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Well, there are plenty of Ducktales references in popular culture. And it does hold up better more than most 'nostalgic' shows.
I'd say that it has had quite the lasting effect. More so in the US than Europe, but still.

Quote from user: Lars JensenThere were a number of differences between DuckTales and the Barks comics... but if I look at them in the context of what had to be done to make DuckTales work as a mid-1980s half-hour animated children's adventure series, I think Disney did a very, very good job. Mike, you should be proud of what you and your colleagues accomplished. Give yourself a pat on the back. :)
I think that Lars sums things up quite well here. Is DT a completely satisfying substitute for the comics themselves, in all their variegated splendor? No. Is it a valuable, and appreciated, contribution to Duck-lore in general? Certainly, yes.

Quote from user: TightwadWell, there are plenty of Ducktales references in popular culture.
Just ran across this one the other day: http://ducktaleskitchen.com/

Check the spelling in the title!

Quote from user: kimba_1962Just ran across this one the other day: http://ducktaleskitchen.com/

Check the spelling in the title!
Haha. I'm almost convinced that the main component of that cheeseburger is duck meat. :P

Quote from user: Lars JensenQuote from user: DebbieQuote from user: Lars Jensen...did the DuckTales crew ever consider using comics characters not worked on by Barks (such as Brigitta MacBridge)?
They did use a few:
The Phantom Blot
In "The Pearl of Wisdom", Pete's (Sharkey in this episode) henchman resembles Pete's generic henchman in many Paul Murry stories
Ludwig Von Drake (although Barks did draw Von Drake once in a gag page, he didn't make extensive use of the character.)
The Beagle Brats
Oops, you're right. I'd completely forgotten about those appearances. Forgetting the Blot one is especially shameful.

The Beagle Brats showed up in "Take Me Out of the Ballgame", right? (Don't tell me I'm wrong on that one as well :) .)
What about (in my opinion, the most glaring omission,) Grandma Duck? Was there ever a plan to use her in DuckTales?

Quote from user: DebbieI would imagine that the DuckTales crew wouldn't have used Grandma Duck as they already had a grandmotherly figure in Mrs. Beakley.
I would argue they are very different characters. Grandma has a frontiersman background, and is ruggedly independent. She lives on a farm, and several episodes could have sprung out of that. Plus, she is actually related to Scrooge (through marriage) and the boys. I think not using her was an opportunity lost. She also could have had a huge role on "Quack Pack", where there was no Mrs. Beakly (although I understand the tone of that show was very different from DuckTales).

I think that the dated aspects of Grandma Duck's personality also would have kept her out of DuckTales. Even more so than Uncle Scrooge, Grandma is a throwback to another era, and always has been since she was introduced. Many of the changes made in DuckTales were done to try to give Barks' Duckburg a contemporary (circa 1987) feel, and apparently the writers felt that the show still needed updating despite being a hit when they opened with a time-traveling miniseries introducing Bubba and another serial introducing Fenton Crackshell and his robotic Superhero alterego, Gizmoduck (keeping up with Back to the Future and Robocop), so I can see why they'd be hesitant to include a Victorian era Grandma. Although I will give them credit for keeping Scrooge's Klondike gold rush days and his old flame Glittering Goldie as a part of his history, rather than omitting an important part of his life.
Or maybe there is an even easier answer...who else besides the most avid comics fans (like myself) remembers Grandma Duck? I think the DuckTales staff can be forgiven for not remembering her.

Quote from user: MatildaDuckTales is the fiction produced in a fictional world! You can enjoy it and be amused by its inaccuracies, in the same way that you can imagine the ducks themselves enjoying it and being amused/irritated by its departure from Barksian "real life."
And Donald being angry because he doesn't get to be in the show that often. Say, that almost sounds like a normal Duck comic. You know, one of those mid-90s Vicars. Donald gets his own TV show, and then doesn't appear in it himself. Real!Donald throws a fit, people think he's cosplaying as Fake!Donald (and being bad at that), HDL becoming famous, Scrooge not wanting to can the show because he makes money of it, the Beagle Boys being recognised in public, and people pointing out differences between the shows as being wrong in Real!Duckburg. "Hey Glomgold, why'd you move to South Africa?"

And Grandma was as far as I know used twice in Disney animation. She and Gus Goose had a cameo in the Fezziwig sequence in Mickey's Christmas Carol, and a Grandma-like character had a cameo in SportGoofy. (She appears right after Scrooge is scared through the roof sfter he learns he just gave away $1 million.)