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FawfulCrump Since: Dec, 2010
#8351: Sep 18th 2019 at 10:58:16 AM

I think he was originally called the Phantom Blot when the game was first announced, but he ended up being called the Shadow Blot in the final game. Guess Disney didn't like how much they changed him and told them to make him a separate character.

Edited by FawfulCrump on Sep 18th 2019 at 12:59:48 PM

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#8352: Sep 18th 2019 at 11:17:09 AM

The Darkwing Comic gave him magic ink too, iirc.

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WolfThunder Before the storm closes in, the wolf howls at th Since: Jun, 2013
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#8353: Sep 20th 2019 at 3:52:32 AM

Right now, I'm wondering if they'll ever incorporate Solego into this series?

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Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#8354: Sep 20th 2019 at 4:22:45 AM

[up]Frank Angones would say, "See pinned tweet". The pinned tweet says something like that "Q: Will that cool element from the original series / comics that I loved be in the show? A: Of course, we love it just as much as you do."

Etheru Since: Jul, 2009
#8355: Sep 20th 2019 at 8:53:50 AM

Maybe that'll be a Season 3 event.

Or Season 4, since Season 3 is likely gonna be a F.O.W.L. arc.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#8356: Sep 20th 2019 at 9:16:29 AM

It’s be fun if they did the FOWL-summons-Duckthulhu story from the Darkwing comics, maybe even connected it to that Donald Duck Cthulhu comic someone posted a while back.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 20th 2019 at 9:18:05 AM

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WolfThunder Before the storm closes in, the wolf howls at th Since: Jun, 2013
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#8357: Sep 20th 2019 at 3:03:36 PM

[up] That was me. I'd definitely be interested to see how they'd adaptate The Call of C'Russo.

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OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#8358: Sep 20th 2019 at 3:12:51 PM

I first saw Phantom Blot in House of Mouse as a kid and I always assumed he was sentient mass of Ink even there.

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WolfThunder Before the storm closes in, the wolf howls at th Since: Jun, 2013
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#8359: Sep 20th 2019 at 3:23:04 PM

[up] Same here. He's always been my favorite villain ever since.

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8360: Sep 20th 2019 at 4:31:28 PM

Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!

Well, looks like we're back to our regular non-epic episodes again. I assume this was not meant to run right after Donald's escape from the moon?

"Something's terribly wrong." Cue gags of Scrooge not being impressed by strange goins on in the house. grin

And it turns out to be... Goldie. And Louie, because of course he's involved when there's shady business afoot.

"Your whole 'work really hard, make money square' thing doesn't really work for me. Goldie's 'make money easy with no downsides' works much better with the Louie Inc brand." So this is the other shoe on that gag with Goldie and Louie teaming up in business.

Of course Goldie immediately double crosses him to rob the mansion. Funny gag, but where is Scrooge all of a sudden? You'd think he wouldn't let them out of his sight.

Also, that box he's in is very obviously not locked. He should be able to knock it open easily. grin

Oh, wait, it was never supposed to be locked. Then how was Louie trapped in the first place? This doesn't make much sense.

Louie tries to con Goldie into helping him, but she doesn't fall for it, until she thinks she needs him, of course. That's going to be an interesting dynamic.

And the thing she needs his help with is infiltrating Doofus' birthday.

Meanwhile, Della and Huey are playing some generic MMORPG (Legends of Legend Quest: Dereznaroth), which is shown as them being inside the game. So, that's another checkbox on the Cartoon Cliche Bingo Card: characters play a nerdy game as the game's characters, complete with art shift.

Already the two character's very different personalities are apparent: Della is a warrior woman out for danger and adventure (in some sort of futuristic armour), while Huey is just interested in farming and putting a huge energy shield around his house. He has literally created a safe space bubble in the game. grin

This game also can't pick a theme and stick with it, clearly. Huey is dressed in medieval garb and farming a field, but Della is some sort of futuristic cyber knight. It's one of those genre mashup RP Gs.

Oh, Huey is a turnip farmer. This just keeps getting better (I'm having Blackadder in mind, if you're wondering). grin

Della has a laser cannon for an arm, too. Then why bother with the sword? Or, if nothing else, at least make it a gunblade.

