tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post530765328685627166..comments2024-02-25T03:15:48.893-05:00Comments on News and Views by Chris Barat: DUCKTALES RETROSPECTIVE: Episode 81, "Yuppy [sic] Ducks"Chris Barathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-40639078365441675072014-06-03T21:30:06.346-04:002014-06-03T21:30:06.346-04:00Why did the boys have access to Scrooge's vaul...Why did the boys have access to Scrooge's vault anyway? It should have been locked up tight.Dan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13216645775400765169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-51160269419420334462014-06-02T17:59:23.320-04:002014-06-02T17:59:23.320-04:00Well; I did say that without Ma Beagle and the Bea...Well; I did say that without Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys acting to pad the running time with amusing stuff; this would have been on par with Bubba's Big Brainstorm. Maybe I would rate it -**; but still give the crown to BBB simply because it offended me from start to finish; rather than just merely being stupid from start to before the finish and then offend me at the finish and ending.<br /><br />@Joe: By the time you brought out that quote for the finish; the logic horse was out of the barn and did 100 rotations around the earth. I was completely drained of life by the time they did the black hole stupid offensive finish, so I could only muster the obvious logic break to the proceedings. And the fact that you explained it a lot better than I did.<br /><br />@Pan: Maybe I did rate the episode way too high in regards to "Bride Wore Stripes"; but I didn't think it was horrible or anything. There was some really stupid stuff at the beginning of this and then it recovered enough to be good. Gregory Weaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15332664615566273293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-84579882981431646132014-06-02T04:31:29.362-04:002014-06-02T04:31:29.362-04:00I don't mind this episode this much, "Bri...I don't mind this episode this much, "Bride wore stripes" is the way more painfull in my opinion (I don't think anybody deserve cruel fate of rewatching that episode) I think "Yuppy ducks" had a concept with large potential, they just didn't do anything interesting with it. <br /><br /><br /><br />Aslo, I just notice - the part with HD&L + Bubba desiging a new car is VERY similar to the Simpsons season 2 episode "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"Pan Miluśhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364446151493198587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-40835319857891045712014-06-02T03:14:32.891-04:002014-06-02T03:14:32.891-04:00Chris:
I’m glad you quoted our primary objection ...Chris:<br /><br />I’m glad you quoted our primary objection to this episode verbatim, as it may have been perhaps our most VALID criticism of any episode of, or individual bit in, the series. <br /><br />Oddly, until I began reading these reviews and recalling each episode again, I remember having a relatively high regard for Koonce and Weimers as writers, back in the day. Maybe that was because of their generally high humor quotient – something that, just a few still-painful years earlier in the new Whitman comics, Duck stories were completely lacking. <br /><br />For instance, check out what I said about <i>“The Uncrashable Hindentanic”</i> in <a href="http://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/dvd-review-disneys-ducktales-volume-3.html" rel="nofollow"><b> THIS DUCKTALES DVD REVIEW.</b></a> in Please excuse the <i>“Garish Blogging Colors Phase”</i> I was going through at that time. <br /><br />It’s certainly something I consciously TRIED TO DO in my own Duck scripts, and maybe it was in some <i>“less-conscious”</i> sort of reaction to K&W’s DT eps, as well as the more obvious Barks, Rosa, Van Horn, Lustig, Blum, and Gerstein influences. <br /><br />But unlike those great talents that guided the Ducks in comic books, K&W certainly had their share of episodes – or notable moments WITHIN episodes – that were outright stinkers. Thus, my present-day reassessment of their “catalogue”. <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.com