Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series/Headscratchers

"Tristan: Idontbelieveyou!"
 * What is Dartz's accent supposed to be? I keep thinking it's Canadian (because it strongly reminds me of a Canadian-French accent used in English).
 * Pretty sure it's supposed to be hilarious.
 * It's the thickest Cajun accent ever conceived.
 * Isn't it based off of someone from Perfect Hair Forever?
 * Why is it Ishizu has trouble with a Professor Layton puzzle if she can see the future?
 * Because shut up.
 * Because she didn't have hint coins money, and thus was not able to cheat.
 * Isn't it obvious? She never solves it!
 * Because she refuses to use her powers to cheat. What's the point of playing the game if you just look up all the answers?
 * Stable Time Loop shenanigans! The reason she cannot see into the future to see the answer is if she does then where does that answer come from? It never existed because she never figured it out, and therefore cannot look into the future for it. As for her using her powers to cheat, I think you give her too much credit. I bet she ended up looking it up on Game FAQs.
 * Yep. Seeing into the future won't do her much good if she never solves it in the first place. Like Y Ruler Of Time said on Prince of Tennis: "I will now use my power to predict the result of this match! [Beat] I predict that I will lose. Crap!"
 * Layton is just THAT hard/
 * Atem says that Slifer the Executive Producer makes Kaiba's ego look positively minuscule. Kaiba also says that his Duel Blimp TM is roughly a third the size of his ego. When Atem summons Slifer against Bakura, Slifer isn't all that much bigger than the blimp. For that matter, Kaiba says that no building in the world can contain his ego, but in Episode 47 he notes that Phallic Symbol Island is the only building in the world that can contain his ego. So, larger ego as the plot demands?
 * Slifer making Kaiba's ego look miniscule could be due to the fact that the card is named so because Slifer the Sky Dragon was renamed from Osiris the Sky Dragon by Slifer the...Executive Producer. The audacity of that move is why the comment is made. It's not Slifer's size that makes Kaiba's ego look small...it's his ego!
 * Does anyone else think that YGOTAS's constant referring to Duel Monsters as a children's card game is rendered moot by the main cast's ages? Yugi and his friends are high-schoolers, Kaiba is clearly an adult and the president of a company based around said card game, and the Pharaoh is, what, 3000+?
 * that's the joke you know...
 * This. The joke is that adults are getting so freaking worked up over a children's card game.
 * Kaiba is a teenager, he's in school in episode 1.
 * I have come to the conclusion that Little Kuriboh is saying (maybe not intentional) that people saying those things have the same logical process as the characters in the series.
 * The other thing is that we barely see adults playing the game when it's not about some forces of darkness. I think Little Kuriboh makes fun of it in one of the very first episodes. How many adults were there on Pegasus's island? The majority of participants were children!
 * Because the game itself is a children's card game. He's mocking both the shows insane in game logic and the adults who play it.
 * And the fact that the fate of world as we know it is often decided by a Children's card game.
 * Alternatively, it could lampshade the absurdity of framing a system for conducting Shadow Games as a card game marketed to children. Seriously, Pegasus found stone tablets that ancient Egyptians used to gamble with their souls and copied them onto playing cards and sold them to children.
 * So... Is his (Yami Bakura) name Florence or not?! The exact line is "Did you know they wanted to call me Florence? Who names a boy Florence?". But it seems like Florence is the most commonly used name for him. It is quite confusing.
 * As I understand it, Florence is like a more bitter (on account of the fact people only call him that to piss him off) but less evil version of the character. Bakura is sort of evil, but more preoccupied with being sexy and Very British.
 * More importantly, that wasn't originally supposed to be his name; the fandom latched onto it for some reason and Little Kuriboh just went with it.
 * If Kaiba is really a robot built by Frieza thousands of years ago, how come he has a childhood?
 * He's a Ridiculously Human Robot with nanites to assimilate organic matter he eats and convert it to components; he began small for infiltration purposes.
 * The Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future says himself that he could probably explain away any inconsistencies.
 * ...If you would give him about 10 minutes...
