DuckTales (2017)

Season 1

Woo-oo!

1. Scrooge asks the boys if kids still like marbles. This is a joke as marbles are rarely played nowadays, but in the original DuckTales (1987) series the nephews were accomplished marbles players.
2. In the Wing of Secrets, the following items are seen: The Giant Golden Sun Coin from the DuckTales (1987) five-part pilot "Treasure of the Golden Suns"The head of Armstrong the robot from Armstrong (1987)A skeleton of a caveman and a triceratops, a homage to Bubba and Tootsie from DuckTales (1987)The genie's lamp from DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990).
3. Dewey attempts to take the houseboat to Cape Suzette, the city where TaleSpin (1990) took place.
4. When Donald gets hired by Glomgold, he receives his black-and-white sailor suit, like he wore in the original comic books.
5. In this episode, the lost city of Atlantis is powered by a large gem. This is a homage to the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), in which a connected series of crystals kept the citizens of the sunken city alive.
6. A character resembling Roxanne from A Goofy Movie (1995) makes an appearance as a job candidate. Another, very similar character (possibly the same character?) also appears as a reporter toward the end of the episode.
7. The photo of Della Duck shows her dressed in an aviator's jacket and goggles; she wanted to be a pilot in the Disney comics. This is also a homage to famous aviator Amelia Earhart, who also mysteriously disappeared.
8. Scrooge says "what in Dismal Downs is going on here?" after noticing the monsters in his secret museum/garage having been released. Dismal Downs is the village in Scotland where his family lived.
9. Glomgold (Keith Ferguson) claims to be "more Scottish" than Scrooge (David Tennant). Ferguson is American, and Tennant really IS from Scotland.
10. During Scrooge's board meeting, the cities of Spoonerville and St. Canard are mentioned; these were the locations of Goof Troop (1992) and Darkwing Duck (1991).
11. Scrooge's line about being "smarter than the smarties and tougher than the toughies" is from the first episode of the original DuckTales (1987) series as well as the first comic.
12. A yellow Fiat 500 is seen on the road, with a character wearing a fedora hat inside. This is a homage to the crime-adventure saga Lupin III; Arsene Lupin III was a thief who drove a yellow Fiat 500 and was accompanied by a partner, Daisuke Jigen, who wore a fedora.
13. In Webby's room is a Quacky Patch doll, which she had in DuckTales (1987). (As an in-joke, it's stuck with an arrow!)
14. Webby's chart about Scrooge and his family is accurate to Carl Barks's famous Duck Family Tree from the comics. Originally created as a resource to help Barks, it has been adopted as canon by all modern writers of the "Disney Duck" stories. For example, Donald's mother and father are correctly identified as Scrooge's sister, Hortense, and Quackmore Duck.
15. The episode is titled "Woo-oo", a lyric from the "DuckTales" theme song.
16. Glomgold is attacked by a sea monster that resembles the one that went after Scrooge in Bermuda Triangle Tangle (1987).
17. Gabby McStabberson is visually based on Grace Jones.
18. The pixiu is a Chinese mythological creature that hunts for gold, however it was a lion with deer horns and eagle wings rather than a dragon.
19. Webby makes a reference to a character speaking Swedish. The Disney Duck comics are actually more popular in European countries than in America. In Sweden, Scrooge is known as "Joakim von Anka."
20. In Webby's room is a toy of Mr Peabody from The Bullwinkle Show (1959).
21. Scrooge tells Dewey to "work smarter not harder." This is a long-standing maxim of Scrooge's and has come up many times in both the comics and the original animated series.
22. The reporter at the end of the episode says that Scrooge and his family would be "solving mysteries and rewriting history," which are lyrics from the theme song.
23. When the premiere aired as 2 separate episodes, the second part was titled "Escape to/from Atlantis".
24. There is a doll in Webby's room which resembles her original appearance from the 80s DuckTales (1987) cartoon.
25. A Newspaper Clipping reports on the Terra-Firmians, who appeared in an episode of the original DuckTales (1987) and later on in an episode of the DuckTales (2017)
26. The rock giant that Dewey claims was defeated by Scrooge looks very similar to the stone jaguar from The Road to El Dorado (2000).
27. The first of 5 one hour events that would later get split into 2 separate episodes during reruns, as well as the only one hour event to be the first episode of a season.
28. Donald's outfit at the beginning has been compared to that worn by Spike Spiegel. Both characters are voiced in Japanese by Koichi Yamadera.

Daytrip of Doom!

