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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: This happens while Scrooge is reading the morning paper.
-->'''Scrooge:''' "[=McDuck=] Assets Top $200 Bajillion" -- delightful. "[=McDuck=] Stock Reaches All-Time High" -- wonderful. [[ExplainExplainOhCrap "[=McDuck=] Loses Construction Bid to Flintheart Glomgold"... DAH!]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ma Beagle calls Glomgold "rotten to the core".



* HereWeGoAgain: As soon as Scooge freaks out over the headline about Glomgold, Duckworth stops his dusting, retrieves his boss's cane and hat, and opens the front door... all before Scrooge has even left his chair or given any indication he planned to leave. Clearly, Duckworth's familiar with this routine.

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* HereWeGoAgain: As soon as Scooge Scrooge freaks out over the headline about Glomgold, Duckworth stops his dusting, retrieves his boss's cane and hat, and opens the front door... all before Scrooge has even left his chair or given any indication he planned to leave. Clearly, Duckworth's familiar with this routine.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Not only are the Beagle Boys and Glomgold enemies here compared to all future appearances together where they were his flunkies, but Burger has a drastically different voice, despite still being voiced by Chuck [=McCann=].

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Not only are the Beagle Boys and Glomgold enemies here compared to all future appearances together where they were his flunkies, but Burger has a drastically different voice, voice despite still being voiced by Chuck [=McCann=].



* HereWeGoAgain: As soon as Scooge freaks out over the headline about Glomgold, Duckworth stops his dusting, retrieves his boss' cane and hat, and opens the front door... all before Scrooge has even left his chair or given any indication he planned to leave. Clearly, Duckworth's familiar with this routine.
* HeroInsurance: Averted when it looked like Scrooge and the others successfully shorted out the robots with water, and Glomgold fully expected Scrooge to pay for them, to Scrooge's fury.

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* HereWeGoAgain: As soon as Scooge freaks out over the headline about Glomgold, Duckworth stops his dusting, retrieves his boss' boss's cane and hat, and opens the front door... all before Scrooge has even left his chair or given any indication he planned to leave. Clearly, Duckworth's familiar with this routine.
* HeroInsurance: Averted when it looked like Scrooge and the others successfully shorted out the robots with water, water and Glomgold fully expected Scrooge to pay for them, to Scrooge's fury.



* ImpactSilhouette: When Ma and the Beagle Boys hijack the robots, the emerge from their storage building by busting through the wall.

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* ImpactSilhouette: When Ma and the Beagle Boys hijack the robots, the they emerge from their storage building by busting through the wall.



* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Happens while Scrooge is reading the morning paper.

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Happens This happens while Scrooge is reading the morning paper.



* LiteralMetaphor: When Ma Beagle says she intends to do some "window shopping", she does so by breaking the windows in stores and stealing what's in the display.

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* LiteralMetaphor: When Ma Beagle says she intends to do some "window shopping", "window-shopping", she does so by breaking the windows in stores and stealing what's in the display.



'''Glomgold:''' Was that quick enough for ya?!

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'''Glomgold:''' Was that quick enough for ya?!ya'?!
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* HurtFootHop: Angry about his robots being hijacked to destroy the city, Glomgold stomps up the one Ma Beagle is controlling and kicks it. [[DidntThinkThisThrough He ends up hurting himself instead of the robot]].

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* HurtFootHop: Angry about his robots being hijacked to destroy the city, Glomgold stomps up to the one Ma Beagle is controlling and kicks it. [[DidntThinkThisThrough He ends up hurting himself instead of the robot]].
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* BigWhat: Glomgold gives one at the end when the Chief of Police informs him that his robots are to be permanently dismantled.

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* GoThrowTheDistraction: While sneaking into the building housing the robots, Ma Beagle throws a hairpin to make the guard look away.


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* ThrowingTheDistraction: While sneaking into the building housing the robots, Ma Beagle throws a hairpin to make the guard look away.
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* LiteralMetaphor: When Ma Beagle says she intends to do some "window shopping",

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* LiteralMetaphor: When Ma Beagle says she intends to do some "window shopping", she does so by breaking the windows in stores and stealing what's in the display.

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