Ask about ILLUMINATI – Ducktales S03E13 Yuppy Ducks

➡ The text is a conversation about the cartoon DuckTales, focusing on the characters Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and their adventures with Scrooge McDuck. The speakers discuss the differences between the original series and the reboot, noting that the newer version has more depth and individual character development. They also mention the popular DuckTales video games and the show’s catchy theme song. The conversation ends with a discussion about a specific episode where the characters want to start a milkshake business, but Scrooge gets a fictional disease called ‘loot lice’ from his money.
➡ In this episode of DuckTales, Huey, Dewey, and Louie take over Scrooge’s business while he’s in quarantine. They initially make a lot of money, but then lose it all. Realizing they’re too young to legally run a business, they convince the board to undo all their transactions, returning everyone’s money. The episode ends with everything resetting to how it was before they took over.
➡ The text discusses various characters and plot points from the DuckTales TV show, including Bubba Duck, a caveman duck brought back from the past, and the Beagle Boys, who flaunt their prisoner numbers. It also mentions the kids’ inventions that made money, such as trading cards and milkshakes, and their failed attempts at creating a car and educational TV. The text ends with a promotion for an Illuminati comic that reveals the history of the Bavarian Illuminati, including secret rituals and ciphers.
➡ This text is about someone asking for guidance and strength, facing negativity, and still persevering despite challenges. They express gratitude and welcome others to their journey, even though they may not have the same resources or opportunities.

Huey, Dewey and Louie are really just organ donors waiting for Scrooge to knead a kidney or something. So much fun. Fan and games at the Cotton Cabal beyond what’s Just in the Name at the Cartoon Cabal. See, just at what cost comes fame at the Cartoon Cabal. So much for the fun and games at the Cartoon Cabal. Hello, welcome to the Cartoon Cabal, where we go bouncing around through. Through plenty of different animated things, looking for the weird secrets that lie in the Money Pit. This is Matt here. Paranoid American over there. Got some gold in your mouth from swimming, drowning in gold, suffocating in gold coins.

Well, not just that, but today we’re finally. We’re finally going to ask about Illuminati. Yes. With the Thug Boys. That’s a part. I don’t quite get the Thug Boy part, but we can talk about that. It’s DuckTales. It’s Yuppie Ducks. When I put this on last night, the theme started, and I was like, oh, no, this is not going to be out of my head for, like, the next month, is it? I. I’m still hearing it right now. I mean, it’s probably one of the top 10 most addictive theme songs of all time. It’s. It’s incredibly addictive, and it’s not bad.

I’d rather have this stuck in my head than almost any, like, It’s a Small World or what’s the damn Tiki Hut song? Oh, now I’m gonna. Now I’m hearing that one, too. No, just think of DuckTales again. It’ll wipe it away. You gotta have those ear worms that you kind of like, you know, to wipe out the ones that you can’t stand. I’m here. I’m hearing it, man. You know what? It always put me in a good mood because I. I don’t know when the original airings are. I think I watched these. They originally aired, and it was usually, like, right after school got out.

So it was. It always was a reminder of, like, hell, yeah, let’s get the snacks. Let’s, like, school’s out. Let’s just hang out for a little bit. DuckTales is on. It was. There was never a bad time that DuckTales being on. Have you had any? We’re going to be talking about yuppie ducks from the original series today, of course. But did you watch the more recent one by chance? I saw a few of the episodes just because I was interested in the animation style and everything. I liked it. I mean, I didn’t I didn’t dislike it.

Okay. I was talking to Mark yesterday, who was here a few weeks ago for Evangelion, and he was just like waxing rhapsodic about. He’s like, it negates the original series completely. It’s so much better. And he now, he started like mentioning how different characters, how they’d kind of changed or whatever. I’m like, okay, I don’t remember all these characters. So you were. You had more skin in the game on the original. You know, I could tell that. But that did. You know, if people want to suggest a bit of the newer series, it sounds like that one is quite solid.

I. I think that this is one of those properties. And again, maybe it’s just Disney thing, but that they’ve done like, well maintained brand property. Not just that, but the video game was a classic. The DuckTales video games. They remade the video games and even those did really well. So they’ve kind of treated DuckTales and Scrooge McDuck with kid gloves in, in the right way. Like, they’ve been very smart about the different decisions and how they’re going to introduce it. And I guess in the statement of the newer one being better than the old one or blowing out the water, negating it, like, yeah, but the difference is that truly 80s cartoons were meant for children.