1. Webby must be able to read Japanese, because when she sees the ukulele game she immediately refers to it as, "Uke or Puke." The game is only labeled in Japanese, and is called, "ukurere ka gero ka." This is Japanese for, "Ukulele or Vomit?" but Webby could read it and immediately make it into a rhyming pun in English.
2. Webby playing the ukelele seems to pay homage to her Voice Actress Kate Micucci, a known ukelele player.
3. First appearance of Ma Beagle and 3 of the Beagle Boys in the new series, being Bigtime, Bouncer and (ironically for being skinny) Burger. The reason for the change in Burger's s appearance and lack of voice in the series (save for the occasional grunt), is due to Burger's original characterization of being obsessed with food inappropriate for the reboot due to it being associated with outdated fat jokes which were considered too mean-spirited for the present modern children's shows.
4. Ma Beagle, matriarch of the Beagle Boys, is voiced by Margo Martindale, who previously played the matriarch of a crime family on Justified (2010).
5. Funzo's is a parody of the family fun centre Chuck E. Cheese's, which is a chain of American family fun centre's and restaurants.

The Great Dime Chase!

1. This episode introduces Scrooge's number-one dime, the first dime he ever earned. It was given to him back in Scotland as payment for cleaning a very muddy pair of boots. Because it was an American coin (and, therefore, useless in Scotland), Scrooge took it as a sign and decided to seek his fortune in America.
2. The book Dewey and Webby find is called "The Life & Times Of Della Duck," which is a homage to Don Rosa's "The Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck," on which DuckTales takes it's inspiration together with the classic Barks stories that the original show and the Duckstories by Don Rosa are based on.
3. At the end, Gryo writes "Blatherskite" when he thinks of an invention that will give people control of machines. This is the code word used to activate the superhero Gizmoduck's mechanical suit and foreshadows the introduction of Fenton Crackshell, who becomes Gizmoduck ("Blathering blatherskite" was his catchphrase in DuckTales (1987)).
4. Louie is seen drinking a soft drink called "Pep." A chewing gum called Pep was a major plot point in an episode from the original DuckTales (1987) series.
5. A Quacky Patch doll from the original DuckTales (1987) appears in Webby's room during the opening scene.
6. This is the first appearance of Gyro Gearloose in the new series. Originally an absent-minded professor, in this series he is more of a mad-scientist character.
7. Mrs. Featherby from the original series is renamed Mrs. Quackfaster in this series. This was her name in the Uncle Scrooge comics. Her name from the original series would be given to the recurring news reporter Roxanne Featherly.
8. Ben Schwartz and Jim Rash had previously worked together on the Disney XD show Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja.
9. This is the first episode where Donald Duck, Mrs. Beakley, and Huey Duck are absent (though all three are mentioned and Danny Pudi is credited).

The Beagle Birthday Massacre!

1. Lena calls Huey, Dewey, and Louie a "boy band." On an earlier television series, House of Mouse (2001), they actually were in a boy band called the Quackstreet Boys/Splashing Pumpkins.
2. Scrooge's sorceress enemy, Magica DeSpell, makes a brief appearance as a shadow and talks for the the first time in Terror of the Terra-Firmians! (2017).
3. The episode was renamed "The Beagle Birthday Breakout!" for reruns since May 2018.
4. The theater where the Webby and Lena first meet and where the Beagle Boys gather later is most likely a reference to DuckTales Treasure of the Golden Suns: Don't Give Up the Ship (1987). In this episode the Beagle Boys gather in quite a similar-looking theater called the L'Orange Theatre.

Terror of the Terra-Firmians!

1. Posters for Glomgold products are on the walls of the abandoned subway car.
2. This is the first speaking appearance of the classic DuckTales villainess Magica DeSpell. Here, she appears in shadow form and has a British accent rather than an Eastern European accent.
3. The Terra-Firmians were originally created for the Uncle Scrooge comics by Carl Barks. They were divided into two factions: the Terrians and the Firmians. When they appeared on the original DuckTales (1987) animated series, however, they were merged into one group.
4. The colors of the Terra-Firmians are the same colors worn by Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, and Lena.
5. Scrooge McDuck does not appear in this episode.
6. This is the second consecutive episode not to feature Scrooge or Donald.
7. Huey believes some of the events happening in the episode could be explained by a gas leak. Huey's voice actor, Danny Pudi, plays Abed in the show Community, which had a "gas leak year" (all of season 4)

The House of the Lucky Gander!

