Luck o’ the
Ducks
The world travel aspect of this show takes us to Ireland this
time, and as expected, it’s big on leprechauns, luck, wishes, and the one thing
sure to interest someone like Scrooge, gold.
It’s sure to satisfy anyone with a popularized or accurate view of Ireland,
even if it’s not exactly the best told story.
This is another case where Webby’s feminine ways and persona is a major
driving force from the plot the moment the first and most major Irish element
of this episode, a leprechaun named Fardoragh, appears. He does nothing but cause trouble,
especially stealing some of Scrooge’s money leading to an entertaining chase
scene through Duckburg. What does Webby
have to do with this you may ask? Since
she’s known to be friendly with anything who looks small and cute, she’s the
only one out of all the main characters to show any kindness to Fardoragh. For that reason, their bond feels so genuine
that it’s worth getting behind. That
said, since Fardoragh willingly caused trouble for everyone else, which went as
far as stealing Scrooge’s money, and even clearly feigns sadness and illness,
he’s not exactly trustworthy.
In fact, Scrooge’s harsh manner towards him is just as easy to get as
Webby’s friendliness, which we see a lot of throughout the episode, and while
what she does is nice to watch, you’re constantly questioning if she should be
trusting the leprechaun. Anyway,
Fardoragh, under the guise that Scrooge and company saved his life, says that Scrooge is
allowed one wish which prompts him to invite them all to the Emerald Isle to
see the leprechaun king’s gold. However,
it turns out to be a trap that gets everyone captured. They get out of it when Webby claims that
Fardoragh, who’s known as a thief and liar to them too, invited them to the
gold and Fardoragh follows the statement up with a lie that saves
everyone. While this moment may be
designed to show Fardoragh warming up to Scrooge and the gang, it’s hard to
tell if that’s the case, or if he really was trying to get them, barring Webby,
in trouble. Anyway, when Scrooge hears
about the leprechaun king’s golden caverns, he makes that his wish, making the
king get Fardoragh to try and scare Scrooge away from the isle to change his
mind. The following sequence of him
hiring ghosts and banshees to scare everyone in the night however can be seen
as good for both characters. He’s both
pleasing the king, and protecting Scrooge from harm. Plus the sequence has some nicely crafted moments
of Huey, Dewey, and Louie driving the spooks away. Finally, there’s the moment where Fardoragh
leads Scrooge to the gold caverns, and Scrooge marks the spot, so he’ll always
be able to find it not knowing the king and his army plan to crush him the next
time he enters the caverns. However,
Fardoragh turns out to be good at heart after all when he regrets setting
Scrooge up for his demise, and he and Webby make it so that he can’t find the
cavern, thus officially saving him. I
can’t say Fardoragh’s noble act was forced since his moments always had the
possibility, but since he was mostly a trickster towards Scrooge and that
Scrooge was hostile to him prior, if time was spent on them both warming
up to each other, maybe with less moments of Fardoragh with Webby, it would’ve
turned out better. Still, the way things
play out, including Fardoragh’s character arc are done fine enough, and with
moments of cleverness, humor, and Irish culture, I can consider this episode
another solid one. 8/10
The Ranking:
- The Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 5: Too Much of a Gold Thing
- Catch as Cash Can Part 2: A Whale of a Bad Time
- Catch as Cash Can Part 1: A Drain on the Economy
- Back to the Klondike
- Double-O-Duck
- Raiders of the Lost Harp
- The Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 2: Wronguay in Ronguay
- The Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 4: Cold Duck
- Time Teasers
- The Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 1: Don’t Give up the Ship
- Catch as Cash Can Part 4: Working for Scales
- Ducks of the West
- The Treasure of the Golden Suns Part 3: Three Ducks of the Condor
- Merit-Time Adventure
- Back Out in the Outback
- Scroogerello
- Catch as Cash Can Part 3: Aqua Ducks
- Luck O’ the Ducks
- Scrooge’s Pet
- Horse Scents
- The Golden Fleecing
- The Right Duck
Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode that brings Duckworth into the spotlight at last with "Duckworth's Revolt."
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