History Recap / DuckTales2017S3E2QuackPack

* AnAesop:
** Every family has their own share of quirks. There's no such thing as a normal family.
** Goofy explains to Donald that the best memories in life come by chance and not when they're planned.
** Also parodied in-universe, with the plot of the "previous episode" of the sitcom world apparently having involved Louie learning "an important lesson about honesty."

** Scrooge, Donald, Mrs. Beakley and Launchpad are wearing the same outfits as their 1987 versions.

'''Dewey:''' That's how we Dewey things!\\
'''Louie:''' Yuh boy...\\

* CatchPhrase: Heavily used in the ''Quack Pack'' reality. At one point, just after TheReveal that the entire situation is the result of a wish Donald made, Donald, Scrooge, Della, Dewey and Mrs. Beakley all spontaneously say their catchphrase at the same time.

''[Scrooge, Della, and Louie’s ([[OhCrap eyes widen, as they each slowly look to where the fourth wall should be]] and see a camera crew and studio audience watching them]''\\

'''Scrooge, Della, and Louie:''' ''([[OhCrap eyes widen, as they slowly look to where the fourth wall should be]] and see a camera crew and studio audience watching them)''\\
'''Della''': Okay, ''that'' is a little weird.

* BenevolentGenie: Gene does his honest and sincere best to make Donald's wish for a normal family come true -- though the sitcom bent might've been him indulging himself, given his proclivity for showmanship. Things only go wrong when someone besides Donald tries to undo the wish. He's also all too happy to explain how the family can get out of the wish and apologizes for the circumstances they find themselves stuck in. PlayedWith as well, as while Gene has no bad intentions, he also grants wishes based on his own limited/flawed understanding of what something is rather than what the wisher may have actually meant (in this case, thinking that a "normal" family has to be a 90s sitcom family with all the tropes and a live studio audience). Furthermore, he's not able to directly help when the magic of the wish starts to put the ducks in danger, only stand by and observe/talk to them.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The family is rightly upset with Donald for trapping them in a sitcom, especially once it's revealed that he knew what was going on the whole time and could have gotten them out, but instead chose to keep his beak shut about the wish he made. Donald does offer a very compelling argument about how dangerous their normal lives are and that life in the sitcom would be safe and lacking drama for all of them. Given all of the suffering and psychological harm the Duck family has had to go through because of their adventuring Donald's not entirely wrong on his end, something the family seems to concede going by their expressions. Huey agrees, but also points out that they’re not supposed to be a normal family and adventuring is part of who they are.

'''Louie''': Yuh boy...\\

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Played in universe where the kids dance in colourful backgrounds before moving on to the next scene, Huey who is aware that they are trapped in a false sitcom reality is confused and terrified on why he ends up in this scenery.

-->'''Donald''': Is it so wrong to want to be normal?

* MassOhCrap: The Ducks when the audience turns on them and reveal themselves.

-->'''Gene''': Everyone's a critic.

* PteroSoarer: Louie's selfie shows Donald being carried off by a pterosaur (it resembles ''Ludodactylus'', but its teeth look like bill serrations). It's bird-footed, with two toes in front and one in back, and got weird bony rods supporting the wing, but at least it's using its bill to grab like a real pterosaur.

* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: One of Donald's photos shows Dewey being chased by a medium-sized tyrannosaur.