The Quack Attack: The DEFINITIVE Mighty Ducks Podcast

Listen to us on Stitcher.  Mike, Tommy and Kevin welcome in Brad Perry, who was a stunt person and hockey assistant in D2 and D3. Brad talks about the crazy hockey tricks he dreamed up for Dwayne, finding enough black people for the Trinidad and Tobago team, and more. Show notes Go to bradperryhockey.com. Here is the YouTube video that Mike discovered Brad in. It's been viewed over 250,000 times. ...

Listen to us on Stitcher.  Mike and Tommy (no Kevin today) welcome in Jane Plank, who played Tammy Duncan. Jane reveals some information about the original Adam Banks, talks about what why she wasn't invited back for D2, and tells the story of how Paula Abdul affected the filming of the Mighty Ducks. Show Notes Go to JanePlank.com. A young Jane Plank: This is the scene Jane auditioned to: The pers...

Mike, Tommy, and Kevin take a #QuackQuestion from @crimdelacrim3_3 and turn it into a full episode on the hypothetical street fight between the Sandlot kids, the Goonies and the Mighty Ducks. Who wins and who is the MVP? Show notes Thanks to to @crimdelacrim3_3 for the #QuackQuestion that started it all. The full roster for the non-Mighty Ducks. (You should already know the Mighty Ducks roster by...

Mike, Tommy, and Kevin take a deep dive into Dwayne Robertson and track his journey from how he started playing hockey down in Texas to his rodeo on ice/hockey trick team after Eden Hall. They also take a #QuackQuestion from their old friend Donald Cooper NOTE: There were some technical difficulties with the first six or so minutes. I tried to fix them as best as I could. It gets better. Show note...

Mike, Tommy and Kevin welcome back Mighty Ducks newbie Charlie Scudder, who is fresh off watching D2 for the first time since he was a kid. Scudder gives his top moments, rates the film and explains some confusion regarding Gunnar Stahl. Show Notes Thanks to Josh Luecht for the theme song. You can listen to Charlie Scudder losing his Flying V card in Episode 51.  Check him out on Twitter: @cscudde...

Mike, Tommy and Kevin welcome Mighty Ducks technical advisor and hockey trainer Jack White to the podcast. Jack shares a number of stories about training the actors, what he remembers about the original Adam Banks getting kicked off the film, how he became an actor in all three films, and more. Show notes: Paul Michael Glaser in all his glory: Eric Strobel, for those who aren't familiar with him....

Winner of #QuackQuestion of the year 2015, @joyceeng61 joins Mike, Tommy and Kevin for this epsiode. The crew reads an all-time classic email, gets the other side of the winning #QuackQuestion and trades Mighty Ducks origin stories. Show notes: Donald's email in full: Congrats to @joyceeng61 for #QuackQuestion of the year. The full results: @joyceeng61: 48% @tknauff_: 24% @wolffchele: 16% @katshan...

Mike, Tommy and Kevin draft their own hockey starting lineups using players only from the Mighty Ducks universe. Everybody from the Ducks to Iceland to Varsity to the Hawks are in play. They also take a #QuackQuestion on the best fictional Phil Banks. Show notes The full player list we went off of: GOALIES Greg Goldberg Julie ‘The Cat’ Gaffney Scooter (Varsity) Wiesel (Iceland) Wise (Hawks)   SKAT...

In a special best of episode, we replay the best #QuackQuestions of the year and open the call for voting. #QuackQuestions were selected based mainly on two criteria: A.) Was it one of the best questions? And B.) Did the question generate a lot of discussion? Show Notes The eligible #QuackQuestions: @tknauff_: "Who would win a Mighty Ducks Hunger Games?" (From Episode 60) @wolffchele: "Is anybody...

Asad and Robert from the Jocs and Docs podcast join Mike, Tommy, and Kevin, to discuss every injury in the Mighty Ducks. Could Banks really wake up and have the pain be gone? What happened with the Panthers and the measles? Could the Ducks have killed the varsity with their fire ants prank? Show Notes Check out the Jocs and Docs on Twitter, give them a five-star review on iTunes, and listen to the...

Mark Irwin was the director of photography for D2. He talks with Mike, Tommy, and Kevin about how shooting porn gave him the connections to move up in the film world, how he dealt with cardboard cutouts as crowd members, his knucklepuck rig, and more. Show Notes This is Mark's website, where you can see some of his work. Here's his IMDB page. Some photos Mark shared with us from his time on the fi...

In part two of his interview, Steve Brill explains the crazy writing he had to do for D2, the possibilities of a D4 getting made, how the Edmonton Oilers ruined Adam Banks, and how some of the other Ducks' lives have gone since we last saw them. Show notes: You'll want to listen to Part 1.  Steve Brill’s IMDB The new Ducks, including a Julie 'The Cat' Gaffney, who Brill uses to justify as the reas...

