The Idol Rich

TaleSpin"The Idol Rich"
Season 1
Number 6
Episode information
Production code	009
Written by	Carter Crocker Libby Hinson Bruce Talkington
Storyboards by	Bob Cline Yi-Chih Chen
Directed by	Jamie Mitchell
Original airdate	June 16, 1990 (Disney Channel) September 20, 1990 (syndication)
TaleSpin Episodes
Previous	"The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink"
Next	"Stormy Weather"

"The Idol Rich" is the sixth episode of The Disney Afternoon animated series, TaleSpin. It first premiered on June 16, 1990 on the Disney Channel before making its syndication premiere on September 20, 1990.

Synopsis

Baloo competes with Colonel Spigot to acquire a valuable idol, but uses brains over brawn to get the idol back when Spigot takes the idol from him.

Cast

• Jim Cummings as Louie, Back-Alley Thug
• Ed Gilbert as Baloo
• Michael Gough as Colonel Spigot
• Lorenzo Music as Sergeant Dunder
• Alan Roberts as Kit Cloudkicker
• Sally Struthers as Rebecca Cunningham

Home video releases

VHS

• TaleSpin: Treasure Trap
• TaleSpin: Dare-Devil Bears (Foreign release)

Laserdisc

• TaleSpin: Treasure Trap/Imagine That!

DVD

• TaleSpin: Volume 1
• TaleSpin: First Collection (Foreign release)

Trivia

• This marks the first episode to use the running gag in which ends with Baloo getting money, becoming extremely happy because of it, only for someone to point out he has to use the money he acquired to pay for damages caused throughout the episode.

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Media TaleSpin (Videography/Soundtrack) • Reboot • Walt Disney's World on Ice: Double Feature... Live! • Raw Toonage • NES game • Genesis game • Comic book Characters Baloo • Kit Cloudkicker • Rebecca Cunningham • Molly Cunningham • Wildcat • Louie Lamount • Airplane Jane • Clementine Clevenger • Katie Dodd • Princess Grace • King Amok • Lotta Lamour • Prince Nevarhas Bin-Broak • Bandar-log • Captain William Stansbury • Joe Magee • Doctor Cooper • Rick Sky • Whistlestop Jackson • Myra Foxworthy • Detective Thursday • Inspector Burrow • Oscar Vandersnoot • Shere Khan • Khan's Pilots • Don Karnage • Air Pirates • Ivanod Spigot • Sergeant Dunder • Jack Case • Daring Dan Dawson • Ace London • Heimlich Menudo • Weazel • General Patton • Trader Moe • Thaddeus E. Klang • Kitten Kaboodle • Ignatius • Dr. Axolotl • Dr. Zibaldo • Buffy and Muffy Vanderschmere • Douglas Benson • Prince Rudolf • Chancellor Trample • Emperor Wan Lo • Professor Martin Torque • Seymour • Covington • MacKnee • Sheriff Gomer Cleghorn and Deputy Wendell • Crazy Edie • Cool Hands Luke • Hans and Helga Episodes "I Only Have Ice for You" • "Time Waits for No Bear" • "A Touch of Glass" • "It Came From Beneath the Sea Duck" • "The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink" • "The Idol Rich" • "Stormy Weather" • "Plunder and Lightning" • "From Here to Machinery" • "Mommy for a Day" • "Molly Coddled" • "Polly Wants a Treasure" • "Vowel Play" • "Bearly Alive" • "Her Chance to Dream" • "All's Whale That Ends Whale" • "The Golden Sprocket of Friendship" • "For a Fuel Dollars More" • "A Bad Reflection on You" • "On a Wing and a Bear" • "A Star is Torn" • "A Spy in the Ointment" • "The Balooest of the Bluebloods" • "A Baloo Switcheroo" • "Whistlestop Jackson, Legend" • "Double or Nothing" • "Feminine Air" • "Last Horizons" • "Flight of the Snow Duck" • "Save the Tiger" • "The Old Man and the Sea Duck" • "War of the Weirds" • "Captains Outrageous" • "The Time Bandit" • "For Whom the Bell Klangs" • "Citizen Khan" • "Gruel and Unusual Punishment" • "Jolly Molly Christmas" • "My Fair Baloo" • "Waiders of the Wost Tweasure" • "Flight School Confidential" • "Bringing Down Babyface" • "Jumping the Guns" • "In Search of Ancient Blunders" • "Louie's Last Stand" • "Sheepskin Deep" • "Pizza Pie in the Sky" • "Baloo Thunder" • "Bullethead Baloo" • "Destiny Rides Again" • "Mach One for the Gipper" • "Stuck on You" • "The Sound and the Furry" • "The Road to Macadamia" • "The Ransom of Red Chimp" • "Your Baloo's in the Mail" • "Paradise Lost" • "The Incredible Shrinking Molly" • "Bygones" • "Flying Dupes" Locations Cape Suzette • Higher for Hire • Louie's Place • Wildcat's Houseboat • Khan Industries • Thembria • Pirate Island • Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang • Macadamia • Tinabula • Panda-La Songs Spin It • I'm Gone • Home is Where the Heart Is • Sky Pirates • Monkey In Your Tank • Friends for Life Objects Sea Duck • Khan Transport • Iron Vulture • Spruce Moose • Pirate Fighters • Idol of the Spirit-Switcher • The Ruby Wings • The Three Bells of Tinabula See also The Jungle Book • The Disney Afternoon