Alfred J. Kwak

小さなアヒルの大きな愛の物語あひるのクワック

1989 · TV series · 2 seasons

Created by Herman van Veen

Alfred J. Kwak lost his parents when he was just a duckling. Raised by a mole, the brave duck grows up to have lots of adventures around the world.

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PositiveCthulhu_May 5, 2022
I loved a cartoon growing up as a child, called Alfred J. Kwak [0], a Dutch / Japanese series about a duck and his adventures; I believe a lot of it is on youtube if you want.
The first two episodes are about two anthropomorphised ducks that meet, fall in love, move into a clog and have a spawn of babies, happily ever after until the whole family but Alfred get killed by a car. That was err. a pretty brutal thing for a four year old to see.
The show goes on to depict things like nazis, racism (waterfowl aren't real birds like us!), apartheid, classism, alcoholism, even transgenderism / gender fluidity (the stork Ollie), etc. In hindsight, it was A Lot, and most of it probably escaped me.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Kwak
MixedgurkendoktorAug 13, 2016
I see a lot of fellow Europeans in this thread who prefer local TV series to preachy US cartoons (me too). This is slightly off-topic, do you have an opinion on the old Dutch show Alfred J. Kwak[1]? It was extremely political, but somehow I didn't mind when I was a kid. I wonder if it was simply surreal enough to make up for all the reality that it depicts? Has anyone re-watched this series again with kids, 25 years later?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Kwak