The WORST episodes of Duckman

Every episode of Duckman ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Duckman!

Duckman isn't your average suave, sophisticated private eye. In fact, he's rude, ignorant, slovenly, and hasn't had a date in years. With the help of his infinitely more capable sidekick, Cornfed, Duckman manages to solve enough cases to cover his alimony payments and cable TV bills.

Last Updated: 9/15/2024Network: USA NetworkStatus: Ended
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Ebony, Baby
star
6.11
9 votes

#1 - Ebony, Baby

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/26/1997

Cornfed leaves for a much-needed vacation. While he is away, Duckman becomes mesmerized by a black model/private eye who quickly gets him involved in a world of murder, power, lust and every black exploitation cliche that exists with a side of a Spelling/Goldberg production.

Directors: Steve Loter
Writer: Gene Grillo
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The One With Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role (a.k.a. Planet of the Dopes)
star
6.62
13 votes

#2 - The One With Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role (a.k.a. Planet of the Dopes)

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/20/1996

Ajax is abducted by redneck aliens and taken to a planet where Duckman is praised as a deity and Ajax revered as ""The son of Dod.""

Directors: Raymie Muzquiz
Writer: Monica Piper
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Not So Easy Riders
star
6.82
51 votes

#3 - Not So Easy Riders

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/1994

Duckman receives a letter from the IRS. The IRS agent is tough and Duckman is given 24 hours to pay $29,587.42 in back taxes. After asking his family for help and being rejected and lectured, Duckman tries anything. When he can't raise the funds, he and Cornfed go on the run and then on the road. Bernice falls for the IRS agent who's staying at the house waiting for Duckman to call.

Directors: Paul Demeyer
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The Amazing Colossal Duckman
star
6.90
40 votes

#4 - The Amazing Colossal Duckman

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/29/1996

Through a unique combination of chemicals, Duckman gets a rare blood disease that causes him to grow several inches each time he gets angry and rants & raves. Realizing that he can't control himself after growing several feet, Duckman exiles himself to a desert island.

Directors: John Eng
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Coolio Runnings
star
6.92
39 votes

#5 - Coolio Runnings

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/1997

With the Father & Son Games coming up, Duckman looks for an alternative to competing with Ajax. He spots a more than adequate replacement in recording artist Coolio, who's returned to school to replace his high school diploma. Coolio does not compete with Duckman. Ajax competes with Duckman and even tho they don't win, it has made Duckman and Ajax's bond stronger.

Directors: Jeff McGrath
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They Craved Duckman's Brain!
star
6.98
42 votes

#6 - They Craved Duckman's Brain!

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/4/1996

Duckman is cast in a hospital educational film with Joe Walsh; for his part he is put into a MRI chamber. The film crew is thrown out of the lab and Duckman forgotten. Left too long in the chamber, a mutation occurs which a doctor identifies as a cure for cancer. Now everyone wants Duckman's brain for their own purposes. Meanwhile, Agnes is still impersonating Grandma-ma.

Directors: Donovan Cook
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Forbidden Fruit
star
7.00
20 votes

#7 - Forbidden Fruit

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1996

Duckman is slapped with a sexual harassment charge by the French nanny that Bernice has hired to tutor the boys. It seems the nanny isn't who she appears to be. In search of solitude Duckman moves in with Fluffy and Uranus; even they reach their breaking point with him.

Directors: Paul Demeyer
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Aged Heat
star
7.00
16 votes

#8 - Aged Heat

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/27/1996

A Grandma-ma look-a-like robber switches places with the her to make an escape. Duckman suspects that Grandma-ma isn't quite herself, of course no one believes him. The Agnes reveals herself and holds the family hostage.

Directors: John Eng
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Grandma-ma's Flatulent Adventure
star
7.02
43 votes

#9 - Grandma-ma's Flatulent Adventure

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1996

The family makes plans to put Grandma-ma in a rest home. While taking her there, Duckman gets distracted and loses track of her. Grandma-ma embarks on a flatulent adventure and later when Cornfed and Duckman find her, she appears to be dead. Duckman makes the funeral arrangements.

Directors: Norton Virgien
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Joking the Chicken
star
7.05
21 votes

#10 - Joking the Chicken

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/11/1994

A group of comedians hire Duckman to stop a pathetic mild mannered politically correct chicken whose ""clean"" stand up routine becomes a comedy sensation. The chicken's routines are funny to everyone except Duckman, who soon discovers the source of his popularity.

Directors: Jeff McGrath
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With Friends Like These
star
7.06
67 votes

#11 - With Friends Like These

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/1/1997

Duckman quests for friendship when Cornfed is the only guest at his surprise party. He begins hanging out at a coffee shop that is filled with a group of twenty-somethings named Ditzi, Bobby, Sassy, Pete and Marion. Together they discuss their ""problems"" a la Friends with a side of Ellen.

Directors: Steve Loter
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Noir Gang
star
7.06
16 votes

#12 - Noir Gang

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1996

Feeling ""creatively obligated by a film-noir parody,"" Cornfed calls their new client ""a dame,"" whose name is Tamara La Boinque. Later he confesses to a priest about betraying his partner, when they both fall in love with their client.

