Yes, he’s gets a laugh fairly often, but he’s a very flat character. He’s completely incompetent at what he does (raising the question of why Scrooge hired him in the first place), more childlike than the children, and most of the time seems barely functional. As in, that’s basically his entire character: genial moron. See, Launchpad isn’t only an idiot, he’s just an idiot. Now, I haven’t gotten around to revisiting the original show in a long time, so I can’t remember if he was portrayed as this stupid in that one, but whichever is the case, it definitely is to the show’s detriment. a potentially intimidating mummy monster is defeated by folding it up in a giant burrito). They don’t do this all the time, but often enough for it to detract from the show (e.g. Part of the problem is that they go for the joke far too often, preventing the characters from developing much weight and consequently from engaging us in their struggles. Now that the Ducktales revival is about half-a-season old, I can say that, while it is good, it’s not quite as good as I had hoped it would be.
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