DuckTales Explains Scrooges Idol Was Junior Woodchucks Founder

DuckTales Explains Scrooge’s Idol Was Junior Woodchucks’ Founder

The season 3 premiere of Ducktales explains how Uncle Scrooge’s boyhood idol, explorer Isabella Finch, went on to establish the Junior Woodchucks.

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DuckTales Explains Scrooges Idol Was Junior Woodchucks Founder

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Ducktales season 3, episode 1, “Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks.”

The season 3 premiere of DuckTales revealed the identity of the founder of the Junior Woodchucks; legendary explorer Isabella Finch. The episode also revealed Finch’s role in inspiring a young Scrooge McDuck to greatness.

First appearing in Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #125 in 1951, the Junior Woodchucks were created by legendary comic creator Carl Barks as a parody of the Boy Scouts. The concept gave Barks, who wrote and drew the first Donald Duck comics, a perfect avenue of adventure for Donald’s nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. The concept also gave Barks one of the greatest deus ex machinas in all of fiction, The Junior Woodchucks’ Guidebook; a wondrous tome which contains instructions on how to survive all manner of dangers, from grizzly bear attacks to rampaging dragons. Both ideas found their way into the 1987 DuckTales series and the 2017 reboot.

The DuckTales season 3 premiere, “Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks,” placed the organization front and center, with Scrooge and his family traveling to Woodchuck Island, where Huey Duck is expecting to earn an appointment to the exalted rank of Senior Woodchuck as part of the annual Woodchuck Graduation ceremony. Unfortunately, there can only be one Senior Woodchuck per troop and Huey finds some unexpected competition for the position in the form of classmate Violet Sabrewing. The main plot of the episode finds Huey and Violet put in a race across Woodchuck Island, where they must face the same perils once faced by Junior Woodchuck founder Isabella Finch without the benefit of the Junior Woodchucks’ Guidebook.

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The mention of the Junior Woodchucks’ legendary founder sets Uncle Scrooge to wax nostalgically about his boyhood in Scotland and the role Isabella Finch had in inspiring him to become a world-traveling adventurer before he became the richest duck in the world. He tells the rest of the family that he was too poor to be a Junior Woodchuck as a boy, but he saved what little money he could to buy himself a single pulp novel, The Collected Adventures of Isabella Finch. Young Scrooge read and reread that simple book over and over, reveling in how Finch “bested the Fever Beast of Tibet” and “slaughtered the Swiss Swarmi of Microbeesia,” dreaming of having the same adventures himself someday.

Scrooge happens to spy a hidden map whilst in the middle of his speechifying about how remarkable Isabella Finch was; one which leads to Finch’s lost journal. This in turn yields a list of lost treasures and legendary discoveries that Isabella Finch never got around to seeking out. It seems a safe bet that this will fuel the on-going story of DuckTales season 3, with Scrooge pushing his family to share the adventures that his boyhood idol never got to experience.

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