I really liked this episode. Fethry seems like a buffoon who's been away from other people for far too long but the writers did a great job of showing that, just because he's weird, he's not without talent or intelligence. He's a sweet guy with such a big heart that even killer plants won't hurt him and krill obey him when he sings (Fethry for Disney princess XD ). I'd like to see more of him.
He comes to me as autistic-coded (I'm autistic) which is even funnier considering the fact that he is compared to Huye who is the most considered autistic-coded in the show. It's just my perspective on the character as an autistic person, no one is forced into the same interpretation that I had.
I didn't know that Fethry is an unknown character in the US, I was actually surprised when you pointed this out. I grew up reading the most popular German Duck (and Mickey/Goofy) comic book series (I think I still have more than I hundred comic books stored away in my parent's house), called "Lustiges Taschenbuch", which consists of translated collections of Scandinavian and mostly (about 80%) Italian duck comic books, and occasional US-American (Carl Barks) and Dutch stories. If I remember correctly, Cousin Fethry featured very prominently in the Italian stories (translated from the Topolino libretto series). The portrayal here is pretty close to what I expected him to be like (at first I was confused because they made it look like he is a scientists, but after the reveal everything seemed to be alright). He is a clumsier and slightly less competent version of Donald (Donald is generally more competent and less clumsy in the comic books than in the TV shows) with a very eccentric personality. When Fethry and Donald are sent off on missions by Scrooge, both of them typically need the money/reward, because they both have really unstable work conditions and tend to be close to broke all the time. During these missions Fethry often service as the comic relief and annoys Donald, but Fethry also repeatedly saves the day in highly unusual/surprising manners. Fun fact: his German name is Dussel Duck, which means Duffer Duck, not really a flattering name.
In the Netherlands, Fethry appears pretty often, but he isn't nearly as popular over here compared to some other countries. There is a bit of a history behind that. In the Netherlands, the most popular source of Duck comics is our Donald Duck weekly magazine. In Donald Duck magazine, mostly Dutch stories are published and some Scandinavian stories with a similar style. The magazine also used to print American stories when they were still common. Fethry Duck is actually an American creation, but his stories were intended for publication outside American. That's how Fethry became popular in Europe. In the Netherlands, he first appeared in Donald Duck magazine in 1964. He was a mainstay character for a while, but in the current day, he doesn't make appearances in the magazine at all. The 60s of Donald Duck magazine are nowadays considered to be the dark ages in the magazines history. They got out of the dark ages by putting a heavy emphasis on Barks' stories. They not only republished his stories, but also published his never before seen comics and even finished some comics he didn't fully complete. This move really worked out and since then, the magazine has always tried to stick close to Barks' stories and characters that he never or rarely used, don't appear in Dutch comics anymore, including Fethry. Scandinavian comics used to have a similar ban on Fethry in the past, but that has been lifted for quite a while. It isn't all bad, though, because Fethry appears regularly in "Donald Duck Pocket", which is like the Dutch version of the Lustige Taschenbuch . In the pocketbooks, pretty much only Italian comics are published, in which Fethry appears pretty often. He sometimes also appears in other publications, but still not nearly as often as in other countries. Fethry is called Diederik Duck here, by the way. Diederik is a normal given name, kinda like Donald's.
@@Nasir3623 : As Kirgo said: the Lustiges Taschenbuch (LTB) also contains stories with Mickey Mouse as lead and other characters (Minni, Goofy, but also many different Duck characters). Additionally, there was the "Mickey Mouse Magazin(e)" when I grew up (not sure if it is still around), which had mainly stories about Mickey (mostly him as a detective, I think that was popular at that time), but also a strong focus on Huey, Dewey and Louie and their Junior Woodchuck adventures. I also came along with one collectable "toy", which ranged from individual pieces (decoder ring), to multipart items (to be collected over a couple of weeks) like a fancy compass with all accessories and even a series running for several years, always providing (I think 2-3) pages of the Junior Woodchuck guidebook (the complete one should be somewhere in a box in my parent's house). There were also additional Donald Duck stories in their one comic book (usually just one story of about 20-30 pages and 1 or 2 short stories of a couple of pages), mostly focusing on Donald's domestic life and adventures in Duckburg. PS: I didn't live in Germany, but in Austria. Although most media (for linguistic reasons) was (and still is) imported from Germany, there are occasionally a few things that were not available or rare in Austria for whatever reasons, so I could missed something.
Man, Tom Kenny just can't seem to get away from playing nutty characters who live under the sea, can he? All jokes aside, Tom Kenny was wonderful as Cousin Fethry.
This is easily the most visually stunning episode of the show so far, in my opinion. The deep blues of the ocean, the bright colors of the krill, it's all gorgeous.
This season, it's so much better visually than the last one and it's just outstanding, the first episode you could see it on the expressions of the characters and in this one on the backgrounds colors
A fact I found interesting was that lewey and gladstone (the green ones) were similar and close and in this episode it showed huey and feathery (the red ones) are similar and close. Then you have dewey and donald (the blue ones) theyre close yes but not more so than the other kids and they seem to be opposites. Seem to be. In the finale of last season we saw another side of them. The angry, grudge holding Dewey (like donald was in the beginning) and the adventures confident donald (like dewey) and both were acting these ways to protect their family. It was really interesting to see and I hope they do more with it in the future. (Also, Dewey wearing a boating outfit like how donald wears a sailor outfit)
This actually makes good sense, but it also means that Dewey is actually Della's closest con after the episode "Raider of the Doomsday vault", where Della and Dewey had an adventure alone. Mothers are not supposed to have favorites, but Della is much closer to her blue shirt son in personality, like Huey is close to Feathry and Louie is to Gladstone in their family.
Same, though as a dane and not a norweign. He's a pretty funny character alongside donald also for those wondering or curious or whatever. His danish name is "Vims" And with cousin in there it's "Fætter Vims"
Silly Thoast in Germany he's called "Vetter Dussel". Vetter (V is pronounced like F) is an old word meaning cousin. You usually only find this word only in Donald Duck comics
fun fact about Fethry: it is revealed in The Health Nut that Fethry wears a stocking cap because he was convinced by a self-help book author that one's head is healthier when it's kept hot (scource: his disney.wikia article) that's propably also why they pointed it out in the episode
Fethery isn't really that obscure in germany, his name over here is Dussel Duck, and is a character that appears very often in the Mickey Mouse magazine/Lustiges Taschenbuch over here.
Wow, I live in Sweden and I had no idea Fethery wasn't in American comics. Also, I always assumed that all the comics were made in America and then translated, but I guess that doesn't apply to a majority of them.
He's in a few. During the Western Publishing era he appears in Donald Duck 105 and 106. Others. 105 also features Magica Dispell. And 105 is reprinted in 215. And some more modern appearances. Western Publishing comics are largely unindexed.
Nope, we stateside fans gets official and unofficial translations from overseas. Brazil and Europe love them some metal and ducks more than America by a long shot, I’ve found.
In the Netherlands Fethry is quite well known. We have a Donald Duck Magazine, that comes out every week. Fethry doesn't appear in there. However, every month there are the Donald Duck Pockets. Here we see Fethry almost every month. Mostly in comics that origin from Italy. I love him! I was so happy and excited that he got the attention he deserves! Fethry is just a big dork, he is weird, he is creative. Now... other characters I'd like to see are Grandma Duck and Gus Goose, I see forward to the apearance of Rockerduck.... and maybe even Brigitta McBridge?
There's actually a series of comics (I believe of Italian origin) in which Donald and Fethry are paranormal/alien investigators, part of an interplanetary task force. They even have their own animal sidekick, who's a strange little blue alien
Maybe we will, when he goes off with Darkwing duck in the spinoff reboot series. If Della becomes the family pilot, Launchpad needs a new reason and plot motivation for his own adventures.
