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Yes! His "true identity" was revealed at the end of the 1939 storyline by Floyd Gottfredson in the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip that inroduced the Blot. (When that story was reprinted in a comic book, it was titled "Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot". In the story itself, though, he...

Wow -- thank you! A glimpse of an alternate reality, where "TotGS" was, to some extent, heralded and given fanfare beyond that one weekend in September '87... Makes sense that they'd highlight Donald, given his fame/recognizability...as misleading as it may have been!

Do you have the TV movie version of "Treasure of the Golden Suns" on tape?

Good call, guys! DuckTales never had any such "host" segments. It's worth pointing out that the individual, serialized installments of "Time Is Money" and "Super DuckTales" were bookended with "Last time on DuckTales...} recaps and "Next time on DuckTales..." previews. "Treasure of the Golden...

Correct. The five-part versions of "Treasure of the Golden Suns", "Time Is Money", and "Super DuckTales" were actually longer. Several minutes (not sure exactly how much) were cut from the two-hour TV movie versions, to fit them into a two-hour block.) (If anyone's wondering, "To fit five...

Just read #12. I really, really saw validity in DisneyBoy's assessment that in #11, all the characters "spen[t] the entire issue getting to the exact same place", ostensibly building suspense for the (vaguely conceived) "something really bad" that's going to occur there at the end of issue. And...

Hmm...fun to consider! Besides your suggestions, nothing jumps out at me... It's not so much that Peter and Lois would would make a good George and Lorraine as it is that Lois jumps out as being a surefire Lorraine. Mainly, teenage/1950's Lorraine. Since Peter is Lois' husband, him being...

I dunno, I kind of feel that episodes like this one and many in the "Road to" series are so strong because they pull off "epic" in the course of a mere 22 minutes. Brevity is the soul of wit, as they say... On the other hand, I kind of felt that "Road to the North Pole" suffered from being...

I found this episode to be really, really tightly written...surprisingly, even a near-classic. Has it been like this all season? Guess I haven't been paying close attention... Surprised no one has on how Homer's arc and Milhouse's broke the mold, for both characters -- but were so tightly...

Hmm...Family Guy's Back to the Future reference always "own"/"win"...but I kind of think they're best in spurts. I find the show's hour-long, play-by-play Star Wars parody to be total overkill and fairly tedious, so I fear if they did that kind of thing with Back to the Future, it'd be much the...

Of course -- as this should go without saying -- it's your choice. You may have thought this out far better than I have, for all I know...as I certainly don't have the capacity to measure and quantify that. But my take is that it could be far worse: we could have gotten a complete reboot...

Mmm. That ending gets me every time. Best episode ever? I'd never relent in insisting that's it's at the very least in the top 5, but probably top 3, really.

Aww, I was betting myself that soemone would've already posted about the Beavis and Butt-head reference. Bart being too young to know who B and B-H are...oh, the irony...you KNOW the writers are deliberately taunting the hardcore, continuity-obsessed fans! :D Addendum: I guess at this...

I remember when Return of Jafar was released and the series was just around the corner, Tad Stones was quoted in the Animation Scene column in Comics Scene that he and the team consciouscly decided that Return would be it for Jafar, because (paraphrasing here, but I'm confident I'm pretty...

I didn't realize that these obstacles existed...geez, that's unfortunate. The "double license" seems negotiable (never consider this problem, since I think of Tale Spin as an entity unto itself, so usually forget that it has anything to do with The Jungle Book) ...but, as for the other...