Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series/Tropes I To Z

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"Téa: I can't believe we're expected to believe all this.
 * I Am Not Shazam: "My name is Yami." "WRONG!!!" [Lol, 4Kids]
 * Idiot Ball: Depending on the scene, it can range from one character doing something stupid, like not noticing Bakura's turned into a bestial psychopath, to the entire cast accepting that Bakura's managed to recover from illness, win six duels in a tournament, and walk to the location of the finals in a single episode. Special mention goes to Tristan, whose Idiot Ball is permanently lodged between his brain's frontal lobes.

Yugi: And yet, apparently we do. God, we're stupid. This must be what it feels like to be Tristan."

"Bakura: Hey, Pegasus, remember when I said I was going to kill you last?
 * If I Can't Have You: "I'm going to kidnap you! It seems to be the default response to anything in this show!"
 * Igpay Atinlay: "Silly Téa! Pigs don't speak Latin!"
 * I Know Mortal Kombat: "Fortunately, I can pilot a helicopter. Thank God for Microsoft Flight Simulator!"
 * I Lied:

Pegasus: That's right, Bakura! You did!

Bakura: I lied."

"Kaiba: Screw the vagina, I have a vagina!"
 * I'm Going to Disney World Zorc in The Movie
 * Image Song:
 * Melvin: "Villain"
 * Yugi Mutou: "Without Yugi"
 * Kaiba: "I'm On A Blimp"
 * Marik: "Out There", "Leather Pants"
 * Joey Wheeler: "BROOKLYN RAGE~!"
 * Improbable Weapon User: Despite its appearance in the orginal anime it's worth noting that Kaiba throws children's trading card at Faceless Mooks. In V.A.T.S.
 * Inherently Funny Words: Judging by the reaction of the other people on Wha-Chow! at the time, vagina.

"Mai: Marik! When I defeat him it'll prove that I don't need friends to be a strong person. That'll show Joey for not including me in his brain-damage-induced hallucinations!
 * I'm Your Worst Nightmare: In Marik Plays Portal2, Glados tries this, revealing Marik's worst nightmare is him without a great bottom. His second worst is a buffalo.
 * In the Name of The Moon: Mentioned in episode 34.
 * Informed Ability: "Yeah, that Mai Valentine. She's a great duelist, all right."
 * Informed Attribute: Mai's breasts being huge,.
 * Informed Flaw: Yugi's voice isn't that high-pitched.
 * Insane Troll Logic: Episode 43:

(caption: [irrational reasoning ftw!])"

"Marik: I already told you Bakura, I'm NOT gay!
 * Insistent Terminology:
 * "A children's card game"
 * Mako Tsunami: "I am not a freaky fish guy!"
 * In Space: Apparently Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal 's card games In Space was too ridiculous to Jack and Yusei
 * Insult Backfire:
 * This:

Florence: Could've fooled me.

Melvin: And me.

Marik: Hey shut up; you don't know anything about me.

Florence: Marik, he IS you; he knows EVERYTHING about you.

Marik: HE is the gay one!

Florence: Marik, he's YOU!

Marik: ...He is the gay one!"

"Kaiba: " No offense Yugi, you're a great duelist and all, but your buddy there couldn't duel his way out of a paper bag."
 * In the rap battle between Yugi and Jaden, Yugi suggests Jaden should just practice ballet instead of playing children's card games. In his next spit, Jaden fires back that he's been taking ballet for six years regardless of Yugi's taunting.
 * Insult Misfire: Episode 11

Joey: "That does it! No one talks about my friend Tristan that way!""


 * Intercontinuity Crossover: Ghost Nappa's cameo in episode 40.
 * Ironic Echo:
 * "Hey, Little Kuriboh! When's the new episode? Ah hah hah hah!"
 * Bakura in episode 11, Florence in episode 46: "Tell my fangirls, I love them."
 * "By the Gods, that's exactly what I want to look like!"
 * "I have the weirdest boner right now"
 * Item Get: "Looks like Joey found a Duel Disk!"
 * It's Probably Nothing: "Yeah, that's definitely the sound that wind makes."
 * It Was His Sled: Lampshaded In-Universe -- "Snape Kills D-" [many spoilers later] "-Nicole Kidman was a ghost, and Rosebud was the sled!"
 * It Will Never Catch On:
 * "Card games on motorbikes... come on!". (Cut to a picture of Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds with the subtitles saying, "you gotta be sh*** ing me.") With "O Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" playing in the background.
 * Yusei and Jack (incidently from the afforementioned show) eventually go on to make a similar quip about "Card Games in Space" Yu-Gi-Oh: Zexal
 * "I Want" Song: Young Marik's version of "Out There". Except in this case, what he wants is to kill people, play card games and read yaoi.

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"Tea: Let's have sex later ok?
 * Jeff Goldblum: "He's One of the Most Powerful Cards In All Of Duel Monsters!"
 * Jerkass: Almost everyone takes this trope and runs rampant with it, while frequently informing each other and the viewers of it.
 * Jive Turkey: Tristan temporarily becomes one when he turns black due to an animation error. And Joey has to point out he's no longer black for him to stop.
 * Just Friends: Yugi and Tea in the Season Zero Pilot

Yugi: Huh?

Tea: AS FRIENDS YUGI GEEZ, such a pervert."


 * Kayfabe:.
 * Keet: Kaiba in Season Zero somehow manages to be this while having a Creepy Monotone.

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 * Kaleidoscope Hair: As a gag, Dartz has hair that changes color for every single scene he's in.
 * Kids Are Cruel: "Toooor-meeeeent!"
 * Killed Mid-Sentence:  in episode 37. Who thought  had an invisible gun...?
 * Also Jack Atlas in episode 52
 * Kneecapping: In the deleted scenes montage, Yugi threatens Tristan with this with a wrench.

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"Yami Yugi: Say Kaiba, do you remember the first time you and I met?
 * Lampshaded the Obscure Reference: One scene referenced Rick Roll, The Incredible Hulk, and The Legend of Zelda. Tea said she was leaving due to getting annoyed by all the obscure references.
 * Lampshade Hanging: Half the jokes do this. The other half parody doing this.
 * Large Ham:
 * "I can do whatever I want because I'm voiced by DAN GREEN!"
 * Also Marik seems to get quite into it during Leather Pants, not that he hasn't hammed up the scenery in-series as well.
 * Larynx Dissonance: There's only six women in the series and the four that qualify as main characters sound like varying degrees of guy: From Miss Piggy style (Téa), to slightly husky (Ishizu), to not even trying (Mai and Serenity). The other two, Rebecca Hawkins and Veronica Ishtar, had genuine female actors but only ever appeared in one episode a piece.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia:
 * Mentioned in episode 35.

Seto Kaiba: Actually no. You did that mind crush thing to me so everything's sort of a blur. In fact, I kinda think you gave me brain damage."

"Melvin: I hate to burst your bubble, but there's nobody in my head worth remembering. Ahahahaha...! Wait! No, Mr. Tweetums!"
 * Also from episode 43:

"Crump: Now that's what I call a "DMILF".
 * Last-Name Basis: Bakura, Crump, Kaiba
 * Last Second Word Swap:
 * Crump the Penguin and Téa.

Téa: A "DMILF"?

