Smoking in Alfred J. Kwak
Harald Siepermann and Hans Bacher have regularly shown the characters that they have drawn to be smoking. While smoking was generally deeply embedded in Western culture and completely normalized, there was nontheless a very clear choice made to not portray any characters in the animated series as smoking. There was even an episode on recreational marijuana use scrapped, possibly also due to it's proximity to episode 6 and the subject of doping, which was also drug related. This can be considered a type of censorship.
A gallery of characters seen smoking
While smoking was removed entirely from the animated series, several books, comics and original production materials still show characters smoking. Below is a list, listed alphabetically.
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Alfons Rokodil Alfons Rokodil was shown smoking a cigar in his character sheet, which was also used for De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: Het grote voorleesboek as shown here.[1][2] He is also shown smoking a cigar in De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Goedemorgen[3] |
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Alfred Jodocus Kwak Alfred was shown smoking a cigarette in the comic De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Vissen in troebel water[4] as shown here. |
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Bart 'Beton' Bever Bart was shown smoking a cigar in his character sheet.[5] He is also shown smoking a cigar twice in De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Goedemorgen[6] one of which is shown here. |
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Hannibal Nijlpaard Professor Hannibal was seen smoking a cigar in De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Vissen in troebel water[7] as shown here. |
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Henri Dropshot Dropshot was shown smoking a cigarette in De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Goedemorgen[8] which is shown here. |
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Johnny Hollyday Hollyday was seen smoking a cigarette in his character sheet.[9] |
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Kaspar Rokodil Kaspar was seen smoking a cigar in De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Professor Paljas[10] as shown here. |
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Olaf Nijlpaard Olaf Nijlpaard was seen smoking a cigar twice in De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Goedemorgen[11], the first time, during the meeting in Beton Maatschappij office and later on during on the construction site of Groot Speelgoedland. The first instance is shown here.
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