Trivia

DuckTales Trivia, including Facts and References to Films and other TV Shows

DuckTales Trivia

Disney originally planned Treasure of the Golden Suns to be a one-off TV Movie, but the outcome of the Produced TV Special was so good, Disney commissioned an entire 65 episode firt season. The Special Episode which went on for 2 hours was split in five half hour shows and the 62 episodes produced were aired over a 13 week period.

Gyro Gearloose's first episode appearence was in 'Armstrong'

In 'Armstrong' After Scrooge wakes up in the middle of night to find Armstrong empting his money bin, Armstrong is at the bottom of the money bin, with only a few money bags left to move. Where has the money gone and does Scrooge retrieve it? It is never mentioned in the episode

In 'Till Nephews Do Us Part' We see Scrooge's enemies, Glomgold and Magica as his Wedding!

In 'Much Ado about Scrooge' The lost play is titled "McDuck" - obviously reference to "MacBeth"

In 'Sweet Duck of Youth' The mystery of the Fountain of Youth is weather it makes you young physically or young mentally

also in 'Sweet Duck of Youth' The Riddle Ponce De Loon' is Spanish not English

also in 'Sweet Duck of Youth' Dewey claims that there was writing inside the middle piece of the armor when he, Louie and Hewey were wearing it, but he was on top

In 'Merit-time adventure' The sounds heard before the creature makes its first appearance sound extremely similar to the sounds made by the ghost Slimer in the first Ghostbusters movie

In 'Ducky Horror Picture Show' When King Pong approaches Scrooge's Money Bin, we can clearly see that it's about as tall as he is. But when he starts climbing it after the commercial break, he's only a quarter of the Bin's height

In 'Pearl of Wisdom' Webby mistakes the Pearl of Wisdom for a marble, and takes it to a marble shoot-out

In 'Once upon a Dime' We see a much younger Scrooge in a scene at the beginning of the episode

In 'Dinosaur Ducks' Mr. McDuck's office at the zoo is furnished with zebra skins and elephant feet and antelope heads. As Launchpad said before to Bubba about the dinosaurs at the museum: "Relax, they're fakes!" It's Mr. McDuck's way of showing their is no need to kill animals for fur

also In 'Dinosaur Ducks' Launchpad McQuack says "I'll blast it out of the sky", but Launchpad flys a commercial plane not a military plane

Magica De Spell's animated debut is in episode 'Send in the Clones'

Donald's first appearence in DuckTales in also in 'Send in the Clones', with exception to the introductory feature length episode

Episode 'Double O-Duck' was the basis for Darkwing Duck

Double-O-Duck was supposed to be Darkwing's original name before they finally settled on Darkwing Duck. Incidentally, Launchpad stars as Darkwing's sidekick

'Double O-Duck' What, exactly, happens to Oddduck? He just disappears from the episode completely after Launchpad and Feathers give him the slip

also the episode title 'Double O-Duck' is a reference to James Bond Double O-7 or simply OO7

Episode 'Raiders of the Lost Harp' another reference to George Luca's Indiana Jones adventure 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

Gyro stars in full in 'Sir Gyro de Gearloose'

'All Ducks on Deck' Animated debut of the Phantom Blot (a recurring villain from Mickey Mouse's comic strip). Did you know there reallY IS a "Cat Island"? It's in the Bahamas

'Earthquack' This episode makes Duckberg's actual location very hard to place. Duckberg has to be on one of the coasts, and it has to have earthquakes. However, according to the dialouge at the end of the episode, it is not in California

Episode 48 'Magica's Magic Mirror/Take me out of the Ball Game' is two show in one half hour slot

In 'Hotel Strangeduck' When discussing the identity of the ghost, one of the nephews notes that a certain guest is never around at the same time the ghost makes an appearance. However, that guest *was* present at the dinner scene when the ghost made an axe levitate

In 'The Uncrashable Hindentanic' When the blimp flies upside-down, Scrooge hangs on a captains's wheel to prevent from falling on the ceiling. At the moment he talks to Duckworth, Scrooge's legs are white instead of orange!