History Recap / DuckTalesS1E7MuchAdoAboutScrooge

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Filler is very offended when Scrooge calls him a crook, because while he may be good at talking people into buying things they hadn't planned to buy, every deal he makes is also fair in the sense of providing the customers with their money's worth. At the end of the episode, he shows that he does indeed have principles by passing up the opportunity to get away with the lost play - because while he could sell it for a fortune just because it's Drakespeare's work, it's also a ''bad play'', and [[EveryoneHasStandards selling shoddy merchandise is beneath him]].

* OldShame: In-universe example with Drakespeare's lost play. After seeing it, Scrooge sympathizes with him.

* {[Hammerspace}}: Filler's valise full of merchandise is virtually bottomless, containing a limitless cache of goods that would normally be too big to fit in it.

* HistoricalInJoke: The lost play turns out to be a WholePlotReference to [[spoiler: Literature/AChristmasCarol, on whose main character Scrooge himself is based.]] Obviously, Scrooge is less than pleased with this.

* Theatre/MacBeth: [[spoiler: The lost play is called [=MacDuck=].]]
* OldShame: In-universe example with Drakespeare's lost play. [[spoiler:After seeing it, Scrooge sympathizes with him]].

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: [[spoiler: the lost play turns out to be this, calling the Scrooge character [=MacDuck=] as a reference to Macbeth. A major difference is that in this case, it has a DownerEnding for the greedy character.]]

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Filler is very offended when Scrooge calls him a crook, because while he may be good at talking people into buying things they hadn't planned to buy, every deal he makes is also fair in the sense of providing the customers with their money's worth. At the end of the episode, he shows that he does indeed have principles by passing up the opportunity to get away with the lost play - because while he could sell it for a fortune just because it's Drakespeare's work, it's also a ''bad play'', and selling shoddy merchandise is beneath him.

\* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/WilliamShakespeare.

!!This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: A rather extreme example, Scrooge orders his boat captain to set sail for the island of Great Britain. The island in real life is about 800 miles, or 1.300 kilometers long. The island is also haunted and infested with witches and Shakespeare characters like TheWeirdSisters and Theatre/JuliusCaesar [[spoiler: who turn out to be descendants of the original actors who played in the plays]].
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: The island is haunted and inhabited by Shakespeare characters like TheWeirdSisters and Theatre/JuliusCaesar.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/WilliamShakespeare.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: A rather extreme example, Scrooge orders his boat captain to set sail for the island of Great Britain. The island in real life is about 800 miles, or 1.300 kilometers long. The island is also haunted and infested with witches and Shakespeare characters like TheWeirdSisters and JuliusCaesar [[spoiler: who turn out to be descendants of the original actors who played in the plays]].
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: The island is haunted and inhabited by Shakespeare characters like TheWeirdSisters and JuliusCaesar.

* TravelingSalesman: Filler Brushbill. His valise has lots of items he either sells to people he runs into, or can use himself. When he, Scrooge and the boys are surrounded by living trees, he scares the trees off with chainsaws from the valise. Scrooge then orders two dozen for his own lumber company.

* Theatre/MacBeth: [[spoiler: The lost play is called MacDuck.]]

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: [[spoiler: the lost play turns out to be this, calling the Scrooge character MacDuck as a reference to Macbeth.]]

* HistoricalInJoke: The lost play turns out to be a WholePlotReference to [[spoiler: Literature/AChristmasCaroll, on whose main character Scrooge himself is based.]] Obviously, Scrooge is less than pleased with this.

* TravelingSalesman: Filler Brushbill. His valise has lots of items he either sells to people he runs into, or can use himself. When he, Scrooge and the boys are surrounded by living trees, he scares the trees off with chainsaws from the valise. Scrooge then orders two dozen for his own lumber company.

* BritainIsOnlyLondon: The island is haunted and inhabited by Shakespeare characters like TheWeirdSisters and JuliusCeasar.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: A rather extreme example, Scrooge orders his boat captain to set sail for the island of Great Britain. The island in real life is about 800 miles, or 1.300 kilometers long. The island is also haunted and infested with witches and Shakespeare characters like TheWeirdSisters and JuliusCeasar.

* BritainIsOnlyLondon: A rather extreme example, Scrooge orders his boat captain to set sail for the island of Great Britain. The island in real life is about 800 miles, or 1.300 kilometers long. The island is also haunted and infested with witches and Shakespeare characters like TheWeirdSisters and JuliusCeasar.

* BritainIsOnlyLondon: A rather extreme example, Scrooge orders his boat captain to set sail for the island of Great Britain. The island in real life is about 800 miles, or 1.300 kilometers long. The island is also haunted and infested with witches, basically turning into Macbeth's Scotland.

* RhymesOnADime: The three witches speak in Shakespearean verse.

** Filler has a yellow bag resembling that of {{WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat}}. Similar to that of Felix, it serves as HammerSpace for all his merchandise.

* ShoutOut: The title is an obvious reference to ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''.

* ShoutOut: The title is an obvious reference to Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing.
* TravelingSalesman: Filler Brushbill. His valise has lots of items he either sells to people he runs into, or can use himself. (When he, Scrooge and the boys are surrounded by living trees, he scares the trees off with chainsaws from the valise. Scrooge then orders two dozen for his own lumber company.)

* ShoutOut: The title is an obvious reference to Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing.