The Worst Episodes of Duckman
Every episode of Duckman ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Duckman!
Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an American animated sitcom that aired from 1994–1997, created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck. The sitcom is based on characters created by Peck in his Dark Horse comic. Klasky Csupo animated the series and produced it along with Reno & Osborn Productions for Paramount Network Television.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Duckman" is "Westward, No!", rated 7.1/10 from 50 user votes. It was directed by Steve Loter and written by Jed Spingarn. "Westward, No!" aired on 6/28/1997 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "America the Beautiful".
7.1/10 50 votes#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
- 7.2/10 86 votes
#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: Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
- 7.4/10 66 votes
#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
- 7.4/10 53 votes
#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
- 7.4/10 57 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.5/10 56 votes
#7 - 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: Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
- 7.5/10 52 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.5/10 57 votes
#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
- 7.5/10 57 votes
#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: David Misch, Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
- 7.5/10 49 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.5/10 56 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.5/10 49 votes
#13 - 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: Ed Scharlach, Eva Almos
- 7.5/10 50 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.6/10 55 votes
#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: Ed Scharlach, Eva Almos
- 7.6/10 51 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.7/10 116 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.7/10 71 votes
#18 - Days of Whining and Neurosis
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/1995
Duckman & Cornfed go undercover into an exclusive celebrity-filled health spa to investigate one of the support groups.
Director: John Eng
Writer: Gary Glasberg
- 7.7/10 63 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.7/10 69 votes
#20 - 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
- 7.7/10 62 votes
#21 - Sperms of Endearment
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/10/1996
Bernice, Duckmans sister-in-law, decides she wants to have a child of her own. After trying the dating scene she decides to give artificial insemination a go. Due to a mis-communication and over abundance of, er, 'product', the service gives her Duckmans 'donation'. Hilarity ensues as Duckman and Bernice are incompatible in every [in] conceivable way.
Director: Jeff McGrath
Writer: Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
- 7.7/10 56 votes
#22 - Pig Amok
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 4/6/1996
(Willabald Feivel) Cornfed finds out from his father via a documentary co-written with Ken Burns, that he has a genetic disease that gives him a choice, either lose his virginity, or die in 24 hours. Duckman tries to help him out, but Bernice saves the day and Cornfed pledges his undying love. He becomes dejected when she rejects him and tries to commit suicide.
Director: N/A
Writer: Spencer Green
- 7.7/10 58 votes
#23 - 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
- 7.7/10 73 votes
#24 - 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: Michael Markowitz, Jeff Reno
- 7.7/10 56 votes
#25 - 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: David Misch, Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg