Quack!
Has anyone noticed the proliferation of cartoon ducks? Why are there so many cartoons featuring ducks? How do they become super heros and problem solvers? Why not tigers? Or dogs? Or any animal that is remotely cool, at least? Has anyone every seen a duck and been like man, look at that magnificent beast? Or seen a paragraph start with so many questions? But think about it, there's Duck Tales (woohoo), Donald Duck, The Daffy Duck Show, The Mighty Ducks, Darkwing Duck, Duck Dodgers, The Dinky Duck Show, Duckman, Quack Pack. And those are just the ones that I can remember offhand. That's alot of ducks.
Has anyone ever noticed that Launchpad appears in both Duck Tales and Darkwing Duck? Apparently he was such a charismatic character that they could stand to let him go when Duck Tales ended. I wonder what happened to make Launchpad end his service to Scrooge McDuck (or Mr. McD, as Launchpad would say) and go work for Darkwing. Was there some terrible rift? You have to admit, Scrooge, although he seemed tough on the outside, was a good employer. He forgave Launchpad time and time again. If someone crashed one of my planes not once, but time and time again, you can be damn sure that his out of work ass would be sitting on the curb.
And now, to follow my duck dissertation, I'm forced to ask myself a difficult question. How boring has my life become that I have plenty of time to sit around and contemplate the complexities of cartoon ducks? This f-ing sucks.
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QuackQuack there was a duck on his back after smoking too much crack. Girl, you are BORED!! :-) You know where we live!
And let us not forget the greatest "advertising superhero" of all time, the AFLAC Duck. I had to sign, as part of my contract last week, that I would not engage in any "unauthorized use of the AFLAC logo or duck likeness..." For example, they said, "You can't paint a big duck on the side of your car and call yourself 'Mr. AFLAC.'" So there goes that plan.
I have also pondered Launchpad on Ducktales and Darkwing Duck. Maybe Darkwing provided Launchpad with a better benefits package, I'm sure it's hard to come by good health insurance when you crash that many planes. I think the most likely reason is because of the former affair between Launchpad McQuack and Ms. Beakley. Scrooge had always been tapping that feathered ass and when he found out that Lauchpad was involved he became furious and had the Duckburg mafia put out a hit out on Launchpad. Launchpad then had to go into hiding. What better place than to partner with a superhero...
...another question to ponder. Have we ever seen Huey, Dewey, and Louie's parents? They definately have many uncles with Scrooge and Donald among them. What kind of deadbeat duck parents always leave off their kids with different uncles here and there?
okay i found the answer to my own question.. yes they were deadbeat parents that dropped off thier kids with Uncled Donald...
In the comics Donald Duck's twin sister, Della, sent her triplet sons to their uncle's house for a visit with a letter that read,
"Dear Donald:
I am sending your angel nephews Louie, Huey and Dewey, to stay with you while their father is in the hospital. A giant firecracker exploded under his chair.* The little darlings are so playful. I hope you enjoy them.
Your cousin,
Della."
(* a stunt they seem to have repeated in WDC&S #349 against the braggart Prof. Pulpheart Clabberhead).
A briefer version of the letter was shown in their film debut as,
"Dear Brother-
I am sending your angel nephews to stay with you.
Sister Dumbella"
Of course Della was eventually revealed to actually be Donald's sister and a shortened version of Dumbella, but we are never told why the Nephews have not returned home or what eventually became of their parents. One would assume that perhaps the three ducklings were abandoned to their irascible uncle, whom they relished to torture. Over time they became less burdensome to Donald, who grew to love them as their own father. For a spell Donald entered into the Navy and left the Nephews in the care of his own miserly Uncle $crooge McDuck. Upon his discharge from military service he reclaimed the trio and is seen still caring for them well into their teens.
...and yes, I researched Ducktales characters on the internet to find out who Huey, Dewey, and Louie's parents are. Some stamp loser on my forehead. Still haven't found out why Launchpad left Scrooge though.
Launchpad is sexy.
Props to Dusty for the research...very interesting..and very impressive...I pose another question though...notice how all of Scrooge's workers kissed his ass relentlessly and did everything for him...well how come we never see him cuttin' them a big fat check? His money in the vault is never lower unless the Beagle Boys have managed to make it disappear or found a way to over take a robot and control it to rob Scrooge...also with the launchpad plane crash thing...maybe it comes out of his check and we just don't see that part because we dont' see that process...and by the way who buys the same plane time after time after time....oh and my last concern do these ducks have a bunch of the same outfits? They are always wearing the same ones, unless they are in disguise and then they just change clothes and put on glasses or a funny hat...I'm concerned with all this...and I'm even more concerned that this makes 8 people comment on this post :( Let's get together and create a life for ourselves!
I think Launchpad left Scrooge because he was tired of working for him and that he thought working for Darkwing would be more exciting.
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