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post #1 of 38
11/6/10 at 10:50am
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post #2 of 38
11/6/10 at 10:54am
Does this qualify as Saturday morning? I recall making sure I was home and inside at the end of the school day to catch me some DuckTales.

And that NES game is an honest to god awesome classic.
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post #3 of 38
11/6/10 at 10:58am
I saw a few episodes of DT back in the day, and I recall enjoying it. I think I remember it having good music, or a good theme song. I never watched it that often though because I think it had a weird time slot that I was rarely around for

PS I like that CHUD now has a regular Saturday feature. As a regular Saturday Chewer, this is a welcome development*

*I didn't comment on the first week of this feature because I was unfamiliar with that cartoon
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post #4 of 38
11/6/10 at 11:38am
Great write-up ("...farted into the wind" made me giggle far more than it should have), but what's up with the My Buddy commercial at the end of it?
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post #5 of 38
11/6/10 at 11:40am
I will not have you blaspheming against Gizmo Duck.

Tzu's dead on about the game. I do miss when Capcom was licensing games out the ass. Even the weird ass Adventures In The Magic Kingdom game had its charms.

That movie feels like it's damn near impossible to find nowadays too, even though the series is on DVD. What's up with that?

I am loving this column, though. I miss when Saturday morning TV was actually exciting for EVERYONE, even the adults in the house.
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post #6 of 38
11/6/10 at 11:41am
That first movie, Treasure of the Golden Suns, was a damn fine animated adventure. I can still recall most of it. Nice pick. You can buy the DVDs for less than 20 bucks per volume. Though Amazon.com tells me that Treasure of the Golden Suns is on Vol 2.
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post #7 of 38
11/6/10 at 1:22pm
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
Does this qualify as Saturday morning? I recall making sure I was home and inside at the end of the school day to catch me some DuckTales.
I'm sure plenty of markets aired it on Saturday mornings before it was added to the Disney Afternoon block.

But the real answer is that the title of this column is mostly for aesthetic charm. We'd be leaving out a lot of fun cartoons if we were strictly bound to only those shows that aired on Saturday mornings. Our real criteria is that it be animated and intended for kids.

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but what's up with the My Buddy commercial at the end of it?
Instilling fear?
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post #8 of 38
11/6/10 at 1:24pm
All I know is, please, please, PLEASE let there be one of these for Freakazoid.
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post #9 of 38
11/6/10 at 1:28pm
The best DuckTales opening video ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmpAx8Z5z40
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post #10 of 38
11/6/10 at 1:30pm
Holy fuck, that video.
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post #11 of 38
11/6/10 at 1:38pm
I love Fatal Farm and I'm surprised that Joshua hadn't seen it before.

They've got a great one for Zoobilee Zoo, too.
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post #12 of 38
11/6/10 at 1:45pm
I have indeed seen it before. Haven't seen the ZOOBILEE ZOO one though.
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post #13 of 38
11/6/10 at 1:50pm
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Instilling fear?
Disregard. Apparently I farted into the wind - was looking for a connection between the two properties instead of it clicking that it was a commercial you would have seen during the show. Hooray for staying up late and getting up early.
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post #14 of 38
11/6/10 at 2:00pm
Cowboys of Moo Mesa, please! Also SWAT KATZ and ROCKO's MODERN LIFE. PS Don't forget David the Gnome
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post #15 of 38
11/6/10 at 2:15pm
Now this is an entry i can get behind. Great writeup and a great Cartoon.
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post #16 of 38
11/6/10 at 2:23pm
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Originally Posted by Joshua Miller View Post
I'm sure plenty of markets aired it on Saturday mornings before it was added to the Disney Afternoon block.

But the real answer is that the title of this column is mostly for aesthetic charm. We'd be leaving out a lot of fun cartoons if we were strictly bound to only those shows that aired on Saturday mornings. Our real criteria is that it be animated and intended for kids.
Dig it.
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post #17 of 38
11/6/10 at 2:34pm
Cool idea. I've actually been doing this lately...watching cartoons I liked as a kid on Saturday mornings for nostalgia. It's easy now with most of them on DVD and/or Youtube. I like "Ducktales", but I love later Disney renaissance efforts "TaleSpin" and "Darkwing Duck" more. "Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers" was great too. It's another one I enjoyed catching up on recently. Each and every one of these has an absolutely brilliant theme song.
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post #18 of 38
11/6/10 at 4:40pm
One of the great kids cartoons, and a nice companion piece to your sweet article on Carl Barks.

