Queer Doc!
- Studio
- Mishmash Media, Showtime Entertainment Television
- Distributor
- Icebox.com LLC, Showtime Entertainment Television
Synopsis
Queer Duck battles his nemesis, Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
Characters
Adam Seymour "Queer Duck" Duckstein, Mrs. Duckstein, Oscar Wildcat, Mr. Duckstein, Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator, Bi-Polar Bear, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Truman Coyote, K.Y. Jellyfish, Ricky Marlin, Dr. Ben Swine, H.I.V. Possum, Kangaroo Reeves
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Xeth Feinberg, Mike Reiss
Producing
- Producer
- Jo-Anne Lee
- Executive Producer
- Mike Reiss
Writing
- Writer
- Mike Reiss
Animation
- Animator
- Xeth Feinberg, John Siciliano, Chris Siemasko, Rebecca Migdal
Voices
- Voice
- Jim J. Bullock (Adam Seymour "Queer Duck" Duckstein), Estelle Harris (Mrs. Duckstein), Maurice LaMarche (Oscar Wildcat, Mr. Duckstein), Kevin Michael Richardson (Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator), Billy West (Bi-Polar Bear), Tress MacNeille (Dr. Laura Schlessinger)
Music
- Music
- Xeth Feinberg, Sam Elwitt
- Music Supervisor
- Rich Dickerson
Crew
- Creator
- Mike Reiss
- Casting
- Dawn Hershey
- Sound Designer
- Xeth Feinberg
- Dialogue Editor
- Julie Lindner
- Composer (Main Theme)
- Sam Elwitt
- Theme Song Performed By
- RuPaul
- Production Coordinator
- David Hernandez
- Production Assistants
- Brett Gilwee, Dawn Merkel, Whitney Rogers, Eric Waldman
Production notes
"Queer Duck, he's intellectual.
Queer Duck, he's homosexual.
Please don't think that he's perverse,
He's the patient's favourite male nurse.
He's okay, he's just fey, cause he's openly gay
He's a truly queer, Queer Duck, Queer Duck!"
The hero of this series, Adam Seymour "Queer Duck" Duckstein, is a blue mallard who always wears a rainbow-striped shirt. Openly Gator is his boyfriend, and Bi-Polar Bear and Oscar Wildcat are his buddies.
This was the first animated TV series in North American to have homosexuality as its main theme.
Mike Reiss created "Queer Duck" in part as a reaction to controversial radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger's views on homosexuality. Asked if Dr. Laura has replied, Reiss said, "No. There's been no blowback."
The series first appeared in 1999 on icebox.com, then began running on Showtime in 2002 after "Queer as Folk."
Produced in Macromedia Flash animation.
Jim J. Bullock, the actor who provides the voice of Queer Duck, is openly gay.
In 2006, the series was made into a feature film, "Queer Duck: The Movie," which was a direct-to-DVD release in North America.