With F.O.W.L at their heels, Scrooge tests out the Money Bin's new security system on Louie and Della, while Beakley and Webby train the others from an enemy attack.
Tropes:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Scrooge is so infuriated over Bradford's treachery that he goes into a raving tangent using a lot of words beginning with S.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Exploited by Louie, who has noticed that Gyro's bulb inventions turn red and evil whenever they're insulted, to change the violet bulb's color to prevent it from hiding the violet saws and cause the security robot to go crazy.
- Ambiguous Situation: Phantom Blot drains Gene into his gauntlet that absorbs magic but there are no indications as to how or if he can survive inside the gauntlet.
- An Aesop:
- You can't best someone by beating them at their own game. Trying to outdo them at what they excel in is more likely to get turned against you than let you win. Instead you should focus on your own strengths to counter their advantages instead of trying to outdo them.
- Compassion and unity will always triumph over treachery and harshness. Scrooge and Beakley push the family as hard as possible so they'll be ready for F.O.W.L. but that just leaves them vulnerable and weaker from going so far and they only manage real gains once they start working as a cohesive unit.
- Apologetic Attacker: As Beakley fights Webby on the roof, she briefly tears up when she mentions that she's her granddaughter and needs to be protected. She doesn't stop her attack, though.
- Armor-Piercing Question: When Della tells Scrooge he can beat Bradford and F.O.W.L. because "you're Scrooge McDuck":Scrooge: And what if that's not enough this time?!
- Artistic License – Physics: When Scrooge has his gravity reversed, Louie and he stand on each others' feet, cancelling each other's weight out and suspending them both in midair. However, Scrooge is obviously heavier than Louie, so their net acceleration should be upward.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Bradford and Gandra Dee hack into the Impossibin's security measures but were beaten. Unfortunately, the McDuck Clan realizes too late that this was all a distraction from F.O.W.L's true goal: to steal the recently discovered Missing Mysteries (the Fountain of Youth, the Harp of Mervana, Solego's Circuit, Gene the Genie) while they were distracted during the night. The Fountain of Youth and Solego's Circuit were already discovered by F.O.W.L. courtesy of Rockerduck and Bradford himself respectively while the Harp of Mervana and Gene the Genie were discovered due to the bug they planted on Donald back in the season premiere.
- Booby Trap: Many of them have been installed in the Money Bin, and Scrooge challenges Della and Louie to beat them - if they can't, then F.O.W.L. can't. The fact that they can only causes Scrooge to worry more, and he's proven right when it's revealed that he'd been hacked from the beginning thanks to Gandra Dee.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: As part of her Dewey impersonation, Webby mimics his habit of making puns with his name - though after she's already revealed herself, just to show off how flawless her performance is.Webby: Boom! Dew-pelganger!
- Burning with Anger: Exploited by Louie, who remembers Li'l Bulbs tend to do this when insulted. This renders the ultraviolet obstacles visible and later causes the Bulb-powered Scrooge mecha to act irrational.
- Call-Back:
- The Money Bin's security system was previously brought up during "The 87 Cent Solution!".
- Della mentions spending a whole decade chewing black licorice flavored gum, being trapped on the moon. During that time she's built up a lot of resentment against Gyro for choosing that flavor, and has a scathing rant about him ready to fire when prompted.
- The Cameo: Goldie, the Mervanans, Darkwing Duck, and Gene appear at the end, telling Scrooge that the Missing Mysteries they discovered throughout the season are gone. Gene in particular calls to tell that he's being captured by the Phantom Blot. Gandra also briefly re-appears helping Bradford when he loses control of the Scrooge robot.
- Cast as a Mask: Webby is able to perfectly impersonate Dewey, to the point of being voiced by Ben Schwartz during the act.Webby: (in her normal voice) Also, I've perfected the art of impersonation. (in Dewey's voice) Boom! Dew-pelganger!
Oh, and this still isn't the attack. - Continuity Nod: Donald is seen installing security cameras in the Other Bin.
- Damsel in Distress: The Harp of Mervana is among the Missing Mysteries captured by F.O.W.L.
- Distressed Dude: Gene the genie is among the Missing Mysteries captured by F.O.W.L.