I'm hoping Talespin gets a tribute too, but mostly I hope the greatest kids cartoon of all time, Angry Beavers, is loved enough by a CHUD staffer to feature in this slot one day.
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post #19 of 38
11/6/10 at 5:05pm
I nearly committed the sin of digital piracy in the name of the Angry Beavers. But I held firm, and I was blessed by having them on Netflix just a couple of months later.
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post #20 of 38
11/6/10 at 5:10pm
Shityeah! Ducktales was one of my faves as a kid, along with Talespin!
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post #21 of 38
11/6/10 at 5:29pm
Seriously you guys, anyone who likes the show, read the Carl Barks comics. They're fucking golden, and kick the ass of any contemporaneous superhero comic.

Among many other things, the opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark is taken from an Uncle Scrooge comic.
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post #22 of 38
11/6/10 at 7:09pm
Why was Uncle Scrooge driving the van!? WHY!? (shivers in tears)
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post #23 of 38
11/7/10 at 3:42am
I'll see your best Ducktales opening video ever and raise you... um... this video I made for a friend for his birthday (it's a long story):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBNeCo-r-HA
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post #24 of 38
11/7/10 at 10:29am
nice. loved this show as a kid, and though Darkwing duck has taken its place as the #1 duck related cartoon, its still a strong #2
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post #25 of 38
11/7/10 at 10:37am
Damn this column entry. I want DuckTales released to the Virtual Console. Right. Fucking. Now.

I really don't want to dust off the NES in the garage and try to hunt that cartridge down.

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nice. loved this show as a kid, and though Darkwing duck has taken its place as the #1 duck related cartoon, its still a strong #2
No. 1? *ahem*
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post #26 of 38
11/7/10 at 11:28am
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Damn this column entry. I want DuckTales released to the Virtual Console. Right. Fucking. Now.

I really don't want to dust off the NES in the garage and try to hunt that cartridge down.
http://www.virtualnes.com/play/?id=NES-UK&s=6
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post #27 of 38
11/7/10 at 1:00pm
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I'm hoping Talespin gets a tribute too, but mostly I hope the greatest kids cartoon of all time, Angry Beavers, is loved enough by a CHUD staffer to feature in this slot one day.
Make this happen now! I still have fond memories of the Angry Beavers Halloween episode with Adrienne Barbeau doing a guest voice.

(Just checked imdb and the episode was called "The Day the Earth Got Really Screwed Up.")
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post #28 of 38
11/7/10 at 2:06pm
Just have to say I found ANGRY BEAVERS to be miserably unfunny, back in the day. I think it was the first NICK TOON I remember actively hating
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post #29 of 38
11/7/10 at 3:39pm
So speaking of Ducktales video games, the screen clip reminded me that in order to get up higher, you had to bounce on your cane like a pogo stick. To get higher, you had to bounce on your cane on top of your nephew. Screwge McDuck believes in the 111th and 211th Rules of Acquisition.
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post #30 of 38
11/7/10 at 9:24pm
Angry Beavers is a must. It was Penny Arcade before Penny Arcade.
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post #31 of 38
11/9/10 at 12:49pm
I had a letter printed in Ducktales Magazine when I was a kid. That is all.
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post #32 of 38
11/9/10 at 6:09pm
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I had a letter printed in Ducktales Magazine when I was a kid. That is all.
Was it written to the show itself or the characters, as if they were real people?
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post #33 of 38
11/9/10 at 6:11pm
Was it a ransom letter?
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post #34 of 38
11/9/10 at 6:21pm
Question for die hards of the series: Is there any episode that features both Bubba the Cave-duck as well as Gismo-duck? For some reason, I seem to recall them never meeting.
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post #35 of 38
11/9/10 at 6:40pm
I also don't recall them ever meeting. It was almost like they existed in two different realities of Duckburg.
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post #36 of 38
11/9/10 at 7:09pm
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Was it written to the show itself or the characters, as if they were real people?
Written to the show itself--I was old enough not to write to the characters (barely). I think I did suggest that Gyro invent an all-purpose kitchen machine, though.

I also had a letter printed in the Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis comic. Read about this and more in my new book, Misfit: It's Amazing that I Ever Got to Kiss a Girl.
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post #37 of 38
11/9/10 at 7:19pm
I'll be waiting for:

Misfit: Interviews with Sternhart and Costa.
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post #38 of 38
1/11/11 at 12:51pm

This tickled me: http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/international-ducktales-intros

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