History Recap / DuckTales2017S2E3TheBalladOfDukeBaloney

* NumberOneDime: Attempted, but subverted. Scrooge intends on recreating his own origin story with a young Duke Baloney by giving him an American dime instead of his actual payment for a shoeshine. Instead of being inspired to start his own entrepreneurial empire by it like he was, Baloney sees it as a scam and angrily tells Scrooge off for it.

* ArtisticLicenseGeology: Duke Baloney's hypothetical plan to stomp coal until it turns into diamonds would've been mostly impossible, diamond comes from putting pressure on carbon, not coal.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Subverted. On one hand, since Glomgold is one of the main antagonists, it's inevitable that he is going to eventually return to his former villainous ways. On the other hand, he now has a much more competent CEO handling his company's fortunes, Scrooge has a legitimate reason to hate him, and there is a bet between him and Scrooge that is going to be one of the main arcs this season.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When Louie and Webby first see Duke Baloney, Louie is positive it's Flintheart while Webby is willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Duke let out his MadLibsCatchPhrase, "Curse you, rope!" and they both agree it's him.

* TheReveal: Glomgold is actually a Boer from South Africa like he is the comics, and his birth name is Duke Baloney. He created the persona of Flintheart Glomgold as part of his obsession to one-up Scrooge.

* TheScrooge: Scrooge tries to haggle with Zan Owlson to reduce the amount of money they spend on charity for children. Admittedly he is rather halfhearted in said haggling, and readily starts signing the paperwork after Owlson refuses to budge.

* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: The comics version of Scrooge and Glomgold and the 1987 version were roughly the same age. But thanks to Scrooge becoming OlderThanTheyLook as a result of his adventures, this version is much older than Glomgold who may be a generation older than Donald at best. Duke Baloney grows a natural black beard which he loses and then replaces it with the fake graybeard he had to make himself look older than he actually is.

** Webby cannot find anything on Glomgold from before he arrived in Duckburg in the eighties. The original ''[=DuckTales=]'' is a series from that decade.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Scrooge does not remember the day he met a boy named Duke Baloney, whom Glomgold used to be. It takes Glomgold producing the gold money clip he stole from him all those years ago for Scrooge to remember.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: If Roxanne Featherly's report is anything to go by, people are actually happy that Glomgold is missing and a much more competent CEO (who is not a complete lunatic and has never sworn revenge on anyone) is at the helm of the company.

* AbsenteeActor: Louie, Webby, and Scrooge are the only main characters in this episode, after Huey and Dewey were on their own in the last one. This episode is also notable for being the first one in the series where Dewey doesn't show up.

* NotSoDifferent: Duke, like Scrooge, made his start shining shoes. Unfortunately, when Scrooge tried to help him learn to be self-reliant with the payment of a dime like his father did with him, the boy took it for mockery and became Glomgold to show up Scrooge.

* SequelEpisode: To ''[[Recap/DuckTales2017S1E23TheShadowWarPartITheNightOfDeSpell The Shadow War-Part 1]]'', albeit from Glomgold's point of view.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When Louie and Webby first see Duke Balony, Louie is positive it's Flintheart while Webby is willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Duke let out his MadLibsCatchPhrase, "Curse you, rope!" and they both agree it's him.

* DoubleSubversion: Flintheart Glomgold gets amnesia and thinks of himself as Duke Baloney, an identity that Louie and Webby think is fake and made-up. It turns out that Duke Baloney is ''his'' real name and that the amnesiac Glomgold is closer to the nice, boisterous young man he was, and that Flintheart Glomgold is the fake made-up person he made himself to be to get back at Scrooge.

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Played deadly straight with Webby and Glomgold. In fact, Webby could've probably died at Glomgold's hands if not for Louie.

* TheReveal: Glomgold is actually a Boer from South Africa like he is the comics. His birth name is Duke Baloney; he created the persona of Flintheart Glomgold as part of his obsession to one-up Scrooge.

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[[caption-width-right:350:I'm sure he just [[IdenticalStranger looks like Glomgold]].]]

[[quoteright:350:I'm sure he just [[IdenticalStranger looks like Glomgold]].]]

** Duke's scheme to best the McDuck fishing trawler involves bomb-carrying sharks, robot fish, community college engineering degrees, ''making fun'' of the boat, turning into merpeople (according to his illustration), and the proviso that there's a giant plug and drain at the bottom of the bay. Fisher points out that drying up the entire bay and collecting all the fish would mean that nobody could ever fish there again, including themselves; Duke doesn't seem to understand the implication.

* ItsPersonal: Up until now, Scrooge originally saw his rivalry with Glomgold as nothing but an amusing diversion; it isn't until Glomgold reveals he stole his money clip (which according to {{WordOfGod}} had ''$2 million'') as a boy in South Africa that Scrooge begins to hate his rival as much as he hates him.

* ItsPersonal: Up until now, Scrooge originally saw his rivalry with Glomgold as nothing but an amusing diversion; it isn't until Glomgold reveals he stole his money clip as a boy in South Africa that Scrooge begins to hate his rival as much as he hates him.

-->'''Glomgold:''' How did you know it was me?\\

%%* [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude What kind of a name]] is "[[MeaningfulName Flintheart]] [[PropheticName Glomgold]]" anyway? A name made up by someone who wants to emphasize his wealth and stinginess.

** [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude What kind of a name]] is "[[MeaningfulName Flintheart]] [[PropheticName Glomgold]]" anyway? A name made up by someone who wants to emphasize his wealth and stinginess.

* FurryConfusion: Non-anthropomorphic seagulls appear alongside seagull-people like Fisher.

* FurryConfusion: Non-anthropomorphic seagulls appear alongside seagull people like Fisher.

* FurryConfusion: Regular seagulls appear alongside anthropomorphic seagulls like Fisher.