What Happened to Darkwing Duck (1991-92)?

[@JoBloOriginals]

Hey guys! This episode of GBNF was made from suggestions from fans who emailed us demanding this show be covered on this series. If you want to make suggestions for future episodes of GBNF then e-mail [e-mail] and maybe we’ll cover your show!

[@boburanus69]

they should have made a howard the duck marvel movie and tied in DarkWing Duck as a character to start a live action/animated crossover.

[@deadbeats4894]

Good unexpected video, oddly nostalgic. I still remember that song, and the cartoon vaguely. It always came on after what I was watching (tiny tunes I believe) Just like the song to Tale-Spin lol. I swear I remember another duck cartoon replacing DW Duck. *Idk if you have or not, but maybe an episode on The Tick?

[@toddfraser3353]

One of my favorite aspects of Darkwing Duck is that he was neither too competent (Like Batman) or too incompetent (Like Inspector Gadget). He was often outclassed by the bad guys and begrudgingly needed help from others, but he mostly knew how to do his thing, and for most issues he can do it alone.

[@CharlesH-t9r]

As a batman fan I knew he was inspired by the Shadow as as Darkwing duck

[@JamesB-mg9pk]

It's great that Darkwing Duck still gets attention it deserves. I'm in my forties and still enjoy the show. I collected the toys back in the day also. Long live Darkwing Duck.

[@MovyG25]

I actually said “let’s get dangerous” to Jim Cummings at a convention one time, He liked it. Cross one off the bucket list 🤪👍🏻✅

[@davidbergh4716]

I need better bucket list ideas. Respect!

[@ottomattix86]

One of my heros is Jim Cumming. Search his name and cichlid. You'll see why I was confused at first 😂😂

[@SeasideDetective2]

He visited my town once, but I didn't get a chance to see him. I did, however, go to a similar fan event at the same location and got to meet Felix Silla (Cousin Itt on "The Addams Family"), Doug Jones (THE SHAPE OF WATER) and Sid Haig (THE DEVIL'S REJECTS). I literally grew up with Jim Cummings. One of the very first TV shows I remember watching was "Dumbo's Circus" on the Disney Channel. Cummings voiced Lionel, the Brooklyn-accented carnival barker. I think that was his first major role for Disney.

[@joribremer5260]

Haha i,m from the Netherlands and we had the Dutch dub… and there was the phrase “Laten we lekker link gaan doen “ used that a lot when i was young

[@DroneStrike1776]

As an 80's baby, I can tell you that Darkwing Duck was my favorite.

[@tecumsehcristero]

Yes, mine too

[@1977TA]

As a fellow gen-X kid I loved Darkwing Duck however my favorite Disney Afternoon cartoon was TaleSpin.

[@josephgrace5955]

Darkwing has a better rogues gallery than some of the DC and Marvel heroes Loved your video

[@Arroyo2099]

thanks

[@2beJT]

i literally can't even think of how I would name my favorite cartoon from the 80s and 90s. Too many amazing ones.

[@commiehunter733]

Many greats. Transformers, Thundercats, dungeons and dragons, and many more😂

[@pavlosvrionides]

This was such a great show! I remember watching it and also reading the comic books that were running in parallel! Great times.

[@Deathstroke4200]

One of the main cartoons I looked forward to on Disney as a kid.

[@CharlesH-t9r]

Mine too such a great cartoon

[@marlonclark-pp9wg]

same

[@brandonpage7087]

Oh hellz yeah! I remember Darkwing Duck!! All of us '90s kids do! Loved everything about the series, especially the new jack swing style theme song! Also loved the NES game. Man that brings back memories! I'm proud to hear that they are trying to reboot it. That's a reboot i would actually support. That & an ALF reboot. Also, that kick ass theme song to Denver the Last Dinosaur, lived rent free, in my head, for decades, & i did love the series.

[@Lunak-89]

One of my most beloved shows back when i was a child

[@marlonclark-pp9wg]

same

[@RealWolfmanDan]

What a pleasant surprise, Darkwing Duck is one of my absolute favorite shows from my childhood

[@marlonclark-pp9wg]

same

[@timothylewis2527]

I remember the Disney afternoon commercials that would come on during DuckTales, Rescue Rangers, etc Darkwing was in the background even though we had no idea who he was. When we finally saw his show... It was worth it!

[@Redshirt434]

"Time and Punishment" is what broke Darkwing Duck in that future. But Gosalyn was that last vestige of his humanity.

[@pawlee77]

I'm 100% with you about the Denver the Last Dinosaur. Can't stand the show but that theme song is gold!

[@TheRighttoArmBears2022]

Darkwing Duck was an awesome series, I have them all recorded on VHS which are probably crap now. I would love if they did a reboot like Ducktales which was surprisingly well done.

