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The Late Donald Duck
Reviewed: 02/04/2013
...Lost His Temper For Good.
Yeah; I'm going completely against my sked this time because I think seeing Donald Duck trying to make the most hilarious excuse for being in work late is much more exciting and compelling than Dewey looking for UFO's. That's Dewey's problem, not mine. Besides; it's #8 in the air date order so it makes a perfect target for my amusement anyway. So how does this episode fare? So; let's rant on and find out shall we...?!
This episode is written by Richard Stanley and story editing is done by Douglas Langdale. The animation was done by Wang Films. Oh boy; I don't like this situation already. Prove me wrong Disney, prove me wrong!
Opening Moment #1: Today's title card features Donald Duck literally trying to hold back the hands of time. HAHA! Replace Donald with old farts and the joke just writes itself.
So we begin this episode at sunrise (which looks like a sunset) with a far sky shot of what looks to be Duckberg; but has too many barking dogs to be taken seriously. We pan down to street level as Kent Powers' RV shows up. I know this is his because it has orange stars and banana yellow paint. No folks; his visage would not have convinced me that it was his unless Donald painted a black mustache on it. Kent comes out to tripod spotlights, wires and a mirror, just because. He grabs the out of nowhere garden hose and he has the muscles of Brad Buttowski. Okay; that is not fair to Kent since he does manage to lift them onto his shoulder. He complains about his manicure and checks his watch because Donald is late. Kent Powers hate manual labor; despite having a automatic vanity switch. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He decides that the next time he sees Donald; he's fired. So he looks in the mirror and continues to be vain; then his girdle screws up and he's like those Deviant Art pictures where they take a popular character and make him look like a balloon. Yeah; and then critics are surprised when fans do this spot in their artwork. Kent runs back into his RV and then comes out looking normal. HA! More vanity as Donald comes in selling injuries like crazy. Broken leg, broken foot and serious concussion (judging by the bandages on his head). Sadly; no halo which would indicate a neck injury and give me more reason to mock Kent for wanting to fire Donald. Donald does up the class a bit by having his right leg propped up by a metal stable rod on a wheel. Donald trips and falls down on his face as Kent blows him off as being self-centered. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there Kent? He drops the garden hoses right onto Donald as he cannot tolerate his behavior any longer and he is about to fire him; but Donald brings out a piece of paper. Kent grabs it and is still amazed by Donald having an actual excuse. So he opens the note and the note claims that he arrived at work at 9:50 am which Kent chuckles to himself.
So we hit the FLASHBACK OF DOOM (or dream sequence if you are a Kent Powers fan) as we see Donald on the opposite side of the street in front of heavy traffic and checking his watch. And we see his watch is at 9:50 am as he lowers the watch to see a boy with brown hair, yellow shirt, red shorts and sneakers trying to jump to put the letter in the mailbox but he's just too short. Kent blows this off as Donald turns around and invokes eye contact violence right on the hard camera. We return to reality (no, not really) as Kent is sitting in the director's chair asking if he is going to believe that as Donald jumps up and falls flat on his face again. Kent blows off Donald and decides to read the entire thing. So we hit the flashback again with Donald coming over to selflessly help this little boy mail a letter in which Donald asks what is in it for him and the boy offers $5. HAHA! The boy is voiced by Kath Soucie by the way. Donald calls this a deal as he tries to take away the five dollar bill; but the boy pulls it back and shows the letter. Donald tries to grab the letter; but it flies away into the wind. Which is an easterly wind as the letter ultimately lands right in the middle of the road in that heavy traffic. It's funny that it's heavy traffic in this world when there was no heavy traffic at the beginning of the episode. Kent monologues that Donald couldn't disappoint that sweet little boy (hey; it's FIVE BUCKEROOS pal!) as Donald blows it off; but the kid comes back waving the five bucks at him. HA! Donald licks his chops and sweats while we jackhammer green dollar signs in the background. Donald proclaims that he has it covered. He looks both ways as the animators cannot even animate this properly as they simply mirrored the same empty street whenever Donald turns his head. Kent's monologue completely annoys me now as Donald steps onto the road and almost gets murdered legit by the first car. And then more cars try to murder Donald's ass as Donald dodges all and then the street goes empty for no reason. Pfftt.. Donald is in the middle of the road next to the letter and I'm saying right now: GRAB THE DAMN LETTER~!