Crump: A Dark Magician I'd like to Fu--

Téa: Yuck! God, What is wrong with you, you perverted old creep?"

"Téa: What are you going to wish for, Yugi?
 * Subverted in the Season Zero pilot, when it looks like Yugi's going to think of a different way to finish the sentence, and finally just gives up and starts over.

Yugi: Oh, that's easy! Téa's pant--uh...um...uh...Tristan's panties.

(beat)

Téa: You have problems, man!"

"Yugi: So let me get this straight, according to this show, the Egyptian Gods are real.
 * Late to The Punchline: Marik pulls this off when he realises what Melvin meant by 'I always knew you wanted me inside of you Bakura' and explains the joke a whole episode later.
 * Laugh Track: Zorc has sitcom-style canned laughter play every time he mentions destroying the world, occasionally also other audience reactions.
 * Left the Background Music On: "SexyBack", Duke's Leitmotif. When Yugi asks Duke "to stop using that annoying theme music", he has no idea it's on.
 * Leitmotif:
 * Florence had Ave Satani whenever he spoke when he was first introduced. It only lasted a few episodes though.
 * Whenever Yugi's Dark Magician is shown attacking (three times at last count), the theme from a different Magical Trevor short is played.
 * Duke Devlin. He's Bringing Sexy Back.
 * Let Me Get This Straight: Used often by various characters (usually Yugi) to lampshade the utter ridiculousness of the plot.

Shadi: Yes.

Yugi: But, doesn't that mean that all other religions are wrong, and the hokey ancient Egypt religion is the only real one?

Shadi: Yes.

Yugi: Huh, didn't see that one coming.

Shadi: I did!"

"Kaiba: You took the hottest thing in all of Duel Monsters and turned it into a FIVE YEAR OLD. You have issues, man."
 * Let's Play: Marik started one of Vampire Bloodlines. It can be found here.
 * Marik has also started a playthrough of Portal 2.
 * Life Imitates Art: The series is cancelled by 4Kids in continuity and then it's taken off of YouTube in real life. This was right after the episode that featured Johnson/JudgeMan losing a trial against Joey, and then it goes back on YouTube just after the last episode defended it. Try not to think about that too hard.
 * Literal Minded: Tristan, see No Except Yes below.
 * Lolicon: Pegasus due to the Toon Dark Magician Girl card, according to Kaiba:

"The blood of the innocent will flow without end
 * Logic Bomb: Duke defeats Nesbitt this way by showing him a picture of the Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal protagonist.
 * Lost Episode: For lack of a better trope to describe it. For April Fools' Day 2011, a new version of Episode 6 was released, covering the same episode as the original, but using completely different scenes and jokes.
 * Lucky Translation: The fearless Japanese fan that took on the daunting task of translating the abridged series on nicovideo got lucky with "You don't stand a ghost of a chance!". 'Ghost' and 'zero' are pronounced exactly the same in Japanese.
 * Lyrical Dissonance: The Zorc & Pals theme song.

His name is Zorc and he's destroying the world!"

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"Marik: This is going to make Citizen Kane look like Citizen Lame!"
 * Magnum Opus: Marik belives this about Concrete Giraffes, the movie he is filming with Bakura. It doesn't quite work out that way.

"Florence: My mistake.
 * Major Injury Underreaction:
 * After getting his eye gouged out, Pegasus, instead of screaming in pain, informs Florence that he took the wrong one.


 * Pop*

Pegasus: That's much better."

"Yugi: Those bullies are being mean to Gary Stu!
 * We also have Hank Ishtar singing a parody version of "Cat's in the Cradle" while being by Melvin.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Of all people, Mokuba in episode 52. He manipulates Noah into giving him free food and letting him watch his favourite TV shows by going on about how his previous kidnappers were so much better than Noah.
 * Man of a Thousand Voices: Little Kuriboh does nearly all the voices on the show with impressive range of pitch and accent. The voices not done by him are generally guest voices he could likely have done by himself.
 * Marty Stu: In-Universe, Gary Stu

Joey: Who the hell is Gary Stu?

Yugi: I don't know, but apparently he's my best friend."

"Kaiba: "Now do you understand why so many people love me even though I'm the biggest dick in this entire show? It's because I'm Seto freaking Kaiba. Accept no substitutes!""
 * Memetic Badass: Seto Kaiba, brought up in-universe in Episode 44.

"Grandpa: (in a flashback) "Playing card games is just like making love. You usually do it on a table, and always feel deep shame afterwards. Also, the older you get, the less fun it is. So, in conclusion, remember to always wear a condom while playing card games!"
 * Memetic Mutation:
 * An in-universe example; in episode 52 Kaiba creates an internet meme called 'lolcalization', which takes Japanese cartoons and 'localises' them into American versions..
 * Out of universe, the character catchphrases like "Screw the Rules, I Have Money", "In America", and "Brooklyn Rage" among others have achieved meme status. So much to the point that voice actors from the actual series have used them at conventions.
 * Metaphorgotten:
 * Grandpa, unsurprisingly, pulls one off.

Yugi: "Huh...maybe I should wash my hands before shuffling these.""

"Joey: Remember, you treat a duel disk just like you treat a woman. You strap it to your arm and put trading cards into it at regular intervals."
 * Joey has one, too.

"Odion: I can only hope you're proud of me.
 * Milestone Celebration:
 * The 2nd anniversary one was a total bust, leading to The War of the Abridged Series Creators.
 * The 3rd anniversary one went comparatively better. There was just an explosion instead.
 * Moment Killer: Malik gets one during the Joey/Odion duel; when Odion realizes he's about to lose due to the fake Egyptian God Card inciting the wrath of the real Mega Ultra Chicken, Odion muses how he finally became a Tombkeeper. "Malik", on the other hand, isn't impressed.

"Malik": She's not even your real mom, douche bag!"

"Serenity: Hey, "Ash"?
 * Monster Roommate: Florence was apparently Slender Man's college roommate.
 * Mood Whiplash: Played for Laughs (possibly) in Episode 31; the little kid with Ash Ketchum's voice snuck into Serenity's hospital room and won't stop getting on her nerves:

"Ash": Yeah, Misty?

Serenity: That doctor told me you have cancer.

(The first opening theme to Pokemon cuts off)

"Ash": (Beat) Oh...is that some sort of new Pokemon that can't be found in the Johto region?

Serenity: No. It's cancer."

"Yugi: Hey gramps, can we please see your ultra-rare-chocolatey-fudge-coated-sugar-sprinkled-angelic-magical-fantastical-stupendeously-special-illegally-sexually-geniunely-brilliantly-amazing-goddamn-spank-my-ass-and-call-me-suzie-mega-ultra-super card?"
 * Morality Pet: Mr. Tweetums, to Marik.
 * Motor Mouth: Used by Yugi in Season 0, to describe his Grandpa's Blue Eyes White Dragon card:

""Somewhere a Yugioh fan is touching himself inappropriately.""
 * The Movie: Three so far: The Abridged Movie, The Other Abridged Movie, and Bonds Beyond Time.
 * Mr. Exposition: Shadi serves this role up until Noah and Team 4kids cancels the show.
 * Lampshaded in the Kaiba's Father special: "Are you kidding me? Every time something fucked up happens in this series, you show up and start explaining things!"
 * Ms. Fanservice: When Dark Magician Girl makes her first appearance, a subtitle appears:

"Pegasus: What dark forces have I unleashed? Dirty hands! Dirty, dirty hands!"
 * My Friends and Zoidberg: Usually Bakura, considering that few characters consider him part of the group of friends.
 * My God, What Have I Done?:
 * Joey says as much upon his reaction in episode 36 when he breaks Marik's mind control over him to find that he's been dueling in a death match with Yugi.
 * After Shadi shows Pegasus a vision of the havoc the God Cards will unleash:

"Joey: (Possessed by Marik, monotone voice) I will obey, Master Malik.
 * My Nayme Is: Marik uses "Malik" (another possible transliteration for his name) as an alias when he meets Joey and Téa.

