# Duck Season!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-season/790622>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 6, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-season/790622 "2017-07-06T17:19:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-season/790622/41 "2017-07-19T23:39:20Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> Donald it is.

To spare, or to boil?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-season/790622/42 "2017-07-20T00:54:44Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> But Daffy never, ever won anything. It’s an essential part of his comic persona that nothing ever broke his way. Saving him from the pot would undermine his very reason for being. Daffy must be boiled precisely because it’s funnier if he is.

Your reasoning is compelling, I admit.

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**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-season/790622/43 "2017-07-20T01:29:34Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Your reasoning is compelling, I admit.

TvTropes lists Donald Duck as “born unlucky”

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-season/790622/44 "2017-07-20T05:55:48Z")

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I can’t vote in the poll. They both can boil to a nice crispy perfection. As long as [Karl, King of Ducks](https://imgur.com/t/karl_king_of_ducks/RTK9A) lives, all is right in the Universe.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-season/790622/45 "2017-07-20T08:57:06Z")

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I was thinking about Mickey Mouse the other day, and how I have pretty much zero sense of his personality, even though I’ve been exposed to him from early childhood on. But the Warner Brothers cartoon characters - Bugs, Daffy, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, whoever - you know who they are.

Donald Duck’s not quite as undefined as Mickey, but close enough. Why bother to save him?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-season/790622/46 "2017-07-20T18:47:42Z")

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Daffy is funny and clever (although not as clever as Bugs) and just a lot more fun than Donald.

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