Super DuckTales

"Super DuckTales"

Super DuckTales is a five-part serial from the second season of the Disney animated series DuckTales. Originally aired as a television movie on The Wonderful World of Disney, it served as the introduction to Fenton Crackshell and his alter-ego GizmoDuck.

Synopsis

Part 1: "Liquid Assets"

In this episode, the Beagle Boys sabotages the plans of the new Duckburg's freeway, making freeway to pass for Money Bin. When Scrooge McDuck to discover this event, decides to move the building, but it needs an accountant. Fenton Crackshell, one bean counter of the McDuck's Bean factory, is used as accountant of Scrooge. Fenton, for destination irony, empties bin and places all millions in the Doughbegone lake. The Beagle Boys, wanting to give to the Scrooge's money for birthday of Ma Beagle, destroys the dam and all money, together with Fenton, is dragged by the water.

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Fenton has Scrooge's fortune placed in Lake Doughbegone.

Part 2: "Frozen Assets"

At the mansion McDuck, Scrooge and Fenton is in worried room, trying to arrange ideias to recoup the money. Fenton suggests that Scrooge congeals the money all. Scrooge uses giant fans to congeal the lake and helicopters raise the lake with a claw. Scrooge is worried because it cannot see bin since its mansion. Fenton makes a call to inform Scrooge that its money this insurance, but the currency that used was to number one dime.

The Number one dime finishes at the hands of the Beagle Boys and Fenton uses diveros disfarçes (bermuda shorts beagle, candy machine and tooth fairy) to recupear “lucky dime”. In Duckburg, Scrooge asks for that Gyro Gearloose invents something that protects the bin. Gyro invents a robotic tender called Gizmoduck, Fenton dresses the tender and flies to recoup number one dime. After to defeat the family Beagle, Gizmoduck/Fenton, flies for the Money Bin delivering number one dime the Scrooge McDuck.

Part 3: "Full Metal Duck"

Gizmoduck picks a fight with the GICU2, but then realizes he's lost the instructions to the suit. The GICU2 puts up quite a fight, but after a big struggle, Gizmoduck eventually "pushes all his buttons" and reduces the robot to a merry-go-round. Scrooge likes how well done things went, so he hires Gizmoduck for the job of protecting the bin, not realizing he's already hired the guy for a different position. Ecstatic, Fenton greets his mother back at the trailer, and she's quite miffed at it. But when Fenton tries to go to bed, he can't quite get the suit off, so he has to sleep outside.

The next day, Gizmoduck is guarding the Bin when Huey, Dewey and Louie show up, saying they're members of the Gizmoduck fanclub, and they'd like him to autograph their posters. Then he gives them a ride home. But while HD&L think Gizzy's the greatest, the Beagle Boys have a different opinion; because of Gizmoduck, their goal of robbing Scrooge's Money Bin just got more difficult. So they form a plan to make Scrooge hand over his money, by holding the nephews (and several background extras) prisoner in the Statue of Duckburg and torture them with bagpipe music.

Fenton, meanwhile, ends up having his suit fall to pieces by his mom's TV remote. And this is incovenient for him, because at that point, Scrooge calls for Gizmoduck, telling him about Bigtime, Burger, and Baggy holding the nephews captive in the statue. Fenton has trouble getting the Gizmosuit back on until his mom says the trigger phrase herself and ends up wearing it. Fenton eventually figures out the phrase himself and heads off to stop the Beagles. He does that by having ice cream and chocolate syrup dumped onto the statue's torch, distracting bagpipe-blasting Burger. The nephews and extras are saved, and because of bad footing, Bigtime, Burger, and Baggy fall into a fountain and survive without any broken bones. Later, Gizmoduck is rewarded with a medal by Mayor Hogwilde and gets a lot of adoring female fans; however, he still feels that Gandra Dee is the only one for him.

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"Save Duckburg! Stop Gizmoduck!" the citizens protest outside Scrooge's mansion.

Ma Beagle becomes furious about hearing the radio talking all about Gizmoduck's heroics; because of him; she now has to cook excessively in order to spring her sons from jail. Just then, she finds in her back seat the instruction booklet that fell in last episode! Realizing this could work to her advantage, she sends complicated equipment to spring out Megabyte Beagle, the genius of her offspring. Afterwards, he rigs up a remote control to take control of the Gizmosuit.

While that's going on, Gizmoduck heads off to the Money Bin for an interview with Webra Walters. Unbeknownst to them all, Megabyte takes control of him with his remote control, and he and Ma make the crimefighter do all sorts of crime in their favor. The citizens of Duckburg start protesting Gizmoduck by holding anti-Gizmoduck signs and chanting outside Scrooge's mansion, and even Scrooge and Duckworth fall for this trickery. The nephews, on the other hand, refuse to believe that Gizmoduck is a criminal, even though he's at this very moment bringing the Money Bin to the Beagles.

Part 4: "The Billionaire Beagle Boys Club"

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Ma beagle takes over Duckburg

When Scrooge will be to look the money bin, the beagle family carries through that they will have that to hide, and Ma beagle if decides in disfarçar as a Donut factory. Now that it has the Scrooge's money, Ma beagle leaves to buy everything that is wanted always (expensive jewels, statues, hairdos).

