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Ducky Mountain High
Reviewed: 03/10/2012
A Hogzilla Beagle? Surely you jest...
Welcome kiddies to Ducktales; the Disney Afternoon era (this played after Gummi Bears by the way) as we wind down the long road to the end of Ducktales. There were seven episodes aired during this period including three that were delayed from the pre-DA era. This is the first of those delayed episodes (which means Bubba was supposed to cease to exist in 1990 originally) as we get our first true battle between Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold since My Mother the Psychic (making it the third battle between the two in Season two and three combined). Oh; and apparently; the prize is Goldie's land which is the first time Goldie has appeared since coming out of the cake in Nephews Due As Part with the blunderbuss. This episode marks the final appearance of Bubba The Cave Duck I do believe unless he appears in a cameo in Golden Goose. So how does this episode do? So let's rant on shall we..?!
This episode is written by Ken Koonce, Rich Fogel and David Weimers. The story is edited by Ken Koonce and David Weimers.
We begin this one with a castle and judging by the dead trees and gate; it's Flintheart Glomgold's mansion. We then cut to Flint's office as Scrooge proclaims that it's one million dollars and that's his final offer. What is this; a public transit deal? Flint claims that it's a peanut farm and offers the contract and a chained pen. Scrooge signs on the dotted line and Flint mocks him because the peanut farm is twice the cost he sold Scrooge to him. Scrooge doesn't care as he walks out and Flint follows him outside to a conveniently placed cover and Scrooge proclaims that he'll get triple the investment of the farm because he has a new invention which is a...wait for it...A Goober SX which is a car that looks like a peanut. Oh great; a car that runs on peanut oil; how creative. Flint blows Scrooge off as a money grubber. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there Flint? Scrooge fills his car up with peanuts (which makes no sense since peanut oil is a liquid, not a solid) and proclaims that he'll mail Flint the personal check and races off blowing smoke in Flint's face (AND THAT'S BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH, MOVIE RATING, AND DUMB FLINT DEALS!). So we head to Scrooge's mansion and into Scrooge's office as the nephews watch Scrooge write a check with the blue feather. You know Scrooge is old fashioned when he won't use a pen in his own home. Scrooge then hears rock noises and here comes Bubba dribbling a rock like a basketball. Heh. Bubba throws the rock and Scrooge ducks. The rock does little damage to the wall as it bounces back and then Bubba slam dunks the ball into the conveniently placed blue vase with a pillar smashing both in the process. Bubba is Dumba. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW OUCH! Ummmm.... Scrooge blows him off as Bubba apologizes and calls him Scrooge instead of his usual Scooge. The nephews ask for mercy because Bubba has been watching ESPN; or something. Scrooge blows him off anyway and wants Bubba outside so he doesn't smash his mansion to pieces. Huey offers to show Bubba outside; but Scrooge stops Huey and licks the letter as he wants them to put it into the mailbox. Huey thought it was a Megabox letter; and Scrooge talks a bit and then sniffs the letter and it smells good. The nephews ask what the smell is and Scrooge claims that it's gold and gets yellow dollar signs in his eyes; a sure sign Wang Films is animating here.
Scrooge deduces that it's all in his stationary as the nephews are as confused as I am. Memo to writers: Gold has no legit smell. That's a dumb spot if I ever saw one. Scrooge figures that it must have come from his paper mill (thus rendering the peanut car crack as a random joke which shows that Fanboy & Chum Chum aren't alone in this sort of behavior. Everyone runs out and we head to the sky over a forest as Scrooge's plane (check the dollar sign on the tail section) as one of the nephews is in awe since we are in the Great Ducky Mountains; which means that we are somewhere in Canada now. We head inside as Launchpad is flying the plane, Scrooge is reading a map and Bubba is spinning a rock on his finger. Scrooge proclaims that his paper mill workers have claimed to him that the trees came from this forest as we get an overhead shot of a backwater house (which is probably where our heels are right now) and Launchpad wonders if there is gold in those trees. Scrooge claims that they are going to find out as he wants Launchpad to circle around one more time for a better look. Launchpad claims that he is a master of this circling stuff and turns to the right. Bubba then has his rock spin off the finger and somehow bounce into the airplane. Well; you have no one but the nephews to blame for this one; since they were the ones who poisoned him with that sports garbage. The rock bounces off the control panel and it sparks Wii blue as Launchpad cannot control this plane and we go into a nosedive. Well; at least fatalism is not to blame for this one as we go into a tailspin (BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!) and land into a top of a tree and wobble like crazy. Launchpad calls it the first tree point landing ever. I doubt that very seriously LP knowing your fatalism. The babyfaces go to the side door to open it and the plane tilts and babyfaces drop down and land on their asses on the ground. Scrooge naturally blows off Bubba for having a rock inside a plane and orders him to stay with Launchpad (despite Bubba asking if he could come) to get the plane down while the rest of them look around the area. Launchpad is not happy to have Bubba with him though.
