NOT a Spin-Off of Ducktales: The History of Darkwing Duck
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Despite being kind of a last minute replacement for another series and taking a few tries to get it right Darkwing Duck still has a large fanbase always looking for more Darkwing.
Darkwing Duck is an American animated superhero comedy television series produced by Disney Television Animation that first ran from 1991 to 1992 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on ABC. A total of ninety-one episodes were aired.
It features the adventures of Darkwing Duck, who is the superhero alter-ego of ordinary suburban duck Drake Mallard living in an unassuming suburban house with his adopted daughter Gosalyn and often accompanied by his sidekick Launchpad McQuack
While it definitely it uses some characters from Ducktales it is definitely NOT a spin-off of Ducktales... or is it?
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As a 42 year old man, I miss my childhood of the 80’s, getting up early on a Saturday mornings for 4 hours of cartoons was the best.
I’ll be 40 next month in September, and yes it was. 🙂
42 here, as well.
Here's an earworm for you:
Jem...
Jem is truly outrageous
Truly, truly, truly outrageous
Woo ooo Jem...
Jem
the music's contagious (outrageous)
I just turned 40 in January, and I'm right there with you.
Though... with so many classic 80s and 90s properties popping up on various streaming services, it's becoming easier to relive those amazing Saturday mornings in our pjs and a big bowl of sugary cereal (and with our own kids if we have any) just like it used to be.
Just be careful running outside to climb trees and build forts - we're not as bouncy as we used to be...
43 here… and Saturday morning cartoons were undisputed (my mom even put off the weekly shopping until after lunch). Todays cartoons just don’t hold a candle.
I'm like over a decade younger but I still do that. Just get up early saturday to do art and watch 'toons on the net.
Darkwing, Talespin, Gummi Bears and Ducktales an absolute golden era for TV cartoons
Golden… you must be joking! It was platinum with a diamond edge! I wish those times would return!
AGREED. Talespin was VERY good.
Rescue Rangers
I just got a wave of nostalgia… 😃
Did I run around my house in a towel I made into a cape and sing the Darkwing Duck theme song over and over when I was a kid? Yes, yes I did.
🫡
Do you still have the scar on your forehead from running headlong into a wall doing that? 😉
I just sang over and over again myself
I have the theme song as my main ringtone I love that show
do I do it all the time? yes, I do and I'm not ashamed of it. WHEN THERE'S TROUBLE YOU CALL DW.
Dan, thanks so much for the kind words about the Darkwing Duck comics; as a fan of toys, and your channel, it was a great honor to be mentioned!
There are two small things: One, Boom didn’t lose the comics license because of Disney’s Marvel purchase, but rather due to some editorial malfeasance;
And two; The 2016 run had strong sales, but zero marketing or promotion outside of Silvani and myself on social media. Still, sales were strong and the series was acclaimed, but Joe Books overextended itself and just pretty much ran out of money.
Thanks again!
Those comics hold a special place in my collection, as a huge fan of DW, so thank you!
Thanks so much for you and the others' work on the comics. Great stuff, man ❤️
Thank you for putting in the effort to get the comics noticed. It's very much appreciated, considering how little Disney themselves cared about DW at the time. They were a blast to read, and an even bigger blast to successfully find in the wild.
great comic, I enjoyed it
Those comics were beyond amazing. They were everything that I’ve ever wanted from a Darkwing Duck reboot.
Anyone who has ever watched Defunctland will know that “Michael Eisner does something because his kids like it or he saw someone else doin it” is a recurring theme
In all honesty, I can't even be mad about that as it gave us such gems as Darkwing Duck and so many other childhood staples from the late 80s and most of the 90s.
Nice shoutout to Defunctland, I love that channel too. Between that, this channel and other related channels like TPM, Fastpass Facts and so on, I've learned so much interesting history about my childhood influences.