They were produced directly for children that couldn’t buy things for themselves, but they were made by adults that wanted to at least get some kind of adult, like their own passions and thoughts and dreams if DuckTales was the vehicle that they had to work with and that’s what they would operate with. But still, at the end of the day, there were cartoons made for children, so they only got like a certain level of depth. You talk about the newer versions where it’s like the Turtles reboot or the. Or even this reboot, like DuckTales reboot, now it’s being made for kids, but also for adults.

You know what I mean? Like the, like, they’re. They’re allowed to make cartoons for adults now in the 80s, aside from heavy Metal and aside from maybe Fritz the Cat, it’s not like anyone was making cartoons for adults. I guess the Simpsons was maybe the one of the very first ones that was prime time. I remember when that they were like, oh, this is the first prime time cartoon since the Flintstones. So it’s actually kind of meant for the Jetsons prime time any. Anyway since that period of time. So it was like, oh, Simpsons, anyone can watch this.

And that was the thing when Pixar first came out it was like, oh, this is, you know, maybe the Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast was too Kitty. But these Pixar movies are for everybody. You can come watch these. He was mentioning Huey, Dewey and Louis have like separate personalities in the newer show. So watching this one, I really was trying to see if I could find any difference between Huey, Dewey and Louie. And they basically do function as one hive mind character. Yeah, I mean they don’t need to have different personality. There’s not enough time in one of these earlier episodes to give them all different personalities.

The, the fact, the fact that there’s three of them and they all sound the same and they’re all always together, bunched up. That’s the gag, right? The gag is not that they have individual personalities, is that they’re just replicas. There is a real fun Japanese subversion of this. And I, I have to ask my daughter, she has all the DVDs of this show, but it’s Oso Matsu Son, which is, it’s like a sex tuplets, like, you know, like, like twins, triplets, like stuplets. They’re, they’re all boys. And, and there was a series like 20 or 30 years ago, you know, kind of cute, sweet series like DuckTales or something.

They did one. They’ve been doing them more recently where they’ve grown up and now they’re all free taught which are people that don’t want to work or work crappy part time jobs. There’s like an episode where one of them finally gets motivating, gets up and is going to go look for a job and his five brothers like beat the crap out of them. So I won’t do it. You know, that’s, that’s the kind of stuff I like. I always thought too like maybe a darker concept here, but that Huey, Dewey and Louie are really just organ donors waiting for Scrooge to need a kidney or something.

Like that’s the reason why he keeps them around and that’s why he’s got three backups. Uncle Scrooge. Donald’s an uncle. I, I 8 year old or 10 year old Matt. I always copped a little bit of an attitude with ducktales. The song catches your ear so you want to watch it, you want to see the Money Pit. But I was always like, why is Donald not here? They’re not giving us like the main character, which doesn’t make sense for DuckTales. That’s 10, you know, I did play the video Game like an insane person. So that. That certainly got in my crawl, but I am definitely more Scrooge than Donald.

I would rather keep. If you had. If we were, you know, kind of kill one and. And marry the other. However the game goes. Like, I’m. I’m killing Donald. Absolutely. Well, Scrooge is obviously has a much smoother bro. You marry. Come on, don’t be stupid. You kill Donald, you marry Scro. And then what? Daisy? Okay, I was afraid you’re about to make Huey doing. And Louie the third one. There’s a three for one. Yeah. Or. Or this. What is. See, Mark told me the name of the. The maid or whatever at the. At Scrooge’s house already.

I’ve always already forgot. I want to say Ms. Beasley, but I think that’s wrong. Ms. Beasley. I don’t know. Yeah, let’s go with it. It’s been a while. Whatever. That sounds right, though. Yeah. Because he was like, in the newer one, she’s like, also like a spy. I’m like, okay, so I guess a little bit of plot. Here we have Huey, Dewey, and Louie wanting to start a milkshake business. I have a sore throat this week. I’ve been doing lots of milkshakes. So I. I think they should join the milkshake business. And Scrooge gets scabies from his money.

Is it? They call it loot lice. He gets loot lice. Okay. That’s better than money scabies. Although I think that’s fun to say, too. Yeah. So the Huey doing Louie want to start a business. Scrooge says they’re too young to start a business. Then he immediately gets loot lice, which is basically fleas or ticks or something, from his money. And he has to be quarantined and separated from his money. And then they have to purify the money and get the ticks or the. The lice out of it or whatever. So he’s in quarantine. And while this is happening, Huey, Dewey and Louie run the entire operation.

They run, you know, duck corporations. And first they start making a lot of money, and then they start losing a lot of money. And then I don’t want to spoil it too much, but at the end of the Uppy Ducks, they’ve. They’ve wasted all the money. The business is completely going into the tank. And then they’re like, wait a minute. We’re not allowed to work. That’s illegal. We’re only 10. So they go back to the board and they’re like, hey, board, all that money that we made and we lost, you gotta undo it all. It’s all invalid because we’re just 10 year olds and otherwise this would be unethical.

And they’re like, oh, my God, undo everything. And they call everyone up and they return everything and everyone gets their money back. And then it resets back to before it started, just how, like, how the real business world works. I was about to say, if only we could do that. Scrooge was correct from the start, though. They were too young to start a business. Like, legally, he would have found a loophole, but he would have figured out a way to do it better than they did it. I did find it charming that at this point in time we could still confuse Ovaltine with quarantine, because ain’t nobody doing that anymore.

And was that an ad placement or was that supposed to just be a joke? I think Ovaltine was like, kind of. Especially at that point in time, maybe it’s fallen out. But that was just kind of like the old timey medicine go to at the time, I think. So I’m going to say that was not product placement, but we do get Haagen Ducks. Ducks as well, so who knows? And then there’s a couple interesting references in this one. So at the very beginning, after Scrooge starts itching, he pulls a moose head down off the wall and he starts trying to scratch his back with this moose head.

And the maid walks in and she literally says, you cut that poor moose’s head off just for a back scratcher. And it was one of the first times in a lot of these Disney animations where you’ve got, like, different animals. Well, here you’ve got Scrooge, an animal, in a room full of other decapitated animals. And usually it just doesn’t get brought up if there’s a head on the wall. It’s just like background decor. But she’s literally like, I can’t believe you decapitated that poor defenseless creature just so you could scratch your back on it. And I don’t.

I don’t know. It was a unique moment in specifically Disney animated time for someone to acknowledge a decapitated head in Duckburg. Are only the ducks sentient? No, we got the Beagles. So the, the dog things are too. So is Scrooge, you know, doing like the Most Dangerous Game thing, like on his Wyoming ranch or something? They’re all. They’re all, all humans. And also the doctor that he goes to see is a pig, right okay. So, yeah, I. I think Scrooge is, you know, doing some Cheney stuff over on his ranch. And the whole. The whole point when we see this, ask about Illuminati.

So if you’re not familiar with this, this is episode. Oh, hell, what was it? Episode, season three, episode 13. There you go. Remembered it because there was a. Another link to another episode that was wrong and weird. It was. Yeah. So I. I had to, like, Double Check episode 13. It aired on November 13, 1989. The episode’s called Yuppie Ducks because that’s, you know, if you were a yuppie that was like the 80s, you know, sort of Gordon Gecko, Wall street archetype. So, yeah, yuppies were more like middle class, though Gordon Gekko is, like, several stages above on the finance, perhaps.

Yeah, but I guess. I guess yuppies. Yuppies have enough money to order stuff from the Sharper Image catalog. I feel like that was kind of the standard. They were the neighbors in Christmas Vacation. Yeah, that’s what. I’ll say that. That was the perfect cinematic. So the, The. The premise, though, is that Scrooge has got these lice and he goes to a doctor, and because he’s so cheap, and he’s Scrooge McDuck, he goes to the free clinic. And when he goes to the free clinic, it’s just filled with poor people. When he goes and sees the doctor in the free clinic, the doctor thinks he’s crazy because Scrooge is like, I’m the richest duck in town.

And. And the doctor’s like, yeah, of course you are. That’s why you’re at the free clinic. Right. So now he’s questioning his sort of his mental capacity, but eventually quarantines and puts him in, like, a little bubble that he has to live in. Say, how. How do you. Do you think I became the richest stuck in town? You know, by using cheap free clinics and stuff like that. So. Right. Government subsidies. Yeah, it’s exactly what he’s doing. So. So when he goes and sees that doctor for the first time and he sits down to get checked out in the background, the little icing chart says, ask about Illuminati.

It just says that straight out. And then under it, it says, like, and the. The twag boys or something. And then there’s a. Two different scenes I think that we’ll see again, but it starts to slowly change. It no longer says the exact same thing in the final frames. And then you never see it again. That’s the entire mention that’s the entire meme of the ask about Illuminati. It just happens to be in the background of this doctor’s Office from this 1989 cartoon. I mean, that. That was. Had to be like the version of you from 20 years prior.

