Echoes (Re: Comics quiz)

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

SONIA DYER, 12-04-2004:

>> ["Take your bulb horns and go back to Bulgaria!"]
>> hint #1: "The Love Song Of A Bulgarian Tree Toad!"
>> hint #2: "My word! What UNUSUAL answers!"
>> hint #3: "Yoo hoo! One - two - three! Testing!"

> That sounds like the story in which HDL are trying to imitate an
> echo to help Donald sell a piece of land.

Correct! It's Barks second echoes ten-pager, WDC 215. 
The first echoes ten-pager is WDC 105.

I think the second version is technically a much better story, but I 
find the first version much funnier and more bizarre.

On page 4 of the second version, Barks makes a funny joke that is not 
in the first version. Huey, Dewey, and Louie accidently twist words 
around when imitating Gladstone's "HUEY, DEWEY, AND LOUIE ARE MAKING 
THOSE ECHOES!"

In panel 4.7, one nephew echoes: "Dewey, Louie, and Huey are (choke!)
making those echoes!"

Notice that, apart from the addition of "choke!", the nephews's names 
are in a *different order* now.

At least one translator seems to have overlooked this extra joke, 
because it's gone in the Dutch publication. What about other countries?

--- Daniël

"GROAN! Gasp! Alas! Alas! Oh, woe! Alas!"
(Which Barks story?) :-)