Did anyone consider that Cherry might be ugly? I don’t mean a little, I mean “throw mama from the train, Helen Thomas ugly”.
At that point, the other duck would rather be with his bud out fishing instead of shacking up with some hag.
"Mrs Miggins, if [you, me, and my manservant] were the last three people alive, I would be trying to start a family with Baldrick."
--Edmund Blackadder, Series III