1. Toad Liu Hai is based on several mythological aspects of Chinese mythology: His name comes from Liu Haichan, a Chinese god of wealthHe is a toad. Liu Haichan carried around a money toad (jin chan) which represents wealthHe is colored jade green. In China, jade is an auspicious color associated with immortality.
2. Macaw is named after the tropical bird the macaw, and is also a pun on the Southern Chinese city of Macau, famous for its casinos.
3. Gladstone Gander's outfit as a child is how he dresses in the comics.
4. This episode reveals that Scrooge hates gambling. This comes from the comics, where it is established that Scrooge grew up in the Klondike, where gambling was a pastime, but saw how it took peoples' money and so never indulged in gambling himself.
5. This is the first time in any English comic or cartoon that the nephews refer to Gladstone Gander as family (he was their mother's first cousin, and counts as a relation of Scrooge and Donald).
6. The panda masseur is named Bei Bei, which is the name of a famed male giant panda cub who was born and lived at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., in the United States, and was a favorites featured attraction. He was part of US-China relations panda diplomacy and was sent to the People's Republic of China on November 19, 2019 at the age of 4.
7. The nephews display behavior that corresponds to a different Duck cousin: Louie spends much of his time with Gladstone in this episode, and both wear greenHuey acts much like Donald's cousin Fethry Duck (from the comics), who wore red and displayed unconventional behaviorDewey wears blue like Donald, and initially tries to cheer up Donald.
8. BD Wong's first time voicing a character in something Disney related outside Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004).
9. Marks the first time Eric Bauza voices a character in the DuckTales (2017) Reboot that's not a Beagle Boy.
10. This episode was originally scheduled to premiere on October 21, 2017, but it was moved up a week early.

The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!

1. Mark Beaks is the first major recurring character in the new series not to be based on an earlier character. He was created as a younger, hipper kind of millionaire, as opposed to the old school tycoons, Scrooge and Glomgold.
2. Mark Beaks was originally called "Mark Zuckerbird," an obvious play on Mark Zuckerberg, on whom the character is based. The name had to be changed for legal reasons.
3. The end of the episode reveals that Glomgold's iconic grey beard is actually fake, seemingly hinting that he's not a real Scotsman, which was eventually proven to be true later on in the series.
4. An "inspirational" poster visible in the background of one scene reads "Remember, you're replaceable!"
5. The character Mark Beaks is an obvious parody of Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook. Additionally, he also embodies the personalities of the many young social media celebrities who put everything on the Internet. He is meant to be the exact opposite and the characteristic foil of Scrooge McDuck in that he is young, hip, narcissistic, and made his money the easy way instead of working hard.
6. The crazy work environment of Mark Beak's company, Waddle, is a parody and homage to Silicon Valley and other real-life tech offices, such as Google, where there are various fun things meant to "increase" productivity of employees.
7. This is the first episode to not have Louie or Webby in it.

The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!

1. Toth and Ra are the names of Egyptian gods with bird faces (Toth an ibis and Ra a falcon), which fits with the Disney ducks.
2. Cree Summer previously voiced Kida in Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), in which she also represented a lost culture that had been existing secretly for centuries.

The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!

1. George Mallory was a real life mountaineer who, like Mallardy, died while attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2. Possibly as an homage to the segment "Christmas: Impossible" from Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004), Scrooge says that Santa Claus is not allowed near his home.

The Spear of Selene!

1. Louie's full name is revealed to be "Llewelyn," in contrast to Quack Pack (1996), in which it was revealed to be "Louis."
2. All of the Greek gods/heroes (Zeus, Storkules and Selene) are voiced by actors of Greek heritage (Michael Chiklis, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Nia Vardalos, respectively).
3. Selene is the Greek goddess of the moon.
4. Ithiquack is named after the Greek City of Ithica. Scrooge and the triplets went to Ithiquack in Home Sweet Homer (1987) (though that was a time-travel trip).
5. Storkules calls himself Donald's best friend. His voice actor Chris Diamantopoulos also voices Mickey Mouse in the Mickey Mouse (2013) shorts, who is one of Donald's best friends.
6. Zeus describes himself as "The God of Hospitality." This is consistent with Greek myth where mortals failing to show proper hospitality angered Zeus enormously.
7. HIDDEN MICKEY: Ligeia has black hair and buns that resemble Mickey Mouse's ears.

Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!