RIP Historyland
Eisner killed so many of my shows because he could. He destroyed Lois and Clark, ABC Wide World of Sports, most of the soaps, The ABC Afterschool Specials and The ABC Weekend Specials. Not surprised he’s not looked upon very favorably and he said for the reason why he canned most of those shows I listed? Oh I’m in charge he said and then he said I don’t want it here so it’s done.
@@Dargonhuman it's nice that he cared for his sons to see if their dreams could work.
What an asshole, being a good dad and everything.
"He is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the TH-camr who spotlights old toys and shows. He is Larson of Toy Galaxy."
Daniel son of Lars
Who are you quoting??
@@barryallen871 Are you kidding?
*Secret Galaxy
"Let's get nostalgic."
Megavolt is one of my favorite cartoon characters of all time. Dan Castellaneta's voice slays me!
I can still remember one of my taped VHS episodes that I watched over and over again where he tries to "liberate" a bunch of lightbulbs and sobs, "No! They can't move! They've been weakened by their long servitude! I'll have to nurse them back to health!" as he collects the unmoving bulbs.
His voice was so perfect for that character. XD
As someone who listened to The shadow with his grandmother, I immediately knew who Darkwing took most of his style from (gasgun= double 45’s, disappearing in a cloud of smoke=turning invisible, terror that flaps in the night=evil that lurks in the harts of men) and i loved it
Same here!
What did you think of the Shadow movie?
Hell yes. Early Shadow radio dramas were exactly why I got into Darkwing!
The gas gun was definitely inspired by Green Hornet.
Darkwing himself is kind of a patchwork of The Shadow, The Spider and Batman.
I think he has the ego of the Spider
@jarod madox i loved the shadow movie at the time because it was a the shadow movie which took itself seriously, but now that we have comic book and pulp movies with better writing and acting it doesn’t hold up as well. But at least it wasn’t a comedy (like the later green hornet)
*LET’S GET DANGEROUS..…*
"FINALLY!! I get the appreciation I so aptly deserve!!!" - Darkwing Duck
It was an interesting time in the 90s to have grown up with both Batman TAS alongside Darkwing Duck. Everyone enjoyed Batman for the grounded storytelling not common in kids shows, but our parents explained why Darkwing would have fit right at home with Adam West.
Read the 1930’s The Spider: Master of Men, Darkwing is a complete copy of that non DC character.
He probably would have too
As someone who was born in the early 2000s and had no knowledge of Darkwing Duck or heck even the Disney afternoon prior to 2017, 91 Darkwing Duck still wonderfully holds up. I recall watching both the Darkwing Duck and DuckTales opening in TH-cam and while they were very catchy and memorable, I found myself enamored by Darkwing Duck's opening more than I was with DuckTales, so I ended up watching the series first. I loved it needlessly to say. I loved Drake's and Gosalyn's father-daughter relationship which is the heart of the show, transcending it from it's parody genred contemporaries. It's thanks to Darkwing that eventually I found myself appreciating not just the og DuckTales, and the rest of the Disney Afternoon shows, but it lead to me rediscovering the older Disney theatrical animated shorts back when Walt was still alive. Tad Stones and the rest of team behind Darkwing Duck should be proud for creating a classic show that still holds up and having a dedicated fanbase that still so eagerly awaits for more content. I'm excited for the reboot. I hope we get to see a Drake Mallard very close to his 91 personality.
I remember watching the first episode, where Drake Mallard adopts Goslyn. It was touching.🥰
The funny thing is that "Darkwing" was still name previously and recently associated with someone else, but Disney's successfully held on to it ever since; the newer toy of the Transformer from a few years ago was renamed Blackwing (despite his wings being purple).
Darkwing Duck let's get dangerous,man 90s had alot of awesome cartoons,glad grew up in the 90s.
the late sequel comic was pretty good too, they all retire and work together in an office. pretty on-brand.
Dead-Eye Duck... *Bucky 'O Hare has entered the chat*
Like all the Disney Afternoon cartoons, the theme song SLAPS! DEFINITELY one of my top favs!
