The Plucky Duck Show (1992) User Reviews

Plucky Duck's short-lived show!

[joseph_sobora · 28 December 2003]

The Plucky Duck Show premiered on FOX's Saturday Morning lineup (a.k.a. FOX KIDS NETWORK)on September 19, 1992. It includes the third season of Tiny Toon Adventures which premiered a week before this show aired(after there two-season run in first-run syndication).

It started with the following episode of "The Return of Batduck". Buster and Babs Bunny (no relation?) are taking a break off and Plucky Duck decided to have his 'own' show but he overhears that Director Tim Burton is directing a new Batman movie (which explains how Batman Returns was made and came out the same year). So with his pal Hampton, they went off with a limo to the Warner Bros. Studios Lot to meet Tim Burton so he can get a screen test on his part as "Batduck". The funniest part in this episode is where Plucky and Hampton explored down the sewer with a bunch of celebrity personalities as well as the search of the Bat cave and the screen test shot of his part.

During its short-lived run, the total of 12 of these episodes were just constant repeats of all Plucky Duck cartoons that has been shown on Tiny Toon Adventures. To make it that way, FOX urgently canceled the show due to their average of low ratings in the Nielsen chart listings. This was also there last run of Tiny Toon Adventures starting with their Christmas Special that aired on December 6, 1992 at 7:00pm prime time.

Even for that, this was a good short-lived show for Plucky Duck which proves the point that he CAN become a star!

Joe's Rating: 3 Stars

The Plucky Duck show: one of the biggest swindles ever perpetrated on unsuspecting kids in the early 90s.

[moshomaniac · 1/10 · 12 July 2018]

The Plucky Duck show--Ha!

This show was like a bad April fools joke. Upon hearing that Plucky Duck, my favorite character from Tiny Toon Adventures was getting his own show, I was thrilled. Imagine the possibilities, I told my then 12-year old self. But that anticipation amounted to one of the biggest disappointments in history as the show was composed of nothing more than PREVIOUSLY AIRED episodes from Tiny Toons Adventures starring Plucky. To my knowledge, only 1 or 2 of the 12 episodes on this show were made exclusively for The Plucky Duck show. This was one of the most missed opportunities I have ever seen. They could have flushed out Plucky's character more, introduced his family and/or other people from his past, and so on. Oh wait, they did do a show like this....with the Tasmanian Devil on "Tazmania", showing that a character can spin off on his own show and it can actually be funny. But this show was like a bad joke. All my young mind was thinking was this: "Shame on you, Fox Kids network! Do you actually think I am so stupid, I won't recognize episodes I had already seen countless times before on a new show and think it was a brand new episode?! " Please, I watched Tiny Toon Adventures religiously for years, I think I would recognize an episode I've seen before. Even the theme song was ripped off Tiny Toons, with the exact same tune and a really bad dubbing job. Well guess what: I didn't. Kids aren't as stupid as you think. Suffice it to say, this "show" was one of worst things I had ever seen. If you aren't going to take the time making a show, then don't even try.

This show only lasted one episode!

[Op_Prime · 2 March 2001]

It's true. Only one episode was made for this series. The other 12 or so episodes that aired under this show title were just old episodes from Tiny Toons. Actually, it was pretty funny. It was hilarious and had a lot of humor that makes it both enjoyable to kids and adults. That one original episode probably airs with Tiny Toon reruns on Cartoon Network.