Marik: It's Marik, you fool!

Joey: Whatever..."

"Flame Swordsman: My name is Frank.
 * My Name Is Not Durwood:
 * The Flame Swordsman

Joey: Flame Swordsman everybody.

Flame Swordsman: *ugh*"


 * Hank Ishtar almost always refers to Marik as Billy. In this video, he tries to call him Sally.

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"Yugi: Is everyone from England a total spaz, Bakura?
 * Negative Continuity:
 * Kaiba's finger came clean off while sticking it near a helicopter's blades. Played straight when it wasn't mentioned in the next episode, then subverted in the episode after that when its Handwaved by a doctor who surgically reattaches his finger, a la The Empire Strikes Back (Which Kaiba has never seen because he doesn't "watch crap").
 * In Marik's Evil Council 3, said council is meeting near an anime convention due to their Egypt hideout having been destroyed by Yami Yugi's letterbomb in the previous Christmas Special...despite said bomb having gone off right next to them, which would have certainly killed them as well, though you could blame it on 4Kids having censored it.
 * Never Say Die: Mocked relentlessly.
 * Episode 18: "No! Yugi! You can't be dead. If you were dead, 4Kids would have censored it!"
 * Episode 28: "Yes, I - wait, no, I don't want to kill you, I just want to destroy you a little! Jeez, talk about overreacting!"
 * Episode 30: "Help! Somebody save me from the harmless dark energy disks that won't kill me!"
 * Subverted in episode 36 where Yugi expects that losing the card game against Joey on purpose will send him to the Shadow Realm and is willing to do it because of their friendship. Until Joey tell him that, for once, the consequences will ACTUALLY be fatal.
 * In episode 37, Bakura points this out: "Honestly, why do we even have a graveyard in this show if nobody ever dies?"
 * Episode 40: "Marik, if I survive this, I'm going to kill you."
 * Episode 41: "Oh my God, we're gonna die! ... I can't believe I'm gonna die in a show about * beep* ing CARD GAMES!"
 * The movie: Anubis - "Soon you will die, and then you'll be dead... because I killed you!"
 * Episode 47: "If we were gonna die, they'd have killed us by now." Subverted, too. Noah threatens the cast with sentry turrets when Kaiba's blimp lands in his mobile fortress. At first they mock Noah, thinking the bullets that the turrets fire will be non-lethal, but then Noah opens fire for a few seconds to show that they are very real bullets.
 * Bonds Beyond Time: Yugi's explanation of the shadow realm to Yusei and Jaden.
 * National Stereotypes:
 * In-Universe. "So let me get this straight. The only characters on this show who represent America are Jean Claude Magnum, Rebecca Hawkins, Maximillian Pegasus, and Bandit Keith. Is it just me, or is Yu-Gi-Oh the most xenophobic show ever?"
 * Every one of the Egyptians (The Pharaoh, Florence, Shadi, Ishizu, Marik, Odion, Melvin, and Hank Ishtar) is some degree of bastard.
 * Jokes about the British are used a lot with Bakura ("This looks like a job...for LIMEYMAN!"). All these jokes get even funnier when you realize that Little Kuriboh IS British.

Bakura: Pretty much."

"Marik: With my Millenium Rod, I can take control of whoever I want.
 * Episode 23

Yugi: And you chose Bandit Keith? Why the hell would you choose Bandit Keith, he sucks!

Marik: It's simple. Americans are very easy to brainwash. Isn't that right, mind slave?

Bandit Keith: Whatever you say, Mister President."

"Kaiba: And... some kind of evil zebra unicorn thing. (Zooms in on monster) Seriously, what the hell is that supposed to be? Whatever it is, I'll be seeing it in my nightmares."
 * New Rules As the Plot Demands:
 * Spoofed in Yugi's duel with Panik in which Yugi gives a convoluted explanation for how he won (that does in fact perfectly describe the way he won in the original series)
 * Another episode seems to use this as its main gag, where even the "world's most advanced computer" can't understand the game, that no one has tried to learn how to actually play the game and lived and that having to play by the rules is considered a plot twist.
 * In the Bonds Beyond Time abridged movie this is the way Paradox is defeated. Paradox explains that in his time Duel Monsters actually evolved into a game with rules that actually make the game fair and balanced. Yami then counters by pointing out that they aren't in Paradox's time and that Duel Monsters in his own time is broken and completely exploitable.
 * Niche Network: Spoofed with the Card Games Network, because "a children's card game" is always Serious Business.
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * In-Universe. Dark Zebra according to Kaiba.

"Joey: Shut up, Tristan! You just want to get into Serenity's pants!
 * Also when the characters find that the virtual game's version of Mokuba is a princess, the ending states she will "return in your nightmares".
 * No Except Yes:

Tristan: No, I don't. I want to have sex with her! * beat* Oh, that's what you meant."

"Joey: "Stop yelling at me!"
 * No Fourth Wall:
 * At various times ("This will allow the writers to fill in a bunch of plot holes!") and one of Ishizu's powers from her Millennium Necklace is the ability to do this.
 * Little Kuriboh lets you know what sort of series this is going to be from the third line in the first episode: "Sorry, Yug, doin' this Brooklyn accent makes it difficult to concentrate on card games!"
 * The abridged series itself no longer has a fourth wall either
 * No Indoor Voice:
 * Espa Roba and his brothers.

Espa: (Shouts) "What? This is my normal speaking voice!""

"Ishizu: (whispering) Marik, we must be very quiet so that-
 * Also:

Marik: HEY ISHIZU LOOK AT THAT THING I WONDER WHAT IT IS! LOUDLY DO I WONDER ABOUT IT!"

"Jack: I MOSTLY JUST LIKE TO YELL!"
 * Jack Atlas.

""Check his pulse, Yugi!"
 * Not Making This Up Disclaimer:
 * When the "Ancient Egyptian Laser Beams" Shadow Game between Bakura and Pegasus appears, "This isn't a joke. It really happens" appears on screen.
 * And again when the poster for Yugioh 5D appears for the first time. It reads "You have got to be ****ing me."
 * And the running gag of the "Actual 4Kids Dialog" message, including such gems as:

"What a digital dummy!"

"In a few hours, the sun will rise!"

"You don't stand a ghost of a chance!"

"Be very careful, Joey!"

"If only he had been careful!"

Joey, what did I tell you about being careful?"