[@thecunninlynguist]

An absolute classic of a show. I loved Darkwing! Theme song is a banger! Remember when TGIF premiered it on primetime FRIDAY?! Good times. I loved the Fearsome Five...my fave episode is when they get the gem and NegaDuck has all their powers. Games were great too (except maybe that TG16 one).

[@julius-stark]

This was one of my staple shows as a kid. I got a lot of the toys, but they were cheap and broke apart easily. I had to do much toy surgery on them with superglue.

[@amandarose4469]

You say Darkwing Duck went into syndication in Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union colapsed in the first year it came out and the Cold War was already over.

[@dmitrynova]

i used to watch it in Russia in the 90s. The translations were even better than the original! And not just for DW but for all the cartoons we've got - DT, CnD, GB, Tailspin, and so on. They would air it every sunday in the morning. Kids loved it! I surely did.

[@joey_dangerously]

I never expected a Darkwing Duck episode. One if my favorites as a kid. Thanks, Jesse.

[@Arroyo2099]

And David who spent weeks writing and editing the episode…:just saying

[@joey_dangerously]

@@Arroyo2099 I said what I said

[@jasongoldman3850]

For YEARS I wondered how the name Darkwing Duck originated. I'm glad my question was finally answered.

[@joe9739]

I wouldn't consider the early 99's "Height of the Cold War" lol

[@seanpatrickcain2]

Darkwing Duck: We want Darkwing! We want Darkwing!

[@michaelrusso906]

"The Masked Mallard" didn't influence anything. Tad has said he never even saw that episode.

[@Thespeedrap]

Dark wing Duck was like Disney take on Batman which was exactly cool for the time period.Even Michael Moore Robot Chicken take is so hilarious and scary at the same time.😄😵😢

[@nicolascangele5548]

i want more Darkwing Duck

[@NottyGurlStyle]

Darkwing Duck was my favorite cartoon to watch growing up. When Funko released the Darkwing pops I bought all of them. Cartoons back then was sooo good and it lives on forever in our hearts and memories especially when the theme song hits.. I will have to break down and watch newest Darkwing episodes you mentioned but the animation style I just can’t take. lol I will fight to look past it.

[@Trace153]

Man that show was my jam, I remember every episode you just brought up even though have not seen them since I was a child. I missed all those references to hero’s at the time. So thank you for pointing them out to me.

[@veronicado1016]

I'm an '80s kid and this video just restored my childhood. Thanks guys 😊❤

[@UstraMage]

I want Season 3 released on DVD!!

[@nicklundy9965]

This, Freakazoid, and the Tick are my holy trinity of comic book satire cartoons.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

I'm a little surprised you didn't also mention how the show kinda predicted the landmark 'No Man's Land' Batman-arc as well! And if I hadn't COMPLETELY lost faith in Disney, I'd say "this needs a movie NOW!!" =)

[@zeandpancho]

darkwing duck is one of my favorite shows EVER, found this show on disney+ during quarantine and ive loved it ever since :) too bad not many ppl my age know about this show though (im 16)

[@adampellett4917]

Disney was imaginative in making greatness of animation, television shows, a Disney Channel and more importantly, style like no other. Darkwing Duck is a prime example of my childhood. Love live DW.

[@marquanpowell6669]

One Of Favorite Cartoons Growing Up In The 90's Let's Get Dangerous

[@BigMob05]

❤ this as a Kid in the 90's

[@DougUnfunny]

Dark Warrior Duck episode must have inspired a writer on Superman Animated series. The episode Brave New Metropolis has Lois go to Alternate dimension and where she died and Superman joined Luthor and became an enforcer and was very stick like Dark Warrior.

[@ColeHalford]

“Let’s Get Dangerous!”

[@punawelewele]

I remember always watching this and TMNT at my babysitters house in 1990. But my favorite was Ghostbusters.

[@adamtucker669]

Christine Cavanaugh passing was a real gut punch. She was the first voice actress I ever knew of and I thought she and Cree Summer were the best.

[@kamdan2011]

Check out Haley Joel Osment’s screen test with Tom Hanks where he talks about Darkwing Duck to Hanks.

[@1984Phalanx]

I loved all these cartoons.

[@stolenlaptop]

My favorite episode is the one with the time traveling top and the judge dredd version of DW. I haven't forgotten it in decades. Edit you cover it... Oh well but yeah best episode.

[@rammart8762]

man i remember morning cartoons and disney afternoon at 3pm 😢

[@NeoTechni]

I too love the Gummy Bears and Denver the last dinosaur theme songs! And that time travel episode!

[@timmy841212]

Definitely still one of my favorite cartoons 😊

[@sammcfarlane2494]

I hope Darkwing Duck gets a reboot In the future. Maybe this year maybe the next.

