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Ducktales Returns: Woo-oo!

Reviewed: 07/07/2018

...And Returns With A Gold Eating Dragon!

2018 Gregory Weagle Says: Welcome back, old friend. You have been missed.

After the 1990/1991 Disney Afternoon season ended with a gold wave of death; Ducktales would not have any new episodes on television ever again. The movie barely broke even and destroyed the hopes and dreams of other DTVA shows making it to the cinema. For years onward; it seems DTVA was a mistake and a new era of cartooning commenced. Disney didn't want to revisit their past anymore. In a way; it was the best thing they could do as new cartoons like Phineas & Ferb, Gravity Falls, Wonder Over Yonder, Milo Murphy's Law and many more rebuild and cleaned up the mess shows like Recess, 101 Dalimatians: The Series, Mighty Ducks: The Series and many others had made. DTVA had been reborn into something that it could call it's own and be good; while no one could compare it to the original that laid the foundation for DTVA: Ducktales 1987. Then, something amazing happened: Disney contacted Capcom and Wayforward to create a remake of the Ducktales first video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System. On a hunch; Disney execs wondered if people remembered Ducktales for all those years was due to the NES video games. I mean; there were a lot of references to the musical Moon theme. So the game was released (including on Wii U) and it exceeded expectations from both Capcom and Disney. Disney now figured; time to bring Ducktales back in for the modern audience. Now is the perfect time. Jump to February 2015; three days before the announcement; one of my collegues and one of the most notable reviewers of Ducktales; Christopher Barat passed away. This was tragic and the fact that three days later; Ducktales was going to be rebooted and a lot of people were legit creeped out on this. Still; I doubt Disney even knew about him anyway and a job must be done. Ducktales was reborn again.

According to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones grew up watching the original series and had always wanted to develop an updated version for a newer generation. Youngberg said, "We're hoping that in thirty years, the kids who watch our show will then be bringing back the next version of DuckTales because they loved what we did so much."[6] In May 2015, Terry McGovern, the original voice of Launchpad McQuack, stated in an interview that the entire voice cast from the original series would not be returning for the reboot, which made him "heartsick" at the news.[7] The new voice cast for the series was revealed on December 16, 2016 in a video where they sing an a cappella version of the original theme song in promotion of the news.[8][9][10] The following May, Lin-Manuel Miranda was announced as the voice of Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera / Gizmoduck.[11] The character was changed to being Latino due to Lin-Manuel's heritage and because Angones felt that there were not enough positive Latino superheroes.[6] In June, more cast members, including Tony Anselmo reprising his role as Donald Duck, were announced,[12] and during the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, Disney announced that Darkwing Duck would also make an appearance in the TV series.[13] The art style of the show is heavily influenced not just by Carl Barks' original Uncle Scrooge comics, but also some of Barks' paintings.[14][1] The theme song, written by Mark Mueller for the 1987 series, was re-recorded for the 2017 reboot.[15] It was arranged by Michael "Smidi" Smithand and TJ Stafford and sung by Felicia Barton.[16] The premise is as follows: After not speaking to each other for ten years, Scrooge McDuck is reunited with Donald Duck after he asks Scrooge to watch his three nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie for the day. The presence of the newcomers rekindles Scrooge's spirit of adventure, leading the group to go on many new treasure-hunting expeditions, while the nephews and their new friend Webby seek the truth behind their uncles' broken relationship and the mysterious disappearance of Huey, Dewey, and Louie's mother and Donald's sister Della Duck.

So, the two parter Woo-oo was released on August 12th, 2017 and the midnight debut did a huge rating during that time slot and nearly six million people watched it; one of the largest viewership for a DTVA cartoon since Phineas & Ferb. While Disney had ordered episodes well in advance before then; the ratings showed that it was the correct decision. Ducktales was back and the new audience loved it. Despite being on Disney XD and later on Disney Channel and the viewership wasn't big from there on out; I blame more of that on an audience that values accessibility over visuals. I mean; the art style is changed a lot; although compared to some flat styles; this was one of the best looking to say the least and it was animated much better than the 1987 one, that is for sure. Now; I have seen 80% of the show when it debuted back in August of 2017 and it was very good for what I have seen. However; I didn't pick up everything in the proper context due to this; so it wasn't exactly a perfect look. I finally got the DVD sets and can give this a full review along with all of the "Welcome To Duckburg" segments present on the DVD. So, we begin the series as we get the reboot's take on how Scrooge and the nephews got together. Since Donald Duck is now 100% fair game in this show; unlike his 1987 version where he was a mere cameo (Sorry Mickey Mouse fans; he's still off limits, because he's a corporate puppet still.); he plays a much bigger role in the series now. At least for a while anyway. So, how does these episodes fare? Let's rant on shall we..?!

Woo-oo's story is written and edited by Francisco Angones who also co-produced the show and directed by John Aoshima and Dana Terrace. Additional story was provided by Colleen Evanson, Noelle Stevenson, Madison Bateman, Nate Federman and Matt Youngberg (whom like Angones; has a credit for developed for television). Francisco's credits: Shoot Down in 2007 as a volunteer, and an announcer in Blondes In The Jungle in 2009. Also worked on Christopher Dispossessed, Mutual Friends and staff writer for Men at Work and wrote an Austin and Ally episode. Wonder Over Yonder is his DTVA debut with Ducktales being his most recent credit. That's it. John you already know from my Gravity Falls rants. Dana worked on Gravity Falls in 2014 onward as her DTVA debut, and besides Ducktales; Tangled: The Series is her most recent credit. She debut on Blenderstein in 2011, and produced a short called Mirage in 2012. That's it. Matt Youngsberg debut on Batman Beyond in 2000 and worked on Teen Titans, X-Men: Evolution, Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman, Justice League Unlimited, Ben 10: Omniverse, Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Ben 10: Alien Force, Young Justice, Transformers: Animated, The Batman, Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy? and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. Ducktales is his DTVA debut and most recent credit. That's about it. Colleen Evanson's credits: Making Mistakes as her debut, Make it Or Break It, Bounty Hunters, His New Hands and Ducktales as her most recent credit. Noelle Stevenson's credits: debuted on Bravest Warriors, Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, Critical Role and her most recent credit: Nimona coming in 2020 as a graphic novel. Wander Over Yonder is the DTVA debut and has also worked on Tangled: The Series. Madison Bateman's credits: Debut as April in A Sticky Situation in 2009, and an additional voice in China, IL. Worked on Black Dynamite, Turbo FAST, Stoner, The Fob & I and Home: Adventures With Tip & Oh as her most recent credit. Ducktales is her only DTVA appearance and debut. Nate Federman debuted as production assistant for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and then Andy Barker PI before writing various versions of The Office from 2006-2010. He went into animation writing Ugly Americans (Oh look; a relevent reference nowadays!), Awkward., Legendary Dudas and Dawn Of The Croods as his most recent credit. Wander Over Yonder (See a trend building here?) is his DTVA debut and also worked on Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil. Notice none of them worked on productions before Gravity Falls. While this would normally be a bad sign, Gravity Falls is a great show and most of the rest of the productions are pretty much good, so it's not a Kick Buttowski situation. Except for John working on Pickle & Peanut of course. Animation is provided by Snipple Animation Studios with additional animation services done by Toon City Animation.

Opening Moment #1: The new opening of Ducktales is basically one running comic strip animated with a lot of running and various scenes; played to a remix version of the original Ducktales opening theme, which sounds at times better than the original version. The animation is really great, the artwork looks like they took the round style Ducktales look; changed a lot of the characters' designs and half-flatten the characters, similar to the flattening of characters in Flat Zone in Super Smash Brothers. It certainly looks great on television; although the character designs are changed quite a lot from 1987 Ducktales, but seriously; this was due to creative wanting a more Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge comics look to the series. I don't see how this is a bad thing.

We officially begin the series in the sky as a seagull caws and flies around in an animation sequence designed to tell you that this show is animated better than the 1987 version of Ducktales. This goes on for a while as the seagull flies and dodges sea captains in their boats in the harbour of Duckberg. They don't like the seagull of course and the seagull lands on a mast and attempts to sleep. Then there is rumbling and the seagull bails as we at the boathouse, known as the new residence of that duck with worse luck than Kit Cloudkicker could ever imagine: Donald Duck himself. So, speaking of bad luck; Donald Duck has since Quack Pack, lost his suburbian home and is forced to live on the harbour in a boathouse; and has no job. We head inside as Donald Duck (voiced by Tony Anselmo as he has for decades now) is running and screaming, because Louie Duck is on his back, riding him like a surfboard with a blue navy suit. Louie has a roundish square head, which pissed off a lot of old farts; but not me because at least they don't have triangle heads like Phineas. Louie has a hoodie-equse green sweater on this time around, so he's basically the only one of the nephews who still has some vestiages of his old Quack Pack persona intact. As expected; the nephews are all voiced by different voices like in Quack Duck; but instead of middle aged women, it's middle aged men. Louie Duck is voiced by Bobby Moynihan and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Moynihan frequently performed with the Derrick Comedy sketch group and appeared in many of their popular internet videos and various projects. He also filmed a supporting role in the group's feature film Mystery Team, which premiered at Sundance in 2009 before a limited theatrical release. In mid-2008, Moynihan had a supporting role in the popular web-series The Line, an online video project funded by Lorne Michaels' production company, directed by SNL head writer Seth Meyers, and starring SNL cast members Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis.

He acted as a sketch regular on Late Night with Conan O'Brien for a number of years and was a contributing writer on MTV's Human Giant, and in years past, he often submitted scripts to SNL with comedy partner Charlie Sanders. Moynihan has also acted in a number of comedy shorts for the website collegehumor.com, including their recent web-series Every Week on Entourage where he plays "Turtle" from Entourage. During the summer of 2008, Moynihan featured in a national television ad campaign for ESPN Radio with Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay.[3][4] In the summer of 2009, Moynihan starred in the music video for Colbie Caillat's single, "Fallin' For You".[5] He also appeared in three of The Lonely Island's music videos; Boombox, Shy Ronnie 2 and Threw It On The Ground. He made a guest appearance as the drug-addicted Conrad Bellingham on Mercy. He also appeared in the films The Invention of Lying, When in Rome, and Certainty. Moynihan also voiced the titular character in the FX animated comedy Chozen, which aired for one season in 2014. In 2015, he was a featured character, Lenny, in the romantic comedy film Slow Learners (original title Bad Boys, Crazy Girls). He also voices Panda in an animated Cartoon Network TV show that premiered in 2015 called We Bare Bears, as well as Hal the Dog in an animated PBS Kids TV Show that also debuted that year called Nature Cat. In 2016, Moynihan appeared in a commercial for Pizza Hut's Bacon Stuffed Crust Pizza, and voiced Mel from The Secret Life of Pets in the same year. Moynihan will voice the character of Louie in the Disney XD revival of DuckTales.[6] Moynihan joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live during its season 34 on September 13, 2008 and left the show after 9 seasons on May 20, 2017 after the end of season 42.

He began his career as an uncredited doorman in Homicide: Life On The Street. Jake & The Neverland Pirates as King Crab (but not Giant Enemy Crab, because that would be stealing Sony's gimmick. Wink!) is his DTVA debut. Besides Ducktales; Killing Gunther (Donnie), Me, Myself & I (Alex Riley), The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature (The Mayor), Descendants 2 (Dude), Nature Cat (Hal), We Bare Bears (Panda) and of course Saturday Night Live (various) are his most recent credits. He has 85 Acting credits, 3 Writing Credits, 1 Director, Editor, Cinematographer and Misc credit apiece, 2 Thanks credits, 31 Self credits, and 19 Archive Footage credits to his resume. I should note that Donald Duck is wearing his classic 1950's outfit (blue shirt with yellow trim and a red bowtie); and he gets stripped of it and faceplants as a result. In the background, we manage to see Huey in the kitchen on a stool (NOT THAT ONE!) making breakfast on a gas powered stove, greeting Donald. They have stopped calling him "Unca"; which I do not mind at all. Huey Duck is voiced by Danny Pudi and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Pudi became a recruiter for an executive search firm before moving to Los Angeles in 2005 to seek television and film roles.[4][9] His home-based job permitted him to attend auditions, helping him avoid the "struggling actor thing in terms of waiting tables, temping and so on". He performed in several television pilots before joining the cast of Community.[4] Pudi has appeared in multiple television advertisements for such products as Snickers, Verizon, McDonald's, T-Mobile, and Pokémon.[4][9][10] In 2012, he appeared as a celebrity contestant on GSN's version of The Pyramid with fellow Community cast member Yvette Nicole Brown. He portrayed Arash in the comedy film Road Trip: Beer Pong,[11] which received mainly negative reviews, and starred in the comedy horror film Knights of Badassdom,[12] which was one of the highlights of Comic Con 2011, according to HitFix.com.

