Sunday, August 1, 2021

Darkwing Duck | Vol. 04

 

The 4th volume of the 1991 series.


When Gosalyn gets into mischief, a spirit named Paddywhack (Phil Hartman) is unleashed from a jack-in-the-box and possesses Quackerjack's doll, Mr. Banana Brain. As he causes trouble alongside the demented toymaker, he grows, feeding from the negative emotions around himself.

Bushroot creates a formula, intending to create an intelligent plant friend, and Gosalyn ends up sampling it. Now Darkwing has a limited amount of time to find a cure before Gosalyn, half-slime, half-duck, melts into a pile of goo.

Forced to work on her boring history assignment, Gosalyn dozes off, and begins sleepwalking. She dreams herself with AstroDuck, a television show character, trying to find "The Fountain of Knowledge". While she is learning about famous explorers in her dreams, Megavolt uses her as bait to trap and kill Darkwing in the real world.

Aliens kidnap Launchpad to make him ruler of the universe.

Darkwing's TV producer (Mark L. Taylor) feels that Darkwing's TV show needs a new gimmick in the form of a spin-off character, which might really be Darkwing's replacement by Dr. Reginald Bushroot! This scheme is actually a scam by the TV producer to steal money from the show with an overinflated Expense account — since it's much cheaper to have a plant such as Bushroot as the main star than an actor such as Darkwing!

Gosalyn takes up archery, and bests Negaduck with it. Against Darkwing's wishes, she creates her alter-ego -- the Quiverwing Quack -- and causes a stir of publicity. She also becomes Negaduck's new target - so he can regain his position as Public Enemy #1.

Negaduck steals a diamond that can steal other people's powers. After he steals the powers from Bushroot, Megavolt, the Liquidator, and Quackerjack, they have to use their weaknesses to stop Mega-Negaduck.

It's Ammonia Pine's worst nightmare! FOWL has teamed her with her polar opposite, her filth-loving sister, Ample Grime (Ellen Gerstell). It WOULD be easy for Darkwing Duck to stop them. But Gosalyn, not having enough allowance to buy a video game, has discovered that she can cash in whatever she recycles… including the Thunderquack's engine, the Ratcatcher, a few gas guns, etc.

Darkwing Duck | Kung Fooled
Darkwing chases Moliarty to Kung Pow City where he meets up with his old martial arts master instructor, Goose Lee (Robert Ito).

Darkwing Duck is accused of stealing a tribe's jewel and the leader puts a curse on him. Now they have to get it back from Negaduck and stop him from using it. But where is the leader to get the curse off?

Morgana introduces Darkwing to her father (Jack Angel) and the rest of the McCawber family, who are upset to find out that she is dating a "Normal".

Helping with Gosalyn's homework, Darkwing shows her famous Mallards (Roddy McDowall, Terence McGovern and Neil Ross) from history. She sneaks back into time with Quackerjack's Time Top and brings them to the present. None of them seem to be as great as they were thought to be. When Megavolt steals Darkwing and Launchpad's nervous energy, the failures have a chance to prove they are heroes at heart.

Honker has become a galactic hero after foiling Flarg and his companions from ruling the galaxy. The body-stealing hats along with Talaya (Susan Tolsky) from outer space break free from captivity, bent once again to rule or destroy the universe – this time with a grudge against the young genius.

D.W. gets the D-2000 super-computer (Victoria Carroll)! While it seems to be perfect, Launchpad feels it's replacing him as sidekick, and Gosalyn is fed up with not getting away with anything, and introduces it to Launchpad's soap-operas. Soon, even Darkwing wants the machine gone when it falls in love with him. Darkwing finally tells the computer system it's getting unplugged when he gets to the tower, at which point it goes berserk and decides that if it can't have D.W. no one else will!

F.O.W.L. rebuilds Taurus Bulba into a death machine, hoping to create a new agent from him. Bulba refuses their offer and burns only with the desire to have revenge on Darkwing. To make matters worse, a recent accident has Darkwing in a wheelchair. Can he defeat a new and improved Terminator machine in his condition?

Darkwing's new weapon hits Gosalyn. Although she's perfectly fine, 3 new beings are created, all of which look like Gosalyn, but have powers based on different frequencies. D.W. enlists Megavolt help, but an untrusting Darkwing messes things up. Now the 3 Frequency Fiends are combined into 1 super-being, and it's up to the combined efforts of D.W., Launchpad, Goz, and Megavolt to stop them!

Darkwing is to appear as the guest of honor at a comic book convention, while Splatter Phoenix (Andrea Martin in this episode) terrorizes the town by "improving" boring art.

THE BANNED EPISODE!
Darkwing and Gosalyn go with Morgana to her old magic school, where she is to present her thesis paper. Gosalyn tries to find a shortcut to learning magic.

A news reporter (April Winchell) wants to film Darkwing Duck on his cases. But she thinks what Darkwing is doing is too boring. So she becomes a villain for DW to fight to boost her ratings. Will DW be canceled permanently?

Drake attends his high school reunion, but it turns out that Megavolt was also a member of Drake's class and is looking for revenge.

Gosalyn, working for her school newspaper, covers the three way battle between the Rubber Chicken (Corey Burton), Cement Head (Jesse Corti) and Darkwing Duck.

Morgana opens up a new restaurant, but Darkwing forgets to cancel the guests coming there: The Cute Little Lost Bunnies! Meanwhile, Negaduck plans to turn the C.L.L.B. evil.

SERIES FINALE! Darkwing is asked to investigate a mysterious museum; with Quackerjack's Time Top, Darkwing, arrives in the future prehistory, and find himself encased in amber.


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