So we head to Flint's mansion as a postman with letters arrives at Flint's door and knocks on it. Flint (without his hat) opens the door and it's a letter for Flint without a stamp of course. HA! Flint blows off Scrooge for making him pay for the postage as he opens the letter and then he sniffs at it and he has the lens on it proclaiming that it's gold. Flint ponders where Scrooge got gold paper and then we scene change back into the forest as Scrooge and the nephews look around. Scrooge wants them to keep their eyes peeled for gold and he already sees it as the nephews are confused. Scrooge runs over and grabs a pine needle which shines with gold. Dewey who is suppose to be the smart one of the trio gets off a really dumb line which he has heard 20/20 vision; but not 40 karat vision. This is stupid because the max for karats is 24; not 40. It should be: I've heard of 20/20 vision; but not 24 karat vision. Sure; a pine needle would never be truly 24 karat gold; but at least the pun makes sense and is accurate. We climb over the ridge and we then see a stand of gold trees which awes the nephews. Louie wonders how this happened; and Scrooge deduces that the gold deposits underground have soaked up in the roots over the years; which is really dumb since even humans have a tiny bit of gold in their bodies (as does silver, copper and even lead). Scrooge goes over and kisses a golden tree in a pretty disturbing spot as he wants to cut them all down. The nephews ask if these are his trees and Scrooge claims that they are on his land. Louie asks if he's sure about it since they walked an awful long way and Scrooge decides to head back to the miner's town to check the maps to make absolutely sure. This is good character development actually for Scrooge since he's at least making sure that this is all square and legal.
So we scene change to the miner's town with a lot more fog than usual. We pan over to the main town hall as the nephews wait sitting down on the steps and then Scrooge walks out and admits that the trees are outside his property line. The nephews ask about who owns the property and Scrooge claims that it's Glittering Goldie's property. The nephews calls Goldie Scrooge's girlfriend; which is pretty much saying that she is the GIRLFRIEND OF DEATH if you know what I mean. Scrooge thinks Goldie doesn't know about the trees are on her property as he is going to try to give her a proposition. The nephews think Scrooge is going to inform her of this and Scrooge goldbricks right on cue. The nephews gasp in horror because it's not fair. Scrooge realizes this and she drives a hard bargain and she also learned from the best which was him. Umm; no Scroogie; I'm afraid it's the other way another. The babyfaces leave stage left as Flint is hiding behind an Indian statue knowing that Scrooge didn't make an emergency stop to collect pine cones. Flint admits that he needs backup and walks stage left as we logically head to a cliff where the shack was earlier on the overhead shot (See; build and everything) as we head inside and see the Backwoods Beagles for the first time. Two of the Beagle Boys in this are wearing gold miners and wood cutter outfits and have oversized beards. The Big Time'ish Beagle (with the raccoon hat) kicks the spit of moose antlers and blows off all this normalcy. Oh; and he speaks with a stereotypical Canadian accent. How do I know? He sezs "eh" in every other sentence. Funny how no one noticed that; but someone took offense on USIMDB when Fairly Oddparents did it. The reason why I don't take offense to it is because Canadians typically know how to laugh at themselves when they see such an obvious stereotype. Heck; watch the closing of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games for a refresher course.
