Follow TV Tropes

Following

Fridge / DuckTales (2017) S1 E15 "The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains!"

Go To

Fridge Brilliance

  • Scrooge doesn't go Papa Wolf on Goldie for capturing Webby, but does warn the boys that Goldie will pickpocket them on encountering her at the banquet. He knows that Goldie wouldn't actually hurt a child who's like a granddaughter to him.
  • Goldie only intervenes and saves Scrooge when it looks like he's going to die. So that's why she left him in the glacier; if she came out okay, then he would as well.
  • Also, the show takes out the comics backstory that Scrooge kidnapped Goldie in their past for stealing from him and made her work for him for a month on his mining claim. Instead, they were partners from the start and Goldie is the one who stabs Scrooge in the back. It would be very creepy to have the hero engaging in slavery.
  • When Goldie falls into the molten gold, she doesn't seem to catch fire despite the gold being burning hot. Of course, this make sense if you know that she's wearing a medal making her immune to burns.
  • The episode probably shows the main reason Scrooge got so greatly offended by the Scotireland trope in the previous episode: "O'Gilt" is an Irish surname -which implies Goldie is of Irish descent. Whenever somebody claims he is from Ireland, Scrooge is reminded of Goldie and her Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. Hence he feels the need to correct them and educate on the differences between the two. He is not doing it just out of national pride. He is doing it to tell himself that he is over Goldie!
  • Scrooge finds Goldie even more attractive in her Adventurer Outfit than in her slinky golden gala dress. The old duck is in love with adventure itself!

Fridge Horror

  • Scrooge gives up the fight with Glomgold when he thinks Goldie died saving him. Compare this to how he reacted when Della disappeared: retired from adventuring and became a recluse for ten years. It's highly possible that, with Della being his niece and surrogate daughter, we saw a glimpse of what he looked like when Della took the Spear.
  • Why did the Duckburg Natural History Museum accept SO MUCH clearly fraudulent historical artifacts? As Huey said, "This Glomasaurus Rex is clearly just a bunch of random parts stuck together?" Presumably they have some kind of historical authentication process that would thin out Glomgold's donations to just the actually historical stuff (the glacial monster of the Klondike would clearly count), so why did so much stuff get into their historical wing?

Top