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Not to be left out of the whole nostalgic cartoons craze, I present to the world a snippet of my past.
I bring you, of course, the Disney Trio: DuckTales, Chip N Dale, and TaleSpin.
I had a mild crush on Dale. (Is crush the right word here? Maybe I just had a special place in my heart for utter goofballs...just like I always rooted for Bob Hope when he appeared in those countless Road to Exotic Destination of Your Choice films with Bing Crosby...)
My childhood must be defended and preserved!!!
This is just for fun. I actually don't remember watching this particular episode as a kid, but Laura did. I find the Muppet Babies rather innovative in how they make the "real" footage the kids' imagination and the "cartoon" footage the real time instead of the other way around. Although, I suppose the boundary between real/imagination is already very blurry. Kind of like Calvin and Hobbes. And the mythology that surrounds the faceless nanny....fun, fun.
And this my friends is why classical music shall never die!
TaleSpin (note the CamelCase) was great. You forgot about Darkwing Duck, though.
I liked DuckTales a lot, but it was not as good as the Carl Barks comics, from which it derived a lot of things (like many of the supporting characters, the money bin, the city of Duckburg, etc.). Uncle Scrooge was in some ways a more interesting figure to make the center of a cartoon than Donald would be - unless, of course, you're Barks. He made Donald into a tragic hero, almost in the mold of Greek drama. Cf. this book, for a critical analysis (which I agree with only in part - Andrae is a little too Freudian to be wholly credible to me).
Posted by: Evan Donovan at 10.01.07 19:07CamelCase is great, but annoys me, because pbwiki thinks it has to link every CamelCase to a definition. Which is really unnecessary in the case of, for example, the word "McMaster."
Posted by: funke at 10.01.07 20:35