The wood cutter's outfit Beagle is the Bouncer Beagle of the trio; and the third Beagle is actually dressed like a Beagle Boy; except he's not a dogperson. He's a....I cannot believe I'm typing this...a real pig on four legs. Seriously; he is. I'm guessing that he's Bacon Beagle (Frank Welker). A knock on the door beckons and the Canadian Beagle Boy answers it to reveal Flint. Flint asks for Beagle Boys and the Canadian introduces him as Backwoods Beagle . The wood-cutter guy is Binky by the way and I'm guessing that he's the one who doesn't talk. Backwoods is voiced by Danny Mann; who recently was heard voicing Thanos the god of death in the Kid Icarus: Uprising CGI anime on Nintendo Video. Apparently; Binky and Bacon are twins which Flint even points out that he's a pig. Backwoods claims that he had swine flu as a child. Remember this is 1990; long before swine flu became a part of H1N1 and tried to scare the crap out of me and conspiracy theorists. Flint is here on a lead from the main Beagle Boy brothers (which begs the question why didn't the Beagle Boys just come with Flint? This question cannot be answered, do not think too much.) and he wants their services to screw Scrooge and Goldie out of some gold. Backwoods teases no selling the deal using the "checking the calender to squeeze him in" routine; but Bacon grunts. Flint asks what he said and Backwoods claims that Bacon ate the calender yesterday so they will take the job outright and shake hands. Yes; Bacon is just another Brat from The Wuzzles; only without the Downs Syndrome.
So we head inside a prospector clothing store (a log cabin) AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Scrooge is trying on the prospector gear which is the same one he wore in Back To The Klondike I do believe. Scrooge admires himself in the mirror and I guess Launchpad got the plane down because he's with Scrooge along with Bubba. Scrooge admires his skinned spats as Launchpad basically calls him nuts. Scrooge doesn't notice because this is all part of the investment. Huey gives Scrooge a heart box of chocolates while Bubba gives Scrooge flowers. How sweet considering that Scrooge told him to stay out of his way. So we head outside at dawn as the QUACKEROONIES OF DOOM march on and we pan northeast to see the Canadian Beagles resort to the old hillbilly antic of murdering people: the old drop the boulder trick. The nephews and Bubba are not fooled as they see the boulder bouncing down the cliff and bail. Scrooge turns around; drops his "suck up treats" and gets chased by said boulder. That seems so stupid of him since the kids basically made him look dumber than they were. Then Bubba snaps a tree branch and runs to the boulder and whacks it before it can MURDER Scrooge and it flies high into the air and squashes the Beagle Boys flatter than Canadian back bacon. AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ummm; no they run into a cave and the boulder slams into the entrance closing it up. I club BS&P for making me think that the obvious was going to happen. POW! OUCH! Ummmm... Thankfully; there is bear in the cave and they get MURDERED off-screen. Good enough I guess.
So we cut back to the nephews helping Scrooge dust off his clothing. Scrooge pets Bubba on the head (must resist Gidget pet shop joke) and Bubba gives him back the suck up treats which are in perfect condition. So we head to Glittering Goldie's shack AFTER HAPPY HOUR as Scrooge checks the paper and makes it to the mailbox. However; the blunderbuss bullet whizzes by Scrooge's head by about a foot and Scrooge bails behind a rock and uses the DOLLAR FLAG OF DOOM to surrender. We see Goldie in shadows with the blunderbuss thinking that someone is trespassing on her property as she is on the front porch with the lantern and notices the dollar sign flag and realizes that it is Scrooge. She calls him a cuss too as she wonders why he is here. Goldie admits that the Klondike has been picked clean and she was forced to flee here to find another line of work which is lumber jacking. Which is codeword for: Be Donald Duck in that classic short. Hopefully; there are no chipmunks around. Worst critters around when dealing with logs if you catch my drift. We discover that Scrooge has given her Marigolds and Silver Dollars which Goldie calls him romantic. Funny how he has no problem with buying Marigolds when Goldie is involved; but when it comes to Mrs. Beakly; Scrooge cheaps her out. I guess the power of the blunderbuss is powerful. Scrooge comes in and sits down on the sofa as Scrooge suggests dinner and has a proposition for her. Goldie no sells because she already has a date which confuses Scrooge. So Goldie opens the door and Scrooge rubs his eyes and then gasps in horror because it's Flint with chocolates and flowers. I believe that this is the first true meeting for those two. Flint calls this all a small forest and that ends the segment exactly ten minutes in. Pretty good episode thus far...
