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DuckTales Season 1 Episode 44

Double-O-Duck

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AIRED: 11/18/87

Launchpad looks just like a foreign spy, and agrees to help capture an international counterfeiting ring.

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By sh811a, Aug 24, 2008

This is another one of my favorate episodes in the show. I don't know may'be it's because I have a knack for spy spoofs and adventures, this is one of the ones that are done right it's as funny as a episode of "Get Smart" or "Chuck". What made this James Bond parody work was the fact it does what it should to be funny, play it straight and make the obvious in jokes not to seem so obvious.

Heck it even had a good plot which was the destroy the world's economy just for the main villian to be the richest person in the world and control the world's economy. This plot I find ironic since it was one utilized in another spy spoof film the underrated "If Looks Could Kill".

What makes this episode really stand out is that fact that it's actually focused on a minor character "Launchpad" whom is one of my favorate characters on the show, I was waiting for an episode on him and my wait paid off and it didn't disapoint.

Like in "Get Smart" I'll admit the gagets are very daft and logically wouldn't work. But that's what always made them seem so funny because their obviously exagerations on the crative gadgets Bond uses to be a step ahead of the game. My favorate gadget in this episode is of course the Toppee Gun. How the heck a Toppee can be a gun is anyones guess, but it was the daftest but most creative gadget I've ever seen.

But what's really important is Launchpad himself, from Launchpad common character flaws we've seen thoughout the show,he could almost be the worst secret agent in the world. From some of the mistakes he's made in the first half of the show like crashing the first spy car and chopper a mere minute as he was begining his mission. Or even his romantic interaction with femme fatale Feathers Gallore which isn't very smooth, in a way it explains a little why Launchpad never really had a girlfriend.

But the good news is he does get the hang of it in the second and third half of the episode if not smoothly. Which I'll admit is just amazing as usual his flaws are also his strengths because it makes him armed with dumb luck. Like his reluctance to kiss Feathers actually made him avoid her poison lipstick. Or a car chase scene when he can't get his transforming car to work the way he wants it to but amazingly it actually turned into exactly what he needed it to turn into without even knowing it.

This episode just has a lot of really great funny moments, two of my favorates are when Feathers is trying to kill Launchpad and tears up the whole room with her martial arts skills, I'll just say she's a pritty strong woman. Or when Launchpad uses the gun toppee on a right hand villian a parody on "Odd Job" from "Goldfinger", the right hand villian catches the bullets, I thought damn. But one would be when he uses a grenade cufflink on the main bad guy but it deflects off his belly and detonates bellow the platform I thought wow that really sucked. It was just hillarous Launchpad had him in close range and yet as usual he still messes up.

And last I'll admit I really like the interaction between both Launchpad and Feathers, it's also I'll admit the first time and only time I've actually seen thourgh opposite sex interaction in "Ducktales" shame it couldn't of been utilized more (well in "Ducks to the Future" it sort of was but that's another story). In a strange way in the end I can't help but feel Launchpad would've made a great secret agent.

However I wouldn't say he got out of the game for good, this episode was also a starting point/prolific for Launchpad transference from "Ducktales" to the show "Darkwing Duck" since the enimy in that show is the same evil orginization as in this episode which is F.O.W.L. And Launchpad becomes Darkwing Duck's sidekick.moreless
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Hal Smith	Gyro Gearloose
Alan Young	Scrooge McDuck
Terence McGovern	Launchpad McQuack

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Rene Auberjonois	Dr. Nogood	Guest Star
Jack Angel	Voice	Guest Star
Barry Dennen	Voice	Guest Star
Peter Cullen	J. Gander Hoover	Recurring Role
Tress MacNeille	Feathers Galore & Female Operator	Recurring Role

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- Double-O-Duck was supposed to be Darkwing's original name before they finally settled on Darkwing Duck. Incidentally, Launchpad stars as Darkwing's sidekick.
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- What, exactly, happens to Oddduck? He just disappears from the episode completely after Launchpad and Feathers give him the slip.
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QUOTES (4)
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- (Launchpad is captured and interrogated by Dr. Nogood)
  Dr. Nogood: I've been wondering when you'd show up. A very good likeness of Bruno Von Beak, I must admit. Who are you spying for?
  Launchpad: You can threaten me, you can torture me, but I'll never snitch on the D.I.A.!
  Dr. Nogood: The D.I.A., huh? What do you think of that, Flower?
  (Flower, Nogood's cat, hisses at Launchpad)
  Dr. Nogood: I agree.
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- Dr. Nogood: Soon the world's money supply will be ruined. In just a few hours, my troopers will break into Swiss banks from underground tunnels, spray their vaults of money with patented ink vanisher that'll make all that money nothing but worthless blank paper! I'll wreak havoc with the world's money supply! My private stockpile of gold will make me the richest man in the world! And-- And-- Why do I have this sudden craving for pickles?!
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- Operator:Duckburg Intelligence Agency.
  Launchpad:This is Double-O-Duck. I've found Dr. Nogood's headquarters! Send your troops to--
  (Launchpad hears Dr. Nogood and Oddduck approaching)
  Launchpad: Oops!
  Operator:Is that Oops Avenue, or Oops Street?
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- (Scrooge tries to dissuade Launchpad from joining the D.I.A.)
  Scrooge: Don't do it, Launchpad, it sounds too risky.
  J. Gander: But Dr. Nogood is planning to destroy the world's money supply!
  Scrooge: Nothing's too risky when it comes to money! Where does he sign up?
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- Included on the Volume Two DVD
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- Dr. Nogood's pet cat is named Flower; probably a reference to the skunk from Bambi.
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- This episode became the basis for Darkwing Duck.
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- J. Gander Hoover: You are the only one who can stop F.O.W.L.'s leader, the infamous Dr. Nogood.
  Dr. Nogood's name is an obvious spoof of Dr. Julius No, the villain from the first James Bond movie, Dr. No. Incidentally, Nogood's owning a pet cat is a reference to James Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while his plan to wreck the world economy and increase the value of his private stockpile of gold, is a reference to another Bond villain, Auric Goldfinger.
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- Spy: Hold it, buster. J. Gander Hoover wants to see you.
  The name of J. Gander Hoover, the director of the D.I.A., is a reference to J. Edgar Hoover, the real-life former director of the FBI. Incidentally, this spoof would be recycled for Darkwing Duck in J. Gander HooTER, the director of S.H.U.S.H.
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- Feathers Galore: Maybe you forgot the magic words, Dorothy.
  The manner in which Launchpad activates his elevator shoes, by clicking his heels together, is a reference to The Wizard of Oz.
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- Dr. Nogood: Anyone who spies for the D.I.A. should meet my other pets. Oddduck?
  The name of Dr. Nogood's silent bodyguard is a spoof of Oddjob, one of the villains in the James Bond film Goldfinger. Like Oddjob, Oddduck even wears a black bowler (although he never throws it).
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- Announcer: Ladies, gentlemen, and snake charmers, please give a real big hand to Miss Feathers Galore!
  "Feathers Galore" is a reference to the James Bond film Goldfinger's leading lady, Pussy Galore.
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- Launchpad: If that chopper leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life. Here's lookin' at you, Feathers.
  Launchpad is quoting the ending of "Casablanca".
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