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Fridge / DuckTales (2017) S1 E19 "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!"

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Fridge Brilliance

  • The dreamcatcher can fool a literal magical being, but only within the breadth of their knowledge.
    • Magica's "true form" turns out to just be a three-dimensional version of her shadow body. Which is actually because Lena doesn't know what she really looks like, so that's all the dreamcatcher had to work with.
    • Webby has a 1987!Webby doll hanging to the right of her pinboard (since "Woo-oo!" in fact). Lena has probably seen it by now, if not for the first time during Webby's presentation, and that's where the dreamcatcher got the idea. Ditto with Scrooge's Worry Room, if it actually exists in this version and isn't a figment of Lena's imagination or a theory Webby concocted.
    • The reason it doesn't work on Webby, who dragged Lena out of the room, is because knowing about it is a counter-spell - and Lena wasn't paying attention during Webby's presentation enough to counteract its effects.
  • Huey naming the bigfoot as "Tenderfeet" is a nod to him being a Junior Woodchuck Boy Scout because "Tenderfoot" is a rank in several real life scouting organizations.
  • When Scrooge catches "Tenderfeet" as the boys are escorting/dragging him out, it's Louie that plucks Scrooge's heartstrings enough to let the Bigfoot pass unhindered. Louie caught Gavin in the act of inviting his buddies in the woods to the mansion for a party, and needs him alive to tell them his con got busted, so they know not to bother the Ducks again.
  • Louie doesn't tell Scrooge about "Tenderfeet" when he has the chance, and it comes off as a Idiot Ball moment at worst; Gavin isn't even a garage-level threat, let alone an Other Bin one, and that eviction would've ended quickly. Louie was actually just stalling long enough to leave the room and tell Scrooge - but then Huey and Dewie come in and show affection for "Tenderfeet". This is the last straw for Louie, and it's why he says "...you just poked a bear" only after that: it's Tranquil Fury, and Louie is no longer interested in humane things such as convincing his brothers or letting Uncle Scrooge handle things. He wants to embarrass Gavin into never coming back.
    Louie: (Whispering in Gavin's face) I win.

Fridge Horror

  • "Jaw$" established that Lena wasn't "much of a hugger" initially with Webby. Given her reaction to her worst nightmare of getting a hug from Magica, it's possible she's never experienced one with pure love before then.
  • If the Ghost Pirate and the gold-eating Eastern Dragon were considered by Scrooge only as minor annoyances not worthy of being locked in the Other Bin, just how dangerous are the artifacts locked in the Other Bin in comparison?
  • As far as the dreamcatcher, if Uncle Scrooge did look into it, what worst nightmare did he experience at the time?
  • Is there any doubt that if Magica knew she could take over Lena's body (or had the power to do so earlier) that she would have jumped on that and possessed her immediately?

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