After the commercial break; Flint walks in and Scrooge is not amused. Goldie takes this as they know each other and Flint agrees with her as it goes way back. Way too far back for Scroogie's liking it seems. Even more so when Flint elbows Scrooge in the ribs as Goldie wants to go out together. So we basically have a plot line from My Valentine Ghoul commencing. Okay; this could be good, but Goldie should pack the blunderbuss with her; just in case we get some Scottish wrestlin going on here. Flint doesn't like this; but Scrooge then stuffs silver dollars into Flint's mouth and agrees to it. WHAT?! Okay; Scrooge was the one who didn't like Glomgold appearing; so why is FLINT suddenly against this idea? That makes no sense. Flint should be for it and the one stuffing silver dollars down Scrooge's mouth since that is the heelish thing to do. Anyhow; Goldie bails to freshin up and the Scottish salesmen stand at attention and wave. Then Flint and Scrooge blow each other off as Scrooge claims that Goldie is his girlfriend. Again; after the finish to Till Nephews Due Us Part; I have a hard time believing that one. This leads to Scrooge and Flint doing a pointless sequence where they throw the other guy over his shoulder and throwing them out of the shack, and then coming back in. It all ends with both getting thrown out at the exact same time and looking at each other funny. HEE HEE! The power of the cartoon sequence engulfs me. Or maybe not. They grab their hats; run inside and then we have the FCC FRIENDLY CLOUDUST FIGHT OF DOOM to waste some more time. Sadly; Wang Films cannot animate a cloud dust properly and thus we see half of the shots making contact; mostly by Flint. Sadly; Goldie enters and both immature brats are forced to sit on the sofa. Goldie is wearing a pink dress with pink high heels, a choker and a pink bow on her head. In other words; we are seeing the adult Webby Vanderquack before our eyes. Well; not quite; since Webby doesn't have blond hair. Scrooge calls her a million dollars while Flint calls it a billion while whisper blowing off Scrooge for being a cheapskate of compliments. HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments.
Goldie goes to the door and wants to get some dinner as Scrooge rushes in and opens the door while Flint goes to the coat rack and puts a blue scarf around her shoulders. Goldie claims that this is going to be a night to remember. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Goldie walks down the hill while Scrooge and Flint fetch a pail of Jealouserio Nuts. AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! They basically fight like jealous kids on the way out as we head to the Moosehead Lodge complete with piano playing and neon sign in the background. We discover that Goldie got enough in the investment to buy her a truck too which she alone drives. Wow; she is so generous she even allowed the two to sit in the front seat. Blunderbuss welder to the left of him; cheap skating cuss to the right, he is Flint; stuck in the middle with me. AHHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm... So Scrooge climbs out of the truck which shows that Flint is in the middle as a setup because Scrooge opens the door with his cane to let Goldie out and then he slams the door in Flint's face as Flint is trying to get out. Scrooge walks into the lodge with Goldie and taunts Flint. So Flint groans like mad and drives around to the back of the lodge and honks the horn. We cut to the conveniently placed trash cans as we see the Canadian Beagle Boys pop up from them. We do some unpopping and Bacon flying into a wall trick as Flint wants the heels to get Scrooge out of there so he can seal the deal with Goldie. Backwoods plan is to make up a fake phone call to force Scrooge to get out. Flint proclaims that he cannot believe that he is doing business with a pig. Bacon grunts and Backwoods translates it as Bacon not believing it either. HAHA! So at least we agree that a pig Beagle Boy is downright stupid. Flint is flustered on that one in case you didn't realize it before.
