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Revision as of 22:49, 15 December 2018
Last Christmas! is the sixth episode of the second season of DuckTales.
Plot
In a nod to “Mickey’s Christmas Carol,” Scrooge avoids the pressures of the holidays by traveling back in time with a trio of fun-loving ghosts to crash history’s greatest Christmas parties instead. Meanwhile, time-lost Dewey teams up with young Donald Duck to find his mom on Christmas.
Synopsis
It's Christmas Eve in McDuck Manor, and Donald, Huey, Louie, Webby, and Duckworth, are all getting into the spirit of the season. However, true to his name, Scrooge hates every second of "crass commercialism, empty sentiment, and all the trappings of the holiday". After destroying an animatronic Santa Claus and, to Webby's delight, declaring "Bah, humbug!", he heads to his room.
In the triplets' bedroom, Dewey is alone, wistfully staring at an old picture of his mother. Donald walks in and invites the boy to join in the family celebration, but Dewey maintains that he wants to be by himself. Once Dewey is alone again, he spots a mysterious green light and follows it to Scrooge's study, to find his great-uncle surrounded by three strange spirits. Scrooge initially pretends to fight the ghosts, but eventually admits to Dewey that the spirits are old acquaintances of his -- the Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Future. Scrooge and the Ghosts have an annual tradition of time-traveling to history's greatest Christmas parties every Christmas Eve, the one time Scrooge takes a break from all his other responsibilities, and his apparent hatred of Christmas is all an act to keep this to himself (except for his passionate dislike of Santa Claus; he does not explain why this is).
The Ghosts and Scrooge fly through time to the First Annual McDuck Enterprises Christmas Party. Scrooge is initially delighted, but he is quickly mistaken for his younger self by the other party-goers and is dragged into various business responsibilities, missing his chance to be part of the festivities. Scrooge explains his frustration to Christmas Past, who sends Scrooge and himself to Scrooge's first Christmas in Duckburg. While it's certainly quieter than the last trip, Scrooge quickly grows bored with no company but the spirit. At that, Scrooge has an epiphany: "The minor frustrations of your life pale in comparison to the excitement they bring: hearth, home, family. That's what Christmas is all about!" He thanks the spirit for this lesson and asks to return to the present, but to Scrooge's surprise, this angers Christmas Past. Every year, Past and his fellow spirits teach a different person "the true meaning of Christmas", only for the spirits to be forgotten from then on. Scrooge McDuck is the only one who welcomes them year after year, and expresses contempt that Scrooge now plans on leaving them too in exchange for his family. The Ghost plans to trap Scrooge with him in the past, but Scrooge tricks him into leaving his magical time-traveling umbrella. Scrooge takes the time-brella for himself and leaves the Spirit behind.
Concurrently with the flight of Scrooge and the Spirits, Dewey surreptitiously sneaks along in Christmas Future's cloak. He drops himself off twenty years in the past at another Christmas Eve in McDuck Manor. Dewey is thrilled to have the chance to spend Christmas with his mother, but when he enters, all he finds is a preteen Donald during his emo phase. Claiming to be "Bluey", a very distant cousin of the Ducks, he asks where Della is. When young Donald explains that Della is outside doing their usual tradition of hunting for Santa Claus, "Bluey" strong-arms him into helping him look for her. Dewey then heads for Della's tent, with young Donald not far behind. Seconds after arriving however, they find the tent deserted, and seeing the tree stained with jelly, not Della's blood. As the two know Della can't set the family-sized tent up alone, they spot duck footprints as well as those of a larger animal.
The two continue to trek through the woods with Donald wanting to be a loner not caring much about adventuring with Della. It was to seem Donald had rejected going a Christmas adventure with his sister, and they spot her scarf hanging from a tree. But then, a massive creature called a Wendigo appears yelling at the two. Donald tries to outrun the monster by hiding in a tree and falls off giving him away. After some running, Donald and Dewey are ensnared in a net and someone matching Della's description appears, but she is younger. Della is disappointed her prey was not Santa Claus, and Donald throws a temper tantrum, but Dewey almost recognizes her. Della tells the two she wants to capture Santa and present him as a trophy to Scrooge. Della also says the Wendigo is a poor soul who turns into a monster by obsession and desperation, while Donald calls out "Dumbella" which annoys his sister. Della insists Donald apologize and tries to make up some excuses as he hasn't seen her all night long. Dewey realizes Donald's younger incarnation wanted to keep himself in his room instead of spending Christmas with Della.
Cast
- David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck
- Danny Pudi as Huey Duck
- Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck
- Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck
- Kate Micucci as Webby Vanderquack
- Toks Olagundoye as Bentina Beakley
- Beck Bennett as Launchpad McQuack
- Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
Guest Cast
- David Kaye as Duckworth and Rhutt Betlah
- Jack McBrayer as Ghost of Christmas Past
- Bill Fagerbakke as Ghost of Christmas Present
- Russi Taylor as young Donald Duck
- Paget Brewster as Della Duck
- Marc Evan Jackson as Bradford Buzzard
- Eric Bauza as Grandpappy Beagle and Captain Farley Foghorn
Trivia
- The episode's title appears to reference the Wham song Last Christmas.
- This is the first time a Christmas Intro is used.
- Mrs. Beakley refers to a Christmas movie entitled "Christmas on Bear Mountain"; this is a reference to the very first comic book story in which Scrooge McDuck appeared.
- Scrooge references Jormungandr, the World Serpent or Midgard Serpent of Norse mythology.
- Young Donald refers to young Della as Dumbella.
- Young Donald has a poster of an egg underwater in his room, this might be a reference the Nirvana album "Nevermind".
- Scrooge meets a man at the Christmas Party in the past named Rhutt Betlah who is going on about square rocks found in the Andes. His name is a reference to the character Rhett Butler from Gone With The Wind. The story about the square rocks is a reference to a 1949 Donald Duck comic story written by Carl Barks entitled "Lost In the Andes". In that story Rhutt Betlah is said to have discovered a valley in the Andes in the 19th century where square chickens laid square eggs.
Mistakes
-Della Ducks bang is facing an oppisite direction then it did in [[1]]
