Alfred J. Kwak - Allusions

Allusions

• That Alfred's girlfriend fleeing Apartheid is called Winnie is probably a reference to the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela.
• One episode features a womanising pop star duck who nearly steals Winnie off Alfred. He appears to be loosely based on Prince and Michael Jackson.
• In the episode of Desert Dream, Alfred is introduced by a singer named Leifeet, to the problems of drought in a poor country. This clearly refers to the charity actions taken for Ethiopia by Bob Geldof through his live aid-project in the mid-1980s.
• In the Danish version the main character is Rasmus Rap, a name earlier used for Donald Duck in that country.
• Alfred J. Kwak was named after Alfred Biolek, a friend of Van Veen's. He has said this in a program on Dutch television.