1. Launchpad's driver's license lists his birthday as September 18th, 1987, the date DuckTales (1987) premiered (though in A DuckTales Valentine (Amour or Less) (1990), he says his birthday is between March 21st and March 19th) and three years after his voice actor Beck Bennett was born.
2. Fenton Crackshell's name was changed for the new series to Crackshell-Cabrera to reflect voice actor, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Latino heritage.
3. Jim Cummings and Michael Bell reprise their roles as Darkwing Duck and Quackerjack from Darkwing Duck (1991), while Keith Ferguson stands in for original voice actor Dan Castellaneta as Megavolt.
4. This episode was the highly anticipated debut of Gizmo Duck on the new series, but the producers threw fans a curveball by also introducing another duck-themed superhero, Darkwing Duck (1991). Ironically, Darkwing and GizmoDuck didn't get along in the episode of GizmoDuck's appearance.
5. Launchpad takes on a "Man vs Machine" competition against B.U.D.D.Y. in a car race. He had done the same thing in Armstrong (1987) when he faced off with a robot in a flying contest.
6. When ambushing Beaks at the racing site, Gyro is hiding behind a cardboard cutout based on the DuckTales (1987)'s Gyro Gearloose design.
7. This is the second episode to not have Huey, Louie and Webby.
8. Darkwing Duck's alias in this series is Jim Starling. He is named after Disney voice actors Jim Cummings (voice of Darkwing among his Disney Roles), Sterling Holloway (an actor whose roles in recent years got passed onto Cummings), and comic writer Jim Starlin.
9. This episode contains a number of references to the films of Mel Brooks. Fenton declares "It could work!" much like Gene Wilder did in Young Frankenstein (1974). BUDDY's car has a lever that activates "Lu-DUCK-rous" mode, similar to the ship in Spaceballs (1987), which is capable of "Ludicrous Speed." And, of course, the climactic conflict takes place in a fake town in the desert, just like in Blazing Saddles (1974).
10. In DuckTales (1987), it was Gyro who came up with the name of Gizmoduck for the suit. In this series however it was Fenton's idea to give that name for the suit (which unlike the original series, Gyro finds that name to be annoying).
11. This is the first appearance of Gizmoduck and his alter ego, Fenton Crackshell, in the new series.
12. The way Fenton turns into GizmoDuck for the first time in this episode is done in a very similar fashion to how Usagi Tsukino turns into the titular character of Sailor Moon (1995)
13. The Liquidator is played by Corey Burton, replacing original series voice actor Jack Angel. Although Corey Burton did work on the original Darkwing Duck (1991) as The Rubber Chicken for a single episode, so he is still connected to the original series. However, Burton voices the Liquidator only in this episode, and Keith Ferguson replaces him in Let's Get Dangerous! (2020).
14. During the last scene of this episode where Fenton asks Gyro about his fate, a PEP Vending Machine can be seen in the background, a callback to a mock-brand created by Fenton the episode "The Big Flub" of the original DuckTales (1987).

The Missing Links of Moorshire!

1. A kelpie is a mythical horse-like beast that inhabits Scottish lakes.
2. Glomgold's caddie Tiger is described to be the best golfer in the world. This is a homage to golf champion Tiger Woods.
3. The Kelpies Bramble and Briar's names are based off the traditional English murder ballad of the same name.
4. King James really did ban golf but not for the reason Scrooge describes. He felt it was interfering with the practice of archery.
5. Webby exclaims in surprise when she meets the kelpies, about them wearing clothes (hats) and talking. Yet that is exactly what almost every character in the Mickey Mouse Universe is: talking animals wearing clothes.
6. This is Andrea Libman's first time voice acting in something Disney related.
7. In 2019, Andrea Libman said The Missing Links of Moorshire reminded her of The Golf War (2014), as they both feature a golf rivalry and a big guest role by someone who was in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010) as a character who appears to be nice at first, but turns out to be a murderer. The Golf War featured Patton Oswalt, who voiced Quibble Pants in Stranger Than Fan Fiction (2016).
8. While most of the main cast members and Tara Strong typically record their lines from Los Angeles or New York City, Andrea Libman, who resides in Canada, stayed in Vancouver when recording her lines and didn't come to the United States to meet the rest of the cast, which Tara Strong did by visiting Vancouver for the first three My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010) episodes.

McMystery at McDuck McManor!

1. Huey's word search contains several Scrooge related words, but the top line also holds the solution to the mystery - the butler did it.
2. Dewey's "DJ Daft Duck" persona is modeled after Electro group Daft Punk.
3. Two words on the word search are "KLONDIKE and "GOLDEN SUNS," referencing plot points in the original DuckTales (1987). The former is also featured in a later episode of the DuckTales (2017) Reboot. Other words include "GLASCOW" (Scrooge's birthplace), "MONEYBIN," "TOUGHIES," "SMARTIES," "GOLD," "DISMALDOWNS," "CLANMCDUCK" (Scrooge's family), "DIME," "SHOESHINER" (Scrooge was once a shoe shiner), "YUKON" (the Carl Barks comic "North of the Yukon"), and "BARKS" (Carl Barks), all of which tie in with Scrooge and his history.
4. The electrical system in McDuck Manor is labeled "DT-87" after the year that the Original DuckTales (1987) premiered.
5. Chuck McCann, Duckworth's original voice actor in DuckTales (1987), passed away of heart failure two weeks after this premiered outside North America (the American premiere came over a month after McCann's death) at the age of 83, which features Duckworth's debut in the show and portrays him as deceased.
6. Early in the series' run, fans asked where Duckworth was. The creators teased that he had, in fact, already appeared in the show. This episode features the butler turning into a monster-like ghost with a skull for a head--the same type of ghost who appears in the opening credits, making the creators' statement true.
7. Duckworth makes an appearance. While he is still Scrooge McDuck's butler as in DuckTales (1987), he is now a ghost, having passed away some time before the events of the show. While the exact cause of his death was never mentioned at any point in the series, it can be interpreted from The Last Adventure! (2021) that FOWL might have been responsible.
8. Huey, while hiding in the armor, does an impression of Scrooge's voice, which he also did in Dinosaur Ducks (1987) to Webby while he and his brothers were stowing away in a container to be taken on an adventure that they were forbidden from going on.
9. The main cast--David Tennant, Danny Pudi, Bobby Moynihan, Ben Schwartz, Kate Micucci, and Toks Olagundoye--did a live table read of this episode for the 2018 Disney Channel Fan Fest, which is available on YouTube.
10. In Sweden, this episode premiered in March of 2018, two months ahead of its American airdate, which did not occur until May of that year.

Jaw$!

1. According to Webby's chart, Scrooge's enemies are Flintheart Glomgold, Ma Beagle, and what looks like Winnie the Pooh dressed as Santa Claus.
2. Webby's spellbook, the "Grimoire du Merlock," is named after DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)'s main antagonist, Merlock.
3. Donald is later depicted as a heavy sleeper in Storkules in Duckburg! (2018) as well.

The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains!

1. Both the comics and the original series establish that Scrooge made his fortune in the Klondike as a prospector. This series, set thirty years after the original, also use this backstory even though it would make Scrooge (and Goldie, of course) well over a hundred years old. The comments about a "time vortex" and "fountain of youth" were written in to explain this anomaly.
2. Flintheart Glomgold starts to quote Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) when he says "there is nothing you can possess that I cannot--." The full quotation ends with "I cannot take away."
3. Scrooge's line to Goldie "you love gold more than me" is similar to what the Ghost of Christmas Past (played by Jiminy Cricket) said to Scrooge (playing Ebeneexer Scrooge) in Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983), "you loved your gold more than that precious creature, and you lost her forever".
4. At the gala early in the episode, Dewey dances in the style of Michael Jackson (even using his signature "Ooh Ooh!").
5. The rainbow caves are likely a reference to the Rainbow Caverns, part of the former Disneyland attraction Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland.

Day of the Only Child!

1. Dewey says "cool cool cool cool." This was a frequent phrase used by Abed on Community (2009), who was played by Danny Pudi, who voices Huey.
2. The security robot that later turned against Dewey is named DT-87, a reference to when DuckTales (1987) premiered.
3. Doofus Drake was changed from the kind-hearted character in DuckTales (1987) to a more sociopathic character. Francisco Angones cites Antony, the super-powered child in It's a Good Life (1961), as an influence on the new Doofus, feeling that Doofus was too nice in the original show. Doofus was also intended to serve as a foil for Louie to show what would happen when too much greed for money would destroy a person when left unchecked, hence Louie is the only one of the triplets to get involved with Doofus due to their similar personalities.
4. Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt, who play Doofus's parents, are married in real life.
5. This is the third episode of DuckTales (2017) that Scrooge doesn't appear in, matching the number of absences he had in DuckTales (1987), in which he was absent from three episodes--Sir Gyro de Gearloose (1987), Launchpad's Civil War (1987), and Superdoo! (1987)). Despite that, a crude drawing of Scrooge is seen as part of Dewey's audience for his pretend talk show, along with crude drawings of Mrs. Beakley and Donald Duck, who are both also absent from this episode.
6. The way Dewey does his pretend talk show is similar to that of Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), which is also produced by Disney.
7. Burger speaks for the first time, but only with small sentences.
8. Much like with the original DuckTales (1987), Launchpad is used as the Junior Woodchuck scout leader.
9. Originally the plot of the episode was to have Gyro showing Huey, Dewey and Louie alternate dimensions where each of them were born as an only child, but since it was deemed too complicated and redundant by the series creators, the plot was changed into having the triplets hang out with others separately whilst claiming to be an only child.
10. In the Dewey Dew-night intro, Webby is wearing her monster mask from the end of Daytrip of Doom.
11. Dewey pretending to have his own talk show was based on series creator Frank Angones doing a similar thing when he was younger.
12. Huey uses the same sort of scream that Brainy Smurf used repeatedly in Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) while he was trying to escape from a Smurf-eating flower. Both characters are voiced by Danny Pudi and have similar personalities.
13. When Dewey tries to imitate Huey, a robot with duck limbs resembling that of Transformers character Optimus Prime can be seen.

