DuckTales (2017)

Season 2

The Most Dangerous Game... Night!

1. Among the spaces on the Scroogopoly board game is the "Bark Space," referencing Carl Barks.
2. Starting from this episode, the opening has been slightly modified to include both Gizmoduck and Magica De Spell, replacing Big Bulb firing the laser and one of the Beagle Boys in the close-up of the villains.
3. The title is a reference to the book "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, along with its many film adaptions.
4. Huey using a needle and thread to take down a giant is reminiscent of the classic Mickey short Brave Little Tailor (1938).
5. The tiny civilization that Gyro named the Gyropuddlians is based off the Lilliputians from "Gulliver's Travels."

The Depths of Cousin Fethry!

1. Just like in The House of the Lucky Gander! (2017), Launchpad has his own adventure that none of the other characters know anything about.
2. While many people believe that Cousin Fethry is a new character made up for the show, this is not true. In reality, going back to the 1950s Ducktales comics and going around the world, Cousin Fethry is well-known and popular. In fact, in Brazil, he had his own comic book series.
3. This is Fethry Duck's first appearance in animation.
4. Huey is right about the dewfish being another name for a fresh-water catfish.
5. Fethry describes the ocean as "liquid space." This is a reference to the original Submarine Voyage attraction at Disneyland.
6. While Cousin Fethry is the custodian for one of Scrooge's underground labs, in the comics from around the world, he has been a private investigator, a superhero, and an adventurer like his relatives.
7. While descending in the sea elevator, the characters see a curious looking fish. While seeming part of a cartoon, the fish is real: the smooth-head blobfish is an abyssal fish common in the waters of Australia and New Zealand.
8. Launchpad after emerging from the sea at the end resembles DC character Aquaman.

The Ballad of Duke Baloney!

1. This reveals that Glomgold is really South African and simply pretends to be Scottish because of his obsession with Scrooge, which was previously hinted at in The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks! (2017) when his iconic gray beard was shown to be fake. This reflects the character's history from the comics, in which he was depicted as being from South Africa. When the original DuckTales (1987) television series debuted in 1987, it was thought that a South African character might prove controversial, so he was changed to being a real Scotsman.
2. Zan Owlson's name is based off Suzanna Olson, one of the show's producers.
3. The name "Duke Baloney" might be a reference to the Carl Barks comic "Turkey With All the Schemings" (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #148) in which Donald has a döppelganger named the Duke of Baloni, a Mediterranean duke who is the second richest duck in the world. (This story was written before Barks created Glomgold).
4. The identity that Flintheart Glomgold adapts, Duke Baloney, is partially based on his original character. When Webby and Louie notice that he has a South African accent, this is based on the original Carl Barks comics where the character is from South Africa.
5. Young Glomgold/Baloni is introduced as a shoeshine boy, just like Scrooge was back in Scotland.
6. This is the first episode in which Dewey doesn't make an appearance after having appeared in every episode prior, including one that he doesn't have any lines in.
7. This picks up on what happened to Glomgold after The Shadow War! (2018) in which he fell into the sea and started to suffer amnesia after his shadow got stolen.
8. The way Owlson introduces herself when filling in for Glomgold in his disappearance pays homage to Glomgold's introduction in the overview of Glomgold Industries in Woo-oo! (2017).

The Town Where Everyone Was Nice!

1. The nephews never having heard of the Three Caballeros might be a reference to the fact that the film The Three Caballeros (1944) is one of the more obscure Disney classics.
2. The Three Caballeros (1944) was a 1944 Disney feature that combined animation and live action. It depicted Donald visiting Brazil and Mexico with Jose and Panchito acting as tour guides to their respective countries. It, along with its predecessor Saludos Amigos (1942), was produced as part of America's "Good Neighbor Policy" to promote friendship with Central and South America during the Second World War.
3. A banner can be seen reading "ATE MAIS," which is Portuguese for "Farewell."
4. In his original appearance in The Three Caballeros (1944), Panchito had pistols in his holsters, which he fired into the air in excitement. However due to sensitivity issues as guns have become banned from children's entertainment, much like with other recent Disney productions involving Panchito, Ducktales makes a similar change by replacing the pistols with Smartphones that are held in his holsters instead.
5. The Monstrous Plant in this episode creating fake residents as a trap seems to be based off the one seen in the horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
6. Despite Eric Bauza and Jaime Camil having voiced characters in previous episodes of DuckTales (2017), they do not reprise their roles as Jose and Panchito respectively, once again giving them new voice actors, both of whom are of the same nationality as their respective characters, much like their original voice actors from the 1940s were.
7. This marks the second time that Bernardo De Paula has voiced a Macaw. The first time was in Rio 2 (2014), which also featured Kate Micucci.
8. This is the second episode of DuckTales (2017) to have a song dedicated to one of the characters, a reprise of The Three Caballeros' trademark song.
9. Along with Koichi Yamadera as Donald, Ryusei Nakao and Toshio Furukawa reprise their roles as Jose and Panchito for the Japanese dub.
10. The Three Caballeros song is recreated here, although the Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes part is omitted.

Storkules in Duckburg!

1. The episode's title is a play on the play titled Hercules in New York (1970) because it is about Storkules (based on Hercules) in a modern-day city.
2. This is the first episode of DuckTales (2017) where Big Time is seen alone without any of other Beagle Boys.
3. The page about the Terra-Firmians from Terror of the Terra-Firmians! (2017) that Huey added into his Junior Woodchuck Guidebook himself can be seen briefly as Huey reads through the guidebook.
4. Much like in Day of the Only Child! (2018), Dewey hosts a talk show similar to that of Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), done to help Louie with his attempt to run his own business.

Last Christmas!

