"Quack Pack!" is the fifty-first episode of DuckTales. It premiered on April 4, 2020 and is the second episode of the third season.[1]
Summary
The family is not quite themselves as they discover the planned family photoshoot might just be a part of a bigger “wish” gone wrong.[2]
Cast
- David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck
- Danny Pudi as Huey Duck
- Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck
- Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck
- Kate Micucci as Webby Vanderquack
- Paget Brewster as Della Duck
- Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
- Don Cheadle as Donald Duck (alternate reality)
- Toks Olagundoye as Mrs. Beakley
- Bill Farmer as Goofy
- Jaleel White as Gene the Genie[3]
- Laura Bailey as Launchpad's Girlfriends
- Abby Ryder Fortson as Little Girl Audience Member
- Noah Baird as Little Boy Audience Member
- Kari Wahlgren as Audience Members
Trivia
- The title is a reference to the television series of the same name.
- This is the only DuckTales episode to involve humans but as enemies.
- There are several references from the original DuckTales.
- Scrooge, Launchpad, and Mrs. Beakley's original outfits come from the classic version of the show.
- Gene states that he has been trapped in the lamp since 1990. This is a nod to DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp which was released during that same year, and which was also Gene's debut in the original series. Gene briefly wears his "real boy" outfit during the reveal of the year.
- Donald wears his blue sailor suit and hat again.
- This episode aired on the same day as the "Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks!"
- One of the artifacts in the background of the manor's garage set is a smaller version of the giant golden sun coins from The Treasure of the Golden Suns - Part 5: Too Much of a Gold Thing, the others are a painting of a bull-like creature and an dog-ified Easter Island head.
- Goofy is depicted in this episode as being a photographer, a reference to the start of A Goofy Movie, where he was shown working as a photographer.
- Max, P.J. and Roxanne make cameos in the photographs that Goofy shows Donald.
- This marks Max's first animated appearance since Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas back in 2004. Although he has yet to appear in person, several skateboarding Maxes (and stars) twirl around above a passed-out Goofy in the end, akin to how imagined cartoon birds sometimes do in other media.
- This is also marks the first time P.J. and Roxanne have been seen since An Extremely Goofy Movie and House of Mouse, respectively.
- Gene makes several allusions to Jaleel White when he jokes about several segments and conventions from ABC's TGIF block that White constructed.
- Both Jaleel White and Ben Schwartz portrayed Sonic the Hedgehog in two different incarnations. White voiced Sonic in the 90s DIC Entertainment cartoons, while Schwartz voiced Sonic in the 2020 film adaptation.
- The idea of a sitcom reality breaking down and becoming violent is similar to the Adult Swim short Too Many Cooks.
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References
- ↑ "DTVA News Post". Twitter (March 9, 2020).
- ↑ "Disney+ UK Launch Details; April Programming Highlights". Animation Magazine (March 19, 2020).
- ↑ https://www.etonline.com/ducktales-watch-goofy-make-his-first-appearance-in-90s-themed-premiere-exclusive-143912