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Main Series

Episode Titles

Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged is no stranger to Pop Culture Pun Episode Titles as shown by the sheer abundance of it:

Season 1

• Episode 2 - "Rocky VII" (The Rocky Series)
• Episode 3 "My Cards Will Go On" (My Heart Will Go On)
• Episode 4 - "Lord of the Cards" (Lord of the Flies^note Joey mistakingly thought it was The Lord of the Rings)
• Episode 5 - "My Funny Skankentine" (My Funny Valentine)
• Episode 6 - "Everybody Hates Mako" (Everybody Loves Raymond)
• Episode 8 - "The Plot Thinnens" (The Plot Thickens)
• Episode 10 - "Both Of You, Duel Like You Want To Win" ("Both of you, Dance like you want to win")
• Episode 12 - "Duel of the Dead" (Dawn of the Dead)
• Episode 13 - "Busted Rhymes" (Busta Rhymes)
• Episode 14 - "When Yami Met Sally" (When Harry Met Sally...)
• Episode 15 - "Duel of Fates" ("Duel of the Fates" from The Phantom Menace soundtrack)
• Episode 16 - "Turn Around, Bright Eyes" (A lyric from Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of My Heart")
• Episode 19 - "Jagshamesh!" (A play on one of Borat's catchphrases "Jagshemash!")
• Episode 20 - "The Rebexorcist" (The Exorcist)
• Episode 22 - "Shine On, You Crazy Devlin" (Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond")

Season 2

• Episode 23 - "Yami of Darkness" (Army of Darkness)
• Episode 25 - "Dirty Dueling" (Dirty Dancing)
• Episode 26 - "Mo' Money, Mo' Card Games" (The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Mo Money Mo Problems")
• Episode 27 - "She Blinded Me With Card Games" (Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science")
• Episode 28 - "Who's That Mokémon?" (Who's That Pokemon)
• Episode 29 - "The Not-So-Super Roba Bros." (Super Mario Bros.)
• Episode 30 - "Sore" (Saw)
• Episode 32 - "The Worst Of Both Worlds" (The Best of Both Worlds)
• Episode 34 - "Dork Side of the Moon" (Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon")
• Episode 35 - "A Tale of Two Tournies" (A Tale of Two Cities)
• Episode 36 - "The Man Who Would Be Steve" (The Man Who Would be King)
• Episode 37 - "Bakuhazard" (Biohazard) and initial title "Single White Shemale" (Single White Female)
• Episode 38 - "Magnum Farce" (Magnum Force)
• Episode 39 - "Card Games At 20,000 Feet" ("Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")
• Episode 41 - "Chenquieh!" (Another of Borat's catchphrases)
• Episode 40 - "Final Deathstination" (Final Destination)
• Episode 42 - "So Long & Thanks For All The Trading Cards" (So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)
• Episode 43 - "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mai" (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
• Episode 44 - "Ishizu Explains It All" (Clarissa Explains It All)
• Episode 46 - "Requiem For A Nyeh" (Requiem for a Dream)

Season 3

• Episode 48 - "Penguin Ex Machina" (Deus ex Machina)
• Episode 49 - "The Incredible Hobson" (The Incredible Hulk)
• Episode 50 - "Joey Wheeler Ace Attorney" (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
• Episode 52 - "Seto Kaiba vs. The World" (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World)
• Episode 53 - "O Mokuba, Where Art Thou?" (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
• Episode 54 - "They Saved Tristan's Brain" (They Saved Hitler's Brain)
• Episode 55 - "Stepbrother's Sin" (Stepmother's Sin)
• Episode 56 - "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Virtual World" (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
• Episode 57 - "Reservoir Steves" (Reservoir Dogs)
• Episode 58 - "Desperately Dueling Susan" (Desperately Seeking Susan)
• Episode 59 - "Crowd Atlas" (Cloud Atlas)
• Episode 60 - "How Kaiba Got His Groove Back" (How Stella Got Her Groove Back)
• Episode 61 - "Muerte Pinata" (Viva Piñata)
• Episode 63 - "Yu-Gi-Oh Kai!" (Dragon Ball Z Kai)

Season 4

• Episode 64 - "A New Evil Awises" (The Yu-Gi-Oh! episode "A New Evil Arises" in Abridged Datz's accent)
• Episode 65 - "Puzzled Shipping" (A play on PuzzleShipping, Yugi and Yami's ship name)
• Episode 69 - "Mad Mai" (Mad Max)
• Episode 70 - "A Convenient Truth" (An Inconvenient Truth)
• Episode 72 - "Rex & Weevil Do Atlantica" (Beavis And Butthead Do America)
• Episode 73 - "Throw Haga From The Train" (Throw Momma from the Train)
• Episode 75 - "Valley of the Duels" (Valley of the Dolls)
• Episode 76 - "Becky With The Good Deck" (Referring to "Becky with the good hair" in Beyoncé's "Sorry")
• Episode 77 - "Loopy In The Sky With Duel Disks" (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
• Episode 78 - "Binary Sunseto" ("Binary Sunset" from the Star Wars soundtrack)
• Episode 79 - "YGO Kiwami" (Yakuza Kiwami)
• Episode 80 - "Roof Raph" (Riff Raff)
• Episode 81 - "Rocks Fall, Everyone Duels" (Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies)

Season 5

• Episode 83 - "A Grand Day In" (A Grand Day Out)
• Episode 84 - "The Curious Case Of Ekaf Eman" (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
• Episode 85 - "BechDuel Test" (The Bechdel Test)

Season 1

Episode 1

• "Holy Ra, real monsters" is a reference to the cartoon Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.

