The Duck Factory
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The Duck Factory was a 1984 NBC television series produced by MTM Enterprises that starred a young Jim Carrey. It was about Skip Tarkenton, a new employee of a low-budget animation company called Buddy Winkler Productions. Skip comes to Hollywood looking for a job, but when he gets there he finds out Buddy Winkler has died. So Skip gets an animation job at The Duck Factory, whose main cartoon is "The Dippy Duck Show."
The Duck Factory only lasted thirteen episodes; it premiered April 12, 1984, and its last episode was broadcast on July 11, 1984.
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[edit] Opening Song
Most folks think that it's a strange occupation
Some folks call us a deranged aggregation
We can't help it
We're just happy this way
Mama always wanted me to be a physician
Dad said he'd rather I become a beautician
But we can't help it
We're just happy this way
'Cause it sure beats workin' for a livin'
It ain't much, the livin' these days
Yeah, it sure beats workin' for a livin'
We're just happy this way
Yeah, we're just happy this way
(Workin' for a livin')
[edit] Cast
- Jim Carrey - Skip Tarkenton
- Jack Gilford - Brooks Carmichael
- Nancy Lane- Andrea Lewin
- Jay Tarses- Marty Fenneman
- Don Messick - Wally Wooster/Voice of Dippy Duck
- Julie Payne- Aggie Aylesworth
- Clarence Gilyard Jr- Roland Culp
- Teresa Ganzel- Mrs. Sheree Winkler
[edit] Animation Problem
In the animated opening credits, a cel of a purple rhinoceros-looking thing was accidentally omitted from one frame, making it do a disappearing-reappearing act.
[edit] Home Video
Two VHS videocassettes were released, one containing the first three episodes, the other the last three episodes. No DVDs or full-season sets have been released and, as of this writing, none are planned to be.
[edit] Episode Guide
- Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip
- Filling Buddy's Shoes
- The Annies
- No Good Deed
- The Way We Weren't
- Can We Talk?
- The Education of Mrs. Winkler (a.k.a. The Education of S*h*e*r*e*e W*i*n*k*l*e*r)
- Ordinary People, Too
- It Didn't Happen One Night
- The Duck Stops Here
- The Children's Half Hour
- You Always Love the One You Hurt
- Call Me Responsible
