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2->''"In the heart of Transylvania''\
3''In the Vampire Hall of Fame, yeah''\
4''There's not a vampire zanier than'' '''''Duckula!'''''\
5''He won't bite beast or man,''\
6''Cause he's a {{vegetarian|Vampire}},''\
7''And things never run to plan for'' '''''Duckula!'''''\
8''If you're looking for some fun''\
9''You can always count upon''\
10''The wild and wacky one they call'' '''''Duckula!'''''\
11'''Count''' Duckula!"
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13''Count Duckula'' (1988-1993) was a SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon by Creator/CosgroveHall, the creators of ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse''. Indeed, the title character originally appeared as a bad guy on ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', but on his own show he was a fairly amiable vegetarian with aspirations of fame and world travel. As the opening sequence of each episode explains, there was a slip-up in the performance of a resurrection ceremony where tomato ketchup was mistakenly used instead of blood, thus raising the title character as a vegetarian instead of the typical blood sucking evil count.
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15And so, with his butler Igor (not TheIgor, but instead a sarcastic hunchbacked vulture who wished his master would act more like a traditional vampire) and his maid Nanny (a hulking, dim but loveable hen with a [[WeHaveTheKeys bad habit of going through doorways without opening them first]]) in tow, Count Duckula would travel the world, running afoul (excuse the pun) of all manner of folks, including Dr. Von Goosewing, a bumbling vampire hunter who refused to believe Duckula was anything but a threat.
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17The show ran for four seasons. Incidentally, the fourth season is the last Cosgrove Hall cartoon to feature Brian Trueman and Creator/DavidJason, and the only known post-1992 series that Trueman acted in ''and'' wrote for. Although ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo'' was produced afterwards, ''Count Duckula'' series 4 wasn't broadcast until after V&H had run.
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19The 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}} (since Viacom doesn't own the copyright to the show).
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21The show is perhaps best known today for its sheer influence and popularity [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in Latin America]], where it both introduced {{Woolseyism}} and redefined dubbing.
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23A puppet stage show, ''Count Duckula and the Jewels of Duckula'', toured the UK in 2016.
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26!!This series provides examples of:
27* AccentAdaptation: In the German dub of Count Duckula, the German accent of Dr. Von Goosewing is dubbed into modern Saxon dialect, which has always been the ButtMonkey of the German dialects. The pirate penguins talk in very strong low German from the regions where most major ports of Germany are located. In the Mexican Spanish dub, he does speak with a proper German accent.
28* AffectionateParody: Of Film/HammerHorror movies.
29* AIIsACrapshoot: In "Astro Duck", lightning strikes Duckula's new computer and makes it self-aware. It immediately starts hacking into other computers to cause trouble, culminating in seizing control of a government spaceship and launching it at the moon. Which the government sends an armored division to Castle Duckula to demand reparations for.
30* TheAllegedCar:
31** We get various versions in "Autoduck," when Duckula wants to break the land-speed record. Igor builds the first one.
32--->'''Duckula''': Uh, are you sure this will be all right at 700 miles per hour?\
33'''Igor''': It is wind-tunnel tested, m'lord.\
34'''Nanny''': Is that when you stood it in the corridor and fanned it with your hat?\
35'''Igor''': Silence, Nanny!\
36'''Nanny''': Only bits fell off it then.
37** The Trailer, which appears in three episodes, also counts.
38** 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'').
39* AlliterativeName: Don Diego, Tremendous Terrence, Sibelius Smogg...
40* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Cantonese dub of the show uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkd-gBSb_hI this theme song.]]
41* AmbiguousSyntax:
42** "Igor's Busy Day" has a joke involving Igor enlisting Nanny in triggering a FallingChandelierOfDoom for castle vistors with the instruction: "Hit the beak, Nanny!". He meant for Nanny to press the beak of a statue to activate the BoobyTrap, but Nanny thought he meant ''his own beak''.
43** In "Dr. Goosewing and Mr. Duck", Nanny serves Duckula muesli for breakfast. When Duckula finds it appetizing, he tells her, "Hit me with some muesli, Nanny!", and Nanny hits him with the box. When he asks Nanny why she did that, she tells him she only did what he told her to, to which he has to remind her that it's a figure of speech and that he meant for her to put the muesli in a bowl. When Nanny brings Duckula a bottle of Dr. Von Goosewing's carpet shampooer disguised as milk, Duckula is about to say, "Splash me with some milk!", but quickly corrects himself and tells Nanny to splash his muesli with milk.
44* AmbiguouslyGay: OneShotCharacter Roberto from the episode, "Restoration Comedy" seems to heavily implied to be this.
45* AnalogyBackfire: In "Mobile Home", Ruffles sets up a queue of accomplices from Castle Duckula to the nearest postbox, explaining that he will remove the stones from the castle, the next person will number them, the next will address them to Mr. and Mrs. Paintbrush (the NouveauRiche American couple who "bought" Castle Duckula from Ruffles and his gang), the next will put a stamp on them, and so on "down the chain" to the postbox. Bert, Ruffles' second-in-command, is confused by his mention of a chain, so he clarifies, "like a bicycle chain." However, a bicycle chain goes in a circle, so the accomplices in the chain eventually pass the stones back to him, to his despair.
46* AnimationBump: Some of the episodes were animated in-house by Cosgrove Hall, while the others were farmed out to a Spanish studio. The Spanish team's work was generally drawn and animated better, though the Cosgrove Hall episodes tended to have more detailed, attractive backgrounds.
47** In general, the animation is much better than ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse''.
48* 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.
49* ArtifactOfDoom: Igor sometimes tries to get Duckula to find these in the hope that they'll bring him back to "The Good Old Days". (The Mystic Saxophone from the first episode being a good example.) They never work though.
