Recap / DuckTales (2017) S2 E21 "Timephoon!"

Rewriting history indeed!

When Louie uses Gyro’s Time Tub to steal lost treasures from the past, a mysterious storm in the present sends all of space and time crashing down onto the mansion.

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Tropes:

• Adaptational Badass: The series' version of Tootsie is bigger and more ferocious.
• Adaptational Nonsapience:
  • Subverted; it seems at first that Bubba went from speaking broken English to not being able to talk at all. Instead, though he only manages to learn a few modern words (which is pointed out as impressive regardless), he's otherwise much more intelligent than his original counterpart.
  • Played straight with Tootsie, who has gone from a Nearly Normal Animal to a more realistic one.
• Adaptational Villainy: The original Tootsie was Bubba's friendly pet. This version of Tootsie is instead a savage wild animal (especially since she's now hailing from an earlier time period than Bubba's), helped by being bigger and much more menacing looking.
• An Aesop:
  • Punishing your kids is necessary because it gives them time to learn from their mistakes and not repeat them.
  • Even if you made the same mistakes as your children, you should still punish them for it, as it teaches them to do better than you did.
  • Sometimes apologizing alone isn’t enough to learn from your mistakes.
  • Regardless of how remorseful you feel for your actions, you still have to face the consequences.
• Age Lift: Tootsie is older than in the original, as evidenced by her larger size. She is presumably still not yet fully-grown, being smaller than an adult Triceratops and having short horns.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Scrooge doubts that Bubba was frozen in an iceberg and thawed in the storm. Webby points out it happened to him twice.
• Armor-Piercing Response: When Della is chewing out Louie for his use of the Time Tub:
  Della: You took off in that contraption without thinking of the consequences or the people you would hurt!
  Louie: (bitterly) I wonder who I got that from.
  Everyone else: (gasps, then silently and uncomfortably acknowledges his point)
• Artistic License – Paleontology:
  • Lampshaded when "Tootsie" stomps into the manor.
    Dewey: Aw, it's just a dinosaur. Bubba's a cave-duck, he can take care of it.
    Huey: That's impossible! Dinosaurs lived millions of years before cave-ducks.
    (Bubba is now on the Triceratops, riding it like a bull)
    Huey: (deadpan) Aaaand he's riding it. Great.
  • Despite the Shown Their Work moments listed below, Huey did get two things wrong in his anthropological research. There is no evidence prehistoric people used mastodon remains for their homes (he might have meant a woolly mammoth), and his "rudimentary cave-duck language" is actually just grunting noises inaccurately associated with early humans (although this is lampshaded).
  • Huey isn't exactly correct that dinosaurs lived before cave-ducks; ducks ARE dinosaurs.
• Balloon Belly: Bubba gets one after eating quite a few chili cheese dogs.
  "Bubba chubba!"
• Battle Cry: Bubba exclaims "BUBBA CLUBBA!" as he charges in to club a Triceratops on the head.
• Becoming Part of the Image: Happens to Bubba when, while skateboarding, he collides with a wall, and a painting falls on top of him.
• Berserk Button: Being told that his research is wrong is this for Huey, to the point Dewey recoils in fear after suggesting that.
  Dewey: Maybe... and, and hear me out here... um, your research is... wrrrong? (shields himself) Don't hurt me!
• Big Storm Episode: The McDuck family is preparing for an incoming hurricane, which combines with the temporal anomalies caused by Louie's time travel to create the titular "timephoon".
• Bilingual Bonus: The storm is called El Pato. This is a pun on an El Niño tropical storm, except Pato is Spanish for "duck".
• Bittersweet Ending: On Louie's part. Sure, he saved the day by sending everyone back to the past, but Della calls him out on his reckless action, grounds him and has Louie Inc. shut down. So in other words, Louie has lost his company and now resents Della further.
• Black Comedy:
  • When the kids hear something falling outside of the mansion, they run to investigate, despite a massive storm closing in. The following ensues:
    Della: What are they gonna find out there? Some rain, some debris...
    Dewey: Hey, cool, a dead guy!
  • When the family comes back from the various eras they were transported to, Launchpad returns as a Future Badass — bedraggled, unshaven and seemingly so haunted at witnessing how the world ended that he can barely form words. He then immediately follows up with, "It was neat! See ya there soon!"
