If you watched the popular children’s show “Gravity Falls” produced by Disney Television Animation between 2012 and 2016, you might remember the show’s frequent cutaway gags using TVs. One in-universe show that appeared a handful of times was “Duck-tective,” a crime show featuring a duck as the leading role.

Though the show only included a few short clips of what “Duck-tective” could be, the tense mysteries mixed with side-splitting humor was evident. Now, Disney is finally giving the fans what they want.

In March of 2025, the company released an eight-episode season of “Duck-tective,” available to stream on Disney+. Each episode is about 25 minutes long, and every bit as good as I’d imagined.

The first episode begins with Duck-tective enjoying his life at home near a pond, when he receives a call from the constable. There’s been a murder, and Duck-tective is put on the case.

At first, there appears to be no evidence to indicate any particular suspect, but Duck-tective is determined. He eventually discovers that a witness had seen the whole thing.

Unfortunately, it seems that the witness doesn’t want to talk. She doesn’t trust the idea of a duck being a detective, let alone the best in his department, so she elects to talk to the constable instead. This sequence allows for Duck-tective to bring out his signature scathing sarcasm, just like in the original clips. The scene really cements the show’s place as an incredible display of comedy.

The episode ends with the witness finally telling Duck-tective everything she knows after the constable does a laughably bad job at interrogating her. The criminal is caught, and the day is saved, though not without a few comments from the perpetrator as he’s loaded into the back of the police cruiser.

I won’t spoil the rest of the season for you, but it’s absolutely worth watching all the way through. The seventh episode, “Fowl Play,” is by far my favorite. It guest stars a parrot named Rico, and there are a lot of excellently written jokes that break the fourth wall about his ability to talk in contrast to Duck-tective’s quacks and subtitled speech.

The subtitles are the only part of the show I had a bit of a difficult time with, since I tend to get distracted by the words and can’t focus on what’s happening in the scene. As a result, I typically prefer dubbed shows. That said, I think in the case of “Duck-tective,” the use of subtitles adds authenticity since it matches the source material, and it does allow for some great comedic moments.

I thoroughly enjoyed the entire series, and hope Disney announces a second season soon. For now, however, I’ll probably be rewatching it for the fourth time.