Meanwhile, at Doofus' party, apparently the Beagle Boys were invited. Not sure why, but maybe it will be clarified later. Of course everything is... weird at the party, but Goldie and Louie are mainly focussed on the guest gift bags, which are filled with treasure.

Louie wants to just grab a bag of treasure and bail, but Goldie objects, saying they are con artists, not common thieves. She wants to end up with ALL the bags of gold.

Of course Doofus' entry is creepy and seems to be solely created to scare the shit out of Louie, personally. The birthday is also in honour of Granny Moneybags, who Doofus considers his sole parent.

Doofus then demonstrates what happens to people who try to con him: they get dropped into his honey bin, which is full of bees (my god). This also includes the Beagles. Well, that bit of tension was over quick. I'd think they would get a bit more out of Beagle Boy shenanigans.

Glomgold and Beaks are also here, though, Beaks with an actual son, and Glommie with a ventriloquist dummy. So... Doofus only invited crooks and criminals to his party. This screams 'trap', right?

The duo's plan is to expose the other villains, and gain Doofus' trust so they can get away with the loot. Louie tries to pass Goldie off as his grandma, which earns him a slap for his troubles. grin

"Since when do you have a kid?" "Since I realized how many likes family pics get online." Beaks got a kid just so he could get more likes. The evils of social media know no bounds. grin

Then it's time for more Doofus creepiness, who has a weird tatto of him and his grandma on his fathers belly.

Surprisingly, out of the three villains, Goldie and Louie are the worst prepared for this con. That's what you get when you don't have a plan. They decide to take out Glomgold first, because he seems like an easy target.

Meanwhile, Huey refuses to step outside of his comfort bubble to check in his XP, too afraid he will die and lose it on the way there.

Oh, and Launchpad is in the game too, flying a dragon while clad in caveman gear. Yep, a real hodgepodge, this game. The dragon also has rocket engines, for some reason.

Meanwhile, Doofus is doing a backward bellyflop (as in, landing on his back) in the pool, and swimming around making... pleasure noises. I think the show is taking this a little too far here. Then again, it IS Disney. grin

While that is going on, Louie tells Glomgold through his doll that his 'aunt' has the hots for him. Needless to say, Glomgold gets into a fight with it (because of course he plays the doll as an insufferable git, like himself), and tears it apart, exposing the ruse.

Meanwhile, back at World of Gardening with Dewey Duck... You'd think he'd be more at home playing Farm Ville. I mean, how do you even end up in this situation? This is like playing a MMORPG, and refusing to leave Noob Island. I mean, I get wanting to stay out of PVP areas (I was never a fan of those myself), but adventuring is generally safe enough.

Also, what sort of game forces you to get to a checkpoint to dump XP instead of just giving it to you on the spot? That is just poor game design ripe for griefers.

Huey finally decides to step out of his safety bubble, but predictably gets griefed by some monster right as he steps outside. See what I mean? grin

Meanwhile, Boyd, Beaks' son, gets on great with Doofus, probably on account of being a bit weird himself. And then they discover his secret: he's a robot. A water proof one, too, which is something like revolutionary for Ducktales robots. Or Duck universe robots in general, really.

Louie asks Boyd what he did two days ago, and he freaks out as he can't remember. So Beaks not only invented a robot to impersonate his son, he made it sentient, too. I think Beaks just outcreeped Doofus.

"No, no, no, no, do not peer behind the curtain of reality, bud." Man, this isn't even Gyros robot, and it still goes insane. Must be some law of nature in this world.

"Fly swatter mode activated." Why did Beaks install laser eyes into his son? grin

And Boyd keeps acting like a scared little kid during all this. Man, this is way creepier than what Doofus does, in a way.

And then his eyes melt out of his head. Wow. That sure was something. Did not expect Doofus to not be the most disturbing thing about this episode. grin

Doofus seems to be rather distraught about the exposure. I don't get it. Wasn't that his intention to start with? Why would he invite all these criminals if not to expose them as fakes and thieves?

Doofus demands to know who is responsible, and Goldie immediately throws him under the bus. Goldie demands Louie to be gone, and Doofus is all too happy to oblige... reactivating Boyd to do the job. Beaks even has a handy kill option on his phone. Are we sure Gyro did not make this thing? grin

The instruction says kill, but Boyd seems content with capturing Louie, so Doofus can use him as a live pinata.