Directors: Raymie Muzquiz
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A Civil War
star
7.06
79 votes

#13 - A Civil War

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/1994

Duckman is jealous when everyone showers Cornfed with their attention, so he fires him while working their next case, which involves the ""murder"" of the owner of a Steak and Waffle on a Stick factory.

Directors: Norton Virgien
Writer: Bob Kushell
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A Star is Abhorred
star
7.08
64 votes

#14 - A Star is Abhorred

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/1997

Duckman takes the family and Cornfed out for dinner. The karaoke machine comes out and Bernice's rantings against Duckman are heard by a record company big-wig. He markets her as an Alanis Morrisette type of singing sensation; however, the tour takes a toll on her and the family.

Directors: Jaime Diaz
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Crime, Punishment, War, Peace, and the Idiot
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7.10
10 votes

#15 - Crime, Punishment, War, Peace, and the Idiot

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/10/1997

Beverly asks Bernice if she knows anything about Grandma-ma's past. The coma-bound Grandma-ma recalls her past in a series of flashbacks that involves a tortured romance with two characters who look and sound a lot like Cornfed (Petrov) and Duckman (Trigorin) with Russian accents.

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All About Elliott
star
7.10
68 votes

#16 - All About Elliott

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/1997

Duckman and Cornfed hire a college intern for the agency. The intern undermines Cornfed's reputation and indulges Duckman's self-destructive behavior. Duckman must choose between his flashy new assistant (who may be trying to kill him) and his old partner.

Directors: Peter Shin
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Ajax and Ajaxer
star
7.11
37 votes

#17 - Ajax and Ajaxer

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/22/1997

Duckman and Cornfed are hired to perform surveillance on a laboratory that is performing experiments on intelligence formulas. Cornfed accidentally swallows a ""Get Dumb"" formula, that falls in with the plans of the scientist who created it. If Cornfed gets cured, will Ajax lose his first true friend?

Directors: Peter Avanzino
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The Tami Show
star
7.13
39 votes

#18 - The Tami Show

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/14/1997

Duckman backs his car into a cute girl in front the house. Finding out that she is on her own, Beverly and the family invite her to stay; however, Beverly becomes the victim when Tami tries to takeover a have a ""perfect family.""

Directors: Anthony Bell
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A Trophied Duck
star
7.14
37 votes

#19 - A Trophied Duck

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/1997

Duckman and the gang travel to San Francisco to attend Dickcon 97. He thinks he is being honored with an ""achievement"" award. When he gets there, he encounters an old rival from detective school. The rival is running the event and takes every opportunity to humiliate him. One of these methods involves an attempt to find a kidnapped Cornfed.

Directors: Jeff McGrath
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Role With It
star
7.16
38 votes

#20 - Role With It

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/1997

Duckman takes the family and the staff on a holiday to a real Indian reservation, with a casino. While there, a psychiatrist notices Duckman and the rest of the family's overall self-destructive behavior. She offers them treatment that involves a role-playing session that uncovers some of their real issues.

Directors: Anthony Bell
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From Brad to Worse
star
7.16
38 votes

#21 - From Brad to Worse

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/1997

Duckman finds an old high school classmate who's been homeless due to something Duckman did to him 20 years ago. Duckman's attempts to help only make things worse.

Directors: Peter Avanzino
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Dammit, Hollywood
star
7.16
44 votes

#22 - Dammit, Hollywood

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1997

Annoyed with the current state of the film industry, Duckman goes to Hollywood to demand his $7 back. Instead, he falls into the plot of a soon-to-be deposed studio executive, a man who's looking for a patsy to run the studio into the ground in hopes of saving his own job. Duckman becomes head of Paradox Pictures, where ""if it's a good movie its a Paradox"". He quickly begins running through the studio's money, signs a secretary to a 340 million dollar deal to star in a movie in her underpants. The deposed executive also arranges it so that Duckman manages to alienate the studio's three biggest action stars.

Directors: Peter Shin
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Clear and Presidente Danger
star
7.17
41 votes

#23 - Clear and Presidente Danger

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/2/1996

Duckman and group win a trip to a third-world country. Duckman starts a revolution with his ranting and gets placed into power where he becomes as corrupt as the last rulling paty. This requires Cornfed to form a revolution and rescue Duckman and group.

Directors: John Eng
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Westward, No!
star
7.18
39 votes

#24 - Westward, No!

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/28/1997

Cornfed invites Beverly to join him on a trip to his Aunt's catfish ranch. Duckman, jealous of Cornfed's interest in Bev, tags along for the ride. After getting the ranch hands fired, Duckman and the gang must help the foreman, Big Jack McBastard, on the big catfish drive to Texas. On part of their drive involves crossing ""Hell's Toilet,"" where ""the days are so hot they can boil your brain and the nights are colder than David Caruso's film career."" After Duckman accidentally kills Big Jack, they are on their own.

Directors: Steve Loter
Writer: Jed Spingarn
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I, Duckman
star
7.21
180 votes

#25 - I, Duckman

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1994

We are introduced to Duckman, who's ignored by his family and feels under appreciated, he is searching for something to be remembered by. The agency receives a package that contains a bomb that goes of in the office. Duckman is happy someone cared enough to try and kill him so he visits the sender in prison. Only that suspect also receives a package.

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