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== Scrooge, Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie found and drank from the fountain of youth. ==
* How else has Scrooge been around since the 1800s to the [[DuckTales (1987)|present]] and besides they have found the seven lost cities of gold, Xanadu, dinosaurs, magic and creatures that live beneath the earth and cause earthquakes. It's not to much a stretch to imagine.
** This is actually canon—at least partway! In one Carl Barks story, ''That's No Fable!'' from 1953, Scrooge and his nephews actually ''do'' find the Fountain of Youth, ''and'' are shown drinking from it. Granted, in this particular story, drinking the water only makes you more limber and gives you a huge energy boost (Scrooge spontaneously begins doing cartwheels after drinking!); to get the youth effect you have to ''swim'' in it—which they are stopped from doing. Still, just drinking from the fountain ''may'' have had long-term effects that the Ducks simply did not realize at the time....
== [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514002124/http://users.cwnet.com/xephyr/rich/dzone/hoozoo/dickie.html Dickie Duck] is Scrooge's biological granddaughter. ==
* What was the ''first story to feature Goldie'' after her introduction in ''Back to the Klondike''? The story by Romano Scarpa introducing Paperetta (aka Dickie)! Come on... Scrooge's old flame randomly shows up on his proverbial doorstep with a granddaughter of unknown parentage and asks Scrooge to take her in for no apparent reason. He accepts, also for no apparent reason. Then, almost as quickly as they introduced her, the writers try to ignore her existence and seem determined never to give a straight answer about her origins. Sure, nobody's covering up anything here. ''Again''. Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Rumpus McFowl, Gideon McDuck... this family's got kids out of wedlock running all over the place!
** Considering that she's often found working for Bridget, the question becomes, does Bridget ''know'' this?
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*** ...''supposing they just made them (like) people.'' Did they? "It's not a lie unless they have proof." I'd rather just assume they didn't than think about ''that'' too much.
**** In the theatrical cartoon, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTVAyw2EAYE Don's Fountain of Youth]", [[Donald Duck]] convinces Huey, Dewey and Louie that the eponymous pool has turned him into a baby—and then into an egg. It's a con, and the theatrical Nephews aren't the All-Knowing Oracles of the Barks tales, but they treat Donald's "transformation" as the logical result of such an immersion. I believe that I've seen references to the "Duck Family Album" in old Disney comics—possibly including those by Barks—which show various Duck characters as "just a baby": i.e., as eggs wearing bonnets or trademark sailor hats.
*** In the [[DuckTales (1987)]] episode "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UYMXI7-Vhg Sweet Duck of Youth]", when they actually find the Fountain of Youth, they discover it merely makes your reflection look young. The triplets all turn into eggs when they look in it, just like Donald pretends he has been youthenized into in "Don's Fountain of Youth".
*** [http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4403/ddegg.jpg Graphic proof] from Marco Rita's ''From Egg To Duck'', although the comic it is from is non-canon in many regards (such as saying that Donald was a lost egg found and raised by Grandma Duck and Scrooge).
** Wacky theory: Dickie was intended to be Scrooge's grandaughter and the contradictions with what we know from Don Rosa's writings are simply due to different writers with different interpretations. The comics revolving around the Duck Clan aren't any different from other comic books in regards to continuity and timescales.
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It goes like this: Hortense and Quackmore first had to support her daughter when Della had triplets before she was ready. Then the kids' father gave up on them, making Della even more vulnerable. Finally, Della herself gave up on her sons and, even if Donald agreed to take the boys off their grandparents' hands, the pressure of having their daughter disappear on them was the last blow to Quackmore's worsening health. After losing her daughter and her husband in quick sequence (and being out of touch with her brother), Hortense doesn't last long before her own health fails.
== [[DuckTales (1987)|"Duck to the Future"]] ==
The whole "turn our earnings back over the bosses" thing on payday was a way of saying that taxes have been raised so high, such as "The Privilege of Working for Magica McDuck Enterprises Tax," that getting a paycheck is practically a moot point ("Who gets paid?") since just about all your money gets taken out.
