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Ryan

For as questionable as the show's constantly shoving Launchpad into just being impossibly dumb can be, this gag of him having an epic, dramatic adventure totally offscreen while we're left to guess at most of the details really works for me, and I very much wish the show had done more with it.

og.monstr

Ally, Bella, they just won't give up... 🙂 The show did at least accurately show how obnoxiously douchey Gladstone Gander is and why everybody should hate him.

Tripple7

The phrase you are looking for is "backhanded compliment"

Connor Grynol

So Scrooge and Gladstone aren't related and Donald is Gladstone's cousin. Also, wow, that family tree is large. Also, I find it funny that the father of Huey, Dewey, and Louie just never gets a character but both side's have at least one great great great great grandparent on that tree.

Bailey

I love how quick you are to pick up on little details. Even when you don't deduce something 100%, you usually manage to get pretty close. You're pretty clever and observant tbh, it's super cool.

Flufux

My personal headcanon is that the triplets' father was either a one-night stand or a donor considering how little he's ever mentioned.

Marisa Maribel

The family tree is even bigger than what’s been revealed so far, as another commenter provided, but I don’t really think the family so far is that big. Triplets, their mother, two uncles and a great-uncle isn’t a very big family. But the actual full family, especially when you look at it in family tree charts like the one above, man it gets big and kinda complicated. I’ve only seen this reboot tho, not the original cartoon or read any of the comics, so anything that isn’t in this show is completely lost on me. I was in a similar situation to you, Mosco, and others in that way, not knowing much more characters besides Donald, the triples and Scrooge before I started watching this. So I took each new thing as it came, without having much knowledge of the originals to compare it too. I know there’s tons of fun to be had for people who have knowledge and experience with this world and it’s characters, because this show is bursting with references, cameos, and cool twists on previously established stuff. But I also think it’s fun to experience everything for the first time, to go in mostly blind. So it’s also fun to watch others have a similar experience to watching the show for the first time as me. Gladstone is officially just Gander, like Scrooge is McScrooge lol This episode is a lot of fun, and I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Marisa Maribel

Agreed. Gladstone is the worst, he’s completely unlikable.

Matthew Dunne

I don't think it's a super consequential episode, but it is neat to see how it illustrates the contrasts in what Scrooge and Donald would bring to adventuring, and compared to Gladstone who doesn't go in for it at all. Like, Scrooge's cunning would have short circuited the whole thing and gotten them out early if they hadn't needed to stay for Gladstone, while Donald's probably hardly ever actually into the adventures but will just power through regardless, especially for the sake of others. It was the same thing with Atlantis in the pilot. One might expect that, back when he was younger, it took a balancing intermediary to get him working well with Scrooge, that his kids are currently almost occupying.