50* 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 which form an independent system.
51* ArtisticLicenseBiology: If the Marvel Comic book is to be believed, Duckula's heart pumps ''ketchup'', not blood.
52* AwkwardSilenceEntrance: In "Igor's Busy Day", Scott and Laura, a young couple visiting Transylvania, stop by a local inn named "Ye Tooth and Jugular" after their car breaks down. The couple enter in the middle of the patrons singing a drinking song which abruptly stops upon their entry.
53* BeanstalkParody: "Duck and the Broccoli Stalk" provides a variation; Thanks to Dr. Von Goosewing's vegetable grower, Duckula, Igor and Nanny find themselves up a broccoli stalk and into a giant's castle.
54* BerserkButton: Do not mention the E-word in front of the Egg. Don't even say anything that ''sounds'' like the E-word!
55* BigBad: Dr. Von Goosewing qualifies, as he constantly tries to kill Count Duckula, refusing to believe he's a harmless vampire.
56* BlackSheep: The eponymous Count is a black ''and'' white sheep, showing no interest whatever in vampirism (which causes problems when he hosts the title event in "A Family Reunion!").
57* BlatantLies: The closing credits make Duckula out to be a traditional bloodsucking-type vampire, even though the opening theme explicitly states his vegetarianism.
58* BreakingTheFourthWall:
59** In "All in a Fog", Count Duckula says "Cab!" just as a cab appears, then turns to the camera and says, "If only real life was like this!"
60** The Marvel comic book had more than one account of the characters speaking directly to the reader, and seemed to be completely aware that they were in a comic book, including the normally scatterbrained Von Goosewing, who references that he would meet a concerned villager by claiming he would 'be there in one panel.' They also make references to things such as 'plot twists.' Danger Mouse, who appeared as a back up character with adventures of his own, was ''blatantly'' aware of the medium in which he was in, and plots in the backup stories typically revolved around that very fact. Duckula and Danger Mouse also met directly in one issue, and became fast friends. Ironically, Duckula was a series that spun out of Danger Mouse's show, which also occasionally had moments of breaking the fourth wall, so this may be some kind of legacy effect on the count's show as much as the comic.
61* ButtMonkey: Duckula doesn't have the best of luck, Gaston and Dr. Von Goosewing too. And Igor sometimes at the hands of Nanny.
62* CameBackWrong: {{Inverted|Trope}} - Count Duckula was an evil, murderous vampire who, after a botched resurrection ritual, came back ''right''. Although from ''[[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad Igor]]'''s perspective the trope is played straight...[[note]]Becomes HilariousInHindsight when you take into account that the first Count Duckula was actually shown in the episode "And the Rest is History", to be a vegetarian, much like the current incarnation of Duckula. As a result, the modern Duckula is practically his clone, or would be if not for the fact that he does possess other vampiric powers and may in fact possess vampiric immortality, meaning that if he's never slain, then this version of Duckula might well be around forever.[[/note]]
63* CardCarryingVillain: Igor is definitely evil, to the point where Von Goosewing's Carpet Cleaner and Spot Removal Solution (which turns people opposite to how they usually act) turns him temporarily into a FriendToAllLivingThings.
64* CatchPhrase:
65** The {{Narrator}}'s closing remark "Good night out there...''whatever'' you are!"
66** Nanny responding to a knock at the door by shouting, "I'll get it!" Usually followed by Duckula saying "Igor, order another door," or "Close the wall behind you, Nanny."
67** Nanny's archetypal cry of 'MY DUCKYBOOS' in reference to the eponymous vampire duck.
68* ChristmasEpisode: "A Christmas Quacker", which, interestingly, aired ''on Boxing Day 1990!''
69* CircusEpisode: In "Sawdust Ring", Duckula, Igor and Nanny join the Circus Stracciatella after Alberto Stracciatella's employees have left due to not being paid. (Alberto has been trying unsuccessfully to buy [[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} a flying baby elephant]].) Unfortunately for them, the former employees return to sabotage the performance.
70* CleverCrows: Inverted with Ruffles and his gang. His henchmen are idiots while he himself is marginally smarter than them.
71* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
72** Nanny regularly smashes through walls instead of using the door simply because she forgets the door is even there, and her idea of an appropriate way to kill a mouse, as described in "Mobile Home", is to throw the stove at it, causing the entire west wing of the castle to collapse. When Duckula asks why she didn't use a mousetrap, she says they're the wrong shape for throwing.
73** Von Goosewing has plenty of space cadet moments. At the beginning of "The Vampire Strikes Back", when he has surrounded a tower of Castle Duckula with dynamite and is preparing to detonate it, he has an "I can't hear you through these earplugs" conversation with ''himself''.
74--->'''Goosewing:''' ''(chuckles)'' Okay, Goosewing, get ready! ''(appears from behind the rock he is using for cover, cotton wool in his ears)'' What was that? ''(faces right)'' I said "Get ready!" ''(faces left)'' Oh, ''speak up!''... I SAID, "GET-" oh, this is no good, ''(removes cotton wool from his ears)'' I can't hear myself speaking!
75* ComicBooksAreReal: The Count's hero Tremendous Terence is a comic book star and cereal mascot but no one shows any surprise when they meet him in person.
76* ConsultingMisterPuppet Dr. Quackbrain, the crazy psychiatrist from 'The Zombie Awakes' consults and confides in his glove puppet 'Pinky'.
77* CorrelationCausationGag: Near the beginning of "The Vampire Strikes Back", the main trio are in a tower of Castle Duckula when Nanny discovers a case of her homemade sarsaparilla. Duckula implores her not to open the bottle in her hand, reminding her of [[NoodleIncident what happened the last time she did so.]] Meanwhile, Von Goosewing has placed a large quantity of dynamite at the bottom of the tower, and just as Nanny uncorks the bottle, he detonates the explosives, sending the tower flying into space like a rocket. Unaware that Von Goosewing was responsible for the original liftoff, Duckula tries unsuccessfully to get the tower airborne at the end of the episode by having Nanny open several dozen bottles of sarsaparilla.
