Recap / Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series S 2 E 24 Melvind

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Tropes:

• Acting for Two:invoked Finally gets referenced in the credits sequence where it shows all of the characters and their respective voice actors with LittleKuriboh being credited voicing as forty-four different characters.
• Any Last Words?: Melvin asks Bakura if he has any last remarks before the show is cancelled forever.
  Bakura: "Just the one. Tell my fangirls... I love them."
• Bad Impressionists: Marik tries to imitate Yami Yugi as a joke but he just ends up sounding like a constipated ghost.
  Marik: "OoooOOOOoooh the Celtic Guaaaaadiaaaan Yuuuugiiiii, oooOOOOOOooohhhh..."
• Big "SHUT UP!": Bakura quickly gets fed up with having to deal with both Marik and Melvin.
• Comically Missing the Point: Tea sees that Bakura has gone missing and rushes to tell Yugi... because there is now a vacant room for them to party in.
• Do I Really Sound Like That?: Bakura is not impressed with Melvin's extremely hammy introduction of their shadow game, and decides that he himself must have sounded like "a total wanker" when he did something similar back in season one.
• Fangirl: Bakura warns Melvin that his death would release a power far stronger than himself... his fangirls.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Marik uses "aibou" (which is Japanese for "partner" and also heavily associated with Yami/Yugi slash in Yu-Gi-Oh fanworks) while imitating Yami Yugi.
  Bakura: What the bloody hell does 'aibou' mean?!
  Marik: I think it's Japanese for "gay".
• Late to the Punchline: Marik finally understands and explains a joke Melvin made about Bakura wanting Marik inside of him... which happened in the previous episode.
• Like an Old Married Couple: Marik and Bakura's repeated squabbling just opens them up to more jokes of this sort from Melvin.
  Melvin: If you're done fighting with you girlfriend, we have a card game to finish.
  Bakura: He's not my girlfriend!
  Marik: You tell him, honey!
• New Powers as the Plot Demands:invoked Melvin's finishing attack on Bakura and Marik involves using Mega Ultra Chicken's secret ability to convert his Life Points into Attack Points. Something he had apparently just made up right then and there.
• Nominal Hero: Bakura faces off against the Big Bad to try to save the show from being cancelled. But only because he won't get the screentime promised in his contract if it is.
• Season Finale: The last episode of season 2.
• Series Fauxnale: The episode is treated as being the series finale, due to Melvin succeeding in getting the show cancelled. Then a caption reading "See you in season three" appears briefly in the last couple of seconds.
• Shout-Out:
  • "Once I beat you, your show will be cancelled faster than you can say 'created by Joss Whedon'"! Also doubles as a Take That! towards Fox for abruptly cancelling Firefly.
  • Zorc and Cody get a cameo on Hannah Montana, and end up accidentally murdering the title character.
  • The Big Five are listed in the credits as not being voiced by LittleKuriboh, even though he'd voiced them in earlier episodes. They then appear in The Stinger with new voices. This is similar to the credits for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, in which a voice actor for Big Boss is listed, even though they hadn't appeared yet.
  • "Stay on target!"
• Show Within a Show: Melvin questions why Bakura doesn't give up on YGOTAS and go to its Spinoff show, "Zorc and Pals". Bakura replies that Zorc and Pals was cancelled after Zorc got a job for another spinoff, "The Suite Life of Zorc and Cody".
• Sudden Musical Ending: In the face of defeat and possible death at the hands of Melvin, Marik and Bakura decide that there's only one thing left to do: sing a rendition of "Stand By Me".
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Marik assumes that Yugi will show up at the last second and save them, but Yugi is too busy partying.

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