One of the best themes in the game
It beats all the others. Maybe TaleSpin comes close, but Darkwing Duck's theme was *THE BEST*, especially when it aired Saturday mornings on ABC with the extended version.
Yes indeed
It sits at the very top of my Nostalgia music playlist, even above TMNT, Doug, Ducktales and X-Men.
Darkwing Duck and Gargoyles were Disney's best! Talespin would be third place I guess
My favorite episodes were the one where Gizmo Duck comes to the city, Darkwing in the Negaverse, and Justice Ducks.
My fav was "Negaduck" when DD splits into his good/bad sides by Megavolt. 😹
“But we’re not ducks”
“I used to be”
Negaduck was my favorite char, I was always pumped when he showed up. Fave eps would be hard, but the one with the alien-invader hats stands out as being particularly insane. My mom mainly remembers the show for the line about DW having "an ego the size of a small planet" - we still use that one LOL
Twin Beaks was great, but I always got a little shiver from The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain, I think it was called? The one where Quackerjack's doll gets possessed by Paddywhack. His voice and laugh were awesome but creepy!
"Will you plaaaay with me?" XD
Darkwing Duck was super-hyped before it came out. Ducktales-Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers-Talespin-Darkwing Duck was the best cartoon lineup
Duck Bears was my favorite.
I found this show oddly captivating as a bored graduate student. Turned out the woman I married was also a fan.
I absolutely loved the show, and while disappoint Gummi Bears had been taken off, Darkwing won me over in one episode.
I remember going to Disney World back in 2001, and had to go to the Biz Center at the El Dorado resort. While I waited for something to get printed out, I saw a office contest sign behind the desk asking “who said, I am the terror that flaps in the night?” Out loud I chuckled, then said “Darkwing Duck”.
The guy helping me hurried back over and asked, “what did you say?” and I repeated it. He actually said it’d been up for months and no one had guessed it. I was shocked, and he proceeded to ask more questions. Got almost all of them but missed one.
The younguns just don't know any of those old [great] cartoons, despite all the supposed nostalgia for 80s/90s era stuff. Which is nuts, because even growing up back then, my mom would talk about cartoons from the 50s/60s she used to watch.
I still quote a line from when he first meets Negaduck (his evil mirror universe twin): "Hey, gimme back my face! You're getting it ugly!"
I still believe the "Put out the Darkwing" scene was the inspiration for the "Puny God" scene in the first MCU Avengers movies.
The greatest Disney afternoon show. I absolutely loved DW. The nintendo game wasn't bad either
Nah
Both Darkwing Duck and Ducktales NES games were very clearly made using the Mega Man engine, but that's definitely to their benefit as both games are very good, especially for licensed games.
Capcom released "The Disney Afternoon Collection" on Steam which is all of their licensed NES games - DW, Ducktales 1 and 2, Chip n Dale 1 and 2 and TaleSpin - in one convenient package. They even have an 8-bit rendition of the Disney Afternoon theme for the game select menu, which itself is a faithful recreation of the intro to the Disney Afternoon programming block.
As of the time I'm typing this, the Steam collection is on sale for $4.99...
@@Dargonhuman It`s also on PS4 and XBox One as well
"engine" on a NES
you sweet summer child
That would be a short list of values, counted in bits, and carved by hand onto the onyx slab working the duty of an eeprom chip.
It's like saying two postage stamps run on the same engine.
Capcom did most of the Disney licensed games back then. Most of em were pretty good.
I met Jim Cummings, the voice of Darkwing Duck. He is a great guy and he mentioned that he improvised all of Darkwing's catchphrases whenever Darkwing appeared.
Uh, he's an anti-vaxxer and abuser, and pretty much the opposite of a nice guy by any metric.
Dude. Favorite cartoon, period. Really helped me get through childhood in the way no other show did. The touching story of Drake Mallard's fandom in the Ducktales reboot felt like he was talking about me.
"The Multiverse of Quackness"
Will you be trademarking that phrase?