So Donald tries to grab the letter; but the ambulance shows up in the middle of the road without much warning and Donald is screwed now. Heh. We cut back to the boy trying hard not to look as we get a really sick MAN-SIZED off-screen crash which includes seeing a large camera, hubcap and a jackass whizzing stage left on it's ass. And no; it's not the Wizard Of Oz doing his stupid pet tricks again; so watch your tongue lady! And before I move on... What?! No space alien?! Doesn't Richard Stanley realize that in this show; when in doubt, throw in a space alien?! Donald flies into the air (and does a great job overselling it like a good angry white duck) and where he lands; does Kent Powers care? Answer: no. Donald ultimately takes a really good bump far away in the bushes inside the park. Donald pops up and the letter flutters away stage right. Then the conveniently placed black bird hell dives down directly at Donald just to up the racism levels a tiny bit. Donald stops and notices it right away; and then jumps up to grab the letter; but the black bird does a hyperbole and grabs the letter with the talons. Donald and black bird play tug of war with the letter and apparently the letter is so strong that the black bird pulls Donald into the air. Oh and Donald calls the black bird stupid by the way. Donald notices that he is in midair and he lets go which is really a dumb move because he clearly cannot fly and gets WARNERED and drops into the conveniently placed trashcan near a park bench. Donald climbs out and chases the crow through the park; but the hand of George strikes it's ugly head again because Donald forgot to WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE~! HAHA! Good bump there and it was almost on-screen. Almost. So Donald pops up and proclaims that he's pissed and races up the tree like a Ducktales nephew (aka race car spot) as the crow has the letter in his mouth on a power pole. So Donald pops up in the tree and then crawls on a tree branch where the end is nowhere near the crow; but the power of fantasy allows the tip of the branch to fall down just allowing Donald to miss swiping the letter from the black bird.
Donald gets up as Kent monologues again as we get the CHILD CORRUPTING BALLOON OF DOOM which features the child waving the five bucks like he's mocking Donald. Donald gets evil and jumps onto the power lines and grabs the letter; but gets slingshot into the air and where he lands; does Kent Powers still care? Answer: Still no. Donald lawn darts himself right into the mailbox and mails the letter as Kent would say. Donald climbs out of the carnage as the kid comes over and gives Donald the five bucks he promised. Donald grabs the bill and puts it in his shirt pocket. However; the kid is like Montana Max (and the face certainly looks like a child version of him too); as there is a string attached to the dollar and the kid pulls it out and steals it back. That makes Donald look selfless doesn't it. Disney Montana Max does a lame raspberry and runs off stage right. So Donald chases after him in the middle of the street (Kick: Oh biscuits!) as we return to reality (no, not really) with Kent continuing to read the letter. Kent claims that this doesn't explain why he was late (since he could just ignore the kid and walk back to the RV). Donald is writing notes on his notepad while Kent is grandstanding and stomping on Donald's back for good measure. HAHA! Donald tears another note and gives it to Kent. Kent foolishly decides to read this anyway because hearing Donald get creamed is funnier to him I guess. So we hit the flashback as Kent monologues some more while Donald chases Disney Montana Max and then almost drops into an open manhole. Donald has to do the bridge spot to prevent falling into the sewer. So we see a trailer stop to the left of Donald (or his right depending on the view. I hate that door from Unchained Blades; let me tell you someday.) as he was a human bridge for a business man, the band and two elephants. Yes; two circus elephants. HAHA! Donald almost falls into the sewer; but hangs onto the edge of the manhole for dear life. I betcha DMM comes back and does the lift fingers from the edge spot within the next thirty seconds or so. Sadly; a big ass workman comes over and notices the manhole cover is gone and places it onto manhole squashing Donald's fingers. HAHA! Donald falls into the sewer river water.