Episode 2

• "What'choo talking about, Pegasus?"
• Yugi's grampa talks about cursed tapes and Pegasus says "Seven days!"
• Rex and Weevil's Beavis And Butthead-esque exchanges:
• "In tonight's episode, the part of Tristan Taylor will be played by Barney the Dinosaur."
• At one point in the Yugi/Pegasus duel we have a split screen 24 style complete with the clock and famous sound effect.

Episode 3

• "C'mon Tristan let's sneak on board this ship like Solid Snake."
• ♪ YOOOOOOOOORRRRE HEEEEEEAAAR, THERE'S NAAAAAAATHIN AAHH FEEEEAAHH... ♪
• In the flashback where Serenity moves away from Joey, she shouts "Joey, stop this crazy thing!" from the back of the vehicle.

Episode 4

• Téa mentions her limey senses are tingling.
• The Kill Bill montage, when Joey asks Yugi if he forgave him for stealing a part of his puzzle.
• When Tristan freaks out over evil rings and hobbits, Téa asks him why would those things be on the island.
• Weevil's transformation into Cornholio.

Episode 5

• When Joey plays Time Wizard, it does the Time Warp

Episode 6

• The title is "Everybody Hates Mako".
• The theme music that plays as Mokuba escapes a tower by tying his bedsheets together is strangely familiar.
• This fight sequence:
  Mullet Guy: Yes, but my hair gives me the power to defy gravity!
  Tristan: (falling to the ground) Oh, the humanity!
• The "Jeopardy" theme song plays to indicate an annoying and improbable time skip.
• "That is correct", spoken in the robotic, monotonic unison by Pegasus's group, is used by the Daleks.

Episode 7

• "Into the Kaiba cave!" while the theme song for the live-action Batman played in the background.
• "I learned how to hack by watching old episodes of Star Trek."
• "Bite my shiny metal ass!"

Episode 8

• "Time Roulette go!" as "The Power of Love" plays in the background.
• Bakura's favourite card is Sephiroth.
• In memory of Tristan's Voice: "Good night, sweet prince, and a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest".

Episode 9

• "All your puzzle are belong to me."
• "Do not want" is a reference to Star Wars The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West. This is the translation for Vader's Big "NO!" in Episode Three.
• After Bakura reveals a segment of "Zorc And Pals" and asks what Yami thinks of it, Yami says "I think you'll be taken off the air faster than you can say Arrested Development"!
• Right before Yugi uses Super Special Awesome Attack/Dark Magic Attack on Dark Bakura, Yami says "Finish him!"
• To Half-Life 2: "No, Tristan! He was the finest mind of his generation."

Episode 10

• The episode is titled "Both Of You, Duel Like You Want To Win." Wait a minute...
• In fact, the episode's opening is a parody of Cruel Angel's Thesis.
• Plenty of Shaft shout-outs here. When Yugi transforms to Yami, Shaft's theme song is used.
  " It's time to duel, sucker. Can you dig it?"
  • Also here:
  Joey: That Yugi's one bad mother-
  Téa and Tristan: Shut your mouth!
  Joey: I'm just talking about Yugi.
  Téa and Tristan: Then we can dig it.
• "I cast Magic Missile at the darkness!"

Episode 11

• "You duel like a dairy farmer!" "How appropriate. You duel like a cow."
• "That's going to cost you 599 U.S. life points," referring to the memetic uproar about the launch price of the PS3.
  "Riiiiidge Racer!!"
• "I'm here to kick ass and play card games, and I'm all out of cards."
• "I don't have time to waste with you scoobies."
• "Are you my mommy?"
• The episode's opening:
  Yami: Previously, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer... just kidding, it's only Yu-Gi-Oh.

Episode 12

• The episode gives us the main characters trying to run out a rolling boulder, set to the Katamari Damacy theme.
• Yugi: "Just remember your love for Serenity!"
  Joey: "You're right, that was my favourite Joss Whedon movie. This is for cancelling Firefly, you goth bastard!"
• Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him. In America!

Episode 13

• The following cartoon is based on real events. Some names were changed to protect the innocent.
• The appearance of the brothers Paradox is accompanied by the "YMCA" song.
• Leave It to Beaver Warrior!
• Kaiba Babies.
• "Make it so, Number One!"

Episode 14

• It is titled "When Yami Met Sally".
• Also Joey says "Get up on the hydra's back, Yug'!
• "I love the smell of card games in the morning!"
• "You know what they call a quarter-pounder in France? A Royale with cheese. It's all because of the metric system...
• "I'm afraid your princess is in another castle, Kaiba-boy."