So we head inside as someone is playing the piano on the upper right of the lodge. He looks like a cross between a Frankstein and Captain N: The Game Master. So we pan west to Scrooge and Goldie at the table as the dogperson waiter wearing a moose antler hat shows them the menu which starts off as a blank cheese menu and then a moose head is added on the very next shot. It's all moose all time including the tasteful Moosaka from Greece. Scrooge is disappointed because there is no chocolate mousse and the waiter blows it off claiming he never heard of it; but his face clearly shows that he hates it and walks out. Scrooge admits that he has no love for moose and Goldie admits that the only over place in the area is the Yak In The Box. HAHA! Scrooge is not amused as he wants to talk about his proposition; however, here comes Flint with a pink wooden heart chair; only in a slightly different shade of pink than the others. Flint has his proposition as Backwoods walks in and informs Scrooge of an urgent phone call. Scrooge no sells as he continues to tug on Flint's clothing and generally being a dick. Flint claims that it's a business call and Scrooge no sells because no one knows he is here. Backwoods is so screwed so he goes through all the booking names of distractions; but Scrooge no sells all. So Flint grabs Backwoods and bails into the next room and Flint tries to blow Backwoods off; but Binky and Bacon bag Flint. HAHA! That'll teach him to treat a Canadian badly! Flint struggles in the bag as we cut back to Scrooge and Goldie at the table as Goldie wants to hear Scrooge's proposition. Scrooge butters up Goldie with money promos and Goldie takes it as wanting to marry Scrooge. If only Goldie, if only. Scrooge wants the land parcel free; and somehow Flint teleports back in his seat pounding his fist on the table claiming that it's over his defeathered body. Scrooge counters by claiming that he wouldn't know a good deal if it was behind door #3 and they fight away.
So Goldie calls for the kids to stop this silly petty fighting over a piece of land and she thinks that they think there is gold in them hills. Goldie claims that she will take the sweetest offer available to them. So the offer starts at $100,000 dollars and we bicker for a while. Goldie wonders what to do with the money and so Scrooge offers two sets of dishes and his own land; while Flint claims that he'll offer three sets of dishes and Scrooge's land. That's enough for Goldie to shake hands with Scrooge on the deal. HAHA! Memo to Flint: Always offer your land; not someone else's. Goldie is not dumb. Scrooge gives Flint the worst animated raspberry I have ever seen. Flint walks to the outside doors and proclaims that there is more than one way to skin a Scott and walks out. That ends the segment nearly 15 minutes in.
After the most pixelized commercial break ever; we cut to morning near a log house on the left side as we head to the log cabin shopping store as Wang Films tries so hard to look like good animators; but no one is fooled. So we head inside as Scrooge is throwing various lumber jacking objects into the shopping cart with Bubba sitting on them. The nephews are amazed by Scrooge's impulse spending as he is apparently shopping until he is dropping. Scrooge recoils and turns around to see if no one is listening. Scrooge claims that he is returning this stuff after he cuts down those golden trees. Then we hear Launchpad's voice and LP comes out of the dressing room dressed up as a Lumberjack as he is Lumberjack McQuack. I think Donald Duck finally has some competition in the world crown of Lumberjack Epic Fail. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He plays golf with the axe; and that breaks the glass and shoots the conveniently placed blunderbuss and almost kills Huey with it in the process. And Toon Disney kept it all for us to see. Again; why do people think I think TaleSpin was downplayed? Laughable non-editing like this. This leads to a life preserver tied up to the ceiling to snap and falls right on Scrooge. HAHA! Launchpad grins like an idiot as Scrooge calls him a lumber-jerk. That would have worked more on Flint than on Launchpad. So we logically go into the forest as the babyfaces are walking with backpacks and Launchpad has his hands tied behind his back. LP calls this cruel and unusual punishment. I agree with LP; why not tie Bubba's hands behind his back. That'll stop him from dribbling rocks in the house.