He starred in the Jones Street Station music video for "The Understanding".[13] He has made cameo appearances in many internet videos, including BriTANicK's "A Monologue for Three". Pudi had a cameo appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the live episode of Hot in Cleveland. In the fall of 2014, Pudi appeared in the Off-Broadway musical FOUND.[citation needed] In February 2017, Pudi began his role as Teddy on the NBC sitcom Powerless. In 2017, Pudi will be voicing Huey in the 2017 DuckTales reboot.[14] He began his career doing cameos on ER, The West Wing and was Raj in Gilmore Girls in 2006. Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja as Levender Hart is his DTVA debut and was the Bike Jumper in Pickle & Peanut. Besides Ducktales; The Guest Book (Tim), Powerless (Teddy), and Smurfs: The Lost Village as Brainy Smurf are his most recent credits. He has 59 Acting credits, 3 Soundtrack credits, 2 Producer credits, 4 Writing credits, 3 Directing credits, 27 Self credits and 1 Archive Footage credit to his resume. Louie throws the classic shirt into I believe is the dishwasher as Donald is protesting this; but Louie states that he must dress for the job he wants, not the job he has, which is none. As we found out later, this formal suit meant nothing. Donald Duck's new gimmick is that he's a concerned parent; which is different from his original role of not being a concerned parent in Quack Pack. Considering that some in the field consider being a concerned parent as "Helicopter Parenting" and might harm the kids, this might not have been one of the better laided plans for creative. Donald's shirt sleeve is set on fire and is rinsed in the sink by Donald; because he has the worst luck, of course. By the way; this Donald's temper has been tempered a lot since he went to the FCC Navy; but in hindsight, this might be for the best. Donald's shirt sleeve smacks him in the face. HAHA! Huery is making eggs over fishheads, with a whole fish of course. It's a big day. You don't know the half of it, dood! The fish is barely alive and there is ketchup writing on the plate claiming that they believe in Donald. HA!

Donald doesn't like it as the egg magically smears on the next shot as Huey throws the plate away and it shatters off-screen; thankfully, no cats were abused during this. Huey runs over and brings down the ironing board...and Donald gets bonked down and faceplants on his face again. This is enough for Donald to tease doing his pissed off angry mode as Huey and Louie back up. Donald orders them to simply stop helping him and put on his life vest, because Donald doesn't trust the babysitter to not sink his house boat. You know you have the worst luck when you are predicting the demises of everything and it sounds believable. Although, that should be the least of his worries (and problems) because the babysitter hasn't arrived yet. So, Donald calls the babysitter and the babysitter is claiming that someone gave him a new address and Donald claims that he didn't give the babysitter a new address. Louie and Huey look at each other with smug ass smiles, outing themselves as the guilty party. Of course! It's not like the classic nephews even before Ducktales were perfect little angels who do nothing wrong and don't make Donald Duck's life miserable or anything. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge! So, we head to the middle of nowhere near an abandoned cabin as an old woman duck is not sure when she'll be back to Duckberg. I don't know who she is; she might be Grandma Duck for all I know. You know; if the reason for the all-male voiced nephews was done to gender apporos, then they contradicted themselves on that, since Jason Marsden voiced the babysitter here. Donald calls her a crazy old bird and hangs up. Well; Donald has three crazy new birds, so I wouldn't exactly talk about craziness. Not to mention the projection coming out of Donald. It's ten o'clock on Donald's cell phone and he panics as the nephews put on the suit, vest and green tie and they run out onto the dock. Donald is still playing concerned parent to the hilt and the nephews insist that they will be fine for a few hours. Yeah, I'll bet! Donald decides to let this go and orders them to keep those vests on.

The nephews give the thumbs up as Donald tries to leave; but suddenly, the boathouse's engines are slowly starting to turn on. Donald turns around and demands to know where Dewey is as Louie lies and Huey denies. Donald walks back into the engine room as even Louie thinks Huey's denial was lame. So we head into the engine room as Dewey Duck is hot-wiring the boathouse, a move straight out of the Charles WildCat playbook. Now; Dewey is the best nephew of the three, which is consist with my feelings on Quack Pack. Only difference is, none of them suck here. Dewey is the awesome one of the group, Huey is the brains and Louie is the scumbag/business boy of the group. Dewey Duck is voiced by Ben Schwartz and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): On television, Schwartz guest-starred as Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on NBC's Parks and Recreation[3] and was a lead in the Showtime show House of Lies.[4] In 2010, Schwartz played series regular Bill Hoyt on J. J. Abrams' one-hour spy drama Undercovers for NBC. Schwartz has been writing, directing and acting in his own short films for some time.[when?] He had his own segment on HBO’s Funny or Die Presents called Terrible Decisions with Ben Schwartz and has appeared in multiple CollegeHumor[5] sketches including the popular web series Jake and Amir. Schwartz has been nominated for three Emmys and won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special for coauthoring Hugh Jackman's opening number for the 81st Academy Awards.[6][7] In September 2013, he was hired by Paramount Pictures to re-make the 1991 comedy Soapdish,[7] retitled El Fuego Caliente and reworking the original's American soap opera into a Latin telenovela,[8] with producers Rob Reiner and Alan Greisman, and he sold an original pitch to Universal Studios based on an idea by Brian Grazer with Imagine Entertainment attached to produce.

He was a staff writer for the third season of Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken and served as a freelance writer for the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live as well as the monologues for the Late Show with David Letterman.[3] Schwartz is an alumnus of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCBT)[3] and continues to perform there regularly. He is a member of the improv group "Hot Sauce" with Adam Pally and Gil Ozeri, the group performs their long-form improv show "Something Fresh" at UCBT every month. He and Bill Hader served as vocal consultants for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.[9] In 2017, Schwartz will be voicing Dewey in the Disney XD revival of DuckTales.[10]. He began his career in 2006 on Late Night With Conan O'Brien in various roles. TRON: Uprising was his DTVA debut and was Randy Cunningham in Randy Cumminghan: 9th Grade Ninja. An Actor Prepares (Jimmy), Blue Iguana (Paul Driggs), Outside In (Ted), Animals. (Geoff), How To Be A Latin Lover (Jimmy/Valet), The New VIP's (Lenny) and Happy Anniversary, in addition to Ducktales are his most recent credits. He has 59 Acting credits, 11 Writing credits, 5 Director credits, 6 Producer credits, 1 Music Department credit, 1 Soundtrack credit, 1 Misc credit, 1 Thanks credit, 23 Self credits and 1 Archive Footage credit to his resume. When this episode first aired, it aired at midnight and repeated itself for 24 hours after the airing. I was alerted by Twitter that there was a TaleSpin reference in the show (actually at least TWO references as you'll see later on) about three minutes into this episode. Well; Dewey has hotwired the boathouse because he hates Duckburg and loves Cape Suzette so much that he thinks he can get the boathouse there in two hours. Even if you hot wired the boat; there's no way Cape Suzette is two hours away from Dorksberg...ERRR....I mean Duckburg. Unless he stole the jet engine from Mach One For The Gipper. Not happening.

Also of note; this is not the last TaleSpin reference in this episode alone. I'll explain the second one later on; because that one has even bigger implications for the series at large. Donald catches him and he throws all the nephews into the back of the car and scolds them. Well; he has a point. I mean; Dewey hotwiring a boat is so classic Disney nephew MO. Apparently; Huey's full name is now Hubert and Dewey's full name is Dewford and Louie is still Louie as they are blaming each other as Louie hates that they cannot have nice things. Donald's car is a shambles; but is somehow still functioning. Donald calmly asserts that there are things you have to do that you don't like to do. So, Donald doesn't like jobs? Okay. So, he turns on the GPS and the GPS voice (Jason Mardsen again voicing a woman) as they are going to McDuck Manor, so we have come full circle since the end of the original Ducktales series in 1991. Huey and Dewey over sells this like this is a big deal, even though they have been there before. I realize that this is a completely different canon from 1987 Ducktales; but considering that our brains are terrible at memories, I guess they had this cleared from their minds during the Quack Pack era; so either way, there's no logic break. Louie thinks that Donald is going to sell them and Donald almost falls for it because Louie Duck is a troll. Kit Cloudkicker would be pissed off by this though, because he thought he would be sold by Rebecca in Save The Tiger and in that era, selling children was a horrible but real thing! Donald does claim that Scrooge owes him a favor and the nephews are loving this, probably because Scrooge cannot be any more boring than Donald Duck at this point. This leads to a sequence of still footage of Scrooge being awesome and doing awesome things, that sound believable even if you have no context whatsoever. Apparently; the Chupucaba (?sp) was just a shaved bear, which means being a streaker considering that the bear is anthroed. It's not Baloo in the still picture by the way.

Donald turns down the radio -- which Louie had on for dramatic effect -- as it's only for a couple of hours. Dewey has no subtley whatsoever, because Donald Duck is such a boring guy. So we head to Scrooge's boardroom of doom as Scrooge is finally shown both in the comic inspired picture on top of the fireplace and then zoom down to Scrooge at the meeting. So, Scrooge has three members of his board and they are all buzzard anthros in suits. What a shocker?! Spoonerville and Saint Canard are mentioned here; and unless I'm mistaken, they have already shown Saint Canard in Beware Of The B.U.D.D.Y. System! An episode I will be reviewing in the future. Sadly; the cameo wasn't as huge as most old farts were expecting though. More on that later. I suspect Spoonerville will be reserved for Series 2 since the show has been renewed for more episodes after the epic final battle with a certain witch who loves pentagrams, only she's much more evil and dangerous than ever before. Scrooge is more bored than Donald Duck ever was as the vulture are basically cutting funding out of every department that the series would require. Fantastic! Only; I'm actually liking this because there is a reason for the buzzards to not get what they want. Bently Buzzard is voiced by Marc Evan Jackson and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): During summers, Jackson worked as a deck hand on the MV Americana.[5] After graduating from college, he spent a few years working on schooners, both in Michigan, as a deck hand on the schooner Malabar, and in Maine, as first mate on the Mercantile.[3][5][6] He also worked as a producer and host for WGVU, a National Public Radio affiliate in Michigan, replacing Bill Freeman as the host of the Morning Show in 1997.[5][6][7] Jackson started his improv career with River City Improv, a group associated with Calvin College, after attending a rehearsal to play the piano.[8] Jackson later joined The Second City Detroit, becoming a member of the main company in 1998.[9]

While at Second City Detroit he participated in the 1999 show "Phantom Menace to Society."[10] Jackson moved to Los Angeles in 2001.[11] He taught improv at Second City Hollywood.[11] He joined the long-form improv group called "The 313" in 2003.[12] The 313 is named for Detroit's area code and is made up of mostly former Detroit residents, including Keegan-Michael Key, Larry Joe Campbell, Joshua Funk, Nyima Funk, Andy Cobb, Maribeth Monroe, and Jaime Moyer.[13][14] The 313 continues to perform at comedy festivals around the country, including Las Vegas,[13] San Francisco,[14] and Detroit.[15][16] After meeting Mark Gagliardi and Ben Acker at Second City Hollywood, Jackson was invited to one of the first rehearsals of what would become the Thrilling Adventure Hour and became a member of the WorkJuice Players, playing Sparks Nevada in the regular segment "Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars".[17][18] The show has been running as a live stage show since 2005 and has been published as a podcast since January 2011. Jackson also appeared in the film Drones, which was written by Acker and Blacker and directed by Amber Benson and Adam Busch. Jackson is one half of a double act with comedian Carrie Clifford in which they play Sky & Nancy Collins, characters who live in Orange County and are trying stand-up for the first time because their friends find them funny.[19] They have appeared on Last Comic Standing, on Last Call with Carson Daly, and at the Hollywood Improv.[20] Jackson starred in a web series in 2011 directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts called Fox Compton.[21] He has gone on to work with Vogt-Roberts many times, including on the film The Kings of Summer in 2013 and in the television series Mash Up on Comedy Central.

