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2	[[caption-width-right:300:"Wouldn't YOU like a [[StealthPun Good Duck]] tonight?" [[note]] The {{Tagline}} for the theatrical release of the film.[[/note]]]]
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4	A 1974 adult animated comedy film, directed by Charles Swenson under the WorkingTitle "''Cheap!''" (instances of this title made it into the finished film) and produced by Creator/RogerCorman, with animation by Murakami-Wolf Production Company.
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6	It tells the story of Willard, a sexually frustated blue-collar worker who is taken on a "raunchy adventure" by a [[FunnyAnimal duck]], a character evolved from the producers' previous work, the Dental Hygiene Dilemma in Music/FrankZappa's ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'', which also shares [[Music/TheTurtles Flo and Eddie (Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman)]] as stars (the duo voice the two main characters).
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8	Catching the bandwagon of Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'', it's very influenced by UndergroundComics. Don't confuse the film with Bobby London's comic ''Dirty Duck'', though. It has nothing to do with it. London hates this movie for this reason, as this movie has caused confusion by leading fans of London's comic to believe this movie was an adaptation of his work (which it is not).
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11	!!Tropes:
12	* AllMenArePerverts: Plenty of examples, both gay and straight. Averted to an extent with Willard, as he is depicted as a timid, sexually frustrated weakling. This is [[spoiler: until the ending, after he has had sex with the duck]].
13	* AllWomenAreLustful: Practically every woman is this film to some degree. ''Especially'' Willard's boss.
14	** One scene fully invokes this. As Willard is waiting at a bus stop for work, a handsome man casually walks up and flirts with a woman at the stop. Once the bus arrives, the two end up ''having sex right there on the bus steps'', making it hard for Willard to enter said bus.
15	* BloodlessCarnage: The police officer gets a cartoony hole through his chest after getting shot by a tank, and not a single drop of blood is shown.
16	* BrickJoke: Near the beginning of the movie, Suzie, the girl who Willard is in love with at work, mentions that she never has sex on a first date. Near the end of the movie, when Willard goes back to work to quit his job, he walks in on the company's CEO and Suzie, for lack of a better word... "together".
17	-->'''Willard''': This must be your '''second''' date!
18	* CallToAdventure: Willard is rescued from his miserable life and taken under the [[{{Pun}} duck's wing]], going for a sexual adventure.
19	* TheChewToy: Willard pretty much spends the entire animated movie being abused and suffering misfortunes.
20	* CoversAlwaysLie: The theatrical cover, shows The Duck with two girls. The art style for The Duck looks clean and more detailed compared to his actual appearance in the film.
21	* CompressedHair: After [[spoiler: the duck removes her hat after spoiler: turning out to be female, she sports a puffy purple hairdo. Odd, considering earlier scenes showed the duck without her hat on, and [[{{FridgeLogic}} clearly showing a lack of hair]]]].
22	* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation: Believed to have been made to [[FollowTheLeader follow the success]] of other adult animation films of TheSeventies such as ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat''.
23	* DepravedBisexual: The Duck is chasing the ladies throughout the movie [[spoiler: but hooks up with Willard at the end.]]
24	* DepravedHomosexual: One pops up later in the film, and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext begins sucking on the duck's feet.]] He is credited as [[ValuesDissonance "Big Fag."]]
25	* DerangedAnimation: ''Very'' deranged. The animation alone is quite bizarre, but the choppy character designs don't help matters.
26	* ADogNamedDog: See NoNameGiven.
27	* {{Expy}}: The duck looks uncannily like WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. Most likely intentional given the UndergroundComics influence of the film. The fact that the duck is later named [[spoiler: Daisy]] at the end of the film doesn't help matters much.
28	** Though the character is not based on the comic at all, it shares the name with ''Dirty Duck'' by Bobby London as mentioned in the description. In fact, Bobby hated this film so much he accused the filmmakers of plagiarism.
29	* ExploitationFilm: Qualifies as an animated one, seeing how it is cheaply made and meant to catch the adult-themed cartoon bandwagon started by ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat''.
30	* ExtremeOmnivore: Near the end after [[spoiler: she is revealed to be female]], the duck had eaten not only Willard's alarm clock, but the landlord's cat. In an earlier scene before, the duck had eaten the sex doll [[BuffySpeak thing]] Willard had produced from that strange contraption in his apartment.
31	* FanDisservice: Since it's a comedy, its hard to tell if some of it is intentional or not. Due to the choppy art style, most if not all the sex and nudity scenes in the film can come off as unpleasant to watch.
32	* FunnyAnimal: The duck is anthropomorphic.
33	* GagPenis: The "Transvestite Fag" has an enormous member.
34	* {{Gonk}}: Some characters such as Willard's boss and The Duck's mom have rather ludicrous and weird-looking appearances.