• Both Sides Have a Point: Della points out that Louie can't get off scot-free for nearly destroying time, while Louie retorts that she shouldn't be lecturing him for doing the same things she did when she was younger.
• Brick Joke: Beakley warns the kids that eating nothing but chili cheese dogs will give them scurvy. When they are fighting pirates later, one is hit by a chili dog and shouts "My scurvy!"
• Call-Back: Scrooge's hatred of Santa is shown again, as he has a Santa trap in his chimney. Della and Beakley use this to get rid of a ninja.
• Calling the Old Man Out: When Della calls Louie out for taking off in a contraption without thinking about the consequences or people he would hurt, Louie responds that is basically what Della did with the Spear of Selene.
• Calling the Young Man Out: While Della has acted as more of a Cool Big Sis than a mom to Huey, Dewey, and Louie since returning from the moon, particularly in the front half of this episode, nearly losing her family to Louie's scheme causes her to put her foot down and call Louie out for not thinking of the consequences of his actions. When Louie responds by Calling the Old Man Out (above), Della responds by grounding him until he understands the gravity of the situation.
• Canis Latinicus: Huey calls Bubba a Duckuslopithecus, a play on Australopithecus.
• Can't Take Anything with You: In this case, you can take something from the past, but you're highly discouraged from doing so. Repeatedly removing lost treasures at certain points in the past upsets the flow of time and causes space-time to collapse on itself.
• Cassandra Truth: When Huey submits his report on his research on Bubba to the Junior Woodchucks it is rejected due to sounding too "wildly outlandish". Dewey and Webby comfort him saying that some people just aren't ready to know the truth yet.
• Casual Danger Dialog: Della and Beakley argue about parenting while fighting off a ninja.
• Character Development: Della learns even the best kids can make bad mistakes, and sometimes punishment is needed more than forgiveness. She also has learned from stealing the rocket after Louie points it out.
• Chekhov's Gun: Scrooge's collection of family canes includes a prehistoric-looking club. Guess what Bubba uses to defend the Duck Manor during the climax? It's even more if you check the first episode... Bubba's SKELETON is in there!
• Comically Missing the Point:
  • When Launchpad saw Louie flash back to the present in the time tub, he focuses more on the tub part than the time-travel part.
  • When Beakley uses stepping on a butterfly in the past as an example of the Butterfly Effect, Della chastises her for even thinking about killing butterflies.
  • When Beakley asks Della what she sees wrong with Bubba skateboarding in the house, Della remarks that he should be wearing a helmet, then congratulates herself on good parenting.
• Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: When Bubba saves Huey from Tootsie the Triceratops, clubbing her on the head, Huey initially begins to complain about how Bubba using clubs is inaccurate for caveducks, like he has for everything else. Subverted when he stops partway and says "What am I complaining about?! This is awesome! Go you freak of history!"
• Continuity Nod:
  • Louie learned about Gyro's time tub in "The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck". Now he uses it for the prime story line.
  • Gandra Dee mentioned Benjamin Frankloon as a famous scientist from the past. Now he makes an appearance in person thanks to the time vortex.
• Contrived Coincidence: The opening of the episode includes Huey talking about wanting to study caveducks and Scrooge showing his oldest ancestor's club, right before an actual caveduck appears.
• Description Cut: Huey, Dewey, and Webby assume that Bubba could be Scrooge's ancestor, but brush it off as crazy. The very next scene flashes back to the Stone Age, where Bubba carves himself a top hat out of stone.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: When Della chews out Louie for his greedy and reckless use of the Time Tub, remarking how he didn't even think of the consequences to his actions or the people he would hurt with them, Louie backhandedly brings up Della's similar actions to show how they're alike. All this does is shock the rest of the family, who were all willing to forgive Louie for what he did, and even angers Mrs. Beakley enough that she begins to speak against Louie herself until Della stops her, and punishes Louie for his actions.
• Domesticated Dinosaurs: Subverted; Bubba does not have a pet dinosaur in this continuity since they've been extinct for millions of years in his time, and the show's version of Tootsie is nothing more than a wild animal. Bubba does attempt to tame the Triceratops in the same manner as a cowboy would do to a bull, but it doesn't work.
