Recap / Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series S 2 E 7 The Not So Super Roba Bros

"The duelists you are about to see are trained professionals. Do not try this at home."

-Yami Yugi

Tropes

• Ambiguous Gender Identity: The episode opens with Serenity saying "And that's how I finally came to terms with my identity as a woman..."
• Anime Hair: Tea muses over whether she should get a haircut that doesn't make her look like a cardboard box.
• Badass Adorable: Mokuba takes out the bad guys in a surprisingly awesome way.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Rex's take on Miss Cleo.
  Rex: Miss Cleo's got big thingies.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: The cheating scheme by the Espa Roba brothers is quickly foiled by a conveniently placed Yami. Even though almost every duelist in the tournament is also a cheater.
• Moment Killer: Serenity is mid-Love Confession when Tristan barges back into her hospital room and loudly announces that he was taking a dump during the time that she thought he was listening to her.
• No Indoor Voice: The entire Espa Roba family.
• Noodle Incident: "...and that's when I finally came to terms with my identity as a woman."
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: Serenity assumes that when Tristan offers her "the best present ever" he's referring to a cure for her blindness. It's actually a computer.
• Self-Deprecation: People who try to propose over the internet are described as lonely deranged freaks, including LittleKuriboh.
• Shout-Out:
  • "Nyeh... what's up, buttmunch?"
  • Waldo shows up in a background shot.
  • Joey attempts to weaponize the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" dancing banana. Too bad Espa Roba can destroy outdated internet references. (The other references in Joey’s deck include “Chocolate Rain” and “O RLY?”).
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: "Or we could watch illegally downloaded movies! But nobody really does that. Honest."
• Take That!: Naruto: The Abridged Series is called out for thinking that the word "emo" constitutes a joke.
• Tangled Family Tree: It is theorized that all of the Espa Roba family look and speak exactly the same due to copious amounts of inbreeding.
• Waxing Lyrical: Joey quotes "You Spin Me Round" by Dead or Alive.