1. This episode contains several references to Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983), where Ebenezer Scrooge was portrayed by Scrooge himself.
2. Young Donald is voiced by Russi Taylor, who voiced all 3 triplets and Webby in the original series.
3. The Ghost Of Christmas Past resembles Jiminy Cricket, who played the role of that character in Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983).
4. Scrooge makes a disparaging comment about time travelers. His voice actor, David Tennant, played the 10th Doctor of Doctor Who (2005), a famous time traveler, for several years.
5. Mrs. Beakley makes reference to a holiday special called 'Christmas on Bear Mountain'. This was the title of the comic story that first introduced the character of Scrooge McDuck.
6. Dewey uses the alias "Bluey," which is what Scrooge mistakenly called him in the first episode.
7. Professor Rhutt Betlah tries to get Scrooge to invest in an expedition to the Andes to search for the origin of a cubical rock. This is the plot of Carl Barks' 1949 Donald Duck comic book "Lost in the Andes."
8. The Ghost of Christmas Present wears the same outfit worn by Willie the Giant in Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983), which had him playing the role of the Ghost of Christmas Present.
9. Young Donald uses the expression "Quackeroonie!" This was a word often used by Huey, Dewey and Louie in the original series along with other projects (such as the video game Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2010) after completing a round in their Ice Cream Beat mini-game).
10. Due to this being a Christmas episode, the opening lyrics were changed to a Christmas-themed version for this episode in addition to adding in snowflakes as part of the Christmas theme, and the credits are shown in the same style as the credits of Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983).
11. When Dewey and Donald get caught in Della's trap, Dewey says, "what is happening?". This is exactly what he said in the first episode when he was caught in a similar trap set by Webby.
12. Rhutt Betlah is named and designed to look after Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind (1939), a character famously played by Clark Gable.
13. Donald calls Della "Dumbella," which was the name given to Huey, Dewey and Louie's mother when the boys first appeared in the short subject Donald's Nephews (1938).
14. Among the guests seen at the Christmas Party in the past is Captain Farley Foghorn, who appeared in a few episodes of the original series where he'd be Scrooge's temp captain at certain times.
15. Duckified Versions of Weezer's The Blue Album and Nirvana's Nevermind cover art both appear as posters in the younger Donald's bedroom.
16. This would be the only episode of the DuckTales (2017) reboot that Russi Taylor (who was a regular in the original DuckTales (1987)) would provide a voice role in before her later death in July 2019. Starting with "The First Adventure" in Season 3, Cristina Valenzuela would take over as Young Donald.
17. Scrooge defeats a monster by bouncing on the tip of his cane. This is how he attacked in the popular DuckTales (1989) video game, its follow up DuckTales 2 (1993), and its remake DuckTales: Remastered (2013).
18. The episode's title is based off the song "Last Christmas" by Wham!.
19. First appearance of Babyface, Bankjob and Bugle in the DuckTales (2017) reboot, who were another set of Beagle Boys that appeared in the Original DuckTales (1987) less often then Bigtime, Bouncer, Burger and Baggy did, though they don't speak in this episode.
20. The events of the episode "The Impossible Peak of Mt Everest" from the previous season are mentioned by The Ghost of Christmas Past, explaining how Scrooge skipped spending time with the Ghosts for Christmas in that episode to instead be with his family.
21. In the final scenes, Donald is wearing the Christmas sweater Della gave him when they were kids (it was too big for him at the time, but he grew into it).
22. Last Christmas! (2018) shows another appearance of Jack McBrayer, who is already well-known to Disney fans for Movies and TV. He voiced Fix-It-Felix Jr. in Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018). He voiced Irving Du Bois in Phineas and Ferb (2007), a captain in Milo Murphy's Law (2016), a pirate mummy in Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates (2011), Wander in Wander Over Yonder (2013), and Badili in The Lion Guard (2015).
23. Jack McBrayer who voiced the Cricket Ghost of Christmas Past, previously appeared alongside Danny Pudi (voice of Huey) in Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017).

Whatever Happened to Della Duck?!

1. Della Duck sings new, original lyrics to the previously instrumental song "The Moon," which originally appeared in the NES version of DuckTales (1989) in 1989, composed by Hiroshige Tonomura.
2. This premiered one day before the 50th birthday of Paget Brewster, Della's voice actress.
3. The idea of gold being in plentiful supply on the moon comes from H.G. Wells's 1901 novel "The First Men in the Moon" (filmed as First Men in the Moon (1964), among other adaptations).
4. This is the first episode of DuckTales (2017) that all three of the triplets are absent from.
5. This is the second episode to not have the introduction, instead simply showing the DuckTales logo. The first had been the first part of Woo-oo! (2017) when split into two episodes during reruns.

Treasure of the Found Lamp!

1. D'jinn's name is based off the word Djinn, another word for genie.
2. The character D'jinn is a re-imagined version of Dijon, a character from DuckTales (1987), whose name was changed in the reboot to make it sound more Arabic. In this series D'jinn is an adventurer and ally of Scrooge McDuck, in contrast to Dijon who was a thief and minor villain. Similar to D'jinn, Dijon also first appeared in a genie-themed adventure DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) (and he also appeared in three episodes during the original series' final season). Also for the reboot, D'jinn is portrayed as a jackal-themed character instead of a dog-themed character like Dijon was.
3. Dijon's 2017 counterpart D'jinn is the second character whose alignment was reversed in the 2017 series of being portrayed as a hero instead of a villain like Dijon was in DuckTales (1987). The first character to do this was Doofus Drake, who was changed into a villain for the 2017 reboot while in the original series he was a hero. (Doofus also appears in this episode.)
4. The "Relics From a Forgotten Time" exhibition at the Duckburg Museum has several references to comic-book stories, including: Don Rosa's "The Empire-Builder from Calisota" (1995), part of "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck," later revealed how Scrooge obtained the ruby in the first place and the Rapa Nui head, which appeared in Jeffrey Blum's "The Mystery of Easter Island" (1988).
5. The large painting in Gladstone's blimp is a duckified version of "The Kids" by Gustav Klimt. (The blimp itself has "Gladyear" written on the side, a clear reference to the Goodyear blimp).

The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck!