• Easily Forgiven: Zig-zagged; while most of the family is willing to forgive Louie, it's averted with Della, who ends up grounding him.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite disapproving of Della's lax parenting, Beakley gets angry at Louie for his scathing remark that his mother is just as irresponsible as him. Likewise, Della was alright with the kids' antics until Louie's reckless usage of the Time Tub for greed causes the Timephoon, which put everyone in mortal danger. Once everything is settled, she tells him he's grounded.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Everyone brought into the present by the Timephoon suffers from this. Bubba is more adaptable than the others though, being able to handle things from outside his original time period. Most others turn violent and basically start rioting.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Bubba's Establishing Character Moment is of him entering the cave the treasure was in and avoiding the traps for it, foreshadowing that he's the ancestor of the adventure-ready Duck-McDuck family. Also, unlike the other time-displaced subjects he immediately figures out and adapts to the modern world, building up to him being "smarter than the smarties" like Scrooge.
  • Bubba's painting on Scrooge's whiteboard shows a Triceratops beside Louie, Launchpad and the Time Tub, much before "Tootsie" actually shows up in McDuck Manor.
• Gone to the Future: Launchpad was zapped into the future, apparently witnessing the end of the world.
  Launchpad: (cheerful) It was neat. See you all there soon!
• Go to Your Room!: Della says just that to Louie at the end of the episode.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: If the various period outfits everyone is wearing on their return to the present, and Launchpad's declaring that he saw the future end of the world, are any indication.
• Hands Go Down: After explaining his scheme to Launchpad, Louie asks if he has any questions. Then adds "keep in mind again that this is not a real tub and cannot be used for bubble baths." Launchpad, wearing a shower cap, puts his hand down and puts away the rubber ducky he was holding.
• Human Popsicle: Dewey and Webby bring up the classic "caveman got frozen in an iceberg and thawed out in modern times" trope to explain Bubba's presence. Scrooge scoffs at that notion despite it happening to him before, which Webby calls him out on.
• Hypocrite: Huey says that he wants to study cave-ducks, but refuses to accept the behavior he witnesses from an actual cave-duck because it contradicts what he researched.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: Similarities to her own actions aside, Della punishing Louie for his reckless use of the Time Tub is treated as the right choice. Though "hypocrite" is stretching it at best, as Della never once tried to defend her actions as somehow more okay than Louie's, and even cuts off Beakley when she speaks up to scold Louie for talking back to his mother.
• Ignored Aesop: Even after seeing how everything went wrong, Louie STILL holds that his plan was perfect.
• Instantly Proven Wrong:
  • After Mrs. Beakley finds Dewey and Webby stocking up on chili cheese dogs for the hurricane:
    Beakley: I doubt your mother would approve of the nutrition—
    (she groans as she turns to see Della helping herself to a chili dog)
    Della: What? Chili cheese dogs put the "hurray" in "hurray-cane party"! It's no big deal.
  • Louie assures Launchpad that there are no problems in their time-travelling, only to find Bubba got dragged to the present time. When Launchpad starts panicking that they could be in the past, Louie tries to calm him down saying there is (probably) no effect on the timeline. Cue the clocks in the mansion going haywire and a band of pirates being transported to the manor by the storm's lightning.
  • Everything involving Huey with Bubba due to the latter being able to effortlessly handle things a cave-duck would not encounter, like skateboards and dinosaurs.
  • When Scrooge, Beakley, Della, and Louie are at the living room to discuss about the Timephoon:
    Scrooge: Perhaps Gyro has some time tech left that will help us identify what's causing this.
    Louie: I love where your head's at, Uncle Scrooge! Ohhh, too bad we can't ask him. Because of the storm.
    (the storm's lightning enters the room and teleports in Gyro, who falls onto the floor and frantically grabs Scrooge's coat)
    Gyro: SOMEONE STOLE MY TIME TUB AND DESTROYED TIME AND SPACE!
    Louie: Ew, boy.
  • After the women dealing with the ninja, Scrooge informs them about another time anomaly:
    Scrooge: There are Spanish freedom fighters on the roof!
    Mrs. Beakley: Are you certain?
    Freedom fighters: Vive la Révolution!
    Scrooge: Uh, no. They may be French.
• Inventing the Wheel: Discussed; when Bubba discovers skateboarding, Huey tries to stop him because wheels were invented long after the Stone Age.
  Huey: Stop! He shouldn't be exposed to wheels for another 10,000 years!
