History Headscratchers / DuckTales1987

** If you know your TimeTravel (Film/BackToTheFuture, ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' (though that's sideways in time, not forward and backward)), you'd know that that was only one of an infinite number of possible futures. In THAT future, events conspired in such a way that Webby ended up marrying Doofus. Keep in mind that individuals change, sometimes drastically, with age. Possibly, at some point, Doofus changed in a way that Webby became attracted to him. Another point, Webby is a female character and [[SarcasmMode since the number one desire and destiny of all women both real and fictional is to marry someone and start a family]], she got paired up with the only prominent male age-appropriate character that existed at the time who was both easily and quickly recognizable to the audience and not Huey, Dewey and/or Louie.

** Another possible reason is that Clarence Nash, the man who had provided the distinctive voice of Donald since his first animated short, died in 1985. DuckTales was the first time Nash's successor, Tony Anselmo, voiced Donald. Maybe the people at Disney weren't yet sure whether Anselmo could carry the role when DuckTales went into production, and thus minimized Donald's part in case Anselmo sounded "wrong"?

*** The Comics have been out of print in America for quite awhile.

** Probably because of Donald's popularity and seniority in the animation department. If he was a regular character he might have upstaged Scrooge.

** Another possible reason is that Clarence Nash, the man who had provided the distinctive voice of Donald since his first animated short, had died in 1985. Ducktales was the first time Nash's successor, Tony Anselmo, voiced Donald. Maybe the people at Disney weren't yet sure whether Anselmo could carry the role when Ducktales went into production, and thus minimized Donald's part in case Anselmo sounded "wrong"?
*** Anselmo definitely sounded quite new to the role, to the point that it's actually more dificult to understand Donald than usual.

* Why does reading this site give me the image that Duck Tales is more well known than the comics that spawned it?

*** Most ducks in the show are not rich or powerful. Some examples just from the central characters: Mrs. Beakley is "servant class", Donald and his nephews are middle class, Launchpad and his family are working class [=/=] middle class, and Fenton lives in a trailer with his mother. Glomgold is rich, but he also represents the criminal element - he's just been more successful at it than the Beagle Boys.
*** All rich or powerful characters are not ducks. We see several rich people and heads of a state who are dogs - just not so much in Duckburg, because Scrooge's exceptionally large financial empire totally dominates the market there.

* Why does Disney think this series is popular enough to get a reboot but ''not'' popular enough to release all episodes on dvd?

* How the blazes is it so easy for Glomgold to frame Scrooge for the theft of the painting in "The Duckman of Aquatraz"? He's the richest duck in the world! He already has to have packs of skilled lawyers just as a businessman; there's reams of paperwork that need lawyers to write and approve. Every instant of that surveillance footage should have been gone over with a fine-toothed comb, not by ten-year-olds but by experts in data analysis. Scrooge's lawyer should have cross-examined every one of those witnesses, and allowing them to elaborate on their damaging statements and make it clear Scrooge's behavior had an innocent explanation. Instead, he doesn't seem to have any lawyers at all. Even discounting THAT, the ''prosecution'' should have gone over the video just as carefully and declined to file charges, as Scrooge now has a massive false arrest and defamation lawsuit against the city ''and'' Glomgold (made worse that the police dragged him off the streets in cuffs instead of coming to his office or home). Finally, Glomgold knowingly both filed a false police report and provided false evidence in a criminal case; he should be on his way to prison, not forced to hang a portrait in his home! Scrooge's lawsuit against him, complete with the pain and suffering blatantly caused by Glomgold's libel and fraud, would have crushed Glomgold permanently even if the crook managed to stay out of jail.

* I found something unusual about the episode [[Recap/DuckTalesTheBigFlub "the Big Flub"]] and it's how Gandra Dee is used in advertising for the Pep brand Flubble Gum that Fenton is selling. In all of the television commercials, print ads and billboards with Gandra, why do we never see Gandra chewing Pep and making Flubble bubbles? It's strange to show a spokesmodel not demonstrating their own product.

* How come we never see those two team up against Scrooge? It's possible the world doesn't know who Magica is, but Glomgold is famous. Surely an evil rich guy who also hates Scrooge could be some use to her.

