Given all the exciting and creative moments that happened in
the previous part of this story arc, this part more than continues to build
upon what was set up. It all happens
when Scrooge is still worried about Flintheart getting to his fortune, so he
comes up with a plan to move it out to sea to keep it out of reach with the aid
of trucks carrying it disguised as ice cream trucks. While this move does sound smart,
circumstances don’t turn out as planned when a sea monster is reported to have
eaten half of Scrooge’s money thought to be ice cream, which by the way,
results in a comedic highlight of Scrooge throwing a violent temper tantrum
over the news. The episode then shifts
its focus to a deep-sea adventure to track down the reported sea monster and
retrieve Scrooge’s fortune. While that
goes on, the navy has a problem of their own when their top-secret submarine
shaped like a whale goes missing, and become suspicious of Scrooge coming
across it while he’s out in the ocean.
That’s where Donald Duck enters the episode as he goes along with
Scrooge’s search while also making sure his uncle doesn’t find the submarine,
and throughout the adventure, they both continue to come off as an entertaining pairing. Scrooge is knowledgeable and
level-headed when working through the task at hand while Donald is easily
ticked off by whoever they come across which leads to his classic tempers including pushing various buttons without knowing what they do. This pairing is eventually dragged into the
sea-monster conflict when they, along with Scrooge’s other money ships, are
swallowed by the whale sub. It turns out
that Flintheart has staged a deal with the sub’s inventor, Dr.
Bluebottle, to use it to steal Scrooge’s money which will apparently get Dr.
Bluebottle the fame and fortune he’s always dreamed of. To say the least about him, it’s interesting
that a short squeaky-sounding old man would turn out this diabolically evil,
and he even fights back the navy really well when they start attacking with
death charges making for an awesome action scene. Also in this whole plot is an interesting
moment where Scrooge, in the heat of the Firefly Fruit challenge, decides to
just let his fortune reside in a really deep trench when the steering is shot
and the sub is sinking. The surprising
thing about Scrooge needing to let his money go is that he’s not only willing
to do it, but confident to just go get it back from the trench which is the
focus of the arc’s next part, especially after how determined he was to keep it
safe in the first part, not to mention the earlier temper tantrum. Still, it does its part to get you excited to
see what comes next, and the episode as a whole still ends up as one of the
best of the show with strong comedy, great use of characters, and
demonstrations of the show’s imaginative sense of adventure. 10/10
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. The Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 1: Don’t Give up the Ship
8. The Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 3: Three Ducks of the Condor
9. Scrooge’s Pet
10. Horse Scents
Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode where we see Disney's interpretation of Atlantis long before Atlantis: The Last Empire in "Aqua Ducks."
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