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Of Moons, Millionares and Mothers FINALE: Moonvasion! or Duck Avengers: Endgame (Commission For WeirdKev27

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Hello all you happy people and WELCOME to the FINAL chapter of “OF Moons, Millionaires and Mothers” my exhaustingly long look at the arcs of Ducktales season 2, the longest retrospective i’ve ever completed. And just in time for the ...several days the Ducktales Anniversary. Yeah in the future remind me not to put a ton of time senstive reviews in the same week then have a combination of sleep issues and a massive bout of shoulder pain kay?

It’s been a long road to get here: we’ve seen Pinocchio somehow be in the main duck universe, Donald baffled he’s in a will, ghost busters homages, david tennant using slang,, gay vikings, gay space aliens, all Glomgold do is win, space sexual tension, a mother and child reunion that was only an ocean of stars away, STAND OUT ABOVE THE CROWD EVEN IF I’VE GOTTA SHOUT OUT LOUD. TILL MINE IS THE ONLY FACE THAT YOU’LL SEE GONNA STANNNNDD OUT. TILL YOU NOTICE ME, Huey becoming speckle in 20 years, Donald surprisingly getting mental help, Louie nearly destroying space and time, Louie surprisingly not giving a single shit he destroyed al lof space and time, and Zan Owlson finally being so done with this shit.

It’s been a crazy, sometimes disappointing, always interesting ride and before we get to the last leg of it i’d like to thank Kev, my patreon, friend and benefactor for paying for this retrospective. It was a great idea, i’ts been a great way and I especailly thank him for taking on the Louie arc as I felt these would be incomplete without it. Your a good man bud, thank you.

So with that we’re in the endgame now: Lunaris is on his way to earth, Penny is MIA and it’s up to the greatest adventuring family of all time, sorry richards-grimm extended family.

To save the earth. So pitter patter, let’s get at er under the cut!

We begin in the mansion with Scrooge playing Sessions Presents: Sounds of the Scottish Highlands as he relaxingly takes in the day.. so peaceful and serene surely nothing like say an alien invasion could happen to ruin this chill mood he’s set up. Yup just a nice peaceful hour of family bonding... and oh yes the ALIEN INVASION penny warned of that Della tries to “Promise you won’t be mad away”. Della that’s reserved for things like breaking a vase or doddling on a family portrait or your son nearly destroying all of space and time.

So our heroes watch on tv as Duckburg tries to make first contact.. by using the police to facilitate it because SURELY a group with only one good cop that we’ve seen in this series and a long history of shooting anyone diffrent first and saying “well they had a gun that I coudln’t find.. because it was invsible.. invsible gun” later can do that. They thankfully send in fenton instead who offers them a pie.... which begs the question why more first contact scenario’s don’t have pie. And why I don’t have pie. And why you, the person reading this does not have a fresh pie in front of them. These are truly the questions that keep me up at night.

Anyways the pie goes over well... they still attack but i’ts more because their being led by a general with a petty grudge against earth. Don’t blame pie, for blaming pie is the real mind killer.

So sensing the writing on the wall our heroes make haste from the mansion to the bin in the jeep sans launchpad whose on fire at the moment he’ll get back to you. We also get one of the best gags of the episode when, as their fleeing the moonlanders, Dewey being.. Dewey decides to open the back window of the Jeep and become savior of earth> Webby not wanting her brother-cousin to die pulls him back in with a “nerp”.

At the bin.. things are somehow worse than outside: Every contingincy scrooge had in case of something this catstrophic? Down before he could activate them. It instantly sells that Lunaris wasn’t bluffing in how well he knew Scrooge or how he knew just how to attack him: he made sure to know every counter scrooge had and take out most of them before he could even make a gesture.

So with that our heroes are in dire straights, with Lunaris parking his flagship over the mansion and naturally gloating like any supervillian: The moon is superior, I will beat you, i’m going to kill your family..

Lance Reddick does deliver it incredibly well though. Point is things are bad so Scrooge decides to take a play from the “Don’t Touch My Ascot: The Fred Jones Guide to Traps and Mystery Solving” and split up gang: Della and the kids will go find whatever allies they can Globally, and Scrooge and Beakley will stay in Duckberg and take on Lunaris. After all i’ts not like Della say talked to scrooge right before and clearly has ulterior motives right? She woudln’t lie to her kids and Cousin Daughter righttttt?

