Huey, Dewey and Louie

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Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck are fictional characters of the Scrooge McDuck universe, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews. They were created by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro and first appeared in a newspaper comic strip on October 17, 1937. Their first on-screen appearance was in Donald's Nephews, released April 15, 1938.

They are the sons of Donald's sister Della Thelma Duck, nicknamed "Dumbella". They are sent to Donald temporarily until their father comes back from the hospital where he ended after their last practical joke of putting fire-crackers under his chair. Their parents were never heard of again and Donald had adopted them by 1942.

In v. 6 of Don Rosa's The Life and Millions of Scrooge McDuck, it is implied that their parents have passed on, leaving them their uncle Donald as their legal guardian.

They accompany their uncle Donald and their grand-uncle Scrooge McDuck in most of their adventures. They are generals of the world-wide scout organization The Junior Woodchucks.

Since the production of DuckTales, Huey, Dewey and Louie can usually be told apart by the color of their hats and/or clothing: Huey dresses in red, Dewey in blue, and Louie in green. Before this, the colors were not applied to the individual characters consistently: each character looked the same until colored, and often which colors belonged to which duck were decided by the colorist.

According to Don Rosa, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck were born in 1940 in Duckburg, Calisota.

1 TV appearances
2 Origin of names
3 Trivia
- 3.1 Huey, Dewey and Louie's names in other languages
4 External Links

TV appearances

They starred in the TV series DuckTales and Quack Pack. They were also in Disney's House of Mouse and had some appearances in Mickey Mouse Works.

Origin of names

The TV series Quack Pack added to the three their full names:

Huey's full name is Huebert Duck.
Dewey's full name is Deuteronomy Duck.
Louie's full name is Louis Duck.

But according to interviews by Taliaferro they were originally named after two political figures and an animator of the time:

Huey was named after Huey Pierce Long of Louisiana.
Dewey was named after Thomas Edmund Dewey of New York.
Louie was named after animator Louie Schmitt. For a profile of him see Louie Schmitt.

Trivia

On a few occasions, there is a fourth nephew, slipping through by a mistake of the artist. He has been named "Phooey" by editor Bob Foster. One short Egmont comic explained his existence as some freak-of-nature, dimensional warp, doppelgänger kind of thing.
In the Kingdom Hearts video game, Huey, Dewey, and Louie run an item shop in Traverse Town. They sell items and weapons to the main characters, but refuse to give a family discount to their "Unca Donald".
The movie Silent Running had three robots named Huey, Dewey, and Louie.