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Another Awesome retrospective. This was one of those shows I knew was NOT meant for me as a kid, but I watched it anyway, like Beavis & Butt-Head, Celebrity Deathmatch, whatever else was on MTV at the time (hey, theme month idea!) and I'm just now realizing VIACOM-owned channels kinda cornered the market on "not-for-kids" cartoons in the 90's. Also, please review The Crow and Dark City.
Cornfed: "I know over two hundred ways to kill a man" Sherry: "You could glue an open jar of rats to his face, then blowtorch the other side of the jar so the rats have to eat their way out through his face" Cornfed: "... Two Hundred and one"
that's based on a real torture. I read about where they'd strap a cage of rats to the victim's stomach and light a fire underneath it so the rats would be so crazed they'd tear apart the person's stomach to escape.
My favourite duckman quote is Duckman: ahhh I remember the last thing my dad said to me.. Cornfed: .....”careful son, I don’t think the safety’s on”? Duckman: NO NO NO BEFORE THAT!
My favorite one was from the Exile in Guyville episode where men and women divided the country after Duckman and Bernice had a televised argument and a girl asked Bernice why all the women smelled so bad: Bernice "because spiders crawled into all the bathtubs." Girl: "But aren't we strong, empowered women who can do anything?" Bernice:"You don't understand dear, these are spiders."
Without a doubt the most criminally underrated cartoon of all time! I met Jason Alexander at my local casino once and told him how much I love Duckman. He said it was the most fun he ever had working on film or TV.
To all Duckman fans out there, so sad for 2022, that the original creator Everett Peck had passed away at the age of 71. Just in case, if nobody noticing it. Thanks, Everett, for making awesome even the creative ideas to make it gold. You shall be missed. For Duckman's final words for you: "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STAIRING AT!?!
When Duckman asks why Cornfed won’t give him more of the serum that irresistibly attracts women : “Given your proven record of mind-bogglingly destructive excess, we felt that giving you any more of the serum would be like giving Michael Jackson a drum of peanut oil and some cub scouts ...” (Cornfed faces the camera) “ALLEGEDLY.”
My favorite Duckman line is from Ride The Highschool: Bernice! That School is a Hellhole! Bernice: It used to be such a fine upstanding school, what happened? Cuts to Duckman protesting Bush 41's Tax Increases. Duckman looks sheepishly as he recalls.
@@randalgraves6979 Fluffy/Uranus: [screams off-screen] _"...Mr. Duckman,_ _why did you eviscerate us with a hot curling iron?"_ Duckman: _"...It's Tuesday."_ [slams door]
My favorite episode of the show has to be "Once & Future Duck", where he gets paralyzed by indecision when future selves keep interrupting his daily life with warnings. This persists until a *past* self - him on his wedding day to Beatrice - appears and asks him one simple question: "Am I doing the right thing marrying Beatrice? Do we grow old together?" Duckman pauses, then quietly says "You're gonna love her until the day you die." And because of how much of an embittered, selfish jackass Duckman can be, you *KNOW* he means it when he says this, and that's more than enough for his past self to be satisfied with his decision.
My Favorite Episodes of Duckman are as followed: Ride The High School, It's the Thing of The Principal, Forbidden Fruit, Joking The Chicken, America The Beautiful , Sperms of Endearment,Exile in Guyville, About Face, Roll With it. So many classics. But the one's where Duckman and Bernice/Bernie hook up are the best ones.
I was looking for someone mentioning this episode. It's always the simple things that make the biggest impact and this scene shows it, even if you are flawed and broken you can still find that someone that loves yoh and in turn shows you you can love just as much
Ok, the ending of Duckman got a genuine chuckle out of me. I mean, come on, the "dead" wife comes back the day of his wedding? It's such a cliche soap opera trope! And it's the cliffhanger end of the entire series? That's hilarious!
Ah shucks. I just started season 4. This is the first time I'm watching this series. Your comment isn't really a spoiler considering the episodes are all independent and stuff, so I guess I don't hate you.
@@marcoparada6652 What's crazy is that people didn't seem to realize it at the time. I remember people saying, "You couldn't make a character like Archie Bunker today," back then, but there were actually Archie Bunker like characters at the time. I guess just not on network TV.
@@zmbdog Wdym? Aesthetics-wise it's evokes the 90s experimentalism as Doug Walker mentioned, while it's also signify the last years of 2D cel animations alongside the earlier seasons of The Simpsons as adult animations with sharp yet heartful commentary
@@crazyluigi6664 yup. With Adult Swim, it's more like Rick and Morty was a lucky break and then you have stuff like Mr. PICKLES (which I have no idea how it got greenlit).
Probably Adult Swim. Netflix is way too liberal and Duckman get way too conservative to the point it would get kicked off. In this day of age a conservative outlook is refreshing to me.
Still one of the best rants about the shit show that is life I've heard on any show. Duckman: And when you think about it, isn't that exactly the point? Parking...... And driving. And shopping. And eating. And working. Somewhere, somehow, they're different now, none of 'em are the same, they all got chewed up and spit back out, and they don't taste like living anymore! Don't you see what it's like in this deranged Whirring Blender of a world?! Every day is an agonizing ordeal, like balancing a pot of scalding water on your head while people whip your legs and butt … Aaaah, you never forget your senior prom … YOU think I'm "sick"?! Well the only disease I've got is "Modern Life," a schnutbusting gauntlet of inefficiency and misery that's one long parade of let-downs, put-downs, trickle downs, shutouts, freeze outs, sell-outs, numnuts, nincompoops and nimrods, all making every day as much fun as waxing a flaming Pontiac with your tongue, where even if you do luck into the possibility of some fleeting pleasure, like, say, if some nymphomaniac telephone operator with the muscle control of Romanian mat-slappers agree to a little strip air hockey, it'll be over before it starts 'cuz some vowel-lacking, feta-reeking cab-jockey slams his checker up your hatchback and the cab is owned by some pinata spanker from a Santeria cult in Xoacalpa who starts shaking chicken bones at you and gives you a boil on your neck so big all it needs is Michael Jordan's autograph to make it complete, and even with all this, with ALL THIS, I still drag my sorry butt off the Sealy every morning and stick my face in the reaping machine for one more day, knowing when it's time to flash the cosmic card key at those Pearly Gates, I won't be in the coffin anyway 'cuz some underhanded undertaker sold my heart, pancreas and other assorted Good 'N' Plenty to that same Santeria cult so does anybody really wonder why anybody is hanging onto sanity by the atoms on the tips of their fingernails while life dirty-dances on their digits, and is it really any wonder that I seem DERANGED???!!
My politically correct answer is, "I completely agree with him" but my genuine answer is "Melodramatic much?" Lol. But I'm certain I'd enjoy the show as a whole, I remember bits of it in my childhood.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Well he says all of this while being held against in will in a psych ward if that adds a layer of context to it. I can't really blame him for the theatrics. lol
Duckman walked so that South Park, Rick and Morty, and Bojack Horseman could run thank you Duckman for pioneering a form of animation we needed more than we ever thought we did
My mom once asked me why I liked that "Weird duck show where he just complains always..." and I think even back then at like 9 p.m. after football practice as a kid (when these would air) I responded "He's just mad because his wife died, and he can't get over it... It's kind of sad..." There was a lot of heart for all the satire and outlandish stuff, he was only happy when his wife was with him.
I remember watching this show back in Elementary. I was in grade 4 I believe when I started watching it. My favourite episode is when Duckman and Cornfed had to go under cover as a plumbing company. Duckman gave it such a long name that even Cornfed said it should of been shortened. It didn't fit all the letter on the side of the van so he had a long two by four taped to the van to show the extra letters in which, everytime he turns the van, he ends up hitting pedestrians with it. And one of my favourite jokes from the show came up: Duckman: Hi! We are A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing Stranger: Oh hi yes I did call you guys. So you are A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing? Duckman: Yes we are indeed A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing! Stranger #2: Hey! Did someone say that these guys are A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing? Stranger #1: Yes, these guys are from A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing! lol so pretty much, they wasted like 2 straight minutes of the show, just talking about the name of the plumbing company! lol it was so awesome!