78* CowboyEpisode: "Dead Eye Duck" has Duckula turn up in Colorado where he becomes the marshal of a Wild West town.
79* CreditsGag: Many episodes have these in the closing titles.
80* CriticalStaffingShortage: Castle Duckula is ''supposed'' to have a legion chambermaids and footmen. [[RunningGag However, every time we hear about them,]] [[GallowsHumor it's to inform us that another one has come to an unfortunate end offscreen.]] The episode "Rent-A-Butler" even has it as a plot point that after endless accidents, the entire castle staff has fallen down to just Nanny and Igor.
81--> '''Nanny:''' I haven't seen [the latest chambermaid] since the werewolf took her for a walk!
82--> '''Duckula:''' Don't you mean since ''she'' took the werewolf for a walk?
83--> '''Igor:''' (grim) I think you'll find that Nanny knows what she means.
84* CruelTwistEnding: A few episodes have these. "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..." has Duckula trick all of the villains chasing him, Igor and Nanny into leaving the castle and then teleporting it to escape...only for the castle to reappear on an island and for a giant SeaMonster to suddenly appear and threaten the protagonists. The episode ends with their screaming for help and presumably being eaten by the monster.
85* ADayInTheLimelight: Barry Clayton, who normally only introduces and signs off each episode, got to voice a character, Dr. Quackbrain, in the final episode.
86* DaywalkingVampire: The present-day Duckula is unharmed by daylight, in contrast to his traditional vampire incarnations which can be killed by sunlight, although his previous incarnation was killed by sunlight in "Danger Mouse". His relatives seem to be this as well.[[note]]As Duckula is a spoof of Dracula, as much as of the Hammer Horror films, this actually means that he and his relatives are actually more in line with the original book than the films due to their being perfectly capable of walking around by day. Duckula plays the aversion of this trope straight as an arrow however in the episode "Dr. Goosewing and Mr. Duck" after imbibing a small amount of Von Goosewing's carpet cleaner in the form of spoonfuls of the stuff plus some cereal. Igor is thrilled, though he reverts to normal not long afterwards.[[/note]]
87* DeadpanSnarker: Igor. Duckula also has his moments.
88* DependingOnTheWriter: The question of Duckula's wealth. Some episodes have him well off enough to do whatever he needs/wants, while in others, it's an explicit plot point that he's broke. It all comes down to [[RuleOfFunny what the joke demands.]]
89* TheDoorSlamsYou: Igor accidentally smashes Duckula with the door in "Hardluck Hotel."
90** Duckula does this deliberately to Igor in "Dear Diary" after Goosewing does the same by accident.
91** Nanny does this to Duckula and Goosewing in "A Family Reunion," on one of the few occasions that she opens a door the correct way!
92* DubNameChange: In the German dub, Nanny is Emma and Towser is Wolfie.
93* EarlyBirdCameo: Von Goosewing can be seen briefly in the first episode before his 'official' appearence in the 2nd one.
94* EasyAmnesia: In "Amnesiac Duck", Duckula loses his memory and regains it multiple times. By the end of the episode, everyone has amnesia.
95* EpisodeOnAPlane: In "Hi-Duck", Duckula, Nanny, and a reluctant Igor prepare to travel by airplane for a castle-free holiday to Nice. When the plane they are on gets hijacked by the bumbling French crooks, Gaston and Pierre, [[AccidentalHero Duckula inadvertently foils their plan and is praised as a hero]]. Unfortunately, [[YankTheDogsChain Duckula has to return to Transylvania to hand the crooks over to the authorities and serve as the star witness in their trial]].
96* ExpositoryThemeTune: The spoken introduction outlines the history of the Duckulas and the fact that the latest resurrection went awry when tomato ketchup was used in the rite instead of blood. The song that follows explains that a zanier vampire you will never find than the luckless vegetarian that is Duckula... ''Count'' Duckula.
97* {{Expy}}: The shiftless manager in "Hard Luck Hotel" is [[Series/FawltyTowers Basil Fawlty]], down to the mustache, and an uncanily impressive attempt at mimicing Creator/JohnCleese's voice.
98* FallingChandelierOfDoom: In "Igor's Busy Day", Igor tries to use one of these to crush American tourists Scott and Laura. Unfortunately, he relies upon Nanny to trigger it. First, she misunderstands the command "Hit the beak" and hits Igor's beak instead of the beak of the statue which triggers the falling chandelier. Later, she realises her mistake and hits the beak of the statue... while Igor himself is under the chandelier.
99* FingerSnapLighter: Igor is capable of doing it.
100* FoulWaterfowl:
101** While the title character subverts this, the previous counts played this straight as they were vicious vampire ducks.
102** Von Goosewing plays with this, as he relentlessly tries to kill Duckula while refusing to acknowledge that he's not an evil vampire.
103* FreezeFrameBonus: The closing zoomout shot of the castle at the end of "All in a fog" shows the castle with a clocktower. Keen-eyed viewers will recall that the castle never appears to have a clock tower in any other depiction throughout the series. [[FridgeLogic Eventually, you'll realize]] that the clock tower is none other then UsefulNotes/BigBen itself; sucked up by Von Goosewing's gigantic vacuum, ejected on to Castle Duckula when Von Goosewing put it into reverse, then transported off to Transylvania when the castle teleported home.
104* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Though the title character is as friendly as they come, the previous Counts most certainly were ''not''.
