Glomgold forms his own team made up of all of Scrooge's greatest villains to defeat Scrooge's family once and for all.
This episode contains examples of:
- 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: As part of the Stylistic Suck of the theme song, the fight between Toth-Ra and Glomgold is done in very poor 3D CGI animation. Lampshaded in the song lyrics.C-C-C-CG, it's so fancy! / Once Scrooge sees it there's no chance, 'e / cannae compete with the glory of GlomTales!
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Glomgold breaks down and admits that he can't beat Scrooge on his own, pleading with Ma Beagle for an alliance.
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: A downplayed instance where the villain is merely defeated rather than killed, but Owlson is still happy with Glomgold's loss all the same, even if she doesn't admit it aloud, because she won't have to work alongside him anymore.
- Backwards-Firing Gun: A non-lethal variant with Beaks' "Face-Punch" app. When all the villains turn on Glomgold, he intends to hit Glomgold, but accidentally hits himself due to it being in "Selfie Mode".
- Batman Gambit: Louie pulls off a HELL of a one. Using their mutual hatred of Scrooge, he convinces the villains to pool their resources to back Glomgold so he wins the bet in exchange for the villains sparing the Duck-McDuck family. He then convinces Glomgold to sign him on as his partner, knowing that Glomgold would never 1) use his real embarrassing name of Duke Baloney for anything, or 2) read the fine print on the contract detailing that Louie would get his shares should he use an alias. For good measure, Louie even uses his own Embarrassing First Name on both points that matter, therefore making himself the richest duck in the world once he pulls this off, therefore stripping his foes AND his great uncle of all their wealth. This is also a monumental rebuttal to Della's earlier prior accusations that he Didn't Think This Through, since he proves here that he does, actually, think through the plans he works on - occasionally stuff goes wrong, but as proven before in "Timephoon!", he has a way of undoing it all.
- Behind Every Great Man: While Glomgold is the face behind the Legion of Doom, it's clear that Ma Beagle is the brains of the operation as she frequently advises Glomgold throughout the episode.
- Bindle Stick: Seeing his family pack a bunch of these reveals to Louie which adventure they're going on. He packs his own when he tries to sneak out and follow/beat them to Rock Candy Mountain.
- Blatant Lies: Owlson tells Scrooge that she is NOT thrilled that she is going to work with him instead of Glomgold. She clearly is.
- The Bus Came Back:
- For his first appearance since "Sky Pirates...in the Sky!", Don Karnage joins Glomgold's Legion of Doom.
- A new DT-87 model droid is constructed to babysit Louie and prevent him from concocting any schemes.
- The Funzo's Fun Zone staff, including Jane the waitress and the costumed mascot, make an appearance.
- Call-Back:
- Glomgold says that Scrooge's family works for him because they "I don't know... love him". This is near identical to what Lena said to Scrooge back in "The Shadow War: Part I".
- Della casually hopes that the DT-87 won't turn evil this time.
- Bigtime Beagle says "You guys, our family is awesome!" once the Legion of Doom is assembled, just like Dewey did back in the pilot.
- Character Development: Della realizes that Louie's schemes in and of themselves aren't bad and they can be used to positive ends that help the family rather than put them in danger, while Louie learns that not all of his schemes have to benefit him solely.
- Chekhov's Gun: Louie remembers Glomgold's real name is Duke Baloney, which means "Flintheart Glomgold" has no legal bearing.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Glomgold admits at the end that he never had any intention of sharing all the things he promised to his "family". He just needed their money in order to win the bet.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends with Louie earning all of Flintheart's money, along with his allies'. Della tells him to sign the company back over to Scrooge, but we see Louie thinking about it for a long time. Cut to black.
- Confronting Your Imposter: In one of his attempts to escape his grounding, Louie disguises himself as Huey to try and trick DT-87. Unfortunately for Louie, it doesn't work because at that very moment, DT-87 receives a call from the real Huey.
- Continuity Nod: Louie is still grounded after his time-traveling stunt he pulled in the previous episode. In fact, Della goes to extreme measures to keep him from leaving his room. Plus, she is still mad about what happened, as evidenced in the Cold Open.
- Crazy-Prepared: Della prepared for nearly every possible way in which Louie could get around his punishment, blocking all the videos on his phone and Huey's tablet except for her pre-recorded videos, along with any internet service. Unfortunately, Della neglected the possibility of outside threats to Louie, which was a huge oversight on her part.