- Effortless Amazonian Lift: For most of the episode, Dewey carries around a heavy sword he can barely lift. Webby manages to wield it easily. Downplayed in that she's lifting an inanimate object and not Dewey.
- Exploited Immunity: In an inverse of Scrooge diving into his gold coins, Louie has the robot fire its gravity beams at Scrooge's treasure hoard crushing it against the ceiling and with it destroyed, the gravity flow turns back to normal allowing Scrooge to swim up through the falling gold and catch the diving board's edge.
- Final-Exam Boss: The last obstacle of the Impossibin is a giant robot whose combat skills are modeled after Scrooge with all the other obstacles that were shown extensively onscreen incorporated into it.
- Flaw Exploitation: Gyro's contribution to the Impossibin relies on his usual Bulb-Tech, the security in the room being operated by a Lil Bulb. Like all other instances of Lil Bulb, its bulb turns red with anger whenever it's insulted, a fact Scrooge, Della and Louie exploit to escape the room. This is later exploited against the Robot Scrooge (also powered by Bulb-Tech) being controlled by Bradford.
- Foreshadowing: When Della tells Louie she needs another soda can to see the hidden saws in the Ultraviolet Room, he says he's all out but his expression says differently. At the climax, it's proven he did lie which comes in handy in fighting the Scrooge mecha.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- Among the suspects of possible traitors are "Uncle" Donald, "Louie", and Bluescreen Beagle.
- Scrooge's Impossibin passcode is a number with twenty-six digits (that Bradford later explains represents the total sum of Scrooge's wealth, meaning Scrooge has at least ten septillion dollars).
- A "Ziggy Starduck" poster is seen in Webby's room.
- Amongst the books Louie throws to disable the gravity runes are "Gravity! Keeping You Down... Since The Dawn Of Time", "Rainbow Gravity" by Thomas Finchon, "Falling Up: A History of Falling Down" and "Falling For You: A series of love poems by Sir Isaac Newt-hen".
- Funny Background Event: As Beakley talks about being ready for an attack, you can see Donald out the window falling off a ladder.
- Gravity Screw: Quackfaster modified her archives with "Rosa Runes", marked tiles that can change the direction of gravity on whoever or whatever touches them. In the final obstacle they're weaponized into a ray.
- Heroic BSoD: After discovering the Other Bin, a room in the house he had no idea existed, combined with the stress of an attack at any moment, Huey ends up having one of these.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Beakley refuses to back down from her Training from Hell and immediately after nearly falling off the roof from Webby blocking her, she is only saved because of everyone grabbing her.
- Hypocritical Humour: Goldie yells at Scrooge when she thinks he stole the Fountain of Youth...because she just went back to steal it herself and found it gone.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: After Webby repeatedly saying, "This is not the attack" while messing with the boys throughout the day, Huey concludes that there isn't going to be an actual attack, and it's just the fear of being attacked that is the true test. He happily lays down on his bed...to find Webby staring down at him from beneath the bunk.Webby: This is the attack.
- Internal Reveal:
- Huey learns about the existence of the Other Bin which was introduced in Season 1.
- The protagonists are now aware of F.O.W.L. being after the Missing Mysteries, something that was known to the audience in the season premiere.
- Invisibility Cloak: One of the security measures Gyro installed is a hall of purple saw blades made invisible by a special light that renders anything colored purple invisible. At first it appears that the light simply washes out purple objects by making everything inanimate uniformly purple but the final robot is shown capable of cloaking its own purple body without affecting anything else.
- Jerkass Ball: Beakley crosses the line by forcing Webby to assault Huey and Dewey, who are both injured and traumatized by the whole ordeal. Unfortunately, Beakley still insists on undergoing the training that she even fights her own granddaughter just to set her straight.
- Knight Templar Parent: Beakley is one this episode, doing everything she can to prepare and protect Webby and the rest of the family.
- Latex Perfection: Webby was able to duplicate Dewey, right down to imitating his voice. They're physically similar enough that she doesn't even need a mask, all she does is dress up like him and style her feathers like his.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Webby reacts this way when Huey sprains his knee and trembles in fear from all her surprise attacks.
- Mythology Gag:
- When fighting the ultraviolet robot, Scrooge briefly uses his cane as a pogo stick in order to destroy the bulbs that enabled its invisibility, similar to what he does in the classic DuckTales video game as an attack.