One funny quote: The workman claims that someone would have tripped into the sewer. Ummm; no, you don't trip into a sewer; you FALL into a sewer. Just so you would like to know Richard. Donald looks up and checks his watch. He decides that he better return to the RV as he notices a rat on a board. See; Donald narrating this would be much funnier than when Kent tries to monologue because his vain voice is ruining the entire buzz of this episode in general. The funny thing is that the rat was aroused; so Donald gets repulsed by said rat and brings out the lead pipe of doom (out of nowhere) and tries to whack the rat; but the rat dodges and climbs onto his head. The rat is voiced by Frank Welker by the way. Funny spot: Donald smartly smacks himself on the head with his hand and the rat still runs away stage right. It's funny because normally that spot leads to the guy murdering himself in the head with the lead pipe. So we do the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE SCOTT STEINER EDITION~! And Donald and the rat climb on the spiked green "rock" which Donald whacks and misses the rat. Yeah; another alligator rises up as Donald corners the rat in a dead end and the rat is frightened almost to death. And somehow; the animators gave the rat, red whites in his eyes. Donald is about to murder the rat legit; but the crocodile arrives just as the rat is shaking complete with Hanna Barbara teeth chattering sound effects. Oh; and the red whites have changed to yellow right on cue. Donald looks in between his legs and panics as he runs to the wall and begs for the crocodile not to eat him; and then picks up the rat and wants him eaten instead. HAHA! Sadly; this would have been funnier if Donald was doing the monologue instead of Kent. So Donald grabs the rat and runs across the sewer river to the conveniently placed mouse hole; with a conveniently placed black lever (WRONG LEVER!). The mouse tries to crawl inside; but Donald pulls it by the tail and into the crocodile while Donald stuffs himself into the mouse hole; but Donald is just TOO FAT. Donald struggles as we get a glorified shot of his ass while the crocodile gets a purple scarf to use as a bib and a shaker of pepper.
So the gator tries to chomp air because Wang keeps screwing up the spot; while the rat suddenly gets lobster courage in reverse and chomps on the gator's tail and holds on. Gator runs around in the sewers as Donald struggles some more and his right leg manages to push down the lever (WRONG LEVER!) which opens the floodgates and swamps the sewer with sewage water. Donald pops from the hole and we whirlpool out of the sewer pipes and Wang cannot even animate that properly. So we head outside as the rat drags Donald out of the pipe and out of the carnage and then does CPR on Donald. Donald spouts water and then wakes up. Donald is relieved and the rat blows him off for being a scaredy cat. Whatever rat; no one cares about you. Donald checks his watch and apparently; he has enough time to return as he walks onto an army base. I know this because we hear gunshots and someone claiming that Donald is trespassing as the army truck unleash in mass. Donald bails and climbs up a construction skeleton and then runs up and climbs onto something silver seeing a conveniently placed black kitten on top. If you cannot guess what Donald is on right now; you have no business reading this rant. Donald throws the kitten onto the launch skeleton and it waves as the skeleton is wheeled off and damn I'm so good. Donald gulps as we T-10 seconds and counting. The other construction skeleton is wheeled off as we discover he is on the badly colored space shuttle Columbia. OH COME ON WANG FILMS! Kent puts this stuff to a halt as we return to reality (no, not really) because he cannot believe this. I cannot believe that Wang Films is doing a worse job animating this episode than Kent Powers is doing his monologue. Donald is now on Kent's director's chair writing down more notes (A sure sign that he's lying) and gives one to Kent as he is laughing this off as hysterical. I would too; if Kent would just let Donald narrate the whole thing. So Donald scribbles while Kent paces around ruining my buzz as usual.
So we hit the flashback of doom and we rocket into space and yes; the writers still think that chimeras can breathe in space without losing their heads. So Donald slides down the shuttle and then looks back and notices that Earth isn't animated properly and a rocket has separated and fallen to what looks like a badly designed Venus. Donald panics and runs to the conveniently placed porthole and opens it and hops inside. He closes it as we are actually at the control center of the shuttle with flashing buttons and pretty lights. One example of why Kent ruins this for me: If Donald had said that he wasn't about to be late for his boss and then said "I'm doomed"; that comes off as uber funny. When Kent does it with his vain personality; it just doesn't click. Example #2: it would have been funnier for Donald to claim that he used his super smart skills in controlling the shuttle before finally doing the "One, potato. Two potato.." spot because it makes it much funnier to see Donald squirm in his hyperbole. Donald is not outright lying; but he is stretching the facts quite a bit so far. He pushes the bottom blue button and the shuttle does some cute moves before zooming away causing Donald to fly back into the fur chair which tries to press him into the chair and make him a permanent part of the chair. So we zoom deeper into space as Donald pops from the chair and sits in it. And then we discover that Richard Stanley finally got the memo of: When in doubt; throw in a space alien as the Zaltroobian Overlord and his ships have made a return appearance to conquer Earth. And it makes sense here to be the first encounter since ZO would return in Return of The T-Squad. Besides; Roger Rose is available to voice him anyway. Donald panics and that ends the segment 10 minutes in. Boy; the funny is just tempered by bad animating and monologues from Kent Powers. It's bad enough when the nephews push the crappy button; but Wang Films?
