Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 7
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: January 6, 2009
• Run Time: 1077 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001FT4PDI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,609 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The long national nightmare is over: All four seasons of are all at last available on DVD. Duckman has not been seen since its cancellation over a decade ago. These third and fourth season episodes represent "the grail," akin to Duckman's own quest for "a heavily sedated Cindy Crawford." In lesser hands, Duckman, based on Everett Peck's underground comic, would have been the same old same old animated series about a wisecracking duck detective, his pig partner and his wacky family. But Duckman (Jason Alexander) is anything but lovable and enchanting. Ruled by his basest instincts, he is prone to "wildly inappropriate schemes" (such as a baseball team comprised of supermodels) and always falls for "perfectly timed jokes at my expense." Forget about the traditional nuclear family: his is more like a nuclear accident (his twin sons share one body and co-joined heads). "There's no such thing as a perfect family," his dread sister-in-law (Nancy Travis) proclaims. "It's the imperfections that make a family interesting." By this standard, Duckman's family, with their "delicately balanced dysfunctions," was certainly one of television's most fascinating, and funniest, clans. Family Guy devotees, especially, will find this series a kindred subversive spirit with its non sequitur gags, surreal nonsense, and pop culture references so arcane that even Seth McFarlane might scratch his head. In one episode, Duckman's partner, Cornfed Pig, references Stanford White and Harry Thaw, two players in a scandalous turn of the century murder case immortalized in the film The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, and derisively remarks to the camera, "They're called books, kids. Try reading one." Duckman is distinguished by writing so smart and sharp that one can easily forgive the inevitable "captain's log" bathroom joke in a Star Trek parody episode. Anyone baffled by Charles Kaufman's latest film, for instance, may find it enlightening to hear, apropos of nothing, that "'synecdoche' is the figure of speech by which the name of a material is substituted for the actual thing it makes." Duckman, the voice of violence, greed, and pornography, and Cornbred, the Jack Webbed voice of reason, are a great comedy team, as witness the episode presented as a vintage Paramount two-reeler, and features a priceless cameo by none other than Homer Simpson. Other stellar guest stars include Bebe Neuwirth as a femme fatale in "Noir Gang," Tim Curry as Duckman's nemesis, King Chicken, and Kim Cattrall as a ravishing lunatic in "The Tami Show." "The One with Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role," features Lisa Kudrow in, um, a small role. Uncompromising, unrepentant, and still not ready for prime time, Duckman's legacy as ahead of its time and one of a kind is secure. --Donald Liebenson

Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/06/2009 Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars biggest disapointment EVER!!!!!, February 3, 2009

By	William E. Derango - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've rarely been as disapointed as I was when I found out the best scene in the Duckman series possibly the greatest scene in TV history was missing on the dvd. In the episode when they do the Star Trek reference the scene where Duckman seduces the women by recreating Will Shatner's unforgetable rendetion of Tambourine Man is CUT OUT!!! Are you kidding me?! It makes me ill just typing this. Yes I think this was one of the greatest TV shows ever but when the distributors do this it's just inexcusable. So you've been warned. Paramount and CBS you owe us all a huge apology and a refund.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eric Tiberius Duckman!!!, February 8, 2009

By	Gareth M. Brown "Skateboard G" (Brooklyn, New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"D'wah!" This box set greatly compliments the first one just right. It doesn't have the hysterical and outrageous moments as the first and second seasons but the edge is very slight. Seasons three and four actually delve deeper into the shows characters and gives you a good perspective of why they are the way they are. Doing this kind of gives a more human feel and adds a lot of depth to an already well-detailed show. I love it and recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Family Guy and South Park-type humor. "You put your down-down and thrust a pelvis, huhgh!!"

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, April 13, 2009

By	Scot K. Shaw "Sisko" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have been waiting for Duckman to come on to dvd for what seems like an eternity and finally it is here. Product arrived, just as described. Sorry, I didn't mean to rhyme.