Della Lies to Her Kids and Cousin-Daughter

So Team Della heads to go gather who they can.. supposidely. IN practice their visit to egypt to recurit Djinn and Amunet ends with them abandoning the two to fend for themselves once the moonlanders overwhelm them.

Then they head to Ithiquack where Zeus, to no one’s surprise.. i boarding up all the gods to hide and refuses to let Selene and Storkules help, and slams the door in Della’s face despite her wanting to just hide in there with them.

So after that Team Della dodges a spacecraft... and Della scrambles to find SOMEWHERE remote to hide, with Huey spotting the thread that none of the places have reinforcements and Louie yanking it, realizing she never had any intention of getting help and was scamming them the whole time. With Lunaris coming after them, she panicked and wanted to hide their family. The kids.. are unsuprsiingly not pleased their mom yanked them away to try and hide them while their friends and family all fight. As this plot feels like the cumilation of the series so far, and the season it’s ending in paticular, it makes sense: Dewey’s best friend, Webby’s girlfriend and best friend, Huey’s best friend, and Louie’s money are all back there struggling and fighting to surivive... while Della forced them to do a runner without tellng them for what turned out to be a wild goose chase. And they didn’t even find Gladstone yet so it hasn’t even been a SUCCESFUL wild Goose Chase.

Della’s actions are understandable: She finds a super smart, machavielan asshole coming fo rher kids.. and she gave him the tools to do it. This is her fault she feels, the spear of selene all over again, and she just wants to fix it. But the kids are right that they just.. CAN’T hide. They have to fight and as Lunaris himself points out, unsuprisingly having made his big bold threat to the kids to lure them and Della away, Della is the ONLY one who knows them and their technology. And she left out of fear. IT’s understandable to be afraid for her kids and all.. but it’s also undrestandable these aren’t normal kids, and the world needs them despite the risk.

The argument is tabled for now though when they crash onto a deserted island. And find something they lost in the process...

And also Donald! .. and Mickey Melon! Yeah for some weird reason Disney never let Frank use Mickey, though Mouseton was referenced via Owlson that Chekov's gun was never fired, they found a workaround.. having a melon who looks, sounds and acts like mickey that Donald’s using as a puppet/common-law wife , voiced by Chris Dimatopols to boot since he was already voicing 2 characters this ep what harms a third.

Before we can get to Donald’s frayed mental state though he and Della properly reunite.. which goes exactly as you’d expect...

I absolutely love this. While most fans expected some warm embrace before the shouting.. let’s face it this was always going to happen, with Donald mad they didn’t come for him and Della mad he was apparently on vacation and Dewey mad his name isn’t Turbo. The two eventually end up hugging before Donald’s psychosis flares up again revealing Melon.

After a scene transition Melon has apparently filled Team Della in on the moon, and further explains he met Melon as his best friend, and they bonded over sandwiches and that one time Donald put a hole in him. Good times.

So after agreeing to not tell Donald they thought he was on a crusie for the sake of what’s left of his sanity, the kids naturally want to you know, go back and save their friends, loved ones and Gyro from certain doom. Della however wants to settle in on the island you know, play some volleyball with Donald’s live in boyfriend (He’s the ball), have the kids sleep in lockers (With Huey and Webby sharing one because in a nice detail Webby was clearly added after Della realized she forgot her cousin-daughter and hastily added her to Huey’s because Dewey’s the faviorite and she owes Louie one for the whole robot thing.. and for not calling child services for said robot thing.).

What makes this truly heartbreaking is when the kids point out the obvious: if she keeps them stranded her she might as well be trapped on the moon again... and her denial.. has her reaching for a piece of oxy chew. It’s a truly gripping bit of PTSD: She may of left the moon.. but in a crisis.. she defaults to the surivival mode she used to get past it. By not getting help, by not trying to eve rprocess what happened she almost let it happen again.. and it breaks her, with Della retreating.

We then get one of the genuinely sweetest moments in the series: Louie goes to comfort her... which makes sense. After they finally bonded.... because the episodes said so and no other reason... it hits hardest that the one comforting her is the child that took the most time to accept her and then just did because plot said so.

But Louie’s awful character arc aside.. this moment is sweet as Louie sings a song... a very familiar song.....

Face each new sun with eyes clear and true Unafraid of the unknown Because I'll face it all with you

Monihan and Brewster just.. nail it. As for how the hell Louie knew that.. Donald sang it to them. Every night.

