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The Worst Episodes of Duckman

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

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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 Worst Episode
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    Duckman Season 2 Episode 9 - Clip Job
    7.2/10(86 votes)

    S2:E9

    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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  2. Duckman Season 4 Episode 21 - Westward, No!
    7.3/10(67 votes)

    S4:E21

    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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  3. Duckman Season 2 Episode 5 - America the Beautiful
    7.4/10(108 votes)

    S2:E5

    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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Duckman Season 4 Episode 11 - A Star is Abhorred
    7.6/10(65 votes)

    S4:E11

    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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  7. Duckman Season 4 Episode 15 - Ebony, Baby
    7.6/10(72 votes)

    S4:E15

    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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  8. Duckman Season 2 Episode 8 - Research and Destroy
    7.7/10(87 votes)

    S2:E8

    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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  9. Duckman Season 3 Episode 13 - The One With Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role (a.k.a. Planet of the Dopes)
    7.7/10(77 votes)

    S3:E13

    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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  10. 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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  11. Duckman Season 1 Episode 2 - T.V. or Not to Be
    7.8/10(134 votes)

    S1:E2

    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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  12. Duckman Season 1 Episode 6 - Ride the High School
    7.8/10(111 votes)

    S1:E6

    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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. Duckman Season 3 Episode 19 - The Amazing Colossal Duckman
    7.9/10(77 votes)

    S3:E19

    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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. Duckman Season 1 Episode 4 - Psyche
    8.0/10(119 votes)

    S1:E4

    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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  24. Duckman Season 1 Episode 5 - Gland of Opportunity
    8.0/10(103 votes)

    S1:E5

    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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  25. Duckman Season 2 Episode 3 - Days of Whining and Neurosis
    8.0/10(94 votes)

    S2:E3

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Clip Job" is the worst rated episode of "Duckman". It scored 7.2/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by Jeff McGrath and written by David Misch, it aired on 5/8/1995. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Westward, No!".