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--> '''Carbone''' ''Anything'' for you, Stan! You believed in us when we were all starving Broadway gypsies!

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--> '''Carbone''' '''Carbone''': ''Anything'' for you, Stan! You believed in us when we were all starving Broadway gypsies!
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* The end of "Sperms of Endearment", when Duckman and Bernice walk together in the park and engage in a venom-free exchange of their usual insults.

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* The end of "Sperms of Endearment", when Duckman and Bernice walk together in the park and engage in a [[VitriolicBestBuds venom-free exchange of their usual insults.insults]].



--> '''Duckman''': Bernice? Bernice, uh...look, m-maybe we don't always see eye-to-eye. Maybe we don't get along. Maybe I...violently hate you and everything you stand for, but...when has ''that'' ever stopped two people from having a baby? (''Sigh'') I, uh...I haven't really thought it all through, yet, but...but, well I...I guess I'm part of this, too, y'know? In for a dime, in for a dollar! (''Nervous chuckle'') And, uh, well...I'll try and do what I can to support you, and care for...our...our...o-''our'' child.

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--> ---> '''Duckman''': Bernice? Bernice, uh...look, m-maybe we don't always see eye-to-eye. Maybe we don't get along. Maybe I...violently hate you and everything you stand for, but...when has ''that'' ever stopped two people from having a baby? (''Sigh'') I, uh...I haven't really thought it all through, yet, but...but, well I...I guess I'm part of this, too, y'know? In for a dime, in for a dollar! (''Nervous chuckle'') And, uh, well...I'll try and do what I can to support you, and care for...our...our...o-''our'' child.
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* The episode "About Face" has Duckman falling in love with a 911 operator [[ArousedByTheirVoice over the phone]], staying with her and actually being ''honest'' about himself even after finding out that she's TheGrotesque, so hideous that even ''[[TastesLikeDiabetes Fluffy & Uranus]]'' are horrified. She eventually gets plastic surgery because she hates how hurt Duckman looks at others' reactions, and becomes the ''perfect'' woman... [[CruelToBeKind at which point he breaks up with her]], [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy realizing that he's completely beneath what she deserves]].

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* The episode "About Face" has Duckman falling in love with a 911 operator [[ArousedByTheirVoice over the phone]], staying with her and actually being ''honest'' about himself even after finding out that she's TheGrotesque, so hideous that even ''[[TastesLikeDiabetes Fluffy ''Fluffy & Uranus]]'' Uranus'' are horrified. She eventually gets plastic surgery because she hates how hurt Duckman looks at others' reactions, and becomes the ''perfect'' woman... [[CruelToBeKind at which point he breaks up with her]], [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy realizing that he's completely beneath what she deserves]].
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* ''Dammit Hollywood'': A CorruptCorporateExecutive tries to ruin the head of the movie studio who fired him for his incompetence by hiring a total incompetent (i.e Duckman) to tank the studio's reputation with his awful ideas, and enrage it's biggest stars, Expies of Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/BruceWillis and Creator/ArnoldScharzenegger, by pushing a random nobody over them. However, what he didn't count on was that despite their egos and temperament, the actors loved said studio head, because he had believed in them when they were all starving newbie actors, so even if Cornfed hadn't exposed the plot, it still wouldn't have worked, because they would have personally paid back any losses the studio suffered.

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* ''Dammit Hollywood'': A CorruptCorporateExecutive tries to ruin the head of the movie studio who fired him for his incompetence by hiring a total incompetent (i.e Duckman) to tank the studio's reputation with his awful ideas, and enrage it's biggest stars, Expies of Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/BruceWillis and Creator/ArnoldScharzenegger, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, by pushing a random nobody over them. However, what he didn't count on was that despite their egos and temperament, the actors loved said studio head, because he had believed in them when they were all starving newbie actors, so even if Cornfed hadn't exposed the plot, it still wouldn't have worked, because they would have personally paid back any losses the studio suffered.
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--> '''Carbone''' ''Anything'' for you, Stan! You believed in us when we were all starving Broadway gypsies!

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--> '''Carbone''' ''Anything'' for you, Stan! You believed in us when we were all starving Broadway gypsies!gypsies!
* "Pig Amok": [[ItMakesSenseInContext Bernice sleeps with Cornfed to keep him from dying]], but he falls head over heels in love with her and is crushed that she doesn't feel the same way. He's about to throw himself off a cliff when Duckman convinces him not to.
-->'''Duckman''': Corny, wait! You can't do this! You can't jump! There's another reason you have to stay alive!\\
'''Cornfed''': What?\\
'''Duckman''': [[ArmorPiercingResponse Me.]] I'm no good without you, Corny. I'd be lost, if you weren't there. You're honest, and brave, and wise, and I'm just... [[MoodWhiplash well, maybe two of those]]. Corny, I-I've never really told you this before, I've never said this to anyone before, but I need you.
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* The moment in ''The Color of Naught'' when Duckman and Angela [[TheBigDamnKiss kiss.]]

