History Recap / DuckTales2017S1E6TheHouseOfTheLuckyGander

* PandaingToTheAudience: The security guards and massagers at the House of Lucky Fortune are giant pandas. Also at the end, Launchpad is seen carrying a panda kid in a basket on his back.

* UnstoppableRage: Donald weaponizes his temper once more, working himself up into such an unbelievable fury that he's able to steamroll through the obstacle course without stopping. To put it in perspective, all of his life Donald has been feeling inferior to Gladstone thanks to his bad luck even getting worse while Gladstone's gets even better when the two are together. So much that Donald has nothing nice to say about him before they catch up with Gladstone in Macaw, and it gets worse when the kids see Gladstone as a CoolUncle and take Donald for granted. Even playing the games with Louie and Gladstone shows Donald unable to get even a slight bit lucky. When he has to run the footrace against Gladstone, his now unbelievably impossibly bad luck (while Gladstone has unbelievablly impossibly GOOD luck) sinks Donald to a deep depression that his fatalistic "What's the point?" is heartbreaking, and he's in a bad place emotionally that he's ready to give up. Not even having Scrooge and the kids in danger could snap him out of it; he's already giving all he had and STILL Gladstone is way ahead without even a drop of sweat or a scratch on him.

* GRatedDrug: The episode is applies a similar effect with gambling; it's set at a casino, but shows no games of chance you'd expect to see there. Instead we see pachinko[[note]] Not ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial technically]]'' a game of chance, but one that [[LoopholeAbuse often becomes one in Japan]][[/note]], a wheel-spin and even "how many fingers am I holding up?". However, playing cards are used as a constant motif in the episode (and Scrooge does name-check Pai Gow as well), though nobody is actually shown playing. Even the games we ''do'' see never show anyone putting money down. Possibly justified as the kids are shown to be accompanied by Scrooge and/or Donald at all times, who are far more conscientious chaperones than Gladstone and would likely steer them away from the more hard-core gambling. Scrooge continually steers the kids away from all attractions and Liu Hai tries to tempt them with things kids would find more appealing (shows, exotic pets, buffets, etc), and Donald accompanies Gladstone and Louie specially to ensure the visit isn't too bad an influence (thus why they use only G-rating gambling games). Louie practically lampshades this after Donald storms out in a huff, claiming that now that he's gone they can hit the "big leagues."

--> '''Scrooge''': "I navigated myself out of the Infinitaur's labyrinth. Freed myself from the Forever Fields of Fantoom. Why can't I find the blasted hotel exit?"

* FreezeFrameBonus: Yup, Launchpad [[RunningGag crashed the seaplane again]] outside the Temple of the Golden Cricket. No wonder Donald thought he was about [[BrickJoke to do the same thing]] in Macaw at [[BookEnds the start of the episode]].

** What does he do with all that rage? He dispels a jade tiger illusion with a single Donald scream taken UpToEleven, scales a giant pachinko machine, then does a WallRun inside said machine at breakneck speed [[TheJuggernaut and even breaking a few of the metal pins along the way]] to zoom past Gladstone. And given the "Who's Next?!?" look on his face Donald's not ready to let up even after winning, he's still mad enough to keep going.

* AbsenteeActor: Mrs. Beakley does not appear in this episode.

* AdultFear:
** Donald is feeling put upon that no one looks up to him because Gladstone is the CoolUncle and more charming. This despite the fact that he's been breaking his back taking care of Della's children for a decade.
** Gladstone has alienated his family due to his selfishness. He almost sees how truly bad it is until his IgnoredEpiphany.

* RousingSpeech: Louie voices one on behalf of Donald:
--> '''Louie''': "Come on, Uncle Donald! So you have the worst luck in the world. Who cares? No matter how bad things get, like really, really bad, you keep going. It's kind of ridiculous. You never had the common sense to give up before. Why start now?"

* HeroicBSOD: Donald has one when he loses one game too many (and Gladstone wins again). It takes Louie's rousing speech to give him motivation to win.

* ButForMeIthWasTuesday: [[{{HeroOfAnotherStory}} Launchpad]] brushes off [[{{OffscreenMomentOfAwesome}} taking on a international crime syndicate]] and [[{{RiddleForTheAges}} Lord knows what else]] with [[{{TheOneThatGotAway}} his ex-girlfriend]] as simply "tourist stuff" when Dewey asks what happened.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: While Scrooge, Donald and the kids help Gladstone, Launchpad goes to visit an old girlfriend. When it's time to leave Macaw, he is out of breath, wearing an eyepatch and ancient armour punctured by arrows, and carrying a baby panda in a basket on his back, having apparently battled a crime family and who knows what else with said old girlfriend. When Dewey asks what happened, he brushes it off as "tourist stuff."

after three seconds.

** Louie and Gladstone call out Scrooge for leaving Donald in the casino... then it gets {{Subverted|Trope}} when Scrooge reveals that his nephew was never in any danger; his natural bad luck would automatically get him kicked out

** Louie and Gladstone call out Scrooge for leaving Donald in the casino... then it gets {{Subverted|Trope}} when Scrooge reveals that his nephew was never in any danger; his natural bad luck would automatically get him kicked out after three seconds.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Louie voices one on behalf of Donald:
--> '''Louie''': "Come on, Uncle Donald! So you have the worst luck in the world. Who cares? No matter how bad things get, like really, really bad, you keep going. It's kind of ridiculous. You never had the common sense to give up before. Why start now?"

* GRatedDrug: The episode is applies a similar effect with gambling; it's set at a casino, but shows no games of chance you'd expect to see there. Instead we see pachinko[[note]] Not ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial technically]]'' a game of chance, but one that [[LoopholeAbuse often becomes one in Japan]][[/note]], a wheel-spin and even "how many fingers am I holding up?". However, playing cards are used as a constant motif in the episode (and Scrooge does name-check Pai Gow as well), though nobody is actually shown playing. Even the games we ''do'' see never show anyone putting money down. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as the kids are shown to be accompanied by Scrooge and/or Donald at all times, who are far more conscientious chaperones than Gladstone and would likely steer them away from the more hard-core gambling. Scrooge continually steers the kids away from all attractions and Liu Hai tries to tempt them with things kids would find more appealing (shows, exotic pets, buffets, etc), and Donald accompanies Gladstone and Louie specially to ensure the visit isn't too bad an influence (thus why they use only G-rating gambling games). Louie practically lampshades this after Donald storms out in a huff, claiming that now that he's gone they can hit the "big leagues."

** Scrooge tricks Liu Hai into taking Donald in Gladstone's place, as Donald was regarded as lucky enough to beat the luck Gladstone. It was quickly revealed that Scrooge <i>knew</i> that Donald's natural bad luck will starve the spirit in ''seconds''.

** Scrooge tricks Liu Hai into taking Donald in Gladstone's place, knowing that Donald's natural bad luck will starve the spirit in ''seconds''.