List of Darkwing Duck episodes facts for kids

Darkwing Duck is a little known crime fighter of St. Canard, dying for a big break, and the publicity that goes with it. Yet when he gets on the trail of the infamous Taurus Bulba's latest scheme, he gets into more trouble than he expected, and ends up adopting a young girl, by the name of Gosalyn.

Gosalyn is now under Darkwing's protection, but Taurus Bulba is still out to get her, believing she has the Waddlemeyer Ramrod arming code when she actually doesn't know anything about it.

Reginald Bushroot, a plant scientist, only wants to make the world a better place to live, but his colleagues mock his passion for plants. When he subjects himself to his own experiments, he becomes a half-plant, half-duck mutant, and now desires to get even with his tormentors.

• Title Reference: Beauty and the Beast
• Absent: Gosalyn

Lilliput, the owner of the local golf course, has invented a helmet that allows him to communicate with ants. He then uses a shrink ray to shrink the buildings and landmarks of St. Canard, using the ants to haul the now-shrunk buildings back to the golf course, where they become part of the course. Eventually Lilliput shrinks Darkwing down to an even tinier size.

Bushroot tries to grow a wife for himself, but the result is not the flower that he expected.

• Title Reference: Night of the Living Dead

S.H.U.S.H. sends Darkwing, Launchpad, and Gosalyn to Africa to find missing famous anthropologist Dr. Beatrice Bruté. Darkwing discovers that Major Trenchrot is planning to open a vacation villa for villains.

• Title Reference: The Grapes of Wrath

Someone is stealing the money in Saint Canard by erasing all ink on the banknotes and leaving them nothing but worthless papers. S.H.U.S.H. Director J. Gander Hooter calls on Darkwing to help solve the mystery but chief Agent Gryzlikoff doesn't trust him. Darkwing discovers that the thief is Ammonia Pine, a woman who used to be a maid until some dangerous chemicals caused her to be obsessed with cleaning.

• Absent: Gosalyn

Darkwing Duck falls afoul of Megavolt and comes out blind. Undaunted, DW tries to keep going using a few inventive gadgets, but Gosalyn, Honker and Launchpad almost get killed because of his arrogance. Gosalyn and the gang plan to nab Megavolt themselves, but get caught by him instead.

Infuriated at how he's portrayed in his new comic book, Darkwing decides he can write the comic better himself. But he keeps getting interrupted by everyone, who then add their own little bits. Finally, even Megavolt joins in the writing of the story.

S.H.U.S.H. has given Darkwing Duck a case to travel to Oilrabia and stop Steelbeak. F.O.W.L.'s top agent is threatening to flood the country with a portable weather machine. The only problem is that Darkwing has agreed to let Launchpad assume the role as hero and be a sidekick himself for this mission.

• Title Reference: What a Way to Go!
• Absent: Gosalyn

Darkwing goes back in time with Gosalyn and he meets himself in grade school when he was known as "Drakey". He then sees a record shop being robbed by a gang of greasers. Due to Darkwing's inaction, Darkwing's present time gets changed when the duo comes back to the present. Therefore, Darkwing and Gosalyn must again go back to the past to restore it.

• Title Reference: Paradox (Dictionary definition: "a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.")
• Absent: Launchpad

Darkwing investigates a case in which money is disappearing along with the bank vaults. Bushroot creates a tree covered with money.

• Title Reference: Easy Come, Easy Go

Megavolt gets zapped with his new invention, which lets him bring regular home appliances to life. He assembles a group consisting of a salon chair, a refrigerator, a guitar, and a TV. Darkwing Duck has to stop them before they take over St. Canard.

Darkwing's computer goes haywire causing him to trade bodies with Gosalyn as do Launchpad and Honker. Now Gosalyn must pose as Darkwing to stop F.O.W.L.'s latest scheme – stopping the Earth's rotation in an attempt to blackmail the planet.

• Title Reference: Trading Places

Darkwing Duck investigates the production of a movie, which is plagued by accidents and turns out to be directed by none other than Tuskernini, who has abandoned his life of crime for the cinema.