105* FrothyMugsOfWater: Averted frequently, either with the peasants carousing in the village inn with tankards of ale or Duckula enjoying some wine with his meal or a cocktail.
106* FunnyForeigner: Used repeatedly in the traveling-the-world episodes, especially the Frenchmen...er, Frenchbirds, Gaston et Pierre.
107* FurAgainstFang: "The Return of the Curse..." has Duckula getting chased by a werewolf, among other monsters.
108* FurryConfusion:
109** "The Count and the Pauper" featured non-anthropomorphic chickens.
110** In the same episode the Count states he longs to be 'a normal human being,' before clarfying 'a normal human duck.'
111** When Duckula found himself captive of a pair of Egyptian priests.
112--->'''Hoomite:''' Our legends say that when the great god Ra has had his fill of HumanSacrifice, Upshi shall rise from the dead.\
113'''Count Duckula:''' Ah, ''[[ExactWords human]]'' sacrifice.\
114'''Yubi:''' Well, more of less human, give or take a feather.
115* GainaxEnding: In "All in a Fog," Duckula appears to have the jewel thieves ready to be arrested when the perps are watching "Count Duckula" on a TV that dropped in front of them (all thanks to Goosewing's giant vacuum cleaner that caused a lot of chaos). They invite Duckula, Igor, and Nanny to watch, and it zooms in on the TV revealing the trio returned home and Duckula lamenting not capturing the thieves and missing out on fame.
116* GentleGiant: Nanny. About as gentle as [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen Lenny]], anyway...
117* TheGhost:
118** Von Goosewing's assistant, Heinrich. The show actually seems to imply that Heinrich doesn't exist at all, and Goosewing is delusional. (The comic adaptation clears this up somewhat; he ''used'' to have an assistant named Heinrich, who was always threatening to quit. Apparently he did, and Goosewing didn't notice.) In Heinrich's first 'appearance' Goosewing believes he has made him invisible with his 'invisibilitising ray'. The fact that there is no-one there in the first place and the doctor is wearing thick goggles may partially explain his ongoing confusion.
119** Towser, the castle's werewolf, WAS undeniably real (though Igor repeatedly denied his existence to a suspicious Duckula), but was never seen onscreen, apart from once where we see his eyes.
120* GoshDangItToHeck:
121** The phrase "Gordon Bennett!" is used frequently throughout the series by numerous characters as an all-purpose swear word/expression of displeasure. Stories of its origin in the early 20th century vary, but it may be an alteration of "Gorblimey!" (a corruption of "God blind me!").
122** 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.
123--->'''Scott:''' Oh, gosh darn!...\
124'''Laura:''' Oh, ''Scott'', I hate it when you curse like that.\
125'''Scott:''' Oh, gee, I'm, I'm sorry, honey. It's... it's just that this gosh darn-\
126'''Laura:''' ''Scott!''\
127'''Scott:''' Sorry, honey, this... this... ''blankety blank'' Eastern European jalopy's broken down!
128* {{Greed}}: One of Duckula's flaws, but can you blame him?
129* {{Hammerspace}}: Nanny's sling contains a seemingly endless array of items which may or may not be helpful to the situations in which she, Duckula, and Igor find themselves.
130* HellHotel: The Hard Luck Hotel in the episode of the same name. The sign's falling apart, the whole place is a mess, the manager's a smarmy {{Jerkass}}, the "economy" rooms have no furniture or door locks, and the "complaints department" is a dog that ''eats'' guests who complain.
131* HeroicBSOD: Duckula has a small one when he faces a group of sentient vegetables, and they start accusing him of hate crimes.
132* HornyVikings: Duckula, Nanny and Igor encounter these in "the Mutinous Penguins". Several of them plus a lady Viking in a winged helmet are [[HumanPopsicle frozen in ice]], getting thawed out by Nanny's tea.
133* HorrorHost: The narrator has shades of this, finding the stories deliciously grim and macabre (even the ones that are too silly to be scary), and signing off by cackling, "Good night out there... ''whatever'' you are! ''(EvilLaugh)''".
134* HypocriticalHumor:
135** In the first episode, Ruffles the burglar scoffs at the idea of vampires, stating that they're just mentioned in the guide book to draw in tourists, but freaks out at the mention of a werewolf on the premises.
136** In "Transylvanian Homesick Blues", Igor rebuffs Duckula's attempt to persuade him and Nanny to join him on a roller coaster ride, leading to a moment of hypocrisy from his master:
137--->'''Dr. Time:''' ''(over public address system)'' Roll up, roll up! This way for the roller coaster ride of a lifetime! Roll up, roll up!\
138'''Duckula:''' Listen to that, a ''roller coaster ride!'' Hoo-''whee'', we must have a go on that, Igor!\
139'''Igor:''' I think I'd rather have my head removed from my body, sir.\
140'''Duckula:''' ''(tuts)'' That's the trouble with you, Igor. It's always self, self, self! Why don't you think of others for a change? Now if I say we go on the roller coaster, we go on the roller coaster!
141* IdiotBall:
142** Why DID they keep the ketchup bottle right next to the blood in the resurrection room?
143** How come Duckula did not recognise his servants' voices while providing room service in "Hardluck Hotel"?
144** Nanny had 'taken her beak out' so sounded different (we're mercifully spared the visuals) but Igor should have been familiar, though Duckula does point out that he sounds familiar.
145* ImperfectRitual: The backstory is that the ritual to revive him was done with ketchup instead of blood, making him a VegetarianVampire.
146* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Count has a noble title and a castle, but when it comes to actual cash, it's repeatedly stated that he has virtually nothing. Most prominently, he keeps Igor and Nanny on as servants, despite their somewhat dubious skills, because their loyalty to the Count Duckula title means they're willing to work for free. In one episode, he temporarily dismisses them to take on a batch of penguin servants, but they revolt when they find out he has no money to pay them with.