So with her confidence resorted and realizing her boys need to face this and she needs to face it with them, her brother and her cousin aunt, della’s finally ready to face her trauma, face her fears.. and leave. The question is how.

Well last minute is a bit much as something from an episode I haven’t covered all the way back at the start of the season comes back, Mitzi, carrying fethry and Gladstone! Gladstone’s luck naturally blew him clear of the invasion, straight into his dear cousin, and then he found melon who della punted into the ocean earlier as he started to get hungry. So our heroes now have a way home, reinfrocments after all, and the husk of donald’s un-wife to snack on.

So we end this part of the hourlong/two parter with both generations of clan mcduck striking a pose and Dewey wonders “Aw man am I the uncle donald” to which I say no... that’s huey. Your fethry. Your impuslive, live in your own world and will probably fuck a shrimp at some point.

So as our heroes head to hteir big damn heroes moment, let’s wind back the clock and see what Scrooge’s been up to.

But Not Our Dumbest:

So about 12 hours back, and with their satlites down thanks to Louie, Gyro comes up with a plan b. And I do like his characterization here: he has his spark back by this point feeling more like the unhinged version from season 1, just with more heart, making for a better character.

Anyway he sends his little bulbs out to gather whoever in Duckburg they can to reinforce their army: Lena, whose loitering in a park for reasons that totally don’t involve betting on squirrel fights, Violet and Quackfaster, who are both naturally at the library, Duckworth who for some reason didn’t float after them in the van, Fenton and his mama, and last of all Launchpad, who was absent earlier because the limo ws on fire and is joined by Darkwing.... okay like Lena and Webby earlier I really missed the hoy yay here. I mean Drake drove ALL the way here to visit launchpad BEFORE there was likely an invasion. That’s a good boyfriend.

So with that Scrooge has everyone he could get for an army.. also the ottoman empire guys for reasons I don’t fully get. I mean sure one of them DEFINTELY killed that guy with an ottoman but that wasn’t ON PURPOSE.

Bickering also naturally ensues with Lena rightfully calling Duckworth a waste of magic for wanting to politely ask the invading force whose leader has made it ABUNDNTLY CLEAR he has a personal grudge against the earth.... to leave.

Gyro’s plan is less suprising: use his clone army and use Fenton as a meat shield/sacrifice. Unfrotunately for Gyro, he made the horrible mistake of offhand bullying his intern.. in front of said intern’s mother.

Who threatens to literally shove his head up his ass to match how far it is metaphorically. She also reveals in the process she clearly knows who Fenton is and when he tries to deflect she states the obvious; She’s his mother and a cop. She knew. I love this reveal too: i was curious how the hell she didn’t know given all the evidence and the fact Fenton is REALLY not good with keeping a secret identity at all. She was just waiting for him to tell her and presumibly decided “Fuck it this is taking too long”. But clearly she holds no resitment either: she gets this was a lot for Fenton to process and he wasn’t hiding it from her to be cruel, but because she DID dunk on his other identity pretty hard at first and was likely scared to tel lher. Thankfullly unlike say Aunt May, it didn’t take 80 years and learning his identity to make her come around.

Anyways, Scrooge naturally has a plan..

I”m only half joking: his plan is to use this ENTIRE assembled strikeforce to distract the aliens and take them down while he, launchpad and Darkwing (who he barely acknowledges but is going anyway) sneak in and head for Lunaris directly. So yes folks Scrooge is using pretty much the EXACT SAME PLAN from the Suicide Squad years before that. Minus assuming they’ll all die horribly. Granted his isn’t to just sacrifice them most of the heavy hitters are on the other team as opposed to a guy with a javelin, arms fall off boy and the most punchable face in america. But I do question scrooge not taking ANYONE ELSE but himself, launchpad and darkwing to assaul tthe manor. LIke... what if team a gets captured? what if they loose? What if Scrooge McDuck didn’t find Mjonir and become mighty thor? What if Lunaris has every inch of the manor packed with goons? The plan isn’t TERRIBLE, he just needed a few more tweaks to it.