- The premise of escaping the Impossibin wouldn't be out of place from that game either, with the traps we're shown being like puzzle platforming levels, the robot also being a boss level.
- The F.O.W.L. operative that stole the plans for Solego's circuit from Darkwing was Steelbeak, a reference to his status as a recurring villain in Darkwing Duck.
- The gravity-changing "ancient Rosa runes" are a reference to the Don Rosa story, A Matter of Some Gravity, in which Scrooge and Donald are subjected to a curse by Magica de Spell with identical effects.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
- We don't see most of the traps Scrooge, Della and Louie go through. We see them escaping a time loop trap, which we only know because Della mentions it (several times); and when they finally get to the lobby, they barely escape some type of giant tentacle monster in the elevator shaft.
- Steelbeak manages to defeat Darkwing Duck and steal the Solego Circuit, which shows him as a genuine threat despite being an Adaptational Dumbass. Averted, perhaps, in D.W's case, as judging from the bandages on his face, their very first encounter didn't go too well at all.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Played for Laughs. The penny-pinching Scrooge tells Della and Louie that if they can get past all the Impossibin's traps and defenses without being driven crazy, he'll buy them lunch.Louie: [to Della] He really does not expect us to make it.
- Papa Wolf: Donald stands up to Beakley when he sees how her Training from Hell is doing more harm than good to the kids.Donald: Mrs. B, this has gone too far!
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Dewey puts on a fake moustache to try and fool Webby. Except it is actually Webby, who wore the moustache over a much more convincing Dewey disguise.
- The Password Is Always "Swordfish": When it seems that Scrooge can't remember the code to deactivate the bin's security system, Louie references this trope.Louie: You're the oldest person in the world! Why isn't your passcode 1234?
- When Bradford takes control of the robot, he reveals that Scrooge's passcode number is the sum of his entire fortune, a number he believes only he knew. Bradford, being his accountant, could easily know this number as well.
- Pooled Funds: Scrooge and Louie's ability to swim through money is the one thing that the Scrooge robot can't replicate and proves to be its undoing.
- Properly Paranoid: Scrooge is extremely fearful after discovering his closest business partner was scheming against him for years that he wants to ensure his Money Bin is absolutely impenetrable. The defences and traps installed are so excessive, even Louie thinks they're more than enough, but the fact they managed to get through all of the traps tells Scrooge it still wasn't good enough. He’s proven right moments later when Bradford reveals he had already hacked into the defense system beforehand and anticipated Scrooge's paranoia to trap him in the building.
- Pyrrhic Victory: When Scrooge, Louie and Della manage to beat the Impossibin's security system, Scrooge is more upset than triumphant considering the whole point was for the Impossibin to be impossible to navigate and that if the three of them could beat it unplanned, then so could Bradford with time. The fact that Bradford hacked the system from the start only proves his point.
- "Ray of Hope" Ending: After learning that F.O.W.L. was able to steal all the recovered Missing Mysteries, Scrooge and the Ducks raise their spirits high and vow to take on the fiendish organization like the Badass Family that they are.
- Robot Me: The last obstacle of the Impossibin security system is a robotic double of Scrooge himself. It really resembles him before expanding into a 10 foot tall combat robot.
- Sanity Slippage: Happens to both Scrooge and Beakley during the episode thanks to their paranoia about F.O.W.L. Scrooge is so determined to make the Money Bin’s security system impossible to navigate that he becomes upset that he, Louie, and Della manage to escape instead of being killed. Meanwhile, Beakley’s determination to have the kids properly trained leads to Huey being injured when Webby sneak-attacks him, Beakley ordering Webby to continue the assault, and then Beakley attacking Webby when she refuses.
- See the Invisible: Della first uses Louie's Pep soda to make a chainsaw visible. Then she uses her mechanical leg to spot the blades. Afterwards, they insult L’il Bulb to make him flash red, allowing them to see the saw blades. Near the end, they come across a robot of Scrooge that can also become invisible. Louie reluctantly sprays it with a can of Pep he withheld. Scrooge then smashes the violet L’il Bulbs on the robot's shoulders for good measure.