* So the state too has become property of the ducks? Not that Magica was beneath something like that.
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** Hey, that's what she called her company. ''Why'' is [[Stalker with a Crush|open for interpretation]]...
** It's actually ''Magica-McDuck,'' like Sears & Roebuck or Proctor & Gamble.
*** Same implications.
** Shouldn't it be DeSpell-McDuck? Magica is her given name.
** Maybe she insisted on using her first name rather than surname for the merger, for name recognition or because, on some level, she liked seeing her name next to his.
*** It makes perfect sense [[Alternate Character Interpretation|on some level]]: as I recall, the reason Magica wanted Scrooge's lucky dime in the first place was not because she believed that it was what had made Scrooge a success, but because she believed that Scrooge's own fortitude and other qualities that made him such a success had rubbed off on the dime. In short, she believes the dime would make a powerful magical talisman because of how much she admires Scrooge himself.
== [[DuckTales (1987)]] is a [[Did Not Do the Research|highly inaccurate]] tv series that airs in the comic book Scrooge McDuck Universe, funded by Scrooge himself. ==
'''[http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/creators/rosa-on-himself.html#los Don Rosa:]''' "I'd love to do a story where [[DuckTales (1987)]] is an unauthorized TV series in Duckburg based on Scrooge's life, and Scrooge must sue the creators of the show for slander."
Here's how played out: At some point, he was approached by producers interested in making a series based on his adventures. Scrooge agreed to this after being encouraged that it would make him more marketable with a younger crowd. All the differences were due to [[Executive Meddling]], but Scrooge initially cooperated (although he vetoed many of their original ideas; for instance, they would have made one of the triplets into a girl to satisfy [[The Smurfette Principle]], but he refused to allow that, thus, Webby). It became popular for a time, bringing in money from [[The Merch]] that Scrooge felt comfortable to let it run on its own; the less attention he paid to it, however, the more creative license was taken... until it was brought back to his attention just how [[Off the Rails]] the series had gone, at which point he pulled the plug.
== Huey's, Dewey's, and Louie's father is from Tralla La, aka Xanadu. ==
[http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6504/unclescrooge35767.jpg This,] from Rosa's commentary printed along with ''Return to Xanadu'' in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150601032308/http://rapidshare.com/files/79419335/Uncle_Scrooge_357.cbr Uncle Scrooge #357]''.
* That would explain why that guy looks all mangled and burned: he's never been the same since his bratty sons set off a firecracker under his chair.
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== "Quack Pack" is Donald's [[Dying Dream]]. ==
* [[Quack Pack|"Quack Pack"]] was a spinoff of [[DuckTales (1987)]] that was more of a tribute of the original Donald Duck cartoons (with a 90s flavor) than a sequel to the aforementioned show. The reason that it was so different from "Duck Tales" was because Donald never left the Navy. During "Duck Tales" his carrier ship was torpedoed, resulting in everyone aboard being killed. As he was drowning he began hallucinating about what [[Flash Forward|his future]] [[What Could Have Been|could have been with]] Daisy and his nephews. Scrooge does not appear because he would have died in-between Donald coming home for good and re-adopting the boys. The reason for the references to the old Donald Duck cartoons is because his brain is also trying to find comfort to counter the very frightening (and painful) experience of his lungs filling with water. The series ends when Donald finally expires.
== The Junior Woodchucks are connected to the [[Phineas and Ferb|Fireside Girls]]. ==
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** [[Phineas and Ferb|PnF Earth]] is another planet, perhaps discovered and kept secret by the founders of the [[Phineas and Ferb|OWCA]]. The Fireside Girl and Junior Woodchuck Handbooks are offshoots of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tailored to the organization's planet by the group's leaders.
== Donald's neighbour Jones is the commander of his ship in [[DuckTales (1987)]] ==
Well, they look alike, and that would explain their relation: before Donald joined the Navy he showed up Jones in a sea-related competion, then Jones used his rank to get back at him; after they both left the Navy (Donald because he was fed up, Jones because Scrooge noticed the abuse and pulled some string), they were both fed up with each other, and started their infamous battles.
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