Episode 15

• "Me love you, long time."
• More Star Wars references, such as:
  • "A long time ago, on an island far, far away ...", followed the classic Star Wars theme song and introduction.
  • "Pegasus's castle, you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
  • When Mai convinces Kemo to let Téa, Bakura and Tristan in.
  Mai: You don't need to see their identification.
  Kemo:I don't need to see their identification.
  Mai: These aren't the breasts you're looking for.
  Kemo: These aren't the breasts I'm looking for.
  • "The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master."
  • "That's no toon, that's a space station!"
  • Also:
  Kaiba: Help me Mokuba, you're my only hope.
  Mokuba: Use the Force, big brother!
  • The scene after the credits has this conversation between Kemo and Tristan.
  Kemo: Yugi never told you what happened to your father!
  Tristan: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
  Kemo: No... my hair is your father!
  Tristan: That's not true.. that's impossible!
  Kemo: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
  Tristan: Nooooooooo!

Episode 16

• In Yugi's dream-sequence, Gramps, Kaiba & Mokuba start singing "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do..."—and then Mokuba says "By the way, this is a 2001 parody!"
• There are references plenty to 80s adventure movies The Goonies and Stand by Me when Tristan, Bakura, and Téa going off to have their own adventure without any main characters. And when they run into Pegasus:
  Tristan: Look, it's One Eye Willie!

Episode 17

• During the Ambulance Chaser commercial for Duel Insurance the song Fake Wings by Yuki Kajiura plays.
• "Say hello to my little friend!"
• Mako Tsunami's interview:
  Mako: I fed his Dark Magician to my Fiend Kraken. It was just like the ending to Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Only this was actually satisfying.
• Pegasus before he sends Bandit Keith down a Trap Door: "I learned this trick from Excel♡Saga!"
• The ad for the Very Special Episode of Zorc and Pals the theme to Kingdom Hearts plays.
• One to Master Card
  There are somethings that money can't buy. For everything else, there's Kaiba Corp.
• Hypnomarik after the episode ends.

Episode 18

• "What the deuce?"
• "I felt a disturbance. As if Yugi cried out in terror, and was suddenly silenced."
• When Tristan sees Bakura magically tie up some guards with white ropes, he decides that Bakura has to be Spider-Man. And the ending song to the episode is the theme song to the 1967 cartoon.

Episode 19

• In the beginning of the episode:
  Pegasus: "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling..."
  Bakura: "DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT MAKING A SCOOBY-DOO REFERENCE!
• "Dark Magician! You are not a gun! You are who you choose to be! Now choose."
• When Shadi enters Yami's mind:
  "By the way, have you ever seen Labyrinth?"
  "No, why?"
  *cue "Dance Magic Dance"*
• "Come on, Mokuba. We're going to have our own tournament. With blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the tournament."
  • Actually, because Kaiba is so obsessed with card games (COME ON, SUMMON IT ALREADY) it's actually "In fact, forget the blackjack and hookers!"
• This conversation:
  Bakura: Hey, Pegasus, remember when I said I was going to kill you last?
  Pegasus: That's right, Bakura! You did!
  Bakura: I Lied.
• From COPS: "Yu-gi-oh was filmed on location with the men and women of the Domino City Police Department."
• Another line by Bakura:
  Bakura: Cards? Where we're dueling we don't need cards.
• While Téa is reading Pegasus' blog:
  Shadi: Jagshemash!

[[AC:Episode 20

• Music from The Exorcist plays when Rebecca appears. Hence the episode title "The Rebexorcist".
• "I summon Disgruntled Celtic Guardian"!
• "I wish I knew how to quit you!"
• "You see, Rebecca, with great cards comes great responsibility!"
• After Arthur Hawkins asks "What evil teddy bear?", the camera zooms in and violin shrieks play.

[[AC:Episode 21

• The fairy continually said "Hey, listen!".
  • Then "Saria's song" plays as the ship appears.
• The Three Little Pigs: "Attention, duelists. My hair will huff, and my hair will puff, and my hair will blow your house in."
• "Look! It's Agrabah. Let's go find the genie voiced by Robin Williams and occasionally by Dan Castellaneta.
• As Kemo approaches them, Tristan and Téa sings Shampoo's Trouble.
  Tristan: (singing) Uh-oh. We're in trouble. Something's come along and it's burst our bubble.
  Téa: (singing) Yeah, yeah!
• Ms Valentine, are you trying to seduce me?
• As Joey wears a wildman's outfit, he says "You know what the difference is between you and me? I make this look good."
• The English opening theme of Dragon Ball Z starts to play when everyone summons dragons to the field.

Episode 22

• "If ya don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding!"
  • Not to mention the name of the episode: "Shine On You Crazy Devlin"
• Téa, enamored of the hot new kid, sings, "Bow chicka bow-wow."
• Tristan shouts "Burn the witch!"
  • Also, "He must be a witch. He turned me into a newt! ... "I got better."
• "Shake it like a Polaroid picture!"
• Tristan holding up a die and saying "This is going straight up my nose" is verbatim a quip from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Horror of Party Beach".
  • Additionally, the "What theme music?" gag at the end is a nod to a similar one with Torgo in "Village of the Giants."
• Duke's fangirls sing "Hey Mickey", changing the lyrics to "Hey Dukey".

