Bucky O'Hare - 09

"Corsair Canards"
With a little help from his friends, Bucky O'Hare looks to bring Dead-Eye's people—the fearsome Corsair Canards—into an alliance with the United Animals Coalition against the toads. The Toad Empire, naturally being determined to thwart this alliance, brings in Al Negator and his mercenary expertise with infiltration to run a false flag operation to undermine these efforts. As the only human in the Aniverse, Willy DuWitt ends up serving as a wildcard to these proceedings.

Points of interest:
0:51 While the pirates probably should have been more suspicious when a fellow four-armed duck turned up aboard the targeted ship, it'll be established two episodes from now that not everyone from their species is into piracy.
1:22 While the ducks don't share the toads' instinctive fear of baboons, they clearly do understand that fear is the appropriate response for reasons demonstrated here.
3:41 The duck mermaid with the Godiva-style hair in the painting notably only has two arms; which suggests the ducks' mythology also treats mermaids as hybrids with some other species (baboons like Bruiser, maybe?) in addition to ducks and fish.
3:42 That bovine bartender might also be considered a minotaur in the eyes of the other anthropomorphic animals.
3:52 The ducks apparently have exotic dancers too.
4:08 Of course, if swamps are common terrain on the ducks' home world, that would make it an ideal conquest for the toads—were the ducks defending it not such skilled fighters.
5:00 Willy doesn't call it a Frisbee (even though that's what most of us would call a flying disc) because that's a trademarked name.
5:20 Willy would have to have practiced a lot to learn how to do that; which somewhat explains why he happened to have a disc packed with him. (In fact, if you look carefully near the end of the first episode when Dead-Eye is in his room helping him pack his bag, he did have some kind of disc there too, though not this particular one.)
5:30 Of course, a kid in diapers shouldn't be in such a rough joint as a pirates' bar in the first place, but one supposes the pirates aren't especially fond of imposing and enforcing safety laws. (For that matter, some incident like this might just be how Dead-Eye lost his left eye...)
6:14 Being the only member of his species in the entire dimension seems to win Willy DuWitt a lot of privileges with the locals (as we'll also see in the next episode) because his home world isn't involved in any of their politics. I've often thought a Star Trek series narrated from the perspective of a human from pre-warp Earth serving as a token minority aboard a 21st century Vulcan vessel would make for an entertaining show simply for showing how being an outsider necessarily beneath any political entity's notice can actually be advantageous at times.
8:57 Al Negator's little "joke" and the Air Marshal's reaction to it implies that they were planning to dispose of their "traitor" (more accurately their mole, since it's implied at the end he was never on the United Animal Coalition's side in the first place) as soon as he outlived his usefulness; an inference the children in the target audience probably wouldn't catch, but that any adults watching it with them (especially if they were historically literate) would.
9:57 How did all these fake Corsair Canards manage to operate four arms? As established in a later episode, bionic prosthetic arms almost as good as the real thing are a technology available to the ducks—and presumably to numerous other anthropomorphic animal species, including the toads. (Yeah, I'm not really spoiling anything for you even if you're watching this episode for the very first time, am I?)
10:45 A significant background detail only adults typically notice: somebody on the animation team decided to go to the trouble of showing us that the Council employs a stenographer to keep records of its meetings.
11:31 Just to "prove" he's the mole to the more gullible viewers in the target audience, the obnoxious jackal Grebb clasps his hands while sending Dogstar out to arrest Dead-Eye.
12:38 Hilariously, only for a four-armed species like Dead-Eye's could an arm-wrestling contest end in a draw like this.
13:18 Here we have an egregious animation error a remastering could easily fix: Dead-Eye is colored all orange like the background duck extras in the scene at 7:55-8:05.
13:44 It's rather odd that the ducks allow one so young to serve them even in this relatively harmless minor capacity, but I'm guessing the pirates aren't big fans of child labor laws either.
14:57 In a way, Dead-Eye and his companions are fortunate that Dogstar was the one the Council sent to enforce its orders. As defense lawyers like to point out, in modern legal systems, the police are not tasked with sorting out who's been doing what and whether anyone's guilty or innocent of a crime; that's for courts (or tribunals) to decide. Were Dogstar more competent at his job, he would simply have arrested Dead-Eye anyway, and his companions would have had to run their sting operation on the phony Corsair Canards without him.
15:09 Another animation error: not only is Jenny out of her disguise in this shot, but the erroneous proportions and weird crosshatch lines suggest Bucky (in his drag disguise) is actually supposed to be standing in front of someone or something else—like maybe a cardboard cutout somebody made of her.
15:45 While it's been established that some toads know how to fake voices, the fake Dead-Eye stays in character even in this moment of abject terror; so he's probably got some kind of voice-altering technology built into his disguise.
18:19 Something a bit horrifying to ponder: was this character always nothing but a disguise all along (throughout his rise to power, which would have taken quite some time), or did the newt kill and replace a legitimate official at some point? (Also, why do reptiles keep siding with the toads? Some kind of longstanding grudge between the cold-blooded and warm-blooded anthropomorphic animal kingdoms?)