I didn't know Fethry's English name but yeah, I knew him well as "Peninha" ('little feather' in Portuguese) as a kid living in Portugal. It's great to see this bit of European Donald Duck comics finally make his proper entrance into the US!
I am glad that more people in America now could know this character that in Italy (where I live) is a concentrate of madness and humor, with a lot of weird degrees! We know him as Paperoga (litt. The Yoga Duck, for his originis as hippie-like character) and I hope to see his superhero version Paper Bat (Duck Bat) and his terrible, terrible nephew!
Recently I rewatched the first episode of Ducktales and there was a scene with vulture directors where they talked about cutting funds on projects. One of them was "Deep Sea Exploration" and in this episode, we see the effects on sea labs which are lacking maintenance. I don't know if they planned it, but it's nice continuity.
Here in Italy is very very famous and goes by the name of Paperoga, he has a secret identity as the super hero Paper Bat and he has also a little nephew named Pennino ad a cat called Malachia :)
I mean it is a bit odd, but I applaud him for trying out the new format! Since he's trying to use less clips from the show he has to find some way to still make the reviews visually interesting without using too much face cam, I could definitely get used to it (especially if it means less trouble with Disney execs)
I have a theory. Yes, LP has had a ton of girlfriends over the years. And ,as you have said, they meet a new family member and he goes off to help a girlfriend. I think when they meet Della....that won't happen. It'll end with "oh...its YOU...."
It's in keeping with Launchpad's character in the first season of '87 Ducktales. He was often the lady's man with a girl in every airport. They even tried to capitalize on it as a James Bond riff in Double-O-Duck.
Here in the Netherlands, Donald Duck is extremely popular. Unlike the USA where there were/are Mickey Mouse comics and Uncle Scrooge comics, here everything is about Donald. www.donaldduck.nl And here www.magazine.nl/tijdschriften-1 you can see there is a 1️⃣ Donald Duck weekly magazine; 2️⃣ Donald Duck Extra 4 weekly magazine; 3️⃣ Donald Duck Junior with big letters; 4️⃣ Donald Duck Specials (DuckTales, vacation books, history special, moustache special (!) , pocket books and what not); and 5️⃣ Katrien Duck (Daisy Duck) for the girls! Also one of the best Carl Barks style impersonators is the Dutch artist Daan Jippes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daan_Jippes www.comicartfans.com/searchresult.asp?txtsearch=Daan%20Jippes
I actually loved the episode *because* it showed Peninha, as he is known in Brazil. He has a nephew of his own, Biquinho (Dugan in English), and a hippie girlfriend named Gloria .I really wish in the future they show more of his side of the Duckverse. His classic adventures with Donald would involve him and Donald as reporters for Scrooge's newspaper, so there's something they could do. Also, it would be *amazing* to see a kind of Duckverse Avengers with Red Bat (Fethry super-heroic alter-ego), Darkwing Duck, Green Bat (José Carioca's alter ego), Supergoof, Gizmo Duck, the Red Wasp (the only one whose civil identity is never revealed) and of course, Donald as the Duck Avenger. Edit: Just found out they already have something like: they called it Heroes' Club. :D inducks.org/character.php?c=Herois inducks.org/story.php?c=B+EE++173-FP
The multiple exotic women that Launchpad recuse keep reminding me of the Darkwing duck episode about him meeting a alien that has fallen in love with him and he has to recuse her form her vizor with the help of darkwing and Goselin.
I like that the rest of the globe knows Fethry for ages. When I was a kid I wanted to see him in the original Ducktales, I like the redesign. So I hope will see Daisy soon.
To be perfectly honest, I didn't really hear about Fethry until Boom started publishing the Italian Donald Duck super hero team comics, where he fought along side Donald and Goofy as "Red Bat." Really hope to see Donald's "Duck Avenger" in a future episode.
Believe me or not, Fethry Duck is more popular in Brazil than Zé Carioca. I remember when I was a kid taking to my dad (he used to read the Fethry issues when he was a kid) about how funny and amazing Fethry is.
Here in Italy as well, Fethry is quite the well known character, often being involved in shenanigans with his cousin Donald, and for his eccentric yet good hearted personality, he's my favorite character. The moment I learned of his presence in DuckTales I couldn't wait for this episode, and the series did him justice! I hope to see more of him in the future! ^^
As you said Fethry is the Donald's Goofy and I think the show potraited him very well! In Italy he's pretty popular and he's called "Paperoga", he's in many Donald's stories, mostly in short gag strips!
Hah, it's funny because I never really watched the original DuckTales except just very occasionally (I still can't remember why exactly because I do remember wanting to watch it more) so I didn't know about a lot of the DuckTales only characters before this revival, but Fethry was a familiar character for me since childhood. We mostly got the Italian comics in the form of these big paperbacks that my family used to buy for reading on summer trips, to keep us kids from getting bored on the road. He didn't appear much in the weekly Duck comics magazine over here, so that's why I mentioned the paperbacks. That's how I got to know him and the other characters who are more popular in Italy. In Finnish his name is Touho which I don't know how to translate but it means someone who's always busy doing things and not really thinking too much about what they're doing. My first impression of someone who's a "touho" is that they're a very exhausting person to be around. And as far as I remember that's exactly what he is. I never really liked him that much lol. I found him really annoying.
"unknown in the US"???wow, I grew up buying donald and scrooge comics, only to found out that sometimes half of the stories within those comics feature fethry prominently, (and like you said) sometimes working as a spy (turns out to be a mob courrier), helps grandma (and the other duck members) replace her stove, "helping" gander, daisy, and scrooge only to make donald the "fish" in april fools, and so on and so forth. Also he's called Didi (pronounced "deedee") duck where I am.
Ye Fethry rlly made this episode and he is a cool character, would like to see him again. Ialso get why u wouldnt like it and for me a reason why its disappointing is cuz i wouldve like to see Donald interact with him
Ah, in Italian Disney comics he is just one of the most beloved characters in Duckburg/Paperopoli. it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperoga He very often makes his way into the very cover of the comicbook lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/qQrjOV0C8ofdZB6lITFPUUE0tU-W_aVVW7P1q0BOnc9yyvB8VjodehQDOYeaoyyacM5WMVEbTYWkLHd_vzmTRZQW75qNBy-gEM2HZBiEdzGR2bynp3-4gArvvOw85Wc It's great they decided to include him.
As a Fethry fan, this was indeed one of my favorites XD Now that we've had him and Gladstone.....GIVE US A COUSIN ADVENTURE EPISODE! There's quite a few comics focused on the trio having odd adventures and they're precious. I must see this animated!
The, Launchpad going on side adventures we never see, thing- is a running gag. Not a plot that will actually be revealed. Lots of people just don't get the joke and think it's a lead in. It's also a great device to get rid of Launchpad for the duration of the adventure, when he was only needed to get them there and then would distract from the the trio dynamic.
His previous lovers are getting closer; we don't see Ziyi in "Gander", but we see Oceanika from a distance. He doesn't bother to participate in "Gander" but he almost joins the boys in this episode. And so far, he only goes off on his own adventure in episodes involving Duck Cousins. There really seems to be a pattern leading up to something...
@@adnanzahir Oh hey, that's my blog. xD Some parts of the post are a little outdated now, but I still think something special is being expressed with "Depths" and "Gander".
In México, we know him as “Copete”. I’ve known him since I was a little child thanks to the comics, and I always wondered why he wasn’t on the US cartoons. I almost cried when I saw him on this episode, it’s a childhood dream come true.