Season 2

Episode 23

• Téa, at the beginning: "This one time, at duel camp, I put my deck in my—"
• This looks like a job for Limey man!"
• "I'm here to kick ass and drink cups of tea. And I'm all out of tea."
• "We didn't start the fire! It was always burning since the world's been turning!"
• Bandit Keith summoning his machine monsters.
  "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto; Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto--"

Episode 24

• The episode's intro has the reference to a Cap'n Crunch cereal commercial: "Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged, it stays crunchy even in milk."

Episode 25

• From 24: The following card games take place between 9 PM and 10 PM.
• To DanceDanceRevolution:
  (outside the history museum)
  Téa: Do you think they'll have DDR in there too?
  Yami: Téa, it's Japan. Of course they will.
• The song Johnny Step dances to is the exercise machine's song from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie.

Episode 26

• The intro: "Hey paisanos! It's the Super Yu-Gi-Oh Brothers Super Show!
• Welcome to the Aperture Science duel monsters training program. If you win this children’s card game, there will be cake
  Kaiba: The Cake Is a Lie, bitch

Episode 27

• The episode title, "She Blinded Me With Card Games", is a shout-out to Thomas Dolby's 1982 hit "She Blinded Me With Science" (includes "Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!").
• Joey gets Rickroll'd by Kaiba via the Kaiba Corp database.
• "Joey, no! If you get too angry, you'll become The Incredible Hulk!"
• Joey sings The Legend of Zelda item fanfare when he receives his free Duel Disk.
• Marik's laugh over the phone is a shout-out to Mandark from Dexter's Laboratory.
• The soundtrack from "Run Lola Run" plays as Joey is heading to the hospital.
• "Exodia, obliterate!" "BLAAAAAAAAH!!" (complete with the blackface and the voice clip from The Lazer Collection)
• "Meanwhile, on the anime version of Grey's Anatomy..."
• Serenity's mother's voice is a reference to Doctor Girlfriend from The Venture Brothers
• "I claim this card in the name of Mars! Isn't that lovely?"
• George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" plays as Tristan climbs off his motorcycle.
• To Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds:
  Yugi: Tristan, I'm going to regret asking this, but why do you have 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 an image of the promotional poster for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, complete with "Carmina Burana" playing in the background and the caption "You gotta be sh***ing me".)
• Tristan sings the Speed Racer theme song as he searches for Joey.
• As one of the odd edits made by 4Kids is explained, music from Dragon Quest VIII is playing.

Episode 28

• "He's gone all Psycho Mantis on us!
• A clip from Eden: The Zhang Chronicles is played, something LittleKuriboh voice acted in.

Episode 29

• Nyeeeh... what's up Rex?

Episode 30

• The episode is almost entirely dedicated to Saw.
  Yami: You've got to be kidding me.
• In the same episode, Yami starts listing spoilers because the villain is an obvious fan of plot twists. He's cut off by a title card, but 3 are heard that sound oddly familiar...
  Yami: SNAPE KILLS D—
  [many spoilers later...]
  Yami: — Nicole Kidman is a ghost, and Rosebud is the sled!
  • They have the speech from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, acted out with Yugi and Marik. It does, however, have a twist.
  Marik: What is a man?! A miserable pile of secrets! But enough of this...! I'm out of here.
  Yugi: Come back here, and take your henchman with you!
  • The enactment even includes a glass being thrown at Yugi.
  • At the end of the video, Marik shows the words "Die Yugi Die" on his back. A subtitle later says it's German for The Yugi The.
• In also the same episode, the opening and the closing theme of said episode is a reference to the theme song of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
• At the very beginning of the episode: the giant hedgehog who says "Dinsdale" is Spiny Norman of the Piranha Brothers sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Episode 31

• "And now for something completely different... Card Games!"
• The nurse checking in on Serenity complains of a boy calling her Nurse Joy following a seizure induced by a Pokémon episode.
• "No, not the smooze!"
• "Doctor Stiles, please report to the infirmary."

Episode 32

• Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip...
• "Wonder Twin powers: activate! Form of... an Egyptian homosexual!"
• Not even Boston can make Marik look cool on a motorcycle.
• Even Yami has good musical taste.
  Yami: Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage!

Episode 33

• "Face it, you're about as manly as a Square Enix character! Shall I call you Captain Basch from Dalmasca?"
  • Also, "Don't believe Ondore's lies!"
• It also gives us: "Well, excuuuuse me, princess!"

Episode 34

• "Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged: we update almost as frequently as VG Cats."
• The sounds Steve makes as he jumps up the building are the same as Mario.
• "Now to make my escape, disguised as a simple cardboard box!"
• "I said what what. In the butt. I said what what. In the butt."
  • Although the line itself originated from a song with the same name.

Episode 35

• "It was the best of card games, it was the worst of card games..."
• "I'm in ur TV, kidnapping ur grandpa."
• "My name is Mai Valentine. No relation to Faye Valentine."
• "They should have sent a poet."
• "I don't wanna be be an American idiot!"
• "I'm the Goddamn Kaibaman!"
• "My Name is Yami" "WROOOOOOOONG!!!"
• "This is a bug hunt, Joey! A bug hunt! Game over, man! Game over!"
• "Serenity is hot." "She mah sistah!" "She's still hot, asshole."
• "I'm the ghost of Seto Kaiba." "Yeah, well I'm Knuckles the Echidna."