1. Sheriff Marshal Cabrera is apparently an ancestor of Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera/Gizmoduck. The two have the same last name and voice actor in addition to both having a similar alter ego (though the Sheriff's suit is more old-fashioned compared to the Gizmosuit) along with the fact they both annoy Gyro.
2. This is John D Rockerduck's first appearance in animation. In the comics, he was one of Scrooge's business rivals who wished to become the richest duck in the world, a trait which was used for Flintheart Glomgold for this and DuckTales (1987).
3. This is the first appearance of Gyro's time tub in DuckTales (2017), which was previously features in three episodes of DuckTales (1987) and used by Gyro for traveling to different time periods as well as for sending Scrooge and the others to different time periods.
4. One of the stores in Gumption is called "The Mad Haberdashery," likely a reference to the Mad Hatter from the book "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, adapted for film in Alice in Wonderland (1951).

The 87 Cent Solution!

1. The title is a play on "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," a popular book about Sherlock Holmes.
2. Gizmo Duck points out that Mark Beaks is live posting from "Crowchella," an in-universe version of the real Coachella.
3. The song playing when Flintheart enters the funeral is "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled and Mariah Carey with Busta Rhymes, Nicki Minaj and Sean 'Diddy' Combs. It's a rare instance of real-world music being used on the series.
4. Scrooge wearing tissue box shoes is in reference to Howard Hughes who wore tissue boxes because of his fear of germs.
5. The place where the Beagle Boys are mentioned to be at, Con-Con, a convention for convicts, is a parody of Comic-Con, a convention for comic-book fans.
6. This is the first episode of DuckTales (2017) that Fenton appears only as Gizmoduck and not as himself.
7. It is shown that even though Manny has an inanimate statue for a head, he still wears a face mask, implying that he is able to breath.

The Golden Spear!

1. Right before Della is finally able to set off back to Earth after being stuck on the moon for more then 10 years, she lists things she would like to do with her boys, not knowing that they did them already in The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra! (2017) and The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest! (2017).
2. When Della enters her ship at the beginning, the television broadcast from the end of The Shadow War! (2018) can be seen playing.
3. Experienced voice actor Rob Paulsen (Gibbous) is the seventh cast member of DuckTales (2017) to have previously been in DuckTales (1987), in which he was the original voice of Gladstone Gander. The other six cast members were Tony Anselmo, Frank Welker (uncredited in the reboot), Jim Cummings, Michael Bell, Corey Burton and Russi Taylor.

Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!

1. It is revealed that Della's original names for the boys were Jet (Huey), Turbo (Dewey), and Rebel (Louie). Dewey's voice actor Ben Schwartz previously appeared in Turbo (2013) as Skidmark (who like Dewey is associated with the color blue).
2. This episode, which involves Della reunited with her children, notably first aired on the day after Mother's Day in 2019.
3. The episode has numerous parallels to Woo-oo! (2017), including the nephews bombarding Della with questions the way they did when they first met Scrooge, Della unleashing a monster from Scrooge's secret museum/garage, and Scrooge saying "What in Dismal Downs is going on in here" upon noticing the chaos going on in the secret museum/garage after the monster had been set loose.
4. In Donald's house boat is a picture of him warming up the kids as they fall asleep, which is based off an artwork piece made by Carl Barks.
5. This not only marks the reunion of Della with her children on screen but also the first time ever in animation that they have been together.
6. Della mentioned the Gilded Man when talking to the people of the Moon about her life on Earth before telling the story to her children.
7. Della begins her story about the Gilded Man with "the place...the time..." just as Dewey did when he tried to tell the story behind his new hat in Sky Pirates...in the Sky! (2018).
8. The family meeting regarding Della's lack of adjustment to being back home that caused her to misinterpret what they were saying is similar to Scrooge's conversation with Mrs. Beakley when he was having trouble adjusting with the boys back in Woo-oo! (2017), causing Dewey to react similarly after Scrooge stated "Family is nothing but trouble!" Another similarity to the previous episodes is Della having trouble remembering the boys' official names, as this joke was used before with Scrooge forgetting Dewey's name in both that episode and The Shadow War! (2018).
9. After riding the shield down the stairs, Huey says "I flew too close to the sun." This Icarus reference is also part of the lyrics in Hamilton (2020) (written by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, who plays Gizmoduck/Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera in this show)
10. The opening scenes with Donald has some references to the Evil Dead series. Donald holds a chainsaw with his right hand (the same hand Ash Williams attaches his chainsaw) and a video tape wakes up the dead ( in the Evil Dead reading a book with a similar name to the video wakes the dead).

Raiders of the Doomsday Vault!

1. One of the doomsday scenarios that Ludwig mentions in his video message involves the Earth being taken over by "hyper-intelligent hairless apes"...in other words, human beings.
2. The Doomsday Vault is based on a real life institute: the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located in Norway and established by Cary Fowler in 2006.
3. The facts that Von Drake's children are running the seed vault and that Von Drake himself only appears on a video screen seem to indicate that he has passed away since the events of From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22! (2018). However it is revealed in the show's series finale that he for many years had been captured by FOWL and was kept so busy to the point that he didn't have time to age.
4. Ludvig Von Drake's security system for his vault is an homage to his original purpose for the Disney company, which was to promote color television. The song that Ludvig Von Drake sang during his television appearances: "The Spectrum Song," is the password to enter the Doomsday Vault.
5. Von Drake's children, shown for the first time, are named Corvus, Anya and Klara, but they're only referred to by name in the credits.
6. Although Mrs. Beakley does not appear, Scrooge talks with her on the phone.

Friendship Hates Magic!

1. This is the fourth episode of DuckTales (2017) that Scrooge himself doesn't appear in.
2. The footage from the The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain (1991) is used on the tape that Launchpad and Mrs. Beakley watch, but the animation used for that scene was redone to match the animation style for DuckTales (2017). In addition, Jim Cummings becomes the new voice for Paddywhack, who was previously voiced in the Darkwing Duck (1991) series by the late Phil Hartman.
3. This is the second episode of DuckTales (2017) that all three triplets are absent from.
4. Mrs. Beakley references the issues Webby had in the past with sleepovers in both Jaw$! (2018) and The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck! (2018), and that she was aware that Lena was involved in both of them.
5. Among the artifacts hidden by Webby are the Sankara Stones from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
6. Though Duckworth appears in this episode, he has no dialogue.
7. The author of The Myth of the Shadow Realm is BA Beagle, who is the Beagle Boy that previously appeared in "McMystery at McDuck McManor" with BA standing for Black Arts.
8. Mrs. Beakley becomes interested in Darkwing Duck, and she hopes for a revival. This foreshadows The Duck Knight Returns! (2019) that was aired two days after this and includes an attempt to create a Darkwing Duck movie.
9. Aside from Beck Bennett and Jim Cummings, none of the other male cast members have a voice role for this episode.
10. This is the third episode of DuckTales (2017) to play a shorter version of the intro. Other episodes are The Great Dime Chase! (2017) and Last Christmas! (2018).
11. The title of the book held by Mrs. Beakley called "The Scarlet Pimperbill" is based off The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950), which even has a duck on the front cover wearing a similar outfit.