As long as we're still talking about the foreign comics: Both Fethry and John D. Rockerduck (who is going to be featured in a future Ducktales episode) are American creations. Fethry Duck was created by Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard while John D. Rockerduck was created by Carls Barks himself (the story's name is "Boat Buster" if you are interested). They were intended to be one-off characters in the American comics, but the Italian artists "adopted them" and expanded their quirks and personalities. Don Rosa used John D Rockerduck in "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" as "a tribute to Italian creators" without knowing that he was actually a Carl Barks creation! I am really looking forward to his episode as his personality never ceases to make me laugh in the stories we have here.
There are several characters in the European Disney comcis that are nto well known anywhere else. For example, as a rival for Scrooge, John D. Rockerduck is actually more known than Glomgold.
I grew up with Fethry and other italian characters (I'm not Italian, but from Europe) and for me and many fans this is a big deal. Fethery LOVES Donald, that's why I think he calls them Little Donalds. He is one and only character who looks up to Donald (to be honest he almos oblivious how to how others see Donald, he is his hero) and can make Gladstone and Donald get along.
Fethry's more popular overseas, but he has appeared in comics in the U.S. At least back when Boom! Studios had the license. I don't know if he's appeared since IDW picked it up. Of course, that may be because the current Disney comics are mostly translated reprints from elsewhere in the world.
I wonder if we'll ever get episodes on what Launchpad is doing on these side adventures off-screen. Like if they'll just do the opposite one time, and have the main family go off-screen and focus on him. I'll admit it, this time I literally forgot he was even in this episode lol. When he came back I was like: Oh. Launchpad. Oh! Yeah. Where were ya this time man?! I liked this episode, while not very detailed story-wise, it was still really good. Good message, beautiful colours, I liked Fethery and his weirdness, the whole Huey/Dewey thing- What's better is that this next episode is Louie/Webby focused. I think it's like, telling their story of that day or something. That's what I feel like anyway. We needed this for Huey back in The Great Dime Chase, glad we have it now. :D
3:40 The whole thing reminded me of the video game series "Bioshock" which involved an underwater city. They even access the facility via a Lighthouse like in the game. I was hoping the Bioshick reference would continue once they got to the facility, but the episode was more focused on the journey there and back.
I really love fethry in Norway he and donald are often spies and stuff. in norway we kall him Klodrik wich is a name that fits him perfectly since he is a klodrian (bungler) he is about three times as clumsy as donald! He is often messing up even the easiest tasks, though in his spy missions his clumsyness ends up saving the day. I think the reason Donald dislikes Fethry is because of the fact that although Fethry is clumsy and unlucky on the surface it acctually makes him kinda lucky unlike Donald where his clumsyness and unfortune often doesn’t lead to anything but disaster!
That's a very cool comment section here ! Everybody telling how Fethry is named in their country is awesome. Here in France he is "Popop" and we had a lot of comics with him like everywhere else in Europe. I was very excited about how the show would introduce him, given that he was such a creation of his era: A radical beatnik. Even making Donald look rather"standard" compares to him. And I was not disapointed ! It is such a fresh take on the character, basically keeping who he is, not changing the context, but making him older and see how he fits, how your goofy/hippy uncle from the 60/70's would fit with nephews from now and... It worked ! I love this show
Fethry Duck was one of the most popular Disney caracteres from Brazilian comic books.There's a version of Fethry ( Peninha in Brazil) as a superhero called The Red Bat (Morcego Vermelho) and as a cowboy ( Pena Kid),created by Brazilian Disney editors. And also in Brazilian Disney comics, Fethry has a crazy little nephew called Dugan (Biquinho).
I remember having a small book compiling some old Donald comics, one of which included Fethry. In the story he and Donald bought some magic trinkets/amulets that would bring good luck, and immediately afterwards, they win a raffle for a super advanced, modern, completely automated house of the future. They initially love it but then the house goes haywire on them when the amulets they bought fall into the main computer running the house and causes various malfunctions. The house eventually explodes and Donald goes apeshit on Fethry for convincing him to buy the amulet in the first place.
There are basically two Donald Comic universe. The first is the one that tries to stay faithful to Carl Barks and Don Rosa. The second is the mainly Italian universe, which includes many new characters and for some reason replaces Glomgold with Rockerduck. There is a lot of overlap between this universes and many Italian writers adhere more to the Barks and Rosa-verse. I see Fethry as a quite vague character in the comic. He is very similar to Donald, just a bit more eccentric. Of course, Donald is quite different in the comics than he is in Ducktales. In the comics, both Fethry and Donald spend more time on get-rich-quick schemes than Indina Jones-like adventures.
It isnt actually.Barks took characters from other artists and kept creating which most other did as well. Rosa is just this really conservative writer that only used barks characters which even Barks didnt follow as he took characters from other writers. The other writers kept creating new stories and ideas and as well sharing characters between each other. Fethry was created 1964 by an american writer called Dick Kenney. Italian, brazilian and danish writers have used him since.
@@hreinnben7067 Yes, there is. There are writers who mostly stick to the characters that Rosa liked to use, and then there are writers who embrace new characters and add their own. Rosa and Barks are the two most influential writers, so many other writers stick very closely to the universe they laid out.
@@carlocumino824 I did not intend to make a value judgement. I've just always been intrigued by the difference. Someone should do a study on it or smthn.
I'm here for Sean's obvious love of the Ducktales lore and the show as a whole, not so much here for the obvious fact that Huey is not a duck nephew he pays attention to XD. Literally never has anything to say about him other than "he was there"
I remember seeing him alot in German Comics, he was also an architect too at some point in one of them and tried to repair Donalds home, I really liked his character probably because he appeared fairly frequent. Although his name doesnt really do him justice here, his name is Dussel which means Dimwit.
Here in Brazil the Donald Comics are huge since the 60's, plus the Three Caballeros too, José Carioca even has his own series, and Fethry here is called Peninha, he and the Duck Family are so huge that the Duck Dynasty is one of the biggest comics here...
As someone from the Netherlands I am well known with Fethry. So I was super-excited by this episode. And it didn't disappoint, so I hope they use him more in the future.
In the last ep I was sad you didn't talk about the scooby collar, but I had to watch the Fethry review because I knew you would ask the real questions: WHERE ARE YOU GOING LAUNCHPAD???? I want to know sooo bad! Also lol @ your "i don't think this will have much to do with the future plot." Fethry didn't play a big part in the end but oh lawd my heart almost stopped before they showed up.
The sea lab is a reference to something from Epcot, including the Aquavator
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Man you don't even mentioned the casting of Tom Kenny!,aka the third wonder over yonder cast member along with Kieth Ferguson as glumgold,April Winchell as black heron,Adam reigel(emperor awesome) as slash smashinokow, also hawen't you noticed avengers emh voice actors?,1:Robin Atkin Downes(baron zemo) as falcon graves(from the infernal internship of Mark beaks),2:Jennifer Hale(mrs Marvel) as gabby mc stabberson (from the pilot),3:Kari Wahlgren(enchantress amora) as roxane featherly(from everywhere),4:Graham Mctawish(loki) as fergus Mcduck/scrooge's father(from Castle Mcduck)!,5:Fred Tatascior(the Hulk!) In auditional roles.(like the krakken in the secret of the spear of selene),to find the rest check out the voice credits because fascionating what you find out simply by checking the voice credits for example:Billy Dee Williams:the first actor who played harvey dent in live action in the Tim Burton Batman movies, but never get to play two face in live action but he did it in the Lego Batman Movie!
I still have this pocket strip book from when i was really young where Fethry and Donald go on an adventure to find a mammoth with golden teeth, Scrooge obviously thinks it's a statue, so he gets Donald and Fethry to get it on a cheap plane. They bring too mutch stuff on board so the pilot (not launchpad, some cheap guy) asks them to throw something off board, So Fethry throws Donald's bag away. Which he later realises, were the essentials of the trip! A lot more hapens and it's my favorite story from the book! It's a dutch comic, so i hope i translated everything right!
