S01.E08: Quackers

[AnimeMania]

It’s Quakers Week, and the ship is bustling with guests obsessed with a quirky trend taking over the cruising industry: rubber duckies. As the voyage unfolds, Avery receives unexpected news.

Premiere Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024    ABC   9 pm

ADRIENNE WARREN

PALOMA GARCIA-LEE

Next New Episode: March 6, 2025    

Edited November 22 by AnimeMania

[KLovestoShop]

There’s not a cruise ship out there that can perform the complicated stuff they do on this ship.  Not surgery like they did on tonight’s show, nor most of the fantasy stuff they show.  And FYI, cruise ships do not allow pregnant women on a ship if they’re past a certain number of weeks.  And they require a letter from the woman’s obstetrician telling them how many weeks she’s at. 

[Raja]

9 hours ago, KLovestoShop said:

There’s not a cruise ship out there that can perform the complicated stuff they do on this ship.  Not surgery like they did on tonight’s show, nor most of the fantasy stuff they show.

Then

 

Seeing that they do you would expect that there should be some scrubs and crocs to change into for surgery. Not that I didn't appreciate Avery providing eye candy for the male gaze.

Ripped straight from the telenovelas, as soon as you have sex with the other guy too, I'm pregnant. Third time, with crewmates, for Tristen

[Aileen]

I felt that this episode was way more obvious than most that this ship is somehow tied to the afterlife or death. When the woman at the end of the episode said that she wanted to just stay on the odyssey and go around one more time, Max told her she couldn’t and that she had to get off and he was bathed in a glowing white light above her like a vision that someone would see on their deathbed. 

[iMonrey]

This appeared to be the show's attempt to get serious, rubber duckies notwithstanding. Long, long scene of Avery with her gal pals about her pregnancy. I think the show has seriously overestimated my interest in Avery though.

Tristan's accent is neither Venezuelan nor Scottish. Nor was his mother's. I have no idea where this guy is actually from.

I'm not overly familiar with Joshua Jackson's other work. Dawsons Creek was a bit after my time. I know he's a big draw for a lot of fans though. I'm not sure why. The man has no upper lip whatsoever. Do people think that's sexy? Weird.

[Dowel Jones]

17 hours ago, AnimeMania said:

It’s Quakers Week,

There's too many jokes in that line... (I know it's a misprint).

[fastiller]

18 hours ago, AnimeMania said:

It’s Quakers Week...

=&=

39 minutes ago, Dowel Jones said:

There's too many jokes in that line... (I know it's a misprint).

Must be from the network, my cable showed the same typo.  Having gone to a Quaker Secondary School I was confused as to the duck connection [/kidding!]

[FnkyChkn34]

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

This appeared to be the show's attempt to get serious, rubber duckies notwithstanding. Long, long scene of Avery with her gal pals about her pregnancy. I think the show has seriously overestimated my interest in Avery though.

Tristan's accent is neither Venezuelan nor Scottish. Nor was his mother's. I have no idea where this guy is actually from.

I'm not overly familiar with Joshua Jackson's other work. Dawsons Creek was a bit after my time. I know he's a big draw for a lot of fans though. I'm not sure why. The man has no upper lip whatsoever. Do people think that's sexy? Weird.

The actor who plays Tristan was born and raised in London.  I just watched this episode, not 100% paying attention, but I don't think he said he was born in Venezuela?  And he said he only went to school in Scotland.  He could be trying to do a mixed accent of nondescript origin on purpose.  

Dr. Pacey has a small upper lip, and yes - he's sexy.  Men with big plump lips look weirder, IMO.  Many of us in the same age bracket as him literally grew up with him - he was Charlie in the Mighty Ducks movies as a kid in the early 90s, then Pacey, then on other shows like Fringe and The Affair.  

 

This episode was rather boring, again.  I was too distracted by the actress who played Adele on Grey's Anatomy, thinking that she was Adele.  I suppose it's her distinctive voice, and that I've never seen her in anything else.  I also thought there would be more to Tristan and Viv being quarantined together, but I guess they just let that one drop.  And, no judgment, but Tristan gets around...  