- Shaped Like Itself. Darkwing Duck describes the "bruiser" who attacked him and stole the blueprints for the Solego circuit as having a "steel beak", but didn't happen to get his name.
- Shout-Out:
- Webby takes the role of Cato from The Pink Panther.
- Dewey spins his sword around and shatters a pot, just like Link from The Legend of Zelda
- Sibling Rivalry: Della asks Scrooge why the robot wasn't based on "a tough professional adventurer who's never lost a fight". When Scrooge replies, "You mean Donald?", Della goes berserk and starts attacking the robot.Scrooge: [to Louie] Knew that would get her.
- Skewed Priorities:
- Scrooge is actually upset that he, Della, and Louie managed to survive the security system, since if they can get through it then so can F.O.W.L.
- Louie hoarded a can of Pep because it was a hard to get flavor even though they were using them to get through a hall of invisible saw blades. It worked out because they can still use it against the final obstacle.
- Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom: Scrooge has installed a corridor of sawblades in the Money Bin, and painted them purple to make them harder to see thanks to a special light Gyro invented that makes everything purple invisible.
- Take This Job and Shove It: As Bradford takes control of the security robot:Bradford: Oh, and I'm afraid I'll be leaving the company. Consider this my two week notice.
- Throw the Book at Them: Beakley throws three books at Webby during their fight in her room. She manages to embed them in the wall.
- Time Loop Trap: Scrooge, Della and Louie deal with one of these offscreen. When they return to the Bin:Della: Phew! We finally got out of that time loop room. Phew! We finally got out of that time loop room. Phew! We finally got out of-
Louie: Snap out of it, Mom! - Training from Hell: Beakley and Webby resort to this to prepare the group for any kind of attack from F.O.W.L. This episode deconstructs how this type of overly harsh training can be far more harmful than helpful, namely when Webby realizes that her attack not only hurt Huey for real, but causes him to flinch away from her when she tries to help.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Huey ends up in this position during his Heroic BSoD.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: In dealing with the revelation of Bradford and F.O.W.L., the McDuck Clan splits into two parties. Mrs. Beakley works with Webby to train Huey and Dewey for an attack from F.O.W.L. occurring at any time while Donald fortifies the mansion. Scrooge works with Della and Louie as the craftiest ones to take a live test of the Money Bin's security measures, collectively known as the "Impossibin", to suss out any potential flaws. The plotlines come together when Beakley gets calls from their allies saying F.O.W.L. used the time to seize all the Missing Mysteries they've discovered so far.
- Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Scrooge explains the situation to Della and Louie while in his office in the Money Bin, while Beakley briefed the rest of the family back in the mansion foyer.
- Unknown Character: While the list of "suspects" includes Lil' Bulb, Fenton, Donald, and Louie, there is also a character the audience hasn't met yet named Bluescreen Beagle, with no one in the cast even mentioning him.
- The Voiceless: Gandra Dee and the Phantom Blot appear but have no lines.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Beakley's desire to protect Webby and the McDuck family cause her to be far too harsh in her training. It gets to the point where she tries to get Webby to fight an injured Huey and then fights Webby when she calls her out for this. It’s not until the group saves her from nearly falling off the roof of the mansion that she finally snaps out of it.
- Wham Line: As Scrooge told Louie and Della on how much big of a threat Bradford Buzzard really is to the point even he doesn't think he can beat him.Scrooge: Bradford knows everything about me. My strengths, my weaknesses...
Bradford: [through the robot they just defeated] Your security passwords? - The Worf Effect: Darkwing is sporting visible injuries after his fight with Steelbeak. Given what he's been shown to shrug off and how good of a fighter he's been shown as, it solidly establishes how dangerous the F.O.W.L. operative is.
- Xanatos Gambit: As it turns out, F.O.W.L. knew the McDuck Clan would gear up their defenses starting with the Bin. Which is why they waited for Scrooge to type in the password (which was already changed thanks to Gandra Dee) in order to not only trap Scrooge, Louie, and Della through the security system; but also shutdown communications along with it for F.O.W.L. to steal the Missing Mysteries the McDuck Clan recently found. Bradford would also knew that Scrooge would survive his own security system, which is why he hijacked the robot to fight him to stall for time until it was too late for Scrooge and others to notice. Either way, he wins.