 * On the other hand, in the source material, the Ghost is a notorious liar (or possibly just insane).
 * Tea makes a comment about Tristan eventually getting his own episode as a robot monkey. How did she know the series was going to be cancelled and that would happen?
 * The same way Yugi knows that Yami's real name is Atem. Rule of Funny.
 * Actually there was no way she could have known that even if she looked ahead at the script (which is presumably where all the other characters get their knowledge). She was also technically lying because the show was going to be cancelled and Tristan can not be the star of an episode of a cancelled series.
 * Still falls under Rule of Funny anyway.
 * Tristan, in one episode, asks what sex is. Joey and Tea refuse to tell him, because they "mustn't let Tristan breed." However, earlier in the series, he suggests that he and Tea have sex to foil Pegasus's need for a virgin sacrifice. He also, later in the series, seems to have a pretty good grasp of sex. Why does he not understand it for that single episode?
 * Because he's Tristan.
 * Or he just wanted to hear Tea explain sex.
 * Apparently bad things happen when the fourth wall breaks. This is demonstrated in episode 46, when the wall breaks and bad things happen. But the fourth wall on this show is broken all the damn time, with no ill effects.
 * Different fourth walls?
 * There are five walls.
 * We could argue that there's the one wall between the viewer (us) and the show, and an in-universe wall between the show and the "producers" (the big five). So, it's fine.
 * My theory? There are SIX walls. Like, instead of a square, there's a cube?
 * But then the fourth wall's already part of a cube. Since the fourth wall is based on a room that has three walls, a floor, and a ceiling, the fourth wall is one of six 'walls'...
 * THERE! ARE! FOUR! WALLS!
 * Specifically, the ceiling, since it was apparently what was separating them from the "higher-ups" i.e. The Big Five.
 * The outer fourth wall gets broken with no ill effects. Bad stuff happens when the inner fourth wall breaks.
 * Wait. Bad things aren't constantly happening?
 * Do they know they are in a bleeding online series or not? They act like the latter a lot, bit then they keep acting like they are in the anime...oh dear, I've gone cross eyed.
 * MST3K Mantra
 * Why isn't Joey in the YGO-The Cancelled Series' opening credits? Everyone else is there, so why leave him out in particular?
 * Because this season is going to focus on Kaiba, and he wouldn't want him in the opening credits?
 * Actually he is in the opening. If you pause right after Kaiba appears, you can see part of his hair and t-shirt behind Kaiba.
 * Why the "Dreamworks rips off Pixar" in episode 52? Dreamworks hasn't ripped off Pixar for years but the show treated its later releases like Kung Fu Panda and Monsters vs. Aliens as ripoffs.
 * If it helps, that scene takes place several years in the past.
 * And yet there's a Kung Fu Panda poster on the president of Dreamworks' wall...
 * Same reason everything that happens in this series...RuleOfFunny.
 * In episode 52, I know it's Rule of Funny, but there's a part where Yugi can't remember Duke's name... Despite the fact he said it about 20 seconds earlier at the frickin' start of the same conversation. It just bugs me is all.
 * Happens to me all the time. I suddenly can't grasp the name of someone I've know for years, and the harder you try to remember the more difficult it is to recall. It's weird but it actually does happen to some people.
 * Am I the only one who finds it a little tragic that Ghost Nappa doesn't think of his own son as anything more than a rare Pokemon, ripe for catching?
 * Well almost everyone treats Mokuba that way.
 * But wait! He says that in order to get Mokuba he'll use a master ball (which is irreplaceable and priceless), so maybe he cares after all!
 * Okay, I am very confused. Did Tea  I originally thought it was the latter, but I've heard people say it's the former.
 * No,
 * Anyone else find it hypocritical for Little Kuriboh to jab at Naruto the Abridged movie for taking long when his version of the Anniversary movie is taking just as long? Or is that the joke?
 * The thing is that he had to wait for the DVD for it to come out. He definitely made the announcement for it early, but that was when the Anniversary movie had only released its trailer. Its Japanese trailer. It's gonna take a while before the English DVD comes out, while the first Naruto movie has obviously been out for many years.
 * Either way, he shouldn't insult Vegeta 3986 knowing full-well that he announced something years before it could come out, and let's not forget Project Revolution. "Coming Late 2010." Riiiiiiiight.

