentenced to community service as a substitute teacher in an inner-city high school. Having seen every "Classroom Hell" movie ever made, Duckman prepares for the worst. After a rough beginning, as the kids are so well behaved, Duckman vows to teach them what really matters: the world according to Duckman. Burt Reynolds guest voices as Judge Keaton.
S4.E27 ∙ Where No Duckman Has Gone Before
After eating exactly the wrong thing, Leonard Nimoy has a nightmare involving the cast of Duckman as Star Trek characters.
S4.E28 ∙ Four Weddings Inconceivable
On the day of multiple weddings, a big secret is revealed.