After the commercial break; we get a northeast pan shot of the moon as we get example #3: Kent claims that Donald faced them without fear, and then Donald swims around like a chicken with it's head cut off inside the shuttle as the shuttle is heading towards the main ship. If Donald was narrating; this is uber funny. With Kent; it's just funny. Donald then notices that the shuttle has a brake pedal like a car. Donald pushes the brakes and it stops as we return to reality (no, not really) as Kent is literally rolling on the ground laughing his ass off. I would be too; if Kent wasn't narrating the whole damn thing! Kent claims that he is in stitches too. Donald's is mad; and his pencil breaks; so he stops selling the injuries and runs to the computer and types. How about that?! I wondered where Kenny Kaos got his selling of injuries from. Kent comes over and leans on Donald's head while he types and we hit the flashback again for more "It would be uber funny if Kent wasn't talking" Donald hijinks as he looks over to the ZO ship and we head inside as the Zaltroobian Overlord is sitting and blowing off snacks and television because they made the humans too fat and they only sent one spaceship to defend themselves. So Donald continues to push buttons which are mostly all blue and trying everything in the shuttle; until he pushes down the black lever (WRONG LEVER!). Ahh; this must be Richard's trademark. Good to know as he races right at them which the ZO continues to think that this is a sign that Donald is the best of the human race. Except Donald is a anthro duck like you are an anthro elephant pretending to be a space alien commander. ZAP! OUCH! Ummm... So ZO demands that the ships surround him which leads to the shuttle playing pinball on the planets which is downright stupid because if anyone remembers from their science classes; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Nepture are planets made of gas and thus have no solid ground to land on. This always annoys me for some reason.
So we see the ZO ships encircle Donald's shuttle as Donald is punch drunk and ZO calls for the ships to fire and Donald's beaks hit the dreaded RED BUTTON OF CERTAIN DEATH. I swear forevermore that in DTVA; the red button is always going to cause death and destruction. So the shuttle manages to dodge the big ass lasers and the ship all get destroyed and the ZO ship is damaged which makes no sense because Wang Films' animating is piss poor today. Donald splats into the glass window of the shuttle just as Kent reads that Donald was calm. Again; it doesn't sound as funny as if Donald was saying that he remained calm and then panicking right on cue. So the shuttle spirals right towards a lot of green muck which they claim is a black hole and then we get the crappy Twilight Zone sequence which Wang Films screws up completely. So we get the eyeballs and pyramids spot; followed by a crappy animation sequence of Donald opening his mouth repeated three times in a row. If this is reality distorted; then it's not any better when reality is NOT distorted. Donald runs around and we see in the foreground inflatable Donalds out of air. One is apparently crying tears through a grate (apparently; he was supposed to cry bloody tears; but BS&P RULEZ~!); another is hanging from a branch and the third one is perched on a rock with pizza pan eyes. Donald runs into the camera and then we do the double staircase spot which Donald gets WARNERED despite the fact that he should have been able to stop running easily. He free falls as we see Kent Power heads yelling for him to get to work over and over again. Boy; what a drop in quality; post-ZO stuff. Donald falls onto the crooked hands of a pocket watch and it gets broken and somehow Donald gets shot out like a cannon and then transforms into the shuttle and finally leaves the black hole and it lawn darts literally into the ground of "Earth". At least in theory. And yes; the bump was WITH CHEESE AND BACON too. Donald climbs out of the carnage as he discovers that the black hole has warped him back in time to 65 million years ago as we see a long neck dinosaur eating greens from a tree. Yeah.
