"Color of Naught" is the fourth episode of Season 3, and the twenty-sixth episode of Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man overall. It aired on January 27, 1996.
This episode features the fifth appearance of King Chicken.
Synopsis[]
Tony Sterling (self-made millionaire and entrepreneur) and his assistant/supermodel Angela (the 911 operator from "About Face") begin advertising a beautifying agent known as "Beautex" to the city. In truth, however, Sterling is King Chicken, and Beautex (which doesn't work on Duckman) is a virus which eventually dissolves everything it touches. Duckman is left as the only one capable of saving his family, Angela, and the entire world.
Plot[]
TBA
Character Appearances[]
Major Characters[]
- Duckman
- King Chicken
- King Chicken disguised as Tony Sterling, head of the Beautex Corporation
- Angela
- Bernice
- Ajax
- Charles and Mambo
- Cornfed
- Grandma-ma
- Gecko
Minor Characters[]
- Mayor Gallagher (first appearance)
- Iggy Catalpa
- Sally
- Gary Wallace
- Wyatt Donnelly
- Chett Donnelly
Continuity[]
- Charles and Mambo recap the events of "About Face" for the benefit of "the 99% of the audience who would normally be out having a life on Saturday nights instead of surfing through obscure cable channels in the hopes they'll find a little soft-core pornography."
- When King Chicken explains why Beautex didn't work on Duckman, he mentions the events of "Forbidden Fruit", where he was disguised as an attractive nanny, and while in disguise, he made Duckman potatoes that contained Anti-Beautex.
- Duckman was never seen actually consuming said potatoes in that episode, however. He ran away from the dining table after they were served.
- King Chicken then goes on to say "You gotta think ahead in this business", giving Duckman an amulet to wear, alluding to the idea that it'll be important to one of his future plans. Duckman quickly accepts the amulet and is seen wearing it throughout the rest of the episode, but it's never brought up again within the series afterward.
- King Chicken begins his usual speech about how Duckman isolated him when they were children, leading him to his life of villainy, but he is interrupted by a fake USA Special Bulletin stating that King Chicken's voice actor (Tim Curry) went missing so that he would never have to say this speech again.
- This is the last time King Chicken gives this speech. He discusses the way Duckman treated him again in the episode "Cock Tales for Four", but it's not in the same speech format nor is it during the execution of one of his evil plots.
- Angela leaves at the end of the episode, planning to travel the country to bring beauty to areas that haven't seen it in a long time. She states that she'll come back eventually, but she is never mentioned within the series again, only having a short cameo appearance within the series finale, "Four Weddings Inconceivable".
Trivia[]
- The characters from Weird Science are also kidnapped by King Chicken. The show was based on the movie of the same name and ran on the USA Network during the same years as Duckman, and according to Charles and Mambo, their show got the more desirable timeslot.