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elementary my dear baxter
Ooookay, so here's the thing. Despite the fact that I will never "grow out" of watching cartoons I simply cannot go back to most 80's and early 90's cartoons. They tend to just age too poorly. So I'm not going to watch all hundred-ish episodes of the original Duck Tales.
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT
Here's the thing. I watched that five part time travel series with Bubba Duck and the diamond mind like a hundred gajillion times as a kid because time travel is awesome and caveman duck funny and the shit with the lasers and the exploding diamond mind at the end was fucking sweet as shit. My parents recorded it for me when it aired as like a TV movie thing.
So I just finished rewatching those five episodes and man the 80's were different. The very concept of Scrooge McDuck is so hard to swallow these days but I'll be damned if he doesn't manage to be likeable. And even though Bubba is this shoehorned in marketable gimmick character that TOTALLY FUCKING WORKED ON ME AS A KID I was nevertheless caught up in the more emotional beats of the story. While also being acutely aware that the dramatic climax of this story involved whether or not the ridiculously rich old duck we like will get a little bit richer than the ridiculously rich old duck we don't like.
Anyhow it's over now. I got that bit of nostalgia out of my system. I can stop. It's fine. I mean, I'll just read a few episode descriptions though and see if there's anything that catches my-
60. Spies In Their Eyes
The Navy accuses Seaman Donald Duck of espionage and high treason.
Ok well I guess this is what I'm doing today.
TL;DR: I guess I'm going to watch a bunch of Duck Tales episodes. Hello Talking Time would you like to recommend some of your favorites to me?
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT
Here's the thing. I watched that five part time travel series with Bubba Duck and the diamond mind like a hundred gajillion times as a kid because time travel is awesome and caveman duck funny and the shit with the lasers and the exploding diamond mind at the end was fucking sweet as shit. My parents recorded it for me when it aired as like a TV movie thing.
So I just finished rewatching those five episodes and man the 80's were different. The very concept of Scrooge McDuck is so hard to swallow these days but I'll be damned if he doesn't manage to be likeable. And even though Bubba is this shoehorned in marketable gimmick character that TOTALLY FUCKING WORKED ON ME AS A KID I was nevertheless caught up in the more emotional beats of the story. While also being acutely aware that the dramatic climax of this story involved whether or not the ridiculously rich old duck we like will get a little bit richer than the ridiculously rich old duck we don't like.
Anyhow it's over now. I got that bit of nostalgia out of my system. I can stop. It's fine. I mean, I'll just read a few episode descriptions though and see if there's anything that catches my-
60. Spies In Their Eyes
The Navy accuses Seaman Donald Duck of espionage and high treason.
Ok well I guess this is what I'm doing today.
TL;DR: I guess I'm going to watch a bunch of Duck Tales episodes. Hello Talking Time would you like to recommend some of your favorites to me?