The Five Nephews of Donald Duck

[The KKM]

I think the general idea is that since it's been commonly accepted by fandom to call the fourth Nephew, in the cases where he (by artist mistake) appears, "Phooie", what do we do now there's a FIFTH one, what's his fandom-given joke?

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Jul 30, 2019 9:48:52 GMT LP said:

How about "Bob"?

Trying to kill another thread, huh?

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 30, 2019 11:09:43 GMT juicymcduck said:

Of course it's juste a puzzle and has no bearing on canon. I think Scrooge MacDuck is just playing along with the joke. :-)

This. (Though of course, the number-one reason it has no bearing on canon is that there's not really any such thing as a duck canon. You've got some scattered options like Rosa-canon or Wiki-canon or Jack-L.-Chalker-canon, but that's all.)

[LP]

Jul 30, 2019 14:57:55 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Jul 30, 2019 9:48:52 GMT LP said:

How about "Bob"?

Trying to kill another thread, huh?

Oh no! You're onto me! 

[juicymcduck]

Jul 30, 2019 18:52:22 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 30, 2019 11:09:43 GMT juicymcduck said:

Of course it's juste a puzzle and has no bearing on canon. I think Scrooge MacDuck is just playing along with the joke. :-)

This. (Though of course, the number-one reason it has no bearing on canon is that there's not really any such thing as a duck canon. You've got some scattered options like Rosa-canon or Wiki-canon or Jack-L.-Chalker-canon, but that's all.)

That's why I did consider putting the word canon between quotation marks. However, although there is no canon per se, there still exist a few hard rules: Scrooge is Donald's uncle, Donald has three nephews, Donald and Daisy are dating but are not married...

[TheMidgetMoose]

Jul 30, 2019 22:03:41 GMT juicymcduck said:

Jul 30, 2019 18:52:22 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

This. (Though of course, the number-one reason it has no bearing on canon is that there's not really any such thing as a duck canon. You've got some scattered options like Rosa-canon or Wiki-canon or Jack-L.-Chalker-canon, but that's all.)

That's why I did consider putting the word canon between quotation marks. However, although there is no canon per se, there still exist a few hard rules: Scrooge is Donald's uncle, Donald has three nephews, Donald and Daisy are dating but are not married...

You sure about that one? Phooey and Kablooie would like a word with you.

[juicymcduck]

Jul 30, 2019 23:34:51 GMT TheMidgetMoose said:

Jul 30, 2019 22:03:41 GMT juicymcduck said:

That's why I did consider putting the word canon between quotation marks. However, although there is no canon per se, there still exist a few hard rules: Scrooge is Donald's uncle, Donald has three nephews, Donald and Daisy are dating but are not married...

You sure about that one? Phooey and Kablooie would like a word with you.

[Mesterius]

Jul 31, 2019 13:21:14 GMT juicymcduck said:

Jul 30, 2019 23:34:51 GMT TheMidgetMoose said:

You sure about that one? Phooey and Kablooie would like a word with you.

Tintin?

[justpassingthrough]

How about “Screwy”?

[RobbK1]

I thought we always called the fourth brother Screwey, long before anyone mentioned Phooey. Phooey isn't reasonable as a name, in any case. Screwey is a reasonable name because people often refer to other people as being "screwey". "Phooey" can't be used to describe a person, and it is not only a non-adjective, but it is a non-noun. How can a person be an interjection???

[Fethryfan]

How about "Mistake"?

Huey, Dewey, Louie, Phooey and Mistake

[Ramapith]

Oct 28, 2019 16:46:25 GMT RobbK1 said:

I thought we always called the fourth brother Screwey, long before anyone mentioned Phooey. Phooey isn't reasonable as a name, in any case. Screwey is a reasonable name because people often refer to other people as being "screwey". "Phooey" can't be used to describe a person, and it is not only a non-adjective, but it is a non-noun. How can a person be an interjection???

The spelling of the word is screwy (not "screwey")—and Rob, I can only say you're incorrect on this. While the idea of the fourth nephew is ultimately really just a long-running joke, I've rarely seen Screwy suggested as a name, let alone as the most common one.

This page from 1999 notes when the name Phooey (then spelled "Fooey") was first suggested: in 1990, in Uncle Scrooge #346.

(The page also contains an apocryphal story about Egmont calling the fourth nephew "Barks"; like most stories related by Grandey, it's unsubstantiated. I worked for Egmont at the time and we used Phooey, too.)

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Oct 28, 2019 17:27:37 GMT Ramapith said:

This page from 1999 notes when the name Phooey (then spelled "Fooey") was first suggested: in 1990, in Uncle Scrooge #346.

It was actually Uncle Scrooge #246 (I know that was just a typo, but in case anyone tries to hunt it down).

[Ramapith]

Yikes! If I can correct Rob (sorry, Rob), I can be corrected too. Thanks, Baar Baar.

[TheMidgetMoose]

Just found out today that in the Quack Pack episode Pride Goeth Before the Fall Guy, Kent Powers refers to Huey, Dewey, and Louie as "Screwy, Gooey, Kablooie." Also, Huey refers to himself as "Gooey" while goofing up in front of the Merganser twins in the episode Can't Take a Yolk. I know that's not super relevant to this thread, but I do find it funny that some of the names people suggested for Donald's "fifth nephew" having been used to jokingly refer to the original three nephews.