The Beagle Birthday Massacre! (also known as "The Beagle Birthday Breakout!") is the fourth episode of Season 1 and the fourth episode of DuckTales 2017. It first aired on September 30, 2017 on Disney XD.
Plot[]
After crashing Ma Beagle's birthday party, Webby and new mysterious friend Lena alongside with Huey, Dewey, and Louie must fight their way through the Beagle Boys in order to get back home.
Summary[]
At the docks of the Money Bin, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby prepare for their day-long boat trip. The boys are excited to begin the trip as they reminisce of all the times they got in trouble, especially the time since Louie got them lost, thus earning him the nickname, "Captain Lost." Webby is excited about beginning their first about trip together. As they set sail, however, it appears that the boat can only hold three passengers. Unwilling to disappoint her friends, Webby (dejectedly) volunteers to stay behind, despite the boys proclaiming she should come. Once they depart, Webby notices a message in a bottle containing a call for help. Noticing that a trail of more bottles proceed it, Webby takes the call to action to help the person in need.
After tracking down the bottles' source to an amphitheater, Webby encounters a teenage duck named Lena, who was writing the messages for fun. Lena takes interest in Webby's spunk, and the two get along well. Lena then suggests going to a party that she knows about, with Webby agreeing to tag along.
Later, the girls arrive at a junkyard. Lena asks Webby to help her get in, although Webby is confused as to why they would need to do that if Lena was already invited. Lena then reveals she wasn't invited. Nevertheless, she manages, and the ducks make their way through the junkyard. At the center, Webby discovers that the place is swarming with Beagle Boys gathering for Ma Beagle's birthday. Webby urges Lena to get out of this place; but they bump into Bouncer Beagle, who decides to give Webby to Ma Beagle as a birthday present. Lena sneaks up onto the podium where Ma Beagle is and pushes her birthday cake into the beagle's face. Angered by the prank, Ma Beagle orders the boys to capture them as the ducks run away.
Webby and Lena escape to the alleyways of Duckburg, Lena and Webby just barely escape, noting they almost died. Just then, the Beagle Boys spot them and drive a truck towards them; fortunately for them, the truck is too big for the alleyway they ran into and Webby finds a fire escape ladder, and the two ducks escape to the rooftops. They overhear a set of the Beagle Boys with a radio to Ma Beagle notifying where they are. To cover their tracks, the girls pretend to be a British offset of the Beagle Boys called the "Beagle Birds" and successfully commandeer the radio from them. Happy over their feat, the girls decide to celebrate their escape at a nearby playground. While conversing with Lena, Webby brings up her relationship with the triplets. Lena disparages this by mentioning how exclusive the boys are towards her; at that moment, Huey, Dewey, and Louie show up looking for Webby, wishing to apologize for disappearing for four hours and explained Louie got them lost again. Before the kids can discuss things further, a group of clown-esque Beagle Boys show up and corner the kids. Regrouping, Webby and the triplets try to devise a plan. However, Lena decides to leave the kids to escape the Beagles and urges Webby to come with her. Ultimately, Webby chooses to stay with the boys, thus a disappointed Lena takes her leave. Consequently, the kids incapacitate the Beagles with banana peels the triplets had from earlier.
Assuming Lena had abandoned them, Webby becomes morose over losing a friend. Regrouping at the docks, Huey consoles her and promises to never leave her behind. Then, Webby notices another message in a bottle, this one containing a letter from Lena revealing that she was captured by the Beagle Boys as revenge for ruining Ma Beagle’s birthday. Despite what happened before, Webby declares that Lena's still a friend in trouble, and she enlists the triplets to mount a rescue mission.
At the amphitheater, the Beagle Boys are holding Lena captive. Webby and the triplets sneak around by boat and try to untie Lena in time; however, they end up getting spotted by the Beagles and all the ducks are captured.
With Lena and Webby tied up next to each other, the Beagles celebrate the capture as Ma Beagle heads over. Lena chastises Webby for getting herself captured, although when Webby argues with her, the two then realize they can use the Beagles' ties against them. They ask the Beagles who gets to hand them over to Ma Beagle; as none of the Beagles are willing to share the victory, the Beagle Boys end up brawling each other, buying the kids time to escape. Soon after, Ma Beagle shows up and, noticing the Beagles came empty-handed, revokes celebration of the Beagle Boys' birthdays as punishment.
Back at McDuck manor, Lena bonds with Webby and the triplets as they bid farewell to Lena. Once the triplets depart, Lena returns to the amphitheater. There, she uses her talisman to summon her aunt, Magica De Spell, to report that she has gained access to the McDuck's.
Cast[]
- David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck (credit only)
- Danny Pudi as Huey Duck
- Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck
- Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck
- Kate Micucci as Webbigail Vanderquack
- Kimiko Glenn as Lena
- Margo Martindale as Ma Beagle
- Eric Bauza as Big Time Beagle, Bouncer Beagle, Burger Beagle, Bungle Beagle, Bottle Beagle, Botched Job Beagle, Benevolent Beagle, Bad Attitude Beagle, the Déjà Vu Beagles, the Meanies, the Longboard Taquito Beagles, the Friendlies
Trivia[]
- Main Cast Absences: Scrooge, Donald, Launchpad, and Mrs. Beakley
- In this episode, it is revealed that the Beagle Boys are a branch to the "Beagle Family". During Ma Beagle's birthday, it shows the rest of her children divided into several gangs with different themes.
- Lena appears in this episode for the first time.
- Magica De Spell appears for the first time, although in a minor non-speaking role.
- This is the first episode where Scrooge McDuck is absent, though David Tennant is credited.
- When fleeing from the Beagle Boys, Webby and Lena pass a billboard sign that says "Beaks".
References[]
- The episode is a parody of the 1979 film The Warriors.
- During the scuffle of the Beagle Boys Wilhelm scream can be heard.
Allusions[]
- Lena refers to Huey, Dewey and Louie as a "boy band". On an earlier television series, House of Mouse, they actually were in a boy band called the Quackstreet Boys/Splashing Pumpkins.
- The scene where the Beagle Boys chase Webby and Lena through the streets in a truck is reminiscent of a level from the video game Donald Duck Goin' Quackers, which had Beagle Boys doing the same thing with Donald Crash Bandicoot style.
- Webby and Lena are chased by the Beagle Boys in a huge truck with spikes. It also has a gear stick decorated with a chrome skull is reference to Mad Max: Fury Road.
Errors[]
- In the scene where Lena remarks that the triplets are exactly the same, Lena's purple eye-shadow had disappeared.