Mike, Tommy, and Kevin have harpooned a white whale. Mighty creator Steve Brill stops by for part one of a two-part interview. Brill discusses how his original script had an interracial romance, how he had Charlie originally missing the penalty shot and who would actually win a Hunger Games full of the Mighty Ducks. Show notes Steve Brill's IMDB The Time Magazine oral history of the Mighty Ducks....

In a historic two-guest podcast, Shaun Weiss, who played Greg Goldberg, returns and brings along producing partner Sean Adair. The duo talks with Mike, Tommy, and Kevin about their new project, Weiss getting free drinks as Goldberg, Adair getting rejected from the Little Rascals, negotiating with Ron Jeremy, and more. Show Notes: Shaun Weiss's IMDB and Sean Adair's IMDB Weiss was on Episode 53. He...

Mike and Tommy (Kevin is on a self-imposed suspension) talk to composer David Newman who wrote the Mighty Ducks theme and scored the music for D1. Newman gives an insight into Hollywood and explains why the theme wasn't that hard to come up with. Show notes David Newman's IMDB. And his Wikipedia. And his website. Alfred Newman's Wikipedia. David's father did this: The summary for Critters, the fir...

Mike, Tommy and Kevin turn a #QuackQuestion into a full episode as they look at how a Mighty Ducks Hunger Games scenario would play out? The gang looks at who aligns with who, who gets killed first, who wins, and a controversy involving Adam Banks erupts. Show Notes Thanks to @tknauff_ for the #QuackQuestion that spawned this whole topic. Mike did screw up the intro. It's may the odds be ever in y...

Mike, Tommy, and Kevin welcome D3 costume designer Kim Tillman onto the podcast. Kim explains the epic amount of equipment, uniforms and clothes she was responsible for, designing Eden Hall's jerseys and the fight she had over Guy Germaine's scarf. She also talks about her reunion with Steve Brill on their most recent film. Show Notes: Thanks again to Kim Tillman for coming on. Here is her IMDB. Y...

Mike, Tommy and Kevin try to determine what Mighty Ducks would go to jail and which ones would write a book about the experience. They also take another #QuackQuestion on an alternate universe with Jake Gyllenhaal as Charlie Conway. Show Notes Thanks to @timminer for the #QuackQuestion that started it all. Kevin argued that Connie was playing Guy the whole time in Episode 4.  Guy was the lookout i...

Mike, Tommy, and Kevin return to take a deep dive into what the kids were doing before they became the Mighty Ducks. The trio also blows the lid off of what happened when Bombay told the limo driver to drive onto the ice. Show notes I couldn't find any information on when the first pop-top can, but I did learn a lot about the evolution of beer cans. The first pull-tab beer can came in 1962, but it...

Mike, Tommy, and Kevin go step by step through the Varsity vs. JV prank war, from the assembly through the fire ant ordeal. Who won? Did either of the sides go too far at any point. They also take a #QuackQuestion on the Air Bombay loafer. Show notes We talked about the JV/Varsity dinner in Episode 40. The beginning of the prank war: The Ducks crashing the assembly: Step 2: The horse turd brownies...

Mighty Ducks producer Jordan Kerner joins Mike and Tommy (Kevin is out of town) to talk managing a movie set full of kids, kicking an actor off the film, Gordon Bombay and Casey Conway getting their lips stuck together, and how Disney is preventing Mighty Ducks 4. Show notes Here's Jordan Kerner's IMDB.  Fried Green Tomatoes was Jordan's ninth credit, but one of his first non-TV movies. Here's the...

Matt Doherty (Averman) joins Mike, Tommy, and Kevin, and gives what he knows about D4 in the first five minutes. He also talks how he was cut out of Home Alone, how his dad was mistaken for a homeless man on the Mighty Ducks set, and more. Show notes: Matt's IMDB. Here's Episode 1 of South of Sunset: Here's Matt's music. And here's the trailer for Ganymede Pan: Matt was also in a horror movie call...

Shaun Weiss, who played Greg Goldberg, joins Mike, Tommy, and Kevin to talk about how he was originally cast as an Eskimo who had one line, why his mom locked a producer in trailer, how he had diarrhea during his favorite scene, and much more. Show Notes Shaun Weiss' IMDB.  Here is the first episode of Why Not Weiss: You can view the episodes as they come out here. Atuk the Eskimo. Jack White is i...

Jim Burnstein, the primary writer of D3 and the Director of Screenwriting at the University of Michigan joins Mike and Tommy to discuss how he got involved in the film, why he originally had the Ducks losing, how Disney made him change it, and much more. Show notes: A little profile on Jim to get to know him better. Here's his IMDB.  Here's a look a Renaissance Man, Jim's first movie. Ted Orion, w...

Mike, Tommy, and Kevin welcome in Charlie Scudder a.k.a Chucky Scuds, a man who has never had never seen the Mighty Ducks before. Scuds discusses why he had never seen the film and his thoughts after watching before he hears some Quack Attack theories. Show notes Shoutout to Angels in the Outfield. Angels in the Endzone was a TV movie. It has an audience score of 29% on Rotten Tomatoes and no prof...