• Title Reference: Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Jambalaya Jake and his alligator Gumbo, both from the bayou, have moved to the city after hearing it was "easy pickings". By using Launchpad as bait, they try and catch Darkwing. But Darkwing shows them first hand that in the city it is in fact no "easy pickings". Debut of Jambalaya Jake and Gumbo.

• Title Reference: Can't Buy Me Love
• Absent: Gosalyn

Drake takes Gosalyn on a camping trip to teach her about the great outdoors. However, the national park has been evacuated due to a monstrous bear controlled by Steelbeak that has been attacking both campers and wildlife alike.

• Title Reference: Bearskin Rug
• Absent: Launchpad

Darkwing goes undercover at a spa to root out a pair of workers responsible for a museum break-in. To his dismay, Herb and Binkie Muddlefoot tag along. The health spa owner, Jock, has discovered the formula for a fountain of youth. The last ingredient he needs is a feather from a true hero: Darkwing Duck.

• Title Reference: You Bet Your Life
• Absent: Gosalyn

Posing as a psychiatrist, Quackerjack convinces Darkwing that being a superhero isn't right for him. With Darkwing out of the picture, the criminal is free to go on a crime spree.

• Title Reference: Days of Thunder

Negaduck, Bushroot, Quackerjack, Megavolt, and Liquidator all join together as the Fearsome Five to defeat Darkwing Duck and take over St. Canard. When the other superheroes (Neptunia, Gizmoduck, Morgana, and Stegmutt) hear about this, they band together to form the Justice Ducks. Darkwing, who wants all the credit for the Fearsome Five's defeat, is less than thrilled – but when he faces the Fearsome Five, he soon finds out the job is more than he can handle.

The Justice Ducks are each defeated and captured by the Fearsome Five. Darkwing soon becomes their only hope, and the five heroes join in battle against the villains, with the ultimate victors deciding the fate of the whole city.

To get revenge on Darkwing, Jambalaya Jake has Granny Whammy mix him up a hex. He mistakes Launchpad for Darkwing (while he is posing as Darkwing Decoy) and targets him with the curse. Now Jamabalya is using Launchpad as a partner in crime, and Darkwing is getting all the blame for it.

• Note: There are two versions of this episode: in the first, Jambalaya Jake lures Darkwing to a tower by having Gumbo bite a power line, in the second, Jamablaya Jake lures Darkwing to the power company by causing a blackout by pouring hot sauce into a telephone. Otherwise, the episodes are identical.
• Absent: Gosalyn

In this parody of Spider-Man, a mutated spider bite causes Darkwing to grow four extra arms. When this creates the hero trouble while trying to catch Moliarty, Darkwing adopts a new super-hero identity – Arachno-Duck.

• Title Reference: Arachnophobia

Gosalyn comes upon a spaceship that has crashed in the park. A cute alien emerges, wearing a rather restrictive collar which he doesn’t seem to be fond of. However, it turns out, that the extraterrestrial is actually a wanted criminal and Darkwing has to stop him.

• Title Reference: When Worlds Collide

Honker and Gosalyn track down a set of dinosaur footprints, and are led to the nefarious Dr. Fossil, duck turned dinosaur. With his de-evolution ray and the aid of a passing comet, Fossil plans to end the current life on the planet to give dinosaurs a second chance.

Steelbeak teams up with agent Ammonia Pine to clean out banks for F.O.W.L. Gosalyn starts a Darkwing fan club.

• Title Reference: Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

As Steelbeak is stealing rubber duckies, Darkwing's attempt to stop him is interrupted by Comet Guy, a superhero from another planet who is looking for a hero to train him.

• Title Reference: Faster than a speeding bullet
• Absent: Gosalyn

Darkwing becomes fed up with the cold, so he decides to go on a vacation. But before he can, he finds out that banks are being robbed, with no forced entry.

• Title Reference: All's Fair in Love and War
• Absent: Gosalyn

Gosalyn and Darkwing are hyped over a video game competition involving the popular Whiffle Boy. However, a toy maker gone insane, Quackerjack, is out to get revenge on the video game industry that put him out of business. Both Darkwing and Quackerjack end up trapped in Whiffle Boy video game.