Just sticking that in there for funsies, I assume. Yeah, I assume so. Was asked about Illuminati. This is during, like, Reaga era. This is Iran Contra. We absolutely have a Skull and Bones member in the White House. I don’t know how popular the concept of Skull and Bones was, but it had been known very well, at least since the 70s. So anyone working on this, and I did try and track down any other modicum of background story on who did it, why Aftermath, who owns the background for these particular episodes on air, none of it really was forthcoming.

It was almost impossible to find any information. And even worse, because the credits for these series, the credits are usually given for the key animators and. And not necessarily the tweeners and absolutely not the background artists for every single background art. You might have background artists listed, but just because they were listed on this episode doesn’t actually mean that their artwork was on this episode. They were just background artists for the series. And then they kind of get credits throughout. And it’s not like someone’s sitting down and making sure, like, oh, wait, wait, Roger worked on this one, and we need to give, you know, Bill credit on this one.

That level of detail didn’t necessarily happen with every single one of these episodes. So long story short, to find out exactly who did this and why they did it is still completely unsolved mystery. Well, even now, it’s confusing. I mean, the. The way they do it has changed. Like, you watch a show like the modern Star Treks or Severance, and for some reason, there’s like, 30 executive producers. That’s because all these people have been doing some writing for the show, but don’t have a full script. Or it just seems to be a way of, like, spreading out the writers room, you know, okay, you’re all executive producers now.

That means you don’t get to say in anything, really, and just pay off. You know, like, you get. You get a few little extra bumps of royalties here and there. If you get your name on this particular credit title versus that one. I think that’s just. It’s a big money game. I was starter. I’ve talked to Rod Roddenberry, who has a credit on every single show as an executive producer, and he said, yeah, you know, I can give my advice but they don’t have to listen to me. As long as you get the credit, that’s all that really matters.

Oh, yeah, it’s nice to get the credit. And they want that too, because they get the name on. Right, so, so, and, and also, just the point. I didn’t go and watch it yet, but I did see a comment where someone was talking about this particular episode and said that in the reboot, the rebooted DuckTales says the word Illuminati by name at some point. So maybe we’ll have to figure out what episode that is and do a little dive on that one as well. There’s our end for the newer show. Sure. Okay. So you also mentioned, like all these different characters and you couldn’t remember what their names were and everything, man.

I mean, I think I’ve. I saw all these episodes, but 80s were a blur, right? Especially the early 90s were also a little bit of a blur. I didn’t remember Bubba Duck, the Encino man duck. And he’s just in this episode. As if you’re supposed to accept that they happen to have a caveman duck hanging out with Louie. And Louie. Yeah, I kind of wanted him to go away. And then just in the background, he doesn’t actually appear in this episode properly. But they what? RoboCop duck. I’m like, oh, yeah. I remember thinking Robo Cop was cool when I was 10 years old, you know.

Well, that was one of the sidekicks for Darkwing Duck. And Darkwing Duck was like another adjacent version of this. Even more so. Right. Like you got Donald Duck and then you get Scrooge and then you get DuckTales and you get Darkwing Duck and then you’ve got, you know, killer. Yeah, no, Count Duckula was not Disney. That was a comic book anyway. Was it? Maybe it was. I didn’t have cable, so I didn’t have the Disney Channel, so I couldn’t watch Darkwing Duck. So maybe I was reading Count Duckula because I couldn’t watch Darkwing Duck. Count Duckula, I think, came on Nickelodeon.

Oh, well, also no cable, so I was reading the comic book. Well, so if, in case you’re wondering, who the heck is this Encino Man? Bubba Duck, this was just part of a five part series in the DuckTales TV show. And the series was called Time is Money. And it was basically, you can guess, they went back into time with like a time machine and they bring a caveman back with them. So that’s where Bubba Doug comes from. Okay. Because I was like, well, who is Bubba Duck? Is he, you know, Cousin Oliver? Is he going to go away? Which he didn’t really.

So, yeah, I. Watching this in isolation. Yeah, that. That he does stick out like a sore thumb and is mildly annoying because Hugh and Dewey and Louie already have mildly annoying voices. So it doesn’t help. So here’s a question for you. How come the Beagle Boys wear their prisoner numbers out in public? Like, why do they just leave them on their shirts? They’re flaunting. You know, it’s like in Japan we got Yakuza and they got the, you know that, like the. The vest of dragon tattoos and stuff, right? And people see that and they assume you’re a gangster.

