History Recap / DuckTalesS2E1TimeIsMoney

* NobodysThatDumb: After having tried asking the triplets and Mrs. Beakley to watch Bubba until the time machine is repaired, Scrooge tries to dump him off on Launchpad. The pilot initially refuses, saying that he's dumb but not crazy.

* BookEnds: In "Marking Time", Bubba first met Scrooge, he inadvertently saved him from a Tyrannosaurus when the time machine landed on its tail. In "Ali Bubba's Cave", when Scrooge in the others are cornered by a reptilian beast, [[BigDamnHeroes Bubba inadvertently returns the favor]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the final part, Scrooge at one point yells at Glomgold and the Beagle Boys. Bouncer Beagle tells Scrooge to keep it clean because [[NotInFrontOfTheKids there are children present]].

* Bookends: In "Marking Time", Bubba first met Scrooge, he inadvertently saved him from a Tyrannosaurus when the time machine landed on its tail. In "Ali Bubba's Cave", when Scrooge in the others are cornered by a reptilian beast, [[BigDamnHeroes Bubba inadvertently returns the favor]].

* AnAesop: If you stubbornly and blindly try to blame something or someone else for your mistakes instead of facing up to your own inadequecies and fixing them, you're doomed to keep failing.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the final part, Scrooge at one point yells at Glomgold and the Beagle Boys. Bouncer Beagle tells Scrooge to keep it clean because there are children present.

* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: Scrooge must pay the last installment before Friday noon or he won't keep the island he bought from Glomgold.

* BeingEvilSucks: Downplayed. At the end of the episode after Glomgold has lost all of the diamonds to Scrooge Big Time Beagle remarks how working with a crook Glomgold has left them with nothing to show for it, [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad but it's still better than going straight]], an idea that leaves them all disgusted after Bouncer brings it up.

In the first of two feature-length specials opening the second season, Flintheart Glomgold cheats Scrooge out of a business deal for an island with a valuable diamond mine by blowing up the island in half, leaving Scrooge with a worthless chunk of land. Scrooge attempts to use Gyro's time machine to go back in time and prevent this, but winds up overshooting his mark and landing back in the prehistoric age. While there, he and the rest of the gang encounter a young caveduck named Bubba, whose cave will eventually house the diamond mine in the future. Scrooge leaves a mark to keep Glomgold's claim off it for a few days in time for him to pay of the remaining debt for it. But as the gang returns to future, they're forced to take Bubba with them. After returning to the present he must find a way to pay off the remaining money he owes Glomgold, all while dealing with his new, unwanted ward.

* BeingEvilSucks: Downplayed. At the end of the episode after Glomgold has lost all of the diamonds to Scrooge Big Time Beagle remarks how working with a crook Glomgold has left them with nothing to show for it, [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad but it's still better than going straight]], something that leaves them all disgusted after Bouncer brings it up.

* BeingEvilSucks: Downplayed. At the end of the episode after Glomgold has lost all of the diamonds to Scrooge Big Time Beagle remarks how working with a crook Glomgold has left them with nothing to show for it, [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad but it's still better than going straight]].

In the first of two feature-length specials opening the second season, Flintheart Glomgold cheats Scrooge out of a business deal for an island with a valuable diamond mine by blowing up the island in half, leaving Scrooge with a worthless chunk of land. Scrooge attempts to use Gyro's time machine to go back in time and prevent this, but winds up overshooting his mark and landing back in the prehistoric age. While there, he and the rest of the gang encounter a young caveduck named Bubba, whose cave will eventually house the diamond mine in the future. Scrooge leaves a mark to keep Glomgold's claim off it for a few days in time for him to pay of the remaining debt for it. But as the gang returns to future, they're forced to take Bubba with them. After returning his new, unwanted ward.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: Scrooge must repay the rest of the money he owes Glomgold for the island and its diamond mine after the initial downpayment within three days, or else Glomgold will have full possession of it again. Notably, he ultimately fails in the end, but fate still intervenes and rewards him.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: Scrooge must repay the rest of the money he owes Glomgold for the island and its diamond mine after the initial downpayment, or else Glomgold will have full possession of it again. Notably, he ultimately fails in the end, but fate still intervenes and rewards him.

In the first of two feature-length specials opening the second season, Flintheart Glomgold cheats Scrooge out of a business deal for an island with a valuable diamond mine by blowing up the island in half, leaving Scrooge with a worthless chunk of land. Scrooge attempts to use Gyro's time machine to go back in time and prevent this, but winds up overshooting his mark and landing back in the prehistoric age. While there, he and the rest of the gang encounter a young caveduck named Bubba, whose cave will eventually house the diamond mine in the future. Scrooge leaves a mark to keep Glomgold's claim off it for a few days in time for him to pay of the remaining debt for it. But as the gang returns to future, they're forced to take Bubba with them.

* WhosLaughingNow: Once they get access to the money bin, the Beagle Boys make use of all its traps they've been hit with in the past to repel the police when they try to retake it for Scrooge.

** Part 5: Ali Bubba's Cave

In the first of two five-part specials opening the second season, Flintheart Glomgold cheats Scrooge out of a business deal for an island with a valuable diamond mine by blowing up the island in half, leaving Scrooge with a worthless chunk of land. Scrooge attempts to use Gyro's time machine to go back in time and prevent this, but winds up overshooting his mark and landing back in the prehistoric age. While there, he and the rest of the gang encounter a young caveduck named Bubba, whose cave will eventually house the diamond mine in the future. Scrooge leaves a mark to keep Glomgold's claim off it for a few days in time for him to pay of the remaining debt for it. But as the gang returns to future, they're forced to take Bubba with them.

* MistakenForAnImposter: In order to keep Scrooge from getting any money from one of his banks in order to pay off his dept to Glomgold, the Beagle Boys impersonate him via telephone and tell all of the bank managers that there is a phony running around, giving them instructions to use to prove if he's the real deal. Since the actual Scrooge is unaware of this, everyone at each bank thinks he's an imposter, with one man eventually calling the police and getting him arrested.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Beagle Boys attempt to quit working for Glomgold after they take over the money bin. However, Glomgold reminds them that even though they have access to [=/=]McDuck[=/=]'s wealth and are holed up in the money bin, they're still wanted criminals and the police are going to bust them the second they leave, especially since they don't even have any equipment to make a getaway with the money.