Cold Duck is the fourth episode of Season 1 of DuckTales 1987 and the fourth part of The Treasure of the Golden Suns. It aired on September 18, 1987 during the movie premiere and on November 12, 1987 individually on syndication.
Synopsis[]
After Scrooge goes off alone to follow the ocean currents to find the other half of the map, Launchpad and the boys follow his trail to Anarctica, where they are captured by a city of intelligent Penguins. they receive unexpected help from the boys' new governess, Mrs. Beakley, and her granddaughter Webbigail.
Plot[]
Back at the mansion, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are trying to annoy Mrs. Beakley and Webby by the usage of a tuning fork. Just when Mrs. Beakley is about to use the tuning fork on them, Launchpad shows up outside, piloting Scrooge's VTOL cargo plane. The pilot runs about, tossing everything crucial and non-crucial into the plane. Attempting to avoid Webby tagging along, Huey, Dewey, and Louie sneak into the plane, but Webby ends up following them there. Unknowingly, Launchpad takes off with the kids in the plane. When a scarf-bearing Mrs. Beakley catches sight of Webby in one of the windows, she hitches a ride on the landing gear. Fortunately, Launchpad grabs her inside before she can slip and fall to the sidewalk pavement below. Mrs. Beakley demands that Launchpad turn the plane around and drop them back off at the mansion in Duckburg. The pilot refuses to do so, saying he has to bring this stuff to Scrooge before his homing beeper dies out.
The group lands in Antarctica. Before long, they run into a small girl penguin being chased off by a walrus, who totes Scrooge's homing beeper. Mrs. Beakley's scarf attracts the walrus like a red cape; Launchpad ends up being dragged along. Huey, Dewey, and Louie reluctantly make their attempt to save them. The nephews ponder why the walrus was wearing Scrooge's things, then dismisses Webby's new penguin friend as "another tag-along." Fortunately, they agree with Mrs. Beakley's idea of backtracking the walrus' tracks. They come upon an ice cave, where Scrooge has left his mark. After slipping on the frozen river, Launchpad fires a flare gun, therefore causing the river to break apart, and sending him and the nephews towards a waterfall. Fortunately, the males survive the ordeal, but they do not know where they are going. Behind, Webby and Mrs. Beakley realize they must look for them. Just then, the penguin girl, whose name is Skittles, speaks up, saying that because everything in Antarctica is white and/or grey, colored objects are treasured by penguins.
Shortly after arriving in the unnamed underground city of talking penguins, Launchpad and the trio are ambushed by the mayor and his goons, because they want their colorful clothes. Then, when Launchpad tells the top-hatted penguin mayor that he knows Scrooge McDuck like a brother, the penguins throw him and the boys into the local jailhouse. Fortunately, Huey finds out that Scrooge, also stripped of his colorful outfit, happens to be in the next-door cell. Scrooge explains that he found the other half of the map to the Valley of the Golden Suns over in the museum, but before he could grab it, the penguins arrested him and taken his half of the map. Scrooge is positive that there is still hope when he hears that "Mrs. Beakley's still wanderin' around". But the three nephews believe that "she'll be captured way easier than we were."
Over at Skittles' house, Webby disguises herself as another penguin. Mrs. Beakley goes off in search of everyone's clothes, leaving Webby and Skittles in the house - or so she thinks. Instead, the little girls head off to the Color Museum to discover that both halves of Scrooge's map are encased in the thickest ice possible. In the meantime, Mrs. Beakley somehow finds the stolen clothes and pops up at the jailhouse. Huey, Dewey, and Louie are grateful to her for bringing their clothes to them. They are even more grateful when she reveals that she brought along the tuning fork. The boys use it to break free, destroying the jailhouse in the process. Unfortunately, it also breaks out a gigantic walrus who had been frozen in ice.
While Launchpad warms up the plane, Scrooge plans to use the tuning fork to get the map out of the ice once they head for the museum, providing they avert the snowball-toting penguins first. Before reaching it, he and the boys come upon Webby and Skittles. The penguins get scared off, because the gigantic walrus then emerges, crushing the museum, along with Scrooge's hopes of getting the map out. The nephews run from the walrus as they try to make it to the plane. Not far behind, Mrs. Beakley, Scrooge, Webby, and Skittles dash away from the bigger birds in town. The group soon ends up at the edge of an ice-cliff, with the walrus ready to clip off their wings. Suddenly, Launchpad flies in, scooping up the whole cliff point in his VTOL cargo plane, including the walrus. Before the walrus can sink his tusks into anyone, Scrooge smashes an alarm, sending the walrus plummeting into the ocean below. The boys thank Mrs. Beakley for saving them. Webby then reveals that she reproduced the map using her crayons. Skittles returns to her people via colorful parachute, with Webby's crayons and Mrs. Beakley's scarf as parting gifts.
Cast[]
- Joan Gerber as Mrs. Beakley and Skittles' mother
- Terry McGovern as Launchpad McQuack and Penguin Leader
- Patty Parris as Skittles
- Russi Taylor as Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck and Webby Vanderquack
- Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck
Errors[]
When Webby lifts up her drawing to show to her grandmother, the first shot shows from left to right: Dewey, Huey, and Louie. However, in the next shot, Dewey and Louie's colors swap.
Video releases[]
VHS
- "Treasure of the Golden Suns" (June 17, 1994)
DVD
- "DuckTales: Volume 2" (Region 1)
- "DuckTales: 2nd Collection" (Region 2)