- Cut Phone Lines: By the time Louie tries to call for backup due to the Legion of Doom showing up at the mansion, Mark Beaks has already intercepted any outgoing calls. Presumably he also blocked cell service, but Louie's was already cut off.
- Cutting the Knot: Louie's plan for Glomgold to win the bet against Scrooge? Well, it was simply about having the most money, and several of the Legion of Doom are incredibly rich independently, so if everyone just gave their money to Glomgold, he'd have even more than Scrooge.
- Dark Horse Victory: Louie ends up winning the bet between Scrooge and Glomgold.
- Didn't Think This Through: The Legion of Doom finds out that Glomgold didn't have an actual plan for destroying Scrooge and his family. His strategy was just to assemble counterpoints for each member of the family and kill them all, with no thought given to how that would be done. His lack of planning is so bad that they attack the manor when almost everyone is away.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Glomgold might be a complete idiot that overlooks a lot of details, but he manages to win over the more intelligent Ma Beagle by rightfully pointing out that all of Scrooge's enemies are hopeless in fighting him by themselves and that they have a bigger chance of finally scoring a win together than apart.
- Epic Fail: While Louie is pretty clever, Magica puts just how bad Glomgold lost as thus:Magica: Let me get this straight. You stole all of our fortunes and lost it all to a child?!
- Et Tu, Brute?: Scrooge and the rest of the family are shocked that Louie would betray them for the villains and become Glomgold's partner. Until Louie reveals it was all part of a scheme.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Louie clearly gets the idea for his plan when he looks at the picture of Scrooge with the deed to the city.
- Eviler than Thou: Glomgold is extremely irritated that Magica is considered the more impressive villain and ringleader of the gang. His insistence that he's the boss and that she lost most of her power falls on deaf ears.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Ma Beagle starts to say that Glomgold must have had a perfectly good plan besides just showing up at the Manor and fighting before she realizes whom she's talking about.
- Fakeout Escape: Louie calls it a "Double Dummy Fakeout". First he tricks DT-87 into thinking he escaped through the door after it came in and found a dummy in his bed. That was also a decoy to distract it from the room while he tries to sneak out the window. It fails, however.
- Foil: With time running out on the bet he himself proposed, Glomgold once again falls back on poorly thought out scheming that didn't get him anywhere, only with more desperation than ever before. Meanwhile, Scrooge goes on a relaxing adventure to accumulate even more wealth to pad his count; in essence, he calmly and consistently puts in the work to win, even when everyone considers it a sure thing.
- Foreshadowing: What kind of family restaurant would have the patience to have Magica De Spell working with children let alone hiring her? One run by a criminal organization, that's who.
- Forgiveness: Upon witnessing Louie helping Scrooge beat Glomgold and hearing him say that he learned his lesson, Della decides to forgive him and offer to help him use his talent for good reasons over selfish one.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- The auto-complete on Mark Beaks's search bar has several gags, including "Mark Beaks have friends?" and "two babies in cardigan?"
- In Funzo's Fun Zone, Beaks is wearing a shirt that says "I am 10 years old". Likewise, Ma Beagle's shirt says "Tired but Fabulous".
- Also in Funzo's, when Magica is being chastised by the mascot Don Karnage is in the background trying not to laugh.
- Magica's cheque is made out to 1 billion dead souls and the memo states that it's for an idiot contest.
- The contract between Louie and Flintheart has been redacted, but careful study can reveal at least some of what it said.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: The episode ends with Louie in the middle of one. Scrooge and Della expect him to hand McDuck Industries back to his uncle, but Louie is clearly having second thoughts given that it would mean giving up his lifelong goal minutes after obtaining it.
- Frothy Mugs of Water: The song specifies that Big Rock Candy Mountain has lakes of stew and whiskey. Of course Disney changed this to the soft drink Pep.
- Get Out!: Duckworth to the invading villains; unfortunately, Magica makes short work of him.
- Given Name Reveal:
- Glomgold refers to Ma Beagle as "Katherine" while in McDuck Manor.
- While it's been said a few times throughout the series, a Freeze-Frame Bonus confirms how to properly spell Louie's full first name.
