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I'm Gonna Get You, Fat Sucka

Dodgers and Cadet happen into the lair of Count Muerte, a fat-sucking vampire who plans to make Dodgers his slave and Cadet his next meal.

  • Adaptation Name Change: Count Muerte is based on Count Bloodcount, the antagonist of Transylvania 6-5000.
  • Bat People: At the end of the episode, Muerte transforms into large, monstrous bat creature to chase down Cadet.
  • Captain Oblivious: Cadet doesn't realize he's in danger until the end of the episode when Muerte personally begins to hunt him down to eat him.
  • Disappeared Dad: Muerte becomes this to his daughters once he dies from eating the fake Cadet.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: Muerte treats his initial meeting with Cadet as a first date of sorts, asking him to tell him about himself. The way Muerte then asks Dodgers about the Cadet's weight and body fat percentage then makes it reminiscent of a Chubby Chaser purely interested in how fat their prospective partner is.
  • Eaten Alive: If Muerte's devouring the fake Cadet is any indication, he would've been happy to devour him whole on the spot.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Muerte is a hungry predator, but when he's with Cadet, he can be charming and polite. Even when he takes the gloves off to hunt him, he insists getting eaten will only hurt a little.
  • Halloween Episode: This episode was originally advertised as one due to airing around Halloween 2003 and being set in a vampire's castle.
  • Meaningful Name: Muerte is the Spanish word for death, an appropriate name for a vampire.
  • Mythology Gag: Count Muerte wants Cadet because he feeds on the fat of the living and thus has no interest in eating Dodgers. In the character's last appearance in Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters, Count Bloodcount tried to eat Daffy note  despite the latter's insistence he was too high in fat and cholesterol.
  • Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: Dodgers awakens from being brainwashed by Count Muerte and yells for Cadet, but gets no response. He tearfully assumes that Muerte killed him, only to be surprised by Cadet asking him if they hadn't better get a move on lest they be late for something on another planet.
  • Orcus on His Throne: Muerte makes the mistake of letting the brainwashed Dodgers take point on trying to catch Cadet for him to eat. It takes seeing Cadet still walking freely for him to realize he needs to do the job himself.
  • Our Vampires Are Different: Count Muerte eats fat instead of blood. His and his daughter's bites also don't convert anybody into being a vampire, as shown by how the daughters ravenously bite Dodgers to no ill effect besides obvious discomfort.
  • Sapient Eat Sapient: Muerte makes sure Cadet knows he's going to eat him and taunts him about it.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The Count's daughters refuse to detain the Cadet for their father because he turns out to be a sweet guy who listens to them.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Court Muerte hypnotizes Dodgers into becoming his servant, so that the vampire can feast on Cadet's fat. At one point, Dodgers disguises an iron maiden as a bed for Cadet—only to get annoyed at how long it takes the pig to get ready to sleep and demonstrate how easy it is to lie down in bed. Cue Amusing Injuries.

Detained Duck

Dodgers and Cadet find themselves dealing with Drake Darkstar, a horrifying criminal who happens to look like Dodgers.

  • Even Evil Has Standards: Drake Darkstar says that Dodgers selling Cadet's sister to the sausage factory is "cold". Drake himself was openly threatening the Cadet with cannibalism earlier in the episode, but even he won't let some things slide.
  • Preferable Impersonator: The episode has a Spot the Imposter moment where the Cadet has to determine which between the real Dodgers and an impostor named Drake Darkstar. Dodgers attempts to help out, but everything he lists are mean things he did to his cadet. In the end, Cadet knowingly declares the impostor as being the real one after feeling that he'll ultimately be this trope.
  • Shipped in Shackles: Drake Darkstar is transferred to the Shirley Temple Black maximum security space prison in an enclosed barrel with futuristic shackles. He still escapes, runs into Duck Dodgers, and switches clothes with him. Dodgers then is arrested and put in a straitjacket and muzzle and gets chained up to a dolly like Hannibal Lecter.
  • Spot the Imposter: The episode features an escaped criminal named Drake Darkstar who looks almost exactly like Dodgers. Dodgers tries to prove his identity to the police by appealing to the Cadet by listing things only he would know, but every single thing he lists is a mean prank he played on the Cadet. The Cadet ends up declaring Dodgers to be the criminal, reasoning that Darkstar would be nicer to him than Dodgers ever was.

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