Scrooge blows him off as they make it to the site; but the trees have already been cut and Scrooge is not happy to see this. Scrooge has been stumped and Scrooge blows off the tree puns as Huey notices golden needles on the ground and a hole shaped like a log path heading south. The babyfaces follow as Bubba is dribbling his favorite rock which came out of nowhere as Scrooge wants to stop those lumber-jackals. The nephews are carrying axes?! Jeepers; I thought that was a no-no in a children's cartoon. So we head to the river as Flint and the Canadian Beagles have tied the golden logs together into the raft and set it on the water surface. Sadly; the babyfaces all come in with axes and Scrooge has a pickax. For what reason I don't know. Oh; and Launchpad's arms are free now, natch. So the heels get the raft in and blitz the babyfaces as Flint bails on the raft. And the Canadian Beagles get about a dozen MOLLY VIOLENCE shots from Bubba complete with dust cloud while dribbling the rock. Scrooge praises Bubba's act of violence and I say please don't let him play ice hockey or our sport will really go down the drain quicker than DTVA in 1996-2002. Scrooge dives into the water and swims towards Flint who rowing the golden log raft. Strangely; in the far shot; it looks like a legit canoe and then changes to it's correct form on the front FPS shot as Scrooge gets on and we swing thy partner and doe-see-doe. We play tug-of-war on the river rapids for a while as we get the childish insults and beard pulling to waste some time.
They are heading for a waterfall and they both panic. Both try to paddle the log raft and then they start trying to push each over off the raft. Which I find really really counterproductive at this point. Both Scots go down the raft from behind and splash into the lake below...and then we quickly scene change to the logging train station as the train is ready to leave and we head into a sawmill as Scrooge wakes up tied up to a log on a conveyer belt. Flint pulls the lever (WRONG LEVER!) and proclaims that Scrooge bumped his head going over the falls which makes no sense since we saw both guys go over the falls. If this was Many Love Is A Splintered Thing; Goldie would come in at this point and declare her love for Flint and turn heel for good. Now THAT would be character development. Scrooge wiggles his legs around as Scrooge screams for help. No dice forthcoming as Flint has a train to catch and he bails stage right. We get a closeup shot of the saw blade. Scrooge screams for Launchpad as Flint takes the train of long boards as a box car and rides down the tracks and around the bend. The Canadian Beagle Boys jump onto the train as Flint fills coal into the stove and proclaims victory over Scrooge. You know Flint has little heat left when (a) he needs a train stove to get it and (b) when Flint has to resort to stooping to a hillbilly's level. So we cut to a ridge with a conveniently placed boulder as Launchpad and the kids arrive. Oh; you can bet your bird that Bubba is going to roll that rock and cause damage to those train tracks. Damn; I'm so good as the boulder does it's MAN-SIZED bump into the bridge and the train track gets completely destroyed. Strike indeed Bubba! So damn predictable which is good considering how worse he is when he's unpredictable. The train crashes with a MAN-SIZED bump with the Hercules smoke of doom...
...and the train is destroyed as the Canadian Beagle Boys are all right and somehow not brain dead. Oh wait; that would involve having a brain, never mind. Wang Films' crack coloring team NOW paints the planks gold after showing them being regular wood plank colors the entire time. Louie praises Bubba's bowling skills as Backwoods calls this not their golden moment in crime. I'll say! Then the babyfaces somehow hear Scrooge literally from miles away and they run into the sawmill and on the side shot of the conveyer belt we see that the belt hasn't moved at all until right now since Scrooge is FURTHER AWAY from the saw blade than he was BEFORE Flint hopped on the train. Idiots! Launchpad then hops into action on top of the woodpile wanting to save Scrooge; but Dewey tries to tell LP that the lever will stop all this. LP doesn't listen and swings like Tarzan and misses Scrooge by a country mile. HAHA! So the kids go to the lever and push it (WRONG LEVER!) and Scrooge's log stops as Scrooge misses the saw blade by a top of the head. Launchpad swings onto the logs and we don't see him drop onto them; but we jump cut to Louie checking Launchpad on the bottom of the pile. Okay; that clearly looked like a Toon Disney edit; and a really dumb one too. Louie gleefully explains the flaw in LP's plan as the remaining kids untie Scrooge. Another two seconds and there would be two Scrooges according to him. As if one wasn't enough. And no Scrooge; there would be only two half Scrooges which means each would be twice more generous than before. AHHAHAHAHAHA! BONK! OUCH! Ummmm... Dewey pets Bubba and informs Scrooge that the wooden planks are safe below the gorge. WHAT? The problem with this is that the Canadian Beagles and Flint are WITH the planks and thus they could still steal them anyway. Idiots! Scrooge wants to return to the golden forest (WHAT?) so that this doesn't get stolen. WHY?! I thought Scrooge wanted the golden logs...