"But I've never hunted the most dangerous pinata... man." Man? What is this man you speak of? grin

Boyd menaces Louie with a baseball bat, but Goldie stops him at the last second by yelling "stop". This apparently deactivates him.

"You passed the test. What a loving parent, willing to sacrifice herself for such a foul child." Ah, so it was a test after all.

And the prize is... for Goldie to become Doofus' new grandmother, Goldiemama. Doofus gives Louie all the gold and catapults him on his way.

Meanwhile, Della fights the Griefer Monster (as good a name as any for a shapeless multi-eyed flying tentacle ball), and calls for Huey's help. Huey finally decides to cash in his XP, which of course takes forever in this game, because screw you, players. grin

"His power level, it's over nine thousand." I wonder how many kids will get this reference.

Meanwhile, Louie is outside, and torn over whether or not to help Goldie, who did save his life, but clearly cannot be trusted at all. He decides to ditch her, since she broke her own rule of not getting too close and get caught.

Meanwhile, Doofus has locked Goldie up in a glass box with stereotypical grandmotherly furnishings, and has her tell him stories. Of course Louie comes back to save her after all (a bit sudden after that rejection, but oh well), with the help of Boyd. Louie reprograms Boyd as Doofus' brother, who immediately takes control of Doofus' fortune, and of him, as his parents are obviously all too happy to adopt him. Doofus, of course, swears revenge.

"Oh, give it time. If you get close enough to someone, they start to feel like family. Right, Goldie?" Aaand of course she's taken off, with the gold.

Meanwhile, Huey is still going apeshit on the monster. Smash cut to the real world, where Huey is actually going berserk, and Della has to physically drag him away from the game. Yeah, clearly he is not ready to leave his comfort zone.

Scrooge, meanwhile, comforts Louie about being betrayed by Goldie, which of course he knows all about.

"When you spend all your time looking for an angle, it's hard to see what's in front of your face, and that doesn't make her too sharp." D'aww.

Cut to Goldie putting Louie's picture next to that of Klondike Scrooge. Looks like someone else finally got too close to her as well.

I sense we are building somewhat of an arc for Goldie, here. I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see an eventual redemption.

This episode was pretty decent, though the B-plot with Della and Huey could have used a bit more closure than it did. Scrooge and Louie get a Meaningful Talk, so why can't Huey have one? It'd only take a few seconds. Scrooge was also a bit underutilized, perhaps, but having Goldie fill in was a good choice.

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8361: Sep 20th 2019 at 5:39:48 PM

This review asks a question that the Doofus episode ignores: why DOES Louie want a connection with Goldie in the first place, when he has his mom right there? Perhaps this will be resolved later, but here, it is poorly motivated.

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OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#8362: Sep 20th 2019 at 5:46:19 PM

Because she is into making money the way he likes? This was already established before Della even came back when Scrooge talked about his past. That's where he got the idea from. He wants someone who he feels a personal connection too and makes money the same way IE con folks.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Sep 20th 2019 at 5:46:45 AM

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MorningStar1337 Like reflections in the glass! from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#8363: Sep 20th 2019 at 5:46:58 PM

[up][up]Wasn't this before that episode where Louie steals artifacts from time and gave a scathing burn that implies he has a lower opinion of Della than his brothers at that point?

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Sep 20th 2019 at 5:48:13 AM

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
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#8364: Sep 20th 2019 at 5:52:33 PM

In air time, yes, though I'm not sure about production order, there seems to have been some shuffling.

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#8365: Sep 20th 2019 at 6:05:01 PM

Considering the ending of Timphoon, it seems it belong where it was as its ending flows directly into the next episode.

All four of the final episodes of season two flow right into each other.

Also, I don't think Della would have let Louie go to Doofus's party after the events of Timephoon.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#8366: Sep 20th 2019 at 6:57:18 PM

Yeah, they’re definitely not out of order.

Timephoon ends with Louie grounded -> Glomtales begins with Louie pissed about being grounded, and ends with him getting the company -> Richest Duck In The World is about Louie getting the company, involves him destroying the satellites (and Della getting the message from Penny) -> Louie destroying the satellites and Penny’s message are important to Moonvasion.

