History Recap / DuckTales2017S1E3TheGreatDimeChase

[[MoodWhiplash *cue happy credits music*]]

Scrooge [=McDuck=] gets fed up with Louie's laziness and decides to teach him a lesson about the importance of hard work by taking him to the Money Bin. In the meantime, Dewey sneaks into Webby's room to find out information about his mother, but Webby catches him red-handed and tells him that she knows nothing about Della Duck either, because Scrooge hid all evidence about her. The two tag along with Louie and Scrooge so that they can look for information about Della in the [=McDuck=] Archives.

At the Money Bin, Scrooge's meeting with his board of financial advisors is interrupted by Gyro Gearloose, who presents them his latest invention, a small multi-purpose robot named Little Bulb. Louie is enthusiastic about the idea of a robot assistant that works instead of him, but the Board turns down Gyro, telling him that all of his previous inventions have turned evil.

Louie, bored of the meeting, goes out to buy a drink from a vending machine, only to learn that the drink costs $1.10. To find the 10 cents he is missing from the price, he takes a dime that is exhibited on a velvet pillow in the Money Bin, only to learn that it was Scrooge's "number-one dime", the first money he earned when he worked as a shoe-shine boy in Scotland.

Louie panics and tries to get back the dime, but after his attempts fail, he turns to Gyro to borrow Little Bulb. Unfortunately, he mistreats Little Bulb, who, in response, fuses himself with a money-sorting machine and goes on a rampage to collect all the dimes in the building. Gyro manages to stop the rampaging robot, but during the chase the number one dime falls among the giant pool of coins in the Money Bin, and Louie has to dig it out.

After Louie returns the dime to its pillow, Scrooge reveals that it was just a decoy, as he carried the real "number-one dime" on a necklace in his neck. He gives the decoy dime to Louie as a reward for his hard work during the day, which Louie cherishes... only to get thirsty and throw it in the vending machine again.

In the meantime, Dewey and Webby encounter Emily Quackfaster, the insane librarian of the Archives. As Dewey is a family member of Scrooge, Quackfaster allows him and Webby to enter the Archives, but she tells them that they must face the Trials of the Archives - which mostly consist of sorting books. When Dewey, eventually, refuses, she draws a sword and chases the two children around the library. Dewey throws books at her in self-defense, which she puts back to their place - the last one being "[[MythologyGag The Life and Times of Della Duck]]", which is nearly empty. But, as the last book is put to its place, it opens the door to a secret room, where Scrooge hid all the evidence regarding Della Duck. Dewey and Webby learn that Della took something called "The Spear of Selene" against the will of Scrooge. Afraid that this means Della was a traitor to Scrooge, the two decide to not tell Huey and Louie until they know more.

In the final scene, Gyro ponders why his robots always turn evil - and he concludes that to be able to control them, he must become a robot himself. He names his plan "[[{{Foreshadowing}} Project Blatherskite]]".

* HereWeGoAgain: Scrooge gives Louie the decoy dime as a reward for working all day. Louie actually appreciates it and intends to keep it, but then he absentmindedly uses it to buy a soda.

* {{Irony}}: Scrooge refuses to fire Quackfaster due to her levelheadedness. If he ever found out she went after Dewey and Webby with a sword, she'd be fired and blacklisted in an instant.

* SeriousBusiness: Miss Quackfaster considers the Archives to be very serious indeed.

* CallBack: The Spear of Selene is mentioned again - first time by Scrooge in Atlantis - this time in a note by Della apologizing for taking it.

* CompositeCharacter: Gyro seems to be combined with the previous incarnation's Fenton Crackshell, of whom he takes his catchphrase "blathering blatherskite". The end of the episode seems to imply Gyro will take on Fenton's alter ego, Gizmoduck, as well.[[note]]That said, Fenton is confirmed to appear in the show and become Gizmoduck.[[/note]]

* BullyingADragon: How Scrooge closes the argument about cutting the cash influx to the Money Bin; people who work there like Gyro and Quackfaster are brilliant but they're also nutjobs with the potential to be ''extremely'' dangerous, and firing them would make whoever was responsible a target for some scary payback. Imagine if Gyro ''set out'' to make an evil robot.

* {{Irony}}: Scrooge refuses to fire Quackfaster due to her levelheadedness. If he ever found out she went after Dewey and Webby with a sword, She'd be fired and blacklisted in an instant.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Scrooge has a tendency to employ the unemployable, or at least those who wouldn't find work anywhere. He hires Gyro who's an InsufferableGenius MadScientist who no one would touch with a ten-foot pole, and Miss Quackfaster for the same reason and he even keeps around the Buzzards as Board of Directors because they are the only ones ''cheaper than him''.

* CallBack: The Spear of Selene is mentioned again, this time in a note by Della apologizing for taking it.

--->'''Dewey:''' That is LITERALLY YOUR JOB! [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere That's it! I'm out! She doesn't know anything!]]

* BuildingOfAdventure: The Money Bin is portrayed as one, in huge contrast to its portrayal as a giant piggy bank in the 1987 series. As in the Don Rosa comics, it now has 57 floors (which visually doesn't come off, and seems to be a case of BiggerOnTheInside). In addition to the giant space with the coins, there's an underground laboratory for Gyro, and a huge library full of archives, and as Scrooge notes with some amount of pride and affection, it's full of lunatics like Gyro Gearloose and Miss Quackfaster.

* ShoutOut: The way Louie shouts out "No-no-no-mineminemine!" while chasing the dime into the Money Bin sounds an awful lot like DaffyDuck from the WarnerBrothers cartoon "Ali Baba Bunny" (specifically the scene where he's trying to stuff the genie back in the lamp, mistaking him for a competitor to the wealth he and Bugs found).

* NoAntagonist: Although Miss Quackfaster and Little Bulb both act somewhat antagonistic, neither is truly villainous, and the main conflict of the episode is caused by Louie's laziness and greed instead.

* NoSocialSkills: Gyro's massive ego doesn't translate into smooth, flawless communication skills:
-->'''Scrooge:''' Gyro, what did we say about interacting with other people?\\
'''Gyro:''' ''[Sigh]'' The cards. ''Fine.''

* VillainsOutShopping: When not antagonizing Scrooge, Flintheart Glomgold appears as a celebrity guest on the TV show "Ottoman Empire".

* BigNo: Louie when he spends the dime Scrooge gave him as a reward on another soda.
* BlankBook: ''The Life and Times of Della Duck'' is almost entirely blank. The only thing inside is a Dewey Decimal number that points to the location of the secret archive room.

* DisproportionateRetribution: According to Webby, one time the mailman brought junk mail to the house addressed to Della. Scrooge then bought the post office, and Webby claims he made the postman disappear (or rather she never saw him again, which given how sheltered she was may only mean he never went to the mansion again).