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The Worst Episodes of Duckman

Every episode of Duckman ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Duckman!

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...
Genres:AnimationComedy
Network:USA Network

Worst Episodes Summary

"Westward, No!" is the worst rated episode of "Duckman". It scored 7.1/10 based on 50 votes. Directed by Steve Loter and written by Jed Spingarn, it aired on 6/28/1997. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "America the Beautiful".

  • Westward, No!
    7.1/1050 votes
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    #1 - Westward, No!

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 6/28/1997

    Cornfed invites Beverly to join him on a trip to his Aunt's catfish ranch. Duckman, jealous of Cornfed's interest in Bev, tags along for the ride. After getting the ranch hands fired, Duckman and the gang must help the foreman, Big Jack McBastard, on the big catfish drive to Texas. On part of their drive involves crossing ""Hell's Toilet,"" where ""the days are so hot they can boil your brain and the nights are colder than David Caruso's film career."" After Duckman accidentally kills Big Jack, they are on their own.

    Director: Steve Loter

    Writer: Jed Spingarn

  • America the Beautiful
    7.2/1088 votes
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    #2 - America the Beautiful

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 4/10/1995

    As the disclaimer says at the beginning this episode is full ""of heavy handed and over-obvious allegory,"" when for some children, Duckman and Cornfed search for what has become of a beautiful model named America.

    Director: Paul Demeyer

    Writer: Bill Canterbury, Gene Laufenberg

  • Research and Destroy
    7.4/1071 votes
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    #3 - Research and Destroy

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/1/1995

    Ajax's natural talent for poetry makes him popular. Duckman gets him signed to a contract for a job creating greeting cards, but Ajax isn't happy with his new occupation.

    Director: John Eng

    Writer: N/A

  • Clip Job
    7.4/1069 votes
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    #4 - Clip Job

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 5/8/1995

    Duckman is kidnapped by an irate viewer who doesn't like the lack of morals portrayed on his television show.

    Director: Jeff McGrath

    Writer: David Misch

  • A Trophied Duck
    7.4/1053 votes
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    #5 - A Trophied Duck

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/1997

    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

  • A Star is Abhorred
    7.4/1050 votes
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    #6 - A Star is Abhorred

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/1997

    Duckman takes the family and Cornfed out for dinner. The karaoke machine comes out and Bernice's rantings against Duckman are heard by a record company big-wig. He markets her as an Alanis Morrisette type of singing sensation; however, the tour takes a toll on her and the family.

    Director: Jaime Diaz

    Writer: Gene Laufenberg

  • Ebony, Baby
    7.4/1058 votes
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    #7 - Ebony, Baby

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 4/26/1997

    Cornfed leaves for a much-needed vacation. While he is away, Duckman becomes mesmerized by a black model/private eye who quickly gets him involved in a world of murder, power, lust and every black exploitation cliché that exists with a side of a Spelling/Goldberg production.

    Director: Steve Loter

    Writer: Gene Grillo

  • The Tami Show
    7.4/1050 votes
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    #8 - The Tami Show

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 6/14/1997

    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

    Writer: Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach

  • The Amazing Colossal Duckman
    7.5/1060 votes
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    #9 - The Amazing Colossal Duckman

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 6/29/1996

    Through a unique combination of chemicals, Duckman gets a rare blood disease that causes him to grow several inches each time he gets angry and rants & raves. Realizing that he can't control himself after growing several feet, Duckman exiles himself to a desert island.

    Director: John Eng

    Writer: Bill Canterbury

  • Coolio Runnings
    7.5/1058 votes
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    #10 - Coolio Runnings

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/1997

    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

    Writer: Bill Canterbury, Gene Laufenberg, David Misch

  • Love! Anger! Kvetching! (a.k.a. Ain't Gonna Be No Mo No Mo')
    7.5/1056 votes
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    #11 - Love! Anger! Kvetching! (a.k.a. Ain't Gonna Be No Mo No Mo')

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/12/1997

    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

  • My Feral Lady
    7.5/1051 votes
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    #12 - My Feral Lady

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 6/21/1997

    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: N/A

  • Ride the High School
    7.6/10121 votes
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    #13 - Ride the High School

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/16/1994

    Duckman receives a letter offering Ajax a chance to go to a boarding school for gifted children. After visiting Ajax's current school, Duckman decides that Ajax must go to the boarding school. The family begins to miss Ajax's presence. Cornfed decodes one of Ajax's letter's and they go to the school to bring Ajax back, but it turns out the school is a front for Duckman's arch-nemesis, ""King"" Chicken.

    Director: Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer: Michael Markowitz

  • The Longest Weekend
    7.6/1054 votes
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    #14 - The Longest Weekend

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 6/22/1996

    Duckman and the neighbors get together to form an association after another neighborhood association appears to be getting preferential treatment from the city. Duckman is elected head of the association and he becomes Patton-like as the two neighborhood associations go to war. The civil war breaks out within their neighborhood association.

    Director: Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer: David Misch

  • Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat
    7.6/1056 votes
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    #15 - Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/1997

    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

    Writer: Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach

  • Vuuck, as in Duck
    7.6/1054 votes
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    #16 - Vuuck, as in Duck

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 5/3/1997

    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

    Writer: Brett Baer, David Finkel

  • Kidney, Popsicle, and Nuts
    7.6/1051 votes
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    #17 - Kidney, Popsicle, and Nuts

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 5/24/1997

    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

    Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

  • The Germ Turns
    7.7/1064 votes
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    #18 - The Germ Turns

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/17/1995

    The family goes to a new age fair and at one of the booths, Duckman meets his mother who's been reincarnated as a ""highly infectious germ"". He learns that if he parents his children correctly he won't come back as germ, so he showers his kids with too much affection.

    Director: Bob Hathcock

    Writer: Jim Pond, Bill Fuller

  • In the Nam of the Father
    7.7/1072 votes
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    #19 - In the Nam of the Father

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/24/1995

    The son Cornfed never knew he had arrives at the office and Cornfed travels back to Vietnam to find the mother and the truth. Duckman takes his family along on the trip for a much needed vacation and must also deal with the flashbacks he is experiencing.

    Director: Norton Virgien

    Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz

  • The One With Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role (a.k.a. Planet of the Dopes)
    7.7/1060 votes
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    #20 - The One With Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role (a.k.a. Planet of the Dopes)

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/20/1996

    Ajax is abducted by redneck aliens and taken to a planet where Duckman is praised as a deity and Ajax revered as ""The son of Dod.""

    Director: Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer: Monica Piper

  • Aged Heat
    7.7/1058 votes
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    #21 - Aged Heat

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 4/27/1996

    A Grandma-ma look-a-like robber switches places with the her to make an escape. Duckman suspects that Grandma-ma isn't quite herself, of course no one believes him. The Agnes reveals herself and holds the family hostage.

    Director: John Eng

    Writer: Bill Canterbury, Gene Laufenberg

  • Dammit, Hollywood
    7.7/1074 votes
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    #22 - Dammit, Hollywood

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1997

    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

    Writer: Jeff Reno, Michael Markowitz

  • With Friends Like These
    7.7/1058 votes
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    #23 - With Friends Like These

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 3/1/1997

    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

  • Bev Takes a Holiday
    7.7/1056 votes
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    #24 - Bev Takes a Holiday

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 3/22/1997

    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.

    Director: Stig Bergqvist, Toni Vian

    Writer: Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg, David Misch

  • You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby
    7.7/1060 votes
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    #25 - You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby

    Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 7/26/1997

    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

    Writer: Gene Laufenberg, Howard Margulies