I was the right age for that Disney Television Animation Division era. I watched from The Wuzzles, Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, to Goof Troop and they were all great to grow up with!
Darkwing Duck was the best of those shows in the 90s. Anyone who disagrees can fight me🤣
LOL, no.
I mean, I agree with you.
But also I will fight you.
Because it's fun....
Umm no, talrspin and ducktales was way better then darkwing duck, but darkwing was was way better then gummibears, even though today gummibears make more since, and aged way better then darkwing duck
It's a 3 way fight between Darkwing, Gargoyles and Tale Spin, for writing quality alone. Either friendship wins, or the world will be destroyed.
Yes, I'm a 40 year old who's attention was captured immediately after seeing the name Darkwing Duck. Fantastic cartoon series that even now make laugh when I sneak a few episodes late at night. I loved after school cartoons. Good times.
I'm a woman in her mid 30's and this show's theme song still occasionally comes to mind and I'm reminded how much it absolutely SLAPS! "When there's trouble you call DW!"
Jim Starling doesn't die in the Ducktales 2017 reboot. He survived, but became Negaduck.
My personal favorite Disney Afternoon show. Was pretty bummed that nothing came of the Negaduck tease in the DuckTales reboot, but excited that DW is getting yet another shot at a comic resurgence. (Hopefully it'll last a little longer than the Joe Books run.)
That episode is basically a back door pilot for the Disney+ Darkwing Duck that’s currently in development. So we’ll probably see Jim Starling/Negaduck there.
I have a strong memory of, back in 1992, a classroom activity where we were sharing our favourite shows, and the whole class laughed at me for saying mine was Darkwing Duck. At the time, I was pretty humiliated, and feeling like there was something wrong with me for my preference, but looking back, as a jaded 40-year-old, all I can think is what a bunch of pretentious 11-year-olds they were, as if their tastes were so much more sophisticated. Hmph...
11:15 Yeah, I remember being confused at the time about the fact that Negaduck had at least three different origin stories. Is he from an alternate dimension, or is he the "galvanized" evil half of Darkwing? Who knows? Also, it's probably worth pointing out that the show had a regular habit of killing off its villains. It had no problem tossing Bushroot into a wood-chipper or tossing Negaduck out of reality itself, only for them to return in future episodes as if nothing happened.
Yup, there was this idea, at that age, that we were too old for cartoons. I was still watching them and also received ridicule, but by high school everyone grew out of that misconception.
@@jaustill237 Absolutely! It's one of those ironic truths that people who are younger want to be older and people who are older want to be younger.
I was in elementary school and got made fun of for liking DWD. SMH
They're probably all still looking at you condescendingly as they pump your gas now... ;)
Well, there were two different villains called Negaduck with the origins you mentioned. Yeah, it was weird and confusing that they had the same name, but at least one of them was just a one-shot antagonist.
Anyway, I don't know how Negaduck got back that one time, but that and the time Quackerjack was swallowed by a digital alligator are really the only times that happened among returning villains. Bushroot was shown to have survived the wood chipper.
Let's get DANGEROUS!
To this day, riding a motorcycle down the cable of a suspension bridge is still the coolest swing-into-action set-up I've ever come across! I'm amazed that I can't think of any other hero who's secret lair is a bridge-tower....
Loved the show as a kid, but I'm not looking forward to any reboot. Reboots don't have a good track record in recent times....
The 2017 Ducktales reboot showed that Darkwing can be done justice today. Hopefully they green light the project
The Gargoyles used a clock tower. That's pretty close.
Omg the Darkwing Duck rap! I remember watching that everytime on the VHS tapes. Just listening to it just unearthed old childhood memories
If there’s something your gonna take, take my advice play it safe
And what year did the 2nd TMNT movie come out? All I could think of with that commercial was "Go ninja! Go ninja! Go!"
"I am the tube of Cadmium Yellow that is impossible to open."
That was one of my favorites.