147* InevitableWaterfall: When Duckula and his companions are traveling down a river in the Amazon, they end up falling down a huge waterfall.
148* InfiniteSupplies: Von Goosewing is shown with various gadgets, anti-vampire weaponry and even numerous vehicles such as balloons, blimps and submarines. It is never explained where he gets these or how he can afford them.
149* InspectorJavert: Von Goosewing is convinced that Duckula is as evil as his ancestors, several of whom were pursued by Von Goosewing's own ancestors, and that he therefore must be destroyed. He either doesn't notice or simply ignores all evidence that Duckula is infinitely more interested in becoming famous than in drinking blood.
150* JekyllAndHyde: In "Doctor Goosewing and Mr. Duck", Dr. Von Goosewing invents a potion that reverses everyone's personality. He and Duckula become "wicious wampires", Igor becomes happy and loving and Nanny [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome becomes a brainbox]].
151* JustAStupidAccent:
152** Duckula sounds virtually American, vaguely New Yorker, despite being voiced by a British actor. His voice seems somewhat based off of Bugs Bunny. While unconfirmed, it is often suspected to have been an attempt to appeal to overseas viewers.
153*** It was probably to counter-balance his wacky persona with WesternAnimation/DangerMouse's more grounded English accent and demeanor. The Count appeared as a villain in that series first.
154** Von Goosewing speaks English with a German accent to remind the viewer that he is from that part of Europe (see AccentAdaptation for how this is handled in some of the foreign dubs). As with most uses of this trope, he frequently throws elementary German words into his speech; for example, he counts down to detonating the explosives surrounding a tower of Castle Duckula in "The Vampire Strikes Back" by saying, "Drei... zwei... eins... ''feuer!''"[[note]] "Three... two... one... ''fire!''"[[/note]]
155** Gaston and Pierre not only affect comically over the top French accents and throw in the odd basic French word, but also use the rules of French grammar (such as transliterating "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" as "What is that that it is?" instead of simply "What is that?") to signify that they are speaking their native language.
156* KnightTemplar: Von Goosewing refuses to believe that the current Count Duckula is essentially harmless.
157* LamePunReaction:
158** Igor greets most of Duckula's plays on words with stony silence or an annoyed grumble (though he does occasionally chuckle at them, especially if they are at Nanny's expense). For example, in "No Sax Please, We're Egyptian", he tells his master that they can tell they are in the Lower Chamber from the hieroglyphics; Duckula suggests they can tell when they are in the Upper Chamber from the loweroglyphics, to Igor's disgust.
159** Some of Dmitri and Sviatoslav's jokes get this reaction, sometimes with a CollectiveGroan by the unseen audience for their routines. For example, when Duckula, Igor, and Nanny have been taken to Revolutionary France by Dr. Fazakerly Time in "Transylvanian Homesick Blues", we get this gem:
160--->'''Sviatoslav:''' ''(slides forward from his door and sniffs the air)'' What is that smell, Dmitri?\
161'''Dmitri:''' ''(slides forward from his door)'' It's the peasants, Sviatoslav. ''(Sviatoslav slides back into his door, and then out again)'' They are revolting.\
162''(CollectiveGroan; Dmitri slides back into his door)''\
163'''Sviatoslav:''' So is that joke, Dmitri. ''(slides back into his door)''\
164'''Dmitri:''' ''(sighs)'' Oh, week after week, why do I bother?
165** In "Duckula Down Under", Bill Platypus is gradually driven to tears when, while driving across the outback with Duckula's clock (given to him as a gift), he is subjected to a long series of bad Australia-themed jokes by Dmitri and Sviatoslav.
166* LargeHam: The Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Von Goosewing when in his excitable mode.
167* LaughTrack: Dmitri and Sviatoslav's comedy routines are accompanied by a jaunty piano [[StealthPun vamp]] and audience laughter.
168* LawyerFriendlyCameo:
169** Tremendous Terence for ComicStrip/DanDare.
170** There's more than a bit of [[Radio/TheGoonShow Bluebottle]] in Pierre's character.
171** One issue of the comic had an appearance by superspy [[Creator/IanFleming Ian Flamingo]], and another featured poet [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Edgar Allen Crow]].
172* LimitedWardrobe: The main and recurring cast members are always dressed in the same clothes. Notable in Nanny always wearing her arm in a medical sling for some reason. (One newspaper comic gives the reason: she's hiding an EmbarrassingTattoo.)
173* LineageLadder: [[ServileSnarker Igor]] is fond of referring to the previous Count Duckulas in this manner during his many, ''many'' lamentations of the current Duckula's refusal to take up their legacy of bloodsucking and evildoing. Making this an interesting example is all the Counts are [[{{Reincarnation}} technically the same being]], leading to quotes like:
174-->'''Igor''': Ahhh. Soon, very soon, I shall have the means to turn my master into the sort of master he was when he was his father, and his father's father.
175* LongSpeechTeaTime: In "Igor's Busy Day," engaged American couple Scott and Laura have taken refuge from a storm in Castle Duckula, and have joined the Count for dinner. While Scott spends the entire meal [[MouthfulOfPi reciting the digits of Pi]], Laura talks at length about how she and Scott met and about her very large family. The thoroughly bored Duckula tries to keep himself occupied by balancing the contents of the fruit bowl on top of each other, firing a pea from his knife at the oblivious Scott, and sculpting a castle out of mashed potato before dozing off and falling face first into it. Meanwhile, Igor and Nanny have long since fallen asleep at the far end of the table. Had Nanny not spilled the poison soup this could've been avoided.
