CHEATING

 

WDCS054 - 1945

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews decide to race to Pumpkinburg on skates. But Donald stoops to cheating.

Comments:
Barks wrote quite a number of stories in which Donald and the nephews cheated each other. Often they were competing following a quarrel about who was the best at a certain sport. This time it is skating...

 

WDCS071 - 1946

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews are racing each other swimming with Donald as the constant winner. The nephews then decide to cheat but Donald listens in...

Comments:
Another sport - swimming. And this time both parties are cheating. In a later swimming story, WDCS190, only Donald cheats.

 

WDCS075 - 1946

Synopsis:
The nephews win a live turkey for Thanksgiving but they get too attached to it to eat it. So Donald has to find another turkey for dinner...

Comments:
In this story the ducks join forces against a cheating manager of a turkey shoot. He has hooked the metal turkeys so that they will not fall, although they are being hit by Donald's shots. The nephews decide to retaliate by secretly unhooking the targets, and Donald can win the grand prize.

 

WDCS098 - 1948

Synopsis:
Scrooge persuades Donald to participate in a fox hunt but the fox is rather sly...

Comments:
Donald and the nephews decide to cheat in catching a fox so that Scrooge can win a business contract. The nephews lease one at a fox farm, but Donald reaches the finishing line with no less than 300! When the Ducks cheat they really cheat!!!

 

WDCS105 - 1949

Synopsis:
Donald figures out that his nephews are responsible for the dubious echoes in Thrushwhistle Glen and he decides to put them to the test...

Comments:
Donald is quite right, because his nephews are staging false, duck-made echoes in order to collect money for a ball game. Barks recycled the plot in WDCS215 with the difference that all four Ducks tried to cheat both Gladstone and Scrooge.

 

WDCS112 - 1950

Synopsis:
The nephews want to skate but Donald makes them go down south with him. There they pull a trick on their uncle making him believe that he slept for twenty years!

Comments:
This would constitute the ultimate in cheating if Donald had really slept for twenty years. Still, making him believe that his short nap really lasted for that period of time is an achievement in itself. Furthermore, during their car trip back, the nephews succeed in making Donald believe that the world has changed considerably during his long 'absence'. The nephews sure win points in this story...

 

WDCS279 - 1963

Synopsis:
Donald is running a carnival game where the nephews try to win prizes by hitting targets with baseballs. The nephews are good but the game is rigged..

Comments:
Donald is cheating the carnival guests - there may well be more than just the nephews - in an unbecoming fashion, but the nephews find out and he gets his just desserts.

 

HELPFULNESS
MISUNDERSTANDINGS
REPERCUSSIONS
CHEATING
MORALIZING
CONFLICTS
RESCUES
UPBRINGING
TEASING

 

 

http://www.cbarks.dk/thebehaviourcheating.htm   Date 2005-08-06