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* The moment in ''The Color of Naught'' when Duckman and Angela [[TheBigDamnKiss kiss.]]]]
* ''Dammit Hollywood'': A CorruptCorporateExecutive tries to ruin the head of the movie studio who fired him for his incompetence by hiring a total incompetent (i.e Duckman) to tank the studio's reputation with his awful ideas, and enrage it's biggest stars, Expies of Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/BruceWillis and Creator/ArnoldScharzenegger, by pushing a random nobody over them. However, what he didn't count on was that despite their egos and temperament, the actors loved said studio head, because he had believed in them when they were all starving newbie actors, so even if Cornfed hadn't exposed the plot, it still wouldn't have worked, because they would have personally paid back any losses the studio suffered.
--> '''Meinhardt''': You forgot one thing, ''we would have paid Stan back!!''
--> '''Carbone''' ''Anything'' for you, Stan! You believed in us when we were all starving Broadway gypsies!
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--> '''Grandmama''': Duckman, even though almost everyone else sees you as just some psychotic street urchin, you're not fooling me. [[SourOutsideSadInside This horribly obnoxious act of yours is merely a defense. Deep down you feel you're not deserving of anyone's love]]. Well you're wrong. Welcome to our family, Duckman. You are loved.

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--> '''Grandmama''': Duckman, even though almost everyone else sees you as just some psychotic street urchin, you're not fooling me. [[SourOutsideSadInside This horribly obnoxious act of yours is merely a defense. Deep down you feel you're not deserving of anyone's love]]. Well you're wrong. Welcome to our family, Duckman. You are loved.loved.
* The moment in ''The Color of Naught'' when Duckman and Angela [[TheBigDamnKiss kiss.]]
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* Duckman's memory of Grandmama's encouragement speech towards him in ''Grandmama's Flatulent Adventure'' during his wedding to Beatrice is wonderfully loving. Especially in that the speech details deep insight from Grandmama into Duckmnan's jerkass personality and overall acceptance of him into her family.

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* Duckman's memory of Grandmama's encouragement speech towards him in ''Grandmama's Flatulent Adventure'' during his wedding to Beatrice is wonderfully loving. Especially in that the speech details deep insight from Grandmama into Duckmnan's Duckman's jerkass personality and overall acceptance of him into her family.
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--> '''Present!Duckman''': ''([[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Solemnly]])'' [[ExactWords You're going to love her until the day you die.]]

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--> '''Present!Duckman''': ''([[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Solemnly]])'' ''({{beat}})'' [[ExactWords You're going to love her until the day you die.]]
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--> '''Present!Duckman''': ''({{beat}})'' [[ExactWords You'll love her until the day you die.]]

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--> '''Present!Duckman''': ''({{beat}})'' ''([[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Solemnly]])'' [[ExactWords You'll You're going to love her until the day you die.]]
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** Also worth noting is Duckman deciding to step up once it seems like Bernice is carrying ''his'' sperm (test tubes were involved). He seeks her out and gives a hesitant-yet-sincere (in his own way) confession that he'll take responsibility as if they'd made the baby the old-fashioned way:
--> '''Duckman''': Bernice? Bernice, uh...look, m-maybe we don't always see eye-to-eye. Maybe we don't get along. Maybe I...violently hate you and everything you stand for, but...when has ''that'' ever stopped two people from having a baby? (''Sigh'') I, uh...I haven't really thought it all through, yet, but...but, well I...I guess I'm part of this, too, y'know? In for a dime, in for a dollar! (''Nervous chuckle'') And, uh, well...I'll try and do what I can to support you, and care for...our...our...o-''our'' child.
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--> '''Present!Duckman''': ''({{beat}})'' [[http://youtu.be/1DHb03sY1KY?t=18m16s You're gonna love her until the day you die.]]

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--> '''Present!Duckman''': ''({{beat}})'' [[http://youtu.be/1DHb03sY1KY?t=18m16s You're gonna [[ExactWords You'll love her until the day you die.]]

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--> '''Past!Duckman:''' ...maybe I don't need to know any more than that.

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--> '''Past!Duckman:''' ...maybe '''Past!Duckman (smiling):''' ...Maybe I don't need to know any more than that.that.
** [[StunnedSilence That beat before Duckman responds is a hard one]], because you can ''see'' the wheels turning in his head. You know he's considering [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong warning his past self about what happens to Beatrice]], maybe even possibly prevent her death...but then he realizes as much as he misses his wife, what's done is done and he can't risk changing time just to fulfill his own needs. This is his life and he needs to live it, consequences and all. His ExactWords when he finally responds is the most heartwarming thing he could have said.

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