DuckTales (1987)

Season 1

The Treasure of the Golden Suns

1. Flintheart Glomgold is depicted in this movie as a Scot when in the original comic, he was an Afrikaner. This change may have been made because of the rise of international protest against South African apartheid during this time period.
2. Part of an event to launch the series.
3. Features the series debut of several of Scrooge's main antagonists, including Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys gang.

Treasure of the Golden Suns: Don't Give Up the Ship

1. Part of a five-episode event that launched the series.
2. This episode reveals that the boys used to live with Donald Duck and that they came to live with Scrooge because Donald chose to join the navy.
3. The Beagle Boys' hideout is the l'Orange Theatre. Duck a l'Orange is a famous culinary delicacy.
4. The boys first join the Junior Woodchucks organization in this episode.
5. The episode title, "Don't Give Up the Ship," is a reference to Captain James Lawrence's dying words aboard the USS Chesapeake as he ordered his crew to continue to battle against the HMS Shannon during the War of 1812. The phrase has become a popular naval battle cry since then.
6. This is the premiere episode.
7. Donald's boss Admiral Grimitz is named for U.S. naval admiral and World War II hero, Chester W. Nimitz.
8. Scrooge McDuck was named after Ebenezer Scrooge from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Treasure of the Golden Suns: Wronguay in Ronguay

1. Ronguay is a fictitious South American country, but is meant to sound like countries such as Paraguay or Uruguay. Based on where the boys point to on the globe, Ronguay is most likely meant to be Uruguay.
2. Part of a five-episode event that launched the series.
3. While the first five episodes first appeared as a TV movie, when in episodic format this marks the first appearance of Flintheart Glomgold.
4. While Ronguay is not a real place, Scrooge mentions real geographic locations such as Borneo and Malaysia.
5. Scrooge quips "there's gold in them thar hulls," when he sees the treasure in the ship. This is a reference to the popular phrase "there's gold in them thar hills," which comes from a similar phrase in Mark Twain's 1892 novel, "The American Claimant" (Twain himself took inspiration from an assayer in Georgia named M. F. Stephenson).
6. In Carl Barks' stories, Flintheart Glomgold is a South African tycoon, presumably of European descent, but his precise ethnicity is unstated. DuckTales makes him a Scottish immigrant living in Duckburg, just like McDuck. In 1987, South Africa made too many people think of Apartheid, and would have been too controversial to discuss in a children's cartoon.
7. Some imagery appears to be lifted from the Carl Barks Donald Duck and/or Uncle Scrooge adventures Luck of the North and Seven Cities of Cibola. There are also possible allusions to The Golden Helmet, The Money Champ, and The Golden Nugget Boat.

Treasure of the Golden Suns: Three Ducks of the Condor

1. Series debut for a number of regular supporting characters, including Launchpad McQuack, Mrs. Beakley, Gyro Gearloose, and Webbigail Vanderquack.
2. It is revealed in the episode that Webbigail Vanderquack is Mrs. Beakley's granddaughter. Mrs. Beakley negotiates her salary as a nanny as simply room and board for Webbigail and herself.
3. Part of a five-episode event that launched the series.

Treasure of the Golden Suns: Cold Duck

1. Part of a five-episode event that launched the series.

Treasure of the Golden Suns: Too Much of a Gold Thing

1. When Launchpad says "I hate snakes! No, wait, that's someone else" he is referring to movie hero Indiana Jones.
2. Is referenced in Season 3 Episode 16 of Ducktales (2017), titled "The First Adventure!" Scrooge describes the ending of this episode to Donald and Della Duck.
3. The scene of Scrooge and El Capitan racing across a collapsing floor above molten gold features prominently toward the end of the intro theme for the series.
4. Part of a five-episode event that launched the series.
5. The last series appearance of El Capitan.

