Beaks in the Shell! is the nineteenth episode of Season 3 and the 66th episode overall of DuckTales 2017. It aired on February 22, 2021 on Disney XD.
Synopsis[]
Huey struggles to keep Fenton and Gandra’s top-secret experiment (and their relationship) hidden from the world. But, Mark Beaks is desperate for one last gizmo to steal.
Summary[]
Following another attempt to capture, but losing Gandra Dee, Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera and Huey Duck return home to figure out what their next course of action is right after retrieving an electronic disruptor that she stole. While in the underwater lab of the money bin, Fenton, avoiding talks with Gyro Gearloose and his mother, goes to his lab and enters a virtual landscape called the Gizmocloud which he shares with Gandra. It turns out that the two are secretly continuing their relationship unbeknownst to either McDuck Enterprises or F.O.W.L.. The GizmoCloud is a free space world for thinkers who want to share their ideas with others. However, the project is still in its early testing phases as there are glitches everywhere and the two are worried that their respective parties will be upset at them.
Meanwhile, Mark Beaks' popularity is tanking and he is running out of ideas, with a reporter calling his attempts at stealing Gizmoduck's armor "sad". He eventually resolves to steal from him again. Huey catches Fenton using the GizmoCloud and enters where he learns of Gandra's duplicitous nature. She admits that she was always self-conscious about her ideas as a child, and it forced her to experiment on herself. Upon meeting Fenton, she became more confident and has been wanting to change and plans to quit F.O.W.L. when they finally go public with the GizmoCloud. Huey decides to keep their secret "for science and love".
Huey is confronted by M'Ma Cabrera who, using her interrogation techniques, attempts to get Huey to talk; having deduced that Fenton has a girlfriend. Gyro comes and he too finds Huey's appearance suspicious. Huey tries to get Louie, disguised as him, to help him out, but M'Ma sees right through him; forcing him to lock them in the closet. Beaks breaks into Fenton's house and finds him using the GizmoCloud. After overhearing a frustrated Huey explain what it is, he uses the opportunity to hack in and traps Fenton and Gandra. Fenton has his body in the real world tap in Morse code to Huey who figures out what is happening and is told to finally tell everyone, much to his relief.
Huey, Gyro and M'Ma enter the GizmoCloud and free Fenton and Gandra. Together, they create their own gizmo suits to battle Beaks who proceeds to steal aspects of each of their suits. When they mock him for "having a big head", yet no original ideas, he literally becomes a big head; allowing them to take advantage of him and kick him out of the GizmoCloud. M'Ma ends up accepting Gandra, mostly because she can understand Fenton, while Gyro praises their virtual landscape and even fixes their glitches. Fenton and Gandra happily agree to continue their relationship. M'Ma allows Gandra to call her by the name mom, which Gizmoduck cries of joy.
Upon exiting, Gandra is confronted by Bradford Buzzard who knows of her plans to quit. He has her captured and sent to the "Lost Library" as punishment for trying to leave F.O.W.L..
Cast[]
- Danny Pudi as Huey Duck
- Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck
- Lin-Manuel Miranda as Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera
- Jameela Jamil as Gandra Dee
- Josh Brener as Mark Beaks
- Jim Rash as Gyro Gearloose
- Marc Evan Jackson as Bradford Buzzard
- Selenis Leyva as Officer Cabrera
- Eric Bauza as Reporter, Customer
- Kimberly D. Brooks as Young Female Pig, Customers
Trivia[]
- Main Cast Absences: Donald, Della, Scrooge, Dewey, Webby, Beakley and Launchpad.
- The title is a reference to the Japanese cyberpunk franchise Ghost in the Shell.
- This is the first episode to air in 2021 and the first episode to air after the announcement that the series was ending.
- This is the lowest viewed episode of the series at 0.10 million viewers.
- Louie impersonates Huey again since GlomTales!.
- In addition, Louie finds out Gizmoduck's identity, making him the third and last of the triplets to find out.
- A hoverboard from Back to the Future Part II makes a cameo during the episode.
- Mark Beaks' head and hand form in this episode resembles Andross from the Star Fox series.
- A clip of Beaks shaking his finger, giving a smug smile on the computer he hacked, and saying: "Ah, ah, ah! You didn’t say the magic word!" is a reference to Dennis Nedry's hacking bug in Jurassic Park.
- When Officer Cabrera upgrades in her own Gizmo suit, Beaks refers to her as a "robot cop" and sarcastically says he smells a franchise; referring to the RoboCop franchise. This may also be a nod to the fact that Gizmoduck was loosely inspired by RoboCop.
- The name of the episode is a nod to "Ghost in the Shell", a classic manga that spawned a popular media franchise.
