Talk:Duck Dodgers

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Note: The following conversation has been copied from User talk:Maveric149, and refers to Image:Duck Dodgers1.jpg, Image:Daffy Duck Duck Dodgers.jpg, and Image:Marvin Duck Dodgers.jpg.

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Anyone see the original Duck Dodgers?
The original episodes were nothing like the modern Duck Dodgers show. The animation was different, Duck Dodgers wasn't a loser, and he wasn't frozen!The_Little_One_Smiles 13:41, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Duck Dodgers?
Are you sure you've identified those "Duck Dodgers" screenshots correctly? They look an awful lot like shots from Dripalong Daffy to me. The Duck Dodgers I remember looked much more like this. &mdash;Paul A 02:18, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Yep - that is what it said when I was watching it and what was in the TV guide. Porky Pig was a robot in that episode. --mav


 * (effect of light bulb) These are from the TV series I'd never previously heard of, then? Fair enough. (But I still think they don't look like they're from Duck Dodgers.) &mdash;Paul A 02:32, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * I never saw the show before, or the movie. The screenshot may therefore not be representative of a regular episode. --mav

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For the record, the screen captures are from episode 8, "The Wrath of Canasta", which is full of deliberate homages to Dripalong Daffy - such as the duck and the pig putting aside their usual outfits for the ones they wore in that cartoon. (As far as finding representative images of Dodgers and the Cadet, mav just may have stumbled across the single most useless episode of the entire series. Typical, innit?) --Paul A 02:42, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Just my luck. --mav

24 1/2th century
This phrase, mentioned in this article, is nonsense. The 24th century is the entire period from 2300 to 2399 and the 25th century starts in 2400. There is no "24 1/2th century". 66.245.30.184 17:37, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Of course it's nonsense - there would be no point to the joke if they'd used a real century. And to anticipate your next question, it's a parody of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. (Gosh, I feel old. And I'm only 24½.) --Paul A 03:22, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * It's probably the year 2350, half through the 24th century. It's the most sense I can make of it. --207.69.137.25 05:12, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree with the theory above. It is the most likely, because in one episode, Duck Dodgers approaches a cryogenically frozen baby, who was frozen in 2066 (according to the plaque on the capsule). When the baby is unfrozen, he is constantly referenced to have been frozen for 300 years by numerous characters, placing the year in about 2366. Hugh Jass 07:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Its a Cartoon,Its Supposed to not make sense,therefore this complaint is useless.


 * Please sign your posts on talk pages. It may be sarcasm. No, we'd never be sarcastic here, (-> would we? Andrewa 20:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Just to be pedantic about it, the 24 1/2th century is never pronounced as "The Twenty-fourth and a half Century." Whenever Daffy says it, he always says, "The Twenty-fourth and a halfth Century." No, this isn't good English, but it is how he pronounces it.JDZeff (talk) 23:51, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Duck Dodgers series on Boomerang
I think it should be noted that new episodes have been airing on Boomerang and NOT Cartoon Network.--152.163.100.5 15:13, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

The 2003 Duck Dodgers television show should have it's own article
Defitinaly,They Are Both Diffrent Shows- Luigi128


 * Please sign your posts on talk pages. The original cartoon probably deserves to be split from this article, see Talk:Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. Andrewa 06:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

best cartoon?
"The cartoon is widely praised as one of the greatest and funniest Warner Bros. cartoons of all time."

i'm somewhat sceptical of this claim.. if it's true, then it shouldn't be hard to find a reference? Mlm42 15:08, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

According to what I know, Duck Dodgers is included in The Fifty Greatest Cartoons at number 4, therefore making it one of the most popular (if not one of the funniest) cartoons of all time.

{Posted by "JS"}


 * Difficult. The claim is true, and my feeling is it's even encyclopedic, but as with the sky is blue, I can't think of anyone to cite. Andrewa 20:29, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

New title suggestion
It seems to me that things might be a little clearer if this article was titled Duck Dodgers (character) (or some other analogous word) to distinguish it at a glance from the one from the series (or at least have a redirect from such). Anybody else have thoughts on this? --Ted Watson (talk) 20:23, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Illudium spelling
Granted, this is totally unimportant,, but I was under the impression that the element Illudium Phosdex was spelled "Eludium" to reflect the difficulty in acquiring it. Is there a source for the spelling "Illudium" as opposed to "Eludium" or "Euludium" as Marvin the Martian seems to pronounce it?Kjotvi (talk) 14:42, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Category: Fictional cryonically preserved characters
When was Duck Dodgers preserved? Even Buck Rogers was not 'cryonically' preserved. AMCKen (talk) 05:07, 25 June 2010 (UTC)