So we scene change to Donald walking around and then a blue fur suit wearing cave woman and her baby who is somehow covered in regular white cloth for no reason. She runs off bumping Donald into the bushes. Donald pops up and blows off the lady until the SHADOW OF DOOM arrives and it's a green T-Rex. Donald panics and bails stage right; remembering to return the favor to the cave woman and her child. No male on female contact? What no male on female contact? Donald runs into the cave where there is a conveniently placed rock on the ground inside. T-Rex grabs the entire cave and pulls it up. Donald looks around and grabs the rock and gets chomped by the dinosaur. So Donald is inside the T-Rex's mouth as he rubs powder on his hands from a salt shaker; goodness knows why. He grabs the rock and does some bowling and we get the ten teeth strike which knocks all of the dinosaur's teeth out. Donald drops on his ass on the ground and runs in between the dinosaur's legs stage right. T-Rex grabs his teeth and arranges them in an ugly fashion and follows Donald to the dreaded cliff. Donald backs away as rocks drop from the cliff; and then turns around to see the dinosaur and it roars forcing Donald to be WARNERED~! Donald's reaction is priceless here as he free falls and gets caught in the tree branch. The cliff crumbles and the T-Rex does an awesome WARNERED spot which he cuts a promo channeling Frank Welker's cameo Scooby Doo voice and then does the "Big Bird Hawk" neck spot before free falling for good. At least in theory. Sadly; Kent Power is still ruining this as even Donald is looking at the hard camera pissed off. I don't blame you Mr. Duck. So we return to reality as Kent cannot contain himself and has more difficulty laughing properly. He's reading the printer print out paper which is silly since Donald is using the computer and has a screen for him to see what Donald wrote anyway. Kent gets partially covered in papers as he is losing his crap. I would too; if Donald was...you guessed it. So Kent continues reading as we head back to Donald's story as he sits on a rock and is depressed because he'll never make it to work on time now.
BS&P alert: Kent is reading that Donald let his saintly boss down as in marches the T-Rex with bandages on the same areas where Donald was injured at the beginning of the episode. Minus the tail of course. HAHA! So we give chase stage left and cut to a map of the entire land mass as Donald runs around in various loops and lines which is supposed to be him being cold and calculated in his movements. HAHA! We cut to the North Pole and there is a candy cane post that sezs Noth Pole. The only reason for this logic break is to allow Donald to take a MAN-SIZED bump into it which is the second such spot for him in this episode. Donald bails as the T-Rex murders the post and sign for my amusement. More roaring and running make Gregory Weagle something something as the T-Rex apparently has the IQ to stop selling his injuries and use the post as a lead pipe. HAHA! It makes no sense; but who cares?! It's not like we have seen this episode done before in The Secret Origins Of DARKWING...DUCK! He bashes the ice which causes a three inch wide crack as Donald gets chased by a three inch wide crack. HAHA! Donald runs towards a lake and thinks he's safe as the three inch wide crack catches up to him and encircles him partially. So T-Rex adds more funny to injury by using his sharp claw to cut the rest of it. Example #1004: Donald calls himself a dead duck despite writing that this was a carefully calculated plan. Again; would have been funnier if Kent wasn't narrating this. So Donald splashes into the icy waters and returns encased in a block of ice. The dinosaur taunts him and licks the ice in that order; and somehow it doesn't stick to his tongue and the dinosaur walks off stage right. Kent proclaims that his chances to live are one in a million which isn't as funny as saying one in 65 million. Dear Richard; make the joke and then pay it off. No wonder you didn't last squat in this gig. That ends the segment almost 16 and a half minutes in. Again; this is great if the right guy was narrating this; but the right guy is NOT Kent Powers.