The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!

1. This is the first appearance of Gandra Dee in DuckTales (2017), who was a character originally created for DuckTales (1987). In the original series, Gandra Dee was portrayed as Fenton Crackshell's love interest and eventual girlfriend, which was intended as a parody of the superhero romance theme such as with Superman and Lois Lane. Also in the original series she was a receptionist instead of a scientist.
2. Fenton's list of "People who know I'm Gizmoduck" consists of: Gyro, Launchpad, Dewey, Huey , Mark Beaks, Scrooge, The mailman, The dry cleaner, That barista at Starducks, Everyone who lives on my block, and Webby.
3. Gandra exclaims "Ada Lovelace!" when she sees Fenton's invention. Lovelace was a real world scientist who is widely regarded as one of the earliest pioneers in the field that eventually became computer sciences.
4. Much like with Webby and Mrs. Beakley, Gandra Dee's personality was also changed in the reboot compared to DuckTales (1987) to remove the gender stereotypes and create a more down-to-earth female character because Gandra Dee was portrayed as a very feminine character in the original series. Also like Fenton and his mother, her feathers were changed from white to brown, and her hair color was changed from blonde to brunette.
5. Mark Beaks turning into "Mega Beaks" is highly reminiscent of the Incredible Hulk. Beaks using stolen Gyro-Tech and nanites to become his alter ego could also be a reference to DC villain Bane, who uses Venom to increase his superhuman strength for fighting Batman.
6. In the Dutch version, Dr. Atmoz Fear is voiced by Bob van der Houven, who also voices the character Dr. Doofenshmirtz, on which the villain is based. Bob also did the voices for Huey, Dewey and Louie in the Dutch version of the original DuckTales.
7. The outfit that Fenton wears on his date with Gandra once belonged to his father, which is similar to the one worn by James "Sonny" Crocket in the show Miami Vice (1984).
8. This episode reveals that Fenton has a lot of difficulty in maintaining his secret identity as Gizmoduck to which he keeps a book of everyone who is aware of it, unlike the original series where only his mother and Scrooge was aware of his secret identity. This can be seen as nod to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (also produced by Disney due to their ownership of Marvel Comics) which is largely known for disregarding the secret identity trope in a majority of their productions to help make their plots simpler as they mostly used Marvel Superheroes that do not have secret identities.

The Duck Knight Returns!

