 The psychiatric doctors who examine Duckman, Drs. Morsink and  Ducharme, were named after two fans who created web sites in honor  of the show in 1995. The producer, Michael Markowitz, was a regular  visitor to the Internet Newsgroup alt.tv.duckman at that time and  interacted with fans, drawing inspiration from those interactions  for characters and plot lines in later Duckman episodes.