[@sneakyskunk1]

He became Dark Warrior Duck after he thought Gosalyn was killed by someone in his rouge's gallery. Everyone knows that.

[@Arroyo2099]

In a Disney cartoon. That’s funny

[@Scripturechick.]

No, when he thought she "RAN AWAY!!."

[@sneakyskunk1]

@@Scripturechick. Huh....all this time I thought he thought she was killed by one of his rouge's gallery. Man, my version was waaaay darker.

[@Scripturechick.]

@@sneakyskunk1 darker yes.

[@sneakyskunk1]

@@Scripturechick. He did point a rocket gun at Gosalyn after she failed to agree with his new darker out look.

[@anti-liberal7167]

I loved loved loved Darkwing Duck when i was kid it was Chip N Dale Talespin then Darkwing Duck best 3 show lineup ever

[@DisillusionedMillennial]

Loved the show, I even wore a Darkwing Duck Halloween costume in the 3rd grade. won best costume!!!! I also had every DwD toy ever made. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DaellusKnights]

The nostalgia is strong in this one. 😻 I was 15 when DW first aired, and even as a teenager I couldn't wait to see new episodes. Right beside the Gummi Bears (and others) it's one of my favorites cartoons of all evers! I'm 47 now, and sitting here watching this I find I have to wipe my eyes (in a GOOD way) just from the sheer amount of emotion attached to those memories. I'm a fairly new addition to your channel but I can't express how much I LOVES this "not forgotten" series you do. It truly means a lot. Thank you 😻 (Also, you mentioned Sliders! In my Top 5! Going watch that next!) Did you ever (or would you) do Misfits of Science???

[@DaellusKnights]

Oops! I didn't see the email notice in the pinned comment until after I had posted! 🙀 Writing an email RIGHT NOW! 😅

[@julzlbc]

still love Darkwing, and now so does my three year old. Let's get dangerous.

[@wayhollobj36]

Awesome video Definitely gonna revisit some of the episodes How bout do a Face off between DWD and Duck Dodgers Lol

[@stingrey1571]

Nega duck and the liquidator were my favorite villains.

[@royjones8312]

It sucks that the description of everything that Disney wasn’t is now the description of everything it is.

[@Quickstrike1981]

cartoons from the 80s & 90s kicked ass, how i miss those days

[@notme3686]

People don't know otatop is potato backwards. Darkwing duck fans do.

[@CarolinaMouse]

Darkwing Duck was my favorite show as a kid too! I loved watching it and a few years ago I met Jim Cummings at a con and after thanking him for essentially helping to voice my childhood I told him that I loved Darkwing Duck and still did (I mentioned a few other roles of his I loved too but Darkwing was first lol) and he said...in Darkwing's voice... "Why thank you, Gosalyn" I was beaming and just felt like you could have knocked me over with a feather in that moment.

[@hunterbates9539]

Fav villain of all time is hands down Don Carnage! “We will be shooting you and looting you in precisely 10 minutes…felicitations”

[@jolfer1334]

Wow that guy has one hell of a voice acting career

[@MichaelAlderton]

Had a poster of dark wing duck as a kid always enjoyed it a very huge part of my childhood great 👍 review

[@tdsollog]

Ducktales and Darkwing Duck were must see TV!

[@raviamodernepic]

My friend had a bunch of the DD toys and Freakazoid merch, vivid memory

[@ethanaleman]

" When your in trouble you call DW....DARK WING DUCK!!!"

[@diandrefuller1294]

I love Negaduck and evil variants of superheroes in general.

[@miguellee3]

My man Jesse talking about one of my favorite comic books I owned as I kid - best send off for 2023!

[@Arroyo2099]

He didn’t write it

[@yousefslimani99]

You should probably make a video about what happened to tiny toons, I was also wondering about why the successful tiny toons from the 90s didn’t came back after all these years!

[@therealsimpshady1641]

Darkwing felt way more mature than Chip and Dale and Ducktales. Even though I was very young I appreciated it more.

[@FreihEitner]

We want Darkwing! We want Darkwing!

[@stevensuarez6564]

Darkwing: Say it with me.

[@sqribe]

those are the two best cartoons of the 80s and 90s, it's an objective fact. We can do a flow chart and graph if you need proof.

[@bimmyfrizzo3988]

I remember when my school had coloring pictures of darkwing duck during free time. Still watch cartoons from my childhood. And darkwing duck is one of my favorites.

[@1977TA]

I think the inspiration for Darkwing Duck was Darkman, the vigilante character who first appeared in a 1990 live action film. Obviously Darkman drew inspiration from the Shadow in terms of costume design. However, Darkman would have been the most recent reference to draw from around the time Darkwing Duck was being developed. The Shadow was an obscure DC comics character who first appeared in the 1970s. The popularity of Darkman and Darkwing Duck is what led to the Shadow getting a live action movie in 1994.

