Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series/Tropes A To H: Difference between revisions

== A ==

* [[The Abridged Series]]: As a birthday present, the YouTube user 1KidsEntertainment made [[Little Kuriboh]] an episode of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9ANlJENgtY Yu-Gi-Oh! the Abridged Series the Abridged Series].

{{quote|'''[[Little Kuriboh]]''': Did I just abridge my own series?}}

* [[Accidental Pervert]]:

** Yet another is made in episode 31. The little boy who thinks he's Ash from Pokemon is a reference to the fact [[Veronica Taylor]] voiced the same character...and didn't even bother changing the inflection she used for Ash whatsoever.

** Variation in the redubbed ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' opening spoof teaser in episode 32 - most of the characters get vaguely appropriate ''Abridged'' voices mapped to theirs, but Geordi Laforge gets [[Vocal Dissonance]] as he has the same voice as Serenity - a reference to them both being blind.

** In the Episode 38 post credits gag, we see [[Film/Howls Moving Castle|Howl]] doing Christian Bale's infamous on-set rant.

** And then in Marik's Evil Council 3, Marik sends [[Dan Green]] to get Yugi's Millennium Puzzle.

** In Episode 47, one of the Big Five, formerly voiced by GanXingba, claims that now that ''Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged'' is cancelled, children will have to make do with watching ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' reruns for anime. When Kaiba points out that Avatar isn't an anime, he responds "It might as well be." GanXingba does [[Avatar: The Abridged Series]], one of the most successful non-anime [[Abridged Series]].

* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: In episode 15, during Tea's duel with Mai, Tea says "I'm gonna beat your bleach blond butt back to boobieland!"

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: As Tristan says, "Don't our parents even care that we're missing?"

* [[Affably Evil]]:

** Marik. For an evil villain, he's awfully funny and polite. Melvin, however, is a bastard.

** And Bakura's gaydar points to Yami's (fabulous) puzzle. However, Yami has implied at various points in the series either Homosexuality or Bi-sexuality and seems to be driven toward the latter as the series goes on.

{{quote|'''Yami''': If you're a ghost, then I'm straight. {{spoiler|(It's not a ghost - just a gay clown.)}}}}

{{quote|'''Yami and Yugi in unison''': Wonder Twin powers: activate. Form of: an Egyptian homosexual.}}

*** Yet later on:

''(quick cut to the present day)''

'''Modern Day Kaiba:''' "Huh. Now that was just weird. I should probably cut down on the drugs." }}

{{quote|'''Kaiba:''' "[[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|My affluence makes a nonsense of the regulations!]]"}}

** Episode 46 has two different scenes done as original Flash-style animations. One is a lightsaber duel between Florence and Melvin (done by trainerBAM), and the other is a parody of [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]], co-starring Zorc (done by Kirbopher, who voices Noah).

* [[Badass Boast]]: In Episode 47, Kaiba threatens the Big Five by saying "Fool me once (Big Five teaming up with Pegasus), shame on you. Fool me twice (Virtual World), shame on me. Fool me three times, you're gonna get curbstomped by Seto Kaiba."

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Mentioned in Episode 44 when Joey and Tristan talk about how they didn't think Kaiba's coat could get any more badass than it already was.

{{quote|Prepare for trouble!

And make it double!

** Happens again in {{spoiler|Episode 49, in a surprise deviation from the source material's plot.}}

* [[Beam-O-War]]: "Ancient Egyptian Laser Beams".

** This:

{{quote|'''Kaiba''': "Are you trying to tell me that Yugi and I are destined to play card games with each other for eternity?"

{{quote|'''Marik''': Don't worry, Bakura! This is the part where Yugi shows up and saves everybody from certain damnation...! Any minute now!}}

* [[Big No]]:

** Tristan gets another one much later when he discovers {{spoiler|his conversion into a robot monkey}}.

** Marik lets out a particularly long one when he realizes that he no longer has a tan in Marik plays Bloodlines 2.

* [[Borrowed Catchphrase]]: The effect of Joey using the Copycat card.