"Zorc: In the Shadow Realm, we wear no clothes. Everybody is totally naked. It's kind of a thing. Everybody must suffer eternal damnation...and nudity!."
 * He shows one when pointing out the difference between how the Japanese version of the show did a scene or plotline versus how the American version did the same one. Needless to say, the Japanese one often sounds more appealing the the American dub.
 * Not So Different: Used by Noah against Seto. Very justifiably.
 * The Nudifier: The Shadow Realm, according by Zorc in Marik's Evil Council 5.

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"Joey: Hey, Kaiba! If Marik entered the tournament using a fake name, shouldn't he be disqualified?
 * Oblivious Younger Sibling: Despite getting her eyesight back, Serenity is oblivious to everything.
 * Obvious Object Could Be Anything: Marik thinks that his snake-shaped present might contain the Buzz Lightyear he always wanted.
 * Off-Model:
 * "Look at the size of that nose. It's like the animators didn't even care."
 * Then there's this:

Kaiba: The only person who should be disqualified around here is whoever made Tristan black in this shot!

Tristan: Don't you be hating on my blackface, playa!"

"Marik: (wide-eyed) Ohhhhhh (EFF)..."
 * Oh Crap:
 * When "Malik" realizes Odion getting hit by lightning and knocked out means Melvin's Restraining Bolt came off and there's nothing stopping him from taking over.

"Kaiba:(pause) FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
 * Then there is episode 44, when Kaiba discovers what Exchange of Spirit does. It is technically the first (and as of now, only) time the word fuck is uncensored (although that is only because it is stretched out):

"Kaiba: (still going) -UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
 * Then, when Mokuba sees him on the screen:

"Kaiba: (still going) -UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
 * And still:

"Kaiba: (finally finishing) -UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"
 * Then, when Mokuba finally arrives:

"Kaiba: Please tell me you're not going to sing[...] Look, I'll pay you any amount of money right now if you don't sing!"
 * Brooklyn Rage and the Yugi vs. Jaden rap battle start with one from Kaiba and Yugi respectively.

"Yugi: Oh you've got to be f*cking kidding me..."

"Yami: Look, why don't you just cut the crap and tell us who you really are Bakura? Or should I call you the spirit of the Millennium Ring, who has no official name as of yet?
 * Once Acceptable Targets: In-Universe. Upon returning to the center of his mind, this time without the "help" of Shadi, Yugi comments that he "vaguely remembers meeting an extremely racist caricature".
 * One Steve Limit:
 * Thoroughly and literally averted, in that all Ghouls/Rare Hunters are named "Steve". Steve (The guy who took Joey's Red Eyes), Steve Arcana, Steve the Mime, Keith Steve Howard, The Army of Celebrity Steves, etc. It might help if Marik's mind control powers worked on people who weren't named Steve. Marik does point out that he could control Stone Cold Steve Austin if he felt like it.
 * Also brought up here:

Florence: Actually, we're both called Bakura!

Yami: What? But that's just confusing. Not to mention highly unlikely.

Florence: Oh, just wait until season 5 when there's three of me running around. Even the fans have trouble keeping up with that one."


 * Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping:
 * Happened in Episode 6, and also seems to be a problem with Marik (and, by extension, Melvin), as he can't seem to decide whether he has a British accent or an American one. The former incident is referenced in Episode 48, where Yugi remembers it as a full-on Cockney rant.
 * In The Abridged Movie, at one point Yugi pronounces idea as the British "eye-DEE-er", rather than the American "eye-DEE-uh". With an American accent.
 * In Bounds Beyond Time, TheAzureCrow slips into a Canada, Eh? pronunciation of "without," which Little Kuriboh promptly pokes fun at during the credits.
 * In episode #2 of Season Zero, Yugi slips into a British accent on the word "fortune". Twice.
 * Out-of-Character Moment: Mokuba lampshades this when Kaiba falls for the executives' obvious trap, asking why he's acting "so gullible and out-of-character."
 * Overly Long Gag:
 * Yugi's Lampshading of Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping from episode 6 ends up dragging on nearly a half-minute.
 * "Gorgonzola cheese and the world's finest wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..."
 * Overused Running Gag: Inevitably there's quite a few...
 * Enough so for the show to mock itself about it, again, and again... and again... (Though, somehow, it's still funny).
 * The 2nd anniversary vid takes the cake, as for the top ten thing, they supposedly only had one clip. So, they show the same clip TEN TIMES!
 * And in-series it mocks the original's overuse of the phrase "You don't stand a ghost...of a chance!"
 * Tropers...there's something you should know. I came...to this page...to give you a message: CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!

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"Kaiba: Time for a trip to the recycle bin, Phantom. And then once you're in the recycle bin, I'm going to right-click on it and select "Empty Recycle Bin", because otherwise you would just be taking up unnecessary space. In other words, I'm going to kill you."
 * Pals With Jesus: Florence and were college roommates.
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: Malik Blishtar, who certainly isn't that evil Marik Ishtar! Slightly less thin in that his right-hand man Odion appears and calls himself "Marik" as part of an Evil Plan. This is immediately cancelled out by the real Marik loudly proclaiming that he'll destroy everything the main characters hold dear and that Odion is doing it wrong.
 * Parrot Exposition:
 * "They were stolen from me by the Rare Hunters." "Rare Hunters?!" (Seto Kaiba even sounds like Solid Snake.)
 * "CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!" "CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES?"
 * Perverse Sexual Lust: Yugi, towards Dark Magician Girl. And his grandfather...
 * Photo Montage: The ending credits to The Movie.
 * Phrase Catcher:
 * "That Kaiba kid needs to get laid."
 * "Shut up, Mokuba!"
 * In Season Zero, Yugi has "You got problems, man!"
 * The Power of Friendship: Repeatedly spoofed, usually via Téa. There's a drinking game on it.
 * The Pornomancer: Duke, apparently.
 * Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner:
 * Admittedly, it's a three-liner, but still:

"Melvin: Very well. If it's a duel you want, it's a duel you'll get.
 * Also a Pre Asskicking Conversation in Episode 45:

Florence: Right you are. And the winner decides if the show gets cancelled or not.

Melvin: Then face me, Florence, and watch the fourth wall collapse around you. *evil laugh*"

"Big Five: Your series has been canceled.
 * Precision F-Strike:
 * Episode 47

Kaiba: What!

Joey: What!

Yugi: What! The! Fuck!?"

"Yami: WHY IS EVERYBODY IN THIS SHOW A F**KING NINJA?!"
 * Also we have this (and several variations of it).

"Kuriboh: Do-da-la motherf*****!"
 * Episode 55 with KURIBOH of all things

"(Tristan says something stupid)
 * Pretty Fly for A White Guy: Jaden in his few appearances.
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Melvin. Could I get a hug?
 * Punishment Box: referenced.

Joey: Do you want to go back in the box?

Tristan: Please don't make me go in there!"

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"Kaiba: It looks like the rules... * pulls out shades* ...just got screwed."
 * Queer People Are Funny
 * Quip to Black: Kaiba pulls one off at the end of Episode 44 a la Horatio Caine. Also a Crowning Moment of Awesome.

- YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 * Quote Swear Unquote: "The cake is a lie, bitch!" from Portal.

