"Hey! Remember when Bakura used to be in this show? Neither do I!"
-Yami Yugi
Tropes
- Badass Biker: Tristan is suddenly one because he claims that the future is card games on motorbikes, which would just be silly.(Tristan shows up on a motorbike while "Bad to the Bone" plays)
Yugi: Tristan, I'm going to regret asking this, but why are you on a motorbike?
Tristan: Because in the future, card games will be played on motorbikes!
Yugi: That is the stupidest thing that's ever come out of your mouth. Card games on motorbikes — come on!
(cut to a poster of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds while "O Fortuna" plays) - Berserk Button: Joey flies into a rage when his duelist profile instead plays the Rick Astley music video "Never Gonna Give You Up".Joey: Dat bastard Kaiba rickroll'd me!
- Distinction Without a Difference: When Joey points out that Tristan wants to get into Serenity's pants, Tristan resorts back by saying he wants to have sex with her before realizing that's what Joey meant.
- Dub-Induced Plot Hole: Because it involved punching someone, 4Kids edited out the scene where Tristan found Joey, so it comes off as if Joey just magically appeared.Tristan: (zooms right past Yugi and Téa) HeyguysIfoundJoeybye!
- Larynx Dissonance: Young, beautiful Serenity happens to posses one of the most annoying voices ever devised by mankind.
- Ominous Latin Chanting: A poster for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds is accompanied by "O Fortuna".
- Planet of Steves: All of the Rare Hunters are named Steve.
- Running Gag: People calling Joey a "selfish bastard."
- Shortcuts Make Long Delays: Joey's stupid decision to cut through a string of dark alleyways at night in order to get to his sister's operation on time goes about as well as you'd expect.
- Shout-Out:
- Tristan thinks everyone turns into The Incredible Hulk when angry.
- When Joey gets his new duel disk, the "item get" theme from The Legend of Zelda plays.
- The Rare Hunter's Exodia uses the shoop-da-whoop sound effect from The Lazer Collection.
- The voice of one of the Rare Hunters is an exact imitation of Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes.
- Viewer Gender Confusion: In-Universe; Joey and Serenity's mother has an incredibly masculine voice (even by this series's standards since LK voices everyone) to the point where Serenity actually refers to her as "Daddy".
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The Rare Hunters follow the typical Yu-Gi-Oh! model of settling disputes with card games rather than, say, physically overpowering a near defenseless teen.
