YMMV / DuckTales (2017) S3 E2 "Quack Pack!"

• Accidental Aesop: When Goofy convinces Donald that every family has its own kind of normal, he's also defending Pete and his family from the original Goof Troop, explaining that regardless of how dysfunctional they were, they were still a family, still cared for one another, and had their own special way of showing it.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did Gene pull Goofy into the wish for the sake of having a "Big name guest star" or did he add Goofy to the scenario as someone capable of getting Donald to undo the wish by making him understand why his family's fine the way it is?
• Angst? What Angst?: Goofy does not seem to be bothered at all that he was brought magically into a sitcom reality against his wish by an all-powerful Genie alongside Donald and the rest of the latter's family. Then again, this is Goofy.
• Bizarro Episode: The episode, with the Duck family getting trapped in a sitcom-esque Alternate Universe thanks to a wish, is really weird and bizarre even by this show's standards.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • Since Max, PJ, and Roxanne exist in this universe, one has to wonder what Pete, Pistol, Peg, Bobby, and Stacey are like and what kind of adventures they have.
    • In particular Pete - is he a criminal like the comic version or a shady businessman like in the series? Or both?
  • Since Donald and Della seem familiar with Goofy, does that mean the triplets have met Max before? If so, what were those interactions like?
  • It may have been a gag, but what would a world based off Gene's Darker and Edgier reboot poster be like?
  • Gene hasn't been let out of the lamp since 1990. What happened the last time he was freed? The events could not be the same as in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, mostly because in this continuity the triplets and Webby weren't born yet in 1990, but maybe something similar happened?
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Dewey becoming drained of his energy and determination at every form of rejection in here as part a punchline is not so funny when in "The Rumble for Ragnarok!" it's revealed that public disapproval actually affects him on a personal level.
  • Gene saying that the reality Donald trapped them in will last for at least three seasons if he didn't wish everything back to normal. After that, there will be a couple of spin-off shows and they will be rebooted again. In early December 2020, it was announced that Season 3 would be the last season of DuckTales itself, with a DuckTales spinoff in the works, plus the opportunity that the show will given another Continuity Reboot in the decades thereafter. In a way, Gene kind of warned us about the show ending at the end of the season.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Nine months after this episode premiered, Disney+ released WandaVision, which also involves normally-adventurous characters inexplicably thrown into a nostalgic sitcom scenario via magic, complete with fake commercials an everything. A number of memes were quick to point out the similarities.
  • The joke about a Darker and Edgier reboot of a 90s sitcom, while already funny in 2019 due to shows like Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, is even more relevant with the announcement of Bel-Air, a dramatic reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
• Older Than They Think: Goofy previously came to Duckburg in the short, Soccer Mania where he coached the nephews soccer team.
• One-Scene Wonder: We get Max Goof's first appearance in any work in sixteen years. He even appears with Roxanne as his girlfriend (which proves that she and Not-Roxanne are not the same person). He even seems to be more accepting of his father’s antics (as opposed to his other appearances, where he wasn’t). Up until this point, people had assumed Disney forgot about him. Just the fact that Disney remembers that Goofy has a son should say it all.
• Shallow Parody: Quite ironically, for an episode called after Quack Pack, it doesn't have much in common with the namesake show. Donald would regularly get into slapstick antics or dangerous ones, while the triplets were constantly bickering and pranking "Uncle D" For the Lulz. One episode even featured Huey and Dewey instigating an Escalating Prank War that involved them throwing nukes at each other. Here, the biggest problem Donald has is trying to create a perfect scenario for a family photo, and not telling anyone about the wish since he remembers making it. Then again, Donald wanted "normal family problems" and he would refuse to be as irresponsible as 1996 Donald.
• Unexpected Character: Nobody expected to see hyper-intelligent hairless apes, also known as humans.

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