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""I summon the extremely phallic spaceship, but since it belongs to me, it grows to twice its usual size!"//
 * Rage Against the Author:
 * Rapid Fire Typing: Kaiba claims to have learned his "l33t h4x0r sk1llz" by watching episodes of Star Trek.
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: Episode 42 says that  suspended Team Four Star.
 * Really Dead Montage: Tristan's original voice.
 * Record Needle Scratch: After Tristan pulls up on a motorcycle in episode 27.
 * Recycled in Space:
 * The Abridged Series is Yu-Gi-Oh made Dangerously Genre Savvy.
 * Yu-Gi-Oh: Zexal will do this for the entire series much to the amusement of Yusei and Jack from 5D's who finally have something more crazy than "Card Games on Motorcycles" they can laugh at.
 * Reference Overdosed: Hell yeah, it is. See here for a list!
 * Refuge in Audacity: Quite a few of the jokes about Duke.

"Joey Wheeler lost the best! Duke Devlin makes our panties wet!""

"Téa: Brainwashing people is fun!
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Prior to the cast expansion for season three, Little Kuriboh's (ex-)wife was one of only three other people besides LK himself to voice a character in the series. She played Rebecca Hawkins and The Other Abridged Movie's Gary Stu.
 * The Remake: Little Kuriboh has remade the first episode several times;
 * A French Version
 * A Vagina Monologues version.
 * A Team Fortress 2 Version.
 * The Season 0 Version.
 * A Michael Bay version.
 * Remember the New Guy: In chapter 49, during a flashback Yugi tells Tea how much she loves the Dark Magician Girl. Tea states she doesn't even remember hearing of that monster card before.
 * Reset Button: After Crump, in contradiction to the canon plot, everyone was left wondering where this was going. Four episodes (and ten months) later,
 * Rescued From the Scrappy Heap:
 * In-Universe. Téa for Yami after giving "the biggest friendship speech of her life" to Johnny Steps.

Yami Yugi: Yes it is. I guess we have more in common than I thought!"

"Mokuba: Big bro, you're kind of like the anime version of Scrooge McDuck...only much less fluffy."
 * Mokuba. In the last few episodes he's started to show some of that patented Kaiba family dickishness and has become infinitely more funny and maybe even a little Badass to boot. He's still completely useless, though. Mokuba gets another upgrade in badass
 * Restraining Bolt: Odion is a living one of these for Marik's evil side, Melvin.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: Kuriboh is annoyingly cute and, according to Yami, useful for nothing else. Also he doesn't love him.
 * Robot Girls: Kaiba has a massive harem of identical pretty robot girls. He created them specifically so that he could shun them with his cold indifference.

"Yami: I just realized what the {D"
 * Running Gag: Enough to fill another page. To cover some of the most frequent ones:
 * "Duel" and "Duel Monsters" are almost universally replaced with "children's card game." The cast is perfectly aware of how absurd it is that almost every conflict they face is solved with a duel when in real life a simple call to the police would suffice.
 * References to Bakura being a minor character, with characters frequently forgetting who he even is.
 * Joey's "nyeh" Verbal Tic, which he can't even hear.
 * Mocking Four Kids, including the Not Making This Up Disclaimer caption "Actual 4Kids Dialogue." The many, many other Abridged Series running out there are also not passed up.
 * "SexyBack" playing whenever Duke speaks.
 * "Whenever Kaiba smiles, a puppy dies."
 * Mai being a source of Fan Service.
 * Offhand jabs at the anime's sequels, GX, 5Ds and Zexal.

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 * There's a 5D's reference pretty much every time a motorcycle appears.
 * Whenever a clock appears on-screen, Yugi wonders what time it is, usually out loud.
 * Something something in America!
 * Runs With Scissors: The cause of Tristan's original voice's death.

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"Joey: One episode every two months isn't so bad!"
 * Screwed By the Network: Melvin succeeds in canceling the show
 * Schedule Slip: LK started off by promising one episode a week. It started to slip around Episode 10. Lampshaded in "Cr@psule Monsters 2".

"Marik: "Yes, get a load of that back, fangirls. You (EFF!)ing love it don't you.""
 * The Scottish Trope: In Episode 40, Bakura says the forbidden word (so evil they had to censor it twice)!  Cue Imperial March.
 * The Scrappy:
 * Mokuba is an In-Universe example.
 * As of the Bonds Beyond Time Abridged Movie, so is Jaden
 * Self Made Orphan:
 * Marik, in a sense. His mother dies in childbirth and Melvin kills his father.
 * And Kaiba, who fired both his parents.
 * Series Fauxnale: Episode 46 - Melvin'd. Possibly subverted since a season 3 began.
 * Schmuck Bait: "Can I get a hug?" Notably, Florence doesn't fall for it. Marik wants him to, out of what appears to be obliviousness, not malice.
 * He's Not My Girlfriend: Florence says this to Melvin, concerning Marik. To which Marik replies "You tell him, honey!"
 * Shirtless Scene: Marik.

"Téa: "I'm so mad I could walk off like a pimp!" *proceeds to do just that*"
 * Shipper On Deck: Téa. When Joey refuses to tell Mai that she appeared in his dream, she yells at him, saying that as a fanfic writer, she's offended by his not jumping at the first woman to show attraction to him.]
 * Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now
 * Shout Out: A metric ton of these.
 * Show Within a Show:
 * Zorc & Pals, "Card Game Channel", and the Kill Your Family Show (Don't ask)
 * The Suite Life of Zorc & Cody, following Zorc & Pals's cancellation and Zach falling off a blimp to his death.
 * Silly Walk: Téa after the aforementioned Shipper On Deck moment.

"Gozaburo: "Horses can't be knights. I mean, that's just silly... Chess is stupid!""
 * Small Annoying Creature: Kuriboh gets a voice in Episode 48 and its annoyance factor abruptly ramps to eleven. Specifically, it gets the voice of the hot dog from Perfect Hair Forever, which appears to have been intentionally annoying.
 * Smart People Play Chess: Subverted -- some of the idiots in this show do, too.

"Zorc: "I have a terminal disease!"
 * Soap Opera Disease:

Florence: "No! What about our adopted daughter?! Who will take care of her once you're gone?!"

Zorc: "She also has a terminal disease!""

"Duke: I summon the extremely phallic space ship. But since it belongs to me it grows to twice its usual size. Duke Devlin always rises to the occasion, baby!"
 * Sociopathic Hero: Yami is this in season zero. Every time he emerges from Yugi's puzzle he is accompanied by the theme music of Michael Myers from Halloween and quotes a psychopath from a movie. In a twist, this is actually relatively in step with his manga incarnation.
 * Something Else Also Rises:
 * Duke Devlin's Gradius.