- Go to Your Room!: Louie is stuck in his room while his family continues to go on adventures, and Della has put in every measure she could think of to keep him from leaving.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Averting this trope allows Louie to pull off his Batman Gambit. He's able to get all the non-Glomgold villains onboard with his gambit by pointing out how Scrooge would become virtually untouchable were he to add Glomgold's wealth and possessions to his own. As Louie anticipates, the other villains openly dread how such a scenario would make their own attempts at revenge practically impossible to achieve.
- Graceful Loser: Zan Owlson congratulates Scrooge for winning the bet at first, expressing relief over not having to deal with Glomgold anymore.
- Heroic BSoD: Scrooge goes into shock upon realizing Glomgold actually figured out a way to gain more money than him and win their bet. He only snaps out of it once Louie reveals his own scheme to get both companies himself.
- Hijacked by Ganon: In-Universe, everyone thinks this is Magica's plan after seeing her, when Flintheart deserves the credit.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In true Glomgold fashion, him creating a fake alias instead of going by his real name "Duke Baloney" ultimately leaves him broke.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Magica, once the most powerful sorceress in the world and Scrooge's greatest enemy, is now working as a party magician at Funzo's Fun Zone.
- Hypocritical Heartwarming: Ma Beagle towards Big Time.Ma Beagle: You scarred him for life! That's MY job!
- I Can Explain: Glomgold to the other villains right after betraying them. Naturally, it doesn't work.
- Immediate Sequel: This episode is set right after "Timephoon!", with Louie still being grounded for his time travel shenanigan.
- Irony: Louie is grounded from joining in on the family's adventures, something he has stated to do reluctantly more than once, when they are going on an adventure that can only be described as a completely safe leisurely vacation. It even involves a river flowing with his favorite soda.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While Glomgold wants to exclude Magica primarily for ego reasons (namely, he doesn't like the idea of her being Scrooge's greatest foe instead of him), he's right that she's not as useful as she would have been in the past now that she's lost her powers. Outside of managing to dispatch Duckworth with a magical gem she had in her possession, she's reduced to using smoke bombs and just physically striking Scrooge and family during the climax.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Beaks immediately surrenders when it turns out he's fighting Launchpad instead of Gyro.
- Laser-Guided Karma: As a result of his meddling with history in the previous episode, Louie is forbidden from going on adventures with the family, in this case an adventure that he would enjoy as it's "the easiest adventure ever" and includes a river of Pep, his favorite soda.
- Glomgold attempts to betray the Legion of Doom he himself assembled once he believes he's won his bet with Scrooge. Once it's revealed that Louie conned him out of all the funds said legion pooled together, leaving them with nothing, the other villains turn on him.
- Legion of Doom: Glomgold assembles a team consisting of the other villains Scrooge and his family have faced in the series. Subverted in that Glomgold's incompetence ends up costing him not just the bet, but the respect of the other villains as well.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: Said word-for-word by Magica as she and the other villains confront Glomgold:Magica: Let me get this straight. You stole ALL of our fortunes and then lost it ALL to a child?!
- Literal Metaphor: When he looks at the photograph, Don Karnage asks Glomgold who is under his thumb. Glomgold claims that the world will be under his thumb before he realizes that his actual thumb had been hiding Webby's face on the photo.
- Literal-Minded: When Mark shows Glomgold and the Beagles his new online currency "Beaks Coin" and says it's worth more than every dollar in the world, Big Time demands to know where it is. After Mark says it's in the Cloud, Bouncer looks outside and sees a cloud in the sky, then seizes Burger and throws him through the window at said cloud with an eager smile on his face.
- Loophole Abuse: Louie managed to con Glomgold out of both his fortune, his company and his winnings (including his new "family's" collective wealth) by having him sign a contract of partnership. Since "Flintheart Glomgold" isn't his actual legal name, Louie is the only one all of it applies to.
- Magic Skirt: Glomgold's kilt doesn't move when he's hanging upside down. His hat also stays firmly on his head.
- Mirrored Confrontation Shot: When Glomgold's "family" arrive at the Money Bin, each member faces its counterpart in the McDuck-Duck family.
- Missing Steps Plan: Ironically, instead of overplanning, Glomgold for once seriously underplanned his scheme. It goes something like this:
Step 1: Recruit all the enemies of Scrooge and his family.
Step 2: Break into McDuck Manor.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
- Mugging the Monster: Glomgold planned to keep his Legion of Doom's pooled money for himself, not really considering that most of them were willing and able to kill him and/or steal their money back by force.
