History WesternAnimation / CountDuckula

* {{Ruritania}}: On one occasion the country (using that actual name) is referred to, because that week's adventure takes place there. It is mentioned as the name of a bank in an episode of[[WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo]] as well.

* {{Ruritania}}: On one occasion the country (using that actual name) is referred to, because that week's adventure takes place there. It is mentioned as the name of a bank in an episode of[[WesternAnimation/Victor&Hugo]] as well.

The show was a InternationalCoproduction between Cosgrove-Hall and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, the American licensor of ''Danger Mouse''. Geraldine Laybourne, the then-president of Nickelodeon, had seen an image of Count Duckula at Cosgrove-Hall, and greenlighted a series based on the character. This makes ''Count Duckula'' the first animated show specifically commissioned and produced by Nickelodeon, although it is never officially recognized as one of the Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}.

The show was a InternationalCoproduction between Cosgrove-Hall and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, the American licensor of ''Danger Mouse''. Geraldine Laybourn, the then-president of Nickelodeon, had seen an image of Count Duckula at Cosgrove-Hall, and greenlighted a series based on the character. This makes ''Count Duckula'' the first animated show specifically commissioned and produced by Nickelodeon, although it is never officially recognized as one of the Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}.

The show was a InternationalCoproduction between Cosgrove-Hall and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, the American licensor of ''Danger Mouse''. Geraldine Laybourn, the then-president of Nickelodeon, had seen an image of Count Duckula at Cosgrove-Hall, and greenlighted a series based on the character. This technically makes ''Count Duckula'' the first of the Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}, although it is never officially recognized as such.

The show was a [[InternationalCoproduction]] between Cosgrove-Hall and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, the American licensor of ''Danger Mouse''. Geraldine Laybourn, the then-president of Nickelodeon, had seen an image of Count Duckula at Cosgrove-Hall, and greenlighted a series based on the character. This technically makes ''Count Duckula'' the first of the Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}, although it is never officially recognized as such.

** The phrase "Gordon Bennett!" is used frequently throughout the series by numerous characters as an all-purpose swear word/expression of displeasure. It's probably meant to be a family-friendly substitute for "God in heaven!"

-->'''Scott:''' Oh, gosh darn!...\\

* {{Expy}}: The shiftless manager in "Hard Luck Hotel" is [[Series/FawltyTowers Basil Fawlty]], down to the mustache.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Exaggerated in "Igor's Busy Day". When clean-cut American tourists Scott and Laura's car breaks down near Duckula's castle, even "gosh darn" is too profane for Laura's ears.

* {{Ruritania}}: On one occasion the country (using that actual name) is referred to, because that week's adventure takes place there. It is mentioned as the name of a bank in an episode of[[WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo]] as well.

* {{Ruritania}}: On more than one occasion the country (using that actual name) is referred to, usually because that week's adventure takes place there. Although it's climate and location are constantly varying.

* 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.

ArbitrarySkepticism: In the first episode, the leader of the thieves dismisses vampires as myths, then hesitates when he hears the castle also features a werewolf. In a later episode, Igor tells Duckula that the Loch Ness Monster isn't real.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In the first episode, the leader of the thieves dismisses vampires as myths, then hesitates when he hears the castle also features a werewolf. In a later episode, Igor tells Duckula that the Loch Ness Monster isn't real.

* 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 reincartantion— 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.

* 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 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 reincartantion— 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.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In the first episode, the leader of the thieves dismisses vampires as myths, then hesitates when he hears the castle also features a werewolf.

* ArtisticLicense - Astrology: According to the opening narration, the vampire resurrection ritual can be performed "once a century, when the moon is in the eighth house of Aquarius". This mystical TechnoBabble doesn't make much sense : the 12 "houses" and the 12 "signs" (including Aquarius) are both divisions of the ecliptic plane, each of whom form an independent system.

* ArtisticLicenseAstrology: According to the opening narration, the vampire resurrection ritual can be performed "once a century, when the moon is in the eighth house of Aquarius". This mystical TechnoBabble doesn't make much sense : the 12 "houses" and the 12 "signs" (including Aquarius) are both divisions of the ecliptic plane, each of whom form an independent system.