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DuckTales - Day of the Only Child! (S1E16)
When Dewey invents a holiday that allows the triplets to be only children for a day, each realizes they need their brothers more than they thought.
| Runtime (min) | 25 |
|---|---|
| TMDB Rating | 5.0 (7 votes) |
| Air Date | 2018-06-30 |
| Genres | Family, Comedy, Animation |
| TV Rating | TV-Y |
Storyline
In this episode of DuckTales, Dewey creates a whimsical holiday called 'Day of the Only Child,' granting each triplet the chance to experience life without their brothers for a day. Initially, the brothers revel in their newfound freedom, indulging in solo adventures and enjoying the perks of being the center of attention.
As the day progresses, however, each brother begins to realize the value of their sibling bonds. Whether it’s Huey’s struggles with a challenging science project or Louie’s loneliness during a solo gaming session, they come to understand that family is more than just shared moments; it's about supporting one another through thick and thin.
What Parents Say
This episode cleverly explores the dynamics of sibling relationships. As Dewey's holiday unfolds, it highlights both the joys and challenges of being an only child. Parents might appreciate the way the triplets initially chase independence, only to discover the importance of teamwork and companionship.
It also prompts discussions about individuality versus togetherness. The episode encourages kids to reflect on their own relationships with siblings or friends, fostering a deeper appreciation for the unique bond they share with loved ones. The humorous antics paired with heartfelt moments make this a relatable watch for families.
What Children Can Learn
Throughout 'Day of the Only Child,' the triplets learn valuable lessons about the significance of their sibling relationships. Initially excited about the freedom of being alone, they quickly find that having brothers means sharing laughter, support, and experiences that enrich their lives.
By the end of the episode, the brothers realize that while individuality is essential, the strength of their bond is irreplaceable. This realization leads to a heartwarming conclusion that emphasizes the importance of family and unity, encouraging kids to cherish their relationships.
Five Most Asked Questions
Here are the top five questions parents might have about the 'Day of the Only Child!' episode of DuckTales.
| Question | Answer |
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| What is the main theme of this episode? | The main theme of 'Day of the Only Child!' revolves around the importance of sibling relationships. The triplets initially enjoy the freedom of being 'only children' but soon realize that their bonds with one another provide support and happiness, highlighting how family can enrich life. |
| How do the triplets spend their day as only children? | Each triplet engages in their own unique activities that reflect their personalities. Huey tackles a complex science project solo, Dewey enjoys being the center of attention, and Louie immerses himself in gaming. However, their individual experiences lead to feelings of loneliness, emphasizing the joy they derive from each other's company. |
| What lessons do the triplets learn by the end of the episode? | By the episode's conclusion, the triplets learn that while they can enjoy alone time, the support and companionship of their brothers are invaluable. They come to appreciate their sibling bond, understanding that togetherness enhances their adventures and makes life more fulfilling. |
| Are there any funny moments that stand out? | Yes, the episode is filled with humor, particularly in how the triplets initially revel in their freedom. Dewey's over-the-top celebrations and the chaos that ensues as each brother tries to navigate their solo day provide comedic relief, showcasing the show's signature blend of humor and heart. |
| Does this episode promote teamwork? | Absolutely! While the triplets begin their day separately, the episode ultimately emphasizes teamwork. Their experiences as only children lead them to realize that collaboration and support from each other are what truly make their adventures enjoyable, reinforcing the idea that working together enhances their lives. |
Cast
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Writing
- Robert Snow — Writer
Directing
- Dana Terrace — Director
- Tanner Johnson — Director
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Donald Duck reluctantly takes his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie to the home of their reclusive great-uncle Scrooge McDuck. Enthralled by their once legendary great-uncle and the wonder of McDuck Manor, the triplets and their newfound fierce friend Webby learn of long-kept family secrets and unleash totems from Scrooge's epic past, sending the family on an adventure of a lifetime to the Lost City of Atlantis. |
| 1 | 2 | The nephews take Webby to Funso's Fun Zone and have a dangerous run-in with the Beagle Boys. |
| 1 | 3 | Louie accidentally spends Scrooge's Number One Dime and turns to mad inventor Gyro Gearloose for help to get it back, while Dewey and Webby become entangled in a conspiracy. |
| 1 | 4 | After crashing Ma Beagle's birthday party, Webby and new mysterious friend Lena must fight their way through Beagle Boy turf to get back home. |
