天下制覇

That pun was not appreciated nor used nearly to its utmost.

Semi-Impressions:

Although that pun did, like all of these Western shows I've threatened to remark upon and then proceeded to do so, put me in a bit of a more introspective thought about comedy, and especially wordplay. While I can recognize Japanese wordplay jokes, especially some of the groaners that games like Duel Savior or Princess Witches were full of, I'm not sure there's ever been any I've actually found genuinely amusing. I'm sure it's in large part both cultural since I've never been actually immersed in Japanese such that it was anything other than a minority of my day, even on the busiest days of translation, and also because even though I consider myself relatively fluent, it still takes at least a little bit of concentration, such that it's hard to be caught by surprise by puns like that.

Another thing that also occurred to me was the thought that we don't see much in Japan of the trope where the retired dude/dudette has settled into the boring life, but is hauled out of it to go back to adventure. But then I realized I was wrong. We see it all the goddamned time, especially in light novel adaptations where it turns out the 16 year old was a prodigy at the age of 10, but retired to go hit on high school girls, or similar. What's missing 99 times out of 100 in Japanese stuff is the joie de vivre. Adventure and fun is a bad thing. The mundane life of sitting at home, counting your investments and watching stocks is the good thing. The protagonist may be dragged back to fight whoever, but always reluctantly, and at the end of every arc, again tries to abandon everything that made them special. I hesitate to call it a cultural difference, but it certainly seems that way. 

Anyway, as for the episode itself, it seemed fine enough for a show aimed as nostalgic adults to watch with their kids. I was more of Warner Bros era kid myself (ie Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Batman TAS, etc), so the original DuckTales/Disney Afternoon was a year or two before my time, and I can't really recall much of the original show, if I even watched it at all, or just picked up pieces of it via Darkwing Duck. I did own the NES game, but who didn't? The ending of the second episode with "TRUST IN ME, DONALD," was pretty weak, even for a kid's show, and I'm probably showing my age in thinking that the triplets were a tad far on the obnoxious side, especially in the second episode. And if you didn't notice, so goddamned much wasted potential in not having the Deus Excalibur fix everything instead of pulling a magic stone gauntlet out of someone's ass.