History Fridge / YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries

** Téa, a self-described shipper, is the one shown giving Marik's Millennium Item to Florence.

** Also, originally the network cut some plot important episodes to get the dub of 5D ready on time, due to it they really don't know what the hell is he doing in venice.

* Noah's {{Leitmotif}} towards the end of the series is ''Mad World''--specifically, the remix used in ''DonnieDarko'' (the song, FYI, was originally by ''Music/TearsForFears''). A viewer might dismiss it as [[StandardSnippet just a stock "sad song"]]... until they remember the lyrics. The song's bemused narrator reflects on how he can't connect with other people or find meaning in the world around himself, and mentions that his favorite dreams are the ones in which he dies. ''Noah is trapped in a fake world full of fake things and people because he's an AI. Nothing he can do here makes any difference.'' These things gave rise to his LackOfEmpathy. His story ends with a [[DeconstructedTrope debatably]] HeroicSacrifice. ...[[TearJerker ouch]].

->'''Melvin:''' [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Hey, LittleKuriboh. Where's the new episode?]]

* By Season 3 everyone seems to reference the real world a lot (even for the show standards). In other words they're BreakingTheFourthWall. The same Fourth Wall that collapsed during the Season 2 Finale.

* Season 3 and onward began using footage from the original Japanese anime rather than the English dub. Considering that the majority of the Virtual World arc took place inside the base of 4Kids and that it ended with the base getting destroyed while the gang managed to escape, it all makes sense. No 4Kids means ''no censorship''.
** Although 4Kids doesn't get destroyed until midway through the season, it still makes sense given that the gang were trapped inside the company that ''uses'' the original Japanese version.

* Why ''did'' Weevil throw away the Exodia cards instead of keeping them for himself? Because stealing from a guy whose friends are bigger and stronger than you are is pretty pointless. Joey and Tristan would have got Yugi's Exodia cards back before the sun could rise (y'know, in a few hours).

** A recent livestream of Marik Plays Overwatch included a casual comment from Marik that even as obsessed as Bakura is with revenge, he's still certain that [[spoiler: Bakura would never think that defeating the pharaoh would be something worth dying over, and that he himself wouldn't get any joy out of the pharaoh's defeat unless Bakura was alive to celebrate the victory with him]]. [[ForegoneConclusion Oh no]].

* At first, it doesn't make sense that Zorc is such a ManChild since he's Yugioh's GodOfEvil. [[spoiler: But anyone whose completed the series knows that the CardCarryingVillain Florence is essentially Zorc's mind. So Zorc's kindness is understandable: He's naturally kind and simple without his mind.]]

* In episode 65, Dark Magician Girl explains that duel monsters live in a world that has a symbiosis relationship with the human world. This explains why several monsters like Celtic Guardian, Kuriboh, and Flame Swordsman[=/=]Frank are capable of talking and interacting with humans in past episodes, they're all inhabitants of that world being summoned during a duel.

* Rex explains in Episode 73 that the Power of Orichalcos allows you to {{Retcon}} your past, as its how he and Weevil stopped being WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead [[{{Expy}} Expies]]. This would also explain how Mai [[TheOtherDarrin got a actual female voice actress]] earlier in the season, and why Dartz and the other motorcycle-riding henchmen changed personalities and quirks (and voice, in Dartz's case).

** Plus he not only an insect theme that would clash with egyption ComicBooks/Hulk, but [[AwesomeButImpractical the cards are hard to use in a regular deck with you needing all five at once to instantly win]] and Weevil's deck probably couldn't be modified properly to use them well.

* Rex explains in Episode 73 that the Power of Orichalcos allows you to {{Retcon}} your past, as its how he and Weevil stopped being WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead [[{{Expy}} Expies]]. This would also explain how Mai [[TheOtherDarrin got a actual female voice actress]] earlier in the season.

* Marik's more recent appearances (noticeably in newer "Marik Plays" and "Counseling Evil") play up his HarmlessVillain traits to a point where it almost seems out of character for him. He's been know to outright threaten to maim and assault people in the past (even if that wasn't his main goal as a villain), but he now seems opposed to physically harming anyone at all. What stops this from being CharacterDerailment is that he is only characterized this way in videos that came out after the episode "Winged Dragon of Rawr". Even if he's falling short of a full HeelFaceTurn, it's not surprising that he's acting noticaebly kinder now that [[spoiler:he's gotten rid of Melvin, made up with his siblings, and is on at least somewhat good terms with Yugi and the pharaoh]].

** A recent episode of Marik Plays Overwatch included a casual comment from Marik that even as obsessed as Bakura is with revenge, he's still certain that [[spoiler: Bakura would never think that defeating the pharaoh would be something worth dying over]]. [[ForegoneConclusion Whoops]].

* Thanks to ForegoneConclusion, [[spoiler:Zorc and Yami Bakura will both die inevitably at the end of the series. Without Bakura around, Marik will lose the closest friend he ever had in his life. And this is right after the hell Marik went through during the Battle City because of his evil half. And keep in mind, Zorc is much nicer here than he is in canon, which will probably mean he'll be less deserving of Atem killing him.]]

* Thanks to ForegoneConclusion, [[spoiler:Zorc and Yami Bakura will both die inevitably at the end of the series. Without Bakura around, Marik will lose the closest friend he ever had in his life. And this is right after the hell Marik went through during the Battle City because of his evil half.]]

* Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl can both talk and are sentient, implying there's still a bit of Mahad and Mana in them. However, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, despite being Kaiba's favorite card, never speaks nor does it respond to Seto's affections. Does this mean that, at some point of time, Kisara is now DeaderThanDead?

* Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl can both talk and are sentient, implying there's still a bit of Mahad and Mana within them. However, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, despite being Kaiba's favorite card, never speaks nor does it respond to Seto's affections. Does this mean that, at some point of time, Kisara is now DeaderThanDead?

* Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl can both talk and are sentient, implying there's still a bit of Mahad and Mana within them. However, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, despite being Kaiba's favorite card, never speaks nor does it respond to Seto's affections. Does this mean that Kisara is DeaderThanDead?

* Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl can both talk and are sentient, implying there's still a bit of Mahad and Mana within them. However, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, despite being Kaiba's favorite card, never speