Top 10 Best Ducktales Episodes
DuckTales is a 1987 American animated television series centering on Scrooge McDuck and his three grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie on various globetrotting adventures in search of treasure and fortune.
Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold both get their hands on Aladdin's magic lamp. To decide who becomes the rightful owner of the lamp, the Genie Djinni decides to hold a race. Realizing that no matter who wins, he will be a servant again, Djinni sends both back in time to prevent either from winning.
The final clip in the opening comes from this episode.
Scrooge discovers that the recent series of earthquakes are caused by rolling creatures competing in a game of Roll and Crash. Scrooge has to put a stop to the games before his Money Bin gets destroyed.
One of the most iconic episodes.
It's a King Midas story in which Scrooge finds a statue that can turn anything into gold. It's emotional and heart-wrenching, especially when the nephews are turned into gold. As the series finale, it ends with a bang.
In the fifth part of the five-part pilot, Scrooge, the boys, Webby, and Mrs. Beakly finally arrive at the Valley of The Golden Suns and discover a whole temple filled with gold. Scrooge gets gold fever and opens all the doors, causing the whole temple to melt and rise, all while dealing with El Captain, who's also after the gold.
They nearly escape in Indiana Jones style. Though they fail to get the gold, Scrooge does get a gold-painted plane and sets off on another treasure hunt.
Gyro creates a super-powerful robot, Armstrong, who can do anything, even fly a plane. Launchpad challenges Armstrong to a race and loses. Scrooge is so impressed he gets Armstrong to work for him. Of course, Armstrong becomes too smart and takes over Scrooge's Money Bin, locking Scrooge and Gyro up. Launchpad has to come to the rescue and best the machine.
Always makes me hungry for sugar.
The series pilot. It might as well have been released to theaters because it's so epic and cinematic.
Love the William Shatner reference.
In the episode, Scrooge acts like a total jerk after raising the rent on one of the businesses and refusing to help the poor or give money to someone to fix their ship. He ends up getting a taste of his own medicine when an old family debt causes him to lose his fortune and house to Fritter O'Way, leaving Scrooge and his family out on the streets.
Scrooge suffers the wrath of the people he refused to help. Strangely enough, one person does end up helping him get his fortune back. Scrooge learns the valuable lesson of treating others the way he'd want to be treated.
Scrooge and the boys get sent back in time to ancient Greece while searching for a lost city. They help Homer sail back home and defeat the evil sorceress Circe from taking over his kingdom.
The Newcomers
Scrooge, the boys, and Webby travel to Scrooge's ancestral home of Scotland and get involved in a mystery involving Castle McDuck, druids, and a ghost dog.
I repeated this episode a lot of times.
"A sea monster ate my ice cream!" LOL.
It's just as captivating and emotional as the film it's based on.
Scrooge's origin story. Anyone who worked for the American Dream can relate to Scrooge as he struggles to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Scrooge gets sent to the future and finds it taken over by Magica De Spell after she steals his number one dime. His nephews have turned into greedy businessmen. Scrooge, with help from his future friends, has to get back in time and prevent the disastrous future from happening.
The Beagle Boys spring out of jail and steal Gyro's new invention that allows them to transport things from one location to another. They use it to steal all of Scrooge's money. Huey, Dewey, and Louie have to stop the Beagle Boys and return Scrooge's money. Of course, hijinks ensue.
Deserves to be higher. One of the best DuckTales episodes.