duck blur

I have a cool roommate. Hi cool roommate! Last night our brain waves crossed in a beautiful display of 90's pop culture recollection.

Location: our sweltering kitchen.
Time: too late for dinner, but I was hungry.
Scene: heating up some Trader Joe's frozen gnocchi (damn good!).

Cool Roommate (henceforth "CR") and I shared in some gnocchi goodness. There was some leftover, but I couldn't finish it. I was putting it into a mini-tupperware (think baby food size) and CR was making fun of me because it literally made no sense to save such a little amount of food. He made a joke about saving "14 gnocchi." He continued to say that he wished he could count random things really quickly - like gnocchi or beans.

Here is where normal people would think: "Like Rain Man."

But at literally the same time, CR and I said "Like that guy ... that guy on Duck Tales."

That's right. Within a minute we recalled Fenton Crackshell. Scrooge's accountant. I correctly remembered that his mother had curlers and lived in a trailer. We mapped out Fenton's transformation into Gizmo Duck (Blabberin' Blatherskite!). Then we did a sad but heartwarming rendition of the Duck Tale's themesong (Woo-oo!). Good times.

Conclusions from our little time traveling adventure:

* Ducktales was definitely the best of the Disney Afternoon lineup
* What the heck was Tale Spin all about?
* We approve of Animaniacs (who were zany to the max!)
* DuckTales had some very interesting and educational story lines. Memorable episodes include the Golden Fleece and William Drakespeare.

My favorite DuckTales episode was the one about inflation (Ahem, yes I'm a total nerd. Hasn't that been established?). It had to do with a special coin that kept multiplying and the boys thought they had hit the jackpot. But then everything became really expensive and a pack of gum cost something like 10,000 coins. That little visualization sure came in handy during the Money Supply lecture in my MacroEconomic Theory class. You think I kid, but surely I do not.

Cool Roommate was kind enough to send me the link from WikiPedia about Fenton Crackshell. They also have a nice post about DuckTales. If you are so inclined, here is the Unofficial DuckTales webpage that has some fun stuff (but some pop-ups, so don't say I didn't warn you.) So have fun! Here are some pictures taken, ahem, unofficially from said sites for your amusement.