History WesternAnimation / CountDuckula

* LongTitle: A Series 2 episode featuring a four-way MonsterMash (with a visit from Goosewing thrown in for good measure) is titled, "The Return of the Curse of the Secret of the Mummy's Tomb Meets Frankenduckula's Monster and the Wolf-Man and the Intergalactic Cabbage..."

* MonsterMash: One episode has [[{{Dracula}} Duckula]] and co. being chased by a {{Mummy}} the Count inadvertently brought back to life, a FrankensteinsMonster {{Expy}} accidentally resurrected by Igor, a WolfMan who came to the castle to escape from the full moon but got exposed and transformed due to Nanny's interference, a space invader [[ItMakesSenseInContext taking the form of a cabbage]], and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Goosewing]]. The episode is appropriately named "[[LongTitle The Return of the Curse of the Secret of the Mummy's Tomb Meets Frankenduckula's Monster and the Wolf-Man and the Intergalactic Cabbage...]]".

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Not the case with the pirate penguins.

* WalkThisWay: The social director on the title ship in "Mystery Cruise" invites Duckula, Igor, and Nanny to "walk this way" while [[SexyWalk swaying her hips from side to side]]. Duckula mutters to Igor, "If I could walk that way I'd probably have my hips on upside-down!"

* VampireHunter: Von Goosewing comes from a long line of vampire hunters, though he is much more clumsy and scatterbrained than they were.

** Done again the the episode "Whodunnit", where Duckula fails to interrogate a character named Willoughy-Stane ("will you be staying"), who "is leaving shortly," but succeeds in making a good routine out of it.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Cantonese dub uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkd-gBSb_hI this theme song.]]

** The Duckula family car, which has a little haunted house on top of it (and which [[Expy looks more than a little bit]] like the Creepy Coupe from ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'').

** "Alps-A-Daisy" clearly states that the series takes place in the late 1980s (1989 to be exact) and "The Rest Is History" has the first Count's servant identified as Igorth not Igor. Igor himself seems keen to meet him, implying they are seperate people. Count is not a royal title.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Of the main trio, Nanny the KindheartedSimpleton without a mean bone in her body (nice), self-centered, cowardly Duckula (mean), and Igor OnlySaneMan with a [[NightmareFetishist huge nightmare fetish]] and a yearning to revert Duckula to the bloodthirsty roots of his ancestors (in-between). Igor and Duckula may interchange depending on the situation.

* NiceGuy: Unlike his monstrous ancestors, Duckula is a really pleasant, if slightly neurotic and eccentric, duck.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: In "The Vampire Strikes Back", this is the in-universe reaction to Planet Cute, a planet that invokes every sickeningly sweet cute stereotype imaginable (Igor takes an instant dislike to it, Duckula soon follows suit, and Nanny thinks it's just lovely; Tremendous Terence, meanwhile, refuses to get too close to it). In a very literal sense, the "Cute Surprise" sold at the food stand has such a high sugar content[[note]] Its ingredients are honey, ice cream, raspberry jelly, marshmallows, maple syrup, chocolate sauce, fudge ripple, cherry cola, whipped cream, maraschino cherries, and three kinds of sugar and saccharine topping.[[/note]] that one taste probably ''would'' induce diabetes.

** When Duckula threatens to sing if Igor and Nanny don't join him on the roller coaster in "Transylvanian Homesick Blues" and they immediately race to the entrance to the ride, Duckula mutters that he's employing a couple of philistines. Igor says, "Phyllis Stein? Isn't that Gertrude's sister?", a reference to early 20th century American author Gertrude Stein. Also doubles as a shout-out to ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', in which Ringo Starr deployed a similar pun.

* TimeyWimeyBall: When the series began, it appeared to be set in the then modern day period of the late 80s and 90s, due to relatively modern technology seeing a great deal of use in the series. However, the third season episode "The Rest is History", expands on Igor's claim of having been a servant of the Duckula dynasty for seven hundred and fifty years, and points to the series taking place sometime in late 1949 and into the 1950s. The episode depicts the inaugural Count Duckula as being installed to his royal position in the year 1199 AD, and becoming a Vampire shortly afterwards due to the machinations of what appears to be a younger, but otherwise identical in appearance, Igor. Assuming Igor's claim of [[Really700YearsOld having served the "family" for seven and a half centuries to be legitimate]], this places the series' modern day— and thus the current Duckula's reincarnation— in roughly 1949 to 1950 and continuing forwards from that point on. This suggests that either the modern technology of the 80s and 90s that was often seen in the cartoon and comics are anachronisms if Igor is indeed the same servant across the intervening centuries, or that Igor came into service of the family after this earlier servant who carried the same name, with no explanation for what happened to the previous Igor, and thus allowing the series to take place in the then modern day years of 1988 through 1993, when the series was broadcast. The Star Comics imprint series for Count Duckula muddies the issue further, with modern technology existing side by side with an athropomorphic parody of Freddy Krueger called Freddy Cuckooger, as well as a crossover story in which the Duckula of the spin-off series encountered Danger Mouse, who was part of the series as a backup story segment in most issues of the Star Comics Count Duckula run. Danger Mouse was depicted as existing in the modern day in both his cartoon series and the backup stories in the Count Duckula comics released by the Star Comics imprint, which depicted both casts of characters being well aware that they were in a comic book series, which makes the Duckula series harder to pin down when trying to determine the period in which it takes place. #

* VampireHunter: Von Goosewing comes from a long line of vampire hunters, though he is much more clumsy and scatterbrained than they were.
* VampiresAreRich: Most definitely not the case here. Mostly Duckula has very little actual money and many stories revolve around his misguided attempts to strike it rich.

* WhosOnFirst: Hoomite Yubi? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJH234JEn8 Who, Ra? And Upshi rises! Who, Ra? And Upshi rises! Who, Ra? And Upshi rises! Early in the mornin'!]] Cosgrove Hall cartoons were pretty adept at these exchanges.
** Done again the the episode Whodunnit, where Duckula fails to interrogates character named Willoughy-Stane ("will you be staying"), who "is leaving shortly," but succeeds in making a good routine out of it.
** The episode The Lost Valley makes a fun bit out of Duckula misstating mass-energy equivalence as "m-equals-e-c-two," which Nanny mishears as "easy too," instead of "e-equals-m-c-squared."

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy Humans]] are implied to exist however.
** Humans in the context of this series are all bird-people.

->''"Good night out there...whatever you are!"'' *cue EvilLaugh*

** It's also something that Cockneys stereotypically say anyway.

* EarWorm: The catchy end credits of the show.