1. The director of the big-budget Darkwing movie is voiced by real life film director, Edgar Wright.
2. This episode is an inversion of the famous episode from Batman: The Animated Series (1992) titled "Beware the Gray Ghost (1992)", guest starring the late Adam West as an actor famous for playing a pulp hero now stuck in a Jim Starling-like situation, but ends up having an arc the complete opposite of Jim's.
3. During the initial reveal of the Ducktales episodes to air in May 2019, this episode's title was deliberately kept secret during the official reveal on Disney's Ducktales social media accounts. On May 14, 2019, the episode title and plot were revealed with an official clip posted on Disney's TV animation news YouTube account, which also confirmed that Jim Cummings would reprise his role.
4. Both Jim Starling and Drake Mallard say that they/Darkwing Duck are better than Gizmoduck. This is another throwback to the DW series, in which Darkwing and Gizmoduck teamed up several times. However Darkwing never liked Gizmoduck, finding Gizmoduck to be annoying despite the two being capable of working together (which is similar to Donald Duck's relationship with Storkules in this series) and because Gizmoduck was more popular with the public than he was.
5. Drake Mallard being inspired by Jim Starling's Darkwing Duck to take on the role himself is similar to the events of the episode "Paraducks (1991)" from Darkwing Duck (1991), which featured a young Drake choosing to become Darkwing after meeting his time-traveling older self.
6. Alistair Boorswan (voiced by Edgar Wright) is a complete parody of Christopher Nolan, right down to the haircut and wearing a scarf.
7. Launchpad's line about a big-budget reboot is a meta reference to DuckTales (2017) as well as the live-action reboots of Disney animated feature films that Disney had been creating since the mid 2010s.
8. This is the first episode of the reboot to involve an entire episode centered around Darkwing Duck (1991).
9. Similar to the films of Edgar Wright (who voices Alistair Boorswan), the climax is foreshadowed by the opening scenes and dialogue from the episode. At the beginning Launchpad is watching the last episode of the original show and Darkwing is blown up several times before confronting the villain, who turns out to be himself. Then in the climax Drake Mallard gets blown up and hit with various objects before fighting the original Darkwing, essentially fighting himself. Also Launchpad after viewing the trailer for the film says "Darkwing would never set the city on fire, at least not on purpose.", then in the climax the original Darkwing grabs a lighting gun and does set the city on fire on purpose.
10. The origin of this version of Negaduck is also similar to the Batman villain Clayface, specifically the Basil Karlo incarnation who was also an actor turned to villainy when a famous role of his was taken by another person.
11. At the end, Jim Starling grows insane, and his costume changes to red and yellow. This is based on Negaduck, who was Darkwing's evil counterpart and greatest villain from Darkwing Duck (1991), also voiced by Jim Cummings.
12. And an additional reference to this being a parody of the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight series, the reboot Megavolt has been made over as a combination of his character from the original Darkwing Duck, as well as of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
13. This is the first appearance of Jim Starling in the series, who not only is a mixture of the first name of his original voice actor Jim Cummings but also the character design of Darkwing's alter-ego from the original Darkwing Duck (1991) series,
14. Security guard Tad is both based on and voiced by Tad Stones, who was one of the producers of the original Darkwing Duck (1991) series.
15. One of the poses Dewey makes when dancing in front of the green screen resembles the dance made by Max, Roxanne, and Powerline during the climax of A Goofy Movie (1995).
16. Launchpad quotes the Darkwing Duck (1991) theme song's lyrics in his speech to Jim Sterling and Drake Mallard.
17. The logo to McDuck Studios is reminiscent of the Walt Disney Animation Studios logo, featuring a similar typeface of Scrooge posing like Mickey Mouse.
18. The episode title references the character of the same name from the animated TV series Darkwing Duck (1991). The title also notably is based on Frank Miller's 1986 comic book series Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, especially since some of Darkwing's character aspects are based on Batman.
19. Drake Mallard was Darkwing's Duck original secret identity.
20. HIDDEN MICKEY: Appears in the meeting room of McDuck Studios in one scene.
21. During the climax, Drake Mallard goes through a similar situation to what the titular character of Darkwing Duck (1991) went through in the episode "Dirt Money," where he is blown up and set on fire but refuses to give up every time.
22. Drake's voice actor Chris Diamantopoulos had also been the voice of Storkules from previous episodes of the DuckTales (2017), in addition to Donald's friend Mickey Mouse in the Mickey Mouse (2013) shorts in place of Mickey's current voice actor Bret Iwan.
23. The scene in the Darkwing trailer where a flaming "DW" is ignited in a subway station is almost identical to a similar scene in Daredevil (2003).
24. There is a brief shot of a building titled "O'Malley Kitten Orphanage," paying tribute to the character O'Malley from the animated Disney film The Aristocats (1970).
25. The flashbacks to Drake's youth are done to look like comic book panels, evoking the work of "Darkwing Duck" comic book artist James Silvani.
26. In this episode, an artsy, British director is making a darker, more psychological take on Darkwing Duck. This is likely a reference to Christopher Nolan's groundbreaking work on Batman.
27. A running gag in the episode is Scrooge cannot tell who is evil in a movie unless they are wearing a mustache, which is a cliché used in older films and television. Scrooge also admitted he hasn't seen a movie since 1938, thus explaining why he thinks this trope is still a thing in media and why he still thinks movies in color are still a trend and not a film industry standard.
28. The McDuck Studios logo is highly reminiscent of the one for Walt Disney Animation Studios, featuring a similar typeface and Scrooge posing like Mickey Mouse. Also, a Hidden Mickey can be seen in the meeting room in one scene.
29. The bully in the flashback resembles Tank from the original 'Darkwing Duck' series.
30. While trying to infiltrate McDuck Pictures, Jim tries to explain the Darkwing Duck (1991) TV series, only to be compared to Gizmoduck, which angers Jim. Additionally, when Launchpad convinces Drake Mallard to become a real hero, he points out that Gizmoduck does it, to which Mallard states: "I am better than Gizmoduck." Both scenes are references to the Darkwing Duck/Gizmoduck rivalry shown in Darkwing Duck (1991).
31. Part of Dewey's dance in front of a green screen resembles Goofy, Max, and Powerline's dance at the climax of A Goofy Movie (1995).
32. Drake Mallard's voice actor Chris Diamantopoulos previous played Moe Howard in The Three Stooges (2012). At one point in this episode, Jim Starling gives Drake an a distinct Stooge eyepoke.
33. The poster used for the Darkwing Duck movie is a pastiche of the poster for the Batman film Batman Begins (2005).
34. The producer for the original Darkwing Duck (1991) animated series Tad Stones provides a voice role as a similar character named Tad.
35. The title and concept are directly referencing Christopher Nolan's gritty reboot of the Batman movies. The title mirrors the final movie, The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
36. This is the first production since 1991 where Darkwing Duck (known as Drake Mallard) is voiced by someone other then Jim Cummings.
37. One of the scenes in the Darkwing Duck trailer shows a flaming DW being ignited in a Subway Station, which pays tribute to a similar scene from the film Daredevil (2003).
38. The duck in the safety posters in the movie studio board room wears a sailor hat like Donald's.
39. The opening for this episode has the DuckTales logo recolored as purple, which is Darkwing's signature color.
40. The moment when Jim's Darkwing Duck costume bled the purple away for the Negaduck look is a reference to Mr. Mime from Just Another Manic Mojo/Mime for a Change (1999), when Rainbow the Clown's colors bled out and he became black and white after being drenched in bleach.
41. The way that Jim Starling's Darkwing Duck costume has the purple blend away seems to pay homage to a similar moment from the Cartoon network series The Powerpuff Girls (1998), where Rainbow the Clown becomes Mr. Mime.
42. Despite Scrooge claiming that he hasn't seen a movie since 1938, he wasn't created until 1947.

What Ever Happened to Donald Duck?!

1. When Dewey is attempting to convince Scrooge that there's a fourth triplet, this is a reference to an error made in the original Ducktales comics series. Often times when artists were drawing the three triplets, they drew them all at the same time and doing the same thing. However, sometimes when one of the triplets had to do something individually, the artist would still draw three other ducks in the scene, making it 4 brothers and not 3 and it often got printed this way.
2. Phooey Duck is a character from the original Ducktales comics. He was brought into existence by a supercharged lightning strike that hit the triplets. He got his name based on the first word he said when he materialized into existence. He had the same personality as the boys and did the same things, but he did not last long. He would then periodically "hiccup" into existence close to the boys but not stay more than a minute.
3. The title is based on Whatever Happened to Della Duck?! (2019).
4. First-ever animated appearance of Jones, Donald's neighbor from the Carl Barks comics, who in those comics was created as an adversary to Donald. In this series however, he plays the part of Donald's anger management counsellor.
5. The golden bullet that Donald uses to escape the moon is an homage to the bullet ship used in the film A Trip to the Moon (1902).
6. The idea that Lunaris has missiles aimed at Earth appears to be based off the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne, only in the opposite way from what happened then.

Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!

