Season 1, Episode 2: Treasure of the Golden Suns: Wronguay in Ronguay (Part 1)
Review by Christopher Rivera
Summary:
So, let’s get back to business. The episodes starts off with the Beagle Boys covered in chocolate and carried away by the police- so I take that as Beagle boys 0 and Scrooge 300? Scrooge reaches down into the chocolate to retrieve his wooden boat, which leaves an imprint of the map within the chocolate- not a smart move, Scrooge. The next scene is Flintheart Glomgold, the second richest duck, watching his T.V. and seeing the burglary going down and bragging about how he’s almost going to be richer than Scrooge; he then gets a call from El Capitan who asks him “how would you like to be the richest duck in the world?” Are ducks like the one percent of this show? Are there any rich dogs, or whatever the Beagle Boys are? Maybe I’ll never know, or find out. So let me proceed with the summary; Huey comes barging into the room with excitement, holding a book in his arms, with an announcement that the name on the boat is a code to the destination of the treasure. It is only a moments later that Flintheart Glomgold comes knocking at Scrooge’s door and offers to buy his ruined chocolate factory, you can see where this going, to which Scrooge agrees. Before Flintheart leaves he challenges Scrooge to a bet, whoever wins the most amount of money in the next two weeks will have to eat his hat, to which Scrooge agrees. This is where Scrooge sees his time dwindling away and rushes to his nephews and asks if they have found out where the gold is located; they are reluctant to tell Scrooge anything unless he takes them with him, and seeing that he has no choice, he agrees.
So the boys are off to South America on this very lousy airplane that is being flown by a robot, that looks like an old school vacuum, and it’s flying the wrong way, ha get it, but leave it to Scrooge to take control and fly the plane to Ronguay. They arrive at the little town as it seems everyone is evacuating because of the regions Mansopies rainstorm. Little do they know that Flintheart and El Capitan have arrived there already, one quick question, yo, you’re strolling the desert with a chocolate map, how is it not melted? Anyways, the boys are off looking through the desert looking for this ship with gold in it, and Flintheart really only cares to jeopardize Scrooge’s hunt to the point of almost killing him. Don’t worry though, the moment their chocolate map gets eaten by their donkey, they do all they can do save them.
Okay let’s get to the end of this. Scrooge and the boys find a little cave that they think is going to be holding the treasury, but unfortunately for them it’s not there. Huey comes up with an idea to set traps while they sleep, damn that Junior Woodchucks Guidebook turns you into a Junior Bear Grylls-sign me up. Any ways, as they are sleeping all cozy and all, El Capitan and Glomgold come sneaking in, which wakes up Scrooge and the gang. They start running around and happen to find the ship, but there’s a problem the ship is beat to hell. But old Uncle Scrooge comes up with a brilliant plan to have the boys fix it, not sure if it’s really a dick move or Scrooge is showing that he trusts his nephews with allowing them to handle a tough and stressful situation, but either way thanks to the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook they are able to get the boat back in shape. So they are off sailing away with their treasure through Ronguay, when a mutiny, well I wouldn’t call it a mutiny Scrooge has only been captain for less than five minutes and it’s just El Capitan and Glomgold overthrowing them. Okay, okay, so El Capitan and Glomgold kick Scrooge and the gang off the boat and now they are placed into a life boat. As they are in the water Glomgold flicks a gold coin to Scrooge, the ultimate screw you son I won this bet, well this pisses off El Capitan so much that he threatens Glomgold to go swim out and get his gold coin back. Seriously if I was Glomgold I would be like, “Bruh, you have way more gold coins, and treasure don’t trip, man.”But no, they both try to shoot each other with the cannon, only to shoot it up in the air which causes the cannon ball to fly up and back down sinking the boat, El Capitan you’re an idiot. In the end El Capitan is floating in the on a log as Glomgold is eating his hat and sailing away with Scrooge and the gang.
The Good:
What I liked about this episode was that it was funny; the little witty jokes made this episode a joy to watch. A quote I really liked came when Scrooge and the boys are sleeping and were awaken by their Junior Woodchuck’s Alarm and Scrooge screams “Robbers, thieves, politicians.”I have to admit that little joke flew over my head when I was younger. I also liked that this episode dealt with Scrooge’s fear of becoming irrelevant, and I guess less rich if you really think about it. This episode also dealt a lot with pushing through and not giving up, even when you think all lost with a little perseverance you’ll be able to find your way, well and family always helps.
The Bad:
Okay, now what I didn’t like. I have to go with El Capitan, there were parts where he just gets really annoying, especially during the end of it where he’s just screaming my treasure, my treasure. But before that happens was it really necessary to have him hanging out outside Scrooge’s mansion while Glomgold is visiting, and Scrooge, step your game up; was there no such thing as security cameras, you’re rich protect your assets, maybe if you had security cameras and proper alarms the Beagle Boys wouldn’t keep trying to rob you.
Final Score:
In all I guess I have to rate this episode an 8/10.
I really enjoyed it even if El Capitan was a bit annoying he didn’t take away too much from the story.
~Christopher Rivera, Team Nostalgia
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