- Multi National Team: Glomgold's "Family", which consists of a South African billionaire masquerading as a Scotsman (Glomgold himself), five Americans (Mark Beaks, Ma Beagle, and her sons), a hispanic pirate (Don Karnage), and a British sorceress (Magica).
- Mythology Gag: Ma Beagle claims the Beagle Boys aren't Glomgold's henchmen. In both the original series and the comics, when not acting on their own, the Beagle Boys would serve as either Glomgold or Magica's henchmen.
- Never Filled Out Official Paperwork: Part of Louie's Batman Gambit is knowing that Flintheart Glomgold wouldn't sign a legal document with his legal name "Duke Baloney". Sure enough, Flint signs the document under "Flintheart Glomgold", making his part of the deal void and all of his money, Scrooge's money, and the money of the other villains, goes to Louie, who averts the trope by making sure he uses his legal name Llewellyn Duck.
- Never Trust a Trailer: Clips from this episode in the season 2 sneak peak
were edited to make Magica green, making it look like she had her powers back. Throughout the episode, apart from a ghost-banishing amulet she uses on Duckworth, she's still powerless. Apparently this was due to an animation error that the creators decided to keep for the trailer. - No Honor Among Thieves: Despite going on about how all of Scrooge's enemies should come together like a family, Glomgold fully intended to keep the money they gave him to win his bet against Scrooge.
- "No. Just… No" Reaction: Glomgold refuses to recruit Magica until his "family" votes against him and he is forced to accept her into the family.
- Noodle Incident:
- Everything that's going on in the family adventure is merely teased, mostly as a punishment for Louie.
- Apparently Magica is in possession of 1 billion dead souls.
- No-Sell: When the DT-87 tries to electrify Bouncer, it bounces off of him harmlessly.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Glomgold feels this way in regards to Scrooge. Don Karnage also feels this way towards Dewey, which causes some confusion between the two when they think the other wants to strike down the person they had dibs on. Not to mention Magica wants to kill Scrooge herself, so she and Glomgold fight each other over it.
- Only Sane Man: In Glomgold's Legion of Doom, Ma Beagle is the only one not occupied with dramatic posing (like Don Karnage), one-upping one another (like Glomgold and Magica) or just bumbling in general (like Beaks and the Beagle Boys).
- Out-Gambitted: As detailed under Batman Gambit, Louie disguises a con meant to help his family as one to hurt them, outplaying Glomgold in the process. Though to be fair, Glomgold himself was so ill-prepared and incompetent that his haste and desperation would've doomed him to fail anyway.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: The villains' costumes when infiltrating Funzo's are all pretty weak, but special mention goes to Mark Beaks's disguise — a propeller beanie and a T-shirt reading "I AM 10 YEARS OLD" — and Don Karnage not even bothering to dress up at all. Only Glomgold looks somewhat unrecognizable, and that's because he's not wearing his customary false beard.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Ma Beagle wants nothing to do with Glomgold's scheme, noting that his Did Not Think This Through tendencies make him bad at setting up plots and this will likely be no different. It takes Glomgold offering a chance at getting Duckburg's deed for her to join up.
- Psycho Rangers: Glomgold specifically makes his Legion of Doom so that each member corresponds to one member of the McDuck-Duck family from a group photo of them, which he pastes the heads of his own team over.
- Glomgold, unsurprisingly, is the Scrooge, as the rich Scottish duck and patriarch.
- Burger, Bouncer and Big Time Beagle are the Huey, Dewey and Louie, respectively, as the three brothers, one smart, one tough and one sharp.
- Ma Beagle is the Beakley, as the responsible matriarch.
- Mark Beaks is the Gyro, as the tech genius, although Gyro himself doesn't actually appear and Mark finds himself physically outmatched fighting Launchpad instead.
- Don Karnage is the Launchpad, as the pilot.
- Magica is the Webby, as (in Big Time's words) the "dangerous wild card".
- The only members of the family that don't have a counterpart are Della and Donald, who aren't in the photo.
- Reverse Psychology: Ma Beagle uses this to get Beaks interested in joining the Legion of Doom.
- Riches to Rags: Glomgold and his army lose all their money to Louie, until his army steal them back so only Glomgold loses his money. Technically, Scrooge does as well, though Louie was never going to leave him out in the cold, even when he decides to keep it.
