History Recap / DuckTales2017S3E4TheLostHarpOfMervana

* AnAesop:
** No one can deny the truth forever because it always catches up with you.
** Don't be blindly trusting, but don't be unreasonably cynical either.
** There's nothing wrong with being peaceful and spiritual, but you've still got to put in a hard day's work if you want to get anything done.

** Additionally, she's a friendly pink-haired character voiced by Hynden Walch who appears alongside a laidback, green-colored vegan character who's voiced by Creator/GregCipes... [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans sound familiar?]]

** The eponymous harp looks similar to the one in the original series episode "Raiders of the Lost Harp", except with [[RaceLift brown feathers]] and [[AdaptationDyeJob purple hair]] instead of white feathers and blonde hair. Her CatchPhrase when someone tells a lie ("Fibbing, fibbing, fibbing") comes from the same episode.

* ObligatoryJoke: The first thing that is said once we see the mermaid world is a ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' reference.

* ShoutOut: When first swimming among the Mervanans, Webby says, "[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Look at this stuff! Isn't it neat?]]"

* WaxingLyrical: Webby says: [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Look at this stuff! Isn't it neat?]]

* AbsenteeActor: Launchpad does not appear in this episode.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Coming to an understanding with Webby, Beakley promises "no more lies". However, the harp detects this as yet another lie. Whatever other secrets Beakley is hiding aren't revealed until near the end of the series.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally chipper and positive Webby becomes disillusioned by her grandmother's lies that she becomes even more cynical than Louie, who becomes concerned for her.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: This episode reveals that Della absolutely ''hates'' fish and anything fish related, including mermaids. When she sees the Mervanans for the first time, instead of being taken with awe, she arms the sub's torpedoes.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Unlike the original ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' episode, Scrooge doesn't set off any DisasterDominoes by taking the harp as loot. The harp being an actual character instead of a magic machine playing a recorded voice is one reason, but it's primarily that this version of Scrooge doesn't covet or steal other people's treasures. Having discovered and documented it (thus completing a quest his idol Isabella Finch couldn't) is enough for him.

* ObligatoryJoke: The first thing that is said once we see the mermaid world is a WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid reference.

* ObligatoryJoke: The first thing that is said once we see the mermaid world is a WesternAnimatiom/TheLittleMermaid reference.

* NewAgeRetroHippie: The Mervanan culture as a whole consists of these. To the point that Beakley approves [[NoodleIncident because she spent time undercover with hippies]].

* HiddenDepths: Beakley went undercover among hippies in TheSixties and found it "groovy."
* HorrorHippies: Subverted. The Mervanans all act and behave like flower-power hippies, but Louie and Beakley think they are plotting something. By the end of the episode, it is revealed that they were all genuine; the monster they ''thought'' they were going to feed them to was just as much of a surprise to them as it was to the Duck family.

* HorrorHippies: Subverted. The Mervanans all act and behave like flower-power hippies, but Louie and Beakley think they are plotting something. By the end of the episode, it is revealed that they were all genuine; the monster they ''thought'' they were going to feed to them was just as much of a surprise to them as it was to the Duck family.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Unlike the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales 1987'' episode, Scrooge doesn't set off any DisasterDominoes by taking the harp as loot. The harp being an actual character instead of a magic machine playing a recorded voice is one reason, but it's primarily that this version of Scrooge doesn't covet or steal other people's treasures. Having discovered and documented it (thus completing a quest his idol Isabella Finch couldn't) is enough for him.