Jackson has also made guest appearances in a number of other television series, including Key & Peele, Psych, Arrested Development, Happy Endings, The Middle, 2 Broke Girls, Modern Family, Kroll Show, Hello Ladies and Black-ish. In 2012, Jackson starred in Suit Up, a web series co-produced by DirecTV and Fox Digital Studio, as Jim Dunnigan.[22] Suit Up was the first of Fox Digital Studio's series to be picked up for a second season. In January 2012, Jackson stood in for Bradley Cooper to play the part of Ben in a staged reunion performance of Wet Hot American Summer at the San Francisco Comedy Festival.[23] Jackson has appeared as attorney Trevor Nelson in half a dozen episodes of Parks and Recreation, and was later cast as Kevin Cozner in Michael Schur's new comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.[24] Jackson had a supporting role in the Amazon pilot The Rebels, which premiered online in 2014 but was not picked up for a full series.[25] In February 2014, it was announced that Jackson would play the role of Jim in the Fox pilot titled Fatrick, along with Marcia Cross.[26] Jackson is also known for his voiceover work, which includes movies like President Wolfman,[27] radio series such as Adventures in Odyssey,[28] and web series including Funny or Die Presents: Brick Novax's Diary. In October 2013, Jackson appeared as Marcus Vanston in a live performance of the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale. This episode, titled "The Debate", was released on May 1, 2014.[29] Jackson has appeared in numerous national ad campaigns, including Farmers Insurance with J.K. Simmons,[30] Sears, Coors, Aaron's, Progressive, and DirecTv.[31] He began his career on Garage: A Rock Saga as The Saucy Chef in 2000. Ducktales is his DTVA debut and only appearance. The Fifth Quarter (James Stanton) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Lloyd) are his most recent credits. He has 80 Acting credits, 1 Thanks credit, 8 Self credits and 1 Archive Footage credit to his resume.

Scene change to Scrooge walking to the entrance of his vault which is where the Money Bin is. So far; there really is nothing all that different about this and "Don't Give Up The Ship", outside of Donald's new job prospects, the boathouse scene and the backgrounds. The rug on the floor looks like a bass violin shaped like a dollar sign. Scrooge is moping; because he's bored. Scrooge puts golden coins in the bin and it's clear from the look inside the Money Bin that McDuck Enterprises has been bleeding money all over the place ala Sony in 2008, and Nintendo in 2012; only much worse. His lucky dime is on a pillar under glass it seems; so it's clear now that the dime is a McGruffin. I think that's what it was; the artwork wasn't helpful here. Scene change to outside as the black limo leaves the Money Bin island, crosses the bridge and heads into town as the driver clearly took the Wuzzles driving lessons in the Land of Wuz, because an old lady dognose literally gets tied up with her own blanket in the middle of the crosswalk in front of her walker trying to cross the street. So another dognose in a yellow car on the roof is following the limo (I think it's from a show animated and produced by TMS; since TMS worked on the animation in Ducktales) as we head in the limo as to my huge disappointment, it's Launchpad driving the limo. This is a massive far cry from this Ducktales 1987 debut; although after seeing the Welcome To Duckburg segments, I can fully see why they did this now. Scrooge is reading the newspaper as Launchpad is now the driver, because somehow this is safer than Launchpad flying a plane. Launchpad is also much more stupider than his 1987 counterpart; and I wonder if he has taken too many shots to the head, because in one instance: Launchpad thinks he said something deep (which was as deep as anything Cadpig has said in 101 Dalimatians: The Series) and decides to write it down before he forgets; and almost runs over a bunch of pig anthros at a cafe eating. Scrooge scolds him and threatens to take money from him if this continues. No wonder the business is bleeding money all over the place.

Launchpad McQuack is voiced by Beck Bennett and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): In 2003, Bennett joined the improv/sketch group Commedus Interruptus along with Kyle Mooney and Nick Rutherford. In 2007, after graduation, Mooney, Rutherford, and Bennett joined with editor/director Dave McCary to form the sketch group Good Neighbor.[8] The group received praise from comedian Louis C.K.[9] and director Steven Spielberg, who sent Mooney, Bennett, Rutherford, and McCary a personal acknowledgement after being impressed with the Hook parody, Unbelievable Dinner. He complimented the sketch and encouraged the group to continue making funny movies.[10][11] In 2011, Bennett created the satirical political talk show Fresh Perspectives,[12][13][14] which helped him land his AT&T commercials interviewing children.[15] In 2012, he appeared in the film Kill Me Now,[16] a film starring multiple internet sketch-comedy groups, and Beside Still Waters[17] by writer/director Chris Lowell. In March 2013, Bennett appeared in an episode of Last Man Standing, and that August voiced a character for FOX ADHD's Axe Cop. That same year Good Neighbor produced a pilot for Comedy Central with Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez production company, though it was not picked up as a series, in light of the move of three of the troupe's four members to New York City to star on Saturday Night Live.[18] They debuted on SNL in September of that year, along with McCary as a director.[18] That same year Bennett completed work on the independent film Balls Out,[19] and co-created the web series Theatre of Life,[20] in which he and Rutherford film unsuspecting pedestrians and voice-over their thoughts and dialogue.[21] Bennett voices Launchpad McQuack in the 2017 DuckTales reboot.[22] He began his career on The Prototype as Colby in 2005. Ducktales is his DTVA and only appearance.

The Unicorn (Tyson) is his most recent credit. He has 46 Acting credits, 7 Writing credits, 7 Producer credits, 2 Soundtrack credits, 7 Self credits and 4 Archive Footage credits to his resume. Next Question: Why isn't Duckworth doing this? Well; we'll soon find out; just not in this episode and none of you are going to like it...Launchpad has trouble with the divider as he relates the story about the snowstorm and the Drake Barrier Reef, and he wouldn't fly up there because he's a bit of a pilot; which is more laser guided than Daddy Pig's "I'm a bit of an expert on these things." The limo also destroys another table with chairs at the Morning Joe coffee cafe as the limo makes it to near where the McDuck Manor gates are; so, yes the boardroom is in the Money Bin. Okay; that makes sense. Scrooge is not impressed by this as the car at the intercom is Donald's car as Donald is yelling at someone named Mrs. B to let him in because he has no time for shenigans. I'm guessing Donald is talking to Mrs. Beakly, and she got a great makeover. Not just in appearance; but in personality as well. More on that later. Logic break: Despite the divider being us; Scrooge still manages to honk the horn in protest. I guess it came down off-screen. Donald is not happy to hear it because Donald wanted to drop off the nephews before Scrooge shows us. Apparently; Scrooge has "Unca Issues" and really, who doesn't in this Duck family?! Scrooge calls Donald a deadbeat and demands that Donald get rid of the jalopy off his driveway this instant. Donald gets out of the car and we get the most "Western In the Wrong Culture" meet and greet ever done. The kids in the car oversell this like they just won the lottery and Dewey celebrates by going through the window; rolling on top of the car and getting back into the car through the window on the opposite of the car. (Kit Cloudkicker: Hold my root beer, Papa Bear.). Dewey is this show's Kit and I'm loving it! So, Donald and Scrooge exchanges hostile thoughts and yelling for a while as I think there was a background error because I would think McDuck Manor was not on a tall mountain; but who knows. Scrooge repeats his threat and Donald is angry; they yell for a while before Donald finally tells Scrooge that Mrs. B would look after the nephews for a couple of hours and Scrooge agrees to it while yelling.

Scrooge then recoils because he walked right into Donald's favor like a stupid idiot and Donald introduces the nephews and tells them no lies, no tricks, no trouble. That also means no hope of working; but the nephews say yes to it. Donald then proclaims that he wasn't talking to the nephews and Scrooge's isn't thrilled about this and gives the nephews the stink eye. Or Donald, does it really matter? So, we head to McDuck Manor; and outside of the new artstyle; it's not all that radically different from the 1987 one. Even the inside isn't all that different either; outside of the artstyle. They do show guns in at least one of the portaits on the walls in clear sight; but no shooting of it. I'm guessing the blunderbuss has been retired like the Landmaster Final Smash in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. Sadly; the later one is not going to be missed; unlike the former one. Oh; and Scrooge slam the front door in front of the nephews when Scrooge went inside the manor; but Mrs. B let them in and Mrs. Beakly is JAAAAACCCCKKKKEEEEEEDDDDD! No joking; she has been improving herself; although she still has the old Granny-stereotype hairstyle. Mrs. Beakly is also a much better character than her 1987 one and she is now Scrooge's bodyguard in additional to her house maintance duties. So, the nephews are in awe of this place, as if their memories were wiped when Quack Pack happened as we head to the boardroom like kitchen table as Mrs. Beakly brings him a sandwich and orders him to talk to his nephews. Somethings never change; although considering that Scrooge is actively ignoring them, Mrs. Beakly's nagging is totally justified here. Mrs. Beakley is voiced by Toks Olagundoye and accordinng to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Olagundoye made her screen debuts on both TV and the big screen in 2002; in an episode of the television series The Education of Max Bickford; and in the film Brown Sugar later that same year. She appeared opposite Ruby Dee in an off-Broadway production Saint Lucy's Eyes in April 2001,[5] and in 2005 she cofounded the theater company Three Chicks Theatre, which produced Andrea Lepcio's One Nation Under in 2008.[1]

Olagundoye has guest-starred on Ugly Betty, Law & Order, CSI: NY, Switched at Birth, NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Prime Suspect. Her film credits include A Beautiful Soul, Come Back to Me, Absolute Trust and The Salon. In 2012 Olagundoye was cast as a series regular in the ABC comedy series The Neighbors,[6][7][8][9] playing the part of Jackie Joyner-Kersee until the series was canceled after two seasons in 2014.[10] She later had starring roles in the two television pilots: Feed Me, opposite Mary-Louise Parker for NBC; and Amazon's Salem Rogers, co-starring with Leslie Bibb.[11][12] Olagundoye joined the cast of ABC comedy-drama Castle in 2015 as a series regular in the role of Hayley Shipton.[13] Pickle & Peanut (Francine) is her DTVA debut. Besides Ducktales; Guardians Of The Galaxy (Ja Kyee Lrurt), American Dad (Islander) and Clash-A-Rama are her most recent credits. She has 35 Acting credits, 1 Soundtrack credit and 5 Self credits to her resume. Mrs. Beakly simply leaves and Scrooge justs groans. Which I susppose is talking to his nephews in Scrooge's eyes and then the nephews teleport from the end of the table far away to next to Scrooge as Dewey is literally lying on the table on his belly. Dewey's gimmick in this show is to express himself in many ways, even if it's complete overkill on his part. Scrooge finally decides to break the ice in the most awkward way possible (involving kids and marbles; which is a reference to Pearl Of Wisdom from Ducktales 1987) and the nephews just JAQ off on him like a bunch of JAQ-offenders. Louie then asks a question that is actually a good one: What's going on and what happened to Scrooge? That is a good question because this is not even 1991 Scrooge McDuck; and this triggers Scrooge so much as Scrooge blows his stack and screams for Mrs. Beakly. So the nephews are shoved into a really broken down room with even less perks than in "Don't Give Up The Ship" as Scrooge orders Mrs. Beakly to watch over them.

He also forget's Dewey's name by the way, so what a dick Scrooge is? Even more so as Mrs. Beakly gives them a bag of cheap marbles to play with and they must give them back when Donald gets back and Scrooge also has counted them. Don't leave the room either. Huey proclaims that they have two boring uncles and Dewey wants to bust out of this room as we jump cut to Scrooge going into his archives room with the diving suit under glass, the straight from the comics pictures of himself and newspaper clippings on the floor. One of them proclaims that Scrooge is actually retired, I guess from adventuring. We wipes the dust from his glass dome containing the diving costume and talks about who he used to be. Jump cut back to Dewey trying to destroy the doorknob with the bag of marbles. I said he was the awesome one; not the smart one. That's Huey's gimmick! Huey and Louie sit down watching and thinking this is all stupid. Somehow; the door knob is completely broken and the door opens. Oh my god; it worked! It's a miracle! Dewey then proclaims that he wants to steal some stuff; but a whip comes out of nowhere and snags Dewey. Everyone screams and then Huey and Louie are snagged and dragged into the hallway. Jump cut to a room as there is a Quackypatch doll nailed to the wall by an arrow and another stuffed animal with an arrow in it's head. Welcome everyone to the new Webbigail Vanderquack; the character sexist assholes hated so much. Webby was always there (since 1987!); although back then, the writers booked her as if they didn't want her to be there. Except maybe Jeffrey Scott. There is a spotlight and the nephews are hanging upside down. Do I get the feeling that creative wanted to reboot TaleSpin and Disney told them to sod off?! Figures, knowing Disney, if that is the case. It's probably not. Webby finally appears and she thinks the nephews were sent by Ma Beagle, or Flintheart Glomgold (who we will both see later). At least ONE character remembers Send In The Clones! How ironic it is the most sheltered character in this storyline that remembers the most from the 1987 era?! Awesome!

