"Role With It" is the seventh episode of Season 4, and the forty-ninth episode of Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man overall. This episode aired on February 15, 1997.
Synopsis[]
Duckman takes the family and the staff on a holiday to an Indian casino on a reservation. While there, a psychiatrist notices Duckman and the rest of the family's overall self-destructive behavior. She offers them treatment that involves a role-playing session that uncovers some of their real issues.
Plot[]
TBA
Character Appearances[]
DVD Edits[]
- This episode starts with an FBI warning that states that your V-Chip is defective. This was cut from the DVD version.
- Near the beginning, when Bernice asks if Cornfed was still coming with them, Duckman mentions that he intentionally lost them in the interest of prolonging Cornfed's agony while he's stuck in the car with Fluffy and Uranus. We then see a scene with the three in a car, Cornfed hanging onto sanity while Fluffy and Uranus are singing "Aba Daba Honeymoon" to him. This was cut from the DVD version.
Trivia[]
- Episode Title Reference: The phrase "Roll With It."
- The episode ends with the main characters singing a rendition of the song Pass That Peace Pipe, which appeared in the 1947 film Good News and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. The show adds a few lines to the song that aren't present in the original, including "So if you wanna pow-wow with Duckman/Stop your seams from coming unstuck man", "Take a chill pill/down-the-hatch it" and "bet your foe'd be glad to match it."
- Dr. Fox's name may be a reference to the FOX network, which at the time had several very popular shows about dysfunctional families running, including The Simpsons and Married... with Children
- Duckman's nightmare about how their family will end is a reference to the Menendez Murders. In the dream, Bernice and Duckman are watching TV, when Ajax, Charles and Mambo come in and shoot them. In 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their abusive parents with shotguns while they watched TV. The blue and pink pastel sweaters the kids are wearing reference the sweaters famously worn by the Menendez brothers during their televised trial in 1994.
- Ajax imagines himself on the show Wings when asked about the perfect family, a sitcom about two brothers who are pilots.
- This is the last episode to feature Dana Hill as Charles.
Quotes[]
Duckman: What makes you think we're dysfunctional?
Ajax: Look, Dad; I'm eating more fries than ever! Love me, Dad! Love me!
Dr. Fox: Call it a hunch.
Duckman: It's shrinks that made this country touchy-feely! It's shrinks that blab and blab on Sally-Jesse so that teenage nymphomaniacs can't get a word in edgewise. It was shrinks that made me and Mom stop bathing together when I was 15--just when I needed her love the most!