• Song: Whistle While You Work
• Absent: Launchpad

Morgana is using sleep sand to rob the citizens of St. Canard while they sleepwalk. When Darkwing steps in to set things right, he ends up in dreamland. Nodoff, controller of dreamland and supplier of Morgana's sleep sand wants the entire city to snooze, and will see to it that no one gets in his way.

• Note: Megavolt, Quackerjack, Bushroot, Liquidator, Steelbeak and Ammonia Pine makes non-speaking cameo appearance in Darkwing's dream.
• Absent: Gosalyn

In this case, Adopt-a-Con means the Adopt A Convict Program. The program has sent Tuskernini to Drake's house. DW is sure that Tusker won't reform, even though he acts as if he has. Posing as Bushroot, he takes Launchpad, Gosalyn, and Drake hostages to fish out Darkwing. But Drake's already a hostage himself.

When Quackerjack learns that parents won't buy his dangerous toys, he decides to create a toy utopia for children, with him as the ruler. Gosalyn gets into trouble at school, causing the principal to suggest Drake take a better look at his parenting. Drake gives up Darkwing to become the perfect parent just as Quackerjack executes his insane plot.

• Title Reference: Toys "R" Us

In the distant future, Gosaloid (a futuristic version of Gosalyn) and her friend get trapped in the Darkwing Duck Museum after it closes, and hear the alleged story of the "secret origins" of Darkwing Duck (a combined spoof the Superman origin story and the TV series Kung Fu) from a suspiciously familiar janitor.

Gizmoduck comes to St. Canard to help stop Megavolt's latest scheme; stealing horseshoes and cable to build a giant electromagnet. Darkwing is hardly receptive and wallows in self-pity as Gizmoduck takes the spotlight.

• Title Reference: Up, Up and Away

While pursuing the Fearsome Five, Darkwing is thrown into a giant cake – which serves as a portal between his world and the Negaverse. In the Negaverse, everything is the extreme opposite of his world and Negaduck is supreme ruler, so Darkwing decides to use his new friends (The "Friendly Four") to change things a bit, which Negaduck does not like.

• Title Reference: Life, the Universe and Everything

Bud Flood, the crooked owner of a bottled water company, has been sabotaging his competitors' drinking water to promote his own. Darkwing moves to stop him, but Flood falls into a vat of contaminated water, only to survive and become a hydrokinetic mutant known as the Liquidator. Now, Liquidator proceeds to turn all of St. Canard's water hard and DW must stop him.

• Title Reference: Die Hard

Launchpad gains psychic powers, but has trouble controlling them. F.O.W.L. agent, Major Synapse, steals S.H.U.S.H.'s Nora Ray, and uses it on his underlings to give them super brain powers.

• Title Reference: Heavy Metal

Negaduck, disguised, frames Darkwing for a series of crimes. Thanks to S.H.U.S.H. director J. Gander Hooter knowing that Darkwing is innocent, he arranges for him to use an experimental S.H.U.S.H. design to go into hiding, which ends up causing him to spontaneously change into whomever he looks at.

• Title Reference: The Sky's the Limit

When Comet Guy returns, he tells Darkwing he needs him back on his planet. Darkwing thinks that he's going to have to save the planet, until he finds out that everyone on the planet is a hero, and they need him as their "ordinary guy," since the last one left. They want Darkwing to be their 'damsel in distress,' so that they'll have someone to rescue. But Darkwing gets fed up, so he tries to turn Comet Guy into a villain.

• Title Reference: Planet of the Apes
• Absent: Launchpad and Gosalyn

Set in the past, this episode recounts the story of Darkwing Doubloon's adventures fighting the evil pirate Negaduck and his crew of villainous miscreants.

A crowd of pushy holiday shoppers rub Bushroot the wrong way. He decides to ruin Christmas by taking control of all of St. Canard's Christmas trees.

• Title Reference: It's a Wonderful Life

Megavolt's latest device accidentally transports him and Darkwing into the real world, where Darkwing Duck is only a cartoon.

• Title Reference: Switching Channels
• Absent: Launchpad and Gosalyn

Drake Mallard disappears and it’s up to the Crimson Quackette to find him.

