The Worst Episodes of Duckman

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   7.3/10(81 votes)

   #1 - Clip Job

   S2:E95/8/1995

   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

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   Director:Jeff McGrath

   Writer:David Misch
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   7.3/10(63 votes)

   #2 - Westward, No!

   S4:E216/28/1997

   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

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   Director:Steve Loter

   Writer:Jed Spingarn
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   7.4/10(100 votes)

   #3 - America the Beautiful

   S2:E54/10/1995

   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

   Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury

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   Director:Paul Demeyer

   Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
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   7.6/10(70 votes)

   #4 - Coolio Runnings

   S4:E21/11/1997

   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

   Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury, David Misch

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   Director:Jeff McGrath

   Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury, David Misch
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   7.6/10(64 votes)

   #5 - A Trophied Duck

   S4:E103/8/1997

   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

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   Director:Jeff McGrath

   Writer:Bill Canterbury
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   7.6/10(68 votes)

   #6 - Ebony, Baby

   S4:E154/26/1997

   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

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   Director:Steve Loter

   Writer:Gene Grillo
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   7.7/10(82 votes)

   #7 - Research and Destroy

   S2:E85/1/1995

   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:Unknown

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   Director:John Eng

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.7/10(61 votes)

   #8 - A Star is Abhorred

   S4:E113/15/1997

   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

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   Director:Jaime Diaz

   Writer:Gene Laufenberg
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   7.7/10(63 votes)

   #9 - My Feral Lady

   S4:E206/21/1997

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Peter Avanzino

   Writer:Unknown
10. 

    7.8/10(128 votes)

    #10 - T.V. or Not to Be

    S1:E23/12/1994

    Duckman is watching a TV program, but the family takes over the set when Mother Mirabelle's Home Miracle Network program starts airing. The family demands that Duckman help find Mother Mirabelle's stolen painting that helps create miracles. Duckman reluctantly agrees, but he is skeptical until he experiences his own miracle.

    Director:Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer:Bernie Keating

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    Director:Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer:Bernie Keating
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    7.8/10(132 votes)

    #11 - Ride the High School

    S1:E64/16/1994

    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

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    Director:Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer:Michael Markowitz
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    7.8/10(73 votes)

    #12 - The One With Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role (a.k.a. Planet of the Dopes)

    S3:E134/20/1996

    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

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    Director:Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer:Monica Piper
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    7.8/10(66 votes)

    #13 - Love! Anger! Kvetching!

    S4:E134/12/1997

    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

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    Director:Anthony Bell

    Writer:Michael Markowitz
14. 

    7.8/10(63 votes)

    #14 - Kidney, Popsicle, and Nuts

    S4:E185/24/1997

    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

    Writers:Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

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    Director:Stig Bergqvist

    Writers:Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman
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    7.8/10(62 votes)

    #15 - The Tami Show

    S4:E196/14/1997

    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

    Writers:Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach

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    Director:Anthony Bell

    Writers:Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach
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    7.8/10(70 votes)

    #16 - You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby

    S4:E247/26/1997

    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

    Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Howard Margulies

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    Director:Stig Bergqvist

    Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Howard Margulies
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    7.9/10(73 votes)

    #17 - The Amazing Colossal Duckman

    S3:E196/29/1996

    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

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    Director:John Eng

    Writer:Bill Canterbury
18. 

    7.9/10(70 votes)

    #18 - Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat

    S4:E31/18/1997

    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

    Writers:Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach

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    Director:Peter Avanzino

    Writers:Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach
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    7.9/10(69 votes)

    #19 - With Friends Like These

    S4:E93/1/1997

    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

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    Director:Steve Loter

    Writer:Gene Laufenberg
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    7.9/10(67 votes)

    #20 - Bev Takes a Holiday

    S4:E123/22/1997

    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.

    Directors:Toni Vian, Stig Bergqvist

    Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Michael Markowitz, David Misch

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    Directors:Toni Vian, Stig Bergqvist

    Writers:Gene Laufenberg, Michael Markowitz, David Misch
21. 

    7.9/10(57 votes)

    #21 - Crime, Punishment, War, Peace, and the Idiot

    S4:E175/10/1997

    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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    Director:Jaime Diaz

    Writer:Howard Margulies
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    7.9/10(68 votes)

    #22 - Four Weddings Inconceivable

    S4:E289/6/1997

    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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    Director:Steve Ressel

    Writer:Michael Markowitz
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    8.0/10(113 votes)

    #23 - Psyche

    S1:E43/26/1994

    Feeling inadequate and hard up, Duckman gets a bill job. The detectives then get a job researching the lives of two large breasted women, but Duckman runs away from it. Seeking further help, takes him into his psyche where he confronts what has really been troubling him.

    Director:Paul Demeyer

    Writers:Mike Sikowitz, Jeff Astrof

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    Director:Paul Demeyer

    Writers:Mike Sikowitz, Jeff Astrof
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    8.0/10(100 votes)

    #24 - Gland of Opportunity

    S1:E54/9/1994

    Duckman receives the adrenal gland of a daredevil via a transplant at an amusement park clinic. The new gland gives him loads of confidence.

    Director:John Eng

    Writers:Eugene B. Stein, Ron Lux

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    Director:John Eng

    Writers:Eugene B. Stein, Ron Lux
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    8.0/10(86 votes)

    #25 - Days of Whining and Neurosis

    S2:E33/25/1995

    Duckman & Cornfed go undercover into an exclusive celebrity-filled health spa to investigate one of the support groups.

    Director:John Eng

    Writer:Gary Glasberg

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    Director:John Eng

    Writer:Gary Glasberg