Episode 36

• The episode title: "The Man Who Would Be Steve".
• The "What country you're from?" dialogue after Tristan beat up all the Steves.
• "You guys are making me sexy, you won't like me when I'm sexy!"
• Joey performs the classic Tarzan yell as he swings on a chain (but with considerably more "nyeh").
• Kaiba apparently installed VATS into his Duel Disk system.
• Duke Devlin is the fourth Jonas Brother.

Episode 37

• The opening song is a parody of The Omen (1976) theme song.
• Michael Bay gets slammed quite a bit in this episode.
• BAKURA: You sounds nervous; is it the accent? You want to know how I got it? My father was a drinker, one night he went a little crazier then usual, so my mummy got the teapot to defend herself. He didn't like that, so he pours boiling hot tea all over her. Then he comes at me with the teapot and he asks "Why so British?"

Episode 38

• The episode title: "Magnum Farce"
• "Man, this tournament feels longer than any given Metal Gear Solid cut scene. And only slightly less interactive."
• "Your Amazon Warrior is no match for my army of celebrity ninjas!
• "I'm a member of the Hollywood cult, just like every other deluded celebrity you used to like, such as Isaac Hayes, Jason Lee, and Rufus the Naked Mole Rat!"
• "THIS IS WHAT JEAN-CLAUDE MAGNUM ACTUALLY BELIEVES"
• "We have to appear on Oprah so I can proclaim my love to you while jumping on her couch like a giant infant."
• "What would L. Ron Hubbard do?!"
• Jean-Claude Magnum will be back in "Ninjapocalypse Now"
• This episode ends with Howl freaking out and telling Sophie to get off the fucking set.
• Jean-Claude Magnum's voice is a lot like fictional actor Troy McClure of The Simpsons, and he introduces himself with "You may remember me from...", Troy's Mad Libs Catchphrase.

Episode 39

• "EA Sports, it's in the card games."
• Oh, the humanity.
• "Villcome! I am Gruber, und zees is mein brother Hans."
• The airship theme plays when the Kaiba-Corp blimp appears.
• "Zack and Cody are my imaginary friends!"
• "It's showtime, Synergy". Cue Yugi Transformation Sequence as accompanied by the Jem theme song.

Episode 40

• "Tell me something, Yugi: Have you ever dueled with the Devil in the pale Moon light?"
• "But the needs of the many outweighs the needs of the British, or something along those lines."
• From the opening: "This ain't a scene! It's a God! Damned! Card! Game!

Episode 41

• "Unh... sorry I took so long, guys. Stupid Mass Effect elevator technology."

Episode 42

• The title refers to So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, or possibly the song of the same name from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005); 42 (the episode number) is supposedly the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything.
• When Odion summons Mega Ultra Chicken, it says "Infidels! Thou hast angered the god of trading cards! Now you will never again see the light of day!"
• This exchange:
  Marik: I am Kira, I mean Marik.
  Yami: And there's the obligatory Death Note reference. I never thought we'd sink that low.
• When Melvin takes over Marik's body, the "Final Five" reveal theme from Battlestar Galactica starts blasting away in the background.
• This Exchange:
  Melvin/Marik: I am the king!
  Yami: You're a loony!

Episode 43

• The title
• "To the Mokubamobile!"
• This exchange:
  Melvin: You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?
  Mai: You know, for a second there, yeah, I kinda did.

Episode 44

• Tristan, about Kaiba:
  It's like he's wearing KITT from Knight Rider!
• Tristan says "Goddamn it Nappa!" when Ishizu is going over catchphrases. You know the one.
• "It looks like the rules (puts on sunglasses) just got screwed." YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
• The ending gag: "Oh, what's up. It's starting to bore me how much you suck. No, seriously. You all suck. BOINK! I broke your stupid crap, moron" and "MY FISTS. THEY ARE MADE OF STEEL!"
• "Sorry Marik, but your sister's in another castle!"
  • "NOOOOOO WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN"
• The episode is called Ishizu Explains It All.

Episode 45

• The title of the episode: Requiem For A Nyeh.
• Once more, LittleKuriboh's musical tastes spills into the episode. "A kid showed up, just the other day... and the Cats in the Cradle, oh God, that's sharp!"
• The episode features The Nostalgia Critic, Linkara, Doctor Insano, and Angry Joe, AND the episode description includes a link to one of Linkara's reviews (Bimbos in Time) that featured LittleKuriboh in a cameo.

Episode 46

• "You can't win, Melvin. If you strike me down, I shall be more powerful than you can ever imagine."
• The background music for the party is the Ghost Nappa song.
• Bakura says Zorc's got a contract for a new show, "The Suite Life of Zork and Cody".

Season 3

Episode 47

• "Prepare for trouble, and make it double."
• "Impact with ocean imminent. I hope you all played BioShock."
  • "All your questions will be answered in due time. In the meantime, prepare to be assimilated! Resistance is futile! [Cue crapload of other movie references.]"
• "I was frozen today."