Duckman: Let's do a cliffhanger and dare the network to cancel us. *show gets cancelled* Teen Titans: Let's do a cliffhanger and dare the network to cancel us. *show gets cancelled* Spetacular Spider-Man: Let's do a cliffhanger and dare the network to cancel us. *show gets cancelled* I'm starting to see a pattern here.
Futurama: Let's do a sweet and proper farewell since we're being cancelled. Show is renewed. Futurama: Let's do a sweet and proper farewell since we're being cancelled. Show is renewed. Futurama: Let's do a sweet and proper farewell since we're being cancelled. Show is renewed. True story... they had actually made four separate finales expecting it to be the last episode only for the show to continue. Basically, every episode where Fry and Leela seem to get closer together. By the 4th time their relationship was so close they decided screw it and just had them grow old together.
@@ChannelAwesome I gotcha. You have all these episodes in the pipeline about shows that might someday crawl out of our memory holes and the minute we say, "Oh yeah, remember ____?", then BANG, posted.
Cult Classic: Still a highly respected show by those who remember it. This show predated South Park by over three years, and Family Guy by five, and it's not farfetched to say that the seeds for those shows can be seen in Duckman. It was never a huge sensation when it originally aired, but Jason Alexander chalks it up to the fact that it was so far ahead of its time and was on a network no one really knew about.
People knew about USA. They just didn't care. It was mostly trash at the time. I preferred it that way, myself. Bad cartoons in the morning, worse TV shows all day, and terrible movies at night. It gloried in its crappishness.
@@singaporesammy AH, yes, I remember USA from the 90's. I believe they tried their own block of Saturday Morning Cartoons (including Sonic the Hedgehog) to compete with Nick, Cartoon Network, and local broadcast stations (including FOX Kids and Kids WB). What I can't recall is when they ditched all that stuff and began the "Characters Welcome" era, with shows like Royal Pains, Burn Notice, Psyche, White Collar, Mr. Robot, and others I probably forgot and have no time to catch up with.
@@louisduarte8763 Cartoon Express. Highlander: The Animated Series, Challenge of the GoBots, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling... It was awesomely bad. It was also older than Nick and Cartoon Network by a decade or so. Personally, I mostly miss the "Up All Night" block of B-movies.
Duckman showed that there was a market for shows like southpark. Even if you want to argue the shows that followed didnt take inspiration from it, the show still helped pave the way by showing a proof of concept. Its like any new genre of movies, we wouldnt have gotten avengers if iron man hadnt crushed it. When supergirl failed in theaters, it was years before they dared show a female lead super movie. Duckman ran on the network for three years showing that this type of humor could work in an adult cartoon and do well for itself. So future networks could justify taking the risk to green light another one along those lines.
@@singaporesammy Hell yeah Up all with Night with Rhonda Shear, and Gilbert Godfrey was an awesome, and as a kid I had a small 13in CRT in my bedroom with a headphone jack so I would sit up, and watch it often as I could same with Duckman. Also let us not forget WWF/WWE wrestling. USANetwork was awesome back in the 80's, and 90's. The only thing I watch on it now is WWE RAW.
@@aidanredding8058 I agree with you. While the show is very violent and gets very risque at times, it still is a pretty good cartoon comedy. The movie was basically a giant middle finger to the people who cancelled their show.
The best episode is when he falls in love the phone operator. The ending is so sad, they break up and she rings him and he just tells the family to leave it ringing.
Seriously one of the most underrated made for adult cartoons with one of the great voices from Jason Alexander. I was hooked from the first episode at the time... and yes it was then not accepted by the idiots on the other side of the swamp.
"Am I doing the right thing, marrying Beatrice? Do we grow old together?" "... You're gonna love her 'til the day you die." The delivery on that was powerful.
I love Duckman but I'm not a fan of the critic. Similar to Duckman the main character is a total jack ass, except the comedy isn't near as good to justify his behavior
Can't forget this lovely quote from Duckman: "Bunch of dead-skin no-humor pansies! You tell 'em an icebreaker or two about women's libbers, gays, environmentalists, several minorities, the homeless, couple of religions, anorexics, obese people, the handicapped, old farts, baldness, and people who walk real goofy 'cause they just had a vasectomy, and suddenly they get all sensitive, like I offended one of them or something! Makes you wonder why they asked me to talk in the first place!"
One Piece is not for adults, it's meant for teens, it's just that Japan has different values than the United States that people forget that when watching anime
@@KingRandor82 Yes sir. My favorite is when a car smashed into the Cats play and they all ran out on fire and he said "and nothing of value was lost" Priceless
The Algerian I loved this show as a kid, but honestly never realized the political and social commentary. Definitely must have been subliminal/unconscious as to why I’m so suspect of everything now. This was shown on the late night, and was the show we begged our parents to stay up a lil longer to watch. They must have thought it educational to allow it haha
This show had as much heart as it did fast paced humor. I loved the characters, the art style, and the atmosphere. I kind of wish this show had a few more episodes, but what was there, was gold, tmv.
People always say "You couldn't get away with this kind of humor today" My question is "Why Not?" All you have to do is ignore anything said on Twitter. You can only be cancelled if you allow yourself to be cancelled. People truly need to put the overly sensitive in their place. They need to ignore the virtue signalling of hangers on that need recognition to be validated of their beliefs. I mean in my opinion, you would get a lot less people getting "Offended" if there were no like or dislike system on social media. You could easily remove it and force people to comment that they like something. They need to say "Yes you have an opinion of what I love, how I live, what I say and what I believe, but in the end, your opinion means nothing to me because it holds no real power to effect my life."
I agree with you, I'm 48 and I really believe my generation is the last one that took almost nothing seriously. But the problem is that Twitter, etc IS so powerful. Look at what happened to Roseanne. Now IMO what she said wasn't funny, or at least not funny enough to get away with. BUT... She could have had the guts to stand by it. Barring that, she should've just apologized and not tried to blame the Ambien. AND YET... In either case, ABC had NO right to fire her just for a stupid joke. That was a massive over-reaction that never would've happened during the original run of the show. Sure some humor in the 80s and 90s was inappropriate, in way too many ways, but the pendulum has swung too far the other way.
You can't but not for the reasons you are thinking. The video "You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!" sums this up pretty well ruclips.net/video/jzMFoNZeZm0/видео.html
Duckman is in the same league as Sam and Max, Xavier: Renegade Angel and Earthworm Jim. Lightyears ahead of their time and only now slowly getting more known.
I’m just one more duck detective who works with a pig and lives with the twin sister of his dead wife, three sons and two bodies and a comatose mother-in-law who’s got so much gas shes a fire hazard.
Now, before I say anything, I know why people don't like the Nostalgia Critic. I've seen the video The Downfall of Channel Awesome and all the bad shit that's happened, but this video right here is why I like the Nostalgia Critic or at least the good parts of him. I'm not gonna excuse any of the bad shit Channel Awesome has done and I can do without the critic screaming his head off in many of his reviews, but in videos like this one where he explains why a movie or a show works and what's good about it while also explaining the flaws of it without nitpicking everything down to the last who the fuck cares details like CinemaSins is what I like best about the Nostalgia Critic. I wish he would make more videos like this without the crazy screaming and repeated jokes that aren't really that funny. Here where he explains it without it being boring like a classroom, really works. I never really knew anything about Duckman, but now I want to check it out because of this video. It's like a show that inspired some of the many modern shows that we watch today.