Also can we just all agree that Taurus Bullba, for a cartoon cow that is also a slovic gangster is god damn brilliant! I still remember the first time i found turas bulba on a bookshelf in highschool and got the joke 10 yrs late
I'm getting it 30 years late.
Darkwing Duck was my favorite Disney afternoon cartoon, and as softer cartoons go he was one of the better super heroes of the 90s imo. Similar to Batman in that he fights super villains, but he's really a normal dude, and they would even get into the psychology of that, and it all made it a really cool cartoon. They even kind of came to the same conclusions Batman did in a lot of ways. It was probably intentionally aping DC for all of that, but it did it well enough it feels like it's doing it's own thing regardless.
I even still remember the theme song by heart.
No, it was a complete rip off of the 1930’s The Spider: Master of Men, from the costume, to the fighting, to the way his feathers look like the hair of the Spider…. Only the rip offs of the Justice League are from DC.
@@VikingMale You've repeated that all over the comments, but aside from the images I find with a very long haired The Spider, it could be any of a dozen identical looking detective comic characters. The only thing that really seems to identify the Spider, so you don't mistake him for a Shadow, Spectre, Phantom, or Skull is that his cape is black and red, which is nothing like Darkwing Duck. Plus, Darkwing has the wide brim hat instead of the little thirties' fedora.
More like "The Shadow" with obvious nods to Batman: TAS, though they certainly could have pulled inspirations from any pulp detective stories, TV/radio serials, comic books, etc.; but, you do you, son...
I love Darkwing Duck! But I always thought it was set in DuckTales continuity....
As a kid, I got into the series and was captivated by its imagination and adventure. It prompted me to start exploring character development, world building and more, which in turn helped me discover my love for writing. I'm now a published author of 8 books and counting. My main series, Night Hawk, got its start way back with me as a child exploring my own adventurous worlds while watching Darkwing Duck. A few years ago, I received the amazing privilege of meeting Jim Cummings, and shared with him his role in the inspiration for my life's work. He autographed the very first printed copy of my first novel as Darkwing Duck. Live long, Darkwing! You'll always have a special place in my heart.
My favorite part of the Disney afternoon next to TailSpin, Goof Troop, Bonkers and of course DuckTales! "Let's...Get...Dangerous!"
1:51 Duck Bears? That was my favorite show.
Woo-ooin' here and there and everywhere
I met Jim Cummings. Such an awesome guy. We got to talking about his characters and which was my favorite. I told him Darkwing Duck and he went into a whole monolog. Adult me turned into 10 year old me and I started crying. It was an experience.
One of the absolute best parts of the always amazing Disney Afternoon! Thank you for covering this!
100%. Very ahead of its time. Sarcasm for kids. Loved it
Always amazing, except when they were showing Bonkers and Schnookums and Meat.
@@jessragan6714 I didn't mind Bonkers as much, but it was obvious that show was a turning point for Disney Afternoons that signaled the beginning of the end.
@@jessragan6714 The second season of "Bonkers" was decent, which was strangely written before the first season.
For entirely too long I held a grudge against this show cause it bumped off Gummi Bears but the sheer quality of the show won me over from that banging intro song to the comic book noir aspirations and the stellar voice cast. And of course it being what I thought was a DuckTales spin-off helped. The Chip & Dale cameo in that one meta episode was also great.
i respect the man's work, but i don't care what Stones says, it's a spinoff weather he likes continuity or not.
I'm glad there are no hard feelings. It wasn't personal. Gummi Bears was the oldest show in the rotation from Sat Am staple and Disney Channel proof of concept to pinch hitter in the starting roster for Disney Afternoon.
@@Loremastrful yeah mainly cause as a kid I thought it canceled Gummi Bears and we never finished the story about the return of the Great old Gummis that they kept hinting at near the end
@@MrYac-ie8ie Yeah it’s a weird hill to die on given shared characters and it’s not like either is especially weirder or cartoonish compared to the other. Both got super science and magic and supernatural oddities. Stegmutt Bubba duck buddy comedy!