• Title Reference: Dances with Wolves
• Absent: Launchpad

In a parody of the TV series Twin Peaks, Honker's parents go missing and all clues point to the mysterious town of Twin Beaks where mutant alien cabbages have begun their conquest of Earth.

• Title Reference: Twin Peaks
• Story Reference: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Bushroot creates a new experimental fertilizer that causes plants to grow large and strong.

• Title Reference: The Incredible Hulk

Darkwing's refusal of Morgana's suggestion of help makes her very angry, which Negaduck sees as an opportunity.

• Absent: Launchpad

Darkwing is killed and Megavolt gets the fame for it. However, Darkwing doesn't believe that he is dead until the Grim Reaper comes after him.

A news program reveals Darkwing Duck's identity as Launchpad. Tuskernini decides to use the revelation to his own advantage, but fails when the real Darkwing Duck gets in the way.

After a television program shows that Darkwing has a poor reputation with the public, Gosalyn decides that he needs an image change. Meanwhile, Negaduck plans to use this to his own advantage.

A nefarious criminal from the past returns, to profit by auctioning off a complete list of all of S.H.U.S.H.'s secret agents. J. Gander teams up Darkwing with the legendary Derek Blunt to intercept the documents before they fall into the wrong hands.

• Title Reference: In Like Flint
• Note: Steelbeak and Ammonia Pine, and Magica De Spell, the Beagle Boys, and Flintheart Glomgold from DuckTales make non-speaking cameo appearances.
• Absent: Gosalyn

To prevent the invention of the yo-yo, Quackerjack travels back to the medieval land of Canardia. Darkwing and Launchpad follow Quackerjack and find Herb and Binkie as King and Queen of Canardia. Posing as the king's advisor, Quackerjack convicts Darkwing as a warlock.

• Title Reference: "Rock of Ages"
• Absent: Gosalyn

During a battle between Darkwing, Megavolt and Quackerjack, Gosalyn ends up aboard the villains' Time Top, just before it starts up and takes them to the future. There, Gosalyn finds out that Darkwing has become Darkwarrior Duck, who enforces the law with an iron fist.

• Title Reference: Crime and Punishment
• Note: Some various villains makes cameo appearance.

Darkwing is constantly getting stressed, so he goes to a stress-free clinic (which is being run by Megavolt and Quackerjack), and they brainwash him. Now he is too calm (not even Gosalyn destroying the house can get him mad) when Megavolt and QuackerJack start a fire that soon starts to spread throughout the whole city, Launchpad and Gosalyn have to try to get DW out of his repressed state.

• Title Reference: Dressed to Kill

J. Gander asks DW to train some of S.H.U.S.H.'s agents. That does not go over well with Agent Gryzlikoff, who joins F.O.W.L. as a double agent. Steelbeak sets a trap for the newly titled "Darkwing Squad" while Gryzlikoff faces off against Darkwing.

• Absent: Gosalyn

When Binkie Muddlefoot gets hit on the head by a bowling ball, her inner "little hero" escapes and causes her to become the Canardian Guardian. Her endless quest for safety endangers Darkwing's life as he tries once again to capture Megavolt.

• Absent: Gosalyn

When Gosalyn gets into mischief, a spirit named Paddywhack is unleashed from a jack-in-the-box and possesses Quackerjack's doll, Mr. Banana Brain. As he causes trouble alongside Quackerjack, he grows, feeding from the negative emotions around himself.

Bushroot creates a formula, intending to create an intelligent plant friend, and Gosalyn ends up sampling it. Now Darkwing has a limited amount of time to find a cure before Gosalyn melts into a pile of goo.

• Title Reference: I'm Okay, You're Okay

Forced to work on her boring history assignment, Gosalyn dozes off, and begins sleepwalking. She dreams herself with AstroDuck, a television show character, trying to find the Fountain of Knowledge. While she is learning about famous explorers in her dreams, Megavolt uses her as bait to trap and kill Darkwing in the real world.

Aliens kidnap Launchpad to make him ruler of the universe.