* [[Bow Chicka Wow Wow]]: Teá does it once.

** There ''is'' no fourth wall! Joey and Tristan complain Little Kuriboh takes so long to post new videos, Bakura's [[Running Gag]] is that he's a minor character and nobody remembers him, and characters in general know fully they're characters in an internet spoof of the original anime.

** In fact, according to Episode 41, Shadi's job is to protect the fourth wall because, if it was broken, bad things would happen. Shadi himself [[Lampshade Hanging|acknowledges]] how much he sucks at it by sarcastically commenting "Great success!"

** Episode 53 has Joey losing control of a truck, with his sister screaming "Apply the hand brake, you moron!" In an early flashback, Joey was teaching Serenity to drive and yelled as she lost control, "Apply the hand brake, you dumb broad!"

** In Episode 11, Yami states that he "looks damn good in a tutu." A picture in episode 53 has Seto concur.

** Remember Serenity trying to drive a car? {{spoiler|Turns out that she ran over Noah.}}

* [[Camp Straight]]: Pegasus.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]:

** Kaiba's duel robot is [[Portal (series)|GlaDOS]], the Exodia Rare Hunter is Marvin The Martian, virtual Kuriboh is Action Hot Dog, and Weevil and Rex are [[Beavis and Butthead]].

'''Mai''': And now I'm going to summon it!

'''Kaiba (offscreen)''': Finally, jeez! }}

** Possibly Ishizu with the giant rock.

** Yusei and his D-Wheel, which he refers to as his girlfriend.

** And of course, Mako and the Ocean... then the Aquarium... then back to the Ocean.

** Kaiba has looked into marrying the Blue Eyes White Dragon.

* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: You know that gag back in Season 1 where Joey was teaching Serenity how to drive?<ref>"Joey, stop this crazy thing!" "Apply the handbrake, you dumb broad!"</ref> {{spoiler|Yeah, that killed Noah according to "They Saved Tristan's Brain."}}

* [[Bob From Accounting|Chad From Accounting]]

* [[Character Exaggeration]]: Everybody, and it's just funnier that way.

* [[Chew Bubblegum]]:

** "I'm here to kick ass and play card games, and I'm all out of cards." Yugi immediately gives Kaiba his deck back however. A couple of other variations on the line are used.

* [[Christmas Special]]: Three of them. One is a Christmas Carol spoof starring Kaiba. The second is... something else. Let's put it this way: half of it tells the tale of "Slavemas" by means of an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''. The third is the story of the birth of Jesus, as told by [[Abusive Dad|Hank]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ishtar.]]

* [[Circle of Friendship]]: Parodied. "Téa...is that permanent marker?"

'''Yugi:''' Look, we're not intimidated by your silly behavio-

'''Melvin:''' I am the king!

'''Melvin:''' [[Catch Phrase|Binky-boy.]] }}

* [[Compensating for Something]]: Kaiba.

{{quote|'''Kaiba:''' Quiet Mokuba! [[Take That|I'm busy flagging]] [[YouTube]] [[Take That|videos to compensate for the fact that I have an extremely small penis!]]}}

* [[Conveniently Empty Building|Conveniently Empty City]]: Jaden points this out as he is being attacked by the main villain of the ''Bonds Beyond Time Abridged'' movie.

{{quote|'''Jaden:''' It's a good thing Venice is apparently '''''empty'''''! Or that might've been kind of dangerous.}}

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: In Episode 46, the members of the 4Kids board all have different ideas about what to do with the cast now that {{spoiler|the show has been canceled}}. Death by drowning! Death by robots! Death by justice! Death by bad publicity! ''Death by penguins!'' Also [[Fridge Brilliance]]/[[Foreshadowing]] if you remember what Deck Masters the five use in the Virtual World arc. Yes, one of them uses a penguin monster.

* [[Couch Gag]]: Yami's opening line is often a quick one-liner, and as of Episode 35 the cards flying across the screen bear different pictures.

* [[Crack Pairing]]: In-Universe. "Téa ships [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry/Hedwig]], by the way."