I was hoping Webby would pull a Polly Wants A Treasure and tickle the nephews like the Air Pirates did (more on that later, too) to Kit; but Louie gives up BEFORE she even had a chance to do anything to them. Heck; Dewey was begging for mercy as well. Apparently; Webby's room has The Clapper installed since Webby claps her hands and the lights turn on to reveal Webby for real. She is just as giddy to see them as the nephews were to see Scrooge (until Scrooge shattered their hopes and dreams); as I am surprised that they kept the pink bow since that what a lot of complaints of the character came from. Her character is a cross between Mabel and Kit now; and I love it! Although her obsession with the nephews and her shunning of her past that really she shouldn't be shamed of (since it was men who created her character; they need the shaming a lot more). Webby takes a dagger which looks like she stole it from Mr. Khan and cuts the rope as the nephews tumble down to the ground. Webby new gimmick is to research everything about the Duck Family Tree. Which makes her more couragous than me because Duck family relationships are much more confusing than wrestling families. Webby pulls on Louie's feathers from his forehead and I'm half thinking she going to run DNA tests on them. I also see that she's no different in JAQ'ing off either. Louie is the evil one of the trio and Louie don't care. I guess after being an animal rights activist in Quack Pack; that set him into heeldom. Ducktales didn't have an "evil nephew" (unless you count Webby if you are a bigot, or Bubba if you think he's the "Fourth Nephew"); Quack Pack's was clearly Huey Duck as seen in Heavy Dental when Huey got these oversized braces (Kit: "You're underestimating that one, aren't you?") that controlled people and he then decided to become a world dictator. I'm not joking; that is what really happened. And none of the nephews nor Donald cared at all, not at all. Webby takes a picture with the out of nowhere camera and the XENON FLASH OF DEATH strikes again; causing the nephews to talk in an awkward matter. Probably because they just realized that Webby is awesome.

Webbigail Vanderquack is voiced by Kate Micucci and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Micucci's TV credits include numerous television commercials, as well as Toni the barista on NBC's Four Kings, guest roles on Malcolm in the Middle, 'Til Death, How I Met Your Mother, Cory in the House, and Campus Ladies, and recurring roles on Scrubs and Raising Hope. Her film credits include The Last Hurrah, Bart Got a Room and When in Rome. She plays "Lily the IT girl" on Elevator produced by HBO's Runawaybox.[5] In early 2009, she released a five-track EP entitled Songs.[6] Micucci appeared in five episodes of Scrubs ("My Lawyer's In Love", "My Absence", "My Chief Concern", "Our Histories", and "My Finale") as Stephanie Gooch, a ukulele player with whom Ted Buckland begins a relationship. She performs her song "Mr. Moon" as well as an adapted version of "Fuck You" (retitled "Screw You" for ABC), a song she typically performs as part of the musical duo Garfunkel and Oates. In 2009, she starred in the short film Imaginary Larry, co-written and co-directed by Riki Lindhome, her partner in Garfunkel and Oates. In August 2009, Micucci appeared in an advertising campaign for Hillshire Farms and for H & R Block in January 2010. Micucci performs "Playin' with Micucci" on third Mondays at the Steve Allen Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, in Hollywood, California,[7] most recently in August[8] and October 2011.[9] In the act, she presents "songs and stories in [a] musical variety show."[10][11] Micucci says the title is the only dirty aspect of the show. She can also frequently be seen performing with Lindhome in "An Evening with Garfunkel and Oates" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles.[12] She performed with William H. Macy on the ukulele to promote the DVD release of the film Bart Got a Room.

The video has been circulated around the Internet on sites such as YouTube and The Huffington Post.[13] In 2010, Micucci appeared in the Kristen Bell film When in Rome and also in an episode in the sixth season of the TV show Weeds as a slightly sedated waitress. She appeared in some episodes of the HBO series, Bored to Death and appeared as the babysitter/dogsitter/eldersitter Shelley in the series Raising Hope. In February 2011, Micucci appeared briefly in a Progressive Insurance ad as a waitress.[14] She has also voiced a character on Pendleton Ward's animated series Adventure Time, as well as the character of Julie Kane on the Disney XD animated series Motorcity. She also voices the recurring character Sadie on the Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe. In July 2012, Kate appeared in Written by a Kid's production Scary Smash, a Geek and Sundry creation that was executive produced by Kim Evey, Felicia Day, and Sheri Byrant.[15] In January 2013, Micucci's casting was announced for a recurring role on The Big Bang Theory as "a potential love interest for ... Raj."[16] Her character, the painfully shy Lucy, first appeared on February 14, 2013. Micucci appeared as a guest judge on King of the Nerds. As of October 2015 she provides the voice of Velma Dinkley in the series Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, sharing with Mindy Cohn in other forms of media. In 2016, she appeared in Season 1, Episode 6 in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Easy along with Orlando Bloom and Malin Akerman. She began her career on Four Kings as Toni, and did cameos for Malcom In The Middle and How I Met Your Mother. Motorcity is her DTVA debut as Julie Kane and also appeared on 7D as Ghost Girl, Penn Zero: Part-time Hero (Cuteling General), Sofia The First (Galial), and Milo Murphy's Law as Sara Murphy. So yeah; I don't get the comparisons of Webby to Mabel Pines (in voice at least) when the voice actor is more intuned to Sara Murphy from Milo Murphy's Law.

Besides Ducktales; Unikitty (Dr. Fox), The Guest Book, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo as Velma Dinkley and Steven Universe (Sadie Miller) among others are her most recent credits. She has 88 Acting credits, 8 Writing credits, 7 Soundtrack credits, 2 Producer credits, 1 Composer credit and 34 Self credits to her resume. So, we talk in an awkward manner as the nephews claim that their family is normal and boring. Webby blows it off as rubbish (again; she is the only one who actually remember the 1987 series; since she was a big part of it, in spite of 1987 creative's booking of her) and kicks a conveniently placed volleyball like a soccer ball (incorporating MOLLY VIOLENCE, I approve) and the global map in the background is actually a projection screen as we see basically, Webby's "Connect The Dots" Family tree; which I see in many game manuals to explain connections and relationships. For the sake of my sanity; I'm going to ignore the Duck Family stuff since there are better experts in this subject than I am. "The Issue At Hand" blog is probably a lot better in explaining this than I could. I also see Mrs. Beakly is still the Grandmother of Webby. I thought she would be Webby's mother; but eh. The Beagle Boys are mentioned; and yes, Burger is coming back, much to the horror of GeoX. Mostly a lot of photos and some bad math. However; one of the most surprising things on the BBS is a Duckburg Dailies newspaper mentioning Sky Pirates spotted above Plain Awful and some thought this was the second TaleSpin reference of the show. I mention this now because I have been informed in promo clips for the 2018 portion of Series 1 that Don Karnage and the Sky Pirates (apparently going to be named the Singing Sky Pirates at least as a cute nickname) are going to make an appearance and Dewey was spotted sword fighting with Don Karnage. In fact; episode #19 is going to be called "Sky Pirates...In The Sky" and it appears that this will be a full crossover instead of a mere tease like Darkwing Duck's cameo; or even the more recent Gummi Bear cameo. We'll see what happens on July 28th, 2018 and I'm putting everything off just to watch this one episode.

So Webby pins the nephews on the BBS board and connects the string to Scrooge as she explains the family relationship. I'm sorry; but I'm not a comic book fan, so the relationship is really unfamilar to me, so I'll take Webby's word for it. If anyone has a contradiction to this, I'm all listening. Even more hilarious; the Webby and Mrs. Beakly pictures are drawn by Webby and drawn like their 1987 counterparts; except Webby is holding a sword, which I find odd considering that in 1987 Ducktales; Webby once twirled a pistol. Webby asks if they are friends now and the nephews agree as long as she doesn't kill them. Webby agrees and it comes out all awkward as Huey asks if there is any entertainment around here and Webby breaks the ice by kicking the conveniently placed vent frame off, with the screws still on.Webby climbs through the vent and I wonder how much TaleSpin was she allowed to watch? Bigger question: How much TaleSpin did the creators watch? The nephews don't look at the gift horse in the mouth and follow her as we head to the hallway as Mrs. Beakly is cleaning up with the vacuum cleaner. Now this show really sucks. HAHA!

Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Shuan Desmond.

Mrs. Beakly hears rumbling and shaking in the archive room as she slams the door open and Mrs. Beakly -- as seen in the Welcome To Duckburg segments -- is like a long lost female Ghostbuster. I'm shocked Toks didn't get the role in that movie because she's awesome in this show. Scrooge is actually putting on the diving suit as this is clearly a sign that he has finally been called out on his boringness. He also calls the suit a blaggard and I hope it slaps him silly like Donald's blue shirt. Mrs. Beakly is amused by this spring cleaning, as she would say and Scrooge shows her the newspaper and Mrs. Beakly repeats the headline. Scrooge claims that it lines up with Papia Prophecy, since it's the first snowstorm there in fifty years. I wonder if this show is still in 1987 (It makes no sense; but different canon altogether says otherwise...Still; humor me for a second...) because fifty years ago would be 1937 and in Jolly Molly Christmas; a freak snowstorm would have happened if one believes that the Great Drake Barrier Reef was near Cape Suzette. Oh; and this means there is a pathway to the city of Atlantis, city under the sea. Mrs. Beakly's response: You are saying this because kids mocked you. (I'm paraphrasing here) I died. 2017 Beakly is much better than 1987 Beakly. Webby still is the better makeover because she was over before we actually saw her. Something even Kit Cloudkicker couldn't do. Scrooge is in complete denial and calls the nephews "has-beens". That's not how that phrase works, Scooge.

Scrooge: That's Scrooge!
Gregory: Whatever!

POW! OUCH! Ummmm....Stop thinking you are in the future already. Live in the present; and I'll stop living in the past! Okay?! Scrooge gives Mrs. Beakly a notepad and write down the list. Keep in mind that in storyline; Scrooge approved that funding should be cut off to the stuff because Scrooge had given up on adventuring for reasons unknown at this time; other than Donald is somehow involved in such reasoning. Launchpad is near the door saying that he is a pilot. Well; if this is after Quack Pack; then Launchpad being a pilot to Darkwing Duck would make sense, although he probably forgot that because memories are...you guessed it. Beakly is pissed and throws the pen into the wall in disgust, because she is not his secretary. Scrooge finally stops as Mrs. Beakly basically blows him off for not spending time with the nephews. I find that hypocritical since she doesn't seem to want to do the same; even though she is responsible for watching them. To be fair; she does have to deal with Webby which gives her enough excitement. You don't say?! I don't doubt you for a second! By the way; the kids are in the vent hearing this and Scrooge basically proclaims that family is nothing but trouble, and this stems from the fact that it has been ten years since he last saw them. Ummm; considering that the nephews look fifteen, maybe changing that line from ten to five would have been more believable to the audience. The 1987 nephews were ten years old in storyline and Webby I think was six or eight years. Dewey is crushed by this as Scrooge is so into his diving costume that he repeats his spiel; which would only apply to the man he used to be. If I hadn't watched 1987 Ducktales; I would have written this off as Scrooge being a pathetic old man who should have forfeited his business a long time ago and disappeared. However; dellusions of granduer is a trait in Scrooge's character. Scrooge of course falls on his ass and cannot get up and demands a little help and Mrs. Beakly wisely walks out of the room. Scrooge's head is down in shame due to the diving helmet and realizes that they are right. He walks off in shame.

Jump cut to another room as Webby breaks down another vent and does a flip and yells "Vent Crawl"; as the nephews all land on their chins on the floor. HAHA! I discover that there is a coffee table containing a statue of Scrooge and Webby admits that Mrs. Beakly has been training her to be ready for anything (which actually makes a lot more sense later down the room when we discover Mrs. Beakly's past and what a past that is?), but she's sheltered and just wants to see the world. Yeah; they have been booking her closer to the main lead in Tales Of Abyss; only there's no evidence of any of her relationships doing anything wrong. Yet. She does the same pose that the Scrooge Statue does and proclaims that she is going to explore the world and eat a hamburger. Wow; what is Mrs. Beakly feeding her to make Webby want that damn hamburger so much? Dewey's entrance was more graceful as dust out of nowhere consumes him. Ducktales 1987 did this spot as well; so there you go. So we head to the hallway leading to the "Wing Of Secrets"; which is basically a dark room containing references to the 1987 Ducktales show. Apparently; Bubba and Tootise have died in the ten years since and their bodies were skeletonized. That was creepy. Huey and Louie noticed various protraits and statues as they realize that there is some truth and evidence to Scrooge not being boring, but Dewey is not buying this because it's all trickery and deceit. Armstrong's head and the magic lamp appear. The problem is: They want us to believe that this is a different canon; but they are hyper-referencing the canon from 1987; and thus the ten year gap makes no sense. One line of dialogue being changed is all you need to make it make sense. I don't mind them making more jokes; since I realize that the mantra of execs is that kids just want comedy and Ducktales is part comedy, but at least have your jokes make sense. Louie -- scumbag -- is putting green post it notes on everything; because he wants to steal them. Even Huey thinks this is horrible and does the Gruffi pose as Webby cuts Louie off because the Medusa gauntlet is deadly!

