40 Facts About Gus Goose

1.

Gus Goose created a fictional timeline for when certain characters were born.

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

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3.

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

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4.

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

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5.

Gus Goose 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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6.

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

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7.

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

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8.

Gus Goose 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.

Gus Goose 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.

Gus Goose was born in Duckburg, and from and early age displayed a heavy temper.

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11.

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

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12.

Gus Goose 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.

Gus Goose was born in Scotland and is the youngest sister of Scrooge McDuck.

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14.

Gus Goose married Goostave Gander, and in 1920 became the mother of Gladstone Gander.

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15.

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

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16.

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

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17.

Gus Goose 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.

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

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19.

Gus Goose 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.

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

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21.

Gus Goose 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.

Gus Goose 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.

Gus Goose 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.

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

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25.

Gus Goose 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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26.

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

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27.

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

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28.

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

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29.

Gus Goose 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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30.

Gus Goose 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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31.

Gus Goose is Donald Duck's second cousin, and the great-nephew of Grandma Duck.

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32.

Gus Goose 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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33.

Gus Goose has a tendency of falling asleep at random occasions, sometimes even standing up.

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34.

On occasion Gus Goose has even shown signs of ingenuity as to finding methods or solutions to make his chores much easier for him and at times even automating them so he does not have to work at all.

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35.

Gus Goose made no appearances in DuckTales, but there is a background character in the series, Vacation Van Honk, who looks similar to him.

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36.

Gus Goose appeared in the 2000s animated series Disney's House of Mouse, as the club's gluttonous chef, speaking only in honks rather than words.

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37.

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

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38.

In Danish comic book stories, Gus Goose has appeared as the boyfriend of a classy and rich anthropomorphic swan named Cissy Swann.

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39.

Gus Goose 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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40.

Gus Goose 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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