I remember reading about Fethry a little bit on the Disney Wiki sometime before he was announced to appear in this show. All I knew was that he was in European and Brazilian comics and that he was eccentric, which is still interesting. After watching this episode, I found him to be a really compelling character and I hope we get to see him more in the future. And of course, Tom Kenny did a wonderful job playing Fethry. I also loved the underwater setting and the use of vibrant colors, especially for the glowing krill. Oh yeah, and what's with all these crazy adventures, or 'tourist stuff' that Launchpad gets in?
I'm danish, so i've seen fethry in many many comics growing up. I had no idea he wasnt very known in the U.S. For me he is as much a part of the main cast as daisy or scrooge. They are pretty faithful to his comic version, which is really nice. His danish name is fætter vims.
I liked this episode not for the plot, which was pretty marginal, but because Fethry is a really well known character in Italy too, and I really liked this interpretation from the show! Btw his name in Italy is Paperoga.
Weird thing about Fethry is, he's not part of the Carl Barks/Don Rosa canon (though Don Rosa was forced to include him on the Duck family tree for international readers), yet he's REALLY popular in Europe and Brazil, Brazil even giving him his own solo comic series. I love that the crew behind this show is tapping into that aspect of the comics and not just what Barks and Rosa wrote, especially since Fethry, especially as depicted in this episode, is a fun character with a lot of potential for good laughs!
I'm really shocked in see that he wasn't popular in America. Here in Brazil his name is Peninha and was so famous here that he had his own comics. He had a super hero alter ego that was a Batman parody (Morcego Vermelho, Red Bat), a girlfriend named Gloria (a hippie and also had a super hero alter ego, Borboleta Púrpura, Purple Butterfly), a nephew named Biquinho, and more alter egos like Pena Kid (western), Pena das Selvas (Tarzan Parody) and many others, but these would actually be him creating comics. He also had his own book, Manual do Peninha, part of a series of books that teatched about a subject(inspired by the scooters one), and in his case, journalism due to the fact that he would often appear as a journalist that worked for A Patada, Scrooge's newspaper, along with Donald. Boy, there's so much about this duck here, and it makes me happy that this little eccentric guy is having some atention. Sorry for any grammar mistakes.
We call him Peninha in Brazil. He was always one of my favorite characters. In Brazilian comics he was always driving Donald mad with his crazy and eccentric ideas.
Considering Launchpad was the original planned star for both Talespin and Darkwing Duck (originally called Double O Duck), maybe his side quests are a tribute to that.
Darkwing yeah, but I don't think that was the case for Talespin? The story I heard is that Magon and Zaslove had nothing for their scheduled pitch meeting with Disney until literally the night before they were due to present, and came up with smashing together Jungle Book, Casablanca, and Cheers since they had to pitch _something_ to the execs.
No, Talespin was originally going to be a Ducktales spin off (hence the spelling of Tale Spin), but because Jungle Book had become a highest grossing Disney film by inflation, they went with the Jungle Book characters.
Actually when i heard Fethry was going to be in Ducktales '17 had to double check because I thought it was a hoax. I remember being younger and first found out about him through early internet surfing (ie dial days). I thought he was a prominent comic character here in the US and I just didn't know because there was no comic store nearby me. Fast forward to me being 13 years outta high school and just now hearing this....my mind is blown.
I love how different the Disney Duck comic culture is in the US and Europe... Fethry is one of the key members of the Duck family, very close to Donald and is the main protagonist of a lot of comics. This make me hope to see more of characters, that are more part of the European Duck culture than US, like John D. Rockerduck (he just appeared in one Carl Barks story, but in Italian comics, he's one of Scrooges greatest antagonists, and Flintheart Goldblum is barely used). Or the Duck Avenger, Donald's superhero Alter Ego, who is really really popular in European comics.
in my country indonesia, he's called Didi Bebek, an underachiever and near-hippie characteristic. i read it when i was a child from an official dutch-indonesian translated comics.
Here in Finland, Fethry (or as we call him, Touho) is pretty well known as well. Donald Duck comics and the obscure characters they feature are a pretty big deal over here.
Fethry has been featured in several stories for the main Uncle Scrooge comic (at least back when Gemstone had the license). I've been reading through every issue of Uncle Scrooge and am currently in the late 300's. I know Fethry has appeared in a few issues that I read recently. I would suggest looking up his appearances on Inducks (inducks.org) to find some specific comics that he has appeared in. Good luck!
I really like the symbolism the writers did with donald "ducks" cousin and the triplets, Gladstone and Lowie representing green, Fethry and Huey representing red And Donald and Dewey representing blue.
Something to note about those cups that I don't think was obvious. They're styrofoam. As in, plastic with a bunch of tiny air bubbles to add insulation. Given the appearance, their scientist friend likely did what all the cool oceanographers do, and attached them to the outside of something that they were sending deep down in the ocean. The pressure of the water crushes the cup down, and forces all of the air out, and what you end up with is, well, what you saw in the video. So, they didn't so much "make" the cup as "do science at" the cup.
I really liked this episode. Fethry seems like a buffoon who's been away from other people for far too long but the writers did a great job of showing that, just because he's weird, he's not without talent or intelligence. He's a sweet guy with such a big heart that even killer plants won't hurt him and krill obey him when he sings (Fethry for Disney princess XD ). I'd like to see more of him.
They were sea worms, not plants. But yeah, Fethry is such a cloud cuckoo lander
Takisan111 he’s great
His brother is even worse
He comes to me as autistic-coded (I'm autistic) which is even funnier considering the fact that he is compared to Huye who is the most considered autistic-coded in the show. It's just my perspective on the character as an autistic person, no one is forced into the same interpretation that I had.
I didn't know that Fethry is an unknown character in the US, I was actually surprised when you pointed this out. I grew up reading the most popular German Duck (and Mickey/Goofy) comic book series (I think I still have more than I hundred comic books stored away in my parent's house), called "Lustiges Taschenbuch", which consists of translated collections of Scandinavian and mostly (about 80%) Italian duck comic books, and occasional US-American (Carl Barks) and Dutch stories. If I remember correctly, Cousin Fethry featured very prominently in the Italian stories (translated from the Topolino libretto series). The portrayal here is pretty close to what I expected him to be like (at first I was confused because they made it look like he is a scientists, but after the reveal everything seemed to be alright). He is a clumsier and slightly less competent version of Donald (Donald is generally more competent and less clumsy in the comic books than in the TV shows) with a very eccentric personality. When Fethry and Donald are sent off on missions by Scrooge, both of them typically need the money/reward, because they both have really unstable work conditions and tend to be close to broke all the time. During these missions Fethry often service as the comic relief and annoys Donald, but Fethry also repeatedly saves the day in highly unusual/surprising manners. Fun fact: his German name is Dussel Duck, which means Duffer Duck, not really a flattering name.
It was surprising to learn they had missed out on a character so completely.
EquinoxOmega is there any Mickey Mouse comics in Germany
Lustiges Taschenbuch also contains stories about Mickey Mouse.
In the Netherlands, Fethry appears pretty often, but he isn't nearly as popular over here compared to some other countries.
There is a bit of a history behind that.
In the Netherlands, the most popular source of Duck comics is our Donald Duck weekly magazine. In Donald Duck magazine, mostly Dutch stories are published and some Scandinavian stories with a similar style. The magazine also used to print American stories when they were still common. Fethry Duck is actually an American creation, but his stories were intended for publication outside American. That's how Fethry became popular in Europe.
