Love Ducks

The Love Ducks opening logo.

The Love Ducks on TV.

Love Ducks is a children's television program featuring psychedelic ducks quacking to different music, such as "La Toreador" from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen and Beethoven's fifth Symphony, often with colorful, hallucination-like, surreal backgrounds.

Love Ducks revolves around a paradise in which hundreds of brightly colored ducks float about all day quacking musical numbers. Despite being seemingly aimed at toddlers, the show has a certain trippy appeal. At the start of one of the episodes, the ducks can be seen floating down from the sky into their pond while an English-accented narrator says, "Hello, Love Ducks. It's a fine day!"

In "That's a Baby Show!" Arthur manages to take over the TV from D.W. so he can watch the Dark Bunny. However, he comes across Love Ducks, which D.W. hates, before he can change the channel, and actually finds himself getting sucked in. He begins to watch the show secretly, and thus never watches Dark Bunny. When his friends get suspicious, Arthur claims he only watches it with his baby sister Kate, but Francine and Buster discover him watching it alone. The next day, Francine blurts it out in front of everyone and they all tease Arthur except Buster. However, when Buster starts watching the show, too, everybody else chooses to give it a chance, and they all end up watching the show together. Francine also admits (by accident) that she has seen the show before, earning her some odd looks from her friends.

Appearances

Arthur

• "That's a Baby Show!"
• "Arthur's Family Feud" (imaginary)
• "The Secret Life of Dogs and Babies" (mentioned)
• "Brother, Can You Spare a Clarinet?"
• "Buster's Second Chance"
• "All Will Be Revealed!"

Trivia

• Love Ducks is Arthur's second favorite show.
• The fact that Arthur and friends are older and still enjoy watching the show may be a reference to the fact that Teletubbies has developed a cult following amongst older audiences due to its psychedelic properties.
• The show is similar to Baby Einstein, in that it features classical music and animal characters that communicate mostly in simple sounds and their respective animal noises that are appealing to very young children.