"Quack Pack!"~Ducktales S3 Ep2FULL Reaction
Added 2025-07-31 14:00:04 +0000 UTCThis episode had me as confused as Huey, though it did have some great comedic moments!
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Loved this reaction! This episode is really funny for me because im a 92 baby so I remember several of the 80-90s shows that you referenced.
Pixiedanni15
2025-09-07 05:33:46 +0000 UTCLots of references here besides Goofy. "Quack Pack" was originally a show from 1996 with the triplets as teenagers, and a crazier, more "90's rad" style than Ducktales. Gene the Genie comes from the Ducktales movie, Treasure of the Lost Lamp. Him saying the last time he was outside the lamp was 1990 referencing the year the movie was released. Also, he's voiced by Jaleel White, who played Steve Urkel on Family Matters, the 90's sitcom who's style this episode borrowed heavily from.
WyvernKing99
2025-08-02 00:43:34 +0000 UTC0:15 bubbles 🫧🤨? Okay. Guessing it's for the Cold opening on YouTube😁 0:26, "I'm a child at heart" Aren't all of us😂😁 7:16, "ZERO OUTTA TEN STARS!! I'm done! I'm done! Thank you guys so much for watching! I'll see you in the next one! Peace!" 🤣🤣🤣. For a moment there I was legit worried that you were going to quit watching Ducktales👀!! 7:44, "Just Tell Me To F*cking K!ll Myself!" NO👀😱! Morgan, please don't k!ll yourself. I will be DEVIATED IF YOU DIE😭😭😭💔💔💔 23:55. 1990 wasn't that long ago dude. Only, 30 years, but that's not ancient! Ancient is the 1800s my guy!! 24:00, "I was born in '97 bro! Don't make me feel older than I already do. My hip popped earlier! Okay, I'm AWARE OF HOW OKD I AM!!" Morgan, you're 28. I'm w5. Please don't make us in our 20s feel old already! I don't wanna describe myself as old until I'm at least 60 years old!! 27:27, "AAAA, WHAT ARA THOSE THINGS? HORRIBLE FLESH FACED MONSTERS!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. I mean, he's not exactly wrong😂😂😂 30:00. Roxanne😍 31:37. The famous Goofy scream🤣🤣🤣🤣 Last edit: This was actually rather amusing😁. Looking forward to the Continued👀 reaction to this season😁. Anyways, I'll see ya later Morgan. Bye😁
Julie Moum
2025-08-01 12:24:52 +0000 UTCWhen do you think full house was on lol
Metis Rose
2025-08-01 12:19:13 +0000 UTCThis is one of my favorite episodes of the show and really fueled a delulu belief in my brain that Disney would do a reboot of Quack Pack in the DT17 artstyle with the same cast playing the triplets as teens. 😭 Wishful thinking, one could say.
mistmistly
2025-07-31 21:04:43 +0000 UTCAt 25:30 I think you missed the poster for the "gritty reboot" the genie held up: https://www.reddit.com/r/ducktales/comments/1l397xu/reboot_reboot_on_the_wall_whos_the_most/ Cool t-shirt btw.
temp89
2025-07-31 17:59:14 +0000 UTCMorgan please stop saying you are old, you are the same age as me 😭😭
Luke Teasdale
2025-07-31 15:37:30 +0000 UTCThis episode started out as an attempt to make a bottle episode actually work in animation. In live action TV, a bottle episode takes place "in a bottle-" that is, it only uses existing sets, props, and costumes, minimal if any effects shots, and the show's regular cast with no guest actors. It's a way to make an episode quickly and cheaply, saving time and money for working on more challenging episodes. It doesn't really work in animation, however, because in animation every new camera angle requires a new background and every shot is an effects shot. Many animated shows have tried to make bottle episodes, and they always find that anything that makes the writers' jobs easier makes the animators' jobs harder, and vice versa. For Ducktales, they didn't really have significant time or budget constraints to worry about, but they specifically wanted to take on the challenge of making a bottle episode actually work in animation. When they were discussing the idea, they realized they'd have to have just a handful of static backgrounds where the characters just stood around and talked in front of them, which they realized sounded an awful lot like a live-action sitcom. The other half of the equation was Quack Pack (1996). Quack Pack was basically supposed to be a spiritual successor to the original Ducktales, but adapted to the times and for a slightly older audience. It was a sitcom featuring the triplets as teenagers and it was... very 90s. To its credit, it was the first media to actually give the triplets distinct and consistent personalities rather than treating them as one character in three bodies. However, pretty much everything else about it is not remembered well. I can't even say it aged badly because it was unpopular to begin with and only ran for one season before being cancelled (the original Ducktales got four). But it offered a great source of inspiration for Ducktales 2017 to do a parody of 90s sitcoms. Ultimately, they didn't really succeed at making a bottle episode. They only needed a handful of backgrounds, but they all had to be new because they needed to look like they were the scale of a sitcom set rather than an actual mansion, every character needed new assets for their new outfits, they had multiple guest actors including a big-name guest star with Don Cheadle, and the ending fight sequence was every bit as complicated as a normal episode. However, they DID create one of the most unique and fascinating cartoon episodes out there. Honestly, they probably would have gone with just the Quack Pack into and completely left out the Ducktales intro to complete the immersion if not for the fact that a significant number of viewers would have thought they were watching the wrong show otherwise. The music in the scene transitions is sitcom-ified versions of Webby and the triplets' leitmotifs. Nothing says "cute girl stuff" like torturing POWs! "The wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead" is DEFINITELY getting incorporated into my vocabulary. You don't realize just how fully they committed to the bit until they go back to the normal style. Even the music changes- during the sitcom, the music is just guitar, drum, and synth stings for scene transitions and a couple key moments, like Donald's voice reveal and Goofy's entrance, but during the flashback, they're back to the usual fully orchestrated soundtrack playing the whole time. The genie is from Legend of the Lost Lamp, the original show's movie. He's been in the lamp since 1990 because that's when the movie came out. The original Ducktales was one of the more serialized cartoons of its time, but still quite a bit more episodic than Ducktales 2017. The reboot is a product of its time, and since the success of shows like Avatar, Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls, modern audiences expect a lot more plot and continuity out of cartoons than 80s audiences did. Quack Pack 1996 made extensive use of human characters, which was unusual for Disney Duck media and one of its more controversial elements. The studio audience being humans and being presented as eldritch horrors is derived from that. Normally I'd hate the cheesy, heavy-handed delivery of the episode's moral lesson, but it works perfectly for a parody of family sitcoms. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize the circling birdies over Goofy at the end were Max. I initially thought they were Mickey Mouse.
Production_Run
2025-07-31 15:34:20 +0000 UTCOne of the funniest ducktales episodes at last! It really is self aware but we all love that! Glad you made it Morgan! Also FIRST COMMENT and LIKE!
WreckitRalphFan001
2025-07-31 14:03:27 +0000 UTC
