# Donald Duck's popularity in Europe.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 18, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-ducks-popularity-in-europe/802011 "2017-11-18T18:54:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-ducks-popularity-in-europe/802011/21 "2017-11-19T20:07:33Z")

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The only real serious, into-adulthood Donald Duck fanatic among my friends (I’m in NYC) grew up in Italy. We all learned the expression “sgrunt” from him.

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**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-ducks-popularity-in-europe/802011/22 "2017-11-19T20:13:58Z")

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A bilingual college buddy could do a remarkable Donald - in both English and French. He said it worked great as a conversation starter in French bars - in the US, not so much.

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-ducks-popularity-in-europe/802011/23 "2017-11-20T00:53:39Z")

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> [@aldiboronti](#):
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> Agreed, he’s not particularly popular at all in the UK. Maybe non-English-speaking countries like him because you don’t have to understand English to watch as he’s unintelligible even in English.

Interestingly, in at least Poland and Hungary, his stuff actually is dubbed. Search for “Kaczor Donald” or “Donald Kacsa” on Youtube, and you’ll see plenty of examples.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-ducks-popularity-in-europe/802011/24 "2017-11-20T03:06:48Z")

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> [@bmoak](#):
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> It’s not really Disney per se, or even Donald Duck, that is/was very popular in (parts of) Europe, but specifically the Scrooge McDuck adventure comics by Carl Barks and later Don Rosa.

Years ago a friend of mine told me he was reading a biography of Scrooge McDuck. I had no idea there had been an ongoing storyline about these characters for decades.

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-ducks-popularity-in-europe/802011/25 "2017-11-20T12:45:57Z")

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Belgium

My brother was a big fan of Disney comics growing up. I wasn’t, but I’d often pick up one of his magazines when I was bored and, from what I remember, Donald Duck was at least as popular as Mickey Mouse. Perhaps even a bit more, because he was funnier. Scrooge McDuck was also very well-known.

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