Meanwhile, Scrooge is forced to place mansion McDuck for sale, had the one that already cannot keep the property. A Real estate agent appears saying that a one new a rich wants to buy the place: Ma beagle. The Real estate agent shows the house m the to Ma beagle that purchase the place although Scrooge demands to know it where started the money (ma beagle composes some nonsense on recycling the aluminum cans).

In this night, after the family duck to have been banishes from mansion, Mrs. Beakley says that the beagles are to play the party of the year and all had been invited except the Duck family. Scrooge, that always memorized the numbers serial in each dollar it ever made, tries some attempts in leaving to function the party, but it remains yourself to start retroceded for it are. When the guests object to the beagles that are hosts rude, Ma beagle react saying that he has the power now to make over on the city.

Meantime, Scrooge and the family are forced to remain in Launchpad. When Scrooge weeps on losing its sneak of the Bin, the Huey, the Dewey and the Louie of the money for is to mansion to find the test that the beagles have the Scrooge's money. Since that all the disguise they themselves in the black color, a gag running starts in which is incapable of if saying distant. Sneak around mansion, preventing eyesight of the beagles, until finally Louie (or Dewey) sight of the arrestors of the megabyte that controls Gizmoduck. It outside makes with sight some of the Scrooge's money, but of the arrestors of the megabyte of it. One another persecution follows, and this time Ma, Bouncer and hamburger start involved. Fortunately, the ducklings make one getaway clean.

Scrooge immediately recognizes the money that HD&L bring to it and say that it cannot wait to see the look in the face of Ma Beagle when it starts carried outside to the chain. But the things in the way turn for are, only who start carried moved away are Scrooge. The Ma beagles meet it the policies head that Scrooge stole the money of it, and because she is “very next” to the mayor (that it could result in the officer who is being set fire fire), the bobbin arrests Scrooge instead. HD&L and Mrs. Beakley try to pay its arrestor, but the cost too much is raised, and its pretty experimentation very none-gains the situation, because the beagle boys if had applied to have it of the judge and the jury. The attempt of nephews that sneaking a grenade fulled cake the Scrooge, but only results in Mrs. Beakley who starts arrested too much.

When thinking of one another plant, Launchpad finishes above of giving to it to an idea for its toy remote-controlled of Gizmoduck. Sneak of HD&L on the o mansion, where they find the beagle faily to relax for swimming pool. After that to eat lemonade of the booty of Gizmoduck, megabyte placed its remote control the sufficient so that nephews grasp in and substitute the one with this for the toy of Launchpad. After that having rebel of meeting to the Ma beagle , they remove the control of a Gizmoduck and a head forlorn to jailhouse to the Scrooge rescue.

Exactly after to be saved Scrooge believes despite Gizmoduck is one guy bad until HD&L inform it that Gizmoduck was under the control of the beagles. They go then to search the Money bin. They do not have that to look at distant, because the Ma beagle and its minions (less the megabyte, that disappeared suddenly for no reason) destroy its disguise and they start it to direct moved away with it. Scrooge and its elasticity of the family (Gizmoduck including) pursue it after. Gizmoduck raises Bigtime, hamburger, and Bouncer is of the small partition and battles with the beagle of the milliampere on the controls. But they finish soon above of unloading outside of the small partition of runaway, because it is directing for the ocean!

Part 5: "Money to Burn"

The problem of Scrooge's Money Bin sinking under the sea wouldn't be so much of a problem if they didn't have everyone in Duckburg going after it, including the Beagles. Scrooge, Launchpad, and Gizmoduck, on the other hand, take the McDuck submarine. Gizmoduck reveals that he's hooked up to the McDuck Enterprises Comquack Space Satellite, capable of finding metal for mining. Meanwhile, up in space, it's revealed that the satellite isn't the only thing detecting the Bin, there's a bunch of aliens out there, too.

Down under the sea, Scrooge & Co. find the Bin, but before they can reach it, their sub is suddenly snared by Ma Beagle's net. Just as Scrooge is ready to dismember the Beagle clan for all the trouble they've caused, the aliens show up, parting the ocean and causing the two teams to drop to the ground below, where the Bin is. The aliens then use a giant claw to abduct the Bin before departing. Scrooge, Launchpad, and Gizmoduck don space suits and give chase in the USS Jumpstart (a rocket that Launchpad happened to have lying around).

Thanks to the Money Bin springing a leak - giving them a trail to follow - the heroes make it to the alien robots' unnamed home planet. They suddenly hear the planet's ruler, the Master Electronic Leader, demanding that the non-robots that have just arrived be captured and destroyed. Gizmoduck finds out that the robots plan is to melt down the Bin to make more robots. He, Scrooge, and Launchpad sneak into the Master Electronic Leader's building disguised as robots. Scrooge and Launchpad then ditch their disguises, but while Launchpad heads back to warm up the SS Jumpstart, some of the robot minions show up and arrest the other two.

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Scrooge and Gizmoduck meet the Master Electronic Leader.

