If there’s one lesson I can remember learning from Duck Tales, it was the meaning of the word “miser.” They were always using that word on the show, as if to drive that one specific vocabulary word deep into the tiny minds of the show’s viewers. And as a child, it really wasn’t the most useful vocabulary word to have. A kid probably never had any encounters with anyone in real life that would be considered a miser. At least I didn’t. I didn’t even know any rich people, and if I did, they certainly didn’t have piles of yellowy coins used mainly to swim in, slide down, or (god forbid) surf on. Even now, “miser” is one of those words that sound weirder and weirder the more you say it. Miser, miser, miser. And look at it all typed out like that! Looks like it’s spelled wrong or something, doesn’t it? But alas, it is spelled correctly…the English language is bizarre. Bizarre is kinda one of those words too, now that I look at it.

Scrooge McDuck – always a bit of a Walter Matthau a la Grumpy Old Men type of character…Oh yeah, except he was super rich.

Labels: Duck Tales, Miser, Pointless, unfinished, where could this possibly have been headed