"Yugi: "We've learned that card games are the answer to all life's problems. And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that there's a strange man who lives in my head and sometimes tells me to do things!"
 * The Jiggle-o-meter in episode 49 gets 'excited' every time a breast appears onscreen.
 * Sound Effect Bleep: Used a lot.
 * The most infamous being Marik's Cluster F-Bomb bleep, taken from Perfect Hair Forever. The sound effect can best be described as an angry man yelling "Eff!"
 * 100% averted in LK's Filk Song, I'm on a Blimp.
 * Dartz also uses aforementioned Sound Effect Bleep starting in Marik's Evil Council 3.
 * Yugi, you little (BLEEP)! You son of a (BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)! I'm going to tear off your (BLEEP) and shove them right up your (BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP) and then (BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)(B­LEEP) on your (BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP) with (BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)﻿ in the (BLEEP)(BLEEP) and (BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP)(B­LEEP) your (BLEEP)(BLEEP)(BLEEP), so then you'll have to (BLEEP) sideways! (BLEEP)!
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: In Episode 45, we have Melvin, Marik's evil alter ego, stabbing his father Hank to death with the Millennium Rod--with Hank singing a parodying variant of Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle," describing what's happening in rather-disturbing detail.
 * Speedy Techno Remake: Of "Brooklyn Rage", with an amusingly high-pitched Joey.
 * Spoof Aesop: The Abridged Movie.

Yami: "That's right, Yugi! Now burn everything! Burn it to the ground!""

"Bakura: "Does the name 4Kids ring a bell?"
 * Start My Own: Done twice in a reference to Futurama.
 * Stating the Simple Solution:
 * During the first Evil Council of Doom, Bakura suggests just stabbing Yugi with a knife, without playing a children's card game. Marik doesn't listen. Besides, 4Kids would just censor it if they did.
 * After Joey is kidnapped by Bandit Keith and challenged for his star chips, he asks Keith why he didn't just take his star chips and vamoose while Joey was unconscious. Keith tells him to shut up.
 * In episode 33, when Bakura and Malik are teaming up, Malik brings up his tactic of using mind control, Bakura responds by saying: "Or we could just slice Yugi open with a machete, see if that works." Of course, Malik says he has a better idea involving more children's card games...
 * Stealth Pun:
 * Episode 45

Marik: "How could you possibly know?"

Bakura: "Lets just say I put two and two together...""

"(Tristan drives out of a warehouse on a motorcycle)
 * Episode 52:

Joey: "Hey, is that a Honda?"

Yugi: "No, his name's Tristan.""

"Bandit Keith: These sunglasses sure make it hard to see in the dark, but I refuse to take them off because I'm an American and Americans always wear sunglasses!"
 * The Stinger:
 * Since episode 17, there has been a stinger after a stinger. These mostly use an unrelated clip from a different episode of Yu-Gi-Oh dubbed with a memetic sound clip rather than dialogue by Little Kuriboh - for example, "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!", Christian Bale's famous rant at a cameraman, or Lex Luthor's "WRONG!" from Superman Returns.
 * Episodes 39 and 50 have three stingers.
 * Stock British Phrases: Used often by Bakura. "Lashings of ginger beer for everyone! ... I'm British, you know."
 * Stockholm Syndrome: Parodied in episode 52. Mokuba gets kidnapped by Noah, but takes it in stride because he's so used to it by now. He even uses the opportunity to get free food and watch cartoons.
 * Stock Scream: The Wilhelm Scream makes an appearance in Episode 34.
 * Stop Helping Me: "I command you to stop agreeing with me!"
 * Straight Gay: Croquet
 * Strange Minds Think Alike:
 * "Oh my god, a giant rock!"
 * "Why is everybody in this show a * bleep* ing ninja/duelist?!"
 * Both Kaiba and Joey make up the Spongebob SquarePants theme song on the spot and wind up singing the exact same lyrics.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: In the Michael Bay's Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged remake episode, this happens every time Tristan begins to talk. Everyone can hear him just fine in the actual show, though.
 * Stylistic Suck:
 * In the video that gave birth to the phrase "Card Games On Motorcycles", we get to see Iruka's "One Piece: The Abridged Series." It's...interesting...
 * And one year later, "Everybody Loves Mako" - an alternative version of Episode 6 made in style of early episodes, where, for example, the characters talk even slower than they used to.
 * Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Done several times, and lampshaded each time.
 * Suckiness Is Painful: Marik getting something carved on his back was bad enough, but being forced to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua drove him to the dark side.
 * Suicide By Cop: Kaiba sets this up via a Thanatos Gambit in the Duelist Kingdom semi-final, leaving Yugi with a Sadistic Choice: throw the match and spare Kaiba's life, or go all-in and kill him. Of course, his friends try to talk him into killing Kaiba.
 * Sunglasses At Night: Parodied with Bandit Keith, of course.

"Kaiba: "When I'm through with you, you'll have to take a shower to wash away the smell of defeat. And I won't be watching you do it."
 * Surrounded by Wankers
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial:
 * "Let me assure you that this tournament is 100% genuine, and is not in any way an elaborate ruse thrown together at the last minute so that I can get my hands on an Ancient Egyptian artifact."
 * Again in The Other Abridged Movie.

Yami: "Why would you be watching me?"

Kaiba: "I don't know. I just wanted to make sure you knew I wouldn't be."

Yami: "But I never thought--"

Kaiba: "Good. Because I won't.""

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"Bully: "Hey, punk! This card isn't Graceful Charity! It's Graceful Dice!"
 * Take That:
 * The series frequently makes fun of general internet fandom ("I'm going to go complain about it on my LiveJournal account!") and the various LittleKuriboh impostors who try to fool people into thinking a new episode is out.
 * We update as often as VG Cats." Touché, LK.
 * After trolls started flagging the episodes on YouTube (leading to their takedown), Kaiba informs Mokuba that he's "flagging videos on YouTube to compensate for the fact that I have an incredibly small penis."
 * For probably the same reasons, the first time Mariks Evil Council of Doom gathers, they decide to spam Yugi's youtube account so that he will have no choice but to bow before their might. Marik compliments that it is very evil.
 * Little Kuriboh also frequently takes aim at the other Abridged Series, including Naruto the Abridged Series (the creators of which actually appears once as guest stars to make fun of themselves). He raps about it, too.
 * In episode 29, a character mentions Joey is holding the Graceful Charity card in his hand, when the card is actually Graceful Dice. Obviously, people took notice. Flash to episode 30, which opens with a bully and his victim having the following exchange:

Victim (with an apparent british accent): "Really? Well, I guess I got them confused. But you can't really blame me, they're very similar."

Bully: "Like hell they are! Graceful Dice has a dice on it! Whereas Graceful Charity does not have a dice! You, sir, are a fool!""

"Bakura: Now the duel will take place in a twisted and horror-filled environment where only the bravest souls dare to venture.
 * Also in episode 30, it gives a Take That to Wikipedia for not listing them, by stating "According to Wikipedia, we don't exist!"
 * In Cr@psule Monsters 2, he makes an all-out assault on the annoying and vocal parts of his fanbase.
 * Episode 31:
 * One about the Nintendo Wii, and another during the Recap Episode.
 * Scientology gets its blasting in Episode 38.
 * Marik's cover-up name being Malik could be interpreted as a Take That to the fans who watch the sub and insist Marik is actually Malik. Damn 4Kids!
 * Even fellow otaku aren't immune!

Yami: An anime convention?

Bakura: Close, but no cigar. Here the spirits of the damned roam freely and every second is like living in a wide-awake nightmare!

Yami: ...still sounds like an anime convention."