From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22!

1. The "potion" Black Heron is making is actually Gummi Berry Juice, secret recipe of the Gummi Bears that allows them to bounce here and there and everywhere.
2. The Gummi Bears are apparently part of the historical record. Not only are they shown as a group, but there is a close up of Zummi Gummi (voiced by April Winchell's (Black Heron) late father Paul Winchell in the first five seasons of Gummi Bears (1985)). There is a mention of how they bounce, and part of the song is said, albeit without music.
3. SHUSH and FOWL are both organizations from Darkwing Duck (1991)--the former actually originated in Double-O-Duck (1987). SHUSH was the good secret agency that called upon Darkwing/Drake Mallard to fight against FOWL agents. This is at least the third episode to have a callback to Darkwing Duck (1991).
4. The special cane Ludwig gives Scrooge is a PPK. This is a reference to the Walther PPK, sidearm of choice for James Bond.
5. This is the first appearance of familiar Mickey Mouse character Ludwig Von Drake.
6. In the 'Gummi Bears' series, gummiberry juice gives Gunmis the ability to bounce but it imbues humans with super strength. In this series (which, of course, has no human characters), the effects are combined. Webby bounces but is also strong enough to break through her ropes.
7. Scrooge for the first time at the end of the episode offers himself to be called "Uncle Scrooge" by Webby, of which she referred to him as in the original DuckTales (1987), despite not being related.
8. The "flip 6 3-hole" move that Mrs. Beakley and Scrooge use to rescue Webby as she falls is a nod to Starship Troopers
9. Black Heron's mug shot prisoner number is given as 09141985. This is a reference to September 14th, 1985, the first air date of Gummi Bears (1985).
10. This is the first episode in which one of the characters stows away on an adventure with Scrooge that they were initially forbidden from going on, which happened frequently in DuckTales (1987).
11. When Mrs Beakley recites the recipe for Gummi Berry Juice, it is accurate to what Granny Gummi said in the original The Secret of the Juice (1985); though, the original included special instructions for stirring, and for the water you use (Presumably Black Heron knew this part of the recipe)
12. Binary code is scratched on the wall of cave on F.O.W.L's island headquarters

Who is Gizmoduck?!

1. In the original series, Fenton Crackshell lived in a trailer with his soap opera-addicted mother whom he referred to as "Mama" (pronounced Muh-Maw) and who never left the house. In this new series, Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera lives in an apartment with his mother, who he refers to as "Mama," but this time she is a police detective. She does seem to love telenovelas (Spanish language soap operas).
2. This is the first episode where Dewey appears but doesn't have any dialogue.
3. The telenovela that Officer Cabrera is watching is called "Patos de Los Passion," which translates as "Passion Ducks" or "Ducks of Passion."
4. GizmoDuck faces off the Beagle Boys at a bank called The National Bank, paying homage to Lin-Manuel Miranda's role as Alexander Hamilton in the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
5. The scene where Beaks holds a press conference to tell the citizens of Duckburg that he's WaddleDuck is a reference to Tony Stark telling the world he's Iron Man in Iron Man (2008).
6. In response to people who were offended by Mark Beaks making a racist remark towards Fenton, the writers said it was to emphasize on how much of a terrible person Beaks is.
7. Donald attempts to get a loan to fix his boat to repair the damage it received during the events of "JAW$!".

The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!

1. The dime is hidden in Scrooge's "worry room." This was a room featured in a few episodes of the original series, designed with a circular rut in the floor so that Scrooge can pace nervously.
2. The plot of Magica tricking someone into getting her past Scrooge's booby traps so she can reach his Number One Dime was also used in Dime Enough for Luck (1987). In that episode she did so through Gladstone's luck, but in this episode she did so through Webby's trust to Lena.
3. Scrooge earned his first dime in 1877, making him over 140 years old.
4. Webby's presentation is called "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" after Don Rosa's best-selling graphic novel.
5. The Welcome to Duckburg short film Meet Huey! already featured Huey meeting the Bigfoot.

