Headscratchers / The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

• Scrooge struck it rich when he found a gold nugget the size of a goose egg. A Gold Nugget he still owns to the present day and that was never sold. Wait….
  • In The Billionaire of Dismal Downs, Scrooge mentions that the goose egg nugget was "only the beginning" of the gold he pulled out of White Agony Creek. The next time he went into town, it was to show off the nugget, where Scrooge promptly got drugged and rolled for it. Though he did get it back, Scrooge probably realized that A: The nugget would be a magnet for thieves (and it would be probably be safer with him than in the bank), and B: he had pulled a lot of gold out of White Agony Creek even without the goose egg nugget. He kept it around to remind him of the moment when he got wealthy fair and square, and he could have squarely sold it and walked away a very wealthy man right on the spot (even if he didn't, and went on to bigger things.)
• As much as I love "Prisoner of White Agony Valley", one thing that's always struck me as odd is when Scrooge tells Goldie to go back to Dawson all by herself. It's about 20 miles of nothing but wilderness between his claim and Dawson (mentioned by Steele's messenger later on). Wasn't he worried she'd get lost or attacked by predators?
  • Maybe "you say you want me to leave" meant he intended to escort her back, but the money thing (understandably) pissed her off so much that she just stormed off on her own and made it clear she didn't want his company. Either that or Scrooge was so afraid of what his feelings for her did to him that he just wanted her gone as soon as possible and he wasn't thinking clearly or planning it carefully.
• After finally becoming rich, McDuck returns to his old birthplace in Scotland to see his family. However, the townsfolk start pelting him with tomatoes as soon as he greets them. And then they're confused that Scrooge goes into a rage fit because of it. Are rich people expected to be resented by others in Scotland or something?
  • That's the joke. The townspeople are jerks who resent Scrooge for coming back and "lording it over them" that he's been out in the world and made it rich while they haven't, and as such, they think they're completely justified in treating him like garbage. They're so caught up in their self-righteous loathing that it doesn't even occur to them that Scrooge wouldn't just lie down and take it. When he loses his temper they're astonished that he started yelling "for no reason at all," because they're incapable of seeing that they've done anything wrong.