On my broadcast TV, Gummi Bears and DuckTales were morning shows, so Dark Wing was never competition with them.
Batman + DuckTales = Darkwing
The DuckTales reboot version of Darkwing had a very nice setup to go straight into a DW reboot. Especially since it perfectly framed the intro for Nega Duck. Sad it never happened.
Yeah, I mean to have Jim Cummings hamming it up, raving about being THE REAL Darkwing, it'd be freaking GREAT!
Darkwing duck is one of the few properties I don't think really needs a reboot, I'd just like more and honestly... one of the things I hated with the reimagining is someone with Darkwing's ego wouldn't play someone else, he'd create his own, it never sat well with me.
@@jacklindsey8400 Eh, it made him a lot more palpable, DT17 Drake Mallard isn't the vainglory spotlight hog Jim Starling represents; It'd be far too easy for a Modern Darkwing Duck to be a false hero, swooping in to steal all the credit and fame...
But that's not what Darkwing Duck IS to DT17 Drake!
To DT17 Drake, Darkwing is about perseverance and standing up for what is right no matter how many times they knock you down.
Would he like a little recognition?
Sure, he is getting blown up on a daily basis after all!
But while he doesn't LIKE to take the hits, he'll readily take them every time, because that is what a true hero DOES.
I think a reboot is going to plus
I was OBSESSED with Darkwing Duck when I was younger, and I still adore him now! I...will watch the reboot or whatnot, and reserve my judgement for after a viewing. To put it into perspective, I went as Darkwing for Hallowe'en one year, with the mask I'd gotten from seeing the Disney Afternoon Disney On Ice. XD
Was then, and still am a *huge* DW fan - even played Negaduck in a one-day LARP in college (all Sat AM cartoon characters :)
@@mandisaw I still collect whatever items I can find out there, though he's mostly neglected up here in Canada.
Back then, I was too busy….. PLAYING “BAD DUDES”!!😂😂😂😂.”We have to save the President!!!”😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂
Seth Sucken doesn't leave me with hight hopes for a Darkwing return.
I'm 14, and I'm currently a new fan of Darkwing duck. After seeing him in the 2017 ducktales reboot, I decided to check out his show, and I instantly fell in love with the show it is amazing
Darkwing, along with Tale Spin, Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers, Ducktales, and Goof Troop was my fave Saturday cartoon lineup.
So Launchpad was doing double duty by being both Darkwing's sidekick and Scrooge McDuck's personal pilot...not to mention the secret agent gig.
Well played, Disney.
Loved this show when I was a kid
That James Bond Jr. sure looked a lot like Peter Venkman lol.
8:45 i miss that brief period in the 90s where it was cool to do the running man in neon clothes.
The catchphrase *"Lets Get Dangerous"* is so badass, in latinamerica is was watered down to *"Time To Get Into Action"*
If Darkwing Duck '91 is not a spin-off to DuckTales '87, then Darkwing Duck '91 is a prequel to DuckTales '87.
I've been a huge fan of this show since 1991!
Dan. Just know that when you're in a dark alley, and you feel like you're being followed, it's just the TurboGrafx 16 waiting to strike
I just got off work go home and pulled out my phone for the notification of this video lol I got waaaaay to excited and knew what it was from just a bit of the title
It was actually a pretty crazy time in the early 90s to have so many quality after school cartoons to watch. I watched this and Tale Spin regularly. The huge plus side of this was that the original run of this show ended just as Batman TAS was ramping up, cause it literally would have been impossible to decide. Of course I didn't fully appreciate the genius of this show until I was much older and realized all the amazing pulp properties it was referencing.
I loved Disney Afternoons as a kid, especially Darkwing Duck. Even though I’m generally not a fan of reboots I thought DuckTales 2017 was excellent, so I’m optimistic they’ll bring that same energy to DW. Though I do hope they give the new show its own continuity rather than use the backstory set up in DuckTales, there’s more than enough potential in the “single father by day, superhero by night” premise without adding “former actor trying to become a superhero” into the mix.
