Once again, this episode is representative of the show's tendency. To focus too much on the differentiated nephews. They are too different from each other to be considered anything like their original counterparts, but too similar to each other in both appearance and character to really be considered individual. Individualizing each triplet also fuels DT's conituing problem of having far too many characters and storylines go on at once, leaving little to no depth to each storyline, with 101 things hastily crammed into one episode. Doofus Drake is nothing like his original counterpart, which begs the question: why not just create a new character, rather than insensitively marking your territory on one of the classic characters? Donald is still practically absent from the show (despite initially being advertised as a main character as a major marketing ploy to gain more viewers), and Scrooge and even Beakley are nowhere to be seen. Confusingly, there is also almost no trace of any musical score in this episode, often leaving awkward, prolonged sequences where characters are just looking around or talking to each other in a poorly paced way, without any accompanying sounds. Perhaps it was used to create a specific, awkward atmosphere for some scenes (e.g. The Doofus scenes?). Doesn't succeed, anyway. Just gives off a sense of amateurism
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