There's also the golden dragon holding the Gong of Piccu. Bang on it three times to unleash unspeakable evil. I'm shocked no one asked Webby what that unspeakable evil is and Webby having to say that she can't because it's unspeakable. What's the point of setting up a joke; if you don't pay it off? The term "punch-line" exists for a reason, you know! Webby's paralyzing stance is hilarious as Louie still posts the note on and nothing happens to him. Post-it notes: Immune to pertitification. Okay; good to know. Huey loves this room and Dewey instantly calls fake because he is looking at what would be the most important painting in the entire series, and maybe the entire Disney duck universe: It shows Scrooge and Donald Duck fighting sea pirates with swords and it's torn on the top left side. Remember that place because they will be coming back to this at the end of this very episode and it begins the most important angle in Ducktales 2017 history. Huey and Louie decide to agree with Dewey that this is fake because Donald Duck is a boring asshole. Webby blows this off because (a) Donald Duck was Scrooge's sidekick and (b) and she quotes:

Webby: Donald Duck is one of the most daring adventurers of all time!

This is one of the few times where the zoom in was awesome and I wanted her to just bring the evidence out. Sadly; she has lived a sheltered life and therefore will be sadly discredited on the spot. And speaking of discredited, we scene change to a waiting room with Donald Duck and Roxanne from A Goofy Movie. Both with papers I might add. Donald is acting like a stupid idiot and stuttering as Roxanne looks like she wants to get this done and get out of dodge. I don't blame her; Donald Duck is leering at her during this. I should note that Roxanne's full name is Roxanne Featherby; which means Mrs. Featherby will either have a different name or Roxanne was adopted. The answer (Spoiler Alert!) is the former by the way. Roxanne's papers are stapled with a bronze color staple as Donald gets inspired and there is a conveniently place stapler on a coffee table next to the lamp. So; because Donald Duck has the worst luck that makes Jake The Snake's luck look good (I...feel...dirty...now...); it fails; Donald is pissed off, the staples fly out of the stapler onto the floor; he breaks a lamp, he's unintentionally making everyone's life a living hell. Some person thought that the dark skinned dognose with pants and black shoes on was Duckworth; but it isn't actually. Donald continues to be an ass to handle and this was done to segue into Dewey proving his point without knowing it. Great segueway! Webby shows off the painting with Scrooge with the shaved bear and Dewey calls it photoshopped. Earth to Dewey: Photoshop existed in 1990; which makes it impossible for that painting to be photoshopped. Doctored, maybe; but not photoshopped. Webby shows off the CHEST OF DEMONS and the nephews claim that it was bought at an auction. That at least is Occam's Razor in action. Then Webby tears off a cover of a "Halloween decoration", according to the nephews and it's the GHOST PIRATE OF DEATH exactly from the painting. And he can talk, too. Everyone bails as Webby explains that it's Captain Peghook from the River Styx and he's dead and a scourge. Dewey goes to the door and finds a sword and panics in order to defend himself.

Problem is; the sword flies away from Dewey and goes through the belly of the ghost and the ghost no sells it. What a shocker?! Webby calls it the Deus Excalibur, which I love as a weapon name. SquareEnix needs to steal that name for their next Final Fantasy game right now. The sword doesn't rest until the target is slain and swords are immune to ghosts. Sword hits the Gong of Piccu as Louie backs up and sits in the conveniently placed saddle and the saddle turns into a headless horse; known as the headless manhorse. Self explainatory; in the context of the Wolfwere from Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers. Louie is flung off, ghost chases Dewey (it's not the same ghost from the Mrs. Beakly's Welcome To Duckburg segment, sadly) and the manhorse rings the gong a second time. Louie wonders what could be worse and here comes Scrooge out of his diving costume and demands answers to this outrage. Well; you are a bigger jerk than Darkwing Duck, for starters. So, now; we go into a long ass whomping time sequence of dodging as the Ghost Peghook grabs Deus Excalibur and everyone hides behind the giant golden coin from the Ducktales 1987 pilot. So, the nephews come up with a Krackpotkin Plan and then simply give up because we now have a pirate version of Dullahan. Oh; the irony of this?! Scrooge has had enough of this stupidity and comes in and asks what Peghook wants. Peghook is voiced by Keith Ferguson, who I have seen in DTVA shows in the past including Deputy Durland in Gravity Falls. Roxanne is voiced by Kari Wahlgreen; known her since Kick Buttowski: The Suburbian Daredevil. Peghook wants Scrooge's head and Scrooge offers his hat instead. No go. So Scrooge goes into action and slides into the perfect position to be in front of his Scrooge's Statue and this is the signal for the fake beheaded money shot from Peghook as the statue of Scrooge's head is lopped off, much to the shock and appallment of the kids as Scrooge throws the statue's head into Peghook's hands. Peghook is screwed and disappears as the head goes flying and lands on the manhorse's head as he communicates with horse stomping language. HAHA!

Sorry manhorse; but no one else but me is buying that you are no longer a freak. Sad! The manhorse bails and that is that. Scrooge puts his cane down on the kids after they oversell victory; because this is so stupid. It's only the garage, in which Scrooge has a remote control key for it. Webby's naming of the hose of destiny is pure desperation mode at it's best. And apparently; Montezuma is codeword for money porno magazines. Also good to know. Scrooge reads them the riot act and basically admits that family is nothing but trouble, as Dewey has the Gruffi pose on full blast. Scrooge has had enough of this, because he won't admit that he's really a dickish heel in this show (and before you old farts complain; read the Uncle Scrooge comics, Scrooge is even WORSE in those! Especially in the poorly written ones! Like Scrooge trying to kill Donald with a stick with a nail at the end of it just because Donald stopped his illegal scheme.) and flings his arms back...right into the position where the gong is and bangs it for the third time. Ooops! Considering that none of the kids touched the gong; Scrooge really has no one to blame but himself for this. The statue behind them breaks open to reveal Pixiu; the Golden Chinese Dragon who eats metal. And what building houses more metal than usual. If you said Scrooge's Money Bin; you win the no prize. Pixiu breaks down the ceiling and Scrooge jumps up and gets on the dragon's back; yelling at the kids to return to their rooms. Of course; Webby declares herself free...to eat a hamburger. It's a metaphor; although I don't think she originally intended it to be one from long before. She wants to stop that dragon and the nephews wonder how to get there; so conveniently in comes Launchpad. Of course! So; we head into the sky as the denizens of Duckburg watch in the sky as Scrooge fights Pixiu and is flipped; but stays on. Scrooge taunts the dragon and Scrooge is rag dolled into some building as Scrooge is hurt pretty badly during this as his spine is bruised. Ouch! Those bump were sick, too! Again; why do I get the feeling that the creators wanted to boot TaleSpin and Disney told them to sod off?

Pixiu sizes up the building from afar and then flies towards it. Scrooge tries to use the cane to put the brakes on Pixiu; but Pixiu flings him away. Scrooge free falls and Scrooge takes a bump off a giant seaplane that everyone thought was the SeaDuck. Scrooge cannot hang on as the tailsection of the Launchpad SeaDuck Mark III (That's my name for it and I'm sticking to it!) is open and Dewey grabs Scrooge's hand and hauls him into the plane just like in TaleSpin. I love this show; but REBOOT TALESPIN NOW YOU STUPID, SICK BASTARDS~! Huey actually does the catchphrase of the Ducktales song during this. Scrooge is about to be pissed off; but his injuries from before stop that as it's time for the Krackpotkin Plan. Webby claims that they need a mystical device like the Medusa Gauntlet for instance, which Louie stole. No one is amused by this and even less when Louie claimed that he would give it back. Of course he would; and everyone would be petrified and he takes over the world; like Huey in Quack Pack's Heavy Dental. So, Launchpad is flying the plane around as the nephews are tying up Scrooge with the HOSE OF DESTINY (damn; I know that would get involved somehow) and Huey tells Launchpad to nosedive down and then on his signal, pull up. Launchpad calls him some random kid I just met. I wish he said "random kid who might be Kit for all I know"; that would have been funnier. Scrooge is questionning Launchpad as a pilot; so yeah, memories are horrible. Pixui opens the ceiling dome leading to the money bin. But in comes the Launchpad SeaDuck Mark III as it nosedives and pulls up while Scrooge is dangling from the hose (ala Rebecca in TaleSpin in Mommy For A Day and The Incredible Shrinking Molly) grabs the dragon by it's tail. Pixui is pertified and crumbles into pieces as the hose lets go from Dewey's hand after proclaiming that their family is awesome. I think the TaleSpin family would have something to say about that. Scrooge is flung into the air.

I betcha he comes down and dives into his own money to seal his fate as the new Scrooge McDuck; adventurer Returns. I check the DVD...Damn; I'm so good. Scrooge is officially back and everyone will have to deal with the cheap bastard now. There's going to be trouble now. They tease thinking that Scrooge is dead, if he was; he would be flat on top of the money in a pool of blood. He was into the coins; so the LAW OF HEAVY METALS does not apply to him and that proves he's the real deal as the kids cheer. Launchpad is so touched by this, that his fatalism comes right into play and he crashes the airplane into the ground. Lovely! Fade to black, basically to censor showing the crash, because that is trauma inducing and return as Launchpad is hosing down the airplane. The kids are sitting down on the log as Scrooge is reading him the riot act and finally gets off the first kill word of the series. I don't get why people still insist that the "never say die" trope exists in Disney. I mean; I have watch enough DTVA and documented this for so long now that the trope is basically useless now. So, when I see this even now and everyone is shocked; I'm like "when they start saying f*ck in DTVA; I'll be shocked and appalled. And it only happened once. 1990. TaleSpin. Plunder and Lightning Part Four, said by Baloo in the fight between the SeaDuck and the Lightning Gun. Thank you for looking stupid!" Scrooge teases...something..and then laughs it off and joins in with the kids. He loved it! One of the non-verbal cues indicates that he gave most of the credit to Webby for this. Scrooge is so convinced to the nephews and Webby's skills that he gets on his cell phone and calls Mrs. Beakly to inform her that he's clearing his bookings and going on a field trip with the kids. Mrs. Beakly of course is about to scream at him for calling for that sexist word; but Scrooge of course cuts her off by hanging up. Scrooge proclaims that he misses trouble now and it's time to teach the nephews how to properly get into trouble because it's time to go to the lost city of Atlantis, BABEE! Oh; and no one tells Uncle Donald about it and the nephews are still happy about it, because Donald Duck is boring.

Launchpad is simply confused; as I am. Jump cut back to Donald who is pinned to the wall with staples. Of course! In comes Flintheart Glomgold; who has now gotten huge and is even more of a Scottish fake than he was in Ducktales 1987! He's voiced by the same guy who voiced Peghook earlier. Donald has got the job; but not as an accountant; but as a sailor as Donald is given the clothes he wore in the comics; which is the black sailor outfit that he will wear for the rest of the series. We discover that Donald had applied for a job to work for Glomgold Industries; basically turning him "heel" (well; in the same sense as Kit turning "heel" in Plunder and Lightning, only none of Donald's family was under the threat of being murdered by Air Pirates) and Flint asks what he knows about...Atlantis..DA DA DAAAAAAAAAA~! That officially ends the first half of the two parter at 21:12. Well; this was better viewing this fully now; and the overtalking isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Launchpad's debut is more disappointing than I thought though, so this is **** (80%).