In the Netherlands, he first appeared in Donald Duck magazine in 1964. He was a mainstay character for a while, but in the current day, he doesn't make appearances in the magazine at all. The 60s of Donald Duck magazine are nowadays considered to be the dark ages in the magazines history. They got out of the dark ages by putting a heavy emphasis on Barks' stories. They not only republished his stories, but also published his never before seen comics and even finished some comics he didn't fully complete. This move really worked out and since then, the magazine has always tried to stick close to Barks' stories and characters that he never or rarely used, don't appear in Dutch comics anymore, including Fethry. Scandinavian comics used to have a similar ban on Fethry in the past, but that has been lifted for quite a while.
It isn't all bad, though, because Fethry appears regularly in "Donald Duck Pocket", which is like the Dutch version of the Lustige Taschenbuch
. In the pocketbooks, pretty much only Italian comics are published, in which Fethry appears pretty often. He sometimes also appears in other publications, but still not nearly as often as in other countries.
Fethry is called Diederik Duck here, by the way. Diederik is a normal given name, kinda like Donald's.
@@Nasir3623 : As Kirgo said: the Lustiges Taschenbuch (LTB) also contains stories with Mickey Mouse as lead and other characters (Minni, Goofy, but also many different Duck characters). Additionally, there was the "Mickey Mouse Magazin(e)" when I grew up (not sure if it is still around), which had mainly stories about Mickey (mostly him as a detective, I think that was popular at that time), but also a strong focus on Huey, Dewey and Louie and their Junior Woodchuck adventures. I also came along with one collectable "toy", which ranged from individual pieces (decoder ring), to multipart items (to be collected over a couple of weeks) like a fancy compass with all accessories and even a series running for several years, always providing (I think 2-3) pages of the Junior Woodchuck guidebook (the complete one should be somewhere in a box in my parent's house). There were also additional Donald Duck stories in their one comic book (usually just one story of about 20-30 pages and 1 or 2 short stories of a couple of pages), mostly focusing on Donald's domestic life and adventures in Duckburg.
PS: I didn't live in Germany, but in Austria. Although most media (for linguistic reasons) was (and still is) imported from Germany, there are occasionally a few things that were not available or rare in Austria for whatever reasons, so I could missed something.
Man, Tom Kenny just can't seem to get away from playing nutty characters who live under the sea, can he?
All jokes aside, Tom Kenny was wonderful as Cousin Fethry.
I remember when he was a cow--uh I mean steer, that was raised by wolves and was best friends with a wallaby and a turtle.
What about the fact that Fethry has a Scarecrow called Arturo a reference to lil Arturo from the PPG
@@MarcusDandridgeDee_Kae Yep, that too.
Ikr???
You could tell it was him the second you heard him. He has such a distinct voice but he has so much range. One of the best Voice Actors of our time
This is easily the most visually stunning episode of the show so far, in my opinion. The deep blues of the ocean, the bright colors of the krill, it's all gorgeous.
I should have talked about that more, but absolutely.
This season, it's so much better visually than the last one and it's just outstanding, the first episode you could see it on the expressions of the characters and in this one on the backgrounds colors
A fact I found interesting was that lewey and gladstone (the green ones) were similar and close and in this episode it showed huey and feathery (the red ones) are similar and close. Then you have dewey and donald (the blue ones) theyre close yes but not more so than the other kids and they seem to be opposites. Seem to be. In the finale of last season we saw another side of them. The angry, grudge holding Dewey (like donald was in the beginning) and the adventures confident donald (like dewey) and both were acting these ways to protect their family. It was really interesting to see and I hope they do more with it in the future. (Also, Dewey wearing a boating outfit like how donald wears a sailor outfit)
Interesting analysis, I never thought about it that way.
This actually makes good sense, but it also means that Dewey is actually Della's closest con after the episode "Raider of the Doomsday vault", where Della and Dewey had an adventure alone. Mothers are not supposed to have favorites, but Della is much closer to her blue shirt son in personality, like Huey is close to Feathry and Louie is to Gladstone in their family.
You hit on something and it seemed to have been confirmed
@@ThePageofVoid lol yes, I came back to this comment after that episode.
I love how the show did this, it made so much sense for the 4 adults to be parallels to the 4 kids
We got tons and tons of comics featuring him here in Norway. Also his name over here is Klodrik.
Tango Here is Peninha, I actually hate him on this show because im so familiar with his comic version
Maybe we will even see grandma duck and cousin tuck someday
Same, though as a dane and not a norweign.
He's a pretty funny character alongside donald
also for those wondering or curious or whatever. His danish name is "Vims" And with cousin in there it's "Fætter Vims"
In Italy his name is Paperoga, which is a distorted version of Papero, Duck.
In Germany, his name is Dussel Duck, basically Doofus Duck
Silly Thoast in Germany he's called "Vetter Dussel".
Vetter (V is pronounced like F) is an old word meaning cousin. You usually only find this word only in Donald Duck comics
fun fact about Fethry: it is revealed in The Health Nut that Fethry wears a stocking cap because he was convinced by a self-help book author that one's head is healthier when it's kept hot (scource: his disney.wikia article)
that's propably also why they pointed it out in the episode
Fethery isn't really that obscure in germany, his name over here is Dussel Duck, and is a character that appears very often in the Mickey Mouse magazine/Lustiges Taschenbuch over here.
here in italy we call him Paperoga
Wow, I live in Sweden and I had no idea Fethery wasn't in American comics. Also, I always assumed that all the comics were made in America and then translated, but I guess that doesn't apply to a majority of them.
Probably many of that comics come from Italy or Brazil, he is very popular on that countrys
He's in a few. During the Western Publishing era he appears in Donald Duck 105 and 106. Others. 105 also features Magica Dispell. And 105 is reprinted in 215. And some more modern appearances. Western Publishing comics are largely unindexed.
Nope, we stateside fans gets official and unofficial translations from overseas. Brazil and Europe love them some metal and ducks more than America by a long shot, I’ve found.
Yup Knase (Fethry) is a fun character! : D fight me!
same, honestly
In the Netherlands Fethry is quite well known.
We have a Donald Duck Magazine, that comes out every week. Fethry doesn't appear in there.
However, every month there are the Donald Duck Pockets. Here we see Fethry almost every month. Mostly in comics that origin from Italy.
I love him!
I was so happy and excited that he got the attention he deserves!
Fethry is just a big dork, he is weird, he is creative.
Now... other characters I'd like to see are Grandma Duck and Gus Goose, I see forward to the apearance of Rockerduck.... and maybe even Brigitta McBridge?
There's actually a series of comics (I believe of Italian origin) in which Donald and Fethry are paranormal/alien investigators, part of an interplanetary task force. They even have their own animal sidekick, who's a strange little blue alien
I know those I live in finland and I love them
I too want to know WHAT THE HECK IS LAUNCHPAD DOING?!!!
Maybe we will, when he goes off with Darkwing duck in the spinoff reboot series. If Della becomes the family pilot, Launchpad needs a new reason and plot motivation for his own adventures.
Agreed
what is Launchpad doing? Monster girls. Launchpad Fucks. he will give a detailed list of everyone he's fucked in the gizmoduck dating episode
I didn't know Fethry's English name but yeah, I knew him well as "Peninha" ('little feather' in Portuguese) as a kid living in Portugal. It's great to see this bit of European Donald Duck comics finally make his proper entrance into the US!
I'm portuguese too! I totally agree, although I don't know how I feel about his change in the show
In italy Fethry‘s nephew name is Pennino. Fethry is Paperoga: papero (duck) + yoga, from his debut story where he was an hippe character
I am portuguese as well and I always knew about him. I didn't know that fethry duck (Peninha) was so obscure in other countries.
What I want is an episode where Donald, Gladstone and Fethry all get together and go on an adventure of their own
I am glad that more people in America now could know this character that in Italy (where I live) is a concentrate of madness and humor, with a lot of weird degrees! We know him as Paperoga (litt. The Yoga Duck, for his originis as hippie-like character) and
I hope to see his superhero version Paper Bat (Duck Bat) and his terrible, terrible nephew!
