Back Out in the Outback
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| DuckTales episode | |
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| “Back Out in the Outback” | |
 Webby and the animals spot a baby warthog. |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 47 |
| Guest star(s) | Nicholas Omana Rob Paulsen Will Ryan |
| Writer(s) | James A. Markovich Richard Merwin |
| Director | David Block |
| Production no. | 44 |
| Original airdate | November 10, 1987 |
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"Back Out in the Outback" is the forty-seventh episode of the Disney animated television series DuckTales.
[edit] Synopsis
One dark and stormy night in the Australian Outback, a shepherd by the name of Sundowner and his dingo, Dingo, are startled when their flock of sheep are shaved clean by several mysterious Willy-wisps. Because he owns the ranch, Scrooge flies down to Australia as soon as he can, along with Launchpad, Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby. Waiting for their arrival are Sundowner, and the ranch’s burly manager, Duke. After Launchpad makes a minor crash landing, Scrooge meets up with Duke and Sundowner. Webby befriends Dingo, and looks forward to meeting more Australian animals.
However, two shifty weasels are spying on the group with binoculars. Although they’re afraid that Scrooge will find out their secret in his plane, they quickly recall their boss’s plan, and get to work on it. Meanwhile, Scrooge, Duke, and Sundowner are worried that Scrooge will have to sell the ranch if the sheep can’t produce any wool. Scrooge decides that they should do an air search to find the Willy-wisps, but with teamwork. Duke is to fly the plane, while an unsatisfied Launchpad gases it up. Scrooge then orders his nephews to stay at the ranch and baby-sit Webby. As the boys watch the plane take off, Webby spots a joey, and follows him into the forest.
In addition to the boys losing Webby so quickly, Launchpad isn’t very thrilled to serve as Duke’s co-pilot. Although Duke mentions that the Willy-wisps only come out at night, several Willy-wisps fly over to the plane and damage it, sending it into a tailspin. In the end, Duke manages to get away from the Will-wisps. Since the boys are unable to find Webby on their own, they opt to have Dingo try. Duke is unable to get the plane’s landing gear out, so Launchpad tries to take control, but the two just get into a fight, and end up crashing in front of the ranch.
Webby is still following the joey around through the forest, when she runs into a koala bear. The joey and the koala giggle at Webby, making her feel unwelcome. She then offers the animals jellybeans hidden in her Quacky Patch doll, and befriends them. She also spots a baby warthog. Meanwhile, the boys explain to Scrooge about how they lost Webby, and Scrooge scolds them. Scrooge then organises a search party consisting of himself, Duke, Sundowner and Dingo to find Webby. Scrooge also orders Launchpad and the boys to stay behind and fix the plane.
Just as Webby befriends the baby warthog, its parents come rustling out of the bushes, and they’re furious to see their offspring in her arms. They give chase, causing Webby to drop her Quacky Patch doll, which gets tossed aside. Webby manages to escape from the warthogs, using crocodiles as stepping stones to cross a river, which the warthogs are unable to cross. At sunset, Webby is truly lost, dirty and tired. She drinks out of a spring, and is scared off by a platypus. Overcome with fear, Webby hopes to never see another Australian animal again. While she sleeps, several animals approach her, and the koala bear brings Webby her doll back.
The search party is still searching for Webby into the night, when Dingo picks up another trail. Duke disses Dingo for probably picking up the wrong scent, and Sundowner quarrels with him. At that moment, the Willy-wisps appear, causing the group to flee and split up. Scrooge manages to find Sundowner, and they keep looking. Back at the ranch, Launchpad and the boys have managed to fix the plane’s landing gear, and spend the rest of the night fixing up the rest of the plane. While fixing up one of the engines in the morning, Launchpad discovers a boomerang which had gotten caught inside, and throws it away, only for it to come back and hit his head. When the boys take a look at the boomerang, they discover that it’s made out of electronics, and conclude that they’re what the Willy-wisps really are. Additionally, the edges are sharpened in order to serve as a razor. Huey suggests that they strike back at the attackers by using some of Sundowner’s boomerangs.
Scrooge and Sundowner are still out searching, when Sundowner tosses a boomerang at a branch next to Scrooge. Scrooge is grateful, because a snake was on the branch, which almost attacked him. However, the weasels are spying on them again, and they tell their boss, who is actually Duke, that Scrooge won’t sell his ranch if he discovers the mines. Meanwhile, Webby wakes up next to the koala in a kangaroo pouch, to her surprise. She runs off screaming, until she realizes that the animals helped her, and brought her back her doll. She apologizes to the animals and heads over to a well, where she can hear the baby warthog squealing. With the help of the koala and the kangaroo, Webby manages to get the warthog out of the well. Upon rescuing the warthog, Webby discovers that the well contains opals.
At that point, the adult warthogs show up, but no sooner do they show up then Dingo does, if only to hold them off. However, Duke orders the weasels to throw their boomerangs, which they take control of as Willy-wisps. The Willy-wisps attack Scrooge and Sundowner as they reach the wells, and trap them in a dead in. Fortunately, Launchpad and the boys arrive in the plane. Louie uses a makeshift elastic to launch an armful of boomerangs out of the plane, which destroy the Willy-wisps. Duke attempts to throw his own boomerang, but Webby stands up to him and the weasels, with the help of her animal friends. The villains try to get away, but the animals halt them.
Later on, Sundowner explains that when Duke found opals on the ranch, he hired the weasels to shear the sheep so that Scrooge would sell his ranch. Scrooge then tells Sundowner that he’ll be running the sheep ranch from now on, as well as the opal mines. Scrooge then tells everyone that they all did a good job. When Scrooge asks Webby how she managed to catch the crooks, Webby tells him that she and the animals used teamwork.
