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* GreenAesop: Aqua Ducks has one about dumping garbage in the ocean. Scrooge and company get in trouble with the mermen who live on the ocean floor because so much garbage has been dumped there. They part on relatively good terms when the ducks take a lot of it with them during their escape.

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* GreenAesop: Aqua Ducks "Aqua Ducks" has one about dumping garbage in the ocean. Scrooge and company get in trouble with the mermen who live on the ocean floor because so much garbage has been dumped there. They part on relatively good terms when the ducks take a lot of it with them during their escape.



* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the end of Aqua Ducks, Atlantis is floating in the ocean with an upside down cruise ship balanced on top. At the start of the next episode, the cruise ship is gone and the island the city is sitting on is flying through the air suspended by balloons. Even though Aqua Ducks sets this up, we never get a payoff from this, and the next episode treats it as if this is no surprise to the viewer. The propulsion and cloud machine aren't set up at all, either.

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the end of Aqua Ducks, "Aqua Ducks", Atlantis is floating in the ocean with an upside down cruise ship balanced on top. At the start of the next episode, the cruise ship is gone and the island the city is sitting on is flying through the air suspended by balloons. Even though Aqua Ducks sets this up, we never get a payoff from this, and the next episode treats it as if this is no surprise to the viewer. The propulsion and cloud machine aren't set up at all, either.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Big Time's armored assault suit is able to withstand a 60 millimeter shell, but Scrooge has a cannon that fires ''61'' millimeter shells, [[OhCrap which Big Time realizes is one millimeter too many]].

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* CripplingOverspecialization: Big Time's armored assault suit is able to withstand a 60 millimeter shell, but Scrooge has a cannon tank that fires ''61'' millimeter shells, [[OhCrap which Big Time realizes is one millimeter too many]].



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* AbsenteeActor: Huey, Dewey, and Louie inexplicably do not appear in "Aqua Ducks," and are replaced by Doofus for no apparent reason.
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* FantasticRacism: The mermen view all "air-breathers" with contempt, viewing them as inferior beings who pollute their paradise with garbage. At least some of them even extend this sentiment toward ''dolphins.''
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* FishPeople: With green skin.
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* DisappointedInYou: Scrooge was not pleased at all when the nephews abandon the cloud machine hiding Atlantis in the sky.
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** When the Beagle Boys successfully get past Scrooge's traps and reach the Money Bin, Huey comments "[[Film/{{Poltergeist}} They're heeere]]".

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** When the Beagle Boys successfully get past Scrooge's traps and reach the Money Bin, Huey comments "[[Film/{{Poltergeist}} "[[Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}} They're heeere]]".
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* AnimalMecha: The navy's new sub is in the shape of a killer whale, but its inventor hijacks it in order to steal Scrooge's fortune on the behalf of Glomgold.

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* AnimalMecha: The navy's new sub is in the shape of a killer whale, but its inventor hijacks it in order to steal Scrooge's fortune on whale for the behalf purpose of Glomgold.making it maneuverable underwater.
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* AnimalMecha: The navy's new sub is in the shape of a killer whale, but its inventor hijacks it in order to steal Scrooge's fortune on the behalf of Glomgold.

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* ShoutOut: Encouraging the dolphin he's riding to speed up, Launchpad tells it he needs "[[Franchise/StarTrek warp speed]]."

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** When the Beagle Boys successfully get past Scrooge's traps and reach the Money Bin, Huey comments "[[Film/{{Poltergeist}} They're heeere]]".
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Encouraging the dolphin he's riding to speed up, Launchpad tells it he needs "[[Franchise/StarTrek warp speed]]."
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* GreenAesop: Aqua Ducks has one about dumping garbage in the ocean.

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* GreenAesop: Aqua Ducks has one about dumping garbage in the ocean. Scrooge and company get in trouble with the mermen who live on the ocean floor because so much garbage has been dumped there. They part on relatively good terms when the ducks take a lot of it with them during their escape.
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* PunnyTitle: The title is a variation on "catch as catch can."
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* GonnaNeedMoreX: After blasting Big Time out of the Money Bin, Scrooge patched up the hole he left with bricks. When Scrooge's giant cannon backfired and blew a ''big'' hole in the wall, Scrooge commented he was going to need more bricks as he saw the beagles coming up to the Money Bin with a ladder.
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* FloorboardFailure: This happened to the Grand Kiska of Macaroon when he was going downstairs for a midnight snack, resulting in him discovering firefly fruit.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Inverted. When Scrooge's group is escaping to the surface on Atlantis, the mermen curse them and tell them to come back...until they realize they're taking all the trash on Atlantis with them, and they show gratitude.

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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Inverted. When Scrooge's group is escaping to the surface on Atlantis, the mermen curse them and tell them to come back...[[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat until they realize they're taking all the trash on Atlantis with them, and they show gratitude.gratitude]].

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* OutOfCharacterMoment: Scrooge is rather cavalier about dumping his entire fortune down the Mariana trench rather than wait for the professor to fix the submarine, brushing it off with "Gyro will think of something".



* OutOfCharacterMoment: Scrooge is rather cavalier about dumping his entire fortune down the Mariana trench rather than wait for the professor to fix the submarine, brushing it off with "Gyro will think of something".
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* BeyondTheImpossible: The ice maker spewing coins is one thing, since at least it could be said to be connected to the water line, but why would an OVEN be connected to the water pipes at all?
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* ToonPhysics: This four parter seems to crank up the level of cartoony physics much higher than other Ducktales episodes, which tend much more to realism overall. This is most notable with the pile of Scrooge's gold, which acts as a single unit a lot of the time and doesn't seem to have much mass at all, despite being three cubic acres of gold.
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* HollywoodDensity: Glomgold cheats by hiding lead weights in his pile of gold, however, gold is almost twice as heavy as lead, and much heavier than the metal coins are made of, so exchanging coins for gold bars would have been much more effective at increasing the weight of his money.
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* PlotHole: The fourth episode segues into the nephews finding a clue to the fabled lost treasure of Atlantis, without any setup whatsoever explaining about what happened up to that point (having not appeared at all in the previous episode either). Combined with the offscreen moment of awesome mentioned above, it feels like there is a whole chunk of the story missing between episode three and four.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the end of Aqua Ducks, Atlantis is floating in the ocean with an upside down cruise ship balanced on top. At the start of the next episode, the cruise ship is gone and the island the city is sitting on is flying through the air suspended by balloons. Even though Aqua Ducks sets this up, we never get a payoff from this, and the next episode treats it as if this is no surprise to the viewer.

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the end of Aqua Ducks, Atlantis is floating in the ocean with an upside down cruise ship balanced on top. At the start of the next episode, the cruise ship is gone and the island the city is sitting on is flying through the air suspended by balloons. Even though Aqua Ducks sets this up, we never get a payoff from this, and the next episode treats it as if this is no surprise to the viewer. The propulsion and cloud machine aren't set up at all, either.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the end of Aqua Ducks, Atlantis is floating in the ocean with an upside down cruise ship balanced on top. At the start of the next episode, the cruise ship is gone and the island the city is sitting on is flying through the air suspended by balloons. Even though Aqua Ducks sets this up, we never get a payoff from this, and the next episode treats it as if this is no surprise to the viewer.

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