Duckman - Seasons One & Two | 
 enlarge | Directors: Anthony Bell, Bob Hathcock, Donovan Cook, Igor Kovalyov, Jaime Diaz
Actors: Jason Alexander, Dana Delany, Michael Horse, Russell Means, Steven Weber
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 5961
Format: Color, Digital Sound, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 480 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: PARD137044D
UPC: 097361370446
EAN: 0097361370446
ASIN: B001AIQ15O
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 09/16/2008
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Contrary to Duckman's worst fears, the "private dick/family man" is not doomed to "live an unnoticed, unappreciated life," not with the DVD release of this cult fave animated series based on Everett Peck's underground comic. For four seasons, Duckman nested comfortably in the USA Network's "Up All Night" programming block, its politically incorrect misanthropy given full voice by Jason Alexander as a character whose cluelessness, insensitivity, deviancy, and boorishness are his best qualities. Who is Duckman? No one special, he laments, "I'm just one more duck detective who works with a pig and lives with the twin sister of his dead wife, three sons on two bodies and a comatose mother-in-law who's got so much gas she's a fire hazard." As with Alexander's signature Seinfeld character, George Costanza, Duckman has few redeeming qualities. He's an incompetent detective whose few acts of heroism are inadvertent (in one episode, he is sent flying after groping two women and unwittingly lands on a Presidential attacker). He rants and raves on everything from "clean" comics to the commercialism of TV news. His catchphrases are equally obnoxious: "What the hell are you starin' at?" and "Homana, homana, how wah." This could get tiresome after awhile, but what buoys Duckman are its inventive and vividly colored animation (produced by the folks who birthed Rugrats, Klasky Csupo), sharp and clever writing, and virtuoso voice work by Alexander and company, including Nancy Travis as Duckman's braying sister-in-law Beatrice, Dweezil Zappa as Duckman's dim son, Ajax, and E. J. Daily and the late Dana Hill as his other conjoined-headed son, Charles and Mambo, and Gregg Berger as breakout character Cornfed Pig, Duckman's brilliant porcine partner whose deadpan just-the-facts delivery suggests Jack Webb, but who insists his "spiritual forerunner" is Jack Lord. Duckman can be hit and miss, and some of its satiric targets (reality shows, fact-based TV movies, clip episodes) are obvious, but for those who like their comedy most fowl, it really fills the bill. --Donald Liebenson
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What The Hell Are *YOU* Staring At! November 2, 2008
E. Kern (Galveston, TX USA)
Duckman is a unique series, which has never been duplicated before or since. Starring a duck detective who has his head in the wrong place and well meaning friends who he never appreciates, he runs headfirst into situations he is completely incapable of handling. A crass, loud, sex driven duck, at face value he might not seem someone you could fall in love with. But with his witty rants and occassional poignant devotion to his late wife, you can't help but wrap your arms around this show and not let go. Aided by Beatrice's theme, you truly begin to understand what it means to have a 'better half', someone that brings out the best in you. Definitely a good show!
 Ya gotta watch it! October 20, 2008
Andrew Otes (Sydney, Australia)
Every bit as crazy as I remember it from TV but with the emphatic bonus of no TVCs. Took me a while to get used to his voice (never did like Jason Alexander or Seinfeld) but that went away in time and I fully enjoyed Duckman in his own right -- along with the appalling Bernice, the kids from hell, his pal with the Joe Friday delivery, the whole demented lot. Keeps me sane between repeat, I say, repeat viewings of Ren & Stimpy. Duckman is the MAN!
Comic gold October 12, 2008
SA79 (Florida)
So many fond memories of this show when it was on the air. I'm so glad it's finally on DVD and I say bring out the last two seasons tout de suite.
While Duckman was unmistakeably the most hilarious and id-driven antihero in animated tv, I have to give kudos here to Cornfed Pig, the most utterly perfect foil the writers and producers could have conceived for Duckman. His whipsmart, incisive, rapid-fire dialog was priceless and not used for moralizing. The best part of his character was that he did not preach. He simply observed, and his observations were brilliant. I remember vividly when I first watched on tv the scene where Cornfed rattles off the shameless consumer products Duckman put out to capitalize on his newfound infamy in a season two episode -- and howling with laughter at the deadpan way he brought it off. It was almost poetry. This is but one of innumerable examples across 70-odd episodes of the show's run.
In a bittersweet way, watching Duckman on DVD today makes me incredibly nostalgic for the mid-1990's. This was when all of the corruptible forces of pop culture and present-day society were really gaining steam -- and Duckman (the show) was there to skewer it all. This show, alongside mid-1990's Simpsons and Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, became the sardonic cultural lodestars of my teenage youth. How glad we should all be this show is finally legally on DVD.
Occasional edits bring it down to four stars October 4, 2008
hmfynn (LA, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I won't echo the sentiments of all the previous reviews: clearly, if you remember Duckman enough to be searching for this DVD, you, like me, were a big fan when it was on USA. It's great to finally have this DVD after many years of no Duckman available to the public, and for many of you who didn't have the good fortune to tape the show when it was on the air, this will be your first chance in over a decade to relive the show AT ALL. The one thing that brings down the quality of this set is the occasional cut material. Granted, most episodes are untouched, and the ones that were only lost about 10 seconds of material, almost always for copyright purposes. For example, in one episode, Duckman has a seventies-style hallucination orchestrated by a Frank Zappa instrumental and culminates in a few bars of "Let the Sun Shine In." On the DVD, the hallucination ends before the song starts. It's literally just a few seconds of material, and of course this type of cut doesn't really kill any of the humor, but for purists like myself, it's annoying. If you're not annoyed with these very minor cuts, and are just plain thrilled to finally have whatever Duckman you can get, period, this set will not disappoint.
I'm not really an actor, but I play one on TV....... September 3, 2008
Hawk
One of the funniest shows of all time.
I agree this is probably the best work by Jason Alexander and along with the Simpsons and Family Guy, one of my favorite "toons" ever.
To be able to watch this whenever I want........I can not wait.
Those who have not expereienced this show.....Experience it.
You Will NOT be disappointed.
Hawk
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