Sky Pirates...in the Sky!

1. Despite Jim Cummings having been in the DuckTales (2017) cast, he does not reprise his role as Don Karnage, who is instead voiced by Mexican actor Jaime Camil to keep up the trend of the creators wanting to find actors of the same sort of nationality to voice characters in the show.
2. Cape Suzette, where TaleSpin (1990) takes place, was previously mentioned in Woo-oo! (2017), tying in the connection.
3. During the battle against Don Karnage and his crew onboard his plane in the dark, the triplets use the same strategy they used in Duck in the Iron Mask (1987) when facing off Ray by making it seem like one of them can be in more then one place at the same time.
4. Not counting the theme song, the song dedicated to Don Karnage and his sky pirates is the first time in DuckTales (2017) in which a song is used to represent the characters. This was previously used twice in DuckTales (1987) with a song dedicated to Bubba the Caveduck in Time Is Money: Part 3 - Bubba Trubba (1988) and to the Beagle Boys in Beaglemania (1989).
5. According to Francisco Angones, Don Karnage in the DuckTales reboot is not the same Don Karnage from TaleSpin, but rather, a copycat who is taking on the legacy title.

The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!

1. Scrooge's father, Fergus McDuck, reveals the truth about how Scrooge got his number one dime. Scrooge was given the dime by a ditch digger in exchange for a shoe shine, but Fergus arranged for the ditch digger to give him the dime, knowing it would inspire his son to make his own way in the world. This added dimension to Scrooge's "origin story" is taken from the first issue of Don Rosa's award-winning comic series "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck."
2. Scrooge's father says upon Scrooge's arrival, "Jettison that jalopy from my driveway this instant, you deadbeat!" This is the same thing Scrooge says to Donald in Woo-oo! (2017).
3. Alan Young, who voiced Scrooge in the original series, was the first choice for the role of Fergus McDuck, but passed away before production began.
4. In the comics, Scrooge's father died before he, Scrooge, settled in Duckburg. Here, his parents were accidentally made immortal when Scrooge rebuilt McDuck Castle.
5. While posing as Donald, Launchpad says "Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!" which was one of Donald's earliest "catchphrases" from his animated shorts.
6. Huey, Dewey and Louie's birthday is shown to be April 10th, which also happens to be the day the Triplets made their debut 80 years prior in the Donald Duck short Donald's Nephews (1938), which contradicts the comic story "Donald Duck in Panama" where their birthday is shown to be between July 22nd and August 23rd.
7. At one point Scrooge and his father make a reference to an ancestor, Simon McDuck, who acted as an accountant to the Knights Templar. This is mostly likely a reference to Simon Templar, the main character from The Saint (1997), who is a descendant of the Knights Templar.
8. Launchpad is the second friend of Donald to have borrowed his clothes. The first was Mickey Mouse in No Service (2013).
9. At one point Scrooge McDuck refers to the vehicle as a Jeep, it's not a Jeep but a 1949 Land Rover 80" series I station wagon made by Tickford.

The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!

1. Scrooge's monologue, in which he tells the boys what happened to their mother, and his final line were both completed in a single take.
2. Scrooge is looking for the Maltese McGuffin. A McGuffin is a cinematic term for an object that motivates the plot, a famous example of which is the Maltese Falcon from The Maltese Falcon (1941)
3. This reveals that the events of the first season span six months.
4. When discussing the EXCESS convention, the characters quote from the theme song: "Racecars! Lasers! Airplanes?"
5. The final shot mirrors Scrooge's first appearance in the comic story "Christmas on Bear Mountain."
6. Della Duck's fate in her revealed disappearance seems to take inspiration from Dutch Comic "80 is prachtig."
7. Scrooge, when attempting to fly Launchpad's plane, is shown to not be very good behind the wheel. This was previously shown to be the case in Duckworth's Revolt (1987) when attempting to drive Duckworth's limo.
8. This is considered the saddest episode in DuckTales (2017). In DuckTales (1987), the saddest episode was considered Catch as Cash Can: Part 4 - Working for Scales (1987).
9. As Della is later revealed to be on the moon, it means Scrooge's search teams were rather incompetent with their task of finding Della.

The Shadow War!