[@Arroyo2099]

Wow you are completely wrong. The Shadow was a pulp character from the 1940s. Tad Stones also confirmed that the Shadow was the inspiration not to mention that the shadow and Zorro had an influence in Batman’s creation

[@fatenabu1]

I always thought he looked like Golden Age Sandman because Darkwing uses a gas gun from time to time like Dodds does and Darkwing's bill stick sout like Sandman's gas mask

[@Hey_zues420]

I remember having dark wing duck action figures. I don't remeber if they were from McDonald's happy meals or from a toy store

[@adnanojd]

This was one of my favorite TV shows as a kid also every evening on WB 11, duck tales also.

[@NoMorePodDes]

I had the tape with the Taurus bulba episode and watched it damn every day for years

[@skrish]

I've been singing the Denver the Last Dinosaur theme song for over 30 years. Don't remember a single character

[@AaronLevine-t3j]

What if Batman had a kid that never stayed at home? Then DC comics created Damian Wayne. And for years I always thought the BAS was an inspiration for DWD; but come to find out it was the other way around which is pretty interesting when you realize both were really popular and even still till this day. And to be fair; unless you were a die-hard comics fan when the show aired; not too many people were going to know who the Shadow is. In addition, that live action adaptation I only remembered watching in the local movie theatre after watching this KZbin video. So, it's also possible a lot of people just forgot the movie and the character even exists. Just like the Phantom.

[@nrrork]

The year the Soviet Union collapsed is the "height" of the Cold War now. Not Korea or Vietnam or Cuba or the Berlin airlift? Okie-dokey artichokey.

[@Mandrake42]

I really liked The Shadow movie. Okay, part of that love is my love for underdog movies, but I think its sad that its a bit of a forgotten one. Its a good watch and it has Tim Curry in it (as a villain of course) and his death scene makes me laugh every time. Its worth a watch if you have never seen it. If you are looking for other forgotten movies based on the proto superhero era, The Phantom movie is worth a watch too. Its not going to win any awards but I had a good time watching it with my dad who is a huge fan of the comics.

[@honeybaby51]

🎵"Whack, smack, what was that..."

[@davidvega462]

Five hundred dollars? Five…? Hundred…? Dollars…? No wonder writers go on strike 🙃

[@blacklotusgym]

Agree on Denver theme song. I hear it and it’s stuck in my head for days.

[@Tecnicos-qj8pb]

Love DD I have his 📼!

[@bamwrites42]

The Shadow lives through Audiobooks. They're great!

[@kacklina]

Wasn't Disney working on a reboot?...average people don't know the shadow...I would know, Im one of those, but now I am interested.

[@lennywright5655]

Finally someone pointed out Darkwing Duck is more The Shadow than Batman, the villains on the other hand, definitely mostly inspired by Batman‘s rogues gallery (and a little Spider-Man)

[@sammcfarlane2494]

Batman already has a kid that won’t stay home Robin or actually a couple cause there were a lot of Robins.

[@alecrichards8574]

I've always been a huge fan of Dee Dubbya! I used to always change my mind on the question of who is my favorite super hero. Until some years ago I realized Darkwing Duck is my favorite, and probably always will be. LET'S GET DANGEROUS

[@marinosgoat9208]

as GIJoe won the HeMan-Transformers-GoBots-M.A.S.K.-Voltron favorite toy war 4 me, if im being honest my top 2 cartoons of all time would be Binoc-6 at #1 & M.A.S.K at #2 with GIJoe 3rd

[@AceMcSch00ly]

🦆🔫 Let's Get Dangerous! 🔫🦆

[@sammcfarlane2494]

Actually alternate universe Negaduck Along with the Fearsome Five first appeared in Just Us Justice Ducks part one and then again in Just Us Justice Duck part 2

[@diandrefuller1294]

If it wasn’t supposed to be a spin-off show, then why was there so many concept art of D.W Gizmoduck and other Justice Ducks members?

[@Arroyo2099]

Ask the creator and showrunner of the show

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

It's fucking crazy how many times I randomly watch something.... and then see you guys make a video about that very thing.... at nearly the same time! Out of nowhere - I've been watching Ducktales, and playing both the Ducktales NES game.... and Darkwing Duck! Very strange indeed.

[@MrGabeanator]

I said when the ducktales reboot ended darkwing your next and i stand by it

[@chadmcfarland9660]

Part of my afternoon line up in the 90s along woth Goof Troop and Batman the animated series

[@Starwarsdude8221991]

The amount of songs currently stuck in my head would fill a Saturday morning

[@theguyinthere]

LOL how did he find out that the episode was available outside the U.S. ???

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Kath Soucie and Jim Cummings did Sonic SatAM (Princess Alicia Sally Acorn, Dr. Julian Ivo Robotnik)