Episode 48

• Yugi's deckmaster Kuriboh sounds like the Hot Dog from Perfect Hair Forever. And then there's the (EFF!)bombs.
• "And now I activate Robot Unicorn Attack!"
  Gangsley: It's a double rainbow all the way!
• After smashing a wall down with an ax, Tristan shouts out "Heeeereee's Johnny!"

Episode 49

• After entering a room with four doors with symbols above them, Yami states "Oh lovely. A rejected puzzle from a Professor Layton game. That's just fan-tucking-fastic."
• The maximum level on the Jiggle-o-meter is labeled 'Faye Valentine'.
• A pengiun tells Téa "Come with me if you want to live."
• "Breaking Free" starts to play during the broadway show in Téa's dream sequence.
• "Hey, can you introduce me to that one penguin who's voiced by Elijah Wood?"
• Hans Zimmer's "Stampede" plays when Serenity was being chased by a monster.
• After defeating said monster, Tristan announces his full name, bringing in a guitar riff to match it.
• Hobson SMASH!

Episode 50

• Joey Wheeler: Ace Attorney.
  • He also whistles The Andy Griffith Show theme song.
    • Which makes sense because Andy Griffith portrayed Matlock.
• A suit of metal asks Joey where his brother Edward is.
• Gozaburo Kaiba tells the Hair Guy to punish Seto by having to whip him until his name's Toby.
• This bit of dialog:
  Joey: Well, it looks like Johnson couldn't handle the truth! Huh? Huh?
  Yugi: No.

Episode 51

• Tristan acting out the infamous Big "NO!" in Revenge of the Sith, complete with the Imperial March playing in the background..
  • Episode 51 also has a Han Solo-esque "I love you." "I know." confession.
  • The sequence with Kaiba and Mokuba on "Tatooine" has the appropriate background music.
  • The leitmotifs of Mecha Nesbitt and Super Giga Mecha Nesbitt are references to the Iron Man movie and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, respectively, while Serenity's is the My Little Pony 'n Friends theme song.
    • Recently, the episode was edited. Most versions on Youtube will still have the old one from the eighties. Recently, however, the episode was modified to use the theme from Generation 4, which you probably recognize from the sheer presence of its Periphery Demographic.
• "Tristan Taylor. RISE."
• ZUUL Motherfucker!!!
• Tristan quotes Gwonam from The Legend Of Zelda C Di Games, although the original line was reversed.
  Tristan: Isn't it beautiful? The birds are singing!

Episode 52

• Kaiba says "Come at me bro." (a shout out to the Rooster Teeth Podcast)
  • Somewhat unrelated, but bonus points to those who are familiar with the term "lad" in an Australian setting.
  • Just before this (as he's picking up the pipe), Kaiba says "Grabbin' a pipe!" which is most likely a Left 4 Dead reference.
• The Star Wars shout-outs continue on:
  Evil Tristan: The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the guy kicking your ass with a stick.
• Joey's tackle attack sounds a lot like Pikachu's Volt Tackle.
  Yugi: Quick, Joey. Use tackle!
  Joey: Joeyjoeyjoeyjoeyjoey Joey JOEY!
• When Evil Tristan rides out of the garage on a motorcycle we get a shout out to Tristan's Japanese name, Hiroto Honda.
  Joey: Is that a Honda? (Questioning the motorcycle Evil Tristan is riding)
  Yugi: No, his name's Tristan.
• "Let me guess, you're one of Noah's seven evil ex-boyfriends."
• As Kaiba pursues Evil Tristan by motorbike, there's a short section where he starts singing his image song "You're Not Me" from the Yu-gi-oh Movie.

Episode 53

• The Tenacious D song "Storm the Gates" plays briefly as Kaiba runs to save Mokuba.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  Melvin: Bored now.
• This exchange:
  Noah: Seto, how unexpected. And by "unexpected" I mean "totally expected".
  Kaiba: Can it with the Phineas and Ferb references, you tiny shorts-wearing freak.

Episode 54

• Opener: I used to be a duelist like you, but then I took a card game to the motorcycle.
• Yugi: Look at your deck...Now back to me...Now back to your deck...Now back to ME
• Melvin states after unlocking the bitchy door that he is the master of unlocking.

Episode 55

• The title is a reference to Stepmothers Sin, in which Dan Green voiced the main character in the dub.
• Yami's sexy and he knows it.
• Kaiba is taken to Noah by Thomas the Dragon Train
  • And the narrator sounds like Ringo Starr.
  • The episode closes out with the original "Thomas & Friends" theme.
• Kaiba asks how to become a member of the Lollipop Guild. ^note You go to thelollipopguild.com
• After Noah pointed out how his deckmaster is an ark:
  Kaiba: A Bible reference? That seems a bit inappropriate for a kids show.
  Yugi: I don't know Kaiba it's not nearly as bad as your costume from last year's Halloween party.
  Kaiba (in Crucified Hero Shot): Can you guess who I am?
  Phantom: Uhh...
  Kaiba: I'M JESUS!
• Yugi tells Yami to believe in the Yugi that believes in the heart of the cards.
• After Yugi recovers from his brief Heroic BSoD, he rebukes Noah: "How dare you treat my friends so shamefully!"

