43 Facts About Clinton Coot

1.

Clinton Coot created a fictional timeline for when certain characters were born.

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Clinton Coot had personally created several of the latter, Scrooge McDuck and Gladstone Gander being the most notable among them.

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Clinton Coot had given several interviews and answered questions about his personal views on the characters and their stories.

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4.

Clinton Coot's illustrated version of the tree was first published in several fanzines and later in The Carl Barks Library.

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5.

Clinton Coot is the husband of Elvira Coot, known to the family as "Grandma Duck", and the father of Quackmore, Eider, and Daphne Duck.

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Clinton Coot is Donald's paternal grandfather and the maternal great-grandfather of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, through their mother Della.

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7.

Clinton Coot appears unnamed in the 1955 film No Hunting, in which he posthumously inspires Donald to take part in hunting season.

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Clinton Coot was introduced to the Disney comic universe by Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp in the Donald Duck newspaper comic strip, first in a picture on the wall in the August 11,1940, Sunday page, and then as a full fledged character in the strip on Monday, September 27,1943.

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9.

Clinton Coot made a non-speaking cameo in Mickey's Christmas Carol and can be spotted in the background of the DuckTales episode Horse Scents.

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10.

Clinton Coot was born in Duckburg, and from and early age displayed a heavy temper.

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11.

Clinton Coot worked at his parents' farm till 1902 when he met Hortense McDuck and they became engaged.

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12.

Clinton Coot is Donald's mother, Quackmore and Elvira's daughter-in-law, Daphne and Eider's sister-in-law, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie's maternal grandmother.

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13.

Clinton Coot was born in Scotland and is the youngest sister of Scrooge McDuck.

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14.

Clinton Coot married Goostave Gander, and in 1920 became the mother of Gladstone Gander.

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15.

Clinton Coot was first mentioned in August 1944 in the story "The Fighting Falcon" by Carl Barks.

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16.

Clinton Coot later married Lulubelle Loon and became the father of at least two sons, Abner "Whitewater" Duck and Fethry Duck.

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17.

Clinton Coot is the nephew of Scrooge McDuck, the older twin brother of Della Duck, and the uncle of her sons Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck.

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18.

Clinton Coot was first described as Donald Duck's cousin, but was later referred to as Donald's twin sister.

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19.

Clinton Coot was first mentioned in a 1937 Donald Duck Sunday strip on October 17,1937 in which she writes a letter explaining to Donald that she is sending her sons to stay with him.

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20.

Clinton Coot is depicted as the caretaker of one of Scrooge's undersea research facilities that Huey and Dewey visit.

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21.

Clinton Coot is shown to be a son of Eider Duck and Lulubelle Loon and Fethry Duck's brother, making him Donald's first cousin.

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22.

Clinton Coot is a flopped architect and inventor who was responsible for the construction of the "Jog Tunnel", which annoys the citizens of Duckburg because it really has a jog in it, and for the bad planning of Duckburg's streets.

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23.

Clinton Coot made his only major animated appearance in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Pacifically Peeking", and had a cameo appearance in the episode "House of Crime" of the House of Mouse TV series.

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24.

The name "Clinton Coot" was used by several comic authors including Carl Barks, but Don Rosa was the first to show their relationship to Donald.

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25.

Cornelius Clinton Coot made his first television appearance in the DuckTales episode, "The Golden Armory of Cornelius Clinton Coot".

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26.

The episode retells the story of Clinton Coot's founding of Duckburg, though the Spanish are replaced by Beagles in the story.

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27.

Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby explore the catacombs under Fort Duckburg in search of his treasure, discovering a series of giant popcorn makers that Clinton Coot used to imitate the sound of gunfire and scare the Beagles into retreating.

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28.

In Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree, Clinton is married to Gertrude Gadwall and their two children are Grandma Duck and Casey Coot.

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29.

Clinton Coot is named after Bill Clinton, who was running for President of the United States when Don Rosa created the character.

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30.

Clinton Coot makes his animated debut in the 2018 TV show Legend of the Three Caballeros, voiced by Thomas Lennon.

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31.

Clinton Coot founded the New Quackmore Institute near the site of one of their headquarters, building a cabana over the base itself, but his business partner Baroness Von Sheldgoose would seize control over the rest of the land the campus sat on.

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32.

Clinton Coot is introduced as an unsuccessful gold prospector and friend of Scrooge McDuck during his years in Klondike.

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33.

Clinton Coot's share included "Killmule Hill" which, renamed to "Killmotor Hill", comprises the land where Scrooge's money bin stands.

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34.

Clinton Coot later appeared in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8 and Hearts of the Yukon.

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35.

Clinton Coot married to Gretchen Grebe and they had at least two kids named Fanny and Cuthbert Coot, being the maternal grandfather of Fanny's son Gus Goose.

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36.

Cuthbert Clinton Coot was introduced in the story "Webfooted Wrangler, " first published in April 1945, as a distant cousin of Donald Duck and a rancher.

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37.

Kildare Clinton Coot was introduced by Italian artist Romano Scarpa as a highly eccentric fourth cousin of Donald Duck in the story "Sgrizzo, il papero piu balzano del mondo", first published on October 25,1964.

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38.

Clinton Coot was originally supposed to be Gladstone Gander's father, Daphne Duck's husband and Gus's uncle, but Carl Barks later changed his mind, making Goostave Gander Gladstone's biological father and Daphne's husband.

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39.

Clinton Coot debuted on May 9,1938 in Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp's Donald Duck comic strip, before making an animated appearance in the 1939 short Donald's Cousin Gus.

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40.

Clinton Coot has a tendency of falling asleep at random occasions, sometimes even standing up.

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41.

Clinton Coot made non-speaking cameo appearances in both Mickey's Christmas Carol and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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42.

Clinton Coot is an anthropomorphic male goose who possess exceptional good luck that grants him anything he desires as well as protecting from any harm.

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43.

Clinton Coot has only been used a few times since; one example is a Brazilian comic story where he competes with Huey, Dewey and Louie.

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