After the commercial break; we get a closeup of Donald encased in ice as the eons past (thus lifting the finish from Extinct Possibility which had no heat either) and we head back to 1996 as a scientist in a fur coat and pants walks in and notices a prehistoric duck and is giddy because he has the Noble Prize in the bag. So he uses the chisel and hammer and breaks the ice. Donald is of course alive because reality doesn't exist in this cartoon and waves goodbye and walks off stage right. The scientist whines because his Noble Prize has gone bye-bye. Don't worry sir; I think you can still win, if you can figure out the logic of this show's universe. That would be great! So we have the globe of the Earth as we do more running in wavy lines and yes; North America in this world is badly drawn. Donald's drawing of himself on the land mass was a whole lot better. So Donald runs back to Duckberg and man; this guy is in such great shape for a duck. I guess the FCC Navy does have some uses after all; even if they took the one thing that made Donald Duck...ahem...Donald Duck: his temper. And yes; the sign continues the gag from the episode: The Island of Not So Nice. Donald finally runs to the sidewalk opposite of Kent's RV and checks the clock tower and realizes that the time has not changed at all. Well; of course it didn't, because remember he went back into time through a black hole; then forward in time with the encasing in ice spot. So this makes sense, sort of. And then the bright flash of light ensues and it's the ZO and his ships because apparently; you cannot have enough space aliens on this show. ZO has his projector screen on as he tells the earthlings that they must prepare to be conquered. And then we come to the worst reason why Kent Powers shouldn't be narrating this: When Donald is pondering over the question of getting to work on time or saving the earth from ZO; if Donald was narrating this would be "roll on the floor laughing my ass off" stuff because Donald runs like a scalded duck afterwards. But it's Kent Powers; so the effect is ruined. Again; why are the executives trying to ruin this episode?
So Donald of course does the WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE spot with another really good bump into the cement mixer. The spout shoots high into the air and the SEAMEN-T OF DEATH swamps the ship in a really neat spot which Wang doesn't screw up. It's a miracle! The ship fall down and crash off-screen to MAN-SIZED bumps as the fleet is destroyed. Who cares how many? It's still a win either way. Donald tries to walk off; but here comes the ZO as he beams down from the sky...wait for it...the ZO...oh; I refuse to try to name this guy. Let's call him the ZO Proud Clod Prototype and get it over with since it's the exact same one from Return of the T-Squad; only blue. I'll give Richard Stanley some props for remembering the "Dragon Color Food Chain" for this one. And by the way writers of Bubba's Big Brainstorm: This is the proper way of using laser spears. So Donald runs off and hides in the mailbox. Fuzzy cartoon logic rears it's ugly head again as the yellow laser destroys the mailbox; but when he fires on Donald and he dodges; the letters smoke a bit; but are perfectly intact. Another screw up from Wang Films. Donald and ZOPCP are doing the sway chase and Kent Powers ruins the effect completely again laughing his ass off; as even the heel and Donald are invoking eye contact violence at the camera. Yeah; this is getting absurd. LET DONALD NARRATE THIS YOU VAIN BASTARD~! Kent rolls in the papers laughing as Donald is angry and continues to type while Kent continues to mock him and pops up to the printer to read some more while wearing a printer version of a powdered wig. Which goes along with his paper thin personality. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So Donald draws a picture of himself in a Superduck costume and it appears on the printers signed by him. Memo to writers: Dot Matrix printers do NOT work like regular human doodles. I'm just saying. Kent continues to lose his crap and I would be too; but this vain bastard is ruining my buzz. No wonder people call him the worst character in this show. Sadly; he isn't.
So we continue to dodge laser spear fire as Donald falls into the sewer and the laser forces him up to the surface again. Donald then runs into the "Ye Olde Musik Shoppe". That's exactly what it sezs. And there is a white sign on the door which says "Warning: We Have Big Pipes". HAHA! They better be big ass pipes; or I'll be so disappointed. Door is destroyed and Donald's ass gets charred. And yes; they are using the Transformers laser gun sound effects here. Donald runs off and hides in the tuba as the ZOPCP uses the butt end of the spear to cut open the canopy and the ceiling. It then fires the yellow laser through the saxophone, through the trumpet, bounces off the keys of the piano and deflects off the gong and the ZOPCP gets MURDERED and destroyed. I wish I could gong Kent Powers in that manner so I can have DONALD narrate this story instead. The explosion shakes the Earth as the entire music shop is destroyed with the exception of the table and the tuba as Donald pops from the carnage semi-fried. He then goes over to the charred laser spear and kicks it with his webfeet and no sells the pain as the laser spear shoots into the air and destroys the ZO spaceship. Wonder how ZO got away? Ah forget it; the joke is dead now (no thanks to you Kent Powers) and it's time to mercy kill it. Donald laughs and then the end of the laser spear falls and squashes Donald flatter than my sex life. So the ambulance arrives and two doctors come out and pop Donald from the carnage. They wrap him up in bandages and give him the wheel prop to prop his right leg. Then out comes the big ass needle as the doctor claims that this won't hurt a bit and then laughs it off because he still cannot keep a straight face saying that. Donald panics and runs into the background and gets run over by a truck. And we finally return to reality (no, not really) as Kent reads that Donald saved mankind and thus asks for mercy as Donald is ready to beg for mercy right now. I betcha Kent blows this all off and fires him; because Kent is so vain to not care about mankind; other than them watching him be vain like Drake and fail miserably.