1. The game played by Della and Huey is called Legend of Legends, which is based off the video game League of Legends (2009) and even has a similar styled logo.
2. Though Lena, Violet, and Mrs. Beakley appear in the beginning, they do not have any lines. In addition, Webby and Dewey's only lines during the aforementioned scenes are mere sound effects, but while Webby's voice actress Kate Micucci is credited for this episode, Dewey's voice actor Ben Schwartz is not.
3. BOYD is the first character in DuckTales (2017) to not be voiced by an adult, with Nicolas Cantu having been only 15 years old when he recorded his lines for the character.
4. The initials in B.O.Y.D.'s name stand for Beaks Optimistic Youth Droid.
5. Louie calls himself the evil triplet, which is what he'd been called when first meeting Webby in Woo-oo! (2017).
6. When Huey powers up in the game, Della exclaims that his power is "over 9000!" This is an obvious Dragon Ball Z reference.

A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!

1. The interior of the high school from the TV series Saved by the Bell (1989) is used for the high school sequence during the dream of this episode.
2. Phooey--the hypothetical fourth triplet mentioned in What Ever Happened to Donald Duck?! (2019)--makes an appearance in the montage. His signature color is yellow/gold, which was a color often used for Huey, Dewey and/or Louie before DuckTales (1987) established their "official" colors.
3. When Lena and the others encounter the real Magica (now with white feathers and being less powerful like in the Original Series after her defeat in the season 1 finale) outside McDuck Manor at the end of the episode, Lena tells her that she can no longer get inside her head, referencing the end of The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck! (2018) and the first part of The Shadow War! (2018) where Magica demon possessed Lena to force her into doing her bidding to get hold of Scrooge's dime following their betrayal.
4. Killmotor Hill is the site where Fort Duckburg once stood before Scrooge built his money bin in the comics and DuckTales (1987). Originally, called "Killmule Hill," it was renamed when motor cars replaced mule-driven carts. In the reboot, the bin is on an island, so the site is used for Scrooge's mansion instead.
5. One of the things encountered in the dream world is the Unicorn that Webby and Lena faced in the episode The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck! (2018).
6. The title and concept of "A Nightmare on Kilmotor Hill" is an homage to the "A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)", and the idea of the kids exploring through dreams as well as a supernatural being following them.
7. When Dewey's High School Mascot, Dewey Dude begins to call Lena and do bizarre things, it is likely an homage to the Five Nights at Freddy's (2014) video game with large costumed creatures scaring the occupants.
8. Louie's dream personae strongly resemble Garfield the cat.
9. Webby at one point in the dream world wears a top hat and glasses identical to that of Scrooge. This could possibly be a foreshadowing to her origins that would eventually be revealed in the series finale.
10. There was a deleted scene that was cut for time showing that Lena had been staying with Violet's family so that she could study her, revealing as to why she wasn't sleeping well. Eventually it would be revealed in the season 3 premiere that Lena had been adopted by Violet's family.
11. Although Scrooge does not physically appear, his voice is still heard.
12. One of the things to Magica says to Lena upon being encountered is "miss me?", referencing the line frequently used by Sherlock Holmes character Jim Moriarty.
13. In one of the first segments of the dream world, one of the coconuts spawns a hamburger that has an identical appearance to Krabby Patties from the Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants (1999).
14. Lena at one point in the dream starts to resemble one of the titular species characters from Gargoyles (1994).
15. During the high school sequence of the dream world after Magica shows up, Lena activates the sprinklers to melt Magica, paying tribute to one of the most frequently spoofed scenes from The Wizard of Oz (1939).
16. As Webby and the others attempt to pull Lena away from Magica near the end of the dream sequence, her tears act as a catalyst to awaken Lena's magic, referencing a similar moment from an episode of the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997).

The Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot!

1. The Cornelius Coot statue originally appeared in the Uncle Scrooge comics. A real-life version was built for Mickey's Toontown Fair at Walt Disney World.
2. The episode states that Della (and, therefore, Donald and the boys) are descended from Cornelius Coot, founder of Duckburg. This taken from the Duck Family Tree as drawn by famous Disney comics artist Don Rosa, who in turn based his tree on the ones Carl Barks drew privately and loaned out to Rosa. The fact that they are descended from a Coot was also mentioned in Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018), which had Donald inheriting an old adventurer cabana from his great grandfather Clinton Coot, who is also Cornelius Coot's son.
3. Dewey gives himself the middle name Turbo, honoring what his mother originally intended to name him.
4. Much of the episode takes place at Fort Duckburg. In the comics, Fort Duckburg was built atop Killmule Hill (later Killmotor Hill) and was destroyed to make way for Scrooge's money bin.

Timephoon!

1. "El Pato" is Spanish for "Duck." The name is a play on the famous "El Niño" storm system.
2. In a callback to Scrooge's as yet unexplained enmity towards Santa Claus, the mansion has a booby trap clearly marked "Santa Trap".
3. Launchpad's attempt to describe time as not being in a straight line resembles the Tenth Doctor's attempt to explain time as non-linear in Blink (2007). Just as with the Doctor, the explanation almost immediately gets away from him. Scrooge McDuck is voiced by David Tennant, who also plays the Tenth Doctor.
4. In this series, Tootsie is portrayed as more savage than her original counterpart and behaves more like an actual dinosaur instead of a dog.
5. The end of the episode suggests that Bubba is actually Scrooge's ancient ancestor, the first of the Clan McDuck.
6. Launchpad hides behind a wall hanging with a strong resemblance to "The Unicorn in Captivity", one of the famous Unicorn Tapestries.
7. Webby upon being booted back to the present wears the same kind of outfit worn by San-San from the episode "The Duck who Would be King" from the original series.
8. When Louie said "I wonder who I got that from!" it is revealed that the one personality trait Louie had inherited from his mother, Della, is her reckless behavior causing trouble without understanding the consequences of her actions.
9. Benjamin Frankloon is a parody of Benjamin Franklin, and Queen Elizabeak is a parody of Queen Elizabeth II.
10. This is the first appearance of Bubba the Cave Duck and Tootsie the Triceratops in this series, who were both part of DuckTales (1987). For this series, Dee Bradley Baker replaces Frank Welker, who previously voiced Bubba in both the original series and DuckTales: Remastered (2013). Both actors have been known for providing vocal effects.
11. When Bubba and Tootsie debuted in Time Is Money: Part 1 - Marking Time (1988), they looked up to Scrooge to the extent where he offered them both to live with them at McDuck Manor in the present and went to school with the triplets, becoming recurring characters along with Fenton Crackshell/Gizmoduck for the rest of the series. At the end of this episode, they're immediately sent back to their own time periods, with Bubba making a stonecarving of Scrooge's trademark hat.
12. This is the second time in the series to feature Gyro's Time Tub. The first was in the earlier Season 2 episode The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck! (2019).
13. One of Clan McDuck's heirloom canes resembles the parrot-headed umbrella carried by Mary Poppins in both Mary Poppins movies. David Tennant, who voices Scrooge McDuck, also carries a Mary Poppins-like parrot-headed umbrella as Crowley when posing as "Nanny Ashtoreth" in Good Omens (2019).