* [[Crossover]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj6F_piB_HE&feature=sub This video], with {{spoiler|''[[The Slender Man Mythos]]''.}} Just as ludicrous as it sounds.

{{quote|'''Téa''': "[[American Pie|And then this one time at duel camp I put my deck in my]]" --<br />

'''Yugi''': "Hey, what's that?" }}

** It happened to them again in the clip show episode.

** See also [[Last-Second Word Swap]], below.

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]:

** A few of the episodes revolve around Joey, Bakura and others wanting to kill Yugi (or at least get him out of the way) so that ''they'' can [[Hostile Show Takeover|become the main characters]].

** And episode 37 revolves entirely around Bakura. "It's the, Bakura Show. He is, EVIL." So it was his [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Day In The Limeylight]]?

** Very much [[Lampshaded]] in episode five.

{{quote|'''Bakura''': "Here's my favorite card." ''(Holds up a card with a picture of [[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]] to [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ave Satani]].)'' "Oops, wrong one!"}}

** Marik completely screws this one up but Yugi and his friends are so oblivious they don't even notice it.

{{quote|'''Marik''': ''(In front of Joey and Téa)'' "Those fools have no idea that it is really I, the evil Marik Ishtar, who plans to turn them against their best friend, Yugi Moto, so that I can rule the world! "

'''Joey''': "Malik, we can kinda hear everything you're saying."

** Crump.

** Also Grampa, after what Yugi presumably witnesses: X-rated acts by his senile grandfather to a poster of the Black Luster Soldier.

* [[Distress Ball]]: Mokuba. Also in the original, but naturally the abridged series [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the hell out of it.

* [[The Ditz]]: Tristan. Sometimes Joey... but mostly Tristan. And his voice.

** Episode 53 has this:

{{quote|'''Marik:''' (after {{spoiler|he evicts Crump from Tea's mind}}) Oh yeah! I'm still the man...who just looks like a woman.}}

{{quote|'''Joey''': Yug I don't know to tell you this but Marik's a guy.

'''Yami''': What? That's crazy!

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: ''Hi, there. Could I get a hug?'' "I don't see why not..."

* [[Grand Theft Me]]:

** Happens in episode 49, whereCrump the Tuxedo-Wearing Penguin hijacks Tea's body. Later on he discovers that Marik has already done this to Tea himself and gets kicked out.

** Tristan when his body gets hijacked by the Big Five

* [[Gratuitous French]]: Used and Lampshaded in [[Lady Gaga|Leather]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Pants]]: ''Je voudrais son/Pantalon cuir/Son pantalon<ref>(I want his/leather pants/his pants)</ref>/Why am I speaking French?/Why am I speaking French?/I don't wanna be French

* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]:

** Also, Marik calls Florence "aibō" at one point, and when Florence presses him on it, Marik [[Lampshade Hanging|explains]] [[Ho Yay|that he thinks it means "gay"]]. It actually means "partner", but not necessarily in a sexual way, so he wasn't far off the mark. The real humor is in the fact Yami (in the original Japanese and [[Gratuitous Japanese|far too many fanfics]]) refers to Yugi as this.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Mokuba suggests this to Kaiba when Ishisu turns his strategy against him.

'''Marik''': "[[Evil Laugh|Wahahaha!]] Destroy you all!"<br />

'''Joey, thinking''': "Man, if I could only put my finger on it..." }}

* [[How the Character Stole Christmas]]: "How the Thief King Stole Slavemas"

* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: Grandpa uses one of these in the season zero episode.

** "Bullying is just wrong! Destroying people's brains with magical powers is A-OK!"

** Seto Kaiba to Mokuba, while they're both flying on Seto's two-passenger jet plane: "Mokuba, you're making us look ridiculous. Now please! Let me concentrate on flying my giant dragon-shaped jet plane."

** In the ''Bonds Beyond Time'' movie, [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yusei]] asked every other Yu-gi-oh protagonist what is wrong with their hair.

** Yami makes fun of Kaiba for having a Watapon card in his deck, in the actual series, Watapon is a card Yugi uses in his own deck regularly.