[Madding crowd]

I just can’t get past a ship having a MRI machine, laboratory and whatever that room is with hundreds of brown bottles of medicine. Surgeons operate on people, cruise ship doctors hand out aloe, Advil and allergy meds.

I didn’t get the point of the ducks as they didn’t really relate to anything besides Max talking about pollution. I expected some kind of frenzy to find the gold duck not the Pica story. And of course Avery is pregnant. 

[Elizzikra]

They mispronounced "pica" for the entire episode. Don't that have at least a token medical advisor on this show?

[AnimeMania]

The description comes straight from the show's episode page.

https://www.dgepress.com/abc/shows/doctor-odyssey/episodes/quackers/press-releases/

I didn't even notice that it was spelled wrong. They spell it right several times, but the wrong spelling would not have been flagged by a spell checker, so it slipped through.

That guy will be able to swallow 500,000 pennies once he gets the $5,000 dollar prize for finding the Captain's golden rubber duck!

[blackwing]

I didn't care for this episode much at all.  For a storyline that was supposed to be about finding ducks, there wasn't a whole lot of excitement or finding.  Avery invited her two friends onto the ship so she could tell them she was pregnant?  Does she get a discount or something?  

I know this show depicts cruising in an unrealistic manner, but one of the minor things that bothers me is how passengers stroll through that tunnel and enter into that atrium always with the same wide eyed expression of wonder and always with ZERO BAGS.  OK, so the porters take the big suitcases when they check in at the pier.  But many people would bring a carry on suitcase.  I don't think any passenger has been seen with any luggage.  At the very least, some of them would be carrying backpacks or tote bags.

I couldn't care less about the storyline of the old guy eating objects.

The only thing I liked about this episode was the advancement in the relationship between Tristan and the chef (Vivian?)  It seemed like they made progress, when they were quarantined he suggested they watch a movie in his cabin (would have been nice to have seen that instead of old guy stealing objects to swallow), and at the end, he checked out of Avery's big reveal basically with a "you do what you need to do".

This show will probably do a "Avery doesn't want to know who the father is, it doesn't matter".  The Tristan actor and maybe the character is part or maybe even half Venezuelan.  I'm not sure if Avery is supposed to be half-Chinese like Philippa Soo is.  Max is as white as they can be.  Do they really need to do a DNA test?  Wouldn't they be able to tell whose kid it is?

My guess is that if she has the baby, it will end up being Max's.  Let Max be with Avery and let Tristan be with Vivian.

2 hours ago, Madding crowd said:

I just can’t get past a ship having a MRI machine, laboratory and whatever that room is with hundreds of brown bottles of medicine. Surgeons operate on people, cruise ship doctors hand out aloe, Advil and allergy meds.

I didn’t get the point of the ducks as they didn’t really relate to anything besides Max talking about pollution. I expected some kind of frenzy to find the gold duck not the Pica story. And of course Avery is pregnant. 

The medical suite itself is ridiculous, there's no way medical operations on cruise ships are that big.  An MRI machine?!  The surgery that Max and Avery were doing where he just reached in and grabbed a section of large intesting and cut it open... no way would that be done on a cruise ship.

Glad I'm not that only one that has been curious about the room with the hundred brown jars of medicine.  In an environment in which space is at a premium, it just doesn't seem very efficient to have a dedicated room to beautifully light up all those jars.

Ducks on a cruise ship are a real thing.  It's not a "movement", but there are people/families that bring small ducks and hide them around the ship.  People (mostly kids) love to find them.  Some post photos of ducks they find on social media and might tag the hider.

The way the duck hunt was depicted on this show.... no.  There's no way crew would be required to paint a huge normal sized rubber duck and hide it.  There's no way passengers would be able to go behind a bar and hide a duck there.  Above all, whoever finds the gold duck wins $5,000?  Who provided the $5,000?  The duck couple?  Or the cruiseline?  Unless it was just a decoration, it looked to me that the gold duck was hiding in plain sight on the buffet table.  And the organizer ate it?  Whatever.  There was zero payoff to this duck storyline.