Recently I rewatched the first episode of Ducktales and there was a scene with vulture directors where they talked about cutting funds on projects. One of them was "Deep Sea Exploration" and in this episode, we see the effects on sea labs which are lacking maintenance. I don't know if they planned it, but it's nice continuity.
Here in Italy is very very famous and goes by the name of Paperoga, he has a secret identity as the super hero Paper Bat and he has also a little nephew named Pennino ad a cat called Malachia :)
anyone else thinks that it's jarring to see both facecam and animated seaniccus spliced in like that?
I mean it is a bit odd, but I applaud him for trying out the new format! Since he's trying to use less clips from the show he has to find some way to still make the reviews visually interesting without using too much face cam, I could definitely get used to it (especially if it means less trouble with Disney execs)
I have a theory. Yes, LP has had a ton of girlfriends over the years. And ,as you have said, they meet a new family member and he goes off to help a girlfriend. I think when they meet Della....that won't happen. It'll end with "oh...its YOU...."
It's in keeping with Launchpad's character in the first season of '87 Ducktales. He was often the lady's man with a girl in every airport. They even tried to capitalize on it as a James Bond riff in Double-O-Duck.
I read LP as Lumpy space Princess...
Are you saying that lp might be the boys dad
I also like Dewey is Singing with everybody
"Best time-waste ever!"
I find it funny that Huey kissed a worm, plant, thing
I never thought Donald Duck and his family were that popluar overseas. It's made me appearance the DuckTales and the comics even more now.
Here in the Netherlands, Donald Duck is extremely popular. Unlike the USA where there were/are Mickey Mouse comics and Uncle Scrooge comics, here everything is about Donald.
www.donaldduck.nl
And here www.magazine.nl/tijdschriften-1 you can see there is a 1️⃣ Donald Duck weekly magazine; 2️⃣ Donald Duck Extra 4 weekly magazine; 3️⃣ Donald Duck Junior with big letters; 4️⃣ Donald Duck Specials (DuckTales, vacation books, history special, moustache special (!) , pocket books and what not); and 5️⃣ Katrien Duck (Daisy Duck) for the girls!
Also one of the best Carl Barks style impersonators is the Dutch artist Daan Jippes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daan_Jippes
www.comicartfans.com/searchresult.asp?txtsearch=Daan%20Jippes
The Us is the mouses domain but here in europe the duck is more popular. Did you know that Donald duck has an alter ego called Pantomias
I actually loved the episode *because* it showed Peninha, as he is known in Brazil. He has a nephew of his own, Biquinho (Dugan in English), and a hippie girlfriend named Gloria .I really wish in the future they show more of his side of the Duckverse. His classic adventures with Donald would involve him and Donald as reporters for Scrooge's newspaper, so there's something they could do.
Also, it would be *amazing* to see a kind of Duckverse Avengers with Red Bat (Fethry super-heroic alter-ego), Darkwing Duck, Green Bat (José Carioca's alter ego), Supergoof, Gizmo Duck, the Red Wasp (the only one whose civil identity is never revealed) and of course, Donald as the Duck Avenger.
Edit: Just found out they already have something like: they called it Heroes' Club. :D inducks.org/character.php?c=Herois
inducks.org/story.php?c=B+EE++173-FP
The multiple exotic women that Launchpad recuse keep reminding me of the Darkwing duck episode about him meeting a alien that has fallen in love with him and he has to recuse her form her vizor with the help of darkwing and Goselin.
I like that the rest of the globe knows Fethry for ages. When I was a kid I wanted to see him in the original Ducktales, I like the redesign.
So I hope will see Daisy soon.
To be perfectly honest, I didn't really hear about Fethry until Boom started publishing the Italian Donald Duck super hero team comics, where he fought along side Donald and Goofy as "Red Bat." Really hope to see Donald's "Duck Avenger" in a future episode.
Believe me or not, Fethry Duck is more popular in Brazil than Zé Carioca. I remember when I was a kid taking to my dad (he used to read the Fethry issues when he was a kid) about how funny and amazing Fethry is.
Here in Italy as well, Fethry is quite the well known character, often being involved in shenanigans with his cousin Donald, and for his eccentric yet good hearted personality, he's my favorite character. The moment I learned of his presence in DuckTales I couldn't wait for this episode, and the series did him justice! I hope to see more of him in the future! ^^
We have here in italian, it’s called Paperoga And he is really a fun weirdo
As you said Fethry is the Donald's Goofy and I think the show potraited him very well!
In Italy he's pretty popular and he's called "Paperoga", he's in many Donald's stories, mostly in short gag strips!
Huey had the best line, "BEST TIME WASTE EVER--- Wait did we just steal a sub?"
I can't stop hearing both Peepers and Ice King in Feathry's voice.
I'm glad they chose Tom Kenny for this job, he's such a good va.
Hah, it's funny because I never really watched the original DuckTales except just very occasionally (I still can't remember why exactly because I do remember wanting to watch it more) so I didn't know about a lot of the DuckTales only characters before this revival, but Fethry was a familiar character for me since childhood. We mostly got the Italian comics in the form of these big paperbacks that my family used to buy for reading on summer trips, to keep us kids from getting bored on the road.
He didn't appear much in the weekly Duck comics magazine over here, so that's why I mentioned the paperbacks. That's how I got to know him and the other characters who are more popular in Italy.
In Finnish his name is Touho which I don't know how to translate but it means someone who's always busy doing things and not really thinking too much about what they're doing. My first impression of someone who's a "touho" is that they're a very exhausting person to be around. And as far as I remember that's exactly what he is. I never really liked him that much lol. I found him really annoying.
fethry and rockerduck are really popular in dutch (rockerduck is even more popular than glomgold)
"unknown in the US"???wow, I grew up buying donald and scrooge comics, only to found out that sometimes half of the stories within those comics feature fethry prominently, (and like you said) sometimes working as a spy (turns out to be a mob courrier), helps grandma (and the other duck members) replace her stove, "helping" gander, daisy, and scrooge only to make donald the "fish" in april fools, and so on and so forth. Also he's called Didi (pronounced "deedee") duck where I am.
Ye Fethry rlly made this episode and he is a cool character, would like to see him again. Ialso get why u wouldnt like it and for me a reason why its disappointing is cuz i wouldve like to see Donald interact with him
Ah, in Italian Disney comics he is just one of the most beloved characters in Duckburg/Paperopoli.
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperoga
He very often makes his way into the very cover of the comicbook
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It's great they decided to include him.
YOU DONT KNOW WHO IS FEATRY DUCK!??!
Hes one of my favourite characters!!
As a Fethry fan, this was indeed one of my favorites XD
Now that we've had him and Gladstone.....GIVE US A COUSIN ADVENTURE EPISODE! There's quite a few comics focused on the trio having odd adventures and they're precious. I must see this animated!
The, Launchpad going on side adventures we never see, thing- is a running gag. Not a plot that will actually be revealed. Lots of people just don't get the joke and think it's a lead in.
It's also a great device to get rid of Launchpad for the duration of the adventure, when he was only needed to get them there and then would distract from the the trio dynamic.
His previous lovers are getting closer; we don't see Ziyi in "Gander", but we see Oceanika from a distance. He doesn't bother to participate in "Gander" but he almost joins the boys in this episode. And so far, he only goes off on his own adventure in episodes involving Duck Cousins. There really seems to be a pattern leading up to something...
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@@adnanzahir Oh hey, that's my blog. xD Some parts of the post are a little outdated now, but I still think something special is being expressed with "Depths" and "Gander".
always happy to see a new upload from ya man, good job as usual!