Episode 56

• Melvin proclaims that it's time for some delicious ultraviolence
  • The robots he encounters in the same scene speak with the voices of the turrets from Portal.
• To Aladdin:
  Yugi: Kaiba, do you trust me?
  Kaiba: No.
  Yugi: Do you trust me?!
  Kaiba: NO.
  Yugi: Then JUUUUUUUMP!
• "Goodnight, sweet dubbing company, and a flight of winged Kuribohs sing thee to thy rest."

Episode 57

• The title is "Reservoir Steves".
• "One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong..."

Episode 58

• The title is a reference to Desperately Seeking Susan.
• The cards going by at the start of the episode include pictures of Sterling Archer, Wreck-It Ralph, John Egbert.
• Joey (jokingly) mistakes Mega Ultra Chicken's Phoenix Mode for a Moltres and mentions the Kanto region.
• Kaiba: "I've made a terrible mistake."
• Just before Joey faints, a hallucination of Yami (mis-)quotes Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Episode 59

• The title is a reference to Cloud Atlas
• The cards at the beginning include Nylocke, Discworld, Tom Nook, Clementine, and Shrek and Donkey
• When Kaiba's arena is setting up, the "HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA" song plays.
• Wait, I thought you had to be online to play with that thing.
• Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Start!
  • Kaiba later inputs A-B-A-C-A-B-B, somehow activating "DK Mode" and enlarging Kaiba's head and arms while shrinking his body.^note The code actually enables blood in the Genesis version of Mortal Kombat.
• Mokuba's 'Ancient Egyptian Cameo' is the opening verse from The Lion King (1994)'s opening, backwards.

Episode 63

• Joey calls Ash to tell him about his super amazing Rattata.

Season 5

Episode 83

• "Please prepare your deck, you have 30 seconds to comply."
• The musical selection played during the introduction of the KaibaCorp Grand Prix? Total War from Pokemon.

Episode 86

• Due to LittleKuriboh having gotten into Kamen Rider during the gap between this and the previous episode, Joey namedrops Kamen Rider Zolda while his Dangerous Machine Type-6 spell makes the Gotchadriver announcement.
  Tristan: God, I wish Joey would stop talking about Kamen Rider.
• Besides the Kamen Rider references, Joey’s summoning of Sasuke Samurai (aside from referencing his own Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show) is accompanied by the "Yo!" sound made by the DonBlaster from Avataro Sentai Donbrothers.

Movies

The Movie

The Movie

• To He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983):
  Yugi: By the Power of Grayskull!!
  Yami: I have the power!
• "Slifer no swiping! Slifer no swiping! Slifer no swiping!"
  • "Oh man!"
• "Oof! ...I fell on my keys."
• After Yugi acknowledges the voice in his head, Yami tells Yugi to burn everything, burn it to the ground.
• As Téa jumps off the helicopter, she shouts " Wheeee! Moon Prism Power!"
• "Yugi, remember who you are! You must take your place in the circle of card games."
• Spinning Bird Kick!
• "That's it, pal, you just f***ed with the wrong Egyptian."
• "Yugi, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the earth!"
• When Yugi tries to help Kaiba:
  Kaiba: "Take your filthy paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"
• When Kaiba summons XYZ-Dragon Cannon during his fight with Pegasus, the Transformers theme song starts to play.
• Yami says "Kaiba, I'm sure on some planet, your strategy is considered powerful, but your weak link is: this is Earth", which was said in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.
• When looking for Yami in the labyrinth, Yugi shouts "KHAAANNNNN!" in frustration. Joey then mistakes it for William Shatner and rushes to get his autograph.
• "Run! Get to da choppa!"
• "You certainly took your sweet time, didn't you? I mean, come on, the movie's almost over! Who do you think you are? Venom?"

Bonds Beyond Time

• Doctor Who - The opening credits, complete with a Duel Monsters card replacing the TARDIS, followed by Yusei's bike making the iconic TARDIS noise when he leaves his era.
• Paradox has the same laugh as Mandark, and is accompanied by the theme music to Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
• Paradox having Mandark's laugh is also reference to the Dexter's Laboratory movie which has a similar plot ("I am here for the one who destwoyed the future!").
• Luna refering to Yusei as Lion-O and saying "Snarf".
• Also when reading the old news report:
  Yusei: *Spots Paradox in a photo* Look, it's him!
  Jack: You found Waldo!?
  Yusei: It's the guy who stole my card!
  Jack: Waldo stole your card?
• The Crimson Dragon shouting "ATREYU!"
• Paradox is able to knock Jaden down. Afterwards:
  Paradox: Stardust, here is your chance for an All-Out-Attack!
• When confronting Paradox:
  Yusei: Alright, you time-traveling screwhead! This... is my SIGNER MARK!^note Doubles as a Shout-Out to The Azure Crow's own Gurren Lagann The Satire; Kamina is fond of the "boomstick" phrase.
• Before Yusei goes back to Jaden's time, the Crimson Dragon says "Once you hit 88-miles-per-hour..." in an obvious nod to Back to the Future.
• Just like the Dark Magician said A Wizard Did It.
• After doing a lot of jumping and dodging fireballs, Jaden says he's glad that he plays a lot of Assassin's Creed.
  • His very first line in the movie is "I'm Batman!"
• "You can be my wingman anytime, Yugi."
• Jaden tells Yusei that he sees dead people.
• After travelling to Yugi's time:
  Jaden: I thought you said you weren't going to let me ride it.
  Yusei: Everybody gets one.
• "We're Yugioh, we're Yugioh, we're Yugioh, we're Yugioh..."
• Aw, desu desu, bitches!
• When Yusei tries to explain Synchro Summoning to Yugi, the latter's reactions are an obvious reference to a scene in episode 3 of Futurama.

