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Queer Duck is an animated series that originally appeared on Icebox.com in 1999, and later moved to the American cable television channel Showtime in 2002, where it aired as a followup feature of the American version of Queer as Folk. Although far from being the first gay cartoon character, Queer Duck was the first animated TV series to have homosexuality as its predominant theme. Like several later television cartoons, Queer Duck was animated in Macromedia Flash. Image File history File links Queerduck. ...
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Queer Duck The title character, actually named Adam Seymour Duckstein (voiced by Jim J. Bullock), is a gay anthropomorphic duck who works as a nurse. Queer Duck is an animated series that originally appeared on Icebox. ...
Jim J. Bullock AKA JM J. Bullock (born James Jackson Bullock on February 9, 1955 in Casper, Wyoming)[2] is an American actor. ...
Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ...
Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Aythyinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. ...
// A nurse is a health care professional who is engaged in the practice of nursing. ...
Queer Duck has cyan-colored feathers, a little spiky fringe, and possible purple eye shadow to represent his femininity. He wears a sleeveless rainbow top and, typically like mostly everyone else in the series, doesn’t wear pants. This is another typical example of semi-nudity on cartoon characters aside of Porky Pig, Mickey Mouse, etc. Note: He is often shown to have two fingers and one thumb on each hand, but they change to having the usual three fingers and one thumb on occasion. Porky Pig is an Academy Award-nominated animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ...
Mickey Mouse is an Academy Award-winning comic animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. ...
Queer Duck is known to gossip on about anything and everything in the series, especially on the phone while watching TV as shown on ‘Oh Christ!’ and ‘A Gay Outing’. He is promiscuous in his own way as well, but not as obsessed with sex as his boyfriend Openly Gator as he often brings the word ‘cock’ into mind but swiftly changes the word as an excuse like cocktails in ‘The Gay Road to Morocco’. Queer Duck is often known to be cold-hearted like in the episode ‘Queer as Fowl’, and also “mistakes” almost anyone and anything involved with gayness.
His nemesis is known to be Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who is pictured as a haggard and ugly old woman. The trouble often starts from there just like in ‘Queer Doc’. Laura Schlessinger, Ph. ...
Queer Duck has also been a victim of queer bashing as shown in ‘Ku Klux Klan & Ollie’ as Ku Klux Klan members attempt to burn his house down. When his disguise attempt fails, he kisses the unveiled Jerry Falwell, only to get shot down by the other homophobics. Then in Heaven he finds out that the other famous icons like Socrates and Leonardo Da Vinci are also gay much to the chagrin of Jerry Falwell. Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. ...
Throughout the series, we find out that Queer Duck has an in-denial mother, a diabetic father (whose name is revealed to be Morty in the episode ‘Quack Doctor’), a straight brother named Lucky (who is revealed to have bullied Queer Duck when they were younger), a nephew named Little Lucky and a lesbian sister named Melissa. Queer Duck is not the most beloved child in his family and there are strong hints that his older brother Lucky is the one most favored for being the odd one out because he is desirably straight and that is possibly most pleasing for Mrs. Duckstein.
Queer Duck is afraid to show his sexuality to his nephew Little Lucky (who first appeared in ‘Fiddler on the Roofie’), especially when they were out camping with two other campers who are Little Lucky’s friends when they took out one of his magazines with personal ads such as GBM, S&M and B&D. And in ‘Fiddler on the Roofie’, Little Lucky unwittingly stumbles upon his uncle’s gay pornographic videos which he mistakes for popular cartoons. E.g. Pokémon = Poke-A-Man, Rocky & Bullwinkle = Rockhard & Bullsprinkle. The official Pokémon logo. ...
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Other characters Queer Duck's boyfriend, the indigent artist Steven Arlo “Openly” Gator (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, in the style of Harvey Fierstein), is shy and insecure and is usually the voice of reason whenever Queer Duck gets himself and anyone else into any trouble and possibly the closest one to common sense than anyone else in the show. Their friends throughout the series are Bi Polar Bear (voiced by Ren & Stimpy and Futurama actor Billy West, in the style of Paul Lynde) and the urbane Oscar Wildcat (voice actor Maurice LaMarche). For the small enclosed storage space, also known as a cupboard, see closet. ...
Kevin Michael Richardson (born October 25, 1964 in The Bronx, New York) is an American voice actor and actor, one of the most prominent voice actors in the field. ...
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6, 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. ...
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Recurring supporting characters include Queer Duck's in-denial mother (played by Estelle Harris, George's mother on Seinfeld) and the group's nemesis, Dr. Laura Schlessinger (played by voice actress Tress MacNeille). Estelle Harris (born April 4, 1932 in New York City), is an American actress who is best known for her supporting role as Estelle Costanza, Georges (Jason Alexander) mother, and Franks (Jerry Stiller) wife on the long-running TV sitcom Seinfeld. ...
Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, running a total of 9 seasons. ...
Laura Schlessinger, Ph. ...
Tress MacNeille (born June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated television shows The Simpsons and Futurama, and Animaniacs. ...
The show was created, written and executive produced by Mike Reiss, executive producer of network cartoons The Simpsons and The Critic. The animation was directed and designed by Xeth Feinberg. Mike Reiss is an American TV comedy writer. ...
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Recurring themes Although each three-minute episode stands by itself rather than being part of a larger narrative, several themes and events occur through the 20-episode series. Queer Duck reveals his homosexuality to his parents in the first episode. In the course of the series, Queer Duck and Openly Gator get married, and it's revealed that Queer Duck has a lesbian sister. In another episode, he has a brother and a nephew. Queer Duck also meets Santa Claus and attends Mardi Gras. A episode parodying Disneyland featured a turkey who is in the navy named Gobble - the salty sea man. A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ...
A typical depiction of Santa Claus. ...
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Horse semen being collected for breeding purposes. ...
Much like The Critic, Queer Duck features numerous cameo appearances by celebrities, whose voices are impersonated by the cast. In addition to Dr. Laura, the Queer Duck gang encounter Bob Hope, Jack Nicholson, Cary Grant, and in particular Barbra Streisand, with whom Queer Duck is obsessed, as well as noted ultra-conservative preacher Jerry Falwell. These celebrities are the only human characters. All other characters are anthropomorphic animals like Duck and his friends, except for the woman Queer Duck sleeps with in the final episode. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Openly Gator meets Conan O'Brien in Queer Duck - The Movie (2006)
Theme Song Queer Duck, he's intellectual.
Queer Duck, he's homosexual.
Please don't think that he's perverse,
he's the patient's favourite male nurse.
He's okay, he's just fey, cause he's openly gay
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Episodes | # | Title | Airdate | * | | 1. | I'm Coming Out | | | On October 11, "Coming Out Day," Queer Duck comes out to his friends and family who already know.
| | | 2. | Fiddler on the Roofie | | | Queer Duck babysits his nephew, who finds an interesting collection of video tapes.
| | | 3. | Oh Christ | | | The plans of Dr. and Mrs. Duckstein, Duck's parents, to deprogramme our hero are met with fabulously entertaining results.
| | | 4. | Queer Doc | | | Queer Duck pranks Dr. Laura who tries to get even by stalking him down with a double barrel shotgun. Dr. Laura ends up trying to peek through a "glory hole" and ends up having her eye poked out. Queer Duck pulls off a "Daffy" when she finally catches up to him at the local bar.
| | | 5. | B.S. I Love You | | | Queer Duck stands in line to see his idol Barbara Streisand. He gets tackled by her security and thrown in prison thanks to her gaydar system. Prison ends up being more of a "lucky break" however more than Queer Duck could have possibly imagined.
| | | 6. | The Gayest Place on Earth | | | The Queer Gang go to a gay theme park. Gay Duck makes a pass at a sailor turkey named "Gobble - the salty Sea man" only to be thwarted by a (Mickey) captain. Attractions seen are "It's a Gay World" (after all), "Butt Pirates" and several closeted stars are also caught there (Keangaroo Reeves and Ricky Marlin).
| | | 7. | Gym Neighbors | | | | After insulting Openly Gaytor's over sized derrière, and Gaytor's histrionics over the insult, Gaytor takes Queer Duck to the gym to rectify the problem. While there, Duck cruises the patrons, leaving Gaytor to suffer an accident on a weight bench. When the accident leaves Gaytor with a turned-up nose, Duck tells him it looks like Tori Spelling's. Gaytor returns to his melodramatic histrionics.
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| | | 8. | Queer as Fowl | | | | While attending the funeral of H.I.V. Possum, Queer duck treats the event like a Gay mixer. Queer Duck agrees, stating that "everything is a gay pickup, Desert Storm was a gay pickup". Queer Duck gets disgusted by the funeral poetry reading, and turns the funeral into a gay disco! He, however, leaves to reminisce over picture of him and H.I.V. Possum in happier times.
| | | 9. | Wedding Bell Blues | | | | While flying home after attending a gay rodeo, Dr. Laura appears on the gang's airplane's wing (like a gremlin) and starts to take apart the wing. She is ultimately electrocuted. During the panic, Queer Duck makes a "deathbed promise" to marry Openly Gaytor. They go to Vermont to marry, by a rabbi, where Queer Duck adds a laundry list of exceptions to his vows; which are ultimately accepted by Openly Gaytor!
| | | 10. | Ku Klux Klan and Ollie | | | Queer Duck and the gang are having martinis at home when they are interrupted by the KKK. Queer Duck, in disguise faces off the unhooded Jerry Falwell and in the process of Queer Duck and Falwell's "exchange", they are offed by the other Klansmen and sent to gay heaven where they realize there are plenty of other gay occupants. Jerry's disdain for heaven gets him castawayed to isolated cloud below the main "party" upstairs.
