Funny / Duck Dodgers

• "Duck Codgers":
  • When Daffy and Porky are exposed to a pollen that slowly ages them, Daffy asks Porky if he looks any older. We get a close-up of Daffy's old, wrinkly face. Porky says he's fine, and asks how he looks. We get a close-up of Porky's old, wrinkly face.
    Daffy: Well, you look old. Really, really, really old. Ancient! Eh, heh, heh! You ever seen those shows about Egyptian mummies?
  • Later, it's revealed that the only cure for the pollen is on Mars, so Marvin the Martian tries to stop them only to get exposed as well. Unfortunately for him, it has a reverse effect on Martians and near the end of the episode, he's reduced to a baby...and he keeps his adult voice!
• The episode "Deathmatch Duck" pits Daffy against an unnamed alien captain (Taz). Notably, it combines a reference to Star Trek and the Duck/Rabbit season skits simultaneously.
• From "The Fowl Friend", after Dodgers "accidentally" drops his mother's broach into the engine port:
  Dodgers: Roboto, I'm in an awful bind. I just did something terrible.
  Roboto: Roboto will help friend bury body.
  Dodgers: Uh... no...
• Roboto's Heroic Sacrifice randomly becoming a line-for-line Shout-Out to The Iron Giant? Funny. Roboto returning two seasons later, only to sacrifice himself the exact same way? Hilarious.
• "I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots, or only five? Well, due to a previous head injury, I kind of lost track myself."
• Dodgers' attempt at saying the Green Lantern Corps Oath in "Green Loontern":
  In blackest day or brightest night
  Watermelon, cantaloupe, yadda yadda
  Erm...superstitious and cowardly lot
  With liberty and justice for all!
  • Made even better in that the first line is actually how the Sinestro Corps oath would begin. Green Lantern's oath is the one that goes "Brightest Day, Blackest Night".
  • The fact that Duck Dodgers, as the Green Loontern, is a playable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.
• In "Diamond Boogie", Cadet covers for Dodgers by impersonating him with a puppet resembling Dodgers on video-chat with Dr. I.Q. Hi. When Dodgers arrives and notices Cadet with the puppet, Dodgers himself brings in a puppet of Dr. I.Q. Hi. And the latter still falls for it.
  Dodgers: [imitating Dr. I.Q. Hi] Calling Duck Dodgers! Come in, you handsome devil, you. Dodgers, your mission is to find out why I never get invited to any parties.
  Dr. I.Q. Hi: Why am I on my own monitor?
  Cadet pulls both of their puppets down and pushes the real Dodgers up
  Dodgers: You were saying?
  Cut to a dumbfounded I.Q. Hi
• "The Six Wazillion Dollar Duck"
  • Dodgers prepares to test-pilot the Asthma 13 rocket: Space Cadet thinks to ask what happened to the previous twelve in the Asthma series, and we're treated to twelve consecutive flashbacks. Every possible malfunction is shown, including some bouncing, drilling themselves into the ground, melting, and imploding.
  • Dodgers entering the ship and smashing the door on his limbs.
  • I.Q. saying that Dodgers' operation cost six wazillion dollars, so much, that they had to invent a new number and multiply it by six.
• From "Of Course You Know, This Means War and Peace" parts 1 and 2:
  • Dodgers mishearing what X-2 says:
    Dodgers: What do you think? That today marks the end of our mutual hatred?
    X-2: Highly unlikely, Dodgers. Whether in war or in peace, I shall always loathe you.
    Dodgers: You shall always love me?! Eww!
    X-2: I said "loathe", you idiot.
    Dodgers: Did not!
    X-2: Did too!
    (the two of them get in a slap fight)
    Dodgers: You love a duck!
  • Dodgers is plagued with feelings of guilt after framing Cadet, to the point where a nightmare about it leads him to see a psychologist:
    Dodgers: You gotta help me, doc. Please! I can't sleep! I'm up all night watching 350-year-old reruns of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Thoughts of self-loathing won't leave me alone. What can I do?!
    Dr. Psy Q. Hi: You must undo the reasons you hate yourself.
    Dodgers: No, I mean about Sabrina! [giddily rubs his hands together] I got a wicked crush on Melissa Joan Hart.
    Dr. Psy Q. Hi: But...what about the self-loathing?
    Dodgers: That I sort of enjoy.
  • Tyr'ahnee learns of X-2's love for her from Z-9.
    Z-9: If I know that little runt, he'll perish foolishly trying to rescue the woman he loves. You.
    Tyr'ahnee: [to the viewer] Why am I always the last to know these things?
  • When X-2 rescues Tyr'ahnee later, she kisses him full on the mouth(?) in gratitude...and he stumbles around, babbling like an idiot.