Scrooge and Gizmoduck are taken to meet the Master Electronic Leader (or MEL for short), who has a stuttering problem as well as the belief that metal is the only necessary substance in existence. MEL is quite surprised that Gizmoduck doesn't talk like a robot, but puts that aside when Gizmoduck admits there's a person inside him. So MEL takes the Gizmosuit apart (and away), revealing Fenton to Scrooge, who is shocked at this revelation. MEL orders the non-robots to be made into axle grease. As they're taken away, Fenton admits he had never believed that Scrooge thought this little of him, and he then escapes from the robot carrying him as the other one takes Scrooge to the burner. Scrooge hopes there's still Launchpad to count on, but it turns out that Launchpad's been captured too! How'd he get captured? Never explained.

Fenton runs up to issue a challenge to MEL to a duel, but MEL - who claims to be the smartest, fastest thing in the universe - simply laughs and tries to throw him out. But Fenton's as persistent here as he was at the very beginning. After Fenton bothers him with some silly questions, MEL accepts the challenge, which is to count how many ball bearings are in a jar until they're on the verge of giving up. MEL thinks he can win this easily, but as seen earlier, Fenton is very fast at counting, and since MEL keeps stuttering, Fenton easily beats him every time. After quite a while, and following one final trick by Fenton, MEL ends up short-circuiting out of exasperation, starting up a chain reaction leading to the planet's destruction. Fenton yells his catchphrase again to re-signal the Gizmosuit and, after blowing up the robots, rescues Scrooge and Launchpad; afterwards, Scrooge apologizes to Fenton for misjudging him.

While Gizmoduck fights off the robots, Scrooge and Launchpad get the SS Jumpstart working again. As they're taking off, though, they see the planet exploding behind them! Scrooge weeps, thinking Gizmoduck and the Bin have both gone to the big metal pile in the sky. Suddenly, the robots' ship turns up again, sucking their rocket in. But it turns out they're not being recaptured at all - a battered Gizmoduck comes in, showing them (and the viewers) that he saved the Bin, smuggled it into the ship, and got it off the planet before it exploded.

Just as our heroes are approaching Earth, Launchpad accidentally releases the Money Bin (though you can't really blame him, since it's an alien ship and the buttons obviously aren't labelled in English), and Scrooge dives into the vacuum of space just as it creates a comet effect. But instead of being burned up in the atmosphere, the Money Bin crashes right on its former spot, before this whole movie began, sending the construction crew running for their lives and the freeway they were building crashing right on top of Ma Beagle's cabin (but not killing the Beagles, obviously). Afterwards, Scrooge tells Gizmoduck to come early tomorrow, and "tell Fenton" that he's got important work too. With that, Fenton returns home and stands up to his lazy mother. Then he finally gets a date with Gandra, who it turns out had wanted to go out with him before but never did before because he never asked. (His mom goes with them, by the way.)

Trivia/Goofs

• At the very beginning, when Bouncer remarks "Yeah, [we're getting Ma] a nest egg for her retirement!", he speaks in Baggy's voice.
• When "Liquid Assets" is shown in syndicated reruns (such as on Toon Disney), the scene where Scrooge threatens Fenton by shooting him is cut out. Unfortunately, this edit led to some confusion among new viewers, because it also cuts out Scrooge testing Fenton's counting ability immediately afterward. Whether or not the scene will be restored on DVD remains to be seen.
• The ending of "Liquid Assets" (more specifically, the Beagles' attempts at breaking the dam) is based off of the Carl Barks story "Only a Poor Old Man".
• Given the problems that arose in "Armstrong" and "Robot Robbers", Scrooge should know better than to entrust a robot to guard his Money Bin.
• Fenton's quote, "Of course you know, this means a skirmish," is a parody of Bugs Bunny's catch phrase, "Of course you know, this means war!"
• When Fenton is disguised as "Bermuda Beagle", he wears a prison placard that reads "12345".
• When Fenton is kicked out of the Beagles' house after his "Bermuda Beagle" attempt, his disguise comes off to reveal that he's not wearing anything underneath. (In other words, you'll see a brief glimpse of him naked.)
• This is the only time Doofus Drake makes an appearance in the second season - he makes a brief, one-shot cameo while Gizmoduck is bringing the nephews home.
• Besides Ma Beagle and Megabyte, the featured Beagles are Bigtime, Burger, Bouncer, and Baggy. Babyface, Bebop, and Bankjob also make a few cameos in parts 3 and 4, but they have no lines. This is also their only second season appearance.
• One of the criminals in the jail Megabyte is in looks exactly like Maddog McGurk from "Duckman of Aquatraz".
• When the Gizmosuit's battery runs dead, Mrs. Crackshell repowers it by hooking it up to a car nearby. This experiment would be repeated in the Darkwing Duck comic story "Watt's the Problem!"
• Although Webra Walters claims that she's quitting in "Full Metal Duck", she would make several more appearances in later episodes as well as on Darkwing Duck.
• Webby only appears in "The Billionaire Beagle Boys Club", and she doesn't have any lines.
• "Full Metal Duck" is a reference to the movie title Full Metal Jacket.