I don't think he'd be Gosalyn's father according to the 2017 show. She is considerably older, and Darkwing offers her a job as sidekick (something she always wanted but never got to do in the original show). While I too am partial to the original premise, having grown up with it, "former actor trying to be a superhero" has a lot of potential too.
The segment with the Dinosaur Mutant called Steggmutt singing " Put Out The Darkwing , Put Out The Darkwing " and the following joke " That was the second most painful event in my life ...[ What was the First ? ] ....Put out the Darkwing . PUT OUT THE DARKWING ..." is still one of my favorite things ever
I remember seeing that Darkwing Duck commercial all summer long when I was a kid. Every week it would countdown "Only 5 more weeks!" etc. It felt like it was during every single commercial break so you couldn't escape it if you watched a lot of TV as a kid.
I would very much love to see you guys cover Conan the Adventurer. One of the best cartoons I grew up with. Something I actually got my wife to sit through, and she loved it too, especially the epic finale.
🎶 Conan! The adventurer!! Conan Warrior without fear...
Conan, mighty max, and phantom 2040 (with beast wars, gargoyles, and batman the animated series, batting clean up) we were spoiled for mature thoughtful adventure cartoons in the 90s
@@brookswilliams5239 Dude, my brain instantly started playing that song when I read the above comment. Glad to see some one else had that trumpet blare going 😄
@@Getwright- Ey! Yeah Phantom 2040 and Mighty Max. Those two get forgotten a bit but were actually rather extraordinary in their writing.
@Nicholas walls yeah! I agree and the fact that the were syndicated with smaller budgets almost means they didn’t need to be as good as they were
I had the great honor of meeting Tad Stones at a convention a few years ago. He has always been a personal hero of mine ever since I was a kid and now I’m an animator myself. Such a nice guy and so easy to talk to. This was at an anime convention so needless to say, not many people were rushing to see Tad. I’m still confused as to why he was booked for an anime convention but he was the main reason I was there and I was able to take my time meeting with him so I had no complaints. Me and my buddy probably spent at least half an hour just hanging around and talking. I was able to snag an original Darkwing piece that he drew, colored, and signed. I have it framed and sitting on my desk at work to this day.
Was Jim Cummings there? It's hilarious when they're together.
I remember the network hyped it up all summer with a weekly count down. "Only 6 more weeks until Darkwing Duck!"
I remember that too! And they had a darkwing rap
I miss getting out of school... smoking a joint...and watching darkwing, tale spin, tiny toons...
Definitely one of the cartoons from the era that left the strongest impression on me, glad to see this covered! Looking forward to the James Bond Jr episode, as young me always found it strange that there was a cartoon about James Bond's nephew
Especially since, unless Bond's parents named all their sons James, he wouldn't be a junior....
@@crabbieappleton right?
I’ve got to hand it to Disney, back then, for their creativity with the entire Disney Afternoon lineup. Aside from The Real Ghostbusters, they are the only ones that are quality series.
Jim Cummings as Darkwing Duck was just amazing!
It's been a long day. Ten hours at work doing overtime. Then, driving my son to a class, my axel fails popping a tire (thankfully after I had already pulled into a gas station) and waiting hours to get towed and home. But, amazingly, here's a Toy Galaxy video waiting for me to decomress. This was my early twenties and ony a couple of years before I worked for an anime company (not to be named in NYC) and I loved this show. Thank you, Dan, for putting out this video today. I really needed it.
Despite being a big Duck Tales fan during it's original run I somehow missed Darkwing so now checking it out on Disney thanks to this video. As a suggested future video, The history of Doctor Who figures?
Darkwing Duck was an excellent show! Gentle superhero satire and parody, mixed with superhero action.
Darkwing has flaws. His ego and pride are huge. He has a monumental desire for media fame.
He can be accident prone. However, once he gets his vices under control, he's a very efficient and effective hero.
