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Scrooge meets up with Glittering Goldie again in order to acquire land filled with golden trees from her. However, Glomgold has also set his sights on the land.

This episode contains examples of the following tropes:

  • Always Need What You Gave Up: It turns out that while the gold trees were just over his property line, the deposit they fed on was on Scrooge's land. He doesn't find out this fact until after he traded with Goldie.
  • Batman Gambit: Scrooge found gold trees growing on Goldie's land adjacent to his and "tricked her" into trading their land because he thought the gold deposit underneath the trees giving them their color must be there, too. It's not until he starts digging that he finds out what Goldie knew all along — he now owns the land with the gold trees, and she now owns the land with the gold!
  • Chekhov's Gun: Bubba makes his entrance in the episode by breaking a vase playing basketball in the house, which the nephews explain as his having developed an interest in sports after seeing TV about it. He uses sports maneuvers more than once during the episode to get in Glomgold's way.
  • The Chessmaster: Scrooge thought he had put one over on Goldie when he convinced her to trade her land for his, but it turns out she was playing him the whole time, and that it was no Contrived Coincidence that he happened to get gold stationary made from trees on her land.
  • Crush Blush: Scrooge blushes red when Goldie kisses him.
  • Insult Backfire: At the end of the episode, when Scrooge learns that Goldie played him:
    Scrooge: Goldie, you're a dirty deal-maker!
    Goldie: I learned from the master.
  • Meaningful Echo: Scrooge tells the boys that Goldie drives a hard bargain and attributes this skill to learning from him. It turns out she tricked him into selling her the land with the actual gold deposit. When he realizes and calls her a "dirty deal-maker", she answers that she learned from him.
  • Moose and Maple Syrup: The episode is set in the Great North Woods and parodies many of the region's stereotypes, especially with the local Beagle Boys.
  • Mythology Gag: When Scrooge asks Launchpad how he looks in the outfit he bought for his meeting with Goldie, Launchpad answers that he looks "eccentric" rather than stupid because he's rich. This may refer to a comic wherein one of Scrooge's sisters says that Scrooge is "eccentric" because wealthy people aren't crazy.
  • No MacGuffin, No Winner: Glomgold may have stolen Scrooge's gold wood, but thanks to Bubba knocking out the train tracks with a boulder, he didn't get away with it.
  • No, You: Scrooge and Glomgold take turns tossing each other out of Goldie's house in an effort to get rid of their rival for the land. Eventually, they toss each other out at the same time.
  • Old Flame: Goldie is Scrooge's former Love Interest.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: Scrooge succeeded in getting the land with the gold trees from Goldie, but because Glomgold got to them first, he's left with stumps. What's more, he later finds out that the land he gave Goldie was the true source of the gold.
  • Shout-Out: The title is a reference to the John Denver song "Rocky Mountain High".
  • Smooch of Victory: Goldie kisses Scrooge as a follow-up to the revelation that she tricked him.
  • Wacky Marriage Proposal: Played with; when Scrooge begins his pitch to buy the land from her, Goldie asks if he's asking for her hand in marriage (given that he turned up with flowers and candy and asked her out to dinner). However, he tells her he's just making a business proposition.

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