Troy Wright You can go too far. I like dark comedy as much as the anti PC brigade. Difference is, I recognise that offensive jokes need to be constructive and have substance. It has limits, like everything else. Dark comedy often punches up, where the punchline is usually at the expense of the asshole doing something offensive. If you joke about domestic violence, let’s say, the goal of the joke should be to get you to side with the victim. Too often people say racist or sexist shit and then claim persecution by the PC brigade. Sometimes that can be true, other times it’s just because their humour was at the expense of a victim, rather than the perpetrator. Which is neither pushing past any prejudices nor making the audience think. It just confirms preexisting notions. Even self deprecating humour only works because you’re supposed to laugh with the person facing adversity, not at their expense for whatever challenge they may face. Now I haven’t seen Duckman in a while, but if I remember correctly, the humour works for a couple of reasons. You know why the character has his philosophy and why his humour is the way it is. Making him relatable and also likeable. But you’re not always necessarily laughing with him. He is shit on and he does get his comeuppance. You do laugh at him as well as with him. Because it’s a balance. I’ll admit it’s rather cathartic to see him destroy the two overly nice Fluffy and Uranus. It’s because yes it’s good to be considerate. But people constantly on your shit about being the nicest most egalitarian person ever whilst being condescending is annoying as fuck. You do need to be a bit “rough and tough” to get through life. But you can’t be too far the other way either, otherwise you’re just another insensitive miserable belligerent prick. But if the comedy is merely just more shallow stereotypes to laugh at (be it The Pepe flag or the stand up of Lilly Singh) it doesn’t always work as well. On the internet it might, because it’s just a cheap laugh. But if you’re doing it professionally, you need to be able to not only read the crowd correctly, but also challenge the crowd appropriately. TLDR: Edgy humour needs to be more than “insert edgy meme here” if it wants to claim that comedy should be dark and confrontational.
I mean, there's a huge difference, but I think we can summarize the general idea as this: "Time and place, asshole!" What that means is, there's a time to make a certain joke. There's a place to do it, too. No one, and I mean, NO ONE, is gonna be very happy if you make a lot of fucking jokes about Jews at like.. a concentration camp site. That's pretty obvious, I'd say. Make jokes about death at a funeral, and you might make laughter, someone happy and thus inspire them to remember the good times with the one who passed. THAT'S a good place. Make jokes about death at a memorial service to honor the fallen soldiers who fought for freedom, however? That's NOT a good place.
The Mother from Three Men and a Baby, and So I Married an Axe Murderer, voices Bernice,Beatrice and Beverly. Her name is Nancy Travis. She also starred in Last Man Standing With Tim Allen. ruclips.net/video/smVge5w077g/видео.html You can clearly hear a mix of Bernie and Beatrice in her voice.
Can you review Roar starring Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith? 70 people were injured while working with 150 lions, tigers (surprisingly no bears), and other big cats. What came out is a nonsensical film, with less plot than Boyhood, about a family who go to see their father living with these animals.
Doug forgot to mention that Frank Zappa did some of the music and franks son was the voice of Ajax. Duckman is still my favorite show of all time and I first saw it when I was 11
Oh good, I'm not the only kiddo out there who watched this. I'm Canadian so I had to wait for Teletoon to get its clutches on it in what I guess were reruns. I saw it when I was about 11 myself, but that was in '98 and the show had ended in the States by then. Gods did I enjoy it though, I had no real idea what I was truly laughing at, at the time, but I knew it was funny.
Some of my favorite Duckman quotes: Cornfed - "You parked in a handicap space!" Duckman - "So what?? No one ever parks there except the people who need them and, hell, I can outrun them anyway!!" Duckman - "Do I need to remind you what is says on the door to our office?" Cornfed - "'We've Moved. Please forward all collection inquires to...'" Duckman - "UNDER THAT!!!" Duckman - "SHAZAM!!!! LADY, ARE THOSE THINGS REAL OR DID YOU HAVE TO PAY SOMEBODY TO MAKE THEM POINT THAT WAY?!?!?!?!?" (My personal favorite!)
Oh, HELL yes! I LOVE Duckman! I've tried getting others to realize the brilliance of it, but I've had limited success. Edit: And yes, "America the Beautiful" may well be the best episode of the entire show.
Duckman: "Okay, Medfly...what was that?!? What are my family and friends doing in it? Are they in danger too?!? And most important... _who_ was that luscious piece of tail walking by in the beginning?"
I remember show in the 90's. I don't recall watching the ending. 17:59 Sounds like they tried pulling a Paul Fusco. The series Alf ended on a cliffhanger in an attempt to get the show picked up for another season (the result was a movie years later call Project Alf). Well I say it's time for Project Duckman!
If Nostalgia Critic didn't go over THE Critic before, he should now. I know MovieBob talked about that show before, but I'd like a take from another angle.
They are. In the first episode "I Duckman" he is sleeping in his bed. When he wakes up, he has no eyes, but after putting on his glasses, you can see his eyes. On his glasses!
"Hey nurse, I got a thermometer that's going to make you bedridden for a week! Where you going? You got a patient here. See? I'm turning my head and coughing! Hack Hack!!"
Love this show. All the seasons were released years ago and I picked it up as soon as it was released. Thank you for finally giving this show some love. Any chance to also review the 90s Jon Lovitz show The Critic? Another underrated favorite of mine!
I try to be conscious of how my words, messages, and assumptions come across, but I still love crass and offensive humor. Like the court jesters of old we need people who challenge our beliefs and assumptions to make make us reflect on why we have them or if we feel we're even justified in having them. Even a joke that out of taste still evokes reactions to be explored. To anyone who says making those jokes makes you an asshole, I reply that anyone, ANYONE can be an asshole. Even the most squeaky clean politically correct person on the Earth. It's not a matter of the sides your on, it's how you act, treat yourself and treat other people.
Amen brother. Though I dont challenge the norm through humor, I ask people nearly everyday... why? Why do you think this about this? Why do you feel this way? Most the time people cannot explain why they think something. Questioning the world around you is the most powerful thing you can do to advance society. Whether it be through political activism or a rude duck with a libido.
Bryan Martin I think what makes comedy so effective in this case is that it’s basically a bastardization of the Socratic Method. Through satire, you make them see the flaws of their beliefs and make them question themselves. A person asking themselves “why?” Is far more potent then someone else asking the same question.
Ah, Duckman. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. When I was a lad of 10 (Judas Rocking Priest, I'm gonna sound OLD), I discovered this show while channel surfing on the TV in my parents' room, shortly after our house got cable (before I got my own in my room), and its style was the same as the Nicktoons I watched at the time. I didn't understand all the jokes, but they were told in a way that made me laugh anyway. Good to know its humor and messaging still hold up. Side note: The WIld Thornberrys' best character is Nigel, and I will fight you on that! Because he was voiced by Tim Goddamn Curry, and he's a cinematic treasure! Join me in saying "SMASHING!"
rarely does a day go by where I don't fit a Duckman quote into conversation. When I serve drinks I say "Here's a little something to dull the nerve endings and make everyone seem at least mildly entertaining." such amazing scriptwriting: Duckman: Did I ever tell you my Dad's last words to me? Cornfed: "Careful, son, I don't think the safety is on." Duckman: Before that. Cornfed: Once again, the U.S. is spending millions to oust a puppet they spent millions to get into office. They'll spend more millions on the coverup to hide having spent those millions and even more millions to discredit members of the media who report otherwise. It's a good thing they print their own money. Ajax: Once bread become toast, it can never go back. Nurse in an insane asylum: (in a happy sing-song voice) there'll be no sodomy, or you'll get a lobotomy! inmate: sorry, I thought he was catatonic sheer genius
I love this show! All the episodes are available on RUclips. One of my favorite episodes is where duckman has a rare blood condition that causes him to grow whenever he's angry, leading him to become a giant and exile himself on an island. There's some good references to jaws and it poses a lot of existential questions
Critic, could you maybe review these movies in the future? "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" "They Come Knocking" (Hulu original) "Charlotte's Web 2, Wilbers Great Adventure" "Mortal Instruments, City Of Bones" (The Movie).
Duckman is such a classic. I can remember how I used to stay up late just to watch USA Up All Nite just to watch the shows I knew I shouldnt be watching. Damn the 90s was such a good time. Kids nowadays couldn't handle the extremeness and grown stuff of the extreme time.
Fun Fact: Klasky Csupo did a six straight to home video series, known as, The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. Which ran from October 9, 1998 to January 30, 2003.
I used to watch Duckman when I was younger... mostly because my folks didn't care. I never knew much of what was going on but I always did like the series...
The comedian in Joking the Chicken is voiced by the guy who does Mandark on Dexter's Laboratory. He is also the manager of The Hungry Heifer in Critters 2.
"Is it that our heroes are so blind to the fact that what they're standing on is garbage and there will never any hope? Or is it, despite all the terrible things that happened, there will always be optimistic people trying to make things better?" Personally, I'm more in the latter.
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So this a 90's bojack horseman
Well, it's certainly a better love letter than that horrible Pink Floyd video/album you made.
And All Animation shouldn't be meant for kids either..
Another Awesome retrospective. This was one of those shows I knew was NOT meant for me as a kid, but I watched it anyway, like Beavis & Butt-Head, Celebrity Deathmatch, whatever else was on MTV at the time (hey, theme month idea!) and I'm just now realizing VIACOM-owned channels kinda cornered the market on "not-for-kids" cartoons in the 90's.
Also, please review The Crow and Dark City.
Can you review The Diary of the wimpy Kid Movies please
Cornfed: "I know over two hundred ways to kill a man"
Sherry: "You could glue an open jar of rats to his face, then blowtorch the other side of the jar so the rats have to eat their way out through his face"
Cornfed: "... Two Hundred and one"
My favorite cornfed moment
that's technique is used in Gameof thrones no ?
More like 101
That's hilarious.
that's based on a real torture. I read about where they'd strap a cage of rats to the victim's stomach and light a fire underneath it so the rats would be so crazed they'd tear apart the person's stomach to escape.
My favourite duckman quote is
Duckman: ahhh I remember the last thing my dad said to me..
Cornfed: .....”careful son, I don’t think the safety’s on”?
Duckman: NO NO NO BEFORE THAT!
HAHA
My favorite one was from the Exile in Guyville episode where men and women divided the country after Duckman and Bernice had a televised argument and a girl asked Bernice why all the women smelled so bad:
Bernice "because spiders crawled into all the bathtubs."
Girl: "But aren't we strong, empowered women who can do anything?"
Bernice:"You don't understand dear, these are spiders."
Without a doubt the most criminally underrated cartoon of all time! I met Jason Alexander at my local casino once and told him how much I love Duckman. He said it was the most fun he ever had working on film or TV.
Jason Alexander IS Duckman!
I re watched the whole series a couple of years ago .....great time I had 😂
No way
Even more than Seinfeld?
@@louisduarte8763 he probably got to get away with alot more being Duckman than George Costanza
To all Duckman fans out there, so sad for 2022, that the original creator
Everett Peck had passed away at the age of 71.
Just in case, if nobody noticing it. Thanks, Everett, for making awesome even the creative ideas to make it gold.
You shall be missed. For Duckman's final words for you:
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STAIRING AT!?!
I hope that Duckman is revived eventually, in Everett Peck’s honor.
When Duckman asks why Cornfed won’t give him more of the serum that irresistibly attracts women : “Given your proven record of mind-bogglingly destructive excess, we felt that giving you any more of the serum would be like giving Michael Jackson a drum of peanut oil and some cub scouts ...” (Cornfed faces the camera) “ALLEGEDLY.”
HOLY SHIT, DUDE
THEY SAID THAT?! That's HILARIOUS
What episode?
GOD DAMN, THOSE WRITERS DIDN’T GIVE A SHIT
My favorite Duckman line:
Charles: "I'm thirsty!"
Mambo: "And I have to pee!"
Duckman: "WELL THAT JUST WORKS OUT PERFECTLY, NOW DOESN'T IT???"
Then they look at each other and say, "Ewwww..."
I still quote that to this day.
Omg!
My favorite Duckman line is from Ride The Highschool: Bernice! That School is a Hellhole! Bernice: It used to be such a fine upstanding school, what happened? Cuts to Duckman protesting Bush 41's Tax Increases. Duckman looks sheepishly as he recalls.
“It’s Tuesday!!”
@@randalgraves6979
Fluffy/Uranus: [screams off-screen] _"...Mr. Duckman,_
_why did you eviscerate us with a hot curling iron?"_
Duckman: _"...It's Tuesday."_ [slams door]
Finally, Duckman gets the due he deserves.
No kidding right. I can't believe it took doug so long to get to this one
Yeah
I know hell yeah
ehh rebeltaxi did it first
Seriously no one I know seems to remember it.
My favorite episode of the show has to be "Once & Future Duck", where he gets paralyzed by indecision when future selves keep interrupting his daily life with warnings.
This persists until a *past* self - him on his wedding day to Beatrice - appears and asks him one simple question: "Am I doing the right thing marrying Beatrice? Do we grow old together?"
Duckman pauses, then quietly says "You're gonna love her until the day you die."
And because of how much of an embittered, selfish jackass Duckman can be, you *KNOW* he means it when he says this, and that's more than enough for his past self to be satisfied with his decision.
I prefer the episode with the backstory of the Grandma.
Classic episode...
My Favorite Episodes of Duckman are as followed: Ride The High School, It's the Thing of The Principal, Forbidden Fruit, Joking The Chicken, America The Beautiful , Sperms of Endearment,Exile in Guyville, About Face, Roll With it.
So many classics. But the one's where Duckman and Bernice/Bernie hook up are the best ones.
@@22espec My all time favor is Joking the Chicken. But Runner's up is Its the Thing of The Principal.
I was looking for someone mentioning this episode. It's always the simple things that make the biggest impact and this scene shows it, even if you are flawed and broken you can still find that someone that loves yoh and in turn shows you you can love just as much
Ok, the ending of Duckman got a genuine chuckle out of me.
I mean, come on, the "dead" wife comes back the day of his wedding? It's such a cliche soap opera trope! And it's the cliffhanger end of the entire series? That's hilarious!
I remember thinking it was PERFECT for Duckman. Then again i was 14 at the time.
@@MamaMOB I too was 14 in '97.
Ah shucks. I just started season 4. This is the first time I'm watching this series. Your comment isn't really a spoiler considering the episodes are all independent and stuff, so I guess I don't hate you.
@@DahakaMatthew plus yk...the video actually says it so, yk, if you were gonna hate, dont shoot the messenger lol
"Ahead of its time" but also as 90s as you could possibly get.
Agreed. The 90's were unapologetically raw.
The whole decade was a wild fever dream... I miss it
@@marcoparada6652 What's crazy is that people didn't seem to realize it at the time. I remember people saying, "You couldn't make a character like Archie Bunker today," back then, but there were actually Archie Bunker like characters at the time. I guess just not on network TV.
I disagree. Aesthetically, nothing about it screams "90s" to me. Only the cultural references.
@@zmbdog Wdym? Aesthetics-wise it's evokes the 90s experimentalism as Doug Walker mentioned, while it's also signify the last years of 2D cel animations alongside the earlier seasons of The Simpsons as adult animations with sharp yet heartful commentary
Duckman would have fit in as a Netflix or Adult Swim show if it was released today.
Probably the former, if I'm being honest here.
@@crazyluigi6664 yup. With Adult Swim, it's more like Rick and Morty was a lucky break and then you have stuff like Mr. PICKLES (which I have no idea how it got greenlit).
@@isaigutierrez1617 they need something for stoners to laugh at between midnight and 6 am.
Don't give me hope mate
Probably Adult Swim. Netflix is way too liberal and Duckman get way too conservative to the point it would get kicked off. In this day of age a conservative outlook is refreshing to me.
Still one of the best rants about the shit show that is life I've heard on any show.
Duckman: And when you think about it, isn't that exactly the point? Parking...... And driving. And shopping. And eating. And working. Somewhere, somehow, they're different now, none of 'em are the same, they all got chewed up and spit back out, and they don't taste like living anymore! Don't you see what it's like in this deranged Whirring Blender of a world?! Every day is an agonizing ordeal, like balancing a pot of scalding water on your head while people whip your legs and butt … Aaaah, you never forget your senior prom … YOU think I'm "sick"?! Well the only disease I've got is "Modern Life," a schnutbusting gauntlet of inefficiency and misery that's one long parade of let-downs, put-downs, trickle downs, shutouts, freeze outs, sell-outs, numnuts, nincompoops and nimrods, all making every day as much fun as waxing a flaming Pontiac with your tongue, where even if you do luck into the possibility of some fleeting pleasure, like, say, if some nymphomaniac telephone operator with the muscle control of Romanian mat-slappers agree to a little strip air hockey, it'll be over before it starts 'cuz some vowel-lacking, feta-reeking cab-jockey slams his checker up your hatchback and the cab is owned by some pinata spanker from a Santeria cult in Xoacalpa who starts shaking chicken bones at you and gives you a boil on your neck so big all it needs is Michael Jordan's autograph to make it complete, and even with all this, with ALL THIS, I still drag my sorry butt off the Sealy every morning and stick my face in the reaping machine for one more day, knowing when it's time to flash the cosmic card key at those Pearly Gates, I won't be in the coffin anyway 'cuz some underhanded undertaker sold my heart, pancreas and other assorted Good 'N' Plenty to that same Santeria cult so does anybody really wonder why anybody is hanging onto sanity by the atoms on the tips of their fingernails while life dirty-dances on their digits, and is it really any wonder that I seem DERANGED???!!
Damn that's a rant alright
My politically correct answer is, "I completely agree with him" but my genuine answer is "Melodramatic much?" Lol. But I'm certain I'd enjoy the show as a whole, I remember bits of it in my childhood.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Well he says all of this while being held against in will in a psych ward if that adds a layer of context to it. I can't really blame him for the theatrics. lol
Is he wrong though?
@@thealchemistking4063 not that I can see.
Duckman walked so that South Park, Rick and Morty, and Bojack Horseman could run thank you Duckman for pioneering a form of animation we needed more than we ever thought we did
Eeeeh R&M tripped over their loose shoe laces
And fell into a pit of acid
My mom once asked me why I liked that "Weird duck show where he just complains always..." and I think even back then at like 9 p.m. after football practice as a kid (when these would air) I responded "He's just mad because his wife died, and he can't get over it... It's kind of sad..."
There was a lot of heart for all the satire and outlandish stuff, he was only happy when his wife was with him.
I remember watching this show back in Elementary. I was in grade 4 I believe when I started watching it. My favourite episode is when Duckman and Cornfed had to go under cover as a plumbing company. Duckman gave it such a long name that even Cornfed said it should of been shortened. It didn't fit all the letter on the side of the van so he had a long two by four taped to the van to show the extra letters in which, everytime he turns the van, he ends up hitting pedestrians with it. And one of my favourite jokes from the show came up:
Duckman: Hi! We are A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing
Stranger: Oh hi yes I did call you guys. So you are A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing?
Duckman: Yes we are indeed A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing!
Stranger #2: Hey! Did someone say that these guys are A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing?
Stranger #1: Yes, these guys are from A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-1 Plumbing!
lol so pretty much, they wasted like 2 straight minutes of the show, just talking about the name of the plumbing company! lol it was so awesome!
Remember the Episode "Gland of Opportunity"? One of the more early, popular episodes.
Butler: "Yes, they say they're from A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-"
Duckman: "...all right, come on, we don't even have a plot yet!"
Duckman: Let's do a cliffhanger and dare the network to cancel us.
*show gets cancelled*
Teen Titans: Let's do a cliffhanger and dare the network to cancel us.
*show gets cancelled*
Spetacular Spider-Man: Let's do a cliffhanger and dare the network to cancel us.
*show gets cancelled*
I'm starting to see a pattern here.
The network never cares only the fans do, why don't they see that and stop using that old trick😂
for a second i thought you meant teen titans: GO, and i practically screeched with happiness
South Park: Lets do everything we fucking can to get canceled and dare the network to cancel us
*Still on the Air*
South Park: FUCK
Futurama: Let's do a sweet and proper farewell since we're being cancelled.
Show is renewed.
Futurama: Let's do a sweet and proper farewell since we're being cancelled.
Show is renewed.
Futurama: Let's do a sweet and proper farewell since we're being cancelled.
Show is renewed.
True story... they had actually made four separate finales expecting it to be the last episode only for the show to continue. Basically, every episode where Fry and Leela seem to get closer together. By the 4th time their relationship was so close they decided screw it and just had them grow old together.
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO REMIND ME OF TEEN TITANS' FINALE?!
Me: *mentions Duckman in a conversation last night*
Doug: *uploads an episode reviewing Duckman*
Freaky
+Jaci0607 We got you bugged
@@ChannelAwesome I gotcha. You have all these episodes in the pipeline about shows that might someday crawl out of our memory holes and the minute we say, "Oh yeah, remember ____?", then BANG, posted.
Yeah... weird. My brother brought up MoonUnit Zappa's name the other day and I told him that her brother Dweezel was the voice of Ajax on Duckman.
Cult Classic: Still a highly respected show by those who remember it. This show predated South Park by over three years, and Family Guy by five, and it's not farfetched to say that the seeds for those shows can be seen in Duckman. It was never a huge sensation when it originally aired, but Jason Alexander chalks it up to the fact that it was so far ahead of its time and was on a network no one really knew about.
People knew about USA. They just didn't care. It was mostly trash at the time. I preferred it that way, myself. Bad cartoons in the morning, worse TV shows all day, and terrible movies at night. It gloried in its crappishness.
@@singaporesammy AH, yes, I remember USA from the 90's. I believe they tried their own block of Saturday Morning Cartoons (including Sonic the Hedgehog) to compete with Nick, Cartoon Network, and local broadcast stations (including FOX Kids and Kids WB). What I can't recall is when they ditched all that stuff and began the "Characters Welcome" era, with shows like Royal Pains, Burn Notice, Psyche, White Collar, Mr. Robot, and others I probably forgot and have no time to catch up with.
@@louisduarte8763 Cartoon Express. Highlander: The Animated Series, Challenge of the GoBots, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling... It was awesomely bad. It was also older than Nick and Cartoon Network by a decade or so. Personally, I mostly miss the "Up All Night" block of B-movies.
Duckman showed that there was a market for shows like southpark. Even if you want to argue the shows that followed didnt take inspiration from it, the show still helped pave the way by showing a proof of concept. Its like any new genre of movies, we wouldnt have gotten avengers if iron man hadnt crushed it. When supergirl failed in theaters, it was years before they dared show a female lead super movie. Duckman ran on the network for three years showing that this type of humor could work in an adult cartoon and do well for itself. So future networks could justify taking the risk to green light another one along those lines.
@@singaporesammy Hell yeah Up all with Night with Rhonda Shear, and Gilbert Godfrey was an awesome, and as a kid I had a small 13in CRT in my bedroom with a headphone jack so I would sit up, and watch it often as I could same with Duckman. Also let us not forget WWF/WWE wrestling. USANetwork was awesome back in the 80's, and 90's. The only thing I watch on it now is WWE RAW.
This review makes me want to see a Nostalgic Review of Drawn Together, and/or the Drawn Together Movie.
Yeah i wish 😃😃😃
@Markus Stalin The show is fine, but the movie is garbage. Mainly because it was meant to be garbage.
@@aidanredding8058 I agree with you. While the show is very violent and gets very risque at times, it still is a pretty good cartoon comedy. The movie was basically a giant middle finger to the people who cancelled their show.
YES
We dont talk about that 😔
I just have one question....
"What the hell are YOU starin' at?"
Duckman DVDs on Ebay, of course.
@@ThePreciseClimber uh nothing nothing at all
I don't know yet. Its not labled.