176* MissedHimByThatMuch: The episode where Duckula boards a cruise ship that seems to be utterly empty; no matter where he, Igor and Nanny go, there's absolutely no passengers or crew. Igor even compares it to the [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Mary Celeste]]. Of course, as we viewers can see, everyone else is there - they just keep going in entirely different directions to the Transylvanians. The episode ends with the three leaving the ship, looking back - and there is everyone waving them off. Or, if you're being uncharitable, having a party because Duckula and Co were gone. It's implied that they were so fed up that they faked the Mary Celeste thing to get them to leave.
177* MissingReflection: Duckula decides to redecorate the castle and one decorator hired does the hallway up in mirrors. Since the duck is a vampire, he can't see himself in any of them.
178* 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 Goosewing. The episode is appropriately named "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...".
179* MouthfulOfPi: In "Igor's Busy Day", engaged Americans Scott and Laura take shelter in Castle Duckula after their car breaks down. Scott, a mathematician, tells Duckula he has memorised Pi to 15,000 decimal places; Duckula unwisely asks about this, and Scott begins demonstrating, entering an almost trance-like state as he spends most of the rest of the episode reciting numbers. (When Scott, Laura, and their extended family return for a holiday in the final scene, Scott begins reciting the largest known prime number in similar fashion, causing Duckula to wail in despair.)
180* MovieTheaterEpisode: In "The Lost Valley", Duckula, Igor, and Nanny go to the Roxy Cinema to see the titular film. Duckula takes the film very seriously, and casts a spell to go into the film to find the diamond mountain within it. After having made it through the film, Duckula, Igor, and Nanny now get trapped in a series of commercials.
181* MyGrandsonMyself: Played with, in that Duckula himself seems to be vague on whether the previous counts were ancestors or past lives, and has referred to them as both within a single episode. For instance "The Rest is History", where he calls them his ancestors, but then calls the Elizabethan Duckula "past me", and "Family Reunion", where Aunt Lucretia says he's the image of his father, and another relative adds "Of course, he ''was'' his father."
182* TheNeedForMead: The village has an inn called "Ye Tooth and Jugular" frequented by locals for ale and beer. Occasionally other characters will stop there such as the Crow Brothers or Scott and Laura in "Igor's Busy Day". Duckula has never actually been shown though visiting the inn.
183* NegativeContinuity: The castle has been altered or completely destroyed in some episodes, but it's always back to normal in the next episode despite Duckula supposedly not having any money to fix it.
184* NeverSayDie: Averted right off the [[StealthPun bat]] in the pilot, when Duckula complains how Nanny could have '''killed''' him by smashing through the wall, and that her clumsiness with the tableware has already '''killed''' several of his servants.
185* NiceGuy: Downplayed with the titular character; compared to his monstrous ancestors, Duckula is actually pleasant, though he is too neurotic and eccentric to be this exactly. He is more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
186** Nanny, albeit dim, is a sweetheart through and through. She might as well be the kindest character in the series.
187* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Of the main trio, we have Nanny the KindheartedSimpleton without a mean bone in her body (nice), self-centered, cowardly Duckula (mean), and Igor the 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.
188* NightmareFetishist: Igor. This often clashes with his master's more idealistic personality.
189* NonMammalMammaries: The Duckula setting is shown to be inhabited entirely by anthropomorphic birds and some of the females are seen having breasts. One specific example was the start of the episode "Mystery Cruise" where a game show's LovelyAssistant is wearing a low-cut dress showing plenty of cleavage.
190* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: When Duckula joins the Foreign Legion, the local DrillSergeantNasty tells the recruits "No talking in the ranks or I will have you buried up to your ankles in the sand!" When Duckula notes that it doesn't sound too bad, one of his fellow legionaries tells him that "He buries you head first".
191* TheNthDoctor: Not with a replacement actor, but a few episodes revolved around the fact that Duckula's ancestors were actually ''him'', and he just comes back slightly different every time he is resurrected. This latest incarnation is just particularly unique due to the ketchup mishap.
192* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Chances are, younger viewers might not recognize such a trope in the information secretary in the "Town Hall Terrors" episode. She'll tell you that information for the Grants for Crumbling Castles Department is on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. So don't come on Tuesday, lest you need to know trivial info such as Popes and funny fish.
193* OnlySaneMan: Between Duckula being highly excitable and naive, and Nanny being, well, Nanny, this role falls squarely on Igor's hunched shoulders. Though he is by far the most morbid of the main three, he also tends to have the most solid grasp on what is going on, though his advice is often ignored (such as when he tries, unsuccessfully, to stop Duckula from giving the castle clock to Bill Platypus in "Duckula Down Under" as doing so will disable the castle's teleportation system).
194* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The Duckulas were all traditional vampires, but the present day one averts nearly every trope usually associated with vampires. He's fully vegetarian, can walk around in broad daylight with no problem and is immune to holy water.
195** The title characrer of the novel Dracula, upon which Duckula is based, was also capable of movement by day, though his powers were weakened. Duckula's powers seem entirely unaffected by the sun, giving him a unique advantage over his inspiration.
196* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: While we never see him onscreen, Towser apparently cannot convert people as he's attacked Igor and Goosewing and they've remained the same. "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..." featured a traditional WolfMan (or rather a Wolf Bird) who transforms by the light of the full moon.
197* OverlyLongName: The bandit in "Vampire Vacation" is called Juan José Maria Velasquez Campara Ortega Madella Mañana Calamare Instituto Habana Banana Que Paso Su Manos. He later shortens it to his initials.
198* ParentalSubstitute: Despite their subservient position, Nanny and Igor serve as surrogate parent figures to the current count with Nanny as the doting mother and Igor as the disappointed dad.
199* ParodyNames: Obviously Duckula for Dracula, and Dr Von Goosewing for Van Helsing.