Escape To/From Atlantis: Episode opens with Glomgold Industries which involves stealing light bulbs and putting giant ass red stamping seals of approvals on objects, including trees. Flint also breaks down the wall with a shadow of Scrooge McDuck to symbolize his dominace over him as the self-proclaimed richest duck in the world, which is like Dedede proclaiming himself king in the Kirby series. As I mention before; Flintheart is the biggest knockoff of a Scot you have ever seen. The four piper women at his desk are more real Scots than he will ever be. There is one scene of employees working on an assembly line making stuff as Flintheart calls them the greatest treasure of them all. Even Shere Khan can make better videos than this and be believable in his promos. Flintheart is so fake and his hyper cheering on stage after watching the video doesn't make it any better. The three henchmen at the table are sitting down with Gruffi poses are not buying this crap. Two of them are wolves and one of them is a dark feathered bird woman, who all three of them could be former Air Pirates. Flint decides to end this glad handling and cut to the chase. He selected them in order to find the lost jewel of Atlantis; because they are the best at the lowest price. Sort of like most Nintendo products: Switch has a lot of power for a device that consumes mobile power levels. Flintheart's laughing sucks so bad that they had to censor it by showing a boat out at sea in thunderstorm...and then he stops and gives them ID cards. Pfft; whatever. The ID cards are good for 40% off rentals of emergency equipment. How Donald Trumpish of you, Flint. So the bird anthro is Gabby MacStabberson and the two wolves are Slash and Hack Smashnikov. Hack and Slash are wolve versions of Hack & Slash from Reboot; or the goons from TaleSpin and Gabby would also fit in that world as well. Again; they still are convincing me that they wanted to reboot TaleSpin and Disney told them to sod off. Gabby is voiced by Jennifer Hale and Hack is voiced by Jason Mardsen. Both have been in DTVA shows in the past and Jason appeared as Cavin in Gummi Bears Series 4. Meanwhile...

Slash is voiced by Sam Riegel (who also is the dialogue director) and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): An American voice actor, writer and director who appears in cartoons, anime and video game series. He voiced Donatello in the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney video game series, Shiro Emiya in the Fate/stay night series, Taniguchi in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and Mephisto Pheles in the Blue Exorcist series. Riegel hosts the All Work No Play podcast with fellow voice actor Liam O'Brien.[2] He portrays characters in the live-action web series Critical Role.[3] On September 11, 2001, Riegel and his wife Quyen witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center. At one point, the couple was caught in the dust cloud formed by the collapse of the South Tower, but eventually escaped to Battery Park, where they witnessed the collapse of the North Tower in silence. Sam captured video footage that was featured in several documentaries.[1] There are way too many anime and video games to list here. I believe The Adventures Of Pete & Pete is his official debut in 1994 as pumpkin head. He is in fact a 4Kids actor with appearances as Tristan in Yu-Gi-Oh! and Fighting Foodums to name just a few. He was also Edward Chris Von Muir (Aka The Spoony Bard) in Final Fantasy IV for Nintendo DS. TRON: Uprising is his DTVA debut and also appeared on Doc McStuffins, Wonder Over Yonder as Emperor Awesome, Pickle & Peanut, Future-Worm!, Sofia The First (various roles), and Elena Of Avalor (Referee). Fire Emblem Heroes, Critical Role, Danger & Eggs and Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (Trystane) are his most recent credits. He has 285 Acting credits, 55 Misc credits (Recent credits: Welcome to Wayne, Dawn Of The Croods), 19 Writing credits, 9 Casting Director credits, 7 Producer credits, 4 Director Credits, 2 Editor and Soundtrack credits apiece, 1 Second Unit Director, Composer, Editorial Department, Sound Department credit apiece, 4 Thanks credits, 3 Self credits and 1 Archive Footage credit to his resume. I should note that the casting was done by someone named Arron Drown and Julia Pleasants. That is like Molly Minus; you don't why, but that is funny! And no; I'm not doing a tribute for those two. And that is all of the tributes for this episode at last.

Flint calls out Donald Duck; but he is clearly nowhere to be found. Oh wait; Donald is clearly shown on his cellphone as Scrooge has apparently called him. Scrooge is a lot more cordial than Donald Duck this time around and Scrooge agrees to the terms; terms that he will clearly break because he loves trouble and he's going to make it double. Oh; and Scrooge is sailing in a giant yellow submarine as Scrooge tells Donald to focus on his new job and not to worry about the kids. Hmmm; I wonder where this is going to go. Dewey comes up and he's awesome as he orders Launchpad to DIVE, DIVE, AROOGA~! And Launchpad sells it and the submarine dives, forcing Scrooge to try to close the hatch; but water still gets into the submarine; forcing the kids below to work the sub-pumps to remove it. So the submarine is deep into the water. So, Scrooge gets the water out of his hat, he's not amused and gives the cellphone to Louie. The scumbag of the trio. Louie lies that nothing has happened and everything is fine as Webby is protesting this outrage so loudly that Louie has to hang up the phone. Webby is pissed off because Louie is lying, you see. Louie rightfully points out that Webby never told Mrs. Beakly that she was with Scrooge on this trip. Here's my question: Did Mrs. Beakly give orders to Scrooge not to have Webby involved? Because Scrooge did talk to Mrs. Beakly on the phone and Webby was never mentioned at all. I betcha Mrs. Beakly knows that Scrooge has taken Webby on said field trip and doesn't mind Webby being there. Thus rendering the whole lying angle completely pointless since Webby never told Mrs. Beakly anything. Mrs. Beakly never even mentioned Webby except in a passing line where she has enough excitement as it is with Webby. Louie then makes it worse by ordering Webby to call Mrs. Beakly on the phone to lie that she's staying at a friend's house. First off; she is with "friends", so why bother, other than Louie telling her that lying is the responsible thing to do. Now I see why a lot of people were pissed off at this. Louie's line is so Donald Trumpish that it ceased being funny considering the consequences we are seeing now.

#2: It's one thing for Louie to lie; it's worse when he's guilt-tripping Webby into doing it; especially since she's a girl. So there's sexism on top of the guilt-trip. #3: Mrs. Beakly is Miss Cunningham in that she knew all along that this was a lie and played along because Mrs. Beakly wanted Scrooge to spend more time with the family, including Webby. Yes, it's a spoiler alert; but I had to mention it because they guilt tripped Webby into doing something she doesn't want to do and something that failed miserably and in the end didn't matter because Mrs. Beakly wanted Webby to be on this field trip anyway. And they keep doing this spot throughout the next 10-15 minutes and it gets more and more pointless each time. And to think; this two parter has been really great until that moment. Jump cut to outside as the submarine makes good time. Jump cut to the cockpit of the submarine as Scrooge asks Launchpad about piloting a submarine and Launchpad says no; but helicopter in a wave pool crashing is basically the same thing and Scrooge shrugs. Of course! Scrooge don't care, because he's BACK BABEE! Huey comes in and his gimmick is that he is a merticious planner; to the point where even I was cheering for Dewey ripping up the sheets. I love science; but this is entertainment, you can be silly, it's okay. Scrooge sort of agrees with Dewey considering that he rejected the party camp t-shirt. And Huey; that is not a party-foul; since there is no parties in adventuring. Unless you play Mario Party. Besides; the background music can play sea music all it wants anyway. So, Dewey wants to be in charge of something and he is channeling Peppa Pig when she screws Mummy Pig's work on the computer. Thankfully; Scrooge cuts him off because none of the buttons have weapons. Just like the SeaDuck in TaleSpin. Scrooge is slowly becoming the 1987 Scrooge now as he sits down Dewey and puts on his seatbelt after telling him to let the pros do their thing. Considering that one of them is a fatalist and even more so than even in the original 1987 edition of this show. Scrooge goes over to his table and is charting a course with dividers and such. Huh. Now who would teach Scrooge something like that? Dewey is loving this and being the cocky successor.

This is not awful by any means; but I'm finding the overkilling of talking to be a problem for me. Nothing they say (outside of Louie's guilt-tripping Webby into lying) is awful; it's just that they overkill the promos when they don't need to overcompenstate. Let the jokes breathe, guys! It's okay. Scrooge calls him Sonny Jim (A name Rebecca Cunningham called Baloo in It Came From Beneath The SeaDuck) and Dewey sulks. Huey offers him the stupid shirt and Dewey threatens to cram it down his throat. I think he was threatening Huey; but the body language tells me he wants to cram it down Scrooge's throat. Also; I see Dewey has been watching old school professional wrestling promos in his spare time. Louie and Webby finally come in; so we never get to hear the epic conversation of Webby lying to Mrs. Beakly. This was for the best. Scrooge charted a course to the lost city of Atlantis, while making sure the route contained as little danger as humanly possible. Of course; the map stuff has to eliminate all subtley on those dangers, because the new audience (6-12 year old boys; because rigid gender roles demand it, no matter how toxic it is) would be confused by adult wording. The nephews love it as Scrooge tells Launchpad to set a course for the lost city of Atlantis in overdramatic fashion...and we'll be there in 16 hours. HAHA! The nephews are not amused as Huey brings out the radio and it's time for the partial TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM. Sea shanties are all right. Too bad; they don't have the rights to the "Octopede Sailors" song; that would have been a hoot. So we do about ten jump cuts in thirty seconds of the kids sleeping, tossing and turning because this entire submarine trip is boring. I'm guessing the music singer is Jason Marsden. This song is triggering Dewey into blood shot eyes (with no red blood vessels I might add) and chills complete with teeth chattering. He also has a extreme headache; or he's overdramatic in his acting, which is the gimmick of Dewey in this series. Launchpad is asleep and then suddenly wakes up and he's the pilot of this submarine. Even 1987 Launchpad wasn't this fatalist. Dewey somehow got his seatbelt undone and checks the map as he realizes that Scrooge had borified the trip. Dewey calls to Scrooge about this and Scrooge claims the fastest way to two points isn't always a straight line. Technically, that is a lie; but that's assuming that there's no danger with the straight line. Once there's danger; all bets are off.

Dewey is not buying this; but the map gets whacked by Scrooge's cane in the universal non-verbal cue signal of "knock it off, the safe way is the right way". Scrooge is not wrong; but it's a BS&P RULEZ~ thing if I ever saw one. Launchpad falls asleep as Scrooge back is turned. Dewey grabs the map and hides as Scrooge whacks Launchpad with the cane to wake him up. Dewey redraws the map so that they go through every dangerous thing possible on the way to Atlantis. Which is kind of useless especially when the city itself is a deathtrap. Dewey puts the map back and of course, Launchpad falls for it. Dewey comes back to his chair and proclaims that he'll thank him later. Sadly; since the show is only 45 minutes long and we're almost 27 minutes into it; we only get still shots of the submarine being attacked by a giant kraken, mermen (whom look like the same ones from Aqua Ducks) and a giant white monster that creates whirlpools. Somehow; this doesn't destroy the submarine as the kids and Scrooge are flat on their backs after screaming like banshees. Scrooge gets off death reference #2 of the two parter and Dewey completely blows his cover and talks directly into the hard camera with death reference #3. Huey wants to use the potty; but there is a mermen stuck in the toilet; and Scrooge has to blow him off because they are in the middle of the ocean and there's nowhere to "pitstop". Launchpad notices on radar that an unmarked tanker is following them and it's the exact same tanker we saw with thunderbolts during the Flintheart Glomgold employee training tape segment; so we head into said tanker as Donald is showing baby pictures on his cellphone. Awww; my heart melted! One involves Dewey's first baby steps which also involved a catchers mitt and a mattress. I love how Donald hid Huey to tease us that he was this bigass football player; but was really an overdressed water boy. Because Huey is a geek, you see. The henchmen either don't care or look like they want to kill Donald; but cannot. The next picture is Donald climbing a cardboard cutout of a root beer bottle while the nephews are embarrassed out of their minds. HAHA! Gabby is making a wooden knife as we exchange notes on family as Gabby claims that she was raised by warrior monks (probably the same ones who trained Darkwing Duck in Kung Fooled) who spoke of only the blade (or maybe not) as she stabs the table with the wooden knife and cuts the wooden knife in two with sword.