...So we head to the site as we see them dig a hole in the ground which is fitting since this episode is burying itself in stupidity. Launchpad looks tired and worn out and really; who can blame him? Huey wipes his head and then notices that the tree roots are growing sideways and informs Scrooge about it. Scrooge is as confused of this as I am and then we hear a female voice and it's Goldie with a pickax. Scrooge stammers like an idiot when she asks about the gold as she was looking for it too. Scrooge gets up and then decides to apologize for not being forthcoming and sleazy like that Glomgold scumbag. Goldie forgives him anyway because a deal is a deal and they have a contract. Scrooge gives Goldie a really awesome kiss on the cheek in response. Scrooge climbs down and digs like crazy as the kids are worn out. Scrooge digs and he finds the gold deposit and is in high heaven. However; there is one small problem: See; the gold deposits are on HER land and the trees are on his land according to the property records. Scrooge checks the records and cannot believe this. HAHA! So in other words; Scrooge wasted all this time trying to get the property that he already owned from the start. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I betcha Goldie knew this ALL along. And she did and in fact she is the one who sent Scrooge the gold stationary too just to close up another loop hole. Scrooge blows her off as a dirty deal maker and Goldie proclaims that she learned from the best and kisses him on the cheek and this one is even better. Scrooge blushes in embarrassment and we heart fade out to end the episode at 21:11. So we never found out what happened to the logs and if Flint and the Canadian Beagle Boys got them back. Very sloppy guys. Despite that and a few really stupid logic breaks; this episode was awesome. Why wasn't THIS episode the Valentine's Day episode? I'll never know what ticks in the mind of a exec; I'll never figure it out. **** 1/2 (90%).
THE REVIEW LINE
In my view; this should have been the Valentine's Day episode for Ducktales because this was clearly the better one too. Sure; there were some pretty stupid moments and gaffes in the dialogue and we didn't close up the loop hole on the planks with the heels; but this was really well written and surprisely well animated; although there were the usual mistakes from Wang Films. The ending was awesome as Scrooge pretty much got what he deserved for thinking that Goldie was dumb to sell Scrooge the land and in fact was playing with Scrooge's mind all along. This also is great in the character development as even I saw the cue of Goldie accepting the deal halfway though with Scrooge just to play with Scrooge's and Flint's mind. The Canadian Beagle Boys were good; and even Bubba was on his best behavior doing what he does best; being dumb and strong. Overall; I enjoyed this episode and screw the execs for derailing the show with that ultra stupid love arrow episode they aired on NBC.
Sadly; this is the last appearance for Bubba The Cave Duck who actually was not bad. Yes; Bubba's Big Brainstorm was the worst thing I have ever saw; but reading my notes and such made me realize that Bubba was the least crappy among the crap as the nephews were far worse, along with the ancient thinkers and the writing. Changing Bubba's personality to get his over was not smart; but in hindsight, making everything else around it worse made me realize that as a one off joke; Bubba was at least effective as a background character. So Bubba is certainly not worse than Scrappy Doo on the crap scale; although that episode certainly tried to make it look that way. This is also Goldie's final appearance and she came off like a billion dollars. So next up is four straight Gizmo Duck episodes; starting with Attack of The Metal Mites featuring Dijon's first official television appearance! And more Flintheart too. So.....
Thumbs up for this episode and I'll see you next time.