I heard somewhere that this show's version of Flintheart Glomgold is South African, he's just affecting a Scottish accent in an effort to ape Scrooge. Don't remember if that was fan speculation or an official thing, but I had it in the back of my mind when he tried to argue he's more Scottish than Scrooge because he…

Librarian.

Scrooge is a huge cheapskate. Come on, that's Ducktales 101.

It's worth noting that the climax of this episode is almost certainly a conscious homage to The Caine Mutiny. That film ended in a court scene in which an attorney had to prove that the defendants mutinied against Humphrey Bogart because his mental illness made him unfit for command, and he did so by doing exactly…