| 1 | 5 | Huey and Webby's disagreement over the existence of a mythic species leads the kids to explore an eerie abandoned subway tunnel, while Mrs. Beakley grows suspicious of Lena. |
| 1 | 6 | Donald competes with his cousin Gladstone Gander to impress Louie at a mysterious resort in Macaw, while Scrooge tries to lure the kids away from the resort’s endless distractions. |
| 1 | 7 | Huey competes with Dewey for a coveted internship with Duckburg's newest tech billionaire, Mark Beaks, while Scrooge and Glomgold team up to take this new competitor down. |
| 1 | 8 | In a lost pyramid, Louie interprets a pharaoh's prophecy to his advantage, forcing Scrooge and Launchpad to convince a group of living mummies to rescue him. |
| 1 | 9 | Scrooge and Huey are determined to be the first to set foot atop an impossible summit, but the snow-capped mountain holds a treacherous secret that tests both their commitment and survival. |
| 1 | 10 | Donald is dragged into a feud between Scrooge and Zeus, while Dewey and Webby search for an artifact that may provide the truth about Dewey’s mother. |
| 1 | 11 | Brilliant young scientist Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera is recruited by Launchpad who is feeling menaced by tech genius Mark Beaks’ newest invention. |
| 1 | 12 | Dewey’s natural golf abilities challenge Scrooge’s ego while, a seemingly innocent, mystical golf course leads the group into trouble. |
| 1 | 13 | When Scrooge unexpectedly disappears during his birthday party, Huey, Dewey and Louie find themselves hosting a mystery party where everyone is a suspect. |
| 1 | 14 | The kids and Launchpad work together to capture a mystical money shark while Scrooge attempts to better his public image with a televised interview. |
| 1 | 15 | Scrooge reteams with his conniving ex-partner and old flame, Goldie O’ Gilt, to find a long-lost golden lagoon, but Glomgold has other plans. |
| 1 | 16 | When Dewey invents a holiday that allows the triplets to be only children for a day, each realizes they need their brothers more than they thought. |
| 1 | 17 | Webby learns how Scrooge and Mrs. Beakley first met while she helps Scrooge rescue her granny from the clutches of rival spy Black Heron. |
| 1 | 18 | As Fenton figures out how to be a hero, Mark Beaks offers to hire Gizmoduck and help him defend all of Duckburg. |
| 1 | 19 | Lena’s loyalties are tested when Magica forces her to lead Webby on a raid to a facility full of Scrooge’s most dangerous artifacts to find his #1 Dime. |
| 1 | 20 | Feeling ignored, Dewey finds a new family: a band of singing and dancing pirates looking to rob Scrooge blind. |
| 1 | 21 | On a family trip to Scrooge’s ancestral castle, Dewey tries to hide the truth about his mom as his brothers search for family secrets. |
| 1 | 22 | Stuck on a precarious peak, the kids secretly search the plane for the final clue about Della’s mysterious disappearance. |
| 1 | 23 | Magica De Spell is close to exacting revenge on Scrooge, so the family races against time to plan a dangerous rescue mission to save Scrooge and the city. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | A game night is anything but relaxing as the family faces shrink rays, a barbaric civilization and an unhealthy level of competitiveness. |
| 2 | 2 | Huey and Dewey are led on an adventure by their distant Uncle Fethry, who takes them to the depths of Scrooge’s deep‐sea laboratory. |
| 2 | 3 | After his disappearance, Glomgold resurfaces as anything but his ever-scheming self, while Webby and Louie try to uncover the truth behind who is Duke Baloney. |
| 2 | 4 | The family visits a Brazilian town with a dark secret where Donald reunites with his old friends Jose Carioca & Panchito Pistoles, thus reuniting The Three Caballeros. |
| 2 | 5 | Louie recruits Storkules for his professional monster extermination business, while Storkules faces his greatest challenge: being Donald’s roommate. |
| 2 | 6 | Scrooge avoids the pressures of the holidays by traveling back in time with a trio of fun-loving ghosts to crash history's greatest Christmas parties; time-lost Dewey teams up with young Donald Duck to find his mother on Christmas. |
| 2 | 7 | Della struggles for survival against dangerous elements of the Moon, as she looks for a way to get back to her family on Earth. |
| 2 | 8 | As the boys track a missing artifact across Duckburg, Scrooge and Webby stall the warrior looking for it with a phony quest. |
| 2 | 9 | In the Old West, Scrooge and Goldie form a band of outlaws and stage a heist to save a small town from corrupt businessman John D. Rockerduck. |
| 2 | 10 | The kids must stop Scrooge’s unhealthy obsession with a few missing coins to keep him from becoming the next Glomgold. |
| 2 | 11 | As Della rebuilds her ship, Penumbra becomes convinced Della’s planning an attack. Meanwhile, Donald’s nap keeps getting interrupted by adventure. |
| 2 | 12 | Della Duck has faced every danger the moon has to offer to reunite with her family, but her greatest challenge is one she might not be able to fight her way out of. |
| 2 | 13 | Dewey tries to prove himself by exploring a frozen fortress in search of a money tree seed, but Glomgold has kidnapped Scrooge in order to find it first. |
| 2 | 14 | Stuck as a shadow, Lena tries to protect Webby from her suspicious new friend Violet during a supernatural Sleepover. |
| 2 | 15 | With Huey’s and Webby’s help, Fenton woos a punk-rock scientist, Gandra Dee, only to uncover her dangerous plans for Gizmoduck. |
