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The Best Episodes of Duckman Season 4

Every episode of Duckman Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Duckman Season 4!

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Together with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent to his hilariously dysfunctional sons at the same time.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Duckman Season 4 Episode 14 - Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'
    8.5/10(85 votes)

    S4:E14

    Duckman and Cornfed become plumbers and their first job takes them to a society gathering in a mansion. While not doing his job, Duckman discovers that the cursed ""Sharon Stone"" is missing; he and Cornfed try to recover the diamond before the hostess discovers the theft. After the diamond is revealed to be missing, its curse comes into play and traps them in the mansion.

    Director:Peter Avanzino
    Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Michael Markowitz, David Misch

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  2. Duckman Season 4 Episode 4 - All About Elliott
    8.4/10(86 votes)

    S4:E4

    Duckman and Cornfed hire a college intern for the agency. The intern undermines Cornfed's reputation and indulges Duckman's self-destructive behavior. Duckman must choose between his flashy new assistant (who may be trying to kill him) and his old partner.

    Director:Peter Shin
    Writer:Gene Laufenberg

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  3. Duckman Season 4 Episode 23 - How to Suck in Business Without Really Trying
    8.4/10(69 votes)

    S4:E23

    Duckman sells his identity to the Variecom corporation for $1000, which he immediately spends. Unable to use his own name or image, he is left penniless. He even tries to become a Duckman impersonator, until he is ""downsized."" Then he conceives a plan to get his self-respect and identity back. Meanwhile, Cornfed leaves to rejoin the 80's band A Flock of Seagulls.

    Director:Jaime Diaz
    Writer:Ellis Weiner

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  4. Duckman Season 4 Episode 27 - Where No Duckman Has Gone Before
    8.4/10(76 votes)

    S4:E27

    In a send-up of the Paramount franchise, Eric Tiberius Duckman, captain of the starship Enterprise matches wits against the evil Khan Chicken.

    Director:Steve Loter
    Writer:Gene Laufenberg

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  5. Duckman Season 4 Episode 22 - Short, Plush and Deadly
    8.3/10(66 votes)

    S4:E22

    The family goes on a dream holiday camping trip. At the park, they run into Fluffy and Uranus who are also on holiday. However, Duckman quickly puts them to work and gets himself banished from the campground. He takes Fluffy, Uranus and Cornfed with him off into the woods, but bees sting the accompanying trio. Cornfed's head swells and an allergic reaction causes Fluffy and Uranus to grow to gigantic proportions and become homicidal. Hearing Duckman's screams, Beverly and a reluctant Bernice go to the rescue leaving entertainer Jim Bailey keeps the boys and Grandma-ma entertained.

    Directors:Steve Ressel, Jeff McGrath
    Writer:Lisa Moricoli

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  6. Duckman Season 4 Episode 5 - From Brad to Worse
    8.2/10(74 votes)

    S4:E5

    Duckman finds an old high school classmate who's been homeless due to something Duckman did to him 20 years ago. Duckman's attempts to help only make things worse.

    Director:Peter Avanzino
    Writer:Michael Markowitz

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  7. Duckman Season 4 Episode 6 - Bonfire of the Panties
    8.2/10(70 votes)

    S4:E6

    Cornfed along with Charles and Mambo prepare the ultimate aphrodisiac for Duckman to turn his love life around. They give him a limited amount of the potion, but he quickly replicates it in huge batches. Now he has more woman than he can deal with. Bernice discovers what is going on and demands that he stop. When the real thing occurs between Duckman and actress Courtney Thorne-Smith, no one believes him.

    Director:Anthony Bell
    Writer:Michael Markowitz

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  8. Duckman Season 4 Episode 25 - Hamlet 2: This Time It's Personal
    8.2/10(66 votes)

    S4:E25

    Cornfed undergoes analysis and relates this tale about Duckman seeing the ghost of his uncle who says that Duckman's father was murdered by King Chicken. Duckman hangs with Bernice and King Chicken while pretending to be crazy. Cornfed realizes that Duckman is living out the plot of ""Hamlet,"" that will eventually lead to Duckman's death.

    Director:Anthony Bell
    Writer:David Misch

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  9. Duckman Season 4 Episode 7 - Role With It
    8.1/10(69 votes)

    S4:E7

    Duckman takes the family and the staff on a holiday to a real Indian reservation, with a casino. While there, a psychiatrist notices Duckman and the rest of the family's overall self-destructive behavior. She offers them treatment that involves a role-playing session that uncovers some of their real issues.

