Storkules in Duckburg! is the fifth episode of Season 2 and the 28th episode of DuckTales 2017. It first aired on November 17, 2018, on Disney Channel.
Synopsis[]
Louie recruits Storkules for his professional monster extermination business, while Storkules faces his greatest challenge: being Donald's roommate.
Plot[]
Louie approaches Scrooge, hoping for a donation to help start up his business, Louie Inc. However, his motivation of making money lacks direction. Scrooge advises him to find a problem that he can solve.
Meanwhile, Donald is cleaning his boat when Storkules appears with a number of his belongings. Donald is horrified when the Greek god announces his intentions to move into the spare room on Donald's Houseboat, which Donald has recently made available for rent. Upon being interrogated, Storkules admits that his lackadaisical attitude infuriated his father Zeus to the point of him unleashing Harpies on Maceduckia. Zeus has also kicked Storkules out and advised him to become a responsible adult, so Storkules has sought out Donald to help him learn. Donald reluctantly agrees to let Storkules have the room, but is quick to establish some ground rules for him to follow, including the need to pay rent. Soon after, a swarm of Harpies come to attack Storkules after following him all the way from Greece.
Elsewhere, Louie recruits Webby and Huey to help him with his business, but still struggles to find a service they can offer. As they are discussing their business intentions at Funso's Fun Zone, and spending the majority of the company's budget on skee ball, the Harpy's arrive and begin attacking the arcade. Huey and Webby attempt to thwart their attack on the building, until Storkules arrives and captures some of them, while the rest of the Harpies flee. The mascot of Funso's thanks Storkules for his deed and asks how he can repay him. Storkules originally passes on the offer, until Louie holds up a bill to the mascot, and hires Storkules for his new idea for a business, Harp-be-gone.
They plan to expand awareness of the business by creating a commercial, with Storkules playing as a child, Huey and Webby as the parents, and Louie as the businessman to explain the company's offer. Webby suggests they capture the Harpies and try to convince them to create a better, positive role on society, but Louie disagrees, claiming that the problem can't be the solution. Huey also attempts to research more about the Harpies with his Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, and learns that their instincts are to steal the things their prey love most. Immediately after that was said, a Harpy swoops right in front of Huey and steals his guidebook, but luckily Storkules chases after the Harpy and returns the book to Huey.
The Harp-be-gone business becomes a success, having saved many of Duckburg's citizens, including Officer Cabrera, Mark Beaks, and Emily Quackfaster. As the number of Harpies being captured begins to increase, Storkules has to store the majority of them inside Donald's bedroom closet on his boat temporarily. The crew of Harp-be-gone are interviewed on Dewey Dew-Night!, with Louie announcing plans for merchandise, including pop-up books, talon grabber arms, and masks. Dewey asks when the majority of Harpies are likely to be gone, and Storkules says that just recently they had captured the last of the Harpies loose within the city. This angers Louie when he realizes the loss of potential business.
Webby suggests they use the Harpies for something helpful, as she has been training them after they were captured. Huey, on the other hand, suggests that everyone be paid and they can call it a day, only for him to realize that Louie spent all the money they had made on the merchandise, leaving everyone disappointed. Louie becomes desperate and sneaks into Donald's houseboat to free the Harpies. However, Storkules catches and confronts him without waking Donald. Louie lies, claiming he was checking to make sure the Harpies were still inside the closet, but is then guilt-tripped by Storkules and admits he was about to let the Harpies go.
Donald wakes and asks why they are in his room and what is inside the closet. Louie says it was just a pet he found and brought home, but Donald angrily recalls that one of the houseboat rules is no pets. Donald opens the closet door, releasing all the Harpies onto McDuck Manor. As Donald attempts to handle the situation himself, Storkules accidentally says out loud that their friendship is the one thing he loves most, leading the Harpies to steal the houseboat and fly it away with Donald still aboard.
Storkules uses his high jump ability to bring Louie to the top of Donald's houseboat, where they plot a way to bring the boat and themselves down from the sky. Just as Donaldis about to fall from the boat, Storkules grabs him and carries him back aboard, and Donald thanks him. Louie discovers the Harpies' attraction to the falling merchandise on the boat, and sadly drops the remaining merchandise so the Harpies will bring them down safely. Storkules regrets endangering Donald, believing he was not worthy to continue being his roommate, but Donald says he will help him find an apartment, and Storkules thanks him.
Scrooge returns to McDuck Manor, and Louie asks where he has been this whole time. Scrooge explains about having a business opportunity in Cape Suzette after Louie encouraged him to start a Lemonade business. Unfortunately, Scrooge believed the business would be a failure as he and his business partners couldn't figure out a cost-effective way to transport the lemons from Cape Suzette to a juicery in Taiwan, but after a minor scuffle between Webby and the Harpies, Louie comes up with an idea to use the Harpies to help. Scrooge and Louie later have an interview with Roxanne Featherly about their new lemonade business, explaining how the Harpies assist in the juicing process of the lemons, and are also rewarded with the lemonade itself. When Roxanne asks how they keep the Harpies from stealing the lemonade, one of the Harpies steals Louie's lemonade cup, and Louie says they are still working on that problem.
Cast[]
- David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck
- Danny Pudi as Huey Duck
- Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck
- Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck
- Kate Micucci as Webbigail Vanderquack
- Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Storkules
- Keith Ferguson as Glomgold, Johnny
- Eric Bauza as Big Time, Funso Doll, Funso (uncredited)
- Kari Wahlgren as Roxanne Featherly, Crying Boy
Trivia[]
- Main Cast Absences: Launchpad and Mrs. Beakley
- The Harpies in this episode somewhat resemble those from the classic DuckTales episode "The Golden Fleecing", but with birdlike faces rather than human-looking ones.
- The sequence in which Storkules swings Louie around in his hand before launching them both into the air is a parody of Marvel Comics' Thor Odinson and his magical hammer Mjolnir.
- The way Webby hits Louie near the end of the episode is a reference to the scene of Hulk hitting Thor from the movie The Avengers.
- This is the second appearance of Storkules.
- The title references the 1969 movie Hercules in New York, Arnold Schwarzenegger's film debut.
- A broken guitar is inside Donald's houseboat under his hammock, likely as a reference to the previous episode, "The Town Where Everyone Was Nice!" when Scrooge smashed Panchito's guitar in order to make sure the idea of Donald bringing The Three Caballeros band back together wouldn't happen.
- In the scene after the theme song, there is a box labeled "Donald fan arts".
- Storkules was originally meant to remain as a roommate of Donald on the houseboat, but the idea was scrapped due to the lack of tension it would cause during later episodes, and overshadowing the character Launchpad.[1] [2] [3]
