History WesternAnimation / SittingDucks

** Bev, Cecil, Claire, and Fred as well. They some of the only characters who aren't shallow or stupid.

* NiceGuy: Bill and Aldo are both very amicable, even if the latter is a recovering duck predator.

* CarnivoreConfusion: Averted. References are made to ducks being eaten by alligators (all offscreen, of course). Aldo would rather be friends with the ducks.
** The ducks, however, eat fish and salamander.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Raoul becomes this for Bill in "Pest of a Guest" after the duck accidentally smashes the crow's foot with a window.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Raoul may be a JerkAss towards Bill and enjoys watching him fail at his attempts at flying, but he draws the line at seeing him get seriously hurt.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The original 1970s lithograph has three ducks which are in fact sitting on chairs. Averted in the TV series since the ducks are rarely seen sitting down for too long.

* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Aldo has... [[PlatonicLifePartners a thing for Bill]]. He's the [[TheHeavy largest and strongest alligator]] around, hence why his work friends don't dare threaten him, they just shun him when his friendship with a duck is discovered.

'''Bill:''' Can I help it if everyone's jealous? At least they respect me now.

-->'''Aldo:''' Say, why don't you do yourself a favor and get rid of those teeth?
-->'''Bill:''' And why would I want to do that?
-->'''Aldo:''' Because you're not yourself anymore. You're hard! You're a bully! You're...
-->(Bill bites into a corn cob, causing kernels to fly around)
-->'''Aldo:''' Disgusting.
-->'''Bill:''' You say like it's a bad thing.
-->'''Aldo:''' It is! You're scaring ducklings and chomping the furniture! And nobody likes you anymore.
-->'''Bill:''' Can I help it if everyone's jealous? At least they respect me now.
-->'''Aldo:''' Bill, buddy, they don't respect you. They're afraid of you. You know, ducks aren't supposed to have teeth. It goes against nature.

''Sitting Ducks'' is a CGI television series that spawned from the iconic lithograph of the exact same name. It mainly centers around a [[NiceGuy good-natured]] duck named Bill, who establishes an unusual friendship with an alligator named Aldo. Said friendship is challenged by both the seperate divisions between ducks and alligators (Ducktown and Swampwood, respectively) and the obvious idea of [[FantasticRacism ducks and alligators being unable to establish any kind of friendship]]. The two of them end up in the usual SliceOfLife affair, dealing with the three slackers next door to Bill, enduring complications that [[PowerOfFriendship test their friendship]], among other hijinks. Originally shown in 2001 in Europe and was later brought to Creator/CartoonNetwork, as well as ABC in both Australia and Japan. It proved to be a surprisingly successful series in Europe, and is somewhat well-received in the US as well.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While not a character. Ducktown in the original version is a place where alligators deceive ducks to fatten up and not fly. In the cartoon series Ducktown is an actual city for ducks and has no connection to the alligators.

* TheSeventies: Precisely when it all began. The series' asthetics has traces of this respective era, especially in regards to the technology.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Unfortunately. In a later episode, "Duck Lover!" Aldo's friendship with Bill is found out by the other alligators, who haze him as a result. To add to his woes, the ducks in Ducktown have lost all fear of him and are treating his disrespectfully, and even Bill is badmouthing alligators to his face. In the end, [[spoiler: he asserts both his friendship with Bill and his pride as an alligator, and proceeds to rescue and unnerve Bill by the end.]] Fair enough. Except that Bill never insulted alligators before this episode, and in all the ones that proceeded it, Aldo actually ''wanted'' the ducks to lose their fear of him so that he could feel more at home in Ducktown and make more friends. The whole thing was an excuse to put everyone back to square one, and it suffered as a result.

* HoYay: It isn't much of a stretch of the imagination to see Aldo and Bill, in the book and series, [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/it_2_EzI8_g/hqdefault.jpg have eternally unconfessed feelings for each other]].

* HoYay: It isn't much of a stretch of the imagination to see Aldo and Bill, in the book and series, have eternally unconfessed feelings for each other.

* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Aldo has... a thing for Bill. He's the [[TheHeavy largest and strongest alligator]] around, hence when his work friends don't dare threaten him, they just shun him when his friendship with a duck is discovered.

* BowtiesAreCool: Bill. Heck, it's all he wears.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Raoul may be a JerkAss towards Bill and enjoys watching him fail at his attempts at flying, but he draws the line at seeing him get seriously hurt.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Raoul may be a JerkAss who enjoys watching Bill fail at his attempts at flying, but he draws the line at seeing him get seriously hurt.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Raoul enjoys watching Bill fail at his attempts at flying, but he steps in when he sees that Bill could get hurt.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** The entire show is a massive metaphor for adult daily life in the modern United States, with quite a lot of the subtle humor going over the heads of kids, who just think it's a funny show with ducks and alligators. Specifically:

* PaletteProp: Bill does this to an alligator in the episode "The Fly Who Loved Me".

* PalettePropping: Bill does this to an alligator in the episode "The Fly Who Loved Me".