The best episode is when he falls in love the phone operator.
The ending is so sad, they break up and she rings him and he just tells the family to leave it ringing.
Yes I remember that chapter, was really good, he see her again in later season, quite good.
Wow.
About Face. Aired October 15,1994. Even Bernice consoles him, because she understands he's still emotional over Beatrice.
I definitely remember that episode! It had such a bummer of and ending as you just hear the phone ring. This show was so Underrated!
@@Tornado1994 and that look she gave him like you knew she felt his pain!
Gregg Berger (the voice of Cornfed) posted this on his Facebook page.
He's PROUD of it. That's why. Share it with Jason Alexander,Nancy Travis,EG Daily, Pat Musick and Mae Whitman!
I tweeted Jason Alexander about reviving it. 😏
@@Tornado1994 And Tim Curry!
@@dorothyallspice1862 Yup. King Chicken!
I love when people associated with movies or shows support Doug after he reviews their movies or shows
“Thrust your pelvis” reminds me of the Ace Ventura victory dance. “Yes! Yes! Can you feel that?”
CAN YOU FEEL IT, CAPTAIN COMPOST?
Omg yes i miss that movie
Interesting fact. Jason Alexander thought it was going to be a single episode thing, then ended up to 4 seasons XD
Seriously one of the most underrated made for adult cartoons with one of the great voices from Jason Alexander. I was hooked from the first episode at the time... and yes it was then not accepted by the idiots on the other side of the swamp.
Wait, this character actually existed? I always thought it was a hallucination induced by too much sugar and staying up too late.
...that actually explains Ren & Stimpy 😄😄😄
Want a good episode of Duck man? "The Once and Future Duckman". It talks about destiny and what it means to feel like you have no control over it.
"Am I doing the right thing, marrying Beatrice? Do we grow old together?"
"... You're gonna love her 'til the day you die."
The delivery on that was powerful.
I named my favorite episodes of Duckman. They're ALL fantastic episodes that I watch back when they aired during 1994-1995.
Hey Critic, try to review "The Critic" an underrated cartoon
Yes!
I'm still open to seeing a review of Moral Orel
Oh my god YES!! YES!! A million times YES!!
Came to say the same thing. 👍
I love Duckman but I'm not a fan of the critic. Similar to Duckman the main character is a total jack ass, except the comedy isn't near as good to justify his behavior
Can't forget this lovely quote from Duckman:
"Bunch of dead-skin no-humor pansies! You tell 'em an icebreaker or two about women's libbers, gays, environmentalists, several minorities, the homeless, couple of religions, anorexics, obese people, the handicapped, old farts, baldness, and people who walk real goofy 'cause they just had a vasectomy, and suddenly they get all sensitive, like I offended one of them or something! Makes you wonder why they asked me to talk in the first place!"
DawnOfTheOzz and this was the beginning of that episode lmaoo
One Piece is not for adults, it's meant for teens, it's just that Japan has different values than the United States that people forget that when watching anime
Yeah. Japan doesn't treat 17 year olds like they're 7. Wish america would figure that out
@@doctorfeinstone6524 Yeah, let's pretend Japan is perfect
That is a polite way of saying Japan is batshit insane.
@@troywright359 let's pretend that japan not being perfect means America is
@@doctorfeinstone6524 isn't it the other way around over there?
My Aunt used to love Duckman !! That and the Critic
The Critic is hands down one of the greatest shows EVER.
@@KingRandor82 Yes sir. My favorite is when a car smashed into the Cats play and they all ran out on fire and he said
"and nothing of value was lost"
Priceless
I loved Duckman as a Preteen in the mid 90s!
The critic actually did get revived back in 2000 - 2001 with 10 webisodes.
This show definitely deserves more attention.
Never heard of it, but I just started the first episode right now.
It's already really good halfway through.
The Algerian I loved this show as a kid, but honestly never realized the political and social commentary. Definitely must have been subliminal/unconscious as to why I’m so suspect of everything now. This was shown on the late night, and was the show we begged our parents to stay up a lil longer to watch. They must have thought it educational to allow it haha
This show had as much heart as it did fast paced humor. I loved the characters, the art style, and the atmosphere. I kind of wish this show had a few more episodes, but what was there, was gold, tmv.
“Adult animation has come a long way hasn’t it?” _(Nami appears)_ “Boi-oi-oi-oi-oinnng Heh heh huh huh huh” - “In _other_ ways too!” 😆😂
Duckman paved the way! It is a damn shame the show is overlooked.
People always say "You couldn't get away with this kind of humor today"
My question is "Why Not?"
All you have to do is ignore anything said on Twitter. You can only be cancelled if you allow yourself to be cancelled.
People truly need to put the overly sensitive in their place. They need to ignore the virtue signalling of hangers on that need recognition to be validated of their beliefs. I mean in my opinion, you would get a lot less people getting "Offended" if there were no like or dislike system on social media. You could easily remove it and force people to comment that they like something.
They need to say "Yes you have an opinion of what I love, how I live, what I say and what I believe, but in the end, your opinion means nothing to me because it holds no real power to effect my life."
I agree with you, I'm 48 and I really believe my generation is the last one that took almost nothing seriously. But the problem is that Twitter, etc IS so powerful. Look at what happened to Roseanne. Now IMO what she said wasn't funny, or at least not funny enough to get away with. BUT... She could have had the guts to stand by it. Barring that, she should've just apologized and not tried to blame the Ambien. AND YET... In either case, ABC had NO right to fire her just for a stupid joke. That was a massive over-reaction that never would've happened during the original run of the show. Sure some humor in the 80s and 90s was inappropriate, in way too many ways, but the pendulum has swung too far the other way.
@@Chad_Eldridge Agreed. And this is a channel where I rarely see trolls. ;)
@@Chad_Eldridge ...ok, fair point. That did get really nasty really quickly. 😳
@@gretchen8100 This place was also swimming with Change the channel cronies for months as well thank god most of them are gone
You can't but not for the reasons you are thinking. The video "You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!" sums this up pretty well
ruclips.net/video/jzMFoNZeZm0/видео.html
Duckman was underrated and that’s all I’m gonna say
Where No Dougman Has Gone Before.
Dougman has never been in duckman
@@nickwilde2569 S04 E27... But you are still right.
Speaking of Klaspy Csupo, you should do a review of Ronald McDonald VHS videos that were made by the same company👍
YEEEEEESSSSS
Those live action dog segments still haunt my dreams to this day.
Duckman is in the same league as Sam and Max, Xavier: Renegade Angel and Earthworm Jim.
Lightyears ahead of their time and only now slowly getting more known.
I wonder how this character would deliver Willem Dafoe's monologue from The Lighthouse.
The most sarcastic duck with glasses the most sarcastic dude with glasses, Yes!!!
ahem, don't you mean guy with glasses?
@@blackdragonproductions2882 Dude lol
And the Cinema Snob is just a joke to you???
@@codyinacoma Brad is great but he is your choice not mine.
john cunnare i know it's a cartoon but ducks don't have teeth and one of kids wouldn't have 2 heads like real life ever
I’m just one more duck detective who works with a pig and lives with the twin sister of his dead wife, three sons and two bodies and a comatose mother-in-law who’s got so much gas shes a fire hazard.
Sure, but there are things that stand out about you too.
Now, before I say anything, I know why people don't like the Nostalgia Critic. I've seen the video The Downfall of Channel Awesome and all the bad shit that's happened, but this video right here is why I like the Nostalgia Critic or at least the good parts of him. I'm not gonna excuse any of the bad shit Channel Awesome has done and I can do without the critic screaming his head off in many of his reviews, but in videos like this one where he explains why a movie or a show works and what's good about it while also explaining the flaws of it without nitpicking everything down to the last who the fuck cares details like CinemaSins is what I like best about the Nostalgia Critic. I wish he would make more videos like this without the crazy screaming and repeated jokes that aren't really that funny. Here where he explains it without it being boring like a classroom, really works. I never really knew anything about Duckman, but now I want to check it out because of this video. It's like a show that inspired some of the many modern shows that we watch today.