Armstrong

Luck o' the Ducks

1. In Irish folklore, Leprechauns don't steal other people's money. There would be no need for them to, as they already have so much gold.
2. Brian was also the name of the leprechaun king in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959). The name comes from Brian Boru, a 10th/11th-century monarch regarded as Ireland's greatest independent king.
3. In addition to Fardoragh, Frank Welker voices the Headless Horseman. Welker has been a regular cast member of Scooby-Doo for over 50 years on-and-off. Scooby-Doo has had numerous stories involving variations of the Headless Horseman archetype.
4. Fardoragh is a Gaelic word meaning Black.

Where No Duck Has Gone Before

1. Series debut of Doofus Drake.
2. Major Courage's speech pattern (particularly when he is acting or thinks he is acting) is patterned after William Shatner's own distinctive, pause-filled line delivery as Captain Kirk in Star Trek.

Nothing to Fear

1. CASTLE THUNDER: Heard several times at the onset of Magica's fear storm.

Duck in the Iron Mask

1. This episode contains references to Alexandre Dumas' three most famous novels, "The Three Musketeers," "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "The Count of Monte Cristo."
2. Scrooge, Launchpad, and the boys visit Montedumas. This is a reference to Alexandre Dumas, the famous author of whose work the episode parodies.

Much Ado About Scrooge

1. The majority of the episode with Scrooge looking for the lost Drakespeare play is an homage to William Shakespeare with many quotes and references to his plays.
2. Among William Shakespeare's plays referenced in the episode are: Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, the Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Spies in Their Eyes

Dime Enough for Luck

1. In this episode Magica says "One dime to rule them all...one dime to find them" a clear reference to Lord of the Rings Master ring inscription "One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them.
2. Huey, Dewey, and Louie do not appear in this episode.

Jungle Duck

1. Disney animation later produced the feature film Tarzan (1999), based on the same pulp fiction source material.
2. The country which Prince Greydrake is supposed to rule over is not named. Presumably it is meant to be in Europe.
3. Jungle Duck, aka The Jungle Phantom, aka Prince Greydrake, is based on pulp fiction characters Tarzan aka Lord Greystoke by Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Phantom aka Kit Walker by Lee Falk.
4. A comic book adaptation of Jungle Duck was produced by the Jaime Diaz Studios in Argentina.

Scroogerello

Top Duck

1. Robert Ridgely: [Wayne] Launchpad's dad, Ripcord McQuack, is patterned after John Wayne. His mannerisms, speech pattern, and use of the term "Pilgrim" come from the Duke.
2. While Launchpad has often been considered a duck, many of his physical characteristics differ considerably from most ducks in the series. For instance, he has a huge and deep bill, with what appears to be a large pouch on the bottom part of his bill. He is also much taller and burlier than other ducks in the series. This has led to speculation that Launchpad is not a duck, but actually a pelican (thus explaining many of these characteristics). The appearance of his family may lend some credence to this theory. While Launchpad's mother and sister are diminutive with small bills and feet, like every other female duck in the series, his father Ripcord appears to be a different species (a Pelican, specifically). Like Launchpad, he is burly with a distended bill; however, Ripcord is even larger, and his lower bill has a larger pouch, than even Launchpad. It seems likely that Ripcord is a pelican and that Launchpad is the product of a mixed marriage (duck and pelican). (However, the matter is muddled when Launchpad's Civil War (1987) shows that Launchpad's great-great-grandfather General Rhubarb McQuack looked exactly like him.)
3. Although guest characters Doc Bomber Beagle and the Flying McQuacks were fan favorites, neither made a return appearance, except in crowd scenes.
4. Benzino Gasolini returns from Hotel Strangeduck (1987). Whereas he was previously described as a racing car driver, he is now a stunt pilot.
5. Launchpad begins his flashback story with the line "A long time ago, in a big sky far away..." This is a spoof of the tagline of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), a movie in which Terence McGovern (Launchpad) had a small role. Disney would acquire the Star Wars franchise roughly 25 years later.
6. The title Top Duck is a spoof of Top Gun (1986), but the stories do not resemble each other beyond both featuring aviators.