• Jerkass Has a Point: When Della decides to punish Louie for causing the time storm with his reckless use of the time tub, he angrily but accurately fires back that her description of what he did was basically what Della did with the Spear of Selene. Even though everyone sadly and silently agrees, save for Beakley who gets infuriated by the remark, Della still puts her foot down and rightfully punishes Louie. That said, Louie still misses the point his mother is trying to get across.
• Karma Houdini: Almost seems to happen, when the family is seen easily forgiving Louie for the Time Tub incident but is then averted when Della disciplines Louie for it, and the next episode shows said punishment sticking.
• Kick the Dog: When Della disciplines Louie for being reckless and not thinking about how he could have hurt others, Louie backhandedly brings up how Della did just that to the family years ago.
• Late to the Punchline: Launchpad takes a couple of seconds longer than the others to get Louie's remark about getting his recklessness from Della.
• Laughing Mad: Huey after Dewey suggests his research might be wrong.
• Like a Duck Takes to Water: Bubba shows no angst or worries to be out of his own time and home, adapting very well to everything he is handed, including a skateboard. He also casually rides a similar time displaced dinosaur with ease. It actually drives Huey crazy as how well he fits into the present.
• Like Father, Like Son: Della and Louie are this in the worst way possible. Both took a dangerous contraption and used it without thinking of the consequences of using it or how their actions would hurt other people. Louie even points it out in a backhanded manner, but it ultimately had little to do with the situation he’s in.
• Literally Laughable Question: As Dewey and Webby stock supplies for the storm, Webby asks Louie if he'd like to help. Then all three have a good laugh about it.
• Magical Camera: Benjamin Frankloon's reaction to the TV camera.
  Ben Frankloon: As history's foremost meteorologist...WHAT THE DEVIL IS THIS BOX?! IS IT STEALING MY SOUL?! (throws the camera to the ground, cracking the lens) Back to you, Roxanne.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": The whole family is in shock when Mrs. Beakley is transported through time by the storm. Bubba even does a Glasses Pull and mutters "Bubba Trubba" as he looks on with them.
• Moral Luck: Discussed between Della and Louie. When Della calls Louie out for starting Timephoon, he protests that he didn't mean to cause the damage he did, so he shouldn't be punished as if the damage caused by his time-traveling was intentional. Della counters that his time-traveling scheme was still reckless, dangerous, and an amoral get-rich-quick scheme motivated by his own greed and said greed almost destroyed not only his family but all of space and time. As a result, she grounds him.
• Mythology Gag:
  • When being threatened by a Triceratops, Huey tries to talk her down and wants to call her "Tootsie". Tootsie was the name of Bubba's pet Triceratops. The Triceratops is also orange and at a young age, much like the original Tootsie.
  • Webby introduces herself to Bubba as "Webba," his nickname for her in the original series.
  • Dewey briefly sings Bubba's theme song from the original series as the music plays in the background.
  • Bubba riding on the Triceratops references his relationship with Tootsie in the original series.
• Never My Fault: Louie tries to defend himself from blame when Della finds out he stole the Time Tub and damaged the space-time continuum. First he says she is overreacting and it isn't a big deal since he already returned the treasure he took and can put everyone else back. Then after everything is resolved he thinks he shouldn't be punished just because he apologized. When Della grounds him and orders him to put an end to Louie Inc. he just glares and storms out of the room, kicking the Time Tub on his way out and mumbling "Stupid perfect scheme" to himself.
• Ninja Log: One appears after the ninja performs a Smoke Out.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: A few famous historical figures were bird-ified, like Benjamin Frankloon and Queen Elizabeak.
• Noodle Incident: Watching the kids stock up on chili cheese dogs to eat during the hurricane, Mrs. Beakley warns them that by the eighth day of eating nothing but, they will get scurvy... again.
• Not Me This Time: Gyro flatly denies that he is the cause of the Timephoon since he just arrived at the mansion.
  Scrooge: (eyes narrowed) Said the clone.
• Not Helping Your Case: While Louie correctly points out that Della indeed did something similar to his scheme in this episode, the way he uses her time stranded on the moon due to her recklessness to deflect blame for his actions only serves to enrage Mrs. Beakley and makes Della stand firm on her decision to ground him.
• Oh, Crap!: Louie when he sees that his latest time-travelling scheme has hit a snag.
