"Cock Tales for Four" is the twentieth episode of Season 3, and the forty-second episode of Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man overall. It aired on July 6, 1996.
This is the final episode of the third season.
This episode features the sixth appearance of King Chicken. It also marks the debut of his wife Honey Chicken, as well as the first mention of their daughter Tammy Chicken.
Synopsis[]
Duckman and Bernice go to meet the parents of Ajax's new girlfriend. The parents turn out to be King Chicken and his attractive yet alcoholic wife, Honey. After a lot of tension throughout the evening, Duckman and King Chicken surprisingly make amends. Bernice and King Chicken also discuss their relationship in secret. Honey, however, has plans to keep her life with King Chicken in order.
Plot[]
TBA
Character Appearances[]
First Appearances[]
- Honey Chicken
- Tammy Chicken (unseen & nonspeaking)
Continuity[]
- The story of Duckman and King Chicken's high school experience is elaborated upon.
- Bernice wears the same dress she wore to the party with the neighbors in "Cellar Beware" and on her date in "Sperms of Endearment".
- At the beginning of the episode, Duckman thinks Ajax is gay due to his habit of pronouncing 'a' sounds as 'o' sounds, causing him to have pronounced 'Tammy' as 'Tommy'.
- Duckman had also previously questioned Ajax's sexuality in the season one episode "It's the Thing of the Principal" when the family was still unaware of who Ajax was in love with.
Trivia[]
- The set-up of this episode is that Duckman, Bernice and Ajax are going to meet Ajax's new girlfriend, Tammy and her parents. We find out that Tammy's parents are King Chicken and his wife, Honey, but we never meet or even see Tammy. The most we hear of her is a moan and later a giggle.
- Much of the episode is inspired by the film and play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was referenced earlier in the series in "Gripes of Wrath"
- This is one of the only episodes to not feature Cornfed nor Charles and Mambo. Other times, if one is absent, the other is usually featured.