On a real cruise ship, if there was ever a contest to win $5,000 by finding a gold duck, I guarantee that thing would be found within 20 minutes.  One of the most unrealistic things about the way the cruise ship is depicted on this show is how uncrowded it is.  Tristan and Vivian floating in a completely empty pool?  Yeah right!

4 hours ago, iMonrey said:

Tristan's accent is neither Venezuelan nor Scottish. Nor was his mother's. I have no idea where this guy is actually from.

2 hours ago, FnkyChkn34 said:

The actor who plays Tristan was born and raised in London.  I just watched this episode, not 100% paying attention, but I don't think he said he was born in Venezuela?  And he said he only went to school in Scotland.  He could be trying to do a mixed accent of nondescript origin on purpose.  

Sean Teale is half or part-Venezuelan.  I thought it was great that they wrote his heritage into the character's storyline.  He never said he was born in Venezuela, only that he had travelled there.  He said the duck was a tribute to his Venezuelan heritage, "that's where the tan comes from".  And that he went to boarding school in Scotland.  I just assumed that Tristan is English, and that's his accent.

[Sake614]

Man this show make the Love Boat look like a documentary! I honestly don’t know why i keep watching except it’s like a train wreck…I can’t look away.

every week I marvel at the state of the art medical/surgical suite they have on this tiny ship. CT scans, MRIs, complicated surgery in the middle of a hurricane. IRL the ship doctor would do what he could and then if necessary, the patient would be airlifted to a hospital. Or the ship would divert to the nearest island with medical facilities. 

I had no idea who Joshua Jackson was when the show was announced, and still don’t, although yowza, he was really Charlie in Mighty Ducks? I feel so old lol! He’s not a bad actor and he is fairly easy on the eyes. But the character, like all the others, is ridiculous.

[txhorns79]

8 hours ago, iMonrey said:

I'm not overly familiar with Joshua Jackson's other work. Dawsons Creek was a bit after my time. I know he's a big draw for a lot of fans though. I'm not sure why.

He was good on Fringe, and he played a supporting role on Little Fires Everywhere. 

 

2 hours ago, Sake614 said:

every week I marvel at the state of the art medical/surgical suite they have on this tiny ship. CT scans, MRIs, complicated surgery in the middle of a hurricane. IRL the ship doctor would do what he could and then if necessary, the patient would be airlifted to a hospital. Or the ship would divert to the nearest island with medical facilities. 

The whole set up is ridiculous.  You aren't doing bowel re-sections on a cruise ship.  I also wonder what happens if someone becomes ill or needs help during these long surgeries. 

Edited November 23 by txhorns79

[CeeBeeGee]

The pica thing was honestly disturbing. Especially the way they filmed the guy, all dead-eyed, throwing shit in his mouth. It's beyond creepy to think that is a thing that people do--is it an OCD thing? A psychological problem?

[Red Bridey]

10 hours ago, CeeBeeGee said:

The pica thing was honestly disturbing. Especially the way they filmed the guy, all dead-eyed, throwing shit in his mouth. It's beyond creepy to think that is a thing that people do--is it an OCD thing? A psychological problem?

Sometimes it's an iron deficiency. 

[LaDuchesse]

Getting close to Hart of Dixie level orangeness here. Not just all the people but the background had an orangish tint too. Not just fake tan.

[Elizzikra]

10 hours ago, Red Bridey said:

Sometimes it's an iron deficiency. 

it can be an iron deficiency thing. For some people it starts in childhood and doesn't seem to be linked to mineral deficiency. Remember that show, My Strange Addiction? Some of the people there who ate non-food items like rocks or upholstery padding probably also had pica. I don't think that they are unaware of doing it, though. It's like an irresistible urge, but not an unconscious one.

[seacliffsal]

I know the rubber ducks were supposed to be a fun element, but I've read several articles about the ducks on 'real' cruise ships and there are some safety concerns about where the passengers are hiding them (passengers hide them, not the crew or cruise ship).  