200* {{Pilot}}: "Unreal Estate" was very obviously this, but didn't air until the third season. Among other things, it had Dr. von Goosewing discover that there was a new Duckula around, and heavily implied that his assistant Heinrich was real but quit. The episodes that did air first had the protagonists already familiar with von Goosewing, and didn't exactly do a good job at explaining that the castle automatically teleports back to Transylvania by dawn.
201* PoirotSpeak: Gaston et Pierre speak as though applying French grammar to English:
202--> '''Pierre:''' What is it that it is that you are referring to, mah Gaston?
203* PorkyPigPronunciation: This line in "Dead-Eye Duck" when Duckula ignores Igor trying to tell him that they've arrived at the Colorado desert instead of a beach and that they should turn back:
204-->'''Duckula:''' Igor, you're such a pessimen... a pemmessimen... a pessisstinen... an old grouch!
205* PrinceAndPauper: In "The Count and the Pauper – I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggot's Farm No More!", Duckula swaps roles with his lookalike Sid Quack and becomes a hard working, underprivileged farm-boy, while Sid becomes a spoilt, rich Aristocrat.
206* Really700YearsOld: Igor and Nanny are shown to serve Duckula even in the past, exactly the same. In fact Igor at one point refers to being dismissed "after seven and a half centuries of faithful service".
207* RidiculouslyAliveUndead: Due to being resurrected with a ritual where ketchup was used instead of blood, Duckula is a VegetarianVampire who only eats vegetables.
208* RousingSpeech: In the "Town Hall Terrors" episode, after stumbling onto a meeting about extending a railroad, Duckula gets caught up in the moment and invokes the trope, thus accidentally parlaying his grant for the crumbling Castle Duckula to having that railroad extend through the castle.
209* {{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.
210* SecretUndergroundPassage: In the comics, Von Goosewing makes one of these into Duckula's castle. Subverted in that Igor and Duckula are fully aware of the fact that he's doing this and occasionally entertain themselves by watching him dig his 'secret' tunnel.
211* SeinfeldianConversation: ''Constantly.'' One of the series' primary sources of humor is the characters having longwinded, often inappropriately timed tangents about minutiae (or nothing at all), usually in which one or even all parties [[SustainedMisunderstanding have no idea what anyone's talking about.]]
212* ShaggyDogStory:
213** One issue of the comic had Duckula's coffin go missing and Igor and Duckula running around trying to find who had stolen it. Ultimately finding themselves miles away from home without finding the coffin, they call Nanny at the castle and learn that she had removed it for cleaning.
214** The episode "Hardluck Hotel" has Duckula going to stay at a hotel for the weekend away from his servants, only for them to join him at the very same place. Problem is he can't pay in drachma because the exchange rate is down. Therefore the poor count is forced to work at the place to pay for his stay, only to find his drachma were no longer worthless the next day... but he'd spent them all on a bag of jellybeans.
215* ShoutOut: As with its [[WesternAnimation/DangerMouse parent series]], ''Count Duckula'' was ripe with ParentalBonus in the form of references that would have gone over the heads of younger audience members. Just to give a few examples:
216** The title of "No Sax Please, We're Egyptian" is a reference to the play ''No Sex Please, We're British'', and the pharaoh who owned the Mystic Saxophone is Zootensimun XVII, a reference to American jazz saxophonist John Haley "Zoot" Sims.
217** 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.[[note]]Namely, that he used to go out with Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'s sister Phyllis.[[/note]]
218** In "Mobile Home", Duckula asks Ruffles, posing as a builder assessing his castle for renovations, for a quote. Ruffles launches into the "Once more unto the breach" monologue from Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/HenryV''.
219** In "The Lost Valley", Igor wonders why Duckula would rather see the film in the episode's title rather than "the Creator/BelaLugosi [[Film/{{Dracula1931}} film]] that is being screened at the Regal".
220** The hotel manager in "Hardluck Hotel" is basically [[Series/FawltyTowers Basil Fawlty]].
221** In "The Vampire Strikes Back", Duckula meets his space-faring idol Tremendous Terrance; towards the end, Terrance asks Duckula what the date is, to which Duckula replies "It's May the 4th". Terrance responds with "then [[Franchise/StarWars May the 4th be with you]]".
222* SickeninglySweet: In "The Vampire Strikes Back", this is the 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.
223* SignOffCatchPhrase: The narrator's "Goodnight out there... ''whatever'' you are!"
224* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness: Very, ''very'' friendly. In early episodes at least, Duckula was unaware that he ''was'' a vampire, or of what a vampire even ''is''.
225--> '''Duckula:''' Hold on, how can I be my own father?
226* SoMuchForStealth: Said word for word by Hawkeye Soames in "The Great Ducktective" when he and Dr. Potson's attempts to sneak into Castle Duckula undetected go wrong. It should also be noted that Sherlock Holmes (who Soames is a parody of) says 'So much for (X)' quite often in the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories.
227* {{Spexico}}: Spain was depicted as this in "Vampire Vacation". In fact, the first few Spaniards that Duckula encounters look more like [[{{Bandito}} banditos straight out of a Western]].
228* SpinOff: The show was itself a spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', but also Gaston et Pierre were modified slightly and given their own series as ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo''. There was even a ''Duckula''[=/=]''Victor and Hugo'' crossover episode as well as a ''Danger Mouse''[=/=]''Victor & Hugo'' one.
229* StrikeEpisode: In "Restoration Comedy", Igor and Nanny go on strike when Duckula hires Mr. Roberto, an interior decorator, to redecorate Castle Duckula in a less dreary fashion. During this strike, Dr. Von Goosewing shows up disguised as a maid in an attempt to kill Duckula. The strike ends when Mr. Roberto quits after finding out that Duckula is [[MissingReflection a vampire in the hall of mirrors he built]], despite Duckula trying to tell him that he's a relatively harmless VegetarianVampire.