- Running Gag: Whenever the Legion of Doom makes a dramatic appearance, it is mistaken as Magica's grand plan much to Glomgold's irritation.Scrooge: I knew this day would come. Magica's grand revenge—
Glomgold: I'M CLEARLY STANDING IN FRONT! - Shout-Out:
- The BeaksCoin is a reference to Bitcoin.
- The happy birthday song Magica is forced to sing with the Funso's Fun Zone staff sounds quite similar to the one sung by the Mudka's Meat Hut staff from The Emperor's New Groove.
- The Rock Candy Mountain adventure is a reference to the folk song "Big Rock Candy Mountain" first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928. Even more notable is an instrumental version is used for the queue on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and a physical Rock Candy Mountain was planned for Disneyland in the late 1950s until Walt axed it because it would be a nightmare to keep clean in the Southern California smog.
- The folk song in turn is a reference to the mythical Land of Cockayne, or the Land of Plenty, which the Ducks end up visiting for their lazy adventure.
- When trying to chase away the villains, Duckworths yells "Get out!" posing the same way the Beast does in Beauty and the Beast when he tells Belle the same.
- Sleeping Dummy: One of Louie's plans involves planting a sleeping dummy in his bed, seemingly getting out of the room and into a doorway, when in reality, the "Louie" the robot sees is another dummy on a remote-controlled vehicle. Unfortunately for Louie, the robot catches on faster than he expected and nonlethally zaps him back inside
- Smart Ball: When the villains start turning on him at the mansion, Glomgold is able to spin a rather dignified, manipulative speech about the importance of family and coming together. Almost every villain there is moved to tears.
- Spanner in the Works: One of Louie's escape plans was to dress up as Huey and claim to be wrongfully trapped. Just as he attempts this, the real Huey calls to check up on him.
- Special Edition Title: Instead of the original opening, this episode uses Glomgold's theme song takeover.
- Status Quo Is God: Haha, NOPE! By the end of the episode, Louie is in charge of McDuck Enterprises, Glomgold Industries, AND all of their resources, and he doesn't hand it all over to Scrooge.
- Stylistic Suck: Glomgold's take over of the theme song is very poorly put together lyrically (one line is literally just repeating "Scrooge stinks" four times) and the animation budget runs out by the end.
- Suck E. Cheese's: Magica de Spell is forced to work as a birthday party magician at Funzo's to have an income, much to her dismay.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Mark ends up like this when Don Karnage captures their hot air balloon and sicks his pirate crew on the villains.
- Twin Switch: Louie dresses up as Huey in the hopes that it'll fool the DT-87. Sadly, Huey happens to call at just that moment.
- Viewers Are Morons: The "kids are morons" variant is referenced by Glomgold in the theme song.Glomgold: Okay, we run out of budget, but kids 6 to 10 will love it, GlomTales!
- Villain Ball: After Glomgold wins the bet (initially), he immediately declares that he's keeping the rest of "Clan Glomgold's" collective wealth and rubs it in their face. He even admits that he was planning on running off with their money from the start. Even if Louie's scheme didn't swindle all of them in the end, Glomgold would have won the ire of Scrooge's entire Rogues Gallery without the same network of allies and competence Scrooge had. Now he's completely broke and has a giant target painted on his back by his entire Legion of Doom, all of them enraged that he had lost all of their money to a child in five seconds flat.
- Wham Episode: Louie has won Scrooge and Glomgold's bet and is now the richest duck in the world, but he's having second thoughts about giving his status back to Scrooge.
- Women Are Wiser: Ma Beagle is the only featured villain to consistently point out Glomgold's flaws and lack of planning, as well as provide better (or, most of the time, actual) solutions.
- The Worf Effect: In his episode debut, Duckworth was capable of protecting McDuck Manor from Scrooge's enemies and was able to get rid of them without issue. In this episode, he's quickly defeated thanks to Magica's ghost-dispelling amulet. The DT-87 is likewise dealt with in one blow by Bouncer.
- Yank the Dog's Chain:
- As if being grounded wasn't enough, Louie misses out on a fun, easy adventure at Big Rock Candy Mountain. Every time they call him just shows Louie all the fun he's missing.
- Big Time really fell for Glomgold's talk of family, as he openly admitted he could use a paternal influence in his life. Glomgold revealing he manipulated them all hits Big Time the hardest, which actually outrages Ma Beagle.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Glomgold pulls a non-fatal one on the other villains. By winning the bet with Scrooge thanks to Louie, he declares that he doesn't need the rest of them anymore.
