Mike Reiss
Director
Queer Duck (2000)
Season 2
Queer Duck is an animated series produced by Icebox.com that originally appeared on Icebox.com and later moved to the American cable television channel Showtime in 2002, where it aired as a follow-up 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.
Released Oct. 11, 2000
Episode 3 min
None+
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Short
Keywords: tmdb.lgbt, tmdb.cartoon-duck, imdb.gay, imdb.satire, imdb.gay-interest, imdb.animal-character-name-as-title, imdb.nickname-as-series-title + 11 more, imdb.two-word-series-title, imdb.queer-duck-character, imdb.sex, imdb.surrealism, imdb.homosexual, imdb.dating, imdb.closeted-homosexual, imdb.bisexual, imdb.cable-show, imdb.satire-comedy, imdb.dark-comedy
Production Companies: Showtime Entertainment Television, Mishmash Media
Network: Showtime
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - The Gayest Place on Earth
The Queer Gang go to a gay theme park. Queer Duck makes a pass at a sailor turkey named "Gobble - the salty Sea man" only to be thwarted by a captain (Mickey Mouse). Attractions seen are "It's a Gay World" (after all), "Butt Pirates" and several closeted stars are also caught there.
Jan. 30, 2002, midnight
S2E2 - Gym Neighbors
After insulting Openly Gator's oversized derrière, and Gator's histrionics over the insult, Gator takes Queer Duck to the gym to rectify the problem. While there, Duck cruises the patrons, leaving Gator to suffer an accident on a weight bench. When the accident leaves Gator with a turned-up nose, Duck tells him it looks like Tori Spelling's. Gator returns to his melodramatic histrionics.
Feb. 6, 2002, midnight
S2E3 - 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. But as it turns out, Queer Duck also has a sensitive side.
Feb. 13, 2002, midnight
S2E4 - 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 Gator. They go to Vermont to marry, by a rabbi, where Queer Duck adds a laundry list of exceptions to his vows.
Feb. 20, 2002, midnight
S2E5 - Ku Klux Klan and Ollie
Queer Duck and the gang are having martinis at home when they are interrupted by the KKK. Queer Duck faces off against 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 heaven where they realize there are plenty of other gay occupants. Jerry's disdain for heaven gets him castawayed to an isolated cloud below the main "party" upstairs.
Feb. 27, 2002, midnight
S2E6 - 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 army, which turns out to be a harem.
March 6, 2002, midnight
S2E7 - Quack Doctor
The Queer Gang go to see a gay head shrink, Dr. Ben Swine. Bi Polar Bear relates a recurring dream with Hollywood squares (true to Paul Lynde) and we learn of a dark side to Oscar Wildcat (expanded upon in episode 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.
March 13, 2002, midnight
S2E8 - Oscar's Wild
The gang attends the Oscars, meeting Joan Rivers. 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.
March 27, 2002, midnight
S2E9 - 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 with Barney Frank on the cover, and Queer Duck tries to explain the contents of the personal ads. In a musical number, he makes up non-sexual meanings to the abbreviations common in the ads, such as GBM, S&M, B&D, bi/curious, dyke, vamp, butch, and "water-sports."
April 3, 2002, midnight
S2E10 - Radio Head
Queer Duck and Openly Gator host a new radio program. First a mysterious caller calls in with a cooking question, "Oscar Mild-Cat." Finally there's a showdown with Dr. Laura, who comes out of the closet but ends up in a major "meltdown."
April 10, 2002, midnight
S2E11 - Tales of the City Morgue
Three short stories, including Bi Polar Bear's abduction by aliens who were hoping for a "breeder," Oscar Wildcat's creation of a "Barney Frankenstein", and Openly Gator's challenge to break Queer Duck from his Yentl addiction. Will this do in the whole Queer Gang?
April 17, 2002, midnight
S2E12 - Homo for the Holidays
Openly Gator and Queer Duck visit the Ducksteins for the holidays, where Dr. Duckstein tries to set up Openly Gator with Queer Duck's lesbian sister. But a fortunate wishbone break resolves the family crisis.
April 24, 2002, midnight
S2E13 - Bi Polar Bear and the Glorious Hole
In a parody of Winnie the Pooh, Bi Polar Bear gets stuck in Oscar Wildcat's hole and becomes very popular in the neighborhood, enjoying the "attention" of many of his neighbors.
May 1, 2002, midnight
S2E14 - Santa Claus is Coming Out
Queer Duck's holiday song outs Santa Claus. But when the real Santa visits Queer Duck's house on Christmas morning, Santa explains his true sexual persuasion.
May 8, 2002, midnight
S2E15 - Mardi Foie Gras
At Mardi Gras, the gang is hanging out on a balcony trying to get beads. Queer Duck curses Dr. Laura using voodoo, ends up smashed by a "Hurricane" (cocktail) and wakes up to find himself "deflowered" by a sexy woman.
May 15, 2002, midnight
Network: Showtime
Episode Runtime: 3 min.
Season Runtime: 61 min.
Released: Oct. 11, 2000
Last Air Date: May 15, 2002, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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