In México, we know him as “Copete”. I’ve known him since I was a little child thanks to the comics, and I always wondered why he wasn’t on the US cartoons. I almost cried when I saw him on this episode, it’s a childhood dream come true.
As long as we're still talking about the foreign comics: Both Fethry and John D. Rockerduck (who is going to be featured in a future Ducktales episode) are American creations. Fethry Duck was created by Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard while John D. Rockerduck was created by Carls Barks himself (the story's name is "Boat Buster" if you are interested). They were intended to be one-off characters in the American comics, but the Italian artists "adopted them" and expanded their quirks and personalities.
Don Rosa used John D Rockerduck in "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" as "a tribute to Italian creators" without knowing that he was actually a Carl Barks creation! I am really looking forward to his episode as his personality never ceases to make me laugh in the stories we have here.
Fethry Duck my beloved
There are several characters in the European Disney comcis that are nto well known anywhere else.
For example, as a rival for Scrooge, John D. Rockerduck is actually more known than Glomgold.
I actually liked this episode
And I like how Huey loses his temper again
I grew up with Fethry and other italian characters (I'm not Italian, but from Europe) and for me and many fans this is a big deal. Fethery LOVES Donald, that's why I think he calls them Little Donalds. He is one and only character who looks up to Donald (to be honest he almos oblivious how to how others see Donald, he is his hero) and can make Gladstone and Donald get along.
"What are you *doing* Launchpad???"
Fethry's more popular overseas, but he has appeared in comics in the U.S. At least back when Boom! Studios had the license. I don't know if he's appeared since IDW picked it up. Of course, that may be because the current Disney comics are mostly translated reprints from elsewhere in the world.
I love Launchpad's side adventures so much
I wonder if we'll ever get episodes on what Launchpad is doing on these side adventures off-screen. Like if they'll just do the opposite one time, and have the main family go off-screen and focus on him. I'll admit it, this time I literally forgot he was even in this episode lol. When he came back I was like: Oh. Launchpad. Oh! Yeah. Where were ya this time man?!
I liked this episode, while not very detailed story-wise, it was still really good. Good message, beautiful colours, I liked Fethery and his weirdness, the whole Huey/Dewey thing- What's better is that this next episode is Louie/Webby focused. I think it's like, telling their story of that day or something. That's what I feel like anyway. We needed this for Huey back in The Great Dime Chase, glad we have it now. :D
I just realized "Fethry" sounds kind of like "feathery". Lol I'm slow
In Dutch Fethry is known as Diederik, he works as a spy for Scrooge with Donald as his partner, and they did all sorts of crazy things :P
3:40 The whole thing reminded me of the video game series "Bioshock" which involved an underwater city. They even access the facility via a Lighthouse like in the game. I was hoping the Bioshick reference would continue once they got to the facility, but the episode was more focused on the journey there and back.
i think we can all agree that launchpad is the most mysterious character in the show
bolddeducktionneverfails.tumblr.com/post/181280618864/the-depths-of-gander-whats-going-on-here
Fun Fact: The Fethry Duck Alter-ego "Red Bat" is only reason why José Carioca have a superhero Alter-ego too
Great video. And the return of animated Sean! I liked the format of this review. And I'm totally with you on the whole Launchpad thing.
I really love fethry in Norway he and donald are often spies and stuff. in norway we kall him Klodrik wich is a name that fits him perfectly since he is a klodrian (bungler) he is about three times as clumsy as donald! He is often messing up even the easiest tasks, though in his spy missions his clumsyness ends up saving the day. I think the reason Donald dislikes Fethry is because of the fact that although Fethry is clumsy and unlucky on the surface it acctually makes him kinda lucky unlike Donald where his clumsyness and unfortune often doesn’t lead to anything but disaster!
That's a very cool comment section here ! Everybody telling how Fethry is named in their country is awesome.
Here in France he is "Popop" and we had a lot of comics with him like everywhere else in Europe. I was very excited about how the show would introduce him, given that he was such a creation of his era: A radical beatnik. Even making Donald look rather"standard" compares to him.
And I was not disapointed ! It is such a fresh take on the character, basically keeping who he is, not changing the context, but making him older and see how he fits, how your goofy/hippy uncle from the 60/70's would fit with nephews from now and... It worked !
I love this show
Fethry Duck was one of the most popular Disney caracteres from Brazilian comic books.There's a version of Fethry ( Peninha in Brazil) as a superhero called The Red Bat (Morcego Vermelho) and as a cowboy ( Pena Kid),created by Brazilian Disney editors.
And also in Brazilian Disney comics, Fethry has a crazy little nephew called Dugan (Biquinho).
Huey=Fethery
Dewey=Donald
Louie=Glad stone
Webbby=Della
I remember having a small book compiling some old Donald comics, one of which included Fethry.
In the story he and Donald bought some magic trinkets/amulets that would bring good luck, and immediately afterwards, they win a raffle for a super advanced, modern, completely automated house of the future. They initially love it but then the house goes haywire on them when the amulets they bought fall into the main computer running the house and causes various malfunctions. The house eventually explodes and Donald goes apeshit on Fethry for convincing him to buy the amulet in the first place.
There are basically two Donald Comic universe. The first is the one that tries to stay faithful to Carl Barks and Don Rosa. The second is the mainly Italian universe, which includes many new characters and for some reason replaces Glomgold with Rockerduck. There is a lot of overlap between this universes and many Italian writers adhere more to the Barks and Rosa-verse.
I see Fethry as a quite vague character in the comic. He is very similar to Donald, just a bit more eccentric. Of course, Donald is quite different in the comics than he is in Ducktales. In the comics, both Fethry and Donald spend more time on get-rich-quick schemes than Indina Jones-like adventures.
It isnt actually.Barks took characters from other artists and kept creating which most other did as well. Rosa is just this really conservative writer that only used barks characters which even Barks didnt follow as he took characters from other writers. The other writers kept creating new stories and ideas and as well sharing characters between each other. Fethry was created 1964 by an american writer called Dick Kenney. Italian, brazilian and danish writers have used him since.
@@hreinnben7067 Yes, there is. There are writers who mostly stick to the characters that Rosa liked to use, and then there are writers who embrace new characters and add their own. Rosa and Barks are the two most influential writers, so many other writers stick very closely to the universe they laid out.
Maybe in Italy Rockerdck appear better as rival
@@carlocumino824 I did not intend to make a value judgement. I've just always been intrigued by the difference. Someone should do a study on it or smthn.
I'm here for Sean's obvious love of the Ducktales lore and the show as a whole, not so much here for the obvious fact that Huey is not a duck nephew he pays attention to XD. Literally never has anything to say about him other than "he was there"
I love that they cast Tom Kenny as the one that's living under the sea.
I’m American and me and my friend where reading old Donald Duck comics and there where allot with feathery and Donald so I knew him
I really hope they adapt the Duck Avenger comics, maybe have Donald travel to the future.
I remember seeing him alot in German Comics, he was also an architect too at some point in one of them and tried to repair Donalds home, I really liked his character probably because he appeared fairly frequent. Although his name doesnt really do him justice here, his name is Dussel which means Dimwit.
Thank you for mentioning the original epcot and horizons (also the living seas fits in this) because that entire episode reminded me of that
I love Fethry!!!
From Denmark
It could be a reference to how Launchpad had side stories in the original series that were occasionally him finding love a interest.
Here in Brazil the Donald Comics are huge since the 60's, plus the Three Caballeros too, José Carioca even has his own series, and Fethry here is called Peninha, he and the Duck Family are so huge that the Duck Dynasty is one of the biggest comics here...
As someone from the Netherlands I am well known with Fethry. So I was super-excited by this episode. And it didn't disappoint, so I hope they use him more in the future.
