"A Room With a Bellevue" is the sixth episode of Season 3, and the twenty-eighth episode of Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man overall. This episode aired on February 17, 1996.
Synopsis[]
Just wanting to be on time for Charles and Mambo's birthday dinner, Duckman faces a terrible day and winds up with a crooked charge of public ranting without wearing a starched collar. He pleads temporary insanity in court, leading him to be institutionalized for thirty days; Duckman soon discovers he enjoys the strict regimentation of the institution (compared to the anarchy and chaos of the outside world) so much that he decides to have himself permanently committed. Cornfed then attempts to break Duckman out before he's given electroshock therapy.
Plot[]
TBA
Character Appearances[]
Continuity[]
- Charles and Mambo celebrate their birthday. They mention that they're 10 years old in "Gripes of Wrath", meaning they turn 11 years old in this episode. However, their new age is never actually stated in the series.
- Other episodes contain dialogue making it sound like several years have passed after Beatrice's death, however it is never usually mentioned that the characters are also aging with this passing of time.
- One of the photos Bernice cuts Duckman out of is the picture of Ajax and Beatrice from "Research and Destroy", only with Duckman instead of Beatrice.
- Another photo seen on the table in that scene is the photo Duckman gave his mom in "The Germ Turns".
- Before Cornfed sneaks into the institution, he pulls out some files of contingency plans that have titles referring to other episodes:
- The file titled "Duckman on trial for heresy" is a reference to the episode "Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial".
- "Duckman kidnapped by media critic" is a reference to the episode "Clip Job".
- "Duckman made dictator by South American country" is a reference to the episode "Clear and Presidente Danger".
Trivia[]
- Episode Title Reference: The film A Room With a View.
- The original version of this episode has a small section where Duckman is being dragged through a room where some residents are being given a test, and Dr. Stein asks them about seeing Duckman and a question of time. For some strange reason, this scene is usually cut. The scene is included on the DVD.
- The names of Morsink and Ducharme should be well-known to Duckman fans of the 90's who visited the newsgroup alt.tv.duckman. Arnoud Morsink ran the original Duckman FAQ and Joe Ducharme had his own Duckman fan site.
- Duckman disguises himself as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind.
- This episode contains what is often considered to be Duckman's greatest rant of all time.
- Duckman gives Charles and Mambo a ribbed condom for their birthday. This is a condom with ridges designed to increase pleasure in the woman.
Duckman's Rant[]
Duckman: "Sue me, I'm colorful! Doesn't mean I belong in here making potholders with the wackos! Besides, what gives you the right to judge other people anyway?"
Ducharme: "Ze diploma? Judging people is pretty much ze main benefit."
Morsink: "Dat, and ze license plates with M.D. on zem. You can park almost anywhere."
Duckman: "And when you think about it, isn't that exactly the POINT?"
(Ducharme and Mersink look at Duckman quizzically)
Duckman: "Parking?"
(Ducharme and Mersink look at each other and smile)
Duckman: "And driving. And shopping, and eating, and working? Somewhere, somehow, they all got chewed up and spit back out. They don't taste like living anymore! Don't you see what it's like in this deranged Waring Blender of a world? Every day is an agonizing ordeal, like balancing a pot of scalding water on your head while people whip your legs and butt! ...Aaaah, you never forget your senior prom...
You think I'm "sick"?! Well the only disease I've got is "modern life": a schnutbusting gauntlet of inefficiency and misery that's one long parade of let-downs, put-downs, trickle downs, shutouts, freeze outs, sell-outs, numbnuts, nincompoops and nimrods! All making every day as much fun as waxing a flaming Pontiac with your tongue, where even if you do luck into the possibility of some fleeting pleasure, like, say, if some nymphomaniac telephone operators with the muscle control of Romanian mat-slappers agree to a little strip air hockey, it'll be over before it starts, 'cuz some vowel-lacking, feta-reeking cab-jockey slams his Checker up your hatchback and the cab is owned by some pinata spanker from a Santeria cult in Xoacalpa who starts shaking chicken bones at ya and gives you a boil on your neck so big, all it needs is Michael Jordan's autograph to make it complete! And even with all this—with ALL THIS—I STILL drag my sorry butt off the Sealy every morning and stick my face in the reaping machine for one more day, KNOWING when it's time to flash the cosmic card key at those Pearly Gates, I won't be in the coffin anyway 'cuz some underhanded undertaker sold my heart, pancreas and other assorted Good 'N' Plenty to that same Santeria cult! So does ANYBODY really wonder why ANYBODY is hanging onto sanity by the atoms on the tips of their fingernails while life dirty-dances on their digits?! And is it really any wonder that I seem DERANGED?!"
(Ducharme and Mersink stare in shock while Ducharme spills some water on the floor)
Duckman: "But, hehe, that's probably nothing you haven't heard a hundred times before."