Even with this show’s adventure aspect, it can still fit in
simpler slice-of-life stories, especially those that focus on the boyhood
adventures of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
That’s the best way to describe what you’ll get from this episode, even
if it is mostly prominent in the beginning.
It’s all about Huey, Dewey, and Louie’s mischief leading to entertaining chaos. They start off
facing the childhood issue of there not being enough hours in the day when they
want to do one thing, but the adults want them to do certain chores. This relatable problem leads the boys to find
a way around it when they find Gyro Gearloose’s newest invention, a small clock
that can allow the user to travel really fast in time called a time teaser. They use it for their own advantages through
rushing through their Invention of the Month delivery work to make it to a
baseball game they want to see, making it easy for their favorite team to win
(though you have to question why they love them so much if they never win), and
still making it to Scrooge’s money bin in time to help arrange the money. Every time the time teaser is used, there’s a
nice visual cue to show how it works.
Everything looks to be frozen except for whoever’s using it, but it’s
explained that everything else is actually moving normally, while the holders of
the teaser are moving really fast even if it doesn’t look like it. That’s why when everything else operates in
real time, it looks as if the holders of the time teaser have disappeared. It amounts to a creative perspective of how
it operates making the visuals just as impressive as the
story. Onto how the boys’ fun
backfires, it’s when the Beagle Boys get a hold of the time teaser as Gyro
demonstrates it to Scrooge at the money bin since the inventor just can’t keep
his inventions away from criminals, and of course they use it to rob the bin
dry. From there, the plot works in the
show’s trademark creativity in adventures as the Beagle Boys try
to get away with the money on a ship and get sent back in time when they break
the teaser while Scrooge, Gyro, and the boys follow them using Gyro’s bathtub
time machine from “Sir Gyro de Gearloose.”
This gives the plot to get Scrooge’s money back a more comedic tone
when in the year 1687, the Beagle Boys along with our heroes are taken by
another Pete lookalike, the pirate Captain Blackheart to, of all things,
perform at his birthday party which is something that you probably wouldn’t
expect from a group of pirates. Much of
the entertainment from the scene comes from everyone’s performances, especially
the Beagle Boys’ which surprise everyone with how well they sing old show
tunes. It also has a rare instance of
Scrooge and some of his enemies being willing to work together to get out of
the mess, making their dynamic more than one-sided good vs bad. This point to the dynamic is especially felt
when Scrooge willingly rescues the Beagle Boys when the pirates chase them when
he could’ve easily left them behind.
That said, they probably could have shown more of it if we actually saw
how Scrooge’s money was returned and how the Beagle Boys were re-arrested back
in the present. It’s still a solid
conclusion to the episode and topped off with a humorous backfire to the boys’
earlier unfair attempt to bring their baseball team to victory. The episode greatly blends slice of life
boyhood antics and creative, comedic adventures into a memorable story with
some of the show’s best moments. 9.5/10
The Ranking:
1. The
Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 5: Too Much of a Gold Thing
2. Catch as
Cash Can Part 2: A Whale of a Bad Time
3. Catch as
Cash Can Part 1: A Drain on the Economy
4. Back to the
Klondike
5. The
Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 2: Wronguay in Ronguay
6. The
Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 4: Cold Duck
7. Time Teasers
8. The
Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 1: Don’t Give up the Ship
9. Catch as
Cash Can Part 4: Working for Scales
10. Ducks of
the West
11. The
Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 3: Three Ducks of the Condor
12. Merit-Time
Adventure
13. Catch as
Cash Can Part 3: Aqua Ducks
14. Scrooge’s
Pet
15. Horse
Scents
16. The Golden
Fleecing
With that,
we’ve finished disc 2 of Volume 2. Next time,
it’s onto the third and final disc starting with our heroes " Back Out in the Outback".
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