[Red Bridey]

I don't think the rubber duck substory ever really resolved itself, did it, or did I just blank out? Did anyone win the contest? Was the giant inflatable duckie being towed behind the ship real or just an imaginary symbol for us the audience? 

I had no idea these quackers existed and I took a cruise a few years ago. No sign of rubber duckies that I noticed.

I used to eat paper as a child. I remember owning many paperback books with teeth marks ridging the pages. But I grew out of it. Never been tempted to restart!

[blackwing]

22 hours ago, seacliffsal said:

I know the rubber ducks were supposed to be a fun element, but I've read several articles about the ducks on 'real' cruise ships and there are some safety concerns about where the passengers are hiding them (passengers hide them, not the crew or cruise ship).  

20 hours ago, Red Bridey said:

I don't think the rubber duck substory ever really resolved itself, did it, or did I just blank out? Did anyone win the contest? Was the giant inflatable duckie being towed behind the ship real or just an imaginary symbol for us the audience? 

I had no idea these quackers existed and I took a cruise a few years ago. No sign of rubber duckies that I noticed.

The rubber ducks are a real thing on cruise ships.  I've never heard of any safety issues.  The last cruise we took, my kids found a couple.  One was sitting in one of those sit down riding games in the arcade.  The other was a small magnetic duck inside one of the elevators.

The storyline never did resolve itself.  Presumably nobody won the big prize because the old guy ate the golden duck.  They never explained the giant duck either.  We saw it in the opening moments of the episode and then never again.

On Facebook there are groups for each particular cruise line.  Usually someone creates a dedicated group for each week's sailing.  There are frequently posts about hiding or finding rubber ducks in those groups.  It's more like a fun diversion, not a massive "movement" like Loretta Devine kept saying.  She made it sound like people dedicate their lives to these ducks.  Umm... no.  Kids enjoy hiding ducks and finding them.  It gives them something to do and something to be excited about.

I've seen posts on Facebook where someone will share a photo of the collection of ducks they found that week.  I don't know what happens to them.  I presume the kids take them home or leave them onboard.  I very much doubt they throw them overboard like Max claimed everyone did.

[bilgistic]

If rubber ducks are so germy, moldy and all-around disgusting per Dr. Odyssey, why aren't all the world's children running around with constant, devastating bacterial infections? Didn't we all have bathtub toys? Inflatable pool toys?

[Mountainair]

Years ago when my kids were bath tub toy age I remember squirting them with water from the rubber duck toy we had. The water came out clean at first and then black nasty water started coming out. I quit buying rubber toys for the bath after that. 
 

Speaking of ducks… can anyone explain the Ducks on the dashboard of Jeeps phenomena I keep seeing all around town? 

[Elizzikra]

24 minutes ago, Mountainair said:

Years ago when my kids were bath tub toy age I remember squirting them with water from the rubber duck toy we had. The water came out clean at first and then black nasty water started coming out. I quit buying rubber toys for the bath after that. 
 

Speaking of ducks… can anyone explain the Ducks on the dashboard of Jeeps phenomena I keep seeing all around town? 

My young adult daughter has a small herd of cows. They don’t mean anything; she just thinks they are cute.

[Elizzikra]

Finally watched this. I have so many questions.

1. Why is it the job of the ship's Chief Engineer to introduce the duck thing to the crew?

2. Why is the Captain wearing a medical alert bracelet?

3. How did that guy manage to swallow that golden duck without choking? Or the giant gold coin he picked up at the start of the cruise?

4. Why did Tristan's pink eye outweigh the benefit of a third, trained medical professional for that major surgery-at-sea.

5. How does anyone make any money off the duck thing?

And for heaven's sake - it's not pronounced "peek-a." It's a long "I" dammit!

[FnkyChkn34]

1 hour ago, Elizzikra said:

4. Why did Tristan's pink eye outweigh the benefit of a third, trained medical professional for that major surgery-at-sea.

Isn't pink eye incredibly contagious?  Imagine if he infected a patient's open surgical wound with it??  No thank you.