| | | 11. | The Gay Road to Morocco | | | In a black-and-white parody of the film Road to Morocco, Queer Duck & the troupe offer a Gay Road to Morocco musical episode. They meet Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the desert, and are confronted by Abu Ben Dover, (Cary Grant) and his cadre, who turn out to be his harem.
| | | 12. | Quack Doc | | | The Queer Gang go to see a gay head shrink. Bipolar bear relates a recurring dream with Hollywood squares, (true to Paul Lynde) and we learn of a dark side to Oscar Wildcat (see Ep. 15). We also get a look at the hatching of Queer Duck. Finally, the anxious and insecure Openly Gator ends up with a good ol' bottle of Xanax.
| | | 13. | Oscar's Wild | | | | The gang attends the Oscars; meeting Joan Rivers and Bjork (who is wearing Betty Davis's skin. The event is so boring that they all fall asleep. Upon waking, they join Jack Nicholson in a spree of destruction, tearing up the theater.
Road to Morocco is a 1942 comedy film which tells the story of two fast-talking guys who find themselves tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess. ...
Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. ...
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| | | 14. | A Gay Outing | | | While Queer Duck is watching "Drugged out has-been's week" on the Biography channel, his nephew, a Cub Scout, reminds him of his promise to take the troop on a camping trip. The boys find a copy of Out magazine, and Queer Duck tries to explain to them the contents of the personal ads. In a musical number, he makes up non-sexual meanings to the abbreviations common in contact ads such as S&M, GBM, etc.
| | | 15. | Radio Head | | | Queer Duck and Openly Gator host a new radio program. First a mysterious caller who calls in, handed off by Bipolar Bear, with a cooking question ends up being Oscar Wildcat attempting to slip poison, and finally a showdown with a "closted" Dr. Laura who ends up in a major "meltdown" (another Oz reference to the demise of it's said villain).
| | | 16. | Tales of the City Morgue | | | Three short stories including Bipolar Bear's abduction by aliens who mistake him for a straight, Oscar Wildcat's creation of a flaming frankenstein. "I've created a Flamer!" and finally Openly Gator's challenge to break Queer Duck from a Yentil addiction. Will this do in the whole Queer Gang?
| | | 17. | Homo for the Holidays | | | Here Openly Gator is introduced to his sister-in-law, where we find Duck is not exactly the most beloved child of his parents. And Mr. and Mrs. Duckstein take an adventure cruise.
| | | 18. | Bi Polar Bear and the Glorious Hole | | | In a parody of the "Winnie the Pooh" cartoons, Gator and Duck get eighty-sixed from the Wiener Dog. Meanwhile, Bi Polar Bear gets stuck in the cave entrance of Oscar Wildcat's home, and becomes very popular in the neighborhood, really enjoying the "attention" of many of his neighbors.
| | | 19. | Santa Claus is Coming Out | | | | Queer Duck's holiday song "Santa Claus is Gay", parodying many traditional holiday songs. Queer duck finally meets Santa, who claims that he is not gay, but "bi".
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| | | 20. | Mardi Foie Gras | | | At Mardis Gras, the gang is hanging out on a balcony trying to get beads. Queer Duck hexes Dr. Laura using voodoo, ends up smashed by the local drink, a "Hurricane" and wakes up to find himself "deflowered" by a sexy woman. (Who would have done that to poor Queer Duck now? Hrmm?)
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- Ricky Marlin, a parody of Ricky Martin
- Dr. Ben Swine (a psychiatrist), a parody of Ben Stein
- H.I.V. Possum, a play on HIV, the Human Imunodeficiency Virus, and the term HIV-positive, which is sometimes abbreviated “pos”
- Kangaroo Reeves, a parody of Keanu Reeves
- Gobble the Salty Seaman, a nautical turkey.
- Oscar Wildcat, a parody of Oscar Wilde
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Trivia - The theme song is performed by drag icon RuPaul.
- The show's music composer, Sam Elwitt, produced a CD of Muzak-style Ramones songs, under the name the Nutley Brass.
- Part of the opening shows Queer Duck traipsing across a green hill, in a parody of a similar scene in the film The Sound of Music.
- Due to its adult themes, Queer Duck initially had a TV-MA rating in the US. (The series currently has a TV-14 rating.)
- Queer Duck was voted #94 in a 100 Greatest Cartoons program on Channel 4 in the UK.
- Queer Duck is Jewish. It is alluded many times in the show - his last name is Duckstein, his parents are stereotypical Jewish parents, his mother speaks with a Yiddish accent, while proposing a toast he says Lachayim and when he marries his boyfriend Openly Gator they do so under a Chuppa with a Rabbi.
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The Movie Queer Duck: the Movie, an all-new feature film, was released on DVD July 18, 2006. The film reunites the original creators and cast of Queer Duck, plus special guest stars Conan O'Brien, Tim Curry, Jeff Glen Bennett, Mark Hamill, Bruce Vilanch, April Winchell and David Duchovny as "Tiny Jesus".[1] Gay-themed channel Logo premiered the film on July 16. is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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