Bermuda Triangle Tangle

1. Captain Bounty's name is a reference to the "Mutiny on the Bounty".

The Status Seekers

Sweet Duck of Youth

Magica's Shadow War

1. Several times, Magica's raven Poe says "nevermore," which the bird said in Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven."
2. At the airport, Magica bumps into Vacation Van Honk, a recurring bit player character.
3. The first draft of the script continued the notion, introduced in Send in the Clones (1987), that Magica's raven is really her transformed brother. This aspect of the character was not in the old comic books, and is never mentioned again in this iteration of DuckTales.

Launchpad's First Crash

1. Huey, Dewey, and Louie do not appear in this episode.

Home Sweet Homer

1. There are numerous references to Greek mythology, particularly the Homer's epic poems, notably "The Odyssey." Characters in the episode include those named Homer (the poet), Ulysses (the Latin variant of Odysseus), Circe (the sorceress who could turn her enemies into swine in both the tale and this episode), and the sirens.
2. The colossus mentioned in the episode is a reference to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
3. At one point you can hear Dewey (the blue one) shout out a warning to Luey and Dewey.

Duck to the Future

1. Based on Launchpad's claim that he's crash 4,298 times since Scrooge disappeared 40 years ago, that means that he has crashed about 107.5 times per year. Or, roughly once every three days for 40 full years.
2. When Magica and Scrooge travel to the past, they visit the Roman Empire (ca. 100), Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876), and the Hindenburg Disaster (1937).

Down and Out in Duckburg

1. It is a loose adaptation of the Uncle Scrooge comic book story "The Horseradish Story" by Carl Barks.
2. The main antagonist, Fritter Away, and his ancestor, Diddle Away, are both named for phrases meaning to waste or squander money.
3. Duckworth tells Scrooge to say hello to Duck Cousteau if he sees him when Scrooge was getting ready to dive. This is a reference to Jacques Cousteau, the famed French marine biologist and explorer.
4. It was notably the only episode of the show's first season to have its animation produced by another studio other than TMS Entertainment; the animation was produced by Burbank Films in the Philippines, with supervision by Richard Trueblood and Roz Phillips.
5. Scrooge reveals that he gained his fortune by selling his ancestor's gold watch to stake a claim in the Klondike Gold Rush (which occurred in the 1890s). Even if he had made his fortune at an extremely young age, that would mean that Scrooge would be almost 100 years old, or older, than in the series. Canonically, Scrooge lived to be exactly 100 years old.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. McDuck

Time Teasers

1. Even with Mallards winning against the Ganders 32 to 16 they still loose.

Catch as Cash Can: Part 1 - A Drain on the Economy

1. Part of a movie-length, four-episode storyline. As with The Treasure of the Golden Suns movie-length event that launched the series, principal antagonists include both Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys.
2. This is the first time the Beagle Boys work for Flintheart Glomgold as his henchmen.

Catch as Cash Can: Part 2 - A Whale of a Bad Time

1. When the submarine uses a tennis racket to bat away some missiles launched from the navy, the admiral exclaims "Holy Navratilova!" This is a reference to women's tennis great, Martina Navratilova, who would have been at the height of her career when the episode was produced.
2. Part of the action for the episode takes place near and in the Marinara Trench, a clear reference to the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench on Earth.
3. Part of a movie-length, four-episode storyline. As with The Treasure of the Golden Suns movie-length event that launched the series, principal antagonists include both Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys.
4. A rare appearance of Uncle Donald.

Catch as Cash Can: Part 3 - Aqua Ducks

1. Huey, Dewey. and Louie do not appear in this episode.
2. Part of a movie-length, four-episode storyline. As with The Treasure of the Golden Suns movie-length event that launched the series, principal antagonists include both Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys.
3. Moral: You shouldn't underestimate your friends, as everyone one of them has talents that can be important.
4. While the series frequently referenced real or mythological history, it rarely provided a socially- or environmentally-conscious message, unlike many of its cartoon competitors at the time. This episode is a departure from this trend, as it explored the dangers and effects of polluting the oceans.

