Magica's Magic Mirror / Take Me Out of the Ballgame
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| DuckTales episode | ||
| "Magica's Magic Mirror / Take Me Out of the Ballgame" |
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 Magica prepares to fool Scrooge with her magic mirror. |
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| Season | 1 | |
| Episode no. | 55 | |
| Airdate | November 20, 1987 | |
| Writer(s) | Richard Merwin Tedd Anasti |
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| Director | Steve Clark Vincent Davis |
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| Prod. no. | 51 | |
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| Episode chronology | ||
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| List of DuckTales episodes | ||
"Magica's Magic Mirror / Take Me Out of the Ballgame" is the fifty-fifth episode of the Disney animated television series DuckTales.
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[edit] Synopsis
[edit] Magica's Magic Mirror
On their way home from a Duckburg Mallards baseball game, Scrooge, Huey, Dewey and Louie bump into Magica, who’s disguised as a gypsy. Claiming that a bad man is after a special mirror of hers, Magica gives the mirror to Scrooge, telling him that it can show him the future. After forcing the mirror upon Scrooge, she then warns him never to say the phrase "Mirror, mirror made of gold, show me what the future holds" into the mirror, and leaves. When the man who had been stalking Magica finally corners her in an alley, he tries to deliver a pizza to her, only for Magica to reject it, transform into a vulture, and fly off.
Magica soon arrives at McDuck Manor, where she sneaks into the tool shed. She pulls a mirror identical to the first out of her valise, mentioning that both mirrors are connected, and that they once belonged to her grandmother Tragica. Scrooge soon gets home and puts the mirror on the desk in his office. At that moment, Doofus comes skipping up to the house eating a chilli dog. Magica secretly records Doofus on a camcorder, and hooks it up to a TV set, which she places in front of her mirror.
Meanwhile, the nephews play around with the mirror in Scrooge’s office, and Huey speaks the phrase that Magica mentioned earlier. The mirror shows them the recording of Doofus that Magica took through the other mirror. Louie doesn’t believe that Doofus would be in their future, but at that very moment Doofus shows up to meet them. The boys then rush to tell Scrooge what they saw.
Outside, Launchpad is flying around in a plane. Magica quickly molds together a model of Launchpad with some clay and puts it into a model airplane on wires. When Doofus asks to see his future in them mirror, he sees Launchpad flying around, only to crash into a chimney. Magica then uses her magic to force the real Launchpad’s plane to stop flying, and Launchpad parachutes down into Scrooge’s chimney.
When Scrooge asks to see his future, Magica uses a model train set to represent his diamond mines. She uses a flashlight to simulate an eclipse, and then dumps some rocks on the train to simulate an earthquake. Dewey checks the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook and learns that the next eclipse will occur the following afternoon.
While Scrooge and Launchpad hurry to one of Launchpad’s other planes, Magica gets there before them and cuts off the wings. When Launchpad tries to fly off in it, he ends up crashing without even leaving the ground. Launchpad tells Scrooge to consult the mirror, and in it, he sees himself (really an inflatable doll) giving his Number One Dime to the gypsy, who tells him that he must do so to save his diamond mines.
Huey, Dewey and Louie spot Magica and the inflatable Scrooge by the tool shed, and get suspicious. They go to spy on her and learn of her plan. They then look inside the tool shed and see all of Magica’s props. At that moment, Scrooge returns home and offers Magica his dime, but Dewey interferes, telling Scrooge to check the mirror again. In it he sees Huey and Louie using a clay figure of Magica demanding a clay figure of himself to give her his dime. Dewey then unmasks Magica, and she shoots a bolt of energy at him. It bounces off the mirror, hits a shovel, bounces off the other mirror and hits Magica, teleporting her to a mountaintop.
Back at home, Scrooge thanks the boys for their help, and promises not to worry so much about his future. Huey, dressed up in Magica’s gypsy getup, tells them that he sees all of them partying at the Duckburg picnic, to which Scrooge mentions is a future worth looking into.
[edit] Take Me Out of the Ballgame
The nephews and Doofus are all dressed up for their Junior Woodchucks ballgame against the Beagle Brats. The nephews ask Launchpad, their coach, to come along, but Scrooge tells them that Launchpad needs to take him to Europe right now. Since the kids need a coach, Scrooge offers to have Duckworth take Launchpad’s place. Duckworth has never coached a ballgame before, but he doesn’t really have a choice.
Duckworth shows up at the stadium, dressed up like a golfer. He clearly doesn’t seem ready for anything, and Ma Beagle, who’s coaching the Beagle Brats, is far from worried. One of the brats mentions that they won’t even have to cheat, but Ma claims that cheating is a family tradition. The Beagle Brats are first to bat, but they manage to get three outs easily.
Duckworth, who felt that the kids weren’t behaving properly, tries to get them to behave. Just as Dewey would’ve scored a triple, Duckworth picks him up, and scolds him for dirtying his uniform by sliding. While held, one of the Beagle Brats tags him out. When Louie succeeds in stealing second, Duckworth demands that he return to first, giving the Woodchucks another out.
During the second inning, the Beagle Brats score three points, while the Woodchucks score none. In the third inning, the score reaches 5-0 for the Beagle Brats, in part to their cheating. By the bottom of the fifth, the score is 15-0. Just to play it safe, Ma switches the ball with a rigged “Beagle Ball”, which is hard for the batters to hit.
At the bottom of the seventh and final inning, the score is 17-0, and the Woodchucks have to yell at Duckworth to inform him that they’re not playing something like cricket. Webby tries to explain how baseball works to Duckworth, and he finally gets the idea. He suggests pretending that the game is a lot like golf. Taking Duckworth’s unorthodox advice, Huey manages to hit the Beagle Ball.
The other players all follow through, and soon the Woodchucks start catching up. All the Woodchucks need at this point is a grand slam, but they’re in trouble, as Doofus is up to bat, and even he isn’t confident of himself. After two strikes, Doofus loses his glasses, which the catcher purposely breaks. Duckworth tells Doofus to pretend that the ball is a cream puff. Doofus hits the ball, which goes flying out of the park and across Duckburg, winning the game. Meanwhile, Launchpad and Scrooge have arrived in Paris by helicopter, when Launchpad wonders how the ballgame is going. Suddenly, the Beagle Ball flies in and hits Launchpad on the head, causing him to crash the helicopter in the Seine.
[edit] Trivia
- This is the only double episode of the series (two quarter-hour episodes in a half-hour timeslot).
- At the Duckburg picnic, there is a small man who looks similar to Flintheart Glomgold.
- This episode marks the only animated appearance of the Beagle Brats.
- This is the only episode in which June Foray gets to voice both of her main characters, Magica and Ma Beagle.
- "Take Me Out of the Ballgame" is a reference to the classic song Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
- Magica's vulture transformation, in addition to linked magic mirrors, both appear in the "Transylvania" level of the DuckTales NES game. Note that the mirrors in the game physically transport Scrooge between two points, unlike the ones in this episode that just display images.