Kent laughs it off and throws the papers right into Donald Duck as the power of suggestion allows Donald to take a MAN-SIZED bump into the RV and gets stuffed in a paper tomb. He then pops up looking like the Statue of Liberty as Kent goes on about Donald being a writer and making this into a movie; or cartoon. But Donald is no longer a camera man as he screams in his face that Donald is fired. The papers fly off and Donald looks to be taking this well. And then Daisy shows up as she is surprised that they are early. Kent is confused as Daisy notices Donald is injured badly and wonders if he got hit with a truck. Answer: yes Daisy, he did. Kent asks why they are early and Daisy proclaims that it's actually 8:30 am and not 9:30 am. See; the thing starts at 9 am; but because of Daylight Savings Time. WHAT THE HELL?! Guys; clocks move forward one hour when DST is executed so Donald would be here at 10:30 am; not 8:30 am. They couldn't just redub the line and say that Daylight Saving Time is over and it's Standard Time now. And then I realize that Richard Stanley is writing this. This is exactly what happens when you let idiots write their own stories. And Douglas should have easily noticed that mistake too. Kent then realizes that he screwed himself and decides that Donald is not fired and therefore he still has to work and demands work now acting like a bad boss would. Kent goes into the RV as he is going to the sauna again and slams the door. Daisy notices Donald bandaged up and wonders what lengths he went to do this excuse to be "late" for work; which he wasn't late. So she checks the papers and just cannot believe any of this stuff Donald wrote and asks Donald is he expected Kent to believe it. Donald doesn't know what to do; so Daisy calls him one of a kind and kisses him. Awww. So we head into the spaceship of the ZO overlord as we basically lift the ending part from Whistlestop Jackson, Legend as ZO is looking at a monitor bandaged up as ZO proclaims that the world will never know that they were saved by Donald Duck as the ZO ship flies into the sky. And Wang Films does a middle finger to us one last night by using a night sky instead of the morning sky. Damn. That ends the episode at 21:08. This was great; but animation errors and crappy narration from Kent Powers dulled it down. So close and yet so far. *** 3/4 (75%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Another one of those "It Should Be ****+" episodes that wasn't in the end. Donald Duck's story was HILARIOUS. Seriously; it was and much of it did make me laugh and most of it was so absurd that it had to be "true". It was also a nice build up for "Return Of The T-Squad" too; since it gives the overlord an excuse to kidnap Donald now. However; the laughter was subdued because the narration was done by the wrong person. Kent Power was narrating this and he sucks at it. It dulled and ruined the effect because if it was Donald narrating; it would be even funnier and "roll on the floor laughing my ass off" level of funny. This is the sad part of Quack Pack: Say what you will of Richard Stanley; who wrote a negative star episode earlier; his writing was very good here. Yes; he booked the wrong guy to monologue; which Douglas Langdale should have noticed. Yes; he wrote a gaping logic break at the end with the Daylight Saving Time crap; but Doug should have noticed that error. These are simple little mistakes that a little editing would have gone a long way in fixing. It's one thing to ignore BS&P notes; but ignoring your story editing is much more stupid in my view. And Wang Films really screwed up spots here and showed that they didn't care at the end when they used the wrong background for the sky which was night time when it should have been morning. This episode could have been a ****+; maybe even close to a perfect one too and the dissolution of this team killed it. As usual. The nephews didn't need to push the crappy button; the animators and bookers did it themselves. Incredible. So next weekend; I'll be doing IOU A UFO, Pardon My Molecules and Phoniest Home Videos since those three are prepped and ready to go. I'll probably do PMM and PHV on the weekend because they are in air date order at least. So........
Thumbs in the middle pointing up for this episode and I'll see you next time.