GlomTales!

1. The robot is called DT-87, a clear reference to the original DuckTales (1987) which premiered in 1987.
2. This is the first time the Beagle Boys work together with both Flintheart Glomgold and Magica De Spell in this series. In the original DuckTales (1987), they often worked for both of them.
3. Despite being repeatably mentioned and being shown in the photo, Gyro himself does not actually appear in this episode.
4. This title was also used with an alternate theme song posted on Youtube by Disney's Disney Channel account, in which Glomgold sings his own version of the "DuckTales Theme," which he called GlomTales as part of the theme song takeover (involving a character singing their own version of the theme song) and the second one posted for DuckTales (2017) with the first focusing on Launchpad. In addition, the theme song from that takeover was used for the opening of this episode with the only difference being that it ends with with the title presented as "GlomTales" instead of Glomgold being arrested for copyright infringement.
5. Promos for this episode showed Magica with green feathers like in the intro and The Shadow War! (2018), but they were eventually edited to white like in DuckTales (1987) to reflect the fact that she's now less powerful. According to writer Francisco Angones on Twitter when the episode was sent to their animation studios overseas, they accidentally sent the wrong character model for Magica, and so when the promo trailer was made, it was intended to be mixed in with the promo footage from A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill! (2019) to help hide this fact.
6. Big Rock Candy Mountain is an old American folk song by Harry McClintock about a kind of heaven on earth for hobos.
7. The River of Pep is based off Louie's favourite soda from the episode "The Great Dime Chase".
8. Mark Beaks' digital currency, Beak Coin, is a parody of Bitcoin.
9. Ma Beagle's first name is revealed to be Catherine.
10. Glomgold calls his group of villains "The League of Doom", referencing the name of a group of Supervillains from the DC Universe.
11. Glomgold uses one of his own hot air balloons to get up to the Iron Vulture to recruit Don Karnage, which he also used in part 1 of "Catch as Cash Can" in the original series to release the Beagle Boys from prison.
12. Beaks like in the episode "McMystery at McDuck McManor" spawns a Hologramic Hand from his phone, this time used as a Punching Weapon.
13. Villains breaking into McDuck Manor when Louie is home alone is based off the premise for the film Home Alone (1990).
14. This is the second time that DuckTales villains have all gathered together. The first time had been as a cameo in the Darkwing Duck (1991) episode "In Like Blunt".

The Richest Duck in the World!

1. It is revealed that a reason why Scrooge was spending a fortune on magical defense, which was first mentioned in The Great Dime Chase! (2017), was to keep the Bombie at bay.
2. It's revealed that Owlson hails from Mouseton, which is the hometown of Donald's friend Mickey Mouse.
3. Bombie is a spoof of the Zombie, and his character design in the series is based off Solomon Grundy from DC Comics. In addition this is Bombie's first appearance in animation as Bombie previously appeared in the Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics created by Carl Barks and was shown as a regular zombie, unlike the version shown here whose design is more golem-based.
4. The slogan on Louie's phone is "Mo Money No Problems," which is based off the song "Mo Money Mo Problems" by The Notorious B.I.G..
5. When Scrooge is shinning his shoes, the gorilla talking mentions "Trader Sam's". Trader Sam is the head salesman that offers riders a 2-for-one deal on heads in the Jungle Cruise ride, and Trader Sam's Grotto is a tiki bar at the Polynesian Hotel, both located in Walk Disney World.
6. The island visited by Louie, Launchpad, Manny, and Owlson has a similar setting to the ones seen in Treasure of the Golden Suns: Three Ducks of the Condor (1987).
7. Bombie parodies the Hulk upon arriving in Duckburg with the way that he smashes his way around the place whilst going after Louie. Interestingly enough Bombie is voiced by Fred Tatasciore, who'd been the consistent voice of Hulk since the 2010s.
8. This is the first time since Woo-oo! (2017) that Manny is seen headless. He takes off to help Louie with his strategy against Bombie.
9. Louie attempting to run Scrooge's business was also used in Yuppy Ducks (1989) to a similar end.
10. The plot of one of the characters being pursued by a grey hulking giant that eventually gets led into Duckburg was also used in Raiders of the Lost Harp (1987), where it was done by a gigantic minotaur that had been guarding the titular harp.
11. At the end, Della finally learns about Lunaris' plan to invade Earth, which connects to the main plot of Moonvasion! (2019).
12. The curse Scrooge faced in Africa is similar to that of Ham's Curse from Noah in the Book of Genesis.

Moonvasion!