| 2 | 16 | After he and Dewey meet Darkwing Duck's original actor Jim Starling and then find out that Scrooge intend to make a gritty movie about Darkwing Duck with a new actor, both Launchpad and Jim are against it. |
| 2 | 17 | Donald and Penumbra must break out of a Moon Prison and send a warning to Earth about a looming invasion. Meanwhile, Dewey and Webby uncover a sinister conspiracy targeting their family. |
| 2 | 18 | Louie teams with Goldie to scam their way through Doofus' dangerous party. Huey pushes himself out of his comfort zone in his favorite online game. |
| 2 | 19 | The kids are pulled into a world made of their wildest dreams. Unfortunately, Lena’s worst nightmare comes true: Magica De Spell is back and coming to reclaim what’s hers. |
| 2 | 20 | Webby leads the kids in a race against the Beagles to find a secret treasure while hiding a secret of her own. Della is forced to teach Launchpad how to actually fly a plane. |
| 2 | 21 | When Louie uses Gyro’s Time Tub to steal lost treasures from the past, a mysterious storm in the present sends all of space and time crashing down onto the mansion. |
| 2 | 22 | Glomgold forms his own family made of all of Scrooge’s greatest villains to defeat Scrooge’s family once and for all. |
| 2 | 23 | Louie, Scrooge and Owlson must escape from an unstoppable monster cursed to hunt down and destroy the richest duck in the world. |
| 2 | 24 | The moon invades Duckburg, forcing Scrooge to join forces with an unlikely ally in an effort to save the earth. Meanwhile, Della and the kids search the globe for reinforcements. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | Huey races against Violet in a challenge to be named Senior Junior Woodchuck, while Scrooge and the family search for a secret Woodchuck treasure. |
| 3 | 2 | The family is not quite themselves as they discover the planned family photoshoot might just be a part of a bigger “wish” gone wrong. |
| 3 | 3 | A spy video game turns dangerously real as Launchpad and Dewey must stop F.O.W.L. agent Steelbeak’s plan to destroy Duckburg. |
| 3 | 4 | The family joins a zen mermaid society to find a missing mystery, but Louie is convinced the seemingly innocent mermaids have a villainous agenda of their own. |
| 3 | 5 | Louie plans a break-in at a high-class party hosted by Duckburg’s most popular tastemaker, Emma Glamour, so the Three Caballeros can play as Donald tries to get past the party’s no-nonsense planner, Daisy Duck. |
| 3 | 6 | Gyro, Fenton and Huey take a malfunctioning B.O.Y.D. back to the lab where he was created in Japan, but as Huey bonds with the robot boy, a secret from Gyro’s past threatens to destroy the city and Gizmoduck. |
| 3 | 7 | Dewey must embrace his inner heel to beat beloved Viking wrestling champ Jormungandr in a battle royale for the fate of the Earth. |
| 3 | 8 | When a mysterious magic thief arrives in Duckburg, Lena must confront her past and team with her treacherous aunt, Magica. |
| 3 | 9 | Webby sets out to prove to a homesick Penumbra that Earth can be a lot of fun by riding Glomgold’s newest gift to Duckburg, the suspicious Flintferris Glomwheel. |
| 3 | 10 | The kids forego their usual trick-or-treat path and instead take on the most haunted house in Duckburg, while Launchpad confronts ghosts from the past. |
| 3 | 11 | Scrooge and Goldie O’Gilt are turned into teenagers as they race Rockerduck to the Fountain of Youth, while the boys’ sibling rivalry uncovers danger at a spring break hotel. |
| 3 | 12 | Darkwing gains an unlikely sidekick as he uncovers a dark conspiracy tied to the Missing Mysteries and one of Scrooge’s employees. |
| 3 | 13 | With F.O.W.L. at their heels, Scrooge tests out the Money Bin’s new security system on Louie and Della, while Beakley and Webby train the others for an enemy attack. |
| 3 | 14 | The kids pair off to find the missing pieces of a mystical sword hidden throughout a marketplace, unless F.O.W.L. gets to them first. |
| 3 | 15 | The kids try to prove themselves by auditioning to take Zeus' place amongst the Greek gods, while Storkules interferes with Donald and Daisy's date. |
| 3 | 16 | Scrooge is forced to babysit young Donald and Della as they go on their first adventure to find a powerful artifact, unaware that Bradford is taking on this mission personally. |
| 3 | 17 | A bitter feud between Scrooge and his sister, Matilda, spreads to the rest of the family as Phantom Blot attempts to steal a priceless artifact and destroy Castle McDuck once and for all. |
| 3 | 18 | Scrooge teams up with his archrival, Santa Claus, to save Christmas, while Webby discovers the true history behind their infamous feud. |
| 3 | 19 | Huey struggles to keep Fenton and Gandra’s top-secret experiment (and their relationship) hidden from the world. But, Mark Beaks is desperate for one last gizmo to steal. |
| 3 | 20 | Della, Dewey and Huey recruit a showboating pilot to take them to an island full of monsters in search of a missing mystery, unaware that Don Karnage is hot on their tails. |
| 3 | 21 | Scrooge's enemies reveal a secret history to prove that he is responsible for turning them evil, forcing Louie to defend his uncle against their prosecutor, Doofus Drake. |
| 3 | 22 | The future of adventuring hangs in the balance as the Duck family uncovers earth-shattering secrets in a final standoff with F.O.W.L. |
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