Then the alarm bells song and the red lights go off as Hack (The grey wolf; hopefully this show won't get Hack & Slash confused, ala Mind Your Cheese & Q's) notices a submarine nearby and Hack is literally a hacker of cameras because we clearly see Scrooge waiting and Donald cannot believe that he's here. Flint was perfectly expecting this because it's ATLANTIS for goodness sakes! Who can resist? Flint wants to tail them and steal the jewel as we see the nephews open the door as we discover that it's a washroom and now Donald is pissed and proclaims that he is going to kill his Uncle Scrooge. And yes; he does say kill here. Which gives Flint a great ending to this plan: Kill them all, including the kids. That's five death references in this two parter by the way. Still 11 away from the record in one 22 minute episode though. Why are people shocked here? Oh; it's because a friend of a friend told them that you can never say die on a children's cartoon show. Flintheart believes that Donald is angling for employee of the month and Donald just realized that he screwed this up badly. So we jump cut to outside the boat as it's snowing and thundering as we dive into the deep as the submarine goes over the Great Drake Barrier Reef. I should also note that I realized that the submarine was parked near Flint's boat; so the washroom was in fact, Flint's. So yes; the nephews literally took a piss on Flintheart. Scrooge would be proud of that, at least. Anyhow; Scrooge goes into his spiel about the reef and how snowfall cools the currents allowing for safe passage. This has to be BS; because the kids are sleeping, and they wake up not caring about anything Scrooge's says. Of course! All the kids go to the window to do the Atlantis reveal and it's not as epic as the one in Cape Suzette. Although I will give creative credit for showing this scene, since usually this is shunned by execs and cut for time; because kids just want comedy, you see. And execs are NEVER wrong, you see. And Scrooge blows the kids off for spoiling it as this Atlantis was clearly built by the same descendants who built King Utmost's pyramid upside down in In Search Of Ancient Blunders. Again; Creative: Reboot TaleSpin. Disney: Sod off; I want ducks! Creative: Okay. *Grumble, Grumble*. Heck; even the background music sounds something out of the Christopher L. Stone playbook.

So after some submarining for a while; the submarine finally finds an area to emerge inside the lost city of Atlantis and comes up to the surface. Dewey is in awe as Launchpad ties the submarine to a pillar stump that looks really unstable as we pan over to Louie guilt-tripping Webby into calling Mrs. Beakly; and apparently, there are 47 missed calls now on the thing. I assure you that Mrs. Beakly wasn't involved in ANY of them. It's probably Scrooge's shareholders, since he is the CEO of a major corporation. One that was once the richest corporation in Quackeria. Listen; I have no problem with Webby lying; but I hate that Louie has to guilt-trip her into the lying. Let Webby lie on her own terms; not yours Louie! Webby claims that she has got this as she finally makes the calls; and proclaims that she's at a friend's house and nothing is wrong. Hang up; and of course Louie blows her off for not getting it. In order words; Webby told the truth. She is with friends and the lost city of Atlantis is like a house or two, and nothing has gone wrong in Atlantis, so she told the truth. Okay; on it's own, that was funny. So Scrooge explains why Atlantis was built upside down via the pictogram which is upside down which is pretty much the same reason King Utmost's pryamid was built upside down. I'm half expecting a water-logged mummy to be ruling the place soon enough. By the way; two more death references ensue as Dewey of course is reckless and has already gone past everyone. Dewey is like Kit Cloudkicker if he was the original prototype that they were planning in TaleSpin before going to his final look. Now that I think about it; Hack and Slash looks similar to the Sky Pirates in the concept art of TaleSpin, too. So, the babyfaces all go into the door as the heels are hiding behind rocks as Gabby is about to throw kunai shruikens at Launchpad to try to kill him. Donald panics and then fakes slipping and bonks into Gabby and her aim barely misses Launchpad as Launchpad is confused. Gabby notices this and drops Donald on his ass. She brings out the sword and threatens to kill him (without saying the word this time); so Donald suggests keeping them alive to torture them later. Flint loves that idea; and proclaims Scrooge can stay alive, so he can rub the jewel into Scrooge's smugass face. And that's almost what Flint said (minus the ass part of course) and Flint is pissed off because Scrooge is a true Scotsman and Flint is a no true Scotsman. Evidence #1: Flint is wearing a kilt, you see.

So the heels head inside as we head into the buzzsaw room and Dewey is sitting down, cross-legged with the Gruffi pose on and is pissed off because there are traps; but the upside down nature has screwed up all his fun. HAHA! Scrooge orders everyone, not to touch anything. Sounds reasonable to me; but I have seen Quack Pack when the kids were told never to touch anything and it just means "touch everything!". Dewey is so pissed off anyway; that he kicks a rock; which bounces off a mask and into the floor ceiling. Which contains a giant push button and since everything is upside down; the snake pit is opened and snakes come crashing down and bury Launchpad in a snake tomb. The other babyface jump over a boulder and hide as Webby still has the cell phone and answers it. The friend's name is Subrina by the way; which is totally a real person. She's not wrong; but according to the Urban Dictionary: A special crazy girl who is a brown haired fire ball who can be shy at times and is drop dead beautiful she is fun and can be a flirt but guys stare but cant get the guts to talk to her she loves music she has big brown eyes that sparkle when she talks she has a odd but hot clothing style she is very unique and amazingly talented she dreams of being better which is hard to imagine for her she is loyal and truly a fun person she has unique food taste and likes all sorts of music she has a nice ass and big boobs she has a tall nice shape and wavy/curly hair. Webby hangs up and Louie in a roundabout way, says she failed. At least Webby wasn't guilt-tripped this time, so that one is on her. Launchpad joins in as there are still snakes coiled around him and he's been snake bit. He is drooling, and totally drunk. Lovely! The nephews try to help him up as Launchpad is drunk and collapses and lands on Huey to make him scream and he probably also got snake bit. Lovely! Jump cut to the heels as Donald informs them that he needs to go to the bathroom and he'll be right back. Donald bails into an opening as we see Scrooge rolling a rock away to reveal another opening and Dewey follows Scrooge as they make it to the LASER BRIDGE OF DEATH! We get a sky shot of the bridge as we head to the bottom as Donald Duck arrives and he's pissed off as well; although he calms down a bit when he notices all the skeleton remains on the bottom near the death trap.

So, Dewey tries to go forward, but Scrooge holds him back because it's a death trap, you see. Two more death references ensue and this was the line where everyone was shocked. Never mind that they were saying death and kill at least SEVEN times before this scene happened. Six of them in the last 12 minutes of this episode alone. We are up to nine death references now; for goodness sakes. You're worse than Flint's laughably bad attempt at being Scottish! Oh; and the lasers also turn on the FLAMES FROM HELL; which nearly fry Donald Duck's ass. So, the entire sequence of this is this: Dewey hits all the lasers with ease, much to the chagrin of Scrooge; while Donald becomes the unintentional shield in order to protect Dewey. This sounds awesome, until you realize that Dewey is cutting promos during this entire sequence and the longer the sequence goes, the more annoying the promos become. This was the point where the overtalking was starting to legit piss me off. Dewey's foot is still on the laser as Scrooge simply uses his cane, swings with ease, does backflips and lands back of Dewey and this pisses Dewey off. HAHA! Good for Scrooge, about time Dewey got put in his place! Dewey calls that easy; and Scrooge blows it off because you work smarter, not harder. That usually only works if the target is completely stupid. A smart target, working harder is your only hope because you know the smart one is going to work smarter, not harder. So, Scrooge and Dewey are aruging and I'm on Scrooge's side as Dewey looks like a rookie who doesn't know what he is doing and only Donald is saving his hide. Oh, wait...So Dewey plays the "You have no empathy card" (Speak for yourself, Bluey!) and Scrooge calls him Bluey and fails his test. This causes Donald to let go of the cover and the flaming pillar destroys the bridge; but Dewey hops to the other side well before that happens, so the danger is nullified. I CLUB BS&P~! This strands the other babyfaces and it's probably for the best, because Launchpad on this bridge would cause Donald to being cremated alive. Scrooge is not impressed as he yells to the babyfaces to find another route as Dewey is climbing down the bridge and Scrooge is like he cannot stand this anymore. Jump cut to Donald flopping onto his back and in comes the heels as Flint realizes that this is the path to the treasure room. Oops!

Even better: Flintheart tells the heels that he shouldn't have bothered hiring any of them and orders Gabby to help Donald. Gabby grabs Donald's ankle and drags Donald across the room, making sure Donald hits every object she finds with his head. What a dick Flintheart Glomgold is?! So the heels finally find the treasure room and Flintheart grabs the treasure of Atlantis; which is a giant red ruby in the center. Dewey and Scrooge jump down as Scrooge wants to hire some family to get them to listen to him. Logic break: Gabby was carrying Donald Duck in the previous scene and now it's Hack and Slash carrying him and they do a piss poor job of it. You are supposed to make sure his head bump into every object on the ground, you morons. You would be perfect for Don Karnage's Air Pirate group. Dewey asks who this is and Scrooge calls Flintheart Golmgold an insanely rich; but a poor man's Scot. Which makes sense because Scrooge is voiced by David Tennent; who was the tenth doctor in Doctor Who and has been in DTVA shows in the past, including being Oscar's Brain in Fish Hooks. Dewey notices Donald right away and runs in demanding them to give back his Uncle Donald. Flintheart: No. I wish he just said it like George Pig from Peppa Pig; that would have been unexpected and make Dewey's reaction to it more genuine. Scrooge dives into the money, gets behind Flint -- like a heel -- and trips Flint onto his back and he loses the jewel. Flint is shocked and Donald is both shocked and appalled. Scrooge's response would not instill confidence in me that the other two nephews are safe. I love that Donald knows Mrs. Beakly; but not Webby. Flint is calling Scrooge, Scroogie of course; and decides to admit that Donald is his new employee and this pisses off Scrooge. Hey; your nephews took a literal piss in Flintheart's bathroom and you're suddenly surprised when Donald does it on you? Besides; it's clear you two had a falling out. Donald proclaims that he cannot keep track of all his sworn enemies; even though in the 1987 version of Ducktales; Flintheart was the number two heel of the show, next to the evil witch who loves pentagrams. So, Flintheart calls him a model employee and prisoner as he turns on Donald and kidnaps him. The heels all make it to the entrance and then the heels simply throw Donald back to Scrooge. Flintheart tells Scrooge to enjoy being the second richest duck in the world, for the next five minutes! HA!

Flint nails another floor panel with his cane and this turns on the white lamp in the middle of the room and the place starts to take on water. The heel leave as Dewey claims that this trap was not his fault and Scrooge is not amused. Jump cut to the remaining babyfaces climbing down the broken wooden bridge to the ground as Huey quotes the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook like it's the Holy Bible. Webby and Louie are following when Scrooge's cellphone rings and Webby calls Mrs. Beakly again. It's clear now that Mrs. Beakly is clearly in on the whole thing because Webby's lying sucks. Even more so; because her friend Hampus only speaks Swedish and Louie proclaims that it's over for her. Launchpad drops in; grabs the phone and is clearly speaking Swedish with great ease, while still being drunk. That was distressing. Launchpad hangs up the phone and here come the hell as Flintheart in a roundabout way (and no; I wasn't fat shaming him, honest!) to kill them. The henchmen run in, Launchpad panics in Swedish. We cut to Scrooge, Donald and Dewey panicking; well mostly Dewey and Donald as Donald is doing his usual classic Disney Donald spots of being screwed (although this time; this would have been the same case for anyone; not just Donald), temper and his ass gets stuck into the hole in the wall. Attempt at pissing water block spots fails as Donald yells at Scrooge for only caring about the next adventure and cannot be trusted in taking care of the boys. And then Donald name drops The Spear Of Selene and this angers Scrooge big time! Dewey is riding around the CHEST OF DEMONS and finally; admits that this is all his fault and Scrooge was trying to keep him out of trouble. Wow; this is something Kit would say. Dewey then notices the lamp on it and it was supposed to be bolted to the floor; so Dewey deduces that it's the real jewel of Atlantis, and is the energy source of the city, just like the Sub-Electron Ampifiler was supposed to be before Don Karnage stole it. This is so great. So the Krackpotkin Plan is that Donald needs to let the place flood; and Donald doesn't trust this idea at all. Death reference #10 ensues as Donald conceeds to the puppy eyes treatment and pops from the holes and swims up; almost drowing in the process. The three babyfaces all swim up to the white jewel on the ceiling and pull together with all their might.