[Elizzikra]

2 hours ago, FnkyChkn34 said:

Isn't pink eye incredibly contagious?  Imagine if he infected a patient's open surgical wound with it??  No thank you.

It is, but I've never heard of anyone getting it in any part of their body other than their eye. They have every imaginable piece of medical equipment on board. Have him suit up in a hazmat suit and get to work. The guy had a couple feet of dead bowel in his gut. It was, pardon the expression, an all hands on deck situation...

[wanderingstar]

On 11/22/2024 at 2:47 PM, Madding crowd said:

I just can’t get past a ship having a MRI machine, laboratory and whatever that room is with hundreds of brown bottles of medicine.

Reminds me of Hermione's bottomless purse in the Harry Potter movies.

[Ceindreadh]

On 11/25/2024 at 8:32 PM, Elizzikra said:

My young adult daughter has a small herd of cows. They don’t mean anything; she just thinks they are cute.

Are they small or are they just far away?  😀

[Elizzikra]

2 minutes ago, Ceindreadh said:

Are they small or are they just far away?  😀

It depends on whether you're looking at them in the mirror or straight on :)

[msani19]

I haven't watched this in a while but I'm running out of things so I gave it another shot. Are they honestly doing a surprise pregnancy and who could the father be storyline? Come on do better. I saw a great post upstream about how the show was testing their interest in Avery. My god, I couldn't agree more. She couldn't be more flat and uninteresting to me. You can't convince me that all these men are interested in her, except for being trapped on a cruise ship. Phillipa Soo was amazing in Hamilton. Her voice is unparalleled! This show may not be the right vehicle for her (like clearly) so I can't say if it's her or the material, but it's not doing her any favors.

Dawson's Creek was just not my thing, I saw a few episodes and said nope. But I watched Joshua Jackson on a show called The Affair which was really good (for a while, then fell off the cliff, at least for me). He's doing a fairly decent job with what he has to work with. 

The other guy whose name I can't even remember is so uninteresting and bland to me. That's all I have to say about him.

I'll check in every now and then to see if the show finds some footing. I don't mind something soapy and over the top but this is all over the place and feels like it hasn't found it's voice. 

The level of state of the art medical equipment on the ship rivals, if not exceeds, some of the best hospitals here. Maybe it's because they are funded by billionaires. But it makes me roll my eyes every time. 

[Elizzikra]

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Are they honestly doing a surprise pregnancy and who could the father be storyline? Come on do better. 

This being Dr. Odyssey:

Avery will continue the pregnancy. Dr. Odyssey and Hot Male Nurse will have to do an emergency, shipboard c-section during a tsunami. Out will come conjoined, fraternal twins: one boy, one girl (not medically possible). Dr. Odyssey and Hot Male Nurse will have to do an emergency, shipboard separation. Avery will assist despite having just given birth via c-section. Further testing will reveal that the "twins" have two different fathers (medically, theoretically possible; also once a subplot on Days of Our Lives). One father is Dr. Odyssey. The other father is Hot Male Nurse. Don Johnson and the Head Engineer will be the godparents. Everyone survives. Next season the twins will have magically aged into cute 5 year olds, capable of memorizing lines and performing simple, but adorable, stunts.

I will be working on this script on spec during the hiatus between now and March. Taking recommendations now for baby names.

[KaveDweller]

24 minutes ago, Elizzikra said:

This being Dr. Odyssey:

Avery will continue the pregnancy. Dr. Odyssey and Hot Male Nurse will have to do an emergency, shipboard c-section during a tsunami. Out will come conjoined, fraternal twins: one boy, one girl (not medically possible). Dr. Odyssey and Hot Male Nurse will have to do an emergency, shipboard separation. Avery will assist despite having just given birth via c-section. Further testing will reveal that the "twins" have two different fathers (medically, theoretically possible; also once a subplot on Days of Our Lives). One father is Dr. Odyssey. The other father is Hot Male Nurse. Don Johnson and the Head Engineer will be the godparents. Everyone survives. Next season the twins will have magically aged into cute 5 year olds, capable of memorizing lines and performing simple, but adorable, stunts.

