Send in the Clones
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| DuckTales episode | |
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| “Send in the Clones” | |
 Scrooge hands over his dime to Magica in exchange for Huey. |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 44 |
| Writer(s) | Astrid Ryterband |
| Director | Alan Zaslove |
| Production no. | 1 |
| Original airdate | November 5, 1987 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "Robot Robbers" | "Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" |
- "Send in the Clones" is also a segment on the Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror XIII.
"Send in the Clones" is the forty-fourth episode of the Disney animated television series DuckTales.
[edit] Synopsis
Magica is after Scrooge's lucky dime, so that she can melt it down and merge it with her amulet, which will grant her with enough power to take over the world. To help her in stealing the dime, Magica helps Bigtime, Burger and Babyface escape from jail.
The next morning at McDuck Manor, Scrooge awaits the arrival of Webra Walters, a reporter from Duckweek Magazine, while Huey, Dewey and Louie go to the movies to see Invasion of the Quacker Snatchers. While the nephews are gone, Magica and the Beagle Boys show up outside the house. Magica then turns Burger, Bigtime and Babyface into exact doubles of Huey, Dewey and Louie respectively with one catch; mirrors will reflect their true forms. The disguised Beagle Boys then infiltrate the house.
Bigtime and Babyface split up from Burger while they search for the dime. Mrs. Beakley however forces them to dress up for when Webra Walters arrives, but she sees their true reflections in a mirror and passes out. They then meet up with Burger, who's having a tea party with Webby, and ruin her Quacky Patch doll before continuing their search for the dime.
When Miss Walters arrives, Scrooge is anxious to give her a proper interview, but Mrs. Beakley and Webby embarrass him due to their reactions to the Beagle Boys. When the Beagle Boys blow up the ceiling of Scrooge’s study, Scrooge sends them to the nephews’ room, with Duckworth guarding the door. Magica learns of this, and turns herself into a double of Mrs. Beakley in order to get the Beagle Boys out of the room.
At this point, Huey, Dewey and Louie come back from their movie, which had a plot involving aliens taking over peoples' bodies. This confuses things even further with two sets of nephews and two Mrs. Beakleys running around. Scrooge sends the nephews back to their room, and orders Magica to make them lunch. Magica’s bizarre cooking frightens the nephews into thinking that Mrs. Beakley's body has been taken over by aliens.
Dewey and Louie split up from Huey and find Burger, who isn’t behaving like Huey at all. Magica runs into Mrs. Beakley and magically renders her unconscious. Huey finds Bigtime and Babyface, and unintentionally leads them to the dime. Magica finds them, turns herself back to normal, and plans to go back to her lair, bringing with them the real Mrs. Beakley. On the way back to the lair, Magica undoes the spell she cast on the Beagle Boys earlier, which affects Burger, even though he’s still at the mansion. Burger confesses as to what’s really going on, so Scrooge takes him, Dewey and Louie in his helicopter to Magica’s lair, while Webra ‘’tags along’’.
At Magica’s lair, Magica prepares to melt down the dime, while Huey and Mrs. Beakley are tied up off to the side. Huey uses his knot untying skills to get out of the rope and steals a potion, which he uses to get Magica and the Beagle Boys’ attention. Soon Huey, Mrs. Beakley, Magica and the Beagle Boys get into a potion fight involving many transformations. In the end, Magica turns everyone back to normal and holds Huey hostage as Scrooge and Co. arrive.
Scrooge explains that the dime that Magica has isn’t special, and that he’ll offer her his real dime if she lets Huey go. She agrees, but Huey knocks both dimes out of Scrooge and Magica’s hands, mixing them up. Thinking that she has the real dime, Magica and the Beagle Boys prepare to take over the world.
On the way home from Magica’s lair, Scrooge explains the mix-up to Miss Walters. He then explains that he pulled the ol’ switcheroo on Magica. He wound up with the real lucky dime, while Magica has a normal one. An explosion then occurs from Magica’s lair, as she attempted to melt the normal dime. She explains that one day, she will rule the world.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode's title is a play on the song "Send in the Clowns" by Stephen Sondheim.
- This was the first DuckTales episode to actually be produced. However, the five-part episode Treasure of the Golden Suns, even though it was produced later on, takes place first chronologically, as it sets up the series.
- Webra Walters, who is a spoof of real-life reporter Barbara Walters, has been parodied in a similar fashion on Saturday Night Live. Although this is her only season one appearance, Webra would later go on to make occasional appearances in season two.
- Goof: When Bigtime and Babyface are searching for the dime in the library, Babyface (who's disguised as Louie) says "Duh, it's not in here!", but his voice comes out of Bigtime/Dewey's mouth.