Dewey is about to drown; but the jewel is removed from the alter and all the water whirlpools down and all the entrances open. The babyfaces are fine and we cut to Webby basically schooling Gabby and kicking her ass. This is so absurd and yet it was funny. Hack gets creamed by a punch drunk Launchpad and the other nephews squash Slash by stuffing him in Huey's t-shirt. A complete and utter burial of the henchmen; and they all realize that Flint has already taken his submarine and has turned on the henchmen because treasure is the greatest treasure of them all, because that's why it's called treasure. So, Flint is going to kill everyone with two giant torpedoes. Of course! Oh; and the turn was done on two way radio by the way. So, Scrooge proclaims that they have to go as everyone gets to Scrooge's submarine and Flintheart is so stupid that he forgot to sabotage the submarine in anyway. The henchmen ask Donald if they could bum a ride and Donald teases as we see Atlantis begin to crumble in the muted way possible as the submarine escapes with barely any danger at all as Donald answer was yes as he was in the submarine. So, yeah, that was that. That was a fine adventure; but the danger was mostly one death trap and Donald being the butt monkey; which is his best gimmick. So we scene change to a shot of Donald's boathouse as a bell rings as the press and Flint are at the boat. Roxanne Featherby is clearly one of the reporters on the scene and as I discover; that Roxanne Featherby is not Roxanne from a Goofy Movie; but it the duck news reporter. Why wasn't it Daisy Duck? I guess that would cause people to be confused as to why Daisy and Donald aren't seeing eye to eye on anything in this scene. Flint is about to present the fake jewel; but Scrooge cuts him off and shows the real jewel. Flintheart is screwed, I was hoping he eat his hat like he always does in the 1987 Ducktales; but no go. One of the green ducks asks about Flint's claim to the real jewel and Scrooge insults Flintheart as being cursed as Flintheart protests this outrage and then out of nowhere; an octopus tentacle comes out; grabs Flint and spirits him away as Flint basically curses Scrooge ala Doofen from Phineas & Ferb. All the remaining heel and babyfaces slide down the submarine. By the way; Scrooge also proclaims that the real jewel would power up Duckburg for fifty years thanks to McDuck Water & Electric.

In comes Mrs. Beakly as she of course has figured it out that Webby was a dirty liar who couldn't lie herself out of a paperbag. And why shouldn't she? Because she wanted Webby to go on this trip. She just didn't like her going through all this trouble of lying. Because she's safer with Scrooge in a sunken city than in Fort Knox anyway. Like I said before; if she didn't want Webby to go; she would have told Scrooge so when Scrooge made to cellphone call to Mrs. Beakly at the finish of part one. That's why the guilt-tripping by Louie pissed me off so much. Donald watches on as Mrs. Beakly and Webby embrace as Donald decides to relucently agree to let Scrooge see the nephews once in a while, just to teach how to get themselves out of trouble. Compromise? From Donald Duck? That's like him showing mercy! Oh; and they actually paid off the hot-wiring of the boat as the boat explodes because Donald was so angry at Dewey hot wiring the boat that Donald forgot to turn off the engine. Dewey blames himself for that one though; which is fine. So, Roxanne Featherby (and in one of the shots; when her face was to the back of the hard camera; she was white feathered. Here, she's green feathered; which is suppose to be the case since her hands were green in both shots. Talent; not tools is what makes good or bad animation folks.) declares that Scrooge McDuck is back, solving mysteries and rewriting history just to hammer the original show's point home and inform people that this is not Gravity Falls, nor will never be. Won't work. I know; because I have seen many people call TaleSpin a Ducktales wannabe. Also, Dewey is break dancing, just to be Dewey. So, we head back to McDuck manor as Launchpad is lowering the destroyed houseboat into the swimming pool with a crane and Launchpad lets it down too hard and swamps Donald with water. HAHA! Inside the garage is Huey and Louie cosfighting with Scrooge with various objects as Webby is flying around with the Deus Excalibeur sword. HAHA! Dewey is the only one doing work as he puts stuff into a box and walks towards the painting he saw in Part One.....AND NOW WE COME TO THE GAME CHANGER ANGLE~! Dewey smoothes out the top left edge and it reveal a pirate mate with two swords on the mast fighting with a woman duck in a pilot's uniform, goggles and gloves parrying his attacks. And Dewey's response is only one word....Mom?

Yes folks; this was the big moment that the nephew's biological mother Delia Duck made her official debut on the show. Well; her image at least. This shocked a lot of people who managed to watch the ending and I was actually in tears because no one expected this at all. It was one of the biggest secrets in the Duck universe and they are finally going to give Delia a television appearance in this universe. And this angle is still on going as she is suppose to be the one who was also involved in the Spear Of Selene incident; which has it's own episode and there will be a lot more to come soon enough. Now; I'm going to make a prediction: I have deduced from Delia's clothing that she was a pilot and this is a million to one odds of actually happening; but I'm going to make it: We know Don Karnage is coming back in Sky Pirates...In The Sky. I predict Delia Duck is in Cape Suzette and I predict that Delia Duck has a relationship with Kit Cloudkicker as an adult. I certainly don't believe she is on the moon or something; because the people who want that to happen are more tuned to the Ducktales video game and this show is more intuned to the comics and television series. We'll see what happens, but this would be a really shocking occurance if this actually happens. Now I have a big incentive to watch the entire show now that doesn't involve comedy; which is what you are suppose to do to get people to keep watching your show and not change the channel. This two parter ends right there at 42:24. Terrible lying angle and overtalking aside; this was better than Darkwing Duck, but three steps below Ducktales 1987's Treasure Of The Golden Suns. **** 1/4 (85%).

And now; it's time to introduce the six "Welcome to Duckburg!" segments they aired before the first two episodes were released:

Opening Moment #1: A picture of the bridge between Duckburg and Scrooge's Moneybin is used for the "Welcome To Duckburg" title card. Nothing really special about it. This applies to all the segements, by the way.

Scrooge McDuck/Louie Segment: We begin with a conveniently placed grandfather clock that is small enough for Louie to slide the hands of time, so to speak. Louie comes in and is doing the "Oooo, shiny" gimmick that I last saw in every Nintendo Switch hater possible. Louie teases sliding the hands of time; but in comes Scrooge to cut him off. Because the clock is a time traveling device, you see. Okay; I realize this segment was done to get all the Doctor Who references out of the creators systems; but Ducktales 1987 had at least three episodes related to time travel. That was well before Doctor Who became a thing again and was at a time when Doctor Who was being laughed out of the building in their own country of origin. Louie slides the hands and Scrooge disappears. Louie gulps and slides the hand of time as Scrooge reappears, disappears, reappears, repeat, repeat, repeat. Only everytime he appears, he is wearing different time period clothing. This also include riding on the huge front wheel bicycle and being in a space suit with a laser gun with his shoulder pad having some fire on it, for no reason. Scrooge tells Louie to return the hands to noon and he does. Louie backs up as Scrooge looks all right in spite of his dirty clothing and he easily forgives him for it. Then a ptredon is flying outside and Scrooge proclaims that they need to take care of that. End segment. This was fine. ** 1/2 (50%).

Webby/Dewey Segment: We begin with Webby and her Neon Green Light PLUS Goggles of Awesomeness reading a treasure map in darkness. She then puts the goggles on and we search for...wait for it...a giant shelf containing a golden urn like vase with red crusted jewels on the side. So, she proceeds to climb a seven story shelf and a shelf just has to break off in order to do the suspenseful "Webby falls and uses the grappling hook gun" to attach to the shelf and climb up to the top. She grabs the jar, opens it and out comes an oatmeal raisin cookie and she's pissed off. The lights turn on and in comes Dewey with a chocolate chip cookie, stating it's the last time. Webby doesn't like oatmeal raisin cookies. This is weird because I would figure that Dewey would be the curious one in the last segment; but Louie would be the sneaky one as seen here. Dewey teases eating the cookie, Webby tackles Dewey off-screen. End segment. Much better than the last segment; slightly out of character moment aside from Dewey. *** 1/2 (70%).

Huey Segment: We begin in the forest outside McDuck McManor AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Huey is sing reading the Junior Woodchuck Guide Book. Yeah, really. Huey has set up a tent and goes inside aftering finishing his silly song. Out comes a grey yeti as he enters the ten and then the tent goes up because it is a SWEVERE~! Huey was actually creating a Sasquatch trap disguised as a tent, all thanks to the Junior Woodchuck Guide Book. Wow; this is better than the 1987 version, already! Yeti is pissed; tries to swipe at Huey. Huey panics and throws the book into the face of the Sasquatch and knocks it out cold. Huey picks up the book, calls it the answer to everything and that ends the segment. This was also fine; although the swevere made up for most of it. ** 1/2 (50%).

Mrs. Beakly Segment: Okay; this next one call be summed up like this: Kids are running in the halls being chased by a ghost and are literally overkilling the scene just to show how animated they are. Mrs. Beakly is vacuuming the floor, so this segment sucks worse than Sean Desmond. Just kidding. This goes on for a long ass whomping time; until Mrs. Beakly decides that this is enough and uses the vacuum cleaner to scoop up the ghost and that ends the segment. So, she's a cleaner, bodyguard and a rejected Ghostbuster. Geez; if she was in the all-women Ghostbusters movie; she would be the best character of the movie. *** 1/4 (65%).

Launchpad McQuack Segment: Okay; now I see why Launchpad's debut in Woo-oo was so disappointing. This is the best segment of all six Welcome To Duckberg segment, without fail. Imagine Launchpad writing apology notes to everyone where Launchpad McQuack crashed his plane into a street filled with cars. This is so hilarious to watch Launchpad literally passing the buck onto Scrooge McDuck; since the plane Launchpad is flying is property of McDuck. I cannot do this justice, this was awesome and it makes up for the disappointing debut in the main show. **** 1/2...Oh wait; add 1/2* for scratching out "happily" from the letter and writing about his time on a camping trip that he crashed. ***** (100%). This should have been the last short; but the last one actually is...

Donald Duck's Birthday Segment: So, the entire duck family is at Scrooge's finance table in the dining room with presents and the dreaded birthday cake of doom, which if you watch enough cartoons and/or wrestling, you can guess where this is going. Balloons are near Donald Duck's chair as they are singing the Happy Birthday song (because at this point; the copyright was forcibily expired, if you get where I'm going with this). The cake contains a really awesome looking blue candle. Donald Duck cannot blow this damn candle out, no matter how hard he tries, just like every segment in Disney cartoon he has ever been in, because he has the worst luck in the world. Even Kit has better luck than Donald, although Kit's is more dangerous since his luck is extremely chaotic. Of course; the candle is one of those relics that never goes out, because Scrooge is such a cheapskate in refusing to buy birthday candles. No really; I'm as shocked as you are. Donald is pissed off in frustration; so he uses the dreaded CANDLE SNUFF BELL OF DEATH on the flame; and now it turns blue and acts like a volcano. The candle flame grabs Donald and is throwing him around and this short is coming dangerously close to equalling the last short now. Dewey demands answers and Scrooge explains the Promethean Candle, while acting like a cheapskate. Donald is bounced down into the chair, so Donald counters by taking the flame candle end and slamming it into the cake, ala Louie L'Amour from Louie's Last Stand in TaleSpin. The flame basically says "F*CK YOU & YOUR LITTLE BAD LUCK, TOO" and explodes the cake, and burns the presents to a crisp causing the kids to scream on cue. Donald wipes the cake from his face and sighs. End segment. Second best segment of the six; at **** 1/2 (90%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well; the first two episodes are in the books and I was heavily impressed with most of this. I realize that this wasn't going to be like Treasure Of The Golden Suns compressed into two episodes because there was a lot of over talking just for comedy reasons. Nothing that they said was bad; just that they talked too much for comedy sake. I hope they tone that down and make the shots counts because there were lots of jokes that did catch in these two episodes alone and I liked it. It's also obvious that outside of the guns not being allowed for the most part, everything else that made Ducktales, Ducktales was there, just with rougher edges. Webby and Mrs. Beakly are much better; but at the same time, it still feels like they are there for the boys to love instead of just being themselves and telling the boys to grow up. I would have been fine with Webby and the lying angle if Louie wasn't guilt-tripping her into it like a scumbag either, especially since it made no difference in the end. Launchpad's debut was disappointing; although the Welcome To Duckburg segment with him was the best thing on the show, believe it or not. Donald is much better in this show too: He still is a joke machine with a hot temper; but he's a lot more of a character than a gimmick. He's got much better timing now. Huey wasn't much here, Louie was a scumbag, but Dewey was awesome until he couldn't learn to shut up. He almost ruined the laser/flaming pit trap for me with his promo cutting, it angered me. Flintheart is great as well and more heelish than ever. I actually like his henchmen better and Gabby needs more episodes; although Webby completely buried her. The artwork is what it is and I perfer this over many of the flat style animation I often see and the animation is great here. There were some mistakes and logic breaks; but that was a minor quibble. Overall; this was a two parter that was better than Darkwing Duck's pilot and that's all I ask for. Still; watch Launchpad's Welcome to Duckburg segment, it's the best thing going! So, next time; I'll continue with the next DVD as we have the debut of Lena in a parody of The Warriors! The Spear Of Selene! Darkwing Duck debuts...As a television show! Oops; did I spoil that for you?! Mummies Alive in 2017! Wormholes! Two My Little Pony Kelpies on a magical golf course! And much more; if I can find more episodes. So...

Thumbs up for these episodes (Thumbs up for the Launchpad and Donald Duck segments and thumbs in the middle for the remaining ones) and I'll see you next time.

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