"Why is it different?
 * "Does JJ Abrams write for this show?"
 * When the show gets "canceled" in Episode 47: [at least we lasted longer than Firefly]. It's also been referred to as "about the one thing Nick Simmons didn't plagiarize."
 * And there are the internet trolls in episode 48 that do nothing but scream about various internet things. And in the Stinger at the end complain about how the episode was, including the phrase "Worst episode ever" and one saying that "These things were better when they were like five minutes long!"

No more different!

I do not like different!

Different bad!

Me hate different!"

"Kaiba: What kind of George Lucas bullsh* t is this?! What, was I conceived by midi-chlorians or something?!
 * And Tea's response when she first meets them? "Go back to 4Chan you freaks!"
 * From Kaiba's Real Father - Conclusion upon learning :


 * No, Kaiba. Nothing as lame as that."

"Video Tristan: Hello Serenity, you probably can't see me now, but I'm standing in the middle of a field. It is a very romantic image. By the way, will you marry me?
 * The Twilight series have so far taken hits on two seperate occassions.
 * Right before Melvin said the series was going to go to Internet Obscurity, he said"Say Hi to the Juggernaut!"
 * Take That, Audience!: "A grown man who watches cartoons. That's almost as insane as a grown man playing a childrens card game." Given the huge number of references to shows and movies from the 80's and 90's, this series is not aimed at kids.
 * Take That Me: At the end of episode 29, Tristan decides to show Serenity a very special internet video.

Serenity: Jeez Tristan! What kind of lonely deranged freak proposes to somebody over the internet?

Tristan: Little Kuriboh."

"Yami: Kuriboh! Activate Super Chibi Kawaii Moe Desu Mode!"
 * Talking Is a Free Action: On the show, despite the implication that duelists often have mere seconds to come up with a game-saving play, time never actually runs out on someone still trying to figure out what to do. But this was subverted in
 * Talking to Himself: All characters except two are voiced by the same man, and the other two are voiced by the same woman. The impressions are ridiculously good, though.
 * Tastes Like Diabetes: In-Universe. Kuriboh's special ability as Yami's deck master.

"Tristan: I sure hope we don't encounter any more intrusive subplots.
 * Ted Baxter: Yet again, Hank Ishtar, the best father in the world!
 * Tempting Fate:
 * This:

Magnum: Did somebody say "intrusive subplot"?

Tristan: Oh, son of a bitch!"

"Joey: (narrowly avoiding getting hit by lightning) Nyeh! Man that was a close one. I sure am glad lightning never strikes twice in the same--
 * And then during Joey's duel with Odion:

(Joey gets hit by lightning)

Joey: IRONY! (collapses)"

"Doctor: I'm glad I have such a long and villain free life ahead of me.
 * The doctor in Episode 43:

Melvin: Hi there! Can I have a hug?

Doctor: A Hug? Sure I don't see why not... (Switches to a Gory Discretion Shot with the sound of a revving chainsaw) OH MY GOD! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!"

"Mokuba: I can't believe I've almost gone an entire season without being kidnapped. Wait 'til Seto hears about this!
 * Mokuba in Episode 34:

Steves who are about to kidnap him: Surpriiiise!

Mokuba: Oh, me and my big adorable mouth."

"Espa If Jinzo hits my Reflect Bounder it's all over for me!
 * Espa Roba in 29

Espa NO! Jinzo has hit my Reflect Bounder! It's all over for me!"

"Bakura: (to Steve Umbris) Shut up you fool or he'll kill you where you stand (referring to Melvin)
 * In Marik's Evil Council of Doom 4:

Steve Umbris: Ha ha, I'd like to see him try.

Steve Luna: Yes, I too would like to see him attempt to murder us.

(both Steves are killed offscreen by Melvin)"

"Hans: In ze mean time we invite you to look at the city below which will soon be demolished to make room for Herr Kaiba's glorious utopian society. HEIL KAIBA! LONG LIVE ZE MASTER RACE!""
 * That's What She Said: In the Abridged movie, the first Christmas special, What Would Yugi Do? (twice in the same line), and once out-of-universe.
 * Thememobile: Averted. There isn't a Mokubamobile.
 * They Should Have Sent a Poet: Yami's literal reaction to meeting Duke in the clip show episode
 * Thing-O-Meter: The jiggleometer, which rates the level of the breasts on screen in episode 49.
 * Third Person Person:
 * Johnny Steps, the egotistical DDR player. He does this to a lesser extent in the original Yu-Gi-Oh, as well.
 * Duke Devlin also does this sometimes.
 * Third-Person Flashback: This lampshaded this trope occasionally, even making fun of how Tèa was somehow able to remember something when she was unconscious.
 * This Cannot Be!: "This can't be happening... in America!"
 * This Is for Emphasis, Bitch: Mixes this meme with Portal. "The cake is a lie, bitch!"
 * Those Wacky Nazis: Kaiba's bodyguards Hans and Gruber in episode 39. He asks them to tone it down, and they respond with a resounding "Ja, mein Führer!"

"Singapore!Pharaoh (In an over-the-top "Surfer" voice): Dude, Yugi! I think Tea wants to date you! You should wear one of those awesome silver bracelets! Now let's get on our mondo-awesome skateboards and order some bodacious pizza!
 * Totally Radical: The "Singapore Dub", which deeply unsettled Joey.

Singapore!Yugi (Same accent): Tubular idea, Pharaoh!

(We cut back to Joey)

Joey: Geez, and people say MY accent is inappropriate!"

"Bakura: So, you are the source of the gay signal I've been tracking! Though I probably could have deduced that without the use of my Gaydar. It seems we both ha-
 * Tradesnark: "With my all new DUEL DISK SYSTEM!... Trademark."
 * Transparent Closet:
 * Marik, at least in episode 33.

Marik: What? Whoa, whoa, hold on now! You think that I'm... Look, I'll have you know that I like women!

Bakura: No doubt. That's probably why you've dressed yourself like one."


 * Afterwards he's fluctuated between this and Ambiguously Gay. But seriously, he likes to dress effeminately, hang around with another extremely attractive man, read yaoi, flaunt his godlike abs, and stroke a phallic symbol suggestively in every other scene.
 * Marik actually  in the 6th Bloodlines video. Of course, when Bakura asks him about this, Marik completely denies it.
 * Trap Door: "I learned this trick from watching Excel Saga!"
 * Troll: Mocked in episode 48 and are told to go back to 4Chan.
 * True Companions:
 * Mercilessly parodied, especially since Tea serves only two purposes in the show 1. Love Interest and 2. talking about friendship.
 * "I've been holding in the biggest friendship speech of my life, and now you're going to listen to it!" Episode 25, at 5:54
 * Tuckerization:
 * Slifer the Executive Producer
 * "I hunger!"

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"Dartz: "We gunna duuuueh heeeem!"
 * Uncanny Family Resemblance: Espa Roba's brothers all looking and sounding identical to him is poked at. Handwaved by them being inbred carnival folk.
 * Unfortunate Name: Yami Bakura reveals that his parents wanted to call him "Florence". Interestingly, it becomes his canonical name later on.
 * The Unintelligible:
 * Zombie Boy, who can only say (and write) the word "brains." Or does he?
 * And now Dartz. His latest plan for vengeance on Marik?

Raphael: "Did... did you say 'do' or 'duel'?"

Dartz: "Duuuuuuuuuueh!""

