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DuckTales - The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades! (S3E11)
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.
| Runtime (min) | 25 |
|---|---|
| TMDB Rating | 5.0 (3 votes) |
| Air Date | 2020-10-12 |
| Genres | Family, Comedy, Animation |
| TV Rating | TV-Y |
Storyline
In this exciting episode of DuckTales, Scrooge McDuck and Goldie O'Gilt find themselves magically transformed into teenagers as they embark on a wild race against their old rival, Rockerduck, to reach the legendary Fountain of Youth. The stakes are high as they navigate through a variety of challenges and adventures, trying to secure their youth while dealing with the unexpected consequences of their transformation.
Meanwhile, the Duck brothers—Huey, Dewey, and Louie—experience their own challenges at a spring break hotel, where their sibling rivalry spirals into chaos. As they uncover the dangers lurking in the hotel, they must learn to work together to overcome the obstacles they face, adding a layer of excitement and teamwork to the story.
What Parents Say
This episode of DuckTales creatively explores themes of youth and rivalry, making it an engaging watch for both kids and parents. The transformation of Scrooge and Goldie into teenagers adds a humorous twist while also prompting discussions about the implications of youth and the value of experience. The fast-paced race to the Fountain of Youth keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.
Additionally, the subplot involving the Duck brothers highlights important lessons about cooperation and conflict resolution. Their sibling rivalry serves as a reminder of how competition can sometimes lead to unexpected challenges, encouraging children to think about collaboration and understanding in their relationships with siblings and friends.
What Children Can Learn
Kids will enjoy the thrilling adventure as Scrooge and Goldie navigate their teenage years, offering a fun perspective on youth and the desire to be young forever. The episode emphasizes that while being young might seem appealing, there's wisdom and strength in experience. This can encourage children to appreciate the age they are at and the lessons they learn along the way.
Moreover, the challenges faced by Huey, Dewey, and Louie teach valuable lessons about teamwork and the importance of working together to resolve conflicts. As they confront the dangers of their spring break adventure, kids will see the value of supporting one another and the positive outcomes that can arise from unity and collaboration.
Five Most Asked Questions
Here are some common questions parents may have about this episode of DuckTales.
| Question | Answer |
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| What are the main themes of the episode? | The main themes in 'The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades!' include the exploration of youth versus experience, sibling rivalry, and the importance of teamwork. The episode highlights how characters navigate the challenges of their transformations and conflicts, ultimately showcasing the value of cooperation and understanding among siblings. |
| How does the episode address sibling rivalry? | Sibling rivalry is a central focus in this episode, particularly through the antics of Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Their competitive nature leads to chaos at the spring break hotel, illustrating how rivalry can complicate relationships. However, by the end, they learn to set aside their differences and work together, promoting a positive message about resolving conflicts. |
| What happens to Scrooge and Goldie? | Scrooge and Goldie are magically turned into teenagers, which sets off a humorous and adventurous race to the Fountain of Youth against Rockerduck. This transformation allows them to experience life from a younger perspective, but it also brings unexpected challenges that highlight the consequences of seeking eternal youth. |
| Are there any lessons about the importance of age and experience? | Yes, the episode conveys that while youth can be exciting, there is significant value in the wisdom and experience that comes with age. Scrooge and Goldie’s youthful adventure serves as a reminder that growing older brings unique strengths and insights, encouraging kids to appreciate their own growth and the lessons they learn. |
| How does the episode engage its audience? | The episode engages its audience through humor, action, and relatable character dynamics. The comedic elements of Scrooge and Goldie's teenage antics, combined with the thrilling adventure of racing to the Fountain of Youth, keep viewers entertained. The relatable themes of sibling rivalry and teamwork also resonate with young audiences, making it a compelling watch. |
Cast
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Writing
- Madison Bateman — Writer
Directing
- 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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