But it goes off anyway with the main group having an utterly SPECTACULAR battle with tons of great moments: from Lena casually dispatching some goons and giving her baby sister a mace hawkgirl style, to Johny and Not-Johnny suprisingly hnot being useless, to a few gyros dying and the remaning leading one not being sure if one was a clone or not, to gizmoduck using lemon meringue pie.. to summon the harpies. I TOLD YA this tied back all of season 2. I was not kidding. Every character except the christmas ep ones is touched on every storyline touched on, everything leads to this and it is amazing.

Team Scrooge meanwhile sneaks in and Scrooge soon has a better plan.. since no one notices darkwing it’s time to..

Darkwing puts on Scrooge’s battle tartan and gets beaten up but given this is Darkwing, while he’s left dazed, he’s also left triumphant as he takes so much punishment the moonlanders tier out.. while Scrooge sucessfuly sneaks in, even pulling off the terror that flaps in the night schtick and makes it ot the ship... which is a hologram. Yeah unsuprisingly Lunaris was ready for THIS too.... and was smiply waiting for Scrooge to find it so he could land his REAL flagship, a giant engine designed to make the earth orbit the moon.

Well for once they do as this will freeze them all and Lunaris could care less.

So when we pick back up with team Scrooge the next episode their hiding at the fisherman restraunt from “The Ballad of Duke Balloney” down to nearly no one: everyone but Scrooge himself, Beakley, Duckworth and somehow Launchpad have been captured to thin the cast out, and Duckworth quickly leaves to prepare their graves. “It’s not reassuring he went down”. An utterly incredible joke.

Scrooge is lost metaphorically after losing literally, as he realizes every plan he has.. Lunaris will counter. He’s facing a foe who knows how his brain works and thus can counter every move. It’s such a frightening prospect i’m not suprised they recycled it again next season with bradford, though I am pleased as punch they made it work.

Cue the savior of earth: Glomgold, doing a jaws parody and offering his help. Beakley points out that his last scheme resulted in him loosing to a child and every villian in town wanting him dead.. but Glomgold SUPRISINGLY has a good counter.. he surivived that didn’t he? Which.. fair enough. Magica alone should’ve taken his heart out and eaten it.

Scrooge however... ends up agreeing. He’s tried everything, he’s all out of ideas: better to try something stupid that probably won’t work than a well put together plan that definitely won’t.

So we get a glomglorious slide show from Glomgold having to acknowledge his company is a subsidary of McDuck enterprises (To which scrooge smugly grins) to Glomgold doing beard pushups, to Glomgold, getting fed up with Scrooge’s snide commments acting like an annoyed school teacher: “Oh do you not WANT to survive?” His plan is his usual charming level of stupid and short sighted on steroids: his plan is to use sharks in parks (He calls them sharkas), to swim down and chew through some of the supports of the engine ship, and have Beakley disgused as a farmer for reasons that are lost to time launch launchpad, disgused as a rock in the part he was born to play, at another one. Meanwhile Scrooge will distract Lunaris as someone EVERYONE trusts... and Scrooge’s mos thated enemy and ex... SANTA CLAUS. The fact they tied THIS back into it is fucking incredible.

It actually ends up working.. mostly because it exploit’s Lunaris own analytical mind: He ASSUMES the plan is too stupid to be real. Thus Lunaris falls over himself assuming this is some big gotcha he can counter.. when really i’ts just the dumbest plan alive.

It also feeds on Lunaris’ main weakness: his own fear driven ego. Lunaris is so obessed with beating earth and scrooge he’s convinced himself he’s better and that SURELY the only response Scrooge would have to the guy is the greatest and most brilliant plans possible.

Scrooge on the other hand will do whatever it takes to win... and admitted he had nothing left. BOth can see all the angles.. but only Scrooge really sees himself, and thus puts his own faults into it. Scrooge could admit he could loose.. and thus tried something stupid out of desperation and it WORKED because Lunaris can’t see a scenario where he’s not the smartest man in the room. Scrooge knows better: being clever, seeing all the angles is fine.. but sometimes you just can’t win even if your scrooge mcduck.

So Scrooge and Glomgold make it to lunaris.. and naturally this was in part a scheme to get his company back as the script includes scrooge giving it back. Somehow this is legally binding.

Glomgold: No takebacks on christmas! Scrooge: It’s not christmas! Glomgold: Then why is santa here? Lunar is breaks down, with Scrooge realizing he really is that up his own ass and remarking

Scrooge: You were ready for our best.. but not our dumbest Glomgold: And i’m the dumbest that’s ever been! Muahahahaha... wait...