The love Drake Mallard has for Gosalyn is truly touching. She keeps him grounded, and reminds him what's important.
He reigns in her impulsive side, and keeps her focused on school.
"Even a fanny pack". You don't know how much that fanny pack affected my life (now you will).
When I was a wee nipper, I had my DW fanny pack, and had a bunch of pennies in it. When it came time to pay for probably an X-Men figure from Bradlee's, my mom just gave the cashier some money. I wanted to help pay, and put a penny on the counter. I threw a tantrum, and jumped up and down, spilling my pennies everywhere. In my tiny mind, it was hundreds, though in reality it was probably 15, tops.
Years later, my wife bought me a mint in bag replacement Darkwing Duck fanny pack, and I now use it to keep my change in when I have a table at comic shows. The circle is complete.
Oh I love Darkwing Duck, even today. It was the first thing I watched on Disney+, and I feel it still holds up very well. The writing was very good and all the characters were just wonderful.
I feel like this guy legitimately was a fan of Darkwing during its original run.
weren't we all?
AWWWW thanks guys. i do hope you'll cover 'james bond jr' one day :)
Man I had fond memories of those toys 👍
@@coreyjameshaims449 aaw thats great to know man. i'm looking to buy them again soon as a huge bond fan :)
Look out he's coming through, he's got a job to do! While he rescues the girls
As a kid I loved Darkwing duck. I had a batman utility belt, dart gun, batarang, cape, and mask, and Id run around the house yelling "suck gas evil doer!". My parents told me years later they thought I was saying "suck ass". lol
I don't care what disney might say it really is in the same universe as Duck Tales
Let's get dangerous
I loved this show so much growing up. I had a good chunk of the toys but couldn't get the gas gun or plane toy fast enough before it got taken off the shelves. I remember watching this in the morning and Duckman at night, lol
Duckman was a very different kind of Duck
Met James Silvani at a Phoenix, AZ convention! He drew my OC Darkwing style. I appreciate superheroes that have fun being the good guy.
Around the same time of Gummi Bears, Disney was throwing out anything that’ll stick such as: Fluppy Dogs- a short tv movie that was actually pilot to a show that never gained steam, and the forever forgotten “The Wuzzles”- which had toys and a cartoon series.
And yes, when Darkwing chanted in the Chip and Dale movie, “WE WANT DARKWING”, I was chanting with him 😅. Now that’s a show I’d watch NOW.
I think I would have liked The Wuzzles if I had been old enough to GET The Wuzzles. The show's announcer was the eternally droll Stan Freberg. I have a hard time believing the show wasn't at least a LITTLE smarter than Get Along Gang and The Care Bears.
Darkwing Duck getting rebooted!
Awesome!
Seth Rogen involved
Pass.
A shame that Disney is no longer making series as good as this
I was thrilled to see Darkwing Duck appear in the new Duck Tales Series, and the fact Jim Cummings returned to voice him (legendary voice actor by the way). There was an episode in the new Duck Tales that also referenced the Gummi Bears. Kit Cloudkicker from Tale Spin also made an appearance 😁❤️.
Use to watch this with my grandfather back in the day.
12:44 "You too can be the terror that gases in the night."
I'm actually surprised Darkwing never said that.
1:54 Duck Bears?
"Double-O Duck" was my favorite DuckTales ep: not only hilarious, but looked great, despite being the work of Wang Film of Taiwan. That was maybe my first memory of being impressed by TV animation that *didn't* come from Japan.
I watched the new ducktails show with my kids. Then I had to show them the old DW show. They both say “let’s get dangerous” whenever they get on their bikes.
This show was one of the best of its time.
"someone absolutely got fired"
A truer statement about Disney has never been spoken.
Also...I have Darkwing Duck socks with capes. I wear them proudly
I still love this series and I still have my official gas gun toy I watched it when it was on tv and bought the merchandise it was a great time for children’s animation
They did one of the best time travel episodes ever. It changed the way I looked at time travel.
Man you know you are old when you remember Darkwing Duck