Talk:Beagle Boys

Hm

Hm. Either this page should be moved to Beagle Boys, ... or Beagle Babes should be moved to The Beagle Babes and Beagle Brats to The Beagle Brats. -- Timwi 15:55, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Done. violet/riga (t) 13:39, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Bugle or Bebop?

As far as I can recall, the jazzy Beagle Boy went by the name Bugle in the cartoon, or at least in the episode Hero For Hire. I haven't seen any other episodes that he appears in in quite a while, so I could be mistaken. But my question is, when was he referred to as Bebop? The comic book?

Could it be an infringment with the Bebop character of the Ninja Turtles, which would've been on air around the same time? Giamberardino 03:56, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

not based on dogs or beagle breed

Being the owner of a beagle I cannot help but fully understand why the creator of the Walt Disney cartoon characters chose the name and "dog" characters. The beagle boys are always getting into trouble, they always get caught; just like a real beagle. The match is perfect.

the status seekers

The three Beagles on "The Status Seekers" (the ones hired by Charles Upstuck III) are introduced as Bonaparte (Big-Time), Bicep (Bouncer), and (I forgot Burger's name). They're virtually clones of Big Time, Burger, and Bouncer, possesing the same voices. However, they wear golf shirts, are in the "Club-Fed" prison, and have a more advanced vocabulary. Shouldn't they be considered as different beagles boys?

• I just assumed that they were the same Beagle Boys, but they were in a fancy prison for no reason and hence had more posh names. But they were the same actual Beagle Boys. Nzseries1 (talk) 19:08, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Um, why does the family portrait say "Trish" where "Ma" should be? If there's no answer soon, I'm going to assume it's vandalism and change it back.

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Running Gag

• The fact that the Beagle Boys always fail in their attempts to rob Scrooge and keep trying is a running gag; only once did they nearly succeed {In both the Disney Comics and a episode of Duck Tales}-when challenged by Scoorge to determine the disputed ownership of the money bin, the Beagle Boys accepted a test of diving into the bin head first against Scrooge-and lost; their heads weren't as hard as Scrooge's! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.53.145.121 (talk) 01:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • I wouldn't say the Beagle Boys always failing is a running gag. This is a children's comic - every criminal always fails! They have to send proper messages to the children. JIP | Talk 15:17, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism warning

Although I'm probably one of the few people who checks this page daily, I want to give everyone else the head's-up. The user 96.226.67.102 keeps vandalizing "DuckTales" Beagles, adding Beagle Boys that may or may not be real in the comics, but with very fishy "evidence," as well as adding "Pa Beagle" to the DuckTales universe. Keep an eye out and try not to make a fuss. That's just what he wants. 70.249.163.132 (talk) 02:21, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Ma Beagle merge

Saw the merge notice, and have to agree with it. I don't see "Ma Beagle" as having notability distinct from the Beagle Boys as a group.
Kww (talk) 14:46, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

The numbers (1, 7 and 6)

Is there any particular reason why their tags are always based on these three numbers? It'd be interesting to have it here. 189.112.59.185 (talk) 13:08, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I've always thought it was simply a random choice. JIP | Talk 20:25, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Mickey Mouse?

Since when have the Beagle Boys appeared in Mickey Mouse comics? JIP | Talk 20:24, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

This has now been unaddressed for three days. I have reverted the addition of the Mickey Mouse universe categories. If someone wants to add them back, they are welcome to, provided they provide an explanation. JIP | Talk 21:56, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

-167 or -176 loves prunes?

There is an internal inconsistency. About their personalities, there is a throwaway comment that -167 loves prunes, but in the list of different characters, this is attributed to Burger Beatle, -176. I don't have comics here to verify, but my guess is that the throwaway comment should be removed. (if corrected, it would be good to include a couple more examples of how their personalities differ, shouldn't be hard to do based on the material already in the article.) Kjetilho (talk) 14:17, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

It might not be consistent in the first place. Some things about comics characters' identities are not firmly established even in the comic itself. For example, I have yet to see a consistent definition of which of Huey, Dewey, and Louie wears which colour of cap. And as an example outside Disney comics, the only consistent thing about the Dalton cousins is that Joe Dalton is the shortest, most clever, and quickest to anger, while Averell Dalton is the tallest, most stupid, and has an enormous appetite. I have always had trouble remembering on which of the middle two - Jack and William Dalton - was which, and I later read that even Morris himself isn't consistent about it. JIP | Talk 18:59, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

In the original Barksian comics it is -167 that loves prunes, the smell of stewed prunes specifically. In one episode though, it was boiled cabbage that he loved. Barks explained in some fanzine that he simply forgot what dish it was that the Beagle Boy loved and wrote cabbage. Since the explanation for his love was that they were served in prison, boiled cabbage actually seems likelier than stewed prunes. Prunes are funnier, though, and that counts for a lot. Burger is a character from the TV cartoons, so there is no real contradiction there, so many differences exist you have to consider it a different universe. And Barks was not always consistent from appearance to appearance as to what the number was of which Beagle.Halfelven (talk) 08:15, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

On your other subject, Huey, the eldest duckling and the bossy leader of the three, wears a red cap on both the covers and inside the American comics. He does most of the talking to adults and generally finalizes their consensus decisions. Huey is manipulative and politically astute, a born politician. Dewey wears blue and is the intellectual, scientist, and puzzle solver of the three and usually looks things up in the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook. He designs and builds gadgets, too. Louie is the youngest and wears a yellow cap on covers and a green cap inside the comics, partly because of the limitations of cheap printing methods. Louie is the athlete and daredevil and the one who most often challenges the bad guy physically or gets to lag behind to cover a retreat. The cap colors were not always consistent and Barks denied ever having decided which brother wore what color, again, in an interview in a fan publication I no longer own. He claimed that someone at Western Publishing must have made those decisions. There are a couple of books containing interviews with Mr. Barks and perhaps one of those reprints the article I read.Halfelven (talk) 08:15, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Lee Child, Beagle Boys Fan?

In the recent Jack Reacher novel, 61 Hours by Lee Child, reference is made in a prison context to an imaginary file number of 517713. Except for the first and last digits, this could be a Beagle Boy number. Halfelven (talk) 08:15, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

I find this rather far-fetched. Appearance of the digits 1 and 7 in a number isn't really that unusual. JIP | Talk 18:51, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

"Barks/Rosa universe"

There's no such thing as a "Barks/Rosa univers". Barks stories are very different of Rosa stories. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.250.166.126 (talk) 19:35, 29 September 2013 (UTC)