* The Episode ''Armstrong'' confuses me; he's a Robot created by Gyro to basically help people with everything, and that's what he is... until he's in the vault trying to steal Scrooge's money and take over satellites. But there's really no build up to it; he's a robot until he's the villain. The most we get are some mean looking glances, but that's not a real sign of villainy. I'm confused where his villainous personality comes from?

** I might as well explain why this amazes me so much: Here in Finland every kid from ages three to ten reads Duck comics. Everyone. I don't know anyone here who hasn't read them as a child. The idea of people seeing WesternAnimation/DuckTales as something else than an adaptation, especially in the country of origin of all those characters, is simply alien as hell to me.

** This is actually explained in Creator/DonRosa's ''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' (if it was mentioned in the Carl Barks comics, I can't remember). For most of Scrooge's life, even as he kept raking in the dough, he lived very, very frugally. Then Scrooge had a sort of mid(late?)life crisis when he got back home from all his treasure hunting and business building; he had grown old and bitter, had shut out his family, and had lapsed into a deep depression. At that point he chose to buy himself a fancy mansion because Scrooge felt that there was nothing left to do but wallow in his memories, sit in the dark, grow old, and die there. This is of course when Donald and the nephews enter his life and turn him completely around, making him interested in adventuring and being the world's biggest tightwad again. Scrooge still manages to avoid his mansion even with all the treasures inside - he spends a lot more time in his Money Bin which is considerably less furnished.
** After Barks' creation of the money bin, all Barks and Rosa comics show Scrooge living at the money bin, which is also an office building that contains a library and trophy room -- in other words, plenty of room for all treasures besides his coins. This is confirmed at the 12th and final chapter of ''Life and Times'', when Scrooge decides to sell the mansion and begin personally running his empire again from the money bin. Rosa's story "The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin" shows Scrooge's private living quarters as being on the top (12th) floor. ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' illogically (given his -- somewhat understandable -- obsession with security and guarding his money) shows him living in a mansion separate from the money bin.
** I suspect the difference is that in WesternAnimation/DuckTales Scrooge hired Duckworth to take care of the mansion, and as strained as their relationship is he was Scrooge's closest thing he had to friends or family for years and if he sold the mansion, he'd have to fire Duckworth.

* This show CONSTANTLY keeps referring to the main characters as being humans. You'd think that working on a show called WesternAnimation/{{DUCKtales}}, the writers would remember that their characters are ducks......

* And speaking of the future episode, how the heck did Future Huey, Dewey, and Louie utterly to fail to repeatedly recognize Scrooge anyway? Future Webby and Doofus recognized him immediately. Future Launchpad didn't initially, but that was because of being distracted thanks to Scrooge accidentally crashing Gyro's time tub/bird bath into his class, and he did recognize him almost immediately the second time they encountered each other. Future Gyro didn't recognize Scrooge, but his case was justified as he had apparently lost a few marbles in the intervening 40 years. Was it just a case of EvilIsDumb for them?

*** This has always been the case. Donald's speech impediment is a speech impediment, and not a trait of being a duck. Other than the triplets, no other duck has ever been shown to have the same speech impediment, not even his sister (their mother).

* I found something unusual about the episode ''Recap/DuckTalesTheBigFlub'' and it's how Gandra Dee is used in advertising for the Pep brand Flubble Gum that Fenton is selling. In all of the television commercials, print ads and billboards with Gandra, why do we never see Gandra chewing Pep and making Flubble bubbles? It's strange to show a spokesmodel not demonstrating their own product.

* I found something unusual about the episode "the Big Flub" and it's how Gandra Dee is used in advertising for the Pep brand Flubble Gum that Fenton is selling. In all of the television commercials, print ads and billboards with Gandra, why do we never see Gandra chewing Pep and making Flubble bubbles? It's strange to show a spokesmodel not demonstrating their own product.

* Was there a particular reason for the writers to put DonaldDuck [[PutOnABus on a bus]] as soon as possible?

* In "Merit-Time Adventure, it's revealed that Launchpad can't swim, which is foreshadowing to the fact that Webby only has one merit badge for swimming, and has to rescue him when he falls in the water. There's only one thing: two episodes earlier, in Aqua Ducks, he particupates In an an adventure under the sea! And he doesn't seem to have any problem swimming and riding dolphins during the final action sequence. SeriesContinuityError?

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