The Duck Factory
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The Duck Factory was a MTM Enterprises 1984 NBC television series. 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 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] Starring
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] Episode Guide
1 Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip
2 Filling Buddy's Shoes
3 The Annies
4 No Good Deed
5 The Way We Weren't
6 Can We Talk?
7 The Education of Mrs. Winkler (a.k.a. The Education of S*h*e*r*e*e W*i*n*k*l*e*r)
8 Ordinary People, Too
9 It Didn't Happen One Night
10 The Duck Stops Here
11 The Children's Half Hour
12 You Always Love the One You Hurt
13 Call Me Responsible