"Jaden: Can I ride your bike?
 * I kinda think that's part of the joke. Abridgers take jabs at each other all the time. LK even takes jabs at Team Four Star sometimes...even though he IS a part of Team Four Star.
 * Did anyone else think the "I am a woman and I have no idea what I'm doing" joke was pretty unfair? It's pointed out that 4Kids changed Tea's line about using "women's intuition" into "I have no idea what I'm doing", but that seems like a change to make it more feminist. "Women's intuition" is basically a way of handwaving away women's intelligence by attributing it to some sort of instinct, which is pretty sexist. By contrast, one particular woman choosing which way to go completely at random seems much more progressive.
 * There was no way to tell which tunnel was correct. The fact that because 4Kids didn't say that she had psychic woman powers, Little Kuriboh thought they were being sexist ruined an otherwise good episode.
 * Listen to the way she delivers it in the episode proper: She comes off as rather dopey and stupid when she says "I have no idea what I'm doing." Besides, that joke gave us the golden "I have no idea what a baby is, because I am a woman!"
 * Why was Paradox in Venice?
 * Because...shut up.
 * Because Jaden was there. Why was Jaden there? No one knows.
 * Jaden was in Venice because he was on vacation.
 * Apparently not for vacation if this scene is any indication...Jaden has no clue why they're there. (note this scene came up AFTER Jaden claimed he was there on vacation)

Yusei: I already told you no!

Jaden: Oh come on, it'll be fun! :D

Yusei: I'll let you ride my bike if you can tell me one thing.

Jaden: Sure, ask away.

Yusei: Why are we in Venice?


 * beat*

Jaden: F*ck it...you win!

Yusei: Always do..."


 * Keep in mind that the movie does have its head up its own anus. Which is why we don't question what attacking Jaden with a dragon has to do with killing Pegasus.
 * Same reason he attacked Yusei? To steal Jaden's trading card? (even though he got his own card back)....yeah this movie does have it's head up its own anus, but maybe...uhh? Because Jaden is a Pwotagonist...and Paradox is the villian of the movie?
 * Well it's the same question there too. There's no reason to go to any timeline other than Pegasus's if he was the ultimate goal.
 * Speaking of the jabs at Naruto the abridged series, why Little Kuriboh makes a jab at Naruto the abridged movie? For all I know, there is only one part (I saw part 2 through 4, yet it's obviously made by someone else (no not the Little Kuriboh one) and there is also hbi2K's version) is it justified because of Vegeta3986's laziness or I missed a joke about it?
 * I believe it's already been said, but the abridge guys all poke fun at each other all the time. I don't think it honestly matters who he's making the jab at, because it's just all in good fun. These guys just rip on each other for Rule of Funny. They have nothing against each other. Hell, in some episodes, Little Kuriboh mocks Team Four Star, and he's a PART of Team Four Star. He could be poking fun at either version, and it doesn't matter, the fellow abridgers know its just harmless teasing.
 * When Tea is possessed by a Big Five member, the guy keeps his own voice. But when Tristan is posessed, the posessor gets a demon version of Tristan's voice. Why?
 * Evil Tristan sounds the same as two episodes ago, when it was Nesbitt in his body calling himself Evil Tristan. Maybe Nesbitt was just the only one who dueled in the abridged series? In the very beginning, Gansley speaks with his voice for a bit. Then again, in that part he has the Nesbitt voice when Crump does that weird mouth thing and talks about penguins. Shit, maybe there really is an Evil Tristan?
 * Fridge Brilliance moment: Tristan's body was being possessed by Nesbitt, the robot guy. He would have a vocal synthesizer that would let him mimic Tristan's voice, while Crump is a penguin and has no such equipment.
 * Does the Milennium Rod also work on people called Stefan, Étienne, István, Steven, Stephanie, Estefanía, et al?
 * Am I the only one who thinks LK's Marik schtick is getting rather old? I used to enjoy it, but pretty much every line out of his mouth now is either how he's a poorly closeted homosexual, or how sexy he/his outfit looks. I pretty much spent most of the recent Evil Council video groaning because of this.