The only real flow oddity there is that Louie states it’s been a week (or at least a couple days) since Richest Duck in Moonvasion, which means Della waited that long to tell Scrooge they were about to be invaded.

It’s a meta gag about (the intended) scheduling, but it’s still noticeable.

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#8367: Sep 20th 2019 at 7:09:34 PM

Amphibia had something similar with Pops, guess they didn't know about the bomb.

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MetalMichelangelo Since: Nov, 2012
#8368: Sep 20th 2019 at 8:33:26 PM

Goldie teaching Louie ended sooner than I thought, even if Goldie has developed a soft spot for him alongside Scrooge, I doubt Louie would try that again.

Magica was very underused this season.

Small thing, but the eyes in the Funzo costume's mouth moved since someone's wearing it, but when the Phantom Blot takes it off, the eyes are still there.

randomness4 Snow Ghost from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#8369: Sep 20th 2019 at 9:08:03 PM

Maybe he painted them on...

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Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#8370: Sep 21st 2019 at 1:19:01 AM

[up][up][up][up]And yet, in "The Richest Duck in the World!", Scrooge tells Louie that he winning Scrooge's and Glomgold's companies was "yesterday".

And "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!" and the two episodes after it were probably meant to be Breather Episodes before the four-episode Grand Finale that starts with "Timephoon!" and ends with "Moonvasion!". Interestingly, HBDD is the episode that establishes the You Are Grounded! motif that goes through the rest of the season.

[up][up]Expressive Mask. Cartoon logic.

Edited by Snicka on Sep 21st 2019 at 10:20:26 AM

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8371: Sep 21st 2019 at 1:46:16 AM

I think HBDD could easily fit anywhere between Della's return and the finale.

So what do people think of Doofus? Is he still funny, or has his creepy schtick kind of played out by now? Is he still a hate sink for people? The recap page seems to think so, but honestly, I never really considered him all that much of a hate sink or scrappy. I would group him with Bubba as a character that just never really fit into the old show very well, and was shoehorned into episodes where he didn't really work. His inclusion in adventures, sometimes outright replacing the nephews, was more baffling than annoying, really.

I think this was a good place to finish off his arc, with being dethroned by his new brother. He is so far gone, it's difficult to see where you could take him now. Then again, that's what we thought about Glomgold, too, so who knows?

Edited by Redmess on Sep 21st 2019 at 2:12:56 PM

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Etheru Since: Jul, 2009
#8372: Sep 21st 2019 at 6:30:46 AM

I still don't really like him all that much, to be honest.

Not really in the Hate Sink type of way, I just don't really like that instead of trying to make an infamously disliked character tolerable (or even just ditch him), they just made him a villain. I'm not really fond of that type of writing approach since that usually feels like it's just pandering to people who hated a certain character.

I think Doofus is one of the few elements of the reboot I outright dislike due to that. That, and I think the creepy child shtick quickly gets old.

Edited by Etheru on Sep 21st 2019 at 6:35:49 AM

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
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#8373: Sep 21st 2019 at 6:59:33 AM

Yeah, I totally agree with that. OG Doofus didn't really work well, but he was certainly salvageable. Instead, this show just threw him under the bus.

I think part of this can be blamed on the underlying cynical deconstructionism that plagued the show in its early days. Most of that has been rooted out, thankfully, but it is probably too late to salvage Doofus by now. At least Gyro and Launchpad are well on their way to becoming better characters. The writers clearly decided that Launchpad works best in small doses, as in this last episode.

I sure hope they don't make the mistake of turning Bubba into a hate sink as well.

Edited by Redmess on Sep 21st 2019 at 4:07:23 PM

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#8374: Sep 21st 2019 at 7:11:37 AM

Bubba seems to be fairly likable. At the very least, his flaws aren't overly exaggerated.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#8375: Sep 21st 2019 at 8:02:37 AM

Bubba was freaking fantastic.

The introduction of Boyd at least gives them the opportunity to do something different with Doofus. I'm wasn't especially fond of him before for the same reasons given by others, but him getting a massive shakeup like that could make him less one-note.

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