1. As the watermelon of Mickey Mouse's head gets tossed into the sea, Donald says to it "See you Real Soon", which is the closing line of each episode in The Mickey Mouse Club (1955).
2. Donald, while stranded on an island, makes a head of his friend Mickey Mouse out of watermelons (which later gets eaten by Gladstone and Fethry when they arrive on the island) and does an impression of Mickey's voice whilst holding it. Much like with the Mickey Mouse (2013) shorts, his voice is provided by Chris Diamantopoulos (who also reprises his role as Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck and Storkules) instead of Bret Iwan. However, as Mickey's character rights were forbidden from being used in DuckTales, the character presented here was credited as "Melon" in the end credits, despite the closed captioning stating it as "Mickey."
3. The state Donald ends up in from the time he spent on a deserted island resembles that of Chuck Noland from the film Cast Away (2000), and him making Mickey's head out of a watermelon alludes to Wilson the volleyball from that film.
4. At the end, it is revealed that the Buzzard Brothers, Scrooge's board of directors, are the leaders of F.O.W.L. This evil secret agency originated in DuckTales (1987)'s Double-O-Duck (1987) with initials short for "Foreign Organization for World Larceny." The better known version of this group originated in Darkwing Duck (1991) as recurring antagonists, retitled as "Fiendish Organization for World Larceny." It is also the first appearance of Steelbeak in this series, who previously was a member of F.O.W.L. in Darkwing Duck and was one of Darkwing Duck's enemies.
5. When Scrooge poses as Darkwing Duck, this pays tribute to the episode The Masked Mallard (1989) of the original DuckTales (1987) when Scrooge took on the identity of the titular superhero, a name of which would later become one of Darkwing's Superhero Sobriquets in Darkwing Duck (1991).
6. Upon finding Donald with Mickey Mouse's head made out of a melon on an island, Donald tells them in Mickey's voice "Hot dog, we got company". This is a reference to Mickey's very first lines from The Karnival Kid (1929).
7. When Drake Mallard meets Gizmoduck and teams up with him, he takes an instant disliking, referencing how Darkwing disliked Gizmoduck in Darkwing Duck (1991).
8. This is the third episode to originally air as a one-hour special after Woo-oo! (2017) and The Shadow War! (2018) and the only one-hour episode that is part of Season 2.
9. In DuckTales (1987), Fenton's mother was the first person who found out that Fenton was Gizmoduck because he told her shortly after gaining the Gizmosuit. In this, she confirms she is aware due to her skills as a detective to figure it out correctly.
10. Scrooge when battling the Moonlanders orders his troops to hold position no matter what, using the same kind of strategy used by William Wallace in the film Braveheart (1995), who like Scrooge is Scottish.
11. Funzo's mascot is revealed to be The Phantom Blot in disguise, a mysterious figure who first appeared in the Mickey Mouse comic books, followed by making his animated debut in All Ducks on Deck (1987) in DuckTales (1987). He also later went onto appear in Mickey Mouse Works (1999) and House of Mouse (2001) as well as being a boss in Epic Mickey (2010). In this series, he is a member of F.O.W.L..
12. Glomgold pays tribute to Shaw from the film Jaws (1975) when he scrapes his fingers across a whiteboard, who did the same kind of thing in his scene of introduction.
13. This is the 2nd time that Donald has been seen with "Beakcial" Hair (an anthropomorphic bird's version of facial hair), which in this episode is a full beard. The first had been in the Donald Duck short No Sail (1945), which was only a small amount on his beak.
14. Darkwing Duck/Drake Mallard when introducing himself refers to himself as "The Scream you can hear in Space", referencing the tagline of Ridley Scott's Alien franchise: : "In space, no one can hear you scream".
15. Part of Glomgold's plan has him launching Launchpad from a Giant Slingshot, parodying Angry Birds (2009). Launchpad's voice actor Beck Bennett was in The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019).
16. This confirms that Gandra Dee is a villain in this series, unlike with her counterpart from DuckTales (1987). Overall, she is the third character from the original series whose alignment was changed after Doofus Drake, who was changed to a villain, and Dijon (who was renamed as Faris D'jinn for this series) who was changed to a hero. Mark Beaks at first appeared to be a neutral character but was revealed to be a villain like Gandra Dee. However Gandra Dee later becomes the only member of F.O.W.L. to actually reform and leave the group, which was seen in Beaks in the Shell! (2021), which also revealed despite working for the group, she secretly continued her relationship with Fenton.
17. Aside from the return of Black Heron from From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22! (2018), who was already confirmed as a member of F.O.W.L., this episode also confirms that other past villains John D. Rockerduck and Jeeves from The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck! (2019) are also members of F.O.W.L. though because they originally came from the 1930s, Jeeves has been replaced with a robot that resembles him and Rockerduck's body is being cryogenically preserved, along with the fact that Gandra Dee from The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee! (2019) is also a member of F.O.W.L..
18. The giant shrimp that Fethry and Gladstone use to meet up with Donald is likely based off Skolopendra/Shrimpzilla from the novel "The Mark of Athena" in the Heroes of Olympus series, who is a giant sea monster that's part shrimp and part crayfish.
19. One of Glomgold's plans to battle the Moonlanders involves using Sharks (now wearing Parkas so to help them through the Cold Waters), which itself is a callback to The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks! (2017) when Glomgold attempted to use Sharks as part of his plan to take down Mark Beaks.
20. Glomgold's entrance in the bait shack when the heroes are trying to think of a new plan is an homage to Robert Shaw's introduction in Jaws (1975), complete with the nails on a "whiteboard."
21. Mrs. Quackfaster at one point in the episode chases off the Moonlanders with a sword, which is a callback to what she was like in her first appearance.
22. In the reveal that John D Rockerduck is cryogenically frozen, the production is poking fun at a perennial urban legend that Walt Disney had himself frozen, to be revived later.
23. This is the 2nd time that Donald Copies the voice of one of his friends, in this case being Mickey whilst holding up watermelons made to resemble his head done by Chris Diamantopoulos, Mickey's voice actor from the Mickey Mouse (2013) shorts in place of his current voice actor Bret Iwan. The first time had been with Goofy in Goofy's Grandma (2014) whilst dressed up as Goofy, done by his current voice actor Bill Farmer.
24. The Exorcist (1973) is referenced when Manny's head slightly rotates during the battle against the Moonlanders.
25. Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer (2017) is referenced at one point in the episode.
26. When this episode was edited into two separate half-hour episodes for the reruns, they were titled as "Moonvasion! Part I" and "Moonvasion! Part II", unlike other one hour events where each part was given their own name.