Catch as Cash Can: Part 4 - Working for Scales

1. Usually Flintheart Glomgold is voiced by Hal Smith, but this time he's voiced by Hamilton Camp. The change in voice actors is especially strange, as Glomgold had been the principle antagonist for this four-part storyline and had been voiced by Smith in each of the previous installments. Adding to the oddity of the situation, Smith did appear in the episode as Gyro Gearloose, so he was clearly available.
2. Part of a movie-length, four-episode storyline. As with The Treasure of the Golden Suns movie-length event that launched the series, principal antagonists include both Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys.
3. There is seemingly no explanation as to how the normally dim-witted Beagle Boys are each apparently expert jet pilots.

Merit-Time Adventure

1. Peg Leg Pete features in this episode, though his name is changed to Dogface Pete.

Ducky Horror Picture Show

The Golden Fleecing

Horse Scents

1. The Kenducky Derby held in Louisville, Kenducky is a rather obvious pun and reference to the Kentucky Derby held annually in Louisville, Kentucky. The Kentucky Derby is the most prestigious and well-known horse race in the world.

Duckworth's Revolt

Ducks of the West

1. One of Scrooge's was Texas-based employees is an oil prospector named "wildcat." A wildcatter is a term in the oil business for a lone prospector who attempts to drill for oil in an area not well known for oil.

Pearl of Wisdom

1. Sharkey bears a striking resemblance to Peg-Leg Pete.

Once Upon a Dime

1. This episode explains the origin of Scrooge's "Number One Dime": the first dime he ever earned. It is revealed that he earned the dime when shining the shoes of a ditch-digger in Scotland. The fact that he received an American dime in Scotland means that the true value of the coin was even less than one would think, as it held no value in Scotland. The true value of the dime was that it motivated him to immigrate to America to seek his fortune.
2. Uncle Catfish is based on Uncle Pothole from the comics.
3. First appearance of Scrooge's mother and father.
4. The Riverboat segment features a frog man and some beaver men, fairly unusual for this series. This reinforces the notion that Scrooge's reminiscences are filled with tall tale elements to edify HDL.

Dinosaur Ducks

1. "The Lost World" is the name of a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle about a group of adventurers exploring a plateau in South America populated by dinosaurs.
2. First series appearance of cave ducks.
3. Although several episodes in the series prior to this feature time travel, this episode is set in the present and does not feature any time travel (despite featuring dinosaurs and "cave ducks."
4. The clip in the intro theme song of Webby hiding in a basket comes from this episode.

Sphinx for the Memories

1. Despite being released on home video, this episode is inexplicably missing from the digital release of DuckTales (it's also not included on Disney+).
2. The High Priest of Garbabble (the diminutive, bug-eyed, villainous pig) is based on Peter Lorre.
3. This title is spoofed from a quote called, "Thanks for the memories."

Double-O-Duck

1. This episode almost sparked a spinoff series called "Double-O-Ducks," in which Launchpad McQuack would team up with another duck spy, James Pond. This idea was scrapped, when it was learned that "Double-O" was a copyrighted name, created by Ian Fleming, and owned by Albert R. Broccoli, producer of the James Bond films. Instead, elements of "Double-O-Ducks" were added to the series, Darkwing Duck (1991).
2. Huey, Dewey, and Louie do not appear in this episode.
3. The criminal organization F.O.W.L. (the Foreign Organization for World Larceny) later reappeared in the series, Darkwing Duck (1991), where it was called the Fiendish Organization for World Larceny.
4. J. Gander Hoover is a reference to J. Edgar Hoover, the founding director of the FBI.