I will be working on this script on spec during the hiatus between now and March. Taking recommendations now for baby names.

OMG, they might actually do her having twins with two different fathers. Why do a threesome if you aren't going to do that?

But on the other hand, wouldn't her being pregnant and everyone being a parent make it hard for them to be cruise ship medical people on call 24/7? So she will probably find out it is twins with two fathers and then miscarry by the end of the season.

[Dowel Jones]

13 hours ago, Elizzikra said:

Taking recommendations now for baby names.

Telemachus and Penelope.  Yes, I had to look it up.

[fastiller]

14 hours ago, Elizzikra said:

This being Dr. Odyssey:

... ... ...

I will be working on this script on spec during the hiatus between now and March. Taking recommendations now for baby names.

Chef's Kiss to this whole post.  Brilliant stuff.

As to names: since she seems to be the Best Thing Ever: Avery & Avery.

[Elizzikra]

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But on the other hand, wouldn't her being pregnant and everyone being a parent make it hard for them to be cruise ship medical people on call 24/7?

It's Dr. Odyssey. Reality need not apply.

[FnkyChkn34]

For names:  Sydney and Johnny? 😉

[blackwing]

On 12/9/2024 at 9:35 PM, Elizzikra said:

This being Dr. Odyssey:

Avery will continue the pregnancy. Dr. Odyssey and Hot Male Nurse will have to do an emergency, shipboard c-section during a tsunami. Out will come conjoined, fraternal twins: one boy, one girl (not medically possible). Dr. Odyssey and Hot Male Nurse will have to do an emergency, shipboard separation. Avery will assist despite having just given birth via c-section. Further testing will reveal that the "twins" have two different fathers (medically, theoretically possible; also once a subplot on Days of Our Lives). One father is Dr. Odyssey. The other father is Hot Male Nurse. Don Johnson and the Head Engineer will be the godparents. Everyone survives. Next season the twins will have magically aged into cute 5 year olds, capable of memorizing lines and performing simple, but adorable, stunts.

I will be working on this script on spec during the hiatus between now and March. Taking recommendations now for baby names.

You forgot that over the summer hiatus, Avery took shore leave, and started and completed medical school in 3 months.  The Raquel Welch looking owner with the lips knows the director of the medical school and got him to agree that working on a cruise ship as a nurse under the esteemed Doctor Odyssey was the equivalent of 3.5 years of medical school.  Avery will return in the fall as Doctor Avery and complete her residency while onboard.

The twins will obviously have to have ocean-related names.  This is an ABC show, clearly they are going to go with Ariel and Sebastian!

[AnimeMania]

3 hours ago, blackwing said:

The twins will obviously have to have ocean-related names. 

Nemo and Dory

[iMonrey]

I don't think she's going to have the baby (ies?). It just wouldn't work on a show like this (yes, even a show like this.) What's she going to do, hire a nanny to watch the kids in her room while she's on duty? She'd have to quit her job, so they would effectively have to write her off the show.

[fastiller]

31 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

I don't think she's going to have the baby (ies?). It just wouldn't work on a show like this (yes, even a show like this.) What's she going to do, hire a nanny to watch the kids in her room while she's on duty? She'd have to quit her job, so they would effectively have to write her off the show.

I see no problem with this.

[Elizzikra]

3 hours ago, iMonrey said:

I don't think she's going to have the baby (ies?). It just wouldn't work on a show like this (yes, even a show like this.) What's she going to do, hire a nanny to watch the kids in her room while she's on duty? She'd have to quit her job, so they would effectively have to write her off the show.

They will open a shipboard childcare center.

[Raja]

Just like when papa's a sailor that child will be left with a nanny ashore during the season and the trouple can visit, but leave the next passenger boarding scene to the Captain and non medical crew.

Edited Monday at 09:07 PM by Raja

[Elizzikra]

2 hours ago, Raja said:

Just like when papa's a sailor that child will be left with a nanny ashore during the season and the trouple can visit, but leave the next passenger boarding scene to the Captain and non medical crew.

Remember the path laid by Vicky Stubing!!!