What follows is an aweosme fight scene as Glomgold proves he’s not actually bad in a fight as he and Scrooge team up, both seeing the fate of earth as more important and even Glomgold getting in on the “The moon isn’t a planet gag”. Eventaully though Lunaris proves that while not the better planner entirely.. he is the bestter fighter and nearly has both beat.. until

Damn straight. So while Lunaris is baffled by Mitzi, Mitiz is able to start yanking the last support, and with help from Gladstone’s luck and a well placed shark, the world engine is defeated, and Lunaris is thwarted.

The Ducks reunite with Scrooge naturally blowing the whole “we totally realized you were missing and not on a cruise thing” away, with david’s delivery of “So he wasn’t on a cruise then” just being delightful.

Our heroes don’t have a lot of time to rest though as Lunaris takes off in his flag ship to go for plan b... blow up the fucking earth. Moonlanders included, which gets them to realize their boss is just a wee bit mad with power.

Having their second wind, the Duck family isn’t about to take this lying down and Della finally fufills her dream of taking her children into space. Granted it’s to stop a power mad dictator from destroying the world but let’s face it, given this family’s life it was a pretty good chance it was always going to end like this. That or with Yogi eating everyone.

So we get a gorgeous sequence in space with Della and Donald both taking the pilots chair, Scrooge standing by in command picard style, and the kids taking on the guns: Webby and Huey aim, Dewey and Louie fire. What follows is an utterly gorgeous triumphant space battle to a fucking beast of an orchestral version of the moon theme. Because of course Frank had to bring it back one last time and give it one last awesome version. Of course he did. We also get the great gag of Donald and Della arguing like children over who should pilot while Scrooge happily sighs how much he’s missed this.

Our heroes do manage to turn the tide and take out most of Lunaris’ guns and englines.. but he has one left set to barbeque them.... until PENNY returns, finally making her entrance to slam into Lunaris’ ship..

She seemingly dies.. for about a minute before smacking into Della’s ship. Della has her prioritys straight and wants to introduce her girlfriend to her family... but Penny reminds her maybe do that AFTER getting Penny inside before she slides off the ship into oblivion.

Lunaris tries escaping.. but finds his backup power cut as Jaws is here, long live jaws, he is a shark who bites the law, he was in a movie you should watch it it’s called jaws. So yeah Jaws cut the power, and to just pour an industrial barrel of salt in the wound Selene messages him, letting the fucker know she put things back int heir proper orbit with the help of storkules doing mad pushups bro, but on the bright side.. Lunaris is earth’s newest moon. And newest skelington floating around the moon along with the remains of William Howard Taft.

So with that the day is saved and our heroes return home triumphant and in time for an epilogue: For starters of all people Glomgold has earned a happy ending: after a season of trying to earn people’s love by beating his arch enemy in a contest no one cared about but him and Scrooge himself, Glomgold legitly earned the people’s love and respect by helping save earth. Granted he still somehow frames it as beating Scrooge despite Scrooge’s incrediolous “We were on the same side!”, but hey it’s a happy ending and Scrooge decided to let him have his company back given next season. It is christmas after all.

Launchpad gains a crush on Penny, not realizing she has a case of being gay as shit, and everyone celebrates with one hell of a group shot. Something my friend @jess-the-vampire noticed when I watched this with her as part of our movie night was Scrooge holding his daughter, a nice little touch of foreshadowing.

So happy ending right.. except... we cut to an ominous red room

This has gone too far. The ducks almost cost us the world today. And without the world, who would we larceny against? The pieces are finally in place. Time to come out of the shadows, take control and end Clan McDuck. If the McDuck family wants an adventure... we'll give them their last. FOWL emerges, consiting of a ton of characters from throughout both seasons along with Steelbeak and the Phantom blot..... most nottably BRADFORD, revealing all long the board has been plotting against Scrooge... and our heroes have one last fight ahead.

