Hard Luck Duck

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Hard Luck Duck
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Premiere date	April 16, 1995
Run time	7:29
Starring	Russi Taylor Brad Garrett Jim Cummings
Music composed by	Gary Lionelli
Writer(s)	William Hanna
Director(s)	William Hanna Kris Zimmerman (voices)
Animation director(s)	Joanna Romersa
Art director(s)	Bob Onorato
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"Hard Luck Duck" is the eighth episode of What a Cartoon! It aired on April 16, 1995 on Cartoon Network. It was written and directed by its creator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera, William Hanna. It was an unsuccessful backdoor pilot to a fully realized Hard Luck Duck spin-off series.

Harley lets Hard Luck get his own breakfast, which leads the precocious duck to wander into a duck-hungry fox's cafe.

Memorable quotes

Harley: Now cover your eyes, little guy. You shouldn't watch such gratuitous violence.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Harley Gator	Brad Garrett
Hard Luck Duck	Russi Taylor
Fox	Jim Cummings

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Louisiana
      • The Cajun Cafe
• The Sun
• The Moon

Objects

• Rare Recipies
• Duck de Triumph

Vehicles

• None

Production

Filming

It was copyrighted in 1995.

Music

The What a Cartoon! theme song and the episode's main music were performed by Gary Lionelli. The director of music production was Bodie Chandler.

Crew credits

• Art director and line producer: Bob Onorato
• Story consultant: Tony Benedict
• Key animator: Kunio Shimamura
• Layout designer: Drew Gentle
• Background stylist: Andy Phillipson
• Layout artists: Mark Kausler, Robert Ramirez, Julian Chaney
• Background stylist: Victoria Jenson
• Executive producer: Buzz Potamkin
• Supervising producer: Larry Huber
• Animation director: Joanna Romersa
• Unit production coordinator: Sylvia Edwards
• Character designer: Butch Hartman
• Design artists: Barbera Krueger, Dana Jo Granger
• Casting director: Kris Zimmerman
• Talent coordinator: Jill Ziegenhagen
• Supervising sound engineer: Ed Collins
• Recording engineer: Preston Oliver
• Background supervisor: Al Gmuer
• Background artist: Jonathan Goley
• Ink and paint supervisor: Alison Leopold
• Color stylist: Suzette Darling
• Final checker: Nelda Ridley
• Ink and paint artists: Audrey Covello, Lori Hanson, Lydia Swayne
• Graphics artist: Iraj Paran
• Camera operator: Dan Larson
• Executive in charge of post-production: John Forrest Niss
• Animation checkers: Mary Adams, Beth Goodwin
• Xerographists: Star Wirth, Martin Crossley, Richard Wilson
• Track readers: Kay Douglas, James Hearn, Carol Iverson, Kerry Iverson
• Supervising film editor: Tom Gleason
• Post-production supervisor: Gayle Mnookin
• Post-production coordinators: Valerie Menk, Gail D. Silvers
• Sound services provider: Advantage Audio
• Sound editor: Michael Warner
• Re-recording mixers: Bill Koepnick, Jim Hodson
• Negative consultant: William DeBoer, Jr.
• Video services provider: Four Media
• Telecine editor: Scott Ostrowsky
• On-line editor: Brian Schnuckel
• Pre-production manager: Debby Hindman
• International production coordinator: Brooke Williams
• Production assistants: Sandra Benenati, Duke Heberlein, Linda Moore
• Executives in charge of production: Joe Mazzuca, Catherine Winder
• Program executive: Margot McDonough
• Development executive: Jeff Holder
• Produced in association with: FIL-Cartoons
• Production executive at FIL-Cartoons: Bill Dennis

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: April 16, 1995 at 7 pm on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

• The short is heavily inspired by the Yakky Doodle shorts that were packaged with The Yogi Bear Show in the 1960s, which were directed by William Hanna and his partner, Joseph Barbera, with Hard Luck Duck being a parody of Yakky himself, Harley Gator being a parody of Chopper, and the fox being a parody of Fibber Fox.
• Russi Taylor is not unfamiliar with playing young, talking ducks, as she voiced triplets Huey, Dewey, Louie, and their friend Webby, in Disney Channel's DuckTales.

Errors

• When the fox is first seen holding Rare Recipes, it is blue-green in color, but when he has it on the table, it is briefly baby blue.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

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