PREACH BROTHER
How do I like a comment twice?
NC: "Comedy should always offend you!"
Me: Hey wait, didn't you do a video where you said sometimes jokes and comedians can go too far?
Troy Wright You can go too far. I like dark comedy as much as the anti PC brigade. Difference is, I recognise that offensive jokes need to be constructive and have substance. It has limits, like everything else. Dark comedy often punches up, where the punchline is usually at the expense of the asshole doing something offensive. If you joke about domestic violence, let’s say, the goal of the joke should be to get you to side with the victim. Too often people say racist or sexist shit and then claim persecution by the PC brigade. Sometimes that can be true, other times it’s just because their humour was at the expense of a victim, rather than the perpetrator.
Which is neither pushing past any prejudices nor making the audience think. It just confirms preexisting notions. Even self deprecating humour only works because you’re supposed to laugh with the person facing adversity, not at their expense for whatever challenge they may face.
Now I haven’t seen Duckman in a while, but if I remember correctly, the humour works for a couple of reasons. You know why the character has his philosophy and why his humour is the way it is. Making him relatable and also likeable. But you’re not always necessarily laughing with him. He is shit on and he does get his comeuppance. You do laugh at him as well as with him. Because it’s a balance. I’ll admit it’s rather cathartic to see him destroy the two overly nice Fluffy and Uranus. It’s because yes it’s good to be considerate. But people constantly on your shit about being the nicest most egalitarian person ever whilst being condescending is annoying as fuck. You do need to be a bit “rough and tough” to get through life. But you can’t be too far the other way either, otherwise you’re just another insensitive miserable belligerent prick.
But if the comedy is merely just more shallow stereotypes to laugh at (be it The Pepe flag or the stand up of Lilly Singh) it doesn’t always work as well. On the internet it might, because it’s just a cheap laugh. But if you’re doing it professionally, you need to be able to not only read the crowd correctly, but also challenge the crowd appropriately.
TLDR: Edgy humour needs to be more than “insert edgy meme here” if it wants to claim that comedy should be dark and confrontational.
I mean, there's a huge difference, but I think we can summarize the general idea as this:
"Time and place, asshole!"
What that means is, there's a time to make a certain joke. There's a place to do it, too. No one, and I mean, NO ONE, is gonna be very happy if you make a lot of fucking jokes about Jews at like.. a concentration camp site. That's pretty obvious, I'd say. Make jokes about death at a funeral, and you might make laughter, someone happy and thus inspire them to remember the good times with the one who passed. THAT'S a good place. Make jokes about death at a memorial service to honor the fallen soldiers who fought for freedom, however? That's NOT a good place.
Привет!
It's funny because they also joke about that in the Duckman show. How people sometimes use Comedy just to cover their obviously racist intentions.
@@someonerandom8552 you ever think about writing a book?
6:55 Too many people forget that Katey Sagal voiced Duckman's mother.
I have all 4 seasons on DVD. Watch it all the time
she's a gem
The Mother from Three Men and a Baby, and So I Married an Axe Murderer, voices Bernice,Beatrice and Beverly.
Her name is Nancy Travis.
She also starred in Last Man Standing With Tim Allen.
ruclips.net/video/smVge5w077g/видео.html
You can clearly hear a mix of Bernie and Beatrice in her voice.
Brian Doyle Murray did the “other” grammma.
Can you review Roar starring Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith? 70 people were injured while working with 150 lions, tigers (surprisingly no bears), and other big cats. What came out is a nonsensical film, with less plot than Boyhood, about a family who go to see their father living with these animals.
The insurance alone must of bankrupt the production company
I remember that from Best of the Worst.
@@exiledPostman Speaking of RLM, he's GOTTA review R.O.T.O.R.
That film is just WTF levels of incompetent and lazy.
Tried looking this up on google, and it autocorrected to “fuckman”
The rare time I DID mean “duck”...
Justin Cordova hold up
You can't fool the almighty Algorithm; it sees all, and knows all...
Fuck, man.
Sounds like something that would happen to Duckman if he decided to Google himself.
Doug forgot to mention that Frank Zappa did some of the music and franks son was the voice of Ajax. Duckman is still my favorite show of all time and I first saw it when I was 11
Dwezil Zappa.
I was 10 when I first saw the pilot on Comedy Central in late '93.
Oh good, I'm not the only kiddo out there who watched this. I'm Canadian so I had to wait for Teletoon to get its clutches on it in what I guess were reruns. I saw it when I was about 11 myself, but that was in '98 and the show had ended in the States by then. Gods did I enjoy it though, I had no real idea what I was truly laughing at, at the time, but I knew it was funny.
I watched and miss those days. Putting this on late at night just hits different …90s
Some of my favorite Duckman quotes:
Cornfed - "You parked in a handicap space!"
Duckman - "So what?? No one ever parks there except the people who need them and, hell, I can outrun them anyway!!"
Duckman - "Do I need to remind you what is says on the door to our office?"
Cornfed - "'We've Moved. Please forward all collection inquires to...'"
Duckman - "UNDER THAT!!!"
Duckman - "SHAZAM!!!! LADY, ARE THOSE THINGS REAL OR DID YOU HAVE TO PAY SOMEBODY TO MAKE THEM POINT THAT WAY?!?!?!?!?" (My personal favorite!)
Oh, HELL yes! I LOVE Duckman! I've tried getting others to realize the brilliance of it, but I've had limited success.
Edit: And yes, "America the Beautiful" may well be the best episode of the entire show.
I bring up Duckman in conversations, and people look at me like I asked them to past the crack pipe or something
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I dont know why, but reading your comment made me think of the crack pipe scene in Anchorman 2....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@shantellakaladypersephone8671 You just want more, and more, and more, and more!! Lol
@@SteveTpenn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This show has arguable one of the best clip shows/recaps in TV history: "Clip Job." Right up there with "The Ember Island Players" from Avatar.
Duckman: "Okay, Medfly...what was that?!? What are my family and friends doing in it? Are they in danger too?!? And most important... _who_ was that luscious piece of tail walking by in the beginning?"
I didn't realize that anyone like this remembered Duckman. It was so great but, yes, had very adult humor.
This sounds like a show that shouldn't be revived - Would be like trying to catch lightning in a bottle twice
I think a new hip digital animation format would work ...
Well, if the Sorceresses of The Witcher can do it...
Reviving something doesn't always work. I mean look at Ghostbusters.
@@WillShakes423 the new one looks good, what are you talking about? It's Stranger Things in the Ghostbusters universe. What could go wrong
@@vidmasterK1 I was talking about the one from 2016.
NO SCHOOL TODAY DUE TO A BLIZZARD! THIS IS WHY I LOVE WEDNESDAYS! NOSTALGIA CRITIC!
Lucky. I dont even get snow where I live.
@@beavis8073 me too
...damn lucky.
The storm that hit he uk I presume?
@@lisnobody No, the one in the Midwestern U.S.A.
Next, he’s gotta review The Critic!
It
stinks.
Cory Thompson he has. Twice.
Review The Critic? It stinks!
Nah, too meta. ;)
Duckman's speech about Comedy continues to hold up to this day.
It’s needed now more than ever to say the least to end all leasts. 🙏🏼
I always questioned why Adult Swim never bought the rights to this show.
8:02- wow. You make it sound like he’s the only sane person in a crazy world
I loved Duckman. One of my favorite episodes foreshadowed the Expendables long before the movie premiered.
Joking The Chicken in 1994 predicted SJWs, and Forbidden Fruit in 1995 predicted Me too.
WOW.
@@Tornado1994 Those types of people have always been around, it's just that now everybody's opinion is heard because of the internet.
I feel like when Doug sponsors hello fresh it always ends up feeling like some modern take on "popsicles! Woohoo!"
I remember show in the 90's. I don't recall watching the ending.