Darkwing's TV producer feels that Darkwing's TV show needs a new gimmick in the form of a spin-off character, which might really be Darkwing's replacement by Bushroot! This scheme is actually a scam by the TV producer to steal money from the show, since it is much cheaper to have a plant such as Bushroot as the main star than an actor such as Darkwing! Herb and Binke Muddlefoot are actors who have act of out characther ruthless business tycoons due to a hidden clause in their acting contract that "The Studio is always Right". The Muddlefoots and Bushroot get to ride in a limousine which Darkwing and Gosalyn have to sneak in the studio disguised as Donald Duck and Louie Duck! Only appearance of the Darkwing Duck fan club who recognize Gosalyn but not Darkwing!

• Title Reference: A Star Is Born
• Absent: Launchpad

Gosalyn takes up archery, and bests Negaduck with it. Against Darkwing's wishes, she creates her alter-ego – the Quiverwing Quack – and causes a stir of publicity. She also becomes Negaduck's new target – so he can regain his position as Public Enemy #1.

Negaduck steals a diamond that can steal other people's powers. After he steals the powers from Bushroot, Megavolt, the Liquidator and Quackerjack, they have to use their weaknesses to stop Mega-Negaduck.

• Note: Gosalyn appears but does not speak.

It's Ammonia Pine's worst nightmare! FOWL has teamed her with her polar opposite, her filth-loving sister, Ample Grime. It would be easy for Darkwing Duck to stop them. But Gosalyn, not having enough allowance to buy a video game, has discovered that she can cash in whatever she recycles… including the Thunderquack's engine, the Ratcatcher, a few gas guns, etc.

• Title Reference: Thirtysomething

Darkwing chases Moliarty to the city Kung Pow where he meets up with his old martial arts instructor, Master Lee.

Darkwing Duck is accused of stealing a tribe's jewel and the leader puts a curse on him. Now they have to get it back from Negaduck and stop him from using it. But where is the leader to get the curse off?

Moliarty, the fiendish genius marketer and mole from the deep underground, has rallied his fellow race for an attack to take over the surface city of St. Canard. Stealing buildings, he creates a beam to lock the moon in an eternal eclipse to plunge everything in darkness.

Tuskernini utilizes a special camera gun to pull characters directly out of movies and into the real world. As director of a specially crafted criminal force, he takes them out on the town to do his bidding.

Darkwing Duck is zapped with Megavolt's tronsplitter, separating his good side from his bad. Another zap with the two sides will restore him to normal, but his negative side is certain not to let that happen. Debut of the original "negatron version" of Negaduck.

While investigating pizza topping crimes, Darkwing falls for a beautiful, creepy villainess called Morgana MacCawber.

• Absent: Gosalyn

Under Binkie Muddlefoot's advice, Drake decides Gosalyn should act more like a "lady". Meanwhile, Tuskernini develops a spray that makes people act the way they are dressed and targets the rich citizens attending the school masquerade party.

A day at the beach gets turned upside down when the gang has to deal with attacks from sea creatures. In comes Neptunia, who is sick of the pollution that was dumped in the sea and caused her to mutate. She plans revenge by flooding the city of St. Canard!

Fenton Crackshell, alias the crime-fighting Gizmoduck, heads to St. Canard in pursuit of Steelbeak. The F.O.W.L. agent soon finds out and frames Darkwing so Gizmoduck will think he's evil. The two fight it out, while Steelbeak tries to steal a new, top-secret weapon, the EGRT (Experimental General Retalitory Transport).

The shapeshifting villainess Chameleon plots to take control of the Howl publishing empire so she can print her own money. Honker undergoes a personality transformation when he is bullied at school.

Alien hats invade earth, take control of a slew of nuclear weapons, and demand to be made rulers of the universe. Debut of Flarg, Barada and Nikto.

• Story Reference: King Klaatu and two of the villains are named after the phrase "klaatu barada nikto" from The Day the Earth Stood Still

F.O.W.L. is at it again! This time, the fiendish organization is in control of the tides themselves. J. Gander Hooter teams up Darkwing and Gryzlikoff to foil the plot, and they end up fighting amongst themselves rather than getting to the bottom of things.

• Absent: Launchpad and Gosalyn

Negaduck zaps Darkwing with a particle accelerator, unknowingly giving him super speed. Unfortunately, DW soon learns the major side effect – increased aging. With Darkwing old and decrepit, Negaduck easily takes control of the city.