So that. That’s what the Beagle Boys are doing. Okay. I guess so. Yeah. They say that about baggy pants, too. That baggy pants got popular because if you went to prison, they would give you clothes that don’t fit you. So then when they get out of prison, they’d keep wearing clothes that didn’t fit them to show like, hey, I’ve been to prison. So maybe that’s what it is. Maybe this is a flaunt that, hey, we’re. Not only have we been to prison, but we’re currently on the run and we’re ready to be picked back up again.

We’ve already got our prisoner number on their hardcore. They unplug Scrooge McDuck’s hospital machine just to be vindictive, right? Like, what does he suffocate in there now? How’s that work? Does Scrooge have a nurse button in that bubble? Where are the Beagle Boys in relation to the Hamburglar? Well, I, you know, haven’t since we watched China Illinois before this. I was like, okay, I’m getting some baby cakes vibes off of some of these Beagle Brothers as well. Just, you know, the big, big dumb, violent thing. This is the much more kitty version, of course, but the.

The other part too, aside from the ask about Illuminati angle here and the yuppie ducks reference and potentially trying to kill someone by turning off their life support machine in the hospital. But there was the inventions that the kids made that they made money on originally was they were like, invest in trading cards and milkshakes and buy a baseball team. And all those things actually went really well. But then they started going crazy and they were like, all right, now we’re going to make a car. And they made AM FM earrings and they made educational tv.

The car that they showed, though, I mean, it was great. I have to say it, right? That was the Homer. That was. Oh, yeah. I said, are the ducks going to design the homer? Yeah. And I had to look this up. So this aired in 1989. And, yeah, the Homer episode was called oh, Brother Wore Art thou, which was 1991. It was two years after this. And. And the design of the car is very similar. It looks so, so similar to the Homer car. So, you know, whatever the meme of, like, the Simpsons did it, which is south park complaining about the Simpsons having done everything, Simpsons is like, DuckTales did it.

DuckTales did it. Let’s get 26 hours of cartoons a day. That’s something they promise. They’re not politicians, though. They can’t just promise 26 hours of cartoons a day. Well, this is them running for class president. Right? No homework and never frequent for everyone. When Scrooge gets out, he has so many murder tools. That’s kind of fun. I mean, as any. As any. Billionaire millionaire. What is Scrooge? Is he a millionaire billionaire? Doesn’t matter how many coins. Beyond billionaire for inflation. Yeah, I mean, that’s. And that’s gold, too. He. He invests all his money in gold, not in regular fiat.

Good for him. It is weird. Like, maybe just because I’ve seen his vault so much, I’m like, that doesn’t look weird. But then when they show the hospital, I’m like, that’s bizarre. That’s weird. Architecture at the hospital. And it’s weird seeing him with poor people. Like, they’re coughing and, like, getting all their poor germs on them and stuff. Yeah, well, he’s giving them his loot lice, so it’s. It’s going both ways, Right? I think they’re safe from it. They won’t have to worry about loot lice. Another notes, child labor laws save all ducks, which they bring up by name, which there’s not many children, probably, that that resonates with.

Never tell a corporate CEO the truth. Just put a bullet in their head. Okay, that’s probably good advice. Was that. I think Huey said that. Yeah. And. Oh, they called it. They called jumping into the money been suicide. Wouldn’t they? For both of them. I mean, you. You don’t just jump in without, like. I mean, he was looking forward. The camera just wasn’t looking at it, you know? So ducks are stupid. That’s. That’s the main Never, never Google group of male ducks assault female duck and lake. Just never do that. Okay. I can avoid that. Anything Else you want to say? I was just kind of rambling my last few notes at the bottom of this page here.

I mean, if you really want to ask about Illuminati, and if you really want to know more about it, you can go to illuminati comic.com and get yourself a little copy of the Illuminati comic. It breaks down the entire history of the Bavarian Illuminati. We don’t leave anything for, you know, for imagination. Everything is exposed. Secret rituals, secret handshakes, secret names, the entire operation, the secret ciphers that they use to talk to each other. All that’s in there. It even mentions Puff Daddy and Epstein. If you want to know why and how, you got to just get yourself a copy.

So paranoidamerican.com it should be right there on the top of the screen. Get yourself an Illuminati comic. I’ll just plug us on that line of thinking, you know, because if you’re digging the cartoon cabal, it might be in the same feed, depending on where you are. But the Occult Disney podcast starts every week with Ask About Illuminati. So, you know, it’s pretty much baked into our run through every theatrical animated Disney movie. We. We may be catching up with the the present this year. We’ll find out. So dig that if you’re not already and yeah. Or else Nepo D.

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