Headscratchers / Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

• In Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas Max is a little kid (younger than on Goof Troop), but here he is a teenager. Yet Huey, Dewey, and Louie remain the same.
  • Huey, Dewey and Louie have a Gary Coleman-esque kidney problem. They are really in their 40's.
  • Huey, Dewey, and Louie have been stuck inside of a timewarp for the past 12 years
  • Did the second movie ever actually say that the stories all happened on the same Christmas?
    • Well at the end of the movie teenaged Max and 10-year old Huey, Dewey, and Louie are shown singing Christmas carols along with the rest of the gang.
  • To add to the mystery, Huey, Dewey, and Louie appear to be the same age in the Kingdom Hearts prequel, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, as they appear ten years later in Kingdom Hearts II. Maybe they just don't age?
  • This can be explained by a little judiciously-appled Tiny Toons physiology — i.e. laughter (or rather, mindshare) keeps a toon young (or rather, at their "iconic" age). People know Huey, Dewey, and Louie as 10 year olds, so they stay 10 year olds; people don't really know Max, so he ages normally.
    • Relatedly, there's also the fact that the people who do know Max are already used to him aging normally.
• This one is even lampshaded by Huey, Dewey and Louie. Scrooge sadly tells them that he never got a bagpipe for Christmas because his greed prevented him from being on Santa's Nice List. Why didn't he just buy one? Yes, we're talking about the stingy Scrooge, but being generous enough to get on Santa's Nice List would cost him more than buying a bagpipe.
  • Even more confusing: Don Rosa and Carl Barks have shown that Scrooge had a set of bagpipes with him when he immigrated from Bonnie Scotland to America.
  • Scrooge, despite his greed, carries a lot of sentiment to his belongings, most of his money bin consists of coins with some memorable link to this past. Getting bagpipes meant more as a gift and just in the general spirit of Christmas, especially when it means getting debunked as a "Naughty Listed" selfish miser.
    • Building on this, Scrooge's response to Dewey's question about why doesn't he just buy what he wanted is quite telling. "You cannot buy being on Santa's list". The show DuckTales (1987) hinted that Scrooge takes great pride in his ability to earn everything fair and square. For him, it's the thrill of realizing he's been rewarded for his hard work. It's not the bagpipes that he wants. It's what it represents to him; he earned it fair and square for being a good person. That's why he doesn't just buy a set of bagpipes; what would be the point of owning it if he didn't earn it in some way?
• Do Huey, Dewey and Louie think adding themselves to Santa's Nice List will trick him? If nothing else, the differences in the handwriting would give them away.
• Santa's Nice List has nothing but first names. How can he tell the children with the same first name apart?
  • The list is sorted by towns, he only bothers if there's more than one nice child in the same city with the same first name.