• Parents as People: Della is still struggling with being a good parent to her kids (still acting more like a Cool Big Sis) and Beakley has to help her out. While she does ultimately manage to discipline Louie at the end of the episode, she considers it one of the hardest things she's had to do.
• Parental Hypocrisy: Played for Drama. Della tells Louie off for stealing a contraption without thinking of the consequences, then Louie points out that she did the exact same thing. Objectively speaking, Louie upsetting the space-time continuum would have considerably far worse consequences than Della's stealing of the Spear, but her mistake stuck for several years and tore apart her family, whereas Louie's consequences were fixed in an afternoon.
• Perma-Stubble: Launchpad gains some on his bill after coming back from the future.
• Pirates Vs Ninjas: Among the first things the Timephoon carries to the present are a band of pirates and a ninja. Unfortunately, they don't fight each other.
• Portmanteau: Highlighted by Roxanne, she combined "typhoon" and "time vortex" to call the phenomenon the titular "Timephoon!" Doubles as Portmantitle.
• Pushover Parents: Della acts like this at first, being all chill towards the kids' antics and actually encouraging them, until she realizes that it all resulted from Louie's greed. She finally subverts this by grounding Louie for his actions.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Huey's eyes gain red irises as he becomes more and more enraged by Bubba failing to act in accordance with his research.
• Reimagining the Artifact:
  • Since the idea of non-avian dinosaurs and cavepeople living together has become a thoroughly Dead Horse Trope, Bubba does not have a pet Triceratops in this continuity. He instead encounters a Triceratops in modern times by means of time anomaly, and the dinosaur doesn't act friendly towards him.
  • Bubba is much more intelligent than in the original since the portrayal of Neanderthals and other prehistoric people as stupid is now discredited. Heck, he's the founding father of the McDuck line. Likewise, his use of wheels and clubs, which alludes to the common inaccurate portrayal of early humans, is both lampshaded and a show of his intelligence.
  • This version of Tootsie is more in line with modern depictions of dinosaurs with their legs erect and tails off the ground, in contrast to the original who was based on old-fashioned "sluggish and lizard-like" portrayals.
• Rejected Apology: Della is the only person who doesn't accept Louie's apology, no matter how regretful he might be, and justifies it by pointing out how she watched her entire family (her other two children included) blink out of existence because of this situation that Louie caused.
• Ripple Effect Indicator: When Mrs. Beakley vanishes, Scrooge realizes she's been thrown back in time when she appears in the painting of Scrooge, Donald, and Della fighting pirates.
• Sanity Slippage: Huey does not take it well when his anthropological research turns out to be wrong.
• Seen It All:
  • Della is initially unphased at their new, temporally-displaced visitors because this is stuff she's dealt with every day.
  • When a ninja shows up in his home, Scrooge calls them worse than termites because you can't get them out of the rafters.
  • Roxanne is not at all surprised that McDuck Manor is the epicenter of the time weirdness. She also rather casually reports about the time vortex, as if it was something that has happened before and does not need explanation.
• Shout-Out:
  • The cowboy and cowgirl that appear during the Timephoon are dressed like Woody and Jessie.
  • Beakley describes the Butterfly Effect by mentioning a scenario where a butterfly gets stepped on by a time-traveler in the past.
  • The conversation between Della and Beakley about stepping on butterflies is not all that different from one had by the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. Bonus points, of course, for David Tennant being part of both shows.
  • One of the early McDuck canes is a parrot-headed umbrella.
  • A prehistoric animal (a Triceratops in this case) ending up in modern times due to a temporal anomaly brings to mind Primeval.
• Shown Their Work:
  • Huey correctly points out that Paleolithic people didn't have wheels or clubs, in contrast to the stereotypical portrayal of cavemen which was present in the original show. (Bubba's capability of using both wheels and clubs showcases how advanced he is.)
  • Huey is also correct that non-avian dinosaurs and early humans lived millions of years apart, averting the Hollywood Prehistory trope that was also present in the original show.
  • Bubba is portrayed as a Genius Bruiser rather than Dumb Muscle like in the original. This is more in line with real-life prehistoric people (including Neanderthals) who were just as intelligent as their modern counterparts, in contrast to the common perception of cavemen as extremely slow-witted.