1. The song Launchpad makes up when he climbs onto the roof of the plane is sung to the tune of the Darkwing Duck (1991) theme song.
2. This marks the fourth time that Donald has taken medication to improve his unusual voice. The three previous times were in the Donald Duck short Donald's Dream Voice (1948), in the Mickey and the Roadster Racers (2017) episode Ye Olde Royal Heist/Tea Time Trouble! (2017), and in the Mickey Mouse (2013) episode Split Decisions (2016).
3. Gyro's voicebox is called the "Barksian modulator," named after Carl Barks, creator of Scrooge McDuck among others, whose work has been a major influence on the DuckTales franchise.
4. This marks the first time that Donald is voiced by someone with the same first name. Don Cheadle steps in for the character's long time voice actor, Tony Anselmo.
5. This is the second one-hour event of the series. In reruns, this is split into two parts under the names "The Night of De Spell" for part one and "Day of the Ducks" for part two, respectively.
6. Lena while under Magica's Control when trying to talk Scrooge into springing to action even without his family mentions some of his past adventures, which reference events from the Original Series.
7. Upon her defeat by the Triplets and Webby at the end of the episode by destroying her magic sceptre that helps her become quite powerful, Magica says "You've Ruined Everything". This line was also used by fellow DuckTales villain Circe the Pig Sorceress upon her defeat in the episode "Home Sweet Homer" in the Original DuckTales (1987) after her magic medallion that turns others into Non-Anthropomorphic Pigs gets destroyed.
8. An eventful incident took place during the battle against Scrooge (David Tennant) and Magica (Catherine Tate), paying homage to The Fires of Pompeii (2008), where the 10th Doctor (Tennant) and Donna Noble (Tate) end up witnessing an eventful incident while at Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
9. Despite throwing his clothes into the fire earlier in the episode, Scrooge emerges from the dime fully dressed complete with top hat and cane.
10. The mementos that the boys throw away are each from a previous episode. Huey's tee shirt is from The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest! (2017), Dewey's trophy is from The Missing Links of Moorshire! (2018), and Louie's khopesh is from The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra! (2017).
11. As the Stolen Shadows under Magica's control form around the Money Bin, they attempt to stop Launchpad from "crashing the party" by attempting to crash into them by swinging at his plane, referencing the most frequently spoofed scene from King Kong (1933) and it's reboots.
12. Lena's "home" shown in this episode has a similar appearance to Magica's temporary hideout in the episode "Raiders of the Lost Harp" from the original DuckTales (1987).
13. The only recurring characters of the first season not seen having their shadows stolen are Ma Beagle, the Beagle Boys, Mark Beaks, Doofus Drake, Mrs. Quackfaster, Goldie O'Gilt and Roxanne Featherly.
14. During the "parent trapped farewell party" held by Launchpad, Webby and Mrs. Beakley used to help the Triplets and Scrooge to reconcile and not move to Cape Suzette, salt sea ice cream is made for Scrooge, referencing what he was seen selling in the video game Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2010).
15. Scrooge's pizza boxes are all from "Papa Swan's," a clear reference to Papa John's Pizza.
16. At the end of this episode Magica loses most of her power and as a result her feathers change from green to white. However, this would remain in effect until the episode The Phantom and the Sorceress! (2020).
17. While in the Money Bin, Magica turns some of Scrooge's money into ice cream. This seems to reference the episode "Catch as Cash Can, part 2" from the Original DuckTales (1987) with Scrooge's infamous temper tantrum of "a sea monster" eating his "ice cream" (which was really part of his fortune being transported across the sea).
18. Mrs. Beakley refers to the dinner party as a "parent trap," referencing the classic 1961 Disney film as well as the 1998 remake (to say nothing of the novel that inspired both films).
19. In the original DuckTales (1987), Magica was after Scrooge's Number One Dime so she could melt it into her amulet to take over the world. In the DuckTales (2017) Reboot she'd been after his Number One Dime due to her full Anthropomorphic Duck form being sealed into there following an incident on Mount Vesuvius 15 years prior to the events of the show with only her shadow remaining.
20. The final scene of Magica attempting to disappear in a puff of smoke but failing with her simply running off upon her defeat seems to be based off the ongoing defeat of fellow cartoon villain Trixie Lulamoon from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010).
21. During the battle against the evil shadows, Manny the Headless Man-Horse says to the Little Bulb "Farewell, Brother", referencing the film of the same name.
22. In reruns, this episode is split into 2 parts under the names "The Night of De Spell" for part 1 and "Day of the Ducks" for part 2. These are likely references to the Doctor Who (2005) short "Night of the Doctor" and the 50th anniversary special "Day of the Doctor." The first is the prequel to the later, in which David Tenant (who voices Scrooge McDuck) reprises his role of the Doctor alongside the current Doctor, Matt Smith.