"Marik (doing a roll call of villains): And finally, Ak... Ak-Ak-Akhun... how do you pronounce this? Akhuna... Hakuna Matata? Look, I'm just going to call you Bob, okay?
 * Akhenaden from Marik's Evil Council of Doom:

Bob: * mumble* * mumble* * mumble* "

"Dartz: We're going to find Yu-gay Mow-tow...and take his dehck.
 * Dartz again in the fourth Evil Council video:

[...]

Zombie Boy: Ehh...is he saying "deck" or "d[bleep]ck"?

Valon: Eh, sometimes it's best not to ask."

"Yugi: Whenever Kaiba smiles, a puppy dies."
 * Unishment: Crump's fate at the end of Episode 54.
 * Unsound Effect: *twinkle*
 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: What, after the death of Yugi, does Florence want the most? For Marik/Melvin to ask him out. In Marik's Evil Council 4, Melvin actually does so, declaring that he is now his boyfriend and they will go out "ten times." This, coupled with  and the   causes Florence to joyfully declare it to be the happiest day of his life; of course, it was
 * The Un-Smile: Episode 19. Out of context, a pleasant natural-looking smile. But given who was wearing it...

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"Gay Clown: Actually, I'm not a clown. I'm Seto Kaiba's evil side brought back from the Shadow Realm by Pegasus--
 * Values Dissonance - In-Universe example. Yugi is horrified when he learns about Slavemas from Yami.
 * Verbal Tic:
 * Joey's "Nyeah." Turns out that he's completely unaware of himself doing it, even after singing the opening theme entirely in Nyeahs. Turns into Fridge Brilliance when you remember the time he tried to make "Brooklyn Rage!" a catch phrase. Yugi told him to just stick saying "Nyeah" and he responds with a "Nyeah" said in a manner that suggests he doesn't know what Yugi is talking about. A whiff of a Suspiciously Specific Denial in there too. When he said "I still don't hear anything" after the opening theme in question, nobody had said "you're still doing it".
 * Attention Duelists! Kimo and Bandit Keith each have one... IN AMERICA!
 * Very Special Episode: In Episode 17, an advertisement is shown for a Very Special Episode of Zorc And Pals.
 * Villain Episode: Episode 37 is based around Florence. Yugi is only mentioned in one scene.
 * Villainous Crossdresser: It's not Florence's fault his parents dressed him like a girl, but he's definitely a villain.
 * Villain Song:
 * Melvin takes it to new heights.
 * Then Kaiba and Normal Marik take it a notch higher, and UNCENSORED.
 * Zorc isn't allowed to destroy the world anymore. However, he is allowed to make a song about it.
 * Vocal Evolution: Obviously. Also lampshaded when Little Kuriboh uploaded a redubbed version of Episode 1. Compare the original to the redub.
 * Voice for The Voiceless: Mako Tsunami, for the ocean.
 * Voodoo Shark: From episode 7:

Yami: That's even less believable than the whole ghost story! You don't even know what you are, do you?

Gay Clown: No.

Yami: Didn't think so. MIND CRUSH!"

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"Yugi: It finally happened, he went up to that great big basement in the sky."
 * We Could Have Avoided All This:
 * "I killed a gay clown, for Ra's sake!"
 * "This was so avoidable!"
 * We Only Have One Chance: Yugi discovers the Eye of Anubis in the Abridged Movie and says this.
 * Went to The Great X In The Sky: After Yugi's grandpa dies.


 * Wham Episode: Season 0's second episode takes a turn for the "WHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?" as not only is Kaiba an actually nice guy, . Lampshaded soon after it ends with the song "Everything You Know Is Wrong."
 * Wham Line: Bandit Keith in episode 23:

"Yugi: Marik, you find! Why must you use innocent people in your evil scheme?
 * What Happened to The Mouse?:
 * Bandit Keith steals one of Joey's cards. It is never brought up again.
 * Akhnadin (or "Bob") vanishes after the first Evil Council meeting. True to form the series lampshades and Hand Waves this with Steve Lunar mentioning sacrificing him in Evil Council 3, and Bakura's Continuity Nod to his off-screen death in Evil Council 4.
 * What Measure Is a Mook?: Brought up in episode 32:

Marik/Steve the Mime: Innocent?! Are you kidding me?! He's got piercings all over his body. You've got to be pretty {EFF} to agree to something like that!

Yugi: He's still a human being!

Marik/Steve the Mime: He's also a mime.

Yugi: Oh. Well, in that case, yeah, I'll kick his ass."

"Dark Magician Girl: Why do we actually get to talk in this movie?
 * What The Hell, Sister?: Yugi tells off Ishizu after she explains Marik's backstory, as it's pretty much her and their father's fault for screwing him up.
 * Where Are They Now? Epilogue: Seen during the end credits of Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Movie.
 * Who Writes This Crap?: "Actual 4Kids Dialog", "Does JJ Abrams write for this show?"
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl:
 * Seto Kaiba's totally hot dragon girlfriend from the distant future.
 * Florence
 * Why Don't You Marry It:
 * Yami mocks Seto for his dragon obsession.
 * "Why don't you marry the pharaoh if you love him so much?" "Maybe I will!"
 * Mako Tsunami married the ocean; then they divorced and later got back together.
 * Witch With a Capital B: "You just brought sexy back for the last time, witch!"
 * A Wizard Did It: From Bonds Beyond Time Abridged, when Dark Magician Girl and Dark Magician are Suddenly Voiced:

Dark Magician: A wizard did it!"

"Kaiba: Well that was highly improbable."
 * Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: In episode 52, a possessed Tristan wielding a bokken instantly defeats Kaiba wielding a heavy steel pipe, sending the latter weapon flying through the air.

"Archaeologist 1: The pyramid's collapsing! And I had such a full life ahead of me!
 * Worked Shoot: Kaiba's rant in The Movie (complete with subtitles indicating that Kaiba was going way off-script)
 * Worst Whatever Ever: Invoked in the movie:

Archaeologist 2: Run away! Run away!

Archaeologist 3: This is the worst honeymoon ever!"

X

 * X Days Since: "X days since last Godzilla attack."

Y
"Joey: You duel like a dairy farmer.
 * You Are Too Late: Shadi in Episode 45. He arrives twice to "warn" Marik and Ishizu about stuff that's already happened.
 * You Fight Like a Cow:

Kaiba: How appropriate. You duel like a cow."

"Bakura: "I spy with my little eye something beginning with I. It's your eye."
 * You Make Me Sic: During the clip show:

Pegasus: "But that doesn't start with --" *splorch*"

"Grandpa (episode 1): That Kaiba kid needs to get laid.
 * You Meddling Kids: "Don't you even think of making a Scooby Doo reference!"
 * You Need to Get Laid:
 * This:

Tristan: Big time.

Kaiba's computer (episode 7): You really do need to get laid.

Bakura (episode 14): That Kaiba bloke needs to get shagged."


 * Apparently, he has gotten laid.
 * You Will Be Spared: Mr. Tweetums, Joey.
 * Your Costume Needs Work: Marik's Evil Council 3: Marik says this to Bakura despite him knowing it was Bakura. The Evil Council is meeting near an anime convention, thus everyone would assume they're cosplayers.
 * Your Head Asplode: "Think Scanners"