In the last ep I was sad you didn't talk about the scooby collar, but I had to watch the Fethry review because I knew you would ask the real questions: WHERE ARE YOU GOING LAUNCHPAD???? I want to know sooo bad! Also lol @ your "i don't think this will have much to do with the future plot." Fethry didn't play a big part in the end but oh lawd my heart almost stopped before they showed up.
I love how a lot of the adults are mirrors of the kids if they follow different aspects of their characters
The sea lab is a reference to something from Epcot, including the Aquavator
Man you don't even mentioned the casting of Tom Kenny!,aka the third wonder over yonder cast member along with Kieth Ferguson as glumgold,April Winchell as black heron,Adam reigel(emperor awesome) as slash smashinokow, also hawen't you noticed avengers emh voice actors?,1:Robin Atkin Downes(baron zemo) as falcon graves(from the infernal internship of Mark beaks),2:Jennifer Hale(mrs Marvel) as gabby mc stabberson (from the pilot),3:Kari Wahlgren(enchantress amora) as roxane featherly(from everywhere),4:Graham Mctawish(loki) as fergus Mcduck/scrooge's father(from Castle Mcduck)!,5:Fred Tatascior(the Hulk!) In auditional roles.(like the krakken in the secret of the spear of selene),to find the rest check out the voice credits because fascionating what you find out simply by checking the voice credits for example:Billy Dee Williams:the first actor who played harvey dent in live action in the Tim Burton Batman movies, but never get to play two face in live action but he did it in the Lego Batman Movie!
I still have this pocket strip book from when i was really young where Fethry and Donald go on an adventure to find a mammoth with golden teeth, Scrooge obviously thinks it's a statue, so he gets Donald and Fethry to get it on a cheap plane. They bring too mutch stuff on board so the pilot (not launchpad, some cheap guy) asks them to throw something off board, So Fethry throws Donald's bag away. Which he later realises, were the essentials of the trip! A lot more hapens and it's my favorite story from the book! It's a dutch comic, so i hope i translated everything right!
I've seen Fethry in a couple of US Donald comics, but they're kinda hard to find and I don't remember which issues he actually appeared in.
You change t-shirts really fast! I wish I could do this, but without montage :)
I remember reading about Fethry a little bit on the Disney Wiki sometime before he was announced to appear in this show. All I knew was that he was in European and Brazilian comics and that he was eccentric, which is still interesting. After watching this episode, I found him to be a really compelling character and I hope we get to see him more in the future. And of course, Tom Kenny did a wonderful job playing Fethry.
I also loved the underwater setting and the use of vibrant colors, especially for the glowing krill.
Oh yeah, and what's with all these crazy adventures, or 'tourist stuff' that Launchpad gets in?
I'm danish, so i've seen fethry in many many comics growing up. I had no idea he wasnt very known in the U.S. For me he is as much a part of the main cast as daisy or scrooge. They are pretty faithful to his comic version, which is really nice. His danish name is fætter vims.
I kinda hope its a setup episode for more episodes with him, much like he'd show up pretty often in the comics
I liked this episode not for the plot, which was pretty marginal, but because Fethry is a really well known character in Italy too, and I really liked this interpretation from the show! Btw his name in Italy is Paperoga.
Weird thing about Fethry is, he's not part of the Carl Barks/Don Rosa canon (though Don Rosa was forced to include him on the Duck family tree for international readers), yet he's REALLY popular in Europe and Brazil, Brazil even giving him his own solo comic series. I love that the crew behind this show is tapping into that aspect of the comics and not just what Barks and Rosa wrote, especially since Fethry, especially as depicted in this episode, is a fun character with a lot of potential for good laughs!
I'm really shocked in see that he wasn't popular in America. Here in Brazil his name is Peninha and was so famous here that he had his own comics. He had a super hero alter ego that was a Batman parody (Morcego Vermelho, Red Bat), a girlfriend named Gloria (a hippie and also had a super hero alter ego, Borboleta Púrpura, Purple Butterfly), a nephew named Biquinho, and more alter egos like Pena Kid (western), Pena das Selvas (Tarzan Parody) and many others, but these would actually be him creating comics. He also had his own book, Manual do Peninha, part of a series of books that teatched about a subject(inspired by the scooters one), and in his case, journalism due to the fact that he would often appear as a journalist that worked for A Patada, Scrooge's newspaper, along with Donald. Boy, there's so much about this duck here, and it makes me happy that this little eccentric guy is having some atention. Sorry for any grammar mistakes.
Huey kisses a worm in the episode lol
Dewey kissing the perana plant was the best part of the episode
icecream hero it was Huey who kissed the worm-ish plant (idk 😂)
We call him Peninha in Brazil. He was always one of my favorite characters. In Brazilian comics he was always driving Donald mad with his crazy and eccentric ideas.
The underwater lab is designed after Conshelf I, II, and III. Early projects of Jacques Cousteau.
Fethrey is a bit of a dreamer. I really like him! Maybe this appearance will make him more well-known in the States!
Considering Launchpad was the original planned star for both Talespin and Darkwing Duck (originally called Double O Duck), maybe his side quests are a tribute to that.
Darkwing yeah, but I don't think that was the case for Talespin? The story I heard is that Magon and Zaslove had nothing for their scheduled pitch meeting with Disney until literally the night before they were due to present, and came up with smashing together Jungle Book, Casablanca, and Cheers since they had to pitch _something_ to the execs.
No, Talespin was originally going to be a Ducktales spin off (hence the spelling of Tale Spin), but because Jungle Book had become a highest grossing Disney film by inflation, they went with the Jungle Book characters.
Actually when i heard Fethry was going to be in Ducktales '17 had to double check because I thought it was a hoax. I remember being younger and first found out about him through early internet surfing (ie dial days). I thought he was a prominent comic character here in the US and I just didn't know because there was no comic store nearby me.
Fast forward to me being 13 years outta high school and just now hearing this....my mind is blown.
I love how different the Disney Duck comic culture is in the US and Europe... Fethry is one of the key members of the Duck family, very close to Donald and is the main protagonist of a lot of comics.
This make me hope to see more of characters, that are more part of the European Duck culture than US, like John D. Rockerduck (he just appeared in one Carl Barks story, but in Italian comics, he's one of Scrooges greatest antagonists, and Flintheart Goldblum is barely used). Or the Duck Avenger, Donald's superhero Alter Ego, who is really really popular in European comics.
in my country indonesia, he's called Didi Bebek, an underachiever and near-hippie characteristic. i read it when i was a child from an official dutch-indonesian translated comics.
Here in Finland, Fethry (or as we call him, Touho) is pretty well known as well. Donald Duck comics and the obscure characters they feature are a pretty big deal over here.
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He is one of most recurring characters in Finland too(since everyone is posting the localized names, here he is Touho)
Fethry has been featured in several stories for the main Uncle Scrooge comic (at least back when Gemstone had the license). I've been reading through every issue of Uncle Scrooge and am currently in the late 300's. I know Fethry has appeared in a few issues that I read recently. I would suggest looking up his appearances on Inducks (inducks.org) to find some specific comics that he has appeared in. Good luck!
In the Finnish Duck comics, his name is Touho, from "touhottaa" which means "to fuss". So he's someone who fusses.
I really like the symbolism the writers did with donald "ducks" cousin and the triplets, Gladstone and Lowie representing green, Fethry and Huey representing red And Donald and Dewey representing blue.
Something to note about those cups that I don't think was obvious. They're styrofoam. As in, plastic with a bunch of tiny air bubbles to add insulation. Given the appearance, their scientist friend likely did what all the cool oceanographers do, and attached them to the outside of something that they were sending deep down in the ocean. The pressure of the water crushes the cup down, and forces all of the air out, and what you end up with is, well, what you saw in the video. So, they didn't so much "make" the cup as "do science at" the cup.