That Sinking Feeling

That Sinking Feeling

September 7, 1991 TV Episode Darkwing Duck

Studio
Walt Disney Television Animation.
Animation studio
Walt Disney Animation (Australia), Inc.
Distributor
Buena Vista Television

Synopsis

What could Moliarity want with an oil tanker, a radio station antenna and a baseball stadium? Nothing much, just block out the sun so his moles can take over the city. Can Darkwing manage to keep himself from becoming slug bait long enough to drive Moliarity back underground?

Characters

Launchpad McQuack, Honker Muddlefoot, Gosalyn Waddlemeyer-Mallard, Darkwing Duck, Professor Moliarty, Mole

Credits

Producing

Producer
Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove

Writing

Writer
Tad Stones

Voices

Voice
Christine Cavanaugh (Gosalyn Waddlemeyer-Mallard), Jim Cummings (Darkwing Duck, Professor Moliarty), Lorenzo Music (Mole)

Production notes

First aired on ABC Saturday Morning.

Some scenes from this episode can be seen in the opening titles of the show:
  1. Darkwing and Launchpad pop out of a manhole riding on the motorcycle and files towards the camera.
  2. Darkwing and Launchpad in the revolving chairs.
  3. Silhouette of Darkwing tip-toeing on the bridge.
  4. Darkwing, Gosalyn, Launchpad and Honker escape an explosion.
  5. Gosalyn running in and jumping on a sleeping Drake.
  6. Darkwing grabbing Gosalyn's beak.
  7. Darkwing saying "Let's Get Dangerous".
  8. Darkwing, Launchpad, Honker and Gosalyn on a bike.


Darkwing Duck, a spin-off from Disney's hugely successful DuckTales, took the noble premise of cartoon superheroes like Batman and Superman, then turned it on its head.

In the vast reaches of the fictional metropolis of St. Canard, where evil lurked and crime ran rampant, there was only one chance for the future. By day, this great, feathered hope was known as Drake Mallard, a mild-mannered working duck. But by night, when his services were needed most, he turned into his crime-fighting alter ego, Darkwing Duck.

Like Batman and Superman, Darkwing was destined to fight the forces of evil and restore order to civilization. But unlike Batman and Superman, the superhero thing didn't come naturally to Darkwing Duck. A rather ill-fated (and all around hapless) superhero, Darkwing was helped in his efforts by his adopted daughter Gosalyn, her friend Honker Muddlefoot, and personal pilot Launchpad McQuack. While Darkwing and Launchpad believed themselves to be the saviors of duckkind, they couldn't have done it alone. Like Penny and Brain in the Inspector Gagdet cartoons, the resourceful Gosalyn and the intelligent, perpetually congested Honker were usually the true heroes.

The oversized ego of Darkwing Duck was often humbled by his rival, Fenton Crackshell, better known as Gizmo Duck. Both were in competition to defeat such criminal masterminds as Megavolt (an electrically charged rat), Negaduck (who was like a Bizarro Darkwing), and Bushroot. Perhaps worst of the arch-villains was Steel Beak, leader of F.O.W.L. (the Fiendish Organization of World Larceny).

Over the course of its lengthy run, Darkwing Duck proved to be as popular as its parent program. The show debuted on The Disney Channel in April 1993, then moved to a much wider audience that fall when new episodes appeared both on ABC's Saturday morning lineup and in weekday syndication as part of the Disney Afternoon. Whatever the location, time, or station, you could rest assured that when Darkwing Duck was around, there would be no fowl play in ducktown.