Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Aug 18, 2017 15:43:59 GMT
I thought we should do a thread to discuss the various easter-eggs (and Chekhov's Guns) found in the DuckTales 2017 pilot Woo-oo!. The best place to start is Webby's board:
- "Beagleburg". What is that?
- The note "Scotty McDuck - Alternate Timeline?" seems to refer to the Mark Worden family tree where Scrooge's grandfather is called "Old Scotty McDuck" and looks nothing like Fergus. It seems Webby found in-universe existence of Scotty and is wondering just where he fits in the family tree, hence her "alternate universe" hypothesis. Now… is it true? What does Scotty have to do with anything?
- Enigmatic "The Traitor" note above the McDuck Clan Members list. Also enigmatic "Scrooge's Worst Nightmare" note.
- "Friend of F.O.W.L." note. Does it refer to Scrogoe, or to the "Dirty Dingus" note just above? Not to mention "Dirty Dingus" is not the same as the "Grandpa" picture connected to Fergus. Strange.
- Yet another enigmatic note with "WHO IS D.B. —> Gyro?", possibly connected to the above note which seems to read "Never World War II", for inexplicable reasons.
- What is that large map?
- An official-looking paper from the "Senior Woodchucks Council". Maybe we should add this to that old thread we did discussing the term of "Senior Woodchuck", though I don't remember what it was called? Either way, I'm curious to know what it says. Perhaps a "No, we won't sell a copy of our guidebook to you!" letter to reference Guardians of the Lost Library?
- A note appears to say "Who's cleaning my room?". I don't know what that has to do with anything.
- Everyone's going crazy about the TaleSpin implications of the newspaper cutting referring to sky pirates, but what I find odder is that if they were "sighted over Plain Awful", this means Plain Awful is already well-known to Duckburgers in this continuity. Presumably, it was explored by Donald, Della and Scrooge back in the day, and the adventure went differently without Huey, Dewey and Louie's chewing gum throwing a wrench in the cogs, allowing Scrooge and Co. to peacefully introduce the Awfultonians ot the outside world. (Also, I am somewhat saddened that the newspaper is the generic Duckburg Dailies rather than the time-honored Duckburg Bugle or an easter-eggish County Conscience.)
- Inexplicable "22 - 1400 = 87" note is inexplicable.
And that's about it for now. Thoughts?