  • Instead of a cave, Huey uses an animal skin hut as a reference for his replicated Stone Age shelter for Bubba. In real life, early humans sheltered mostly in huts than caves, as the latter are rare.
  • Tootsie is correctly depicted with erect hindlimbs and a raised tail like an actual dinosaur, rather than semi-sprawling legs and a dragging tail as in the original series. Also, she is implied to be warm-blooded, which dinosaurs are believed to have been, as she is shown to be constantly active even during a storm when there is no sunlight for warming up in.
• Stable Time Loop:
  • Louie mentions that he only steals treasures that were never discovered because they went missing. He claims he travels to the point in time right before they are recorded to have gone missing and take them. It never seems to occur to him that he is the reason they went missing.
  • Scrooge owns a caveman's club that was apparently used as a cane by the McDuck family's prehistoric ancestor. Bubba takes said club back with him to the past, which means he's the ancestor Scrooge was talking about. This also means that that club is infinitely old. The fact that Bubba took the club back implies that it was Louie's scheme that made the McDuck family in the first place due to the former's experiences in the future.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Gyro begins his account of what happened to his time machine by saying that he was definitely not building a clone army. The flashback clearly shows him surrounded by clones of himself.
• Temper-Ceratops: The show's version of Tootsie is an aggressively territorial wild animal that charges around and wrecks whatever is in her path.
• Time Travel for Fun and Profit: Louie's time-traveling shenanigans are what cause the Timephoon to happen.
• Title Drop: Roxanne coins the "Timephoon" term in a broadcast.
• Tough Love: Della really gives it to Louie when she scolds him for his scheme backfiring, grounds him and sends him to his room. She admits it was hard, but Beakley reassures it was for the best. This is actually a Reconstruction of the idea. Beakley points out that it's not about coming down on the children for every slip up they make but that sometimes they honestly mean well and cause trouble by mistake but have to be disciplined so they can know better and grow as people.
• Trapped in the Past: Everyone except Launchpad (who got sent to the future) and Louie get trapped in the past during the climax.
• Tricked Out Time: Subverted. Louie thinks he can do this by taking a lost treasure the moment it got lost, but doing so still disrupts the flow of time. Putting the objects back the moment they were taken doesn't fully undo everything either.
• Undying Loyalty: Although Bubba is shocked by the McDuck family when he first sees them, he quickly warms up to them and is constantly friendly and playful with them throughout the episode. He is also notably the only time anomaly that is never hostile towards any of them, even protecting them from the other anomalies and willingly going back to his own time to save the space-time continuum. This all makes more sense when it is revealed that he is the first member of the McDuck family, and was thus protecting his descendants.
• The Unreveal: After Louie is grounded, Launchpad reveals that he was sent into the future and seen how the world ended... then leaves revealing that it was just "cool".
• Was Too Hard on Him: Della loses her temper on Louie for not only his get-rich-quick scheme but also for endangering their family. After grounding him and having him go to his room, Della hopes that she wasn't too hard on Louie. Beakley assures her it was the right thing to do.
• Waxing Lyrical: The first line of the episode is almost identical to the first line of the theme song.
• Wham Episode: Della punishes Louie for his time-traveling shenanigans, grounding him and shutting down Louie Inc. The wham factor here is that until this moment, Della has been a very lenient parent, spoiling the boys and unwilling to discipline them.
• Wham Shot: The last scene of the episode has Bubba putting on a top hat that he made out of stone and using the club that he brought home as a cane, revealing that he is the first McDuck.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • After the disaster is fixed, Della chews out Louie for his irresponsibility and grounds him, ordering to dismantle Louie, Inc.
  • Beakley becomes livid at Louie for his scathing Like Parent, Like Child remark and attempts to give him a piece of her mind for talking back at his mother, but Della stops her and insists she'll handle it herself, as she and everyone else knows Louie has a point.
• Wrong Time-Travel Savvy: The whole mess started because Louie misunderstood what impact his actions would have on the timestream.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Huey submits his report on his research on Bubba to the Junior Woodchucks. It gets rejected due to sounding "wildly outlandish", and thus he doesn't get his new edition of the JW guidebook.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: It seems that significantly more time passed for everyone who got sent through time than it did for Louie back in Duckburg, since they're all wearing different outfits despite only minutes passing in the present.
• You Are Grounded!: Della punishes Louie this way at the end of the episode.

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