Of course having covered all of season 3 as it came out... I know how this goes as I’m sure you do: Huey finds a girlfriend and a folksy hallucination, our heroes get trapped in Westview, Launchpad and Steelbeak prove to both be really bad at cards, Della tries to murder sexy merpeople, Donald finally had something go right for once, Huey finds a boyfriend, Dewey piledrives a god, Violet is susceptible to vampires while Lena earns the power of love, Penny tries to come out but can’t outright say it because Disney is stupid, Spike tries to eat some children, Scrooge kills a man in Florida, Darkwing Duck finally Darkly Dawned, Della left the time loop room, Della Left the Time Loop Room, Della Left the Time Loop Room, Huey unlocked Ultra Instinct, Storkules tried to intitate a threesome, Donald had a grunge phase, Scrooge’s sister is hot wayne there I said it, Scrooge reconnected with his ex good old St. Nick, Mark Beaks wore out the public’s welcome with fire, Kit Cloudkicker spun it and begun it.. it being a new career not trying to literally become his dad, Scrooge got a Sham Trial from the Fonz that we’d all like to forget, and Webby thinks she’s a clone now there’s always another two just a hanging around.. that Donald quickly adopted.

Point is it was a crazy season and this is the best lead in it could’ve asked for. This is one of the best cliffhangers in tv history, brilliantly leading into the final arc with one hell of a setup that had been slowly building underneath the seurface of the series. A brilliant end to a brilliant episode

Final Thoughts:

I belivie I said brilliant... but to elaborate: This episode is an utterly thrilling conclusion to everything up to this point: every episode of season 2 contributes to the climax in some way great and small and all three plot lines intersect. The result just feels utterly satisfying: like every step of the journey wethere it was part of the main three plots or not lead here and every bit mattered. It’s probably why the proper series finale felt mildly lacking: it had a LOT more ground to cover and the fact it didn’t cover it all when this one did with slightly less runtime probably didn’t help.

But this finale is to me the platonic ideal of what a finale should be: all consuming, satisfying and leaving you wanting more for the next season, if there is one. It sastifyingly ties up Della’s character arc, gives Glomgold a brief moment in the sun before he ruins it for himself as is his nature, and gives us so many impactful, amazing moments in the span of 45 minutes. This is truly one of the series finest hours and deserves al lthe praise I can give it.

Final Thoughts on the Della Arc and this Retrospective:

So with this two parter we finally bring both Della’s personal arc and this entire retrospective to a close. ‘

Della’s arc is far and away the best of the season. In one episode they managed to take a blank slate and make her into a character as vibrant and fleshed out as the rest of the cast and thus keep us invisted all season as she reconnected with her family, slowly growing as a person, and to meet her kids needs: telling Dewey he didn’t need to impress her, letting Huey explore the world, virtual as it may of been at his own pace and putting a foot down with Louie, someething he badly needed even if she overdid it. She even was a good parent to webby in the episode we didn’t revisit, telling the girl she didn’t need to be just like Della, just herself. We got to see an emotionally stunted woman settle into being a mom, and in the end tackle her own trauma to save the world. Paget’s acting all season is phenominal.

The moon side isn’t shabby: While Lunaris is an obvious main antagonist, Lance Reddick does a good job hiding it, being genuinely jovial and likeable.. until the mask drops and we see the selfish obsessive bastard underneath. Once he gets to, he still plays a smooth, calcuating mastermind, an utterly carasmatic villian with an understandable if still petty motive. He’s just fun to watch every time he appears and while it’s a shame we didn’t get to see him again, his ending is so fitting it almost makes me want to not use him in anything in the future. Almost.

Finally capping off the three characters that truly make this arc we have Penumbra. Julie Bowen steps out of her more famous role as sitcom wife and into the roll of a gruff, confrontational commander who slowly realizes just hwo she REALLY feels about della.. and how badly she misjudged her commander. Penny was an okay character to me on first watch but is utterly gripping on rewatches as we see someone who has their purpoes yanked away.. only to regret getting it back as it threteans her people and who ends the season the hero she always thought she was.

So yeah Della’s arc is a triumph and worth a rewatch> The arcs as a whole.. as i’ve said are a mixed bag, with Della being excellent and the other two being arcs with good indvidual episodes, but a messy whole. They work as pieces of a season.. but not peices of their own story. And that’s disapointing.

Still I did enjoy this project. It was good, got a ton of episodes out of the way, and while i’m happy to FINALLY move on from it, it was a good ride while it lasted. I’ll still have more duck content for the rest of the year, including the conclusion of life and times, some birthday episodes of ducktales, and a singing contest turned lovecraftian.

As for what i’m doing for Kev next? Well... that’s as simple as a piece of cheese...

Thank you for coming, thank you for staying thank you for reading the article.

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