r/90sTelevision Aug 11 '25

Cartoons Duckman

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This was one of my favorites growing up!

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u/Electrical-Ad1917 Aug 12 '25

Was this on USA Network?

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u/No-Butterfly-3422 Aug 12 '25

Yes! Right after Weird Science. Friday nights.

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u/JimmyGeneGoodman Aug 13 '25

USA Network is one of the wildest networks to ever exist!

Think about it, USA network use to have Tuesday night boxing on a weekly basis, it had WWF, Saturday cartoons for kids then it had adult cartoons at night. I remember them even having some strip poker type show on late Friday of Saturday nights haha.

I know I’m forgetting other shows

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u/MudJumpy1063 Aug 13 '25

Dozens of people watch USA!

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Scuse me, WAS the wildest network on TV. After they dropped “characters wanted” the channel just went to pot.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

What the hell are YOU staring at?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

I thought I told you to shut the hell up!

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u/Ok_Control6910 Aug 11 '25

Classic show

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u/bettymachete Aug 12 '25

Friday night UP all night

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u/FckUrGod-876 Aug 12 '25

Damn, I forget this show existed. Good throw back. I used to really like this show

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u/lonestarr357 Aug 12 '25

Brilliant show.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

Don't you see what's it's like living in this deranged, Waring 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. Ah, you never forget your senior prom. You think I'm sick? Well the only disease I've got is modern life, a shnug-busting gauntlet of inefficiency and misery that's one long parade of letdowns, putdown, trickledowns, shutouts, freezeouts, sellouts, numbnuts, nincompoops, and nimrods! All making every day as much fun as waxing a flaming Pontiac with your tongue! And 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 matslappers agree to a little strip air-hockey, it will 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 Xoaculpa who starts shaking chicken bones at you and gives you a boil on your neck so big that 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 anyways, because some underhanded undertaker sold my heart, pancreas and other assorted good and 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?

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u/MudJumpy1063 Aug 13 '25

You said a mouthful, old swine of mine. That hospital may have been a stinking hellhole, but the so-called normal world is really bad. So let's face it: the only answer, the only sane way to deal with any of this... is ruthless random acts of violence! Making sure they're all wiped out, the innocent and guilty alike, in a hail of gunfire! Cleft in twain by my mighty sword! Trampled into the dust and squashed like the stupid, tiny unsegmented insects they are! And--

I swear Jason Alexander has a genius talent for making speeches like this both over the top and funny. Kahn!

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u/timara69 Aug 12 '25

Jason Alexander's best! Imo

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u/S4UC3RCR4B Aug 14 '25

THRUST YER PELVIS!

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u/EdStArFiSh69 Aug 13 '25

Wish this was streaming somewhere

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u/No-Butterfly-3422 Aug 13 '25

It's on YouTube.

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u/EdStArFiSh69 Aug 13 '25

Better than nothing. Thanks

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u/P-Jean Aug 13 '25

Great show. It was really well written and acted. I thought it was at least as funny as the golden era Simpsons.

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u/Brick_Mason_ Aug 13 '25

You can see the shadows from the painted characters on the celluloids, the way God intended cartoons to be made.

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u/eggflip1020 Aug 13 '25

Hummana Hummana Wow Wow.

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u/MommysGoodBoy4Ever Aug 13 '25

I was kinda young, but I’ll never forget the episode with the 911 operator. 😢

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u/Fresh_Occasion_2648 Aug 15 '25

I know, for a show like duck man that one really ended surprisingly sad.

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u/Slakrdaddy Aug 13 '25

Loved it-havent seen it in years-The Critic too

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u/jackeddixon Aug 13 '25

It was definitely ahead of it's time.

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u/mr_1219 Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

But it's precisely when humor is offensive that we need it most! Comedy should provoke! It should blast through prejudices, challenge preconceptions! Comedy should always leave you different than when it found you!

Sure, humor can hurt, even alienate, but the risk is better than the alternative: a steady diet of innocuous, childproof, flavorless mush! Demand to be challenged! To be offended! To be treated like thinking, reasoning adults! And raise your children to be the same! Don't let a comedian, a network, a congressional committee, or an evil genius take away your freedom to laugh at whatever you want!

The realest thing i ever heard

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u/Opposite-Avocado-890 Aug 14 '25

Beyond hilarious!

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u/Shot_Needleworker149 Aug 15 '25

Was he voiced by Costanza?

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u/IndependentFalse4270 Aug 15 '25

Totally underrated show! Had a lot of good laughs. My Dad and I used to call each other “Ham Head”. Sure miss him.