General/Unsorted/Other:

• "IGNORE ME!!!"
• After a Master Shake stinger, Mega Ultra Chicken, and the tag team Steves portrayed as the Mooninites, anyone familiar with Aqua Teen Hunger Force can easily see that Little Kuriboh's a fan of the series.
  • And then Kaiba's encounter with The Cybernetic Ghost Of Christmas Past From The Future. Pretty blatant, that.
• "Wake up Mr. Muto. Wake up and smell the card games."
• In the Season Zero Pilot, Yugi says he would wish for Téa's panties. A reference to Dragon Ball and one of his earlier videos at once.
  • "GARBAGE DAY!"
  • Disney's Aladdin got referenced as well when the puzzle was finally completed:
  "The power, the absolute power!"
  • In Episode 3 of Season Zero, the music that plays when Yugi and Joey get to Burger World is the Junes Department Store jingle from Persona 4.
• In the manga review, LittleKuriboh borrows a familiar catchphrase of Linkara's: Our hero protagonist, ladies and gentleman.
• The song Feuer Frei is played in all the chase scenes in the first movie.
• Of course, there are a few shout outs to the sequels, GX, 5D's and Zexal (or as they call it in the US, GX).
• LK has also made several parody songs, enough to qualify as an entire album soon.
  • "I'm on a Blimp" has Shout Outs to Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy VII.
• Melvin's obsession with hugs may be a reference to End of Evangelion, where, by the end, all of mankind have exploded into a sea of fuel by the dangerous combination of evil, happiness and hugs. His psychotic nature also hints that he might be aiming for this.
• "I'm staring into the distant past. It's sort of like playing Eternal Darkness."
• "That's my bread and butter you're (EFF)ing with."
  • In the 2010 April Fools video, the opening for the fake 5Ds Abridged Series is an homage to the show's opening, complete with the camera zooming in on Jack's mouth before the theme kicks in.
• In recent episodes, he and Linkara have mutually referenced each other, culminating in each doing a cameo line in the other's video.
• "Who's the Boom King? Tristan's the Boom King!" Shortly afterwords, Téa reprimands him for choosing the wrong time to quote awesome shows.
• "This is the perfect opportunity for a Lost reference!"
  • No, we're not doing that.
  • Oh, come on. Don't tell me what I can't do.
  • Oh, okay. Maybe just this once.
  • "Let's go find the Smoke Monster!"
• Crump's tendency to lick his lips and hiss is a reference to Hannibal Lecter.
• From the Yugi VS. Jaden rap battle: Who's the motherflippin'?.
• There's tons of references to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on episode 21.
  • And there's another one later when Joey obtains his Duel Disk.
  • Now expanded in "Meet the Kaiba", with the full first episode with Team Fortress 2 quotes. They work surprisingly well.
• Marik Plays Bloodlines has "His hair looks like something out of Space Channel 5!"
• Kaiba almost starts singing "Friday". Luckly the camera quickly cuts away.
• In a video LittleKuriboh made for a fanartist, Tristan punches Joey and shouts "I am a man!"
• Probably an Evangelion reference: In "The Other Abridged Movie," when Gary Stu finds out how long the duel between Yugi and Kaiba will probably last, his internal voiceover frantically chants "I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away!"
• In the third Lady Gaga parody, we get this exchange:
  Bakura: I have an army!
  Pharaoh: We have an Exodia.
• Marik's Evil Council of Doom #5 has a villain in a dark helmet who gets caught playing with his dolls.
  Syrus: Hey, Jaden. Have you seen all my- Oh my God! What is all this? A-are those your dolls?
  Supreme King!Jaden: NOTHING! No-no-nothing! Go away! And KNOCK next time before you see the nothing that I was doing!
• In the NGE One-Shot, the theme music goes from an instrumental version of Evangelion's actual theme song to "It's Cold Outside".
• One Stinger takes Yugi's duel with a brainwashed Bandit Keith for a ride:
  Yugi: Show yourself!
  (Keith reveals his face under the hood)
  Keith: IT'S ME, AUSTIN!
  Yugi: Aw, son of a bitch!
  Keith: IT'S ME, AUSTIN! IT WAS ME, ALL ALONG, AUSTIN!!!
• Ever since becoming a Converted Fanboy for Kamen Rider and Super Sentai, he's been dropping tiny references to the shows he's seen, such as Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, Kamen Rider Zero-One, and the concurrent Kamen Rider Gotchard.

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