35	* GroinAttack: Suzie gives Willard a good knee to the crotch when she thinks he is trying to "feel her up", even though he was only trying to wiped spilt coffee off her shirt.
36	* HypocriticalHumor: Willard's female co-worker, who chews him out for hitting on female co-workers, only does so because he won't hit on her.
37	* ImagineSpot: Willard has a few throughout the film.
38	* JiveTurkey: [[TheSeventies 70s]] slang is thrown around all over the place, but the "Negro Gentlemen" easily takes the cake. He spews just about every black slang term of the time period and beyond, even calling Willard a "cracker ass".
39	* KarmicDeath: [[{{Jerkass}} The Car Salesman]] that [[ShootTheDog literally shoots a dog]] multiple times at the beginning of the film, ends up getting attacked by hordes of other dogs and eventually eaten by a giant bulldog at a later point in the film.
40	* LimitedAnimation: Compared to other animated films of the [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation era]], the animation here is a lot stiffer, with fairly simplistic character designs and artwork.
41	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The Duck is this to Willard, [[spoiler: only fulfilling the "girl" part of the trope name at the end.]]
42	* ManlyGay: "Big Fag" is very muscular.
43	* MindScrew: The surreal animation and non-sequiter plot line make this quite a strange film to sit through. The drug culture influence certainly is there.
44	* {{Nice Guy}}: Willard is a friendly guy. The Duck [[{{DependingOnTheWriter}} switches between]] this and a {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}} Throughout the film.
45	* NoNameGiven: The duck is simply referred to as "The Duck" throughout the film, and is even credited as such. It isn't until the end of the film that Willard names the duck [[spoiler: Daisy]]. The majority of the other characters in the film, such as The Car Salesman and the Negro Gentlemen are only credited as such as well.
46	* OddCouple: Willard and the Duck. The former is a meek wimp and the latter is an abrasive and reckless pervert.
47	* RaisedByHumans: The Duck is... [[ShapedLikeItself well a duck]], and yet he is raised [[spoiler: at least up until her death]] by a human woman. The reason for this is never explained.
48	* RandomEventsPlot: The movie seems to run on this, as most of the plot is a simply tide together with a surreal road trip style narrative about the duck [[YouNeedToGetLaid trying to get Willard laid]]. Other than that, the film randomly transitions into [[OverlyLongGag overlong sex jokes]], [[ThrowItIn sequences that sound like the voice actors arguing with each other in character that the animators animated over]], and [[DerangedAnimation surreal animation sequences]].
49	* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: The duck is revealed to be a woman at the ending. She even has sex with Willard. However, The Duck most likely [[{{GenderBender}} randomly became]] a woman, since previously in the film, It didn't have the purple hair it had at the end]].
50	* SelfDeprecation: The movie's opening song describes the film as "cheap" and even goes so far as calling it a piece of shit.
51	* TheSeventies: But of course.
52	* ShoutOut: Almost too many to count, many of which signify the time period the film came out in. Examples include:
53	** The duck says, ''"I saw ''Film/TwoHundredMotels''! I know who I am!"'' Also, see ActorAllusion in the Trivia page.
54	** Willard at one point essentially exclaims that he's [[{{Music/America}} "been stranded in the desert with a duck with no name."]]
55	** The police officer character has his voice modeled after Creator/JohnWayne, and the phallic tank that shoots him sounds like Creator/HumphreyBogart.
56	** A [[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]] camera pops up during one of the Duck's weird sequences with the name changed to [[{{Pun}} "Koduk"]].
57	** The same sequence also features the heads of Music/{{John\|Lennon}} and Music/{{Yoko\|Ono}}, the latter of which the duck tells to [[BigShutUp shut up]] while going on a strange tirade.
58	** One of the {{imagine spot}}s Willard has involves him turning into Film/KingKong.
59	** Willard has a WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse alarm clock in his room.
60	** The Mexican Official at one point is picked up by the officer, shown his badge, then exclaims the famous [[Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre "Stinking badges"]] quote.
61	* SoulBrotha: The "Negro Gentleman" full stop. It should be noted that he is played by white character actor [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725894/?ref_=tt_cl_t3 Robert Ridgely]].
62	* SpotlightStealingTitle: It is quite blatant, especially from the opening theme and the OpeningMonologue, that the film's title was originally intended to be ''Cheap!'', but it was changed to draw attention to the Duck character, probably because the character's status as a Donald Duck look-a-like but with an adult twist would likely sell more copies.
63	* ToothyBird: The duck gives plenty of toothy grins to show off his pearly whites on a few occasions, even the movie's posters.
64	* VulgarHumor: Runs heavily on sexual and race based humor.
65	* YouNeedToGetLaid: Practically the whole point of the adventure Willard and The Duck go on is to get Willard to have sex.

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