17:59 Sounds like they tried pulling a Paul Fusco. The series Alf ended on a cliffhanger in an attempt to get the show picked up for another season (the result was a movie years later call Project Alf). Well I say it's time for Project Duckman!
I would say Duckman is tied with early South Park for being my favorite adult cartoon series, I miss the 90's because comedy still had balls.
This brings me back to childhood. Staying up late to watch episodes of Duckman and also The Critic.
Loved both of those shows as a teen in the 90s.
If Nostalgia Critic didn't go over THE Critic before, he should now.
I know MovieBob talked about that show before, but I'd like a take from another angle.
Anybody else thought Duckman's glasses were his actual eyes, since they can't be seen on his face?
They are. In the first episode "I Duckman" he is sleeping in his bed. When he wakes up, he has no eyes, but after putting on his glasses, you can see his eyes. On his glasses!
"Hey nurse, I got a thermometer that's going to make you bedridden for a week! Where you going? You got a patient here. See? I'm turning my head and coughing! Hack Hack!!"
_"Hey! You just took a bunch of clips and strung 'em together_
_to make me look rotten! ...Snappy editing though."_
Love this show. All the seasons were released years ago and I picked it up as soon as it was released. Thank you for finally giving this show some love. Any chance to also review the 90s Jon Lovitz show The Critic? Another underrated favorite of mine!
Or even go a step futher and do a review of Dilbert, another underrated adult animated show
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Pelvis stuck in a toaster.
Add this to the list of shows you vaguely remember as a kid and thought was a fever dream until recently.
Angrey beavers and cow and chicken are on there aswell.
I try to be conscious of how my words, messages, and assumptions come across, but I still love crass and offensive humor. Like the court jesters of old we need people who challenge our beliefs and assumptions to make make us reflect on why we have them or if we feel we're even justified in having them. Even a joke that out of taste still evokes reactions to be explored.
To anyone who says making those jokes makes you an asshole, I reply that anyone, ANYONE can be an asshole. Even the most squeaky clean politically correct person on the Earth. It's not a matter of the sides your on, it's how you act, treat yourself and treat other people.
Amen brother. Though I dont challenge the norm through humor, I ask people nearly everyday... why? Why do you think this about this? Why do you feel this way? Most the time people cannot explain why they think something. Questioning the world around you is the most powerful thing you can do to advance society. Whether it be through political activism or a rude duck with a libido.
Bryan Martin I think what makes comedy so effective in this case is that it’s basically a bastardization of the Socratic Method. Through satire, you make them see the flaws of their beliefs and make them question themselves. A person asking themselves “why?” Is far more potent then someone else asking the same question.
Same though, I don't really like dark humor jokes. Very rarely do I laugh at them and then I feel bad for laughing at them
The comedy speech feels like it could be applied to the joker movie.
Maybe.
Explain?
Just for future reference: "Csupo" is pronounced "Chupo", like "Chihuahua".
Thank you!
Truly, I was ahead of my time.
Ah, Duckman. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. When I was a lad of 10 (Judas Rocking Priest, I'm gonna sound OLD), I discovered this show while channel surfing on the TV in my parents' room, shortly after our house got cable (before I got my own in my room), and its style was the same as the Nicktoons I watched at the time. I didn't understand all the jokes, but they were told in a way that made me laugh anyway. Good to know its humor and messaging still hold up.
Side note: The WIld Thornberrys' best character is Nigel, and I will fight you on that! Because he was voiced by Tim Goddamn Curry, and he's a cinematic treasure! Join me in saying "SMASHING!"
King Chicken is Tim Curry!
Am I the only one who realised that Duckman's eyes aren't attached to his face and you only see them on his glasses?
It's literally shown in the first minute of the first episode of the show, when he's asleep with his eyes on the bedside table.
@@GameCubits Our first clue as to how surreal the show really is.
Is this an edgy Darkwing duck remake?
No it is something much worse
@@noahdean9685 Sounds right.
@@noahdean9685 If by worse, you mean nothing like Darkwing Duck, but a hella edgy and funny? Agreed.
@@dynamicjaethought7788 I never watch duckman
@@noahdean9685 Fair enough.
20:34
Missed chance for Doug to yell, "What the hell are YOU staring at!?"
I vaguely remember this guy. I thought I had misremembered a Rocko's character but it was this guy :3
"im not a physicarist I'm actually....a phycoligist…"
What a twist!
I feel like if Netflix revived this show it would be the next bojack horseman
Wow i haven't thought about duckman in a decade i need to find this whole show again re live some 90s
I binge watched it a few years ago and it was probably better as an adult than when I saw it as a kid.
That and MST3K, 1990s ✔...
rarely does a day go by where I don't fit a Duckman quote into conversation. When I serve drinks I say "Here's a little something to dull the nerve endings and make everyone seem at least mildly entertaining."
such amazing scriptwriting:
Duckman: Did I ever tell you my Dad's last words to me?
Cornfed: "Careful, son, I don't think the safety is on."
Duckman: Before that.
Cornfed: Once again, the U.S. is spending millions to oust a puppet they spent millions to get into office. They'll spend more millions on the coverup to hide having spent those millions and even more millions to discredit members of the media who report otherwise. It's a good thing they print their own money.
Ajax: Once bread become toast, it can never go back.
Nurse in an insane asylum: (in a happy sing-song voice) there'll be no sodomy, or you'll get a lobotomy!
inmate: sorry, I thought he was catatonic
sheer genius
I love this show! All the episodes are available on RUclips. One of my favorite episodes is where duckman has a rare blood condition that causes him to grow whenever he's angry, leading him to become a giant and exile himself on an island. There's some good references to jaws and it poses a lot of existential questions
I still put this on late at night sometimes. Just gives me those 90s vibes
Critic, could you maybe review these movies in the future?
"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"
"They Come Knocking" (Hulu original)
"Charlotte's Web 2, Wilbers Great Adventure"
"Mortal Instruments, City Of Bones" (The Movie).
0:53 “I swear officer... I MEAN AUDIENCE!”
Duckman was the 2nd best thing about the USA network in the 90s after "USA UP ALL NIGHT."
USA Network was great back in the 90's. Now it's all reality tv and "Law & Order: SVU"/"NCIS" reruns.
@@CatLives9 That's because MCA/Universal TV owned half of Nickelodeon and MTV.
Let’s be honest, Duckman is a better than Rick Sanchez.
As creepy as it is, has anyone noticed that Duckman has no eyes? They’re only on his glasses.
Duckman is such a classic. I can remember how I used to stay up late just to watch USA Up All Nite just to watch the shows I knew I shouldnt be watching. Damn the 90s was such a good time. Kids nowadays couldn't handle the extremeness and grown stuff of the extreme time.
How many parents actually set restrictions on the internet again?
Now that the Saturday Morning generation is grown up, there seems to be a lot more adult cartoons...
Oh, I remember that show.
It's also amazing how funny they made Cornfed. A character that except for a few moments during their entire show talks entirely in a monotone voice
Fun Fact: Klasky Csupo did a six straight to home video series, known as, The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. Which ran from October 9, 1998 to January 30, 2003.
For someone who was hardly around in the '90s , I must admit duckman is such an influential show. It really was ahead of it's time.
I used to watch Duckman when I was younger... mostly because my folks didn't care. I never knew much of what was going on but I always did like the series...
0:53 start with one piece joke…good started
Omni Dragon *Tekking101 has entered the server*
Comm ___ oh god I would love to see Tekking101 and nostalgia critic collab together.
The comedian in Joking the Chicken is voiced by the guy who does Mandark on Dexter's Laboratory. He is also the manager of The Hungry Heifer in Critters 2.
He was also one of the kids in The Polar Express and one of the students in Grease
"Is it that our heroes are so blind to the fact that what they're standing on is garbage and there will never any hope? Or is it, despite all the terrible things that happened, there will always be optimistic people trying to make things better?"
Personally, I'm more in the latter.