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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Scrooge, all the way.
* [[Creator Insignia]]: "D.U.C.K."
* [[Creepy Twins]]: Phishkisser brothers, the owners of "Oolated Squigs" fish company, whose ''heads'' are fish-shaped, with big lips, dog-ears resembling pelvic fins, and [[Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow|remains of hair]] resembling dorsal and tail fins.
* [[Dan Browned]]: Although Rosa did research for his works, there are instances where he gets his facts wrong. He falls into this because he is proudly declaring that he was doing research for any real facts and that all references to the real world and events were true.
** You could consider this subverted, since not only Rosa's mistakes happen once in a blue moon, but when he realizes he made one (or is told about it by fans), he instantly recognizes it. The guy's human, even if he worked with ducks all the time.
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* [[Self-Made Man]]: Scrooge. The point being that the "making" was more important to him than "getting made" in the first place.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Scrooge, as he is unable to become a Junior Woodchuck and legally get his hands on a copy of their famous guidebook, goes hunting for the remains of the Library of Alexandria in an attempt to obtain something that can rival it in knowledge. {{spoiler|That Junior Woodchuck guidebook? Yeah, it's what the contents of the Library eventually got turned into... After chasing the library the world over, his goal ends up being the only book in the world he ''can't'' obtain}}.
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** The D.U.C.K. dedication, as described above, also counts.
** ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'' gets quoted at least twice.
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