Micro Ducks from Outer Space

1. Much of the plot (including a family being accidentally shrunk, befriending a "giant" ant, navigating numerous deadly obstacles from normally banal objects, and having to alert a wacky inventor that they had been shrunk) closely mirrors Disney's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), which was in the very early production stages when DuckTales aired.
2. The premise of Scrooge selling minimal pieces of grain to small aliens comes from a Carl Barks comic book story of the same title. However, the plot diverges widely, as the comic is about Scrooge trying to convince the adventurers club that he has discovered aliens. It is possible that this was deemed unusable in DuckTales, as Duckburg's population in the show has already encountered numerous aliens.

Robot Robbers

1. Series debut of frequent Scrooge antagonist, Ma Beagle.
2. A rare episode in which both Launchpad and Gyro officially work for one of Scrooge's antagonists (in this case, Flintheart Glomgold).
3. Ma Beagle is loosely based on Ma Jarrett from the classic gangster film, White Heat (1949).
4. The audio is out of sync on the R1 Volume 1 DVD release. It is the only one released on the 4 volumes where this is the case.

Send in the Clones

1. Aside from the five-part The Treasure of the Golden Suns (1987) event that launched the series three days prior, this is the first episode to air.
2. Series debut of one of Scrooge's principle antagonists: Magica De Spell.
3. Series debut of Webwa Walters, a character based on television reporter and journalist, Barbara Walters.
4. Series debut of Poe De Spell (Magica's raven-transformed brother). He is named for Edgar Allan Poe, author of the famous poem, "The Raven." In the old comic books, Magica had a raven named Ratface who was not her brother. In fact, the "brother" aspect was introduced in this one story and then never mentioned again in this series, though the plot thread was revived for DuckTales (2017).
5. The clip from the title sequence of Huey scaling a cliff and being pursued by the Beagle Boys appears in this episode.
6. Many elements of the episode (including Magica's plot to steal Scrooge's number-one dime and the setting of her hide out inside Mr. Vesuvius) were used in the final level of the popular NES (and 2013 Xbox 360 reboot) Ducktales video game.
7. Excluding the The Treasure of the Golden Suns (1987) launch event, this is the series debut of the Beagle Boys as antagonists. The first trio of Beagle Boys featured in the series was therefore Burger, Babyface, and Bigtime Beagle.
8. The clip in the title sequence of a Beagle Boy transformed into a dragon while chasing Huey dressed as a matador appears in this episode.
9. The clip from the title sequence of Poe de Spell landing on Magica's finger is from this episode.
10. Duckworth appears in this episode but does not speak.
11. Although Magica De Spell is supposed to be Italian, June Foray uses the "Pottsylvanian" accent she developed for the character of Natasha Fatale on The Bullwinkle Show (1959). Foray's "Pottsylvanian" dialect is a creole of Russian and Hungarian.

Lost Crown of Genghis Khan

The Right Duck

Back Out in the Outback

Sir Gyro de Gearloose

1. The scene with Gyro jousting is prominently featured in the introductory titles for the series.
2. First episode of the series where Scrooge does not appear.
3. Based loosely on the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, first published in 1889.
4. Quackelot, King Artie, Morloon, and Lessdred, are based on Camelot, King Arthur, Merlin, and Mordred, respectively.
5. Vacation Van Honk has his biggest role in the series when he returns the "automatic dressing machine" he bought because it does not work right. He appears as a background character in a few other episodes, and may have been the center of an abandoned plan.

Raiders of the Lost Harp

All Ducks on Deck

1. Final series appearance of Admiral Grimitz.

The Curse of Castle McDuck

Superdoo!

1. Scrooge does not appear in this episode.
2. The aliens have the same speech pattern as Yoda, from the Star Wars saga which Disney would later buy.
3. First appearance of Launchpad McQuack as a Junior Woodchuck leader.