230* StuckInTheDoorway: In the episode, "Hi-Duck", Nanny gets stuck in the doorway of the airplane that she, Duckula, and Igor travel to Nice in. As Igor tries to push her through the doorway, he complains to Duckula that they never have this problem when they travel by their castle. When Nanny finally gets through, the flight attendant (whom she is sitting atop) tells her that she should have booked on a Jumbo Jet.
231* SurroundedByIdiots: Most of the bad guys, most often Ruffles - who not only has his usual three dunderheads, but sometimes a whole clan of idiot henchmen to screw up his plans... not that he's so much smarter than them. The series' love of this trope is especially noticeable in ''Venice A Duck Not A Duck,'' where a bunch of the series' recurring villains [[VillainTeamUp join forces]] to try and kill Duckula one by one, and nearly all of them are foiled by their own bumbling sidekicks or henchmen.
232* TeleportersAndTransporters: The castle is capable of teleporting itself around the world, but must return to Transylvania by dawn Transylvanian time. Some episodes revolve around Duckula trying to con people into buying it and the castle then vanishing.
233* ThatRussianSquatDance: In the opening credits, Duckula does this with a harmonica (taken from "Unreal Estate", which wasn't broadcast itself until a later season).
234* TheatrePhantom: One dwells beneath the opera house in Paris.
235* ThereWasADoor: Nanny almost never bothers to open doors, either marching straight through them and splintering them into firewood, or going one better and marching straight through the wall.
236-->'''Duckula''': NOW look what you've done, Nanny!\
237'''Nanny''': But duckie-boo, you said to come ''through'' the door...\
238'''Duckula''': I give up, I just give up...
239* ThievingMagpie: While technically crows, Ruffles and his gang fit the bill.
240* ThoseTwoGuys: Dmitri and Sviatoslav, the clockwork bats in the castle clock. A few times an episode, the scene cuts to the two of them emerging from their coffin-shaped doors to tell one or more terrible jokes inspired by the episode's plot.
241* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: The cartoon disclaims any resemblance to persons "living, dead, or ''undead''".
242* 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.
243** "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.
244* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Broccoli sandwiches for the Count. Also, hot cocoa and choccy biccies.
245* {{Uberwald}}: The opening shots of each episode establish the setting as a darkly forested part of central Europe filled with nervous villagers and horrible creatures of the night.
246* VampireHunter: Von Goosewing comes from a long line of vampire hunters, though he is much clumsier and more scatterbrained than they were.
247* 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.
248* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Von Goosewing is trying to kill a ''vegetarian'' vampire merely because he's a vampire.
249** Though in Goosewing's defence he doesn't know Duckula poses no threat, believing his pleasant demeanor to be no more than a pose, and given that Duckula's previous incarnations were pretty much Film/HammerHorror villains and the only reason the current one ''isn't'' one is a flaw in the reincarnation ritual, it's pretty well justified as these things go.
250** Another reason which is revealed in the comics is that his niece, Vanna, [[DatingWhatDaddyHates is in a romantic relationship with Duckula]], making his hatred more personal.
251* VegetarianVampire: Duh. One of the most blatantly literal uses of the trope. Duckula not only doesn't drink blood, he finds the idea repulsive. (Although he tries to avoid mentioning his [[ImAHumanitarian vegetarianism]] to the intelligent vegetables in "Transylvanian Homesick Blues", who see eating vegetables as tantamount to vampirism or cannibalism.)
252* WalkThisWay: The social director on the title ship in "Mystery Cruise" invites Duckula, Igor, and Nanny to "walk this way" while [[SupermodelStrut 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!"
253* WeakenedByTheLight: Duckula or [[OurVampiresAreDifferent other vampires in general]] don't seem to have any adverse issue venturing outside in daylight, whereas the previous incarnations of the Counts of Duckula were ''so depraved and evil'', that something as splendid as the sunrise, was enough to kill them.
254** Ironically, this both averts and plays the trope straight. Dracula, whom Duckula is based on, could move about by day, but at reduced levels of power. He apparently retained his inhuman strength and possibly his unnatural speed, but could not shapeshift except at three specific times of day. Duckula seems to only possess a teleportation ability which was never explained, but has no limitations on when he can perform the feat.
255* WhiteSheep: Duckula is the only member of his family not to go in for such things as drinking blood, torturing innocent victims, or taking in stranded travellers seeking shelter and ensuring they are never seen again. He'd much rather become a famous musician, actor, race driver... a famous anything, really, while his idea of an appropriate use for the bonecrusher in the castle torture chamber is pressing flowers.
256* WhosOnFirst:
257** 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.
258** Done again in 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.
259** 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."
260** The [=McGhost=] Of [=McCastle=] [=McDuckula=] has a bit between Von Goosewing and Duckula's Scottish uncle (who is pretending to run a hotel) in which ''several'' of these fire in quick succession, including the uncle mistaking Goosewing asking for a room for [[TheGhost "Heinrich]] here" a needing a room for a "Mr. Hier," to which Goosewing mistakes to mean himself and keeps asking for more rooms. Then the uncle mistakes Goosewing's [[GratuitousGerman "nein!"]] to mean ''nine'' rooms!
261* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: Some jokes about Nanny along these lines.
262* WorkOffTheDebt: In "Hard Luck Hotel", Duckula is forced to do pretty much every job in the hotel to work off his one night stay after discovering that the value of Transylvanian Drachmas has crashed.
263* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy Humans]] are implied to exist, though in the context of this series, they are all bird-people.
264* YouMonster:
265-->'''Von Goosewing''': Duckula! YourDaysAreNumbered! [[YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive Soon, you monster, you will be no more!]]
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