un-loving and rambunctious, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are three mischievous kids out to have a good time. They never mean to cause a problem (well, almost never), but havoc seems to follow "the boys" wherever they go. It's not that they're so reckless -- they are Junior Woodchucks, after all; it's usually the fault of their vigilant guardian, beloved "Unca' Donald." Even when they try to do something nice for him, he can foul up their plans with his suspicious nature. Still, while they are good kids at heart, their motives are not always so angelic. They've been known to play hookey from school, inflict practical jokes on their susceptible uncle, and wreak general havoc. Even so, they've often got a better handle on their own natures than Donald's got on his, and they know it. That's why, every once in a while, the lines between guardian and guarded get a little blurry, and nephews can occasionally seem more like uncles. Originally there was no way to tell Donald's nephews apart, because the colors on their costumes were used interchangeably. Because the stories for the "Ducktales" television series were more complicated than they were for the short Donald Duck cartoons, it was deemed necessary to distinguish between the three nephews. So Huey was dressed in red, Dewey in blue, and Louie in green. You can remember this by noting that the brightest hue of the three is red (Huey), the color of water, dew, is blue (Dewey), and that leaves Louie, and leaves are green. The nephews made their debut in the Donald Duck Sunday comic page on October 17, 1937, and first appeared on film in "Donald's Nephews" (1938).