Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man
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Our Review
The most venomous cartoon of the ’90s: Jason Alexander voices Eric T. Duckman, a private dick fowl, an incompetent, lecherous, shrieking deadbeat single parent raising three sons with the help of Fluffy and Uranus, a pair of teddy bear office assistants he destroys weekly. Created by Everett Peck and developed with animation world all stars, it ran on USA’s late night block and treated hypocrisy as a personal enemy.
The satire was ahead of its time. Duckman is a deliberately ugly protagonist whose rants the show both indulges and indicts, and the voice cast (Alexander going full George, Gregg Berger’s ultra competent Cornfed Pig making Duckman look worse by comparison, Nancy Travis as the kingpin beekeeper sister in-law) is elite. Episodes like the real time dinner party show formal daring you rarely saw in TV animation. Canceled after four seasons; the campaign to revive it never stopped.
Verdict: Watch it. The missing link between Married with Children and Rick and Morty.
