"Duck Dodgers" (2003) TV series 2003-????

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Writers:

Bradford Schultze (writer)
Dean Wellins (additional material)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

23 August 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

If he's our future, we're history.

Plot:

Animated sci-fi series based on the alter ego of Looney Tunes star Daffy Duck, the semi-heroic, yet incompetent space captain Duck Dodgers.

Plot Keywords:

Duck | Duck Dodgers | Daffy Duck | Future | Mars

Awards:

2 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

Michael Dorn	...	Centurion Robot / ... (19 episodes, 2003-2005)
Richard McGonagle	...	Dr. I.Q. Hi / ... (18 episodes, 2003-2005)
Tia Carrere	...	The Martian Queen / ... (15 episodes, 2003-2005)
John O'Hurley	...	Captain Star Johnson / ... (11 episodes, 2003-2005)
Grey DeLisle	...	Newswoman Shye Falling / ... (10 episodes, 2003-2005)
Joe Alaskey	...	Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers / ... (8 episodes, 2003-2005)
Bob Bergen	...	Porky Pig as The Eager Young Space Cadet / ... (8 episodes, 2003-2005)

Also Known As:

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (USA) (long title)

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-Y7 | Brazil:Livre

Company:

Warner Bros. Animation

Trivia:

The episode "Green Loontern", which had Dodgers joining the Green Lantern Corps, featured the first animated appearances of many of the more popular Green Lanterns from the comic books, most prominently Boodika and Ch'p. Green Lanterns that were captured by Sinestro included Guy Gardiner, Salaak, Arissa, and Kyle Rayner. Comic fan and writer Kevin Smith voiced the most famous Green Lantern, Hal Jordan.

Quotes:

Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers: [Duck Dodgers' version of the Green Lantern Oath] In blackest day or brightest night... Watermelon, cantaloupe, yadda yadda... Erm... superstitious and cowardly lot... With liberty and justice for all!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) (VG)

The future isn't as good as it was in 1953

Take Futurama's Captain Zapp Brannigan and Lieutenant Kif and put them up against Emperor Zurg from the animated Buzz Lightyear series, and you've got "Duck Dodgers." What were they thinking?! Daffy is too over-the-top smarmy, Porky's voice doesn't sound right (even though Bob Bergen is doing it -- maybe the editing is bad?), and Marvin has changed from a bumbling absentminded alien into a bellowing fleet

commander who's as malevolent as he is ineffective. You know the type; they're a dime a dozen these days.

Throw in an army of disposable robots to do Marvin's work for him, way more sexual innuendo than the original Warner Bros. cartoons ever had, lots of pointless dialogue EXPLAINING what's going on instead of SHOWING it, and weird character animation (some of it looks like it's straight out of 'Ren & Stimpy,' with the wild faces the characters make sometimes), and you come out with a series that's a pale shadow of the original. "The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries" did a fine job of putting familiar characters into fun new situations while keeping their personalities and their looks intact; why can't "Duck Dodgers?"