www.ilmeteo.it is one of the most famous weather forecast websites in Italy. You would expect to find weather forecast only for real cities, but... try typing "Paperopoli" (Italian name for Duckburg).
The Bad Place by Dean Koontz is pretty terrible book, but it has one redeeming feature: one of the characters is described as a fan of "classic Disney comics" and has Scrooge McDuck posters in his office!
I think the image of the swimming in the coins is engrained enough thanks to Ducktales- even if you didn't watch it, you'll know about Scrooge McDuck diving in his money, odds are.
I'm sure there are millions of people in USA now, who don't know who Uncle Scrooge is, and don't know that there is a character of fantasy, who has a giant building full of money, who swims in it. In addition to the millions of young 5+ generations Americans who are too young to know Disney Comics or even "Ducktales". In addition, there are millions of immigrants and there children, who come from countries with no tradition of Disney Comics, who were too poor or rural to have access to Disney films or TV. And others, who came from countries like Mexico, Argentina, Chile and the like, where Disney Comics HAD BEEN popular, but have not been over the past 30 years. In Los Angeles, I have met lots of Mexican immigrants who never even heard of Pato Donald and Tio Rico (Uncle Scrooge). And yet, during the 1950s and 1960s, you probably couldn't have met a city boy in Mexico who didn't regularly read those 2 comic magazines. Mexican and other Latin-American immigrants, and related first and 2nd generation Latin Americans make up a gigantic proportion of the USA population now. Most of them who grew up after "Ducktales" probably have had no exposure, whatsoever to Disney Comics characters. I have been both in USA/Canada and Western Europe (The Netherlands) every year since 1949, and I has involved in collecting those comics in both places, and having friends and peers in both places, and observing society in both places, and it is my impression that Disney Comics (especially Barks Duck Stories) had more impact on the youth and overall national culture in The Netherlands, Germany, The Scandinavian Countries and Italy (there Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse more than Barks' Donald) from the 1950s til now, than it ever had in USA. In the 1950s and 1960s there was hardly a boy (and even most girls) who didn't read the weekly Disney comic book in those Western European countries. But, in USA, there were many who read only Superhero Comics, and in the '60s, many who didn't even read comics. Now that reading, of any kind, is reduced due to the kids looking at animation films and games, and also the distance from the time when "Ducktales was aired.
In the cold open of episode "Chapter 57" of Netflix's House of Cards, the main character Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) talks about flipism:
"It was first introduced in the Disney comic book Flip Decision – one of my favorites – in which Donald Duck is persuaded by professor Batty to make all the most important decisions based on the flipping of a coin. 'Life is but a gamble, let flipism guide your ramble!'"
Not surprisingly the Finnish subtitles on Netflix correctly translate flipism into "höpsismi" and professor Batty into "professori Hupelo" as in the comics
In the cold open of episode "Chapter 57" of Netflix's House of Cards, the main character Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) talks about flipism:
"It was first introduced in the Disney comic book Flip Decision – one of my favorites – in which Donald Duck is persuaded by professor Batty to make all the most important decisions based on the flipping of a coin. 'Life is but a gamble, let flipism guide your ramble!'"
Not surprisingly the Finnish subtitles on Netflix correctly translate flipism into "höpsismi" and professor Batty into "professori Hupelo" as in the comics
Here's the video:
By the way, the quote is incorrect, as they replaced "chart" with "guide".
Ha! Ha! Nice to know that someone as young as Kevin Spacey grew up reading and loving Carl Barks!
But Kevin Spacey is an actor, and actors follow the scripts they are given. Just because a character played by Spacey mentioned the flipism story as a favorite of him it doesn't mean that the same thing is true for Spacey himself: as far as we know, he may even have been unaware of the story's existence until he read and memorized the script.
By the way, if someone who is about the same age as my father is regarded as being so young, then I guess I am a toddler.
Sorry. I didn't read carefully. I see now that it was the scriptwriter talking - Not Spacey. I'm impressed either way, as the script writer is likely to be even younger than Spacey, and so, was not around to read that comic book when it was originally published.
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Oct 21, 2019 16:33:32 GMT
In Archie Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #58 (1994), it's revealed that Master Splinter had a tough time telling the pre-teen Turtles apart. Inspired by a copy of "Duck Comics and Stories", the Turtles decide to wear different-colored baseball caps to identify themselves ... earning a "Wak!" from Splinter.