| “ | Duckman, be careful. Hollywood's past is littered with people who got taken in by all the opulence and fawning, then were changed by it and forgot about the things that were really important in their lives. | ” |
—Cornfed Pig warning Duckman about his new job as the president of Paradox Pictures. | ||
"Dammit, Hollywood" is the first episode of Season 4, and the forty-third episode of Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man overall. This episode aired on January 4, 1997.
Synopsis[]
After seeing a bad movie, Duckman sneaks into the studio head's office to get his $7 back. The studio head, however, makes him an executive to sabotage the studio.
Plot[]
Annoyed with the current state of the film industry, Duckman goes to Hollywood to demand his $7 back. Instead, he falls into the plot of a soon-to-be deposed studio executive, a man who's looking for a patsy to run the studio into the ground in hopes of saving his own job. Duckman becomes head of Paradox Pictures, where "if it's a good movie, it's a Paradox". He quickly begins running through the studio's money, signs a secretary to a 340 million dollar deal to star in a movie in her underpants. The deposed executive also arranges it so that Duckman manages to alienate the studio's three biggest action stars.
Character Appearances[]
Main Characters[]
Secondary Characters[]
First Appearances[]
- Sammons Cagle
- Stan Wassershein
- Paul Golden
- Julie Moran
- Soapy "Soap" Carbone
- Billy Bruno
- Minehard Braunbusser
Trivia[]
- Writer/producer Michael Markowitz notes: "Dammit, Hollywood" was originally written to be a theatrical trailer, à la Roger Rabbit, to run before Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and/or Howard Stern's Private Parts. It was also supposed to star Willis, Schwarzenegger and Stallone as themselves. We came a lot closer to making the three voices come true than we did the trailer, which fell victim to studio bureaucracy.
- This episode establishes that the Duckman family live in California.
- During the scene near the middle of the episode where Duckman was driving across Hollywood studios while discussing deals on the phone, originally the song "The Power" by SNAP! was playing. This was changed to generic music on the DVD version.
- Considered by fans to be the worst episode of the series.
Quotes[]
In their tirade against Duckman, Bruno, Carbone, and Braunbusser have destroyed the restaurant that was to be unveiled:
Bruno: Might've gone a little overboard this time. We blew up our own restaurant.
Carbone: Not to worry. It was just millions of dollars spent on creating something with no intrinsic value for the sole purpose of making millions more.
Braunbusser: Hey, just like our movies!