*Season arc spoilers.*
We’re back to only a few of the main cast being featured, but this is a good episode: entertaining humor, fun action, and some nice moments of heart.
Della flies Scrooge and Dewey out to the doomsday seed vault, which has sustained damage due to melting glaciers. Scrooge is there to win the contract to secure the vault, and three guesses as to which other Duckburg Scottish billionaire is vying for the job. Further complicating matters is Della and Dewey, who can’t resist sneaking into the vault after hearing about the seeds for the legendary money tree.
It makes sense that Dewey would be the first triplet to get what amounts to a one-on-one adventure with Della. Throughout season 1, he was the one most focused on investigating Della’s disappearance and trying to figure out what happened to her, so he’s understandably the most affected by her return. And while Della shares certain traits with all three boys, she probably has the most in common with Dewey. “My son literally running toward adventure,” she observes at one point. “I’ve never been more proud than this moment!” Both are reckless and excitable, not to mention impulsively brave. They’re the sort to throw themselves headlong into danger just to prove they can do it. When Dewey does just that, he calls back to her, “If I don’t make it, tell my brothers I was the best one!”
I’d say Glomgold is well used here. He can grate and overstay his welcome at times, but he made me laugh quite a bit in this episode, especially in the early scenes where he’s being managed by Zan Owlson, who took over Glomgold Industries when he was missing earlier in the season. When he first pops up on the scene, ready to thwart Scrooge’s deal, he laughs menacingly while shining a flashlight under his chin. Zan dryly adds, “I cut his dramatic entrance budget.” (By the way, Zan is voiced by Natasha Rothwell, who played Kelli on Insecure!) The two of them also discuss the distinction between a “cockamamie ploy” and a “maniacal scheme.” Oh yeah, and there’s a drone designed to look like Glomgold’s face.
Scrooge spends most of the episode caught between two irritants. When he discovers that Della and Dewey have run off, he follows them to the seed vault to put out the fires they leave in their wake (sometimes literally.) And because Glomgold is the wooooorst—cue Ben Schwartz as Jean-Ralphio—he forces Scrooge to take him along, which just leaves Scrooge with even more messes to clean up.
Naturally, he frets over the repair cost of every bit of damage Della and Dewey cause to the doomsday vault during their wrecking ball of an adventure, grumbling, “What would the kids want in the seed vault, besides the opportunity to inconvenience me?” Side note: it’s cute to me that he includes Della as one of the “kids.” But as it becomes clear how much potential danger there is to the situation, his concern for their safety outweighs his concern for his pocket book.
Throughout, the episode strikes a good balance with Scrooge, and David Tennant highlights that with his vocal performance. We get professional dealmaking Scrooge, cranky world-weary Scrooge, and worried loving Scrooge. When it comes to Glomgold’s antics, Scrooge is frequently seething at his temperamental rival, but he’s able to adopt a blasé attitude in the moments when Glomgold is most vigorously trying to get under his skin. And while his penny-pinching tendencies are frequently at the fore in this episode, the situation also calls for his intrepid adventurer side.
Plus, not one to be outdone by Glomgold’s lookalike drone, we learn that Scrooge has a golden flip phone—love.
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