    Director:Anthony Bell
    Writer:Michael Markowitz

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  10. Duckman Season 4 Episode 8 - Ajax and Ajaxer
    8.1/10(78 votes)

    S4:E8

    Duckman and Cornfed are hired to perform surveillance on a laboratory that is performing experiments on intelligence formulas. Cornfed accidentally swallows a ""Get Dumb"" formula, that falls in with the plans of the scientist who created it. If Cornfed gets cured, will Ajax lose his first true friend?

    Director:Peter Avanzino
    Writer:Bill Canterbury

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  11. Duckman Season 4 Episode 1 - Dammit, Hollywood
    8.0/10(87 votes)

    S4:E1

    Annoyed with the current state of the film industry, Duckman goes to Hollywood to demand his $7 back. Instead, he falls into the plot of a soon-to-be deposed studio executive, a man who's looking for a patsy to run the studio into the ground in hopes of saving his own job. Duckman becomes head of Paradox Pictures, where ""if it's a good movie its a Paradox"". He quickly begins running through the studio's money, signs a secretary to a 340 million dollar deal to star in a movie in her underpants. The deposed executive also arranges it so that Duckman manages to alienate the studio's three biggest action stars.

    Director:Peter Shin
    Writers:Jeff Reno, Michael Markowitz

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  12. Duckman Season 4 Episode 16 - Vuuck, as in Duck
    8.0/10(68 votes)

    S4:E16

    Duckman inherits a minor league baseball team as the dying wish of the owner who is trying to keep the team from hands of a banker. To boost attendance he stages a series of stunts, that humiliate and scare the players into quitting. He ""hires"" nine super-models to take their place and they are an instant success. Cornfed teaches them the fundamentals of baseball and they become a great team. The banker institutes a scheme to prevent the supermodels from winning the big game and Cornfed discovers his other scheme on the Internet in the newsgroup alt.villians.greedy-schemes.

    Director:Jeff McGrath
    Writers:Brett Baer, Dave Finkel

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  13. Duckman Season 4 Episode 26 - Das Sub
    8.0/10(67 votes)

    S4:E26

    Convicted of fraud, Duckman is sentenced to 5,000 hours of community service. He is sent to a dangerous inner-city high school, located a half a block from his house, where he becomes a substitute teacher and it turns out that his is the most ""Dangerous Mind.""

    Director:Peter Avanzino
    Writers:Gene Grillo, Michael Markowitz

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  14. Duckman Season 4 Episode 3 - Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat
    7.9/10(75 votes)

    S4:E3

    Duckman is imprisoned for killing Fluffy and Uranus, again. However, he is accidentally sent to a women's prison. A dream of his comes true! In fact Duckman fits in quite well and becomes the star attraction in the warden's side business, a dance ring. Everything's going great until Suzy comes along.

    Director:Peter Avanzino
    Writers:Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach

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  15. Duckman Season 4 Episode 9 - With Friends Like These
    7.9/10(72 votes)

    S4:E9

    Duckman quests for friendship when Cornfed is the only guest at his surprise party. He begins hanging out at a coffee shop that is filled with a group of twenty-somethings named Ditzi, Bobby, Sassy, Pete and Marion. Together they discuss their ""problems"" a la Friends with a side of Ellen.

    Director:Steve Loter
    Writer:Gene Laufenberg

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  16. Duckman Season 4 Episode 12 - Bev Takes a Holiday
    7.9/10(72 votes)

    S4:E12

    Bernice travels to Washington to assume her new role as Congresswoman. Duckman spots a woman who happens to look like Beatrice, but gets hit by a bus. It turns out that she is Beatrice and Bernice's long lost triplet. Bev realizes the only way to keep Duckman alive is to pretend to be Beatrice.

    Directors:Toni Vian, Stig Bergqvist
    Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Michael Markowitz, David Misch

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  17. Duckman Season 4 Episode 17 - Crime, Punishment, War, Peace, and the Idiot
    7.9/10(61 votes)

    S4:E17

    Beverly asks Bernice if she knows anything about Grandma-ma's past. The coma-bound Grandma-ma recalls her past in a series of flashbacks that involves a tortured romance with two characters who look and sound a lot like Cornfed (Petrov) and Duckman (Trigorin) with Russian accents.