Earth Quack

1. The scene with A-cars, or "mine cars," from the series intro video comes from this episode.

Magica's Magic Mirror/Take Me Out of the Ballgame

1. The only episode containing two segments.
2. Series debut of the Beagle Brats.
3. A rare episode where the Beagle Boys have inmate numbers that contain numbers other than 1,6, and 7. The Beagle Brats also have numbers containing other numbers than 1,6, and 7; however, it has not been established in the series what their numbers usually are.
4. Magica ordered a pizza from The Gangster Guy Pizza Place where employees are dressed like gangsters. It maybe a parody of Godfather's Pizza which is a mafia theme pizza franchise.

Scrooge's Pet

The Money Vanishes

1. A rare episode in which all four of the Beagle Boys are involved in the same crime. Typically, only three of the gang are involved.

Back to the Klondike

1. This was the first episode of the series to be made, though not the first to air.
2. Based on the March 1953 "Uncle Scrooge" comic book of the same name.
3. The Klondike Gold Rush occurred in the late 1890s. As Scrooge is a young man (duck) in the episode during the gold rush, that would make him around 100 years old when he tells his nephews the story of his youth.

Master of the Djinni

1. Schewebazade is based on Scheherazade, the narrator of One Thousand and One Nights. That book includes the story of Aladdin and his lamp (the basis for this episode). Just like the real Scheherazade, who told tales to the sultan every night, Schewebazade tells tales to the sultan in this episode and gets him to fall asleep. In a further connection to the book, she claims "it works every time."
2. The Kaiju monsters Godzilla and Anguirus made a cameo in the episode. While Djinni is changing the channel on a TV, and if you look closely, a clip of Godzilla is fighting Anguirus.
3. Roger C. Carmel's final TV (voice) role.
4. The scene where Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold race each other up the pillar in order to reach Aladdin's lamp is prominently featured in the show's opening titles.
5. The episode aired after Roger C. Carmel's passing.
6. The scene of Scrooge and Glomgold ascending Djinni's lamp's pillar, and struggling over ownership of the item, is prominently featured at the end of the show's opening theme.
7. This episode would notably mark one of Roger C. Carmel's final acting roles; he passed away on November 11, 1986, almost a year before the episode aired.
8. In the scene where the nephews are spying on the titular Djinni watching TV, you can briefly hear the sequence from the end of the war/western, "Fort Apache", which depicts the soldiers shouting while charging into the Apache encampment. Coincidentally, that film was released in early 1948 through RKO Radio Pictures, the same studio who distributed 99% of all Walt Disney live-action and animated shorts, featurettes, and feature films from 1936 (with the release of the Mickey Mouse short "Hawaiian Holiday" the following year) to 1956 (with the release of the Humphrey the Bear short "In the Bag" that same year).

Launchpad's Civil War

1. This episode is missing from Disney+, along with Sphinx for the Memories (1987). A logical reason for "Civil War" to be removed is the use of a Confederate battle flag without explaining its historical context, but the absence of "Sphinx" is unexplained.
2. Scrooge does not appear in this episode.
3. In 1987, Launchpad and the Junior Woodchucks meet people who were alive during the Civil War (1861-1865). Even though one of the veterans mentions lying about his age to enlist early, the veterans would have had to be at least 140 years old. A fan theory is that the Civil War happened in the DuckTales universe much later than 1865. Another possibility is that the men's lives were supernaturally extended due to an overwhelming need to set things right, similar to El Capitan in The Treasure of the Golden Suns (1987), but that does not explain the old lady in the crowd who also seems to remember the war.
4. Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers may be named in tribute to Rufus T. Firefly, a ridiculous king/president played by Groucho Marx in Duck Soup (1933).
5. After the first few minutes, Launchpad is never seen in his usual piloting clothes. He spends the rest of the story in the uniform of a Union General.
6. Although the story is about the Civil War, the words Union, Confederate, and slavery are never spoken. A fan theory is that in the DuckTales universe, the Civil War was only a brief conflict caused by disputes over tariffs and trade routes.