Honker notices a villainess named Splatter Phoenix making her way through the museum by way of the paintings. When Honker tries to tell people about it, no one believes him. Mostly his parents punish him for going crazy. Gosalyn gets involved and ends up stuck in a painting. At the end Honker was telling the truth about Splatter Phoenix and Splatter has been arrested and Honker punishment has been overturned by his parents.

When Quackerware comes to life, S.H.U.S.H. thinks Herb Muddlefoot is behind it!! Drake investigates by joining in on Herb's Quackerware sales route.

• Absent: Gosalyn

Morgana introduces Darkwing to her relatives – who are upset to find out that she is dating a "normal" (or as normal as Darkwing can be in comparison).

Helping with Gosalyn's homework, Darkwing shows her famous Mallards from history. She sneaks back into time with Quackerjack's timetop and brings them to the present. None of them seem to be as great as they were thought to be. When Megavolt steals Darkwing and Launchpad's nervous energy, the failures have a chance to prove they are heroes at heart.

Honker has become a galactic hero after foiling Flog and his companions from ruling the galaxy (in Battle of the Brainteasers). The body-stealing alien hats break free from captivity, bent once again to rule or destroy the universe – this time with a grudge against the young genius.

In Darkwing's dream, the Fearsome Five, Steelbeak and Tuskernini are tired of defeats, and to get revenge on Darkwing, they futilely create a circuit machine to fix him.

• Absent: Gosalyn

F.O.W.L. rebuilds Taurus Bulba into a death machine, hoping to create a new agent from him. Bulba refuses their offer and burns only with the desire to have revenge on Darkwing, which includes kidnapping Gosalyn and Honker. To make matters worse, a recent accident has Darkwing in a wheelchair. Can he defeat a new and improved Terminator machine and rescue the kids in his condition?

• Title Reference: Terminator

Darkwing's new weapon hits Gosalyn. Although she's perfectly fine, three new beings are created, all of which look like Gosalyn, but have powers based on different frequencies: Heatwave (Red), Lightwave (Yellow), and Radiowave (Green). D.W. enlists Megavolt help, but an untrusting Darkwing messes things up. Now the three Frequency Fiends are combined into one super-being, and it's up to the combined efforts of D.W., Launchpad, Goz, and Megavolt to stop them!

Darkwing is to appear as the guest of honor at a comic book convention, while Splatter Phoenix terrorizes the town by "improving" boring art.

• Title Reference: "Ain't Misbehavin'"

Darkwing and Gosalyn go with Morgana to her old magic school, where she is to present her thesis paper. Gosalyn tries to find a shortcut to learning magic. Beelzebub tricks Gosalyn into casting a spell that sends Darkwing into hell where he is confronted with his worst nightmare-spending eternity with the Muddlefoots!

• Notes: This episode was banned from airing again after its initial broadcast because of its religiously sensitive subject matter, and is the only episode not re-released on home media in the US, being unavailable for purchase on the iTunes Store and Google TV, and unavailable to stream on Disney+, led to be locked away in the Disney vault. The Magic Brooms from Fantasia's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" make a cameo.
• Absent: Launchpad

A news reporter wants to film Darkwing Duck on his cases. But she thinks what Darkwing is doing is too boring. So she becomes a villain for DW to fight to boost her ratings. Will DW be canceled permanently?

• Title Reference: Broadcast News

Drake attends his high school reunion, but it turns out that Megavolt was also a member of his class and is looking for revenge.

Gosalyn, working for her school newspaper, covers the three way battle between the Rubber Chicken, Cement-head and Darkwing Duck.

• Title Reference: Mutiny on the Bounty

Morgana opens up a new restaurant, but Darkwing forgets to cancel the guests coming there: The Cute Little Lost Bunnies! Meanwhile, Negaduck plans to turn the C.L.L.B. evil.

• Title Reference: "Alice's Restaurant"

Darkwing is asked to investigate a mysterious museum discovery – Darkwing himself encased in amber! To solve the mystery of this unusual specimen, Darkwing uses Quackerjack's timetop to travel to the prehistoric past.