Huey, Dewey and Louie
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They are the sons of Donald's sister Della Thelma Duck, nicknamed "Dumbella" and one of Daisy Duck's brothers. 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. 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.
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 (or sometimes yellow).
According to Don Rosa, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck were born in 1940 in Duckburg, Calisota.
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 (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0773436/).
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.
Huey, Dewey and Louie's names in other languages
- Croatian: Hinko, Dinko i Vinko
- Czech: Bubík, Dulík a Kulík
- Danish: Rip, Rap og Rup
- Dutch: Kwik, Kwek en Kwak
- Finnish: Tupu, Hupu ja Lupu
- French: Riri, Fifi et Loulou
- Faroese: Dinni, Danni, Dunni,
- German: Tick, Trick und Track
- Hungarian: Tiki, Niki és Viki
- Icelandic Ripp, Rapp og Rupp
- Italian: Qui, Quo e Qua
- Norwegian: Ole, Dole og Doffen
- Polish: Hyzio, Dyzio i Zyzio
- Portuguese: Huguinho, Zezinho e Luisinho
- Russian: Billy, Villy i Dilly
- Serbian: Raja, Gaja i Vlaja (cyr: Раја, Гаја и Влаја)
- Slovene: Pak, Žak in Mak
- Slovak:Hui,Dui,Lui
- Spanish: Hugo, Paco y Luis (Jorgito, Juanito y Jaimito in Spain)
- Swedish: Knatte, Fnatte och Tjatte
- Turkish: Cin, Can ve Cem
- Indonesian: Kwik, Kwek dan Kwakda:Rip, Rap og Rup
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