  • The Martian Queen has been held in the bathroom of Dodgers' Protectorate ship by the traitorous Z-9. When X-2 rescues her, she falls to her knees, gasping for air.
    Queen Tyr'ahnee: What does Dodgers do in that bathroom?! [gasps, then faints in Commander X-2's arms] Need mouth-to-mouth resuscitation...
    X-2: [enthusiastically] Yes, Your Highness!
• Dodgers' behavior when hypnotized in "I'm Gonna Get You, Fat Sucka".
  Igor!Dodgers: Let's see, where was I? Oh yeah, I was dancing like a madman!
• Dodger's Happy Cat alarm clock, which debuted in "The Queen is Wild", but gets it's most notable appearance in "Bonafide Heroes". "Waaaake upppp... You are lazy and worthless!" The entire sequence is a long version of the classic alarm clock gag as Dodgers escalates from hitting the snooze button to beating the thing into submission with a golf club (to which it replies "Not broken"). To make it even funnier, Dodgers mutters about it being a present from Cadet. One wonders if the Beleaguered Assistant is getting a little passive-aggressive.
• "A Lame Duck Mind". All of it.
• "In Space, No One Can Hear You Rock" features Dave Mustaine, who upon being revived (by putting his frozen body in a microwave!) doesn't remember anything. So Dodgers and the Cadet shows a program saying Mustaine was genetically engineered and raised by wolverines. And once Dodgers says they'll be Mustaine's band, his reaction is "you can refreeze me, right?"
  • "When you're unsure of where you are, just yell 'Thank you, Detroit!' There's a 47% chance you'll be right." (and of course that's the last line of the episode)
• The Queen and Commander X-2 invite Dodgers to be the best man at their wedding. The Queen's reasoning:
  Tyr'ahnee: Nobody else has done more to bring us together... by creating problems that we had to solve.
• The epic battle at the climax of "Samurai Quack" begins as a spot-on parody of the drama-building shots so common to Samurai Jack: but then there's a sudden cut to a dancing monkey wearing lederhosen. It's a Moment Killer.
  Dodgers: Is he building dramatic tension, too?
  Achoo: No. I think the editor is playing a dumb joke! Try to ignore him.
• "Invictus Interruptus":
  Cadet: Good luck Captain Dodgers.
  Duck Dodgers: I'm not going there alone! I need you to navigate the auto-navigator.
• During Tyr'ahnee's "Blues in the Night" performance in "Talent Show-A-Go-Go," every man in the audience is lovestruck by the queen... except for Dodgers, to whom the song was directed if you think about it. Between everyone else's wild takes, he puts on the most stone-cold, unimpressed expression you can imagine.
• Tyr'ahnee discovers that someone has stolen her toothbrush and put it on an online auction site. She's furious...but mostly because no one is bidding on it.
• This overly long and hilarious exchange when the Cadet tries to sneak-in and rescue Duck Dodgers:
  Cadet: Hello, sir.
  Duck Dodgers: You can talk! American!
  Cadet: Of course I can, Captain Dodgers.
  Duck Dodgers: Oh, my gosh! How'd you know my name?
  Cadet: Sir, I'm the cadet.
  Duck Dodgers: You are not going to believe this. You have the same name as my assistant.
  Cadet: Sir, it's just me. I'm wearing a wig.
  Duck Dodgers: Me too. Technically, it's a toupee. Very expensive from a nationally known hair association. Where'd you get yours?
  Cadet: Well, I just made it a few minutes ago from some weeds I found out in the woods.
  Duck Dodgers: Man, I got ripped off! I paid a thousand bucks for this thing!
  Cadet: Captain, I think we've gotten a bit off track. Do you remember the cadet?
  Duck Dodgers: Vaguely.
  Cadet: Try and picture him.
  Duck Dodgers: Okay.
  Cadet: Now picture me.
  Duck Dodgers: Got it.
  Cadet: Do you notice any similarities?
  Duck Dodgers: Nope. Absolutely none.
  Cadet: Try a little harder. Concentrate.
  Duck Dodgers: Cadet...?!
  Cadet: Yes.
  Duck Dodgers: You're a woman!?
  Cadet: No! This is just a stupid disguise! I put it on so I could sneak in and rescue you!
  Duck Dodgers: Oh, but I don't wanna be rescued. I've decided to make a new life for myself here with these girls.
  Cadet: But, sir, they're not really girls.
  Duck Dodgers: Don't you think I can tell the difference between a real girl and an impostor?
• From The Mark of Xero:
  Duck Dodgers: So where's your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?
  Cadet: They got bored and went home to watch a rerun of Dragon Ball.

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