Hero for Hire

1. The Beagle Boys's convict numbers are 6-digit combinations of the numbers 1, 6, and 7. Bankjob Beagle's number is usually 617167; however in this episode his number is 614167.
2. At the Beagle Boy's cabin, Launchpad sees a portrait of Ma Beagle and all 7 primary Beagle Boys: Bigtime, Burger, Baggy, Bouncer, Bank Job, Bugle and Babyface.
3. This is the first episode in which neither Huey, Dewey, or Louie appear.

Maid of the Myth

1. DuckTales is based on the original "Uncle Scrooge" adventures by Carl Barks, which included a 1961 story called Mythtic* Mystery. (*A portmanteau of mythic and mystic.) The Ducks travel to Valhalla (a rogue planetoid) and meet Thor and other gods, who are really powerful aliens, in a premise similar to Marvel Comics' Mighty Thor, which debuted in 1962. This cartoon does not follow that story, but instead used a premise similar to Disney's box-office flop The Island at the Top of the World (1974), that a lost colony of Vikings retain their medieval culture in a hidden paradise on Greenland.
2. The song that Mrs. Beakley chants is The Ride of the Valkyries from Richard Wagner's The Valkyrie, which centers on Norse (Viking) mythology. It has often been featured in cartoons in humorous contexts (such as Bugs Bunny's battles against Elmer Fudd) and in serious contexts in military movies. The song has traditionally been taboo in the State of Israel, because Nazi legions used it as a theme.

Hotel Strangeduck

1. The Duchess's voice and appearance is patterned after Eva Gabor.
2. The scene of Scrooge and the boys descending a dark, winding staircase by matchlight in this episode features prominently in the opening title sequence for the series.
3. Ludwig von Strangeduck has some resemblance to Ludwig von Drake, an old-school Disney character who has made cameos on this show. His name is reminiscent of the movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), a military thriller-comedy which has nothing to do with haunted houses.
4. While not primarily based on any Carl Barks comic book story, different elements are reminiscent of The Old Castle's Secret (1948) and The Phantom of Notre Duck (1965).
5. One of the tombstones reads H. G. Duck (1894-1943). This is a reference to science fiction writer H.G. Wells (1866-1946), author of The Invisible Man.

Duckman of Aquatraz

1. This is the 1st time Scrooge McDuck was Arrested.

The Uncrashable Hindentanic

1. Gloria Swansong is clearly based on Gloria Swanson, from the film 'Sunset Boulevard.' In both cases, the character is an aging movie star who hasn't made a movie in years but still believes herself to be a big star. Both Glorias also have a German butler.
2. Carl Sagander (the astronomer) and John D. Rockefeather (the business tycoon) are parody versions of Carl Sagan and John D. Rockefeller. Sagander frequently says "billions and billions," in the same way that Sagan said it on his famous television show, 'Cosmos.'
3. The piano player/singer is a parody of Burt Bacharach. The song "Meteors Keep Falling On My Head" is a takeoff of Bacharach's famous song 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.'
4. The disaster film director character called Irwin Mallard is a parody of famous film director and producer Irwin Allen, who produced the disaster films "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno".
5. The name "Hindentanic" is a mash up of two famous disasters: the Hindenburg (which was a blimp) and the Titanic (which was called "unsinkable" rather than "uncrashable.)
6. At the end of this cartoon, Carl Sagander says at the movie premiere that Irwin Mallard's disaster film will make "billions and billions of dollars". A decade after this cartoon was released, James Cameron's 1997 disaster movie "Titanic" became the first film in history to gross over $1 billion at the box office.

'Till Nephews Do Us Part

1. Final series appearance of Donald Duck.
2. Tony Anselmo's last appearance as Donald Duck.
3. This is the only episode to feature all the main villains: Flintheart Glomgold, Magica DeSpell, Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys, except Baggy, Bouncer, Bugle and Babyface.