    Director:Jaime Diaz
    Writer:Howard Margulies

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  18. Duckman Season 4 Episode 18 - Kidney, Popsicle, and Nuts
    7.9/10(67 votes)

    S4:E18

    Duckman needs a new kidney. To get one requires a donation from a blood relative. He searches for his father, who he thought was cryogenically frozen. Instead he discovers that the man he thought was his father, wasn't. Using the power of the Microsoft Network (Blatant Plug!), the twins and Cornfed find where dad is currently living. Duckman and Cornfed travel there, only to find that his is a paranoid schizophrenic who's formed his own country.

    Director:Stig Bergqvist
    Writers:Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

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  19. Duckman Season 4 Episode 13 - Love! Anger! Kvetching!
    7.8/10(70 votes)

    S4:E13

    Duckman plans a big poker for the evening. Unfortunately before the game his obnoxious Uncle Mo arrives and claims he is dying. To avoid the curse that befell his cousin, Duckman tries to wait on him hand and foot. Just how much of his Uncle can he take?

    Director:Anthony Bell
    Writer:Michael Markowitz

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  20. Duckman Season 4 Episode 19 - The Tami Show
    7.8/10(67 votes)

    S4:E19

    Duckman backs his car into a cute girl in front the house. Finding out that she is on her own, Beverly and the family invite her to stay; however, Beverly becomes the victim when Tami tries to takeover a have a ""perfect family.""

    Director:Anthony Bell
    Writers:Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach

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  21. Duckman Season 4 Episode 24 - You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby
    7.8/10(72 votes)

    S4:E24

    Mambo is caught with a cigarette in his mouth; Bernice takes action in Congress. A tobacco company CEO invites her and the family to enjoy the hospitality of the tobacco industry. When Bernice won't change her position, they are put to work picking tobacco. Rescue seems hopeless, until Agnes Delrooney, reveals that she has been hiding out as Grandma-ma all this time. She makes an escape, with Duckman handcuffed to her.

    Director:Stig Bergqvist
    Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Howard Margulies

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  22. Duckman Season 4 Episode 28 - Four Weddings Inconceivable
    7.8/10(72 votes)

    S4:E28

    At the wedding of Dr. Ben Stein, a series of emotional epiphanies lead to an amazing set of marriage proposals. King Chicken proposes to Bernice. Cornfed proposes to Beverly. Duckman proposes to his new love, King Chicken's ex Honey. After many arguments between the principles, Duckman says he will make all the arrangements, thereby letting everyone blame him. Despite his arrangements, the ceremony goes off with the appropriate hitches, except that Duckman finds out something that Cornfed forgot to tell him.

    Director:Steve Ressel
    Writer:Michael Markowitz

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  23. Duckman Season 4 Episode 20 - My Feral Lady
    7.7/10(67 votes)

    S4:E20

    Duckman purchases a mail-order bride, from Tetzloff; however, she's really a jungle savage. With Cornfed's help, they attempt to civilize her a'la My Fair Lady. He asks for her hand in marriage on a ""Surprise Proposals"" episode of Leeza and things go awry when the flashbulbs go off.

    Director:Peter Avanzino
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Duckman Season 4 Episode 2 - Coolio Runnings
    7.6/10(78 votes)

    S4:E2

    With the Father & Son Games coming up, Duckman looks for an alternative to competing with Ajax. He spots a more than adequate replacement in recording artist Coolio, who's returned to school to replace his high school diploma. Coolio does not compete with Duckman. Ajax competes with Duckman and even tho they don't win, it has made Duckman and Ajax's bond stronger.

    Director:Jeff McGrath
    Writers:Gene Laufenberg, David Misch, Bill Canterbury

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  25. Duckman Season 4 Episode 10 - A Trophied Duck
    7.6/10(68 votes)

    S4:E10

    Duckman and the gang travel to San Francisco to attend Dickcon 97. He thinks he is being honored with an ""achievement"" award. When he gets there, he encounters an old rival from detective school. The rival is running the event and takes every opportunity to humiliate him. One of these methods involves an attempt to find a kidnapped Cornfed.

    Director:Jeff McGrath
    Writer:Bill Canterbury

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'" is the best rated episode of "Duckman" season 4. It scored 8.5/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by Peter Avanzino and written by Gene Laufenberg, Michael Markowitz, David Misch, it aired on 4/19/1997. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "All About Elliott".