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> From: Larry Giver <br>
> "Root-te-toot! Root-te-toot! <br>
> I'm a girl from the institute!" <br>
> This seemed very familiar, and sure enough, <br>
> this line is recycled from a Barks story---<br>
> who knows which one?<br><br>
>>>This quote is from WDC 42: "Kite weather", one of
my favorite quotes.<<<<br><br>
Interesting that there is a similar line in the Dr. Seuss movie from the
early 1950's<br>
<i>The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T</i>. When the villain's
henchmen (who resemble Beagle Boys, also very interesting!) have captured
the boy hero Bart and his family, they sing a song beginning "Arooty
toot toot! Arooty toot toot! Terwilliker williker
Institute!"<br><br>
Concerning DuckTales the TV show, I can verify that in the '80's both my
children and my adolescent students loved every episode much like
Jonathan Gray described his own infatuation with the show. I would
tell my students that the episodes were based quite often on Barks'
stories from earlier decades, and occasionally passed out copies of the
Gladstone comics as little prizes in my classes. (I teach in an
all-boys Catholic high school.)<br><br>
Someone mentioned the hilarious episode "All Ducks on Deck",
which I believe shows Donald squawking various orders at sailors during a
crisis, who respond with delightfully comic despair: "What'd he
say? What'd he say?!!!" This episode might also be a
clue as to why Donald was not often included in other DuckTales episodes:
the nature of the classic voice of Donald prevented easy comprehension in
a plot more complex than the typical action-driven cartoons of the 30's
and 40's. The voices of the nephews were modified and sounded less
"Donaldish".<br><br>
Giving Uncle Scrooge the voice of Alan Young with Scotch accent but
without "duckness" or "Donaldness" was obviously
necessary for the more intricate Barksian plots.</body>
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