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* Earlier in the episode, after getting fed up with how boring the golf game had been up to that point (just before the kelpies come on the scene) Louie rants that he'll be walking home and starts making his way back alone... ''while the petrifying mists start closing in''. If Louie hadn't been called back, no one would have noticed him turning to stone until it was too late to reverse the process.

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* Earlier in the episode, after getting fed up with how boring the golf game had been up to that point (just before the kelpies come on the scene) Louie rants that he'll be walking home and starts making his way back alone... ''while the petrifying mists start closing in''. If Louie hadn't been called back, no one would have noticed him turning to stone until it was too late to reverse the process.process.
* The Kelpies noticeably [[LiterallyShatteredLives snap one petrified golfer in half]]. Given what happens later in the episode, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe it’s not going to be a pretty picture if he changes back.]]
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Fixing a red link.


** It's also a HiddenMeaningTitle. A links is an old, Scottish word for a golf course. So an ancient, hidden Scottish golf course would, in fact, be a missing links.

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** It's also a HiddenMeaningTitle.DoubleMeaningTitle. A links is an old, Scottish word for a golf course. So an ancient, hidden Scottish golf course would, in fact, be a missing links.



** In addition when the mists start getting closer the Kelpies offer to drown the McDuck family to avoid them being turned to stone. One can imagine how tempting that would be to someone with less resolve than them.

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** In addition when the mists start getting closer the Kelpies offer to drown the McDuck [=McDuck=] family to avoid them being turned to stone. One can imagine how tempting that would be to someone with less resolve than them.
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** It's also a HiddenMeaningTitle. A links is an old, Scottish word for a golf course. So an ancient, hidden Scottish golf course would, in fact, be a missing links.
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** He's back to normal by next week's episode. The other victims are still screwed, though.

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** ** The implication from the sound effect, after he asks (and pays) Louie for help, at the end of this episode is that Louie strikes the stone on his legs with a golf club so that the stone shatters. Meaning Glomgold like the other ducks was just covered in stone, but the stone had become more solidified and clingy. He's back to normal by next week's episode. The other victims are still screwed, though.
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** In addition when the mists start getting closer the Kelpies offer to drown the McDuck family to avoid them being turned to stone. One can imagine how tempting that would be to someone with resolve than them.

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** In addition when the mists start getting closer the Kelpies offer to drown the McDuck family to avoid them being turned to stone. One can imagine how tempting that would be to someone with less resolve than them.
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** In addition when the mists start getting closer the Kelpies offer to drown the McDuck family to avoid them being turned to stone. One can imagine how tempting that would be to someone with resolve than them.
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** He's back to normal by next week's episode. The other victims are still screwed, though.
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* After Dewey wins the game and saves everybody... actually, no. He didn't. All of the golfers before them didn't revert or get sent back with them. Judging from the fact that Glomgold came back [[CameBackWrong with his bottom half still turned to stone]] when they got back, that means that being in the mist long enough renders the stone effect permanent, and all of those golfers before them are effectively dead. If Dewey had been any slower in landing the put, Glomgold likely would have suffered the same fate. Even though Glomgold is a {{Jerkass}} who cares only about himself, it's hard to think that he would have deserved to be offed in such a way.

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* After Dewey wins the game and saves everybody... actually, no. He didn't. All of the golfers before them didn't revert or get sent back with them. Judging from the fact that Glomgold came back [[CameBackWrong with his bottom half still turned to stone]] when they got back, that means that being in the mist long enough renders the stone effect permanent, and all of those golfers before them are effectively dead. If Dewey had been any slower in landing the put, Glomgold likely would have suffered the same fate. Even though Glomgold is a {{Jerkass}} who cares only about himself, it's hard to think that he would have deserved to be offed in such a way.way.
* Earlier in the episode, after getting fed up with how boring the golf game had been up to that point (just before the kelpies come on the scene) Louie rants that he'll be walking home and starts making his way back alone... ''while the petrifying mists start closing in''. If Louie hadn't been called back, no one would have noticed him turning to stone until it was too late to reverse the process.
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Dubious. The founders of the course might have founded the course to continue playing golf because they wanted to one-up each other, or be the best. The logic is flimsy, so I'm striking this one.


* There's a certain poetic rhyme of the 3 people golfing. Glomgold golfs to beat his rivals. Scrooge golfs to be the best. And finally, Dewey golfs for the joy of it. All of them have some level of skill, but the meaning underneath it is in the course they're playing on. The druids built it so they could keep playing it even after Black Donald Mcduck got it banned. In other worlds, because they loved the sport. Guess which golfer does the best on the course?

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* There's a certain poetic rhyme of the 3 people golfing. Glomgold golfs to beat his rivals. Scrooge golfs to be the best. And finally, Dewey golfs for the joy of it. All of them have some level of skill, but the meaning underneath it is in the course they're playing on. The druids built it so they could keep playing it even after Black Donald Mcduck got it banned. In other worlds, because they loved the sport. Guess which golfer does the best on the course?
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* We see the statues of other golfers who've stumbled into the Druid Golf Course, and the kelpies mention our protagonists being the least fun victims ever. So...how many people have inadvertently stumbled into the magic golf course and either been drowned by our kelpies or caught by the mists?

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* We see the statues of other golfers who've stumbled into the Druid Golf Course, and the kelpies mention our protagonists being the least fun victims ever. So...how many people have inadvertently stumbled into the magic golf course and either been drowned by our kelpies or caught by the mists?mists?
* After Dewey wins the game and saves everybody... actually, no. He didn't. All of the golfers before them didn't revert or get sent back with them. Judging from the fact that Glomgold came back [[CameBackWrong with his bottom half still turned to stone]] when they got back, that means that being in the mist long enough renders the stone effect permanent, and all of those golfers before them are effectively dead. If Dewey had been any slower in landing the put, Glomgold likely would have suffered the same fate. Even though Glomgold is a {{Jerkass}} who cares only about himself, it's hard to think that he would have deserved to be offed in such a way.
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* Despite Scrooge complaining about Dewy "randomly hitting the ball", there does seem to be a kind of method to his madness. It's not traditional good posture, smooth swing, etc, but he does consider his shots in each time. The "lining up" of hitting the rocks through properly, the precise wind up of his sideways shot. So he does have a sense of how to play, even if he's unpracticed.

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* Despite Scrooge complaining about Dewy Dewey "randomly hitting the ball", there does seem to be a kind of method to his madness. It's not traditional good posture, smooth swing, etc, but he does consider his shots in each time. The "lining up" of hitting through the rocks through properly, the precise wind up of his sideways shot. So he does have a sense of how to play, even if he's unpracticed.
* There's a certain poetic rhyme of the 3 people golfing. Glomgold golfs to beat his rivals. Scrooge golfs to be the best. And finally, Dewey golfs for the joy of it. All of them have some level of skill, but the meaning underneath it is in the course they're playing on. The druids built it so they could keep playing it even after Black Donald Mcduck got it banned. In other worlds, because they loved the sport. Guess which golfer does the best on the course?
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* Despite Scrooge complaining about Dewy "randomly hitting the ball", there does seem to be a kind of method to his madness. It's not traditional good posture, smooth swing, etc, but he does consider his shots in each time. The "lining up" of hitting the rocks through properly, the precise wind up of his sideways shot. So he does have a sense of how to play, even if he's unpracticed.
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* Related to the point above, the title of this episode makes sense. The kelpies sit between the two sides of the Ducktales universe's SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism. They are the ''missing link''.

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* Related to the point above, the title of this episode makes sense. The kelpies sit between the two sides of the Ducktales universe's SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism. They are the ''missing link''.link''.

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* We see the statues of other golfers who've stumbled into the Druid Golf Course, and the kelpies mention our protagonists being the least fun victims ever. So...how many people have inadvertently stumbled into the magic golf course and either been drowned by our kelpies or caught by the mists?
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* While Webby getting excited about "talking animals wearing clothes" is full of {{Irony}} thanks to FurryConfusion, it makes sense in this world's rules. Every non-magical being in the universe of this show is either a FunnyAnimal that walks on two legs, is [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal partly]] or [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully]] dressed, and is a human in everything but appearance, or a NearlyNormalAnimal that can't talk. Therefore a quadrupedal AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal [[TalkingAnimal that speaks fluently]], which is half-way between the two on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, is unusual and can only be explained by magic.

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* While Webby getting excited about "talking animals wearing clothes" is full of {{Irony}} thanks to FurryConfusion, it makes sense in this world's rules. Every non-magical being in the universe of this show is either a FunnyAnimal that walks on two legs, is [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal partly]] or [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully]] dressed, and is a human in everything but appearance, or a NearlyNormalAnimal that can't talk. Therefore a quadrupedal AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal [[TalkingAnimal that speaks fluently]], which is half-way between the two on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, is unusual and can only be explained by magic.magic.
* Related to the point above, the title of this episode makes sense. The kelpies sit between the two sides of the Ducktales universe's SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism. They are the ''missing link''.
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* While Webby getting excited about "talking animals wearing clothes" is full of {{Irony}} thanks to FurryConfusion, it makes sense in this world's rules. Every non-magical being in the universe of this show is either a FunnyAnimal that walks on two legs, is [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal partly]] or [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully]] dressed, and is a human in everything but appearance, or a NearlyNormalAnimal that can't talk. Therefore a quadrupedal AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal that speaks fluently, which is half-way between the two on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, is unusual and can only be explained by magic.

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* While Webby getting excited about "talking animals wearing clothes" is full of {{Irony}} thanks to FurryConfusion, it makes sense in this world's rules. Every non-magical being in the universe of this show is either a FunnyAnimal that walks on two legs, is [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal partly]] or [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully]] dressed, and is a human in everything but appearance, or a NearlyNormalAnimal that can't talk. Therefore a quadrupedal AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal [[TalkingAnimal that speaks fluently, fluently]], which is half-way between the two on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, is unusual and can only be explained by magic.
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* While Webby getting excited about "talking animals wearing clothes" is full of {{Irony}} thanks to FurryConfusion, it makes sense in this world's rules. Every non-magical being in the universe of this show is either a FunnyAnimal that walks on two legs, is [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal partly]] or [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully]] dressed, and is a human in everything but appearance, or a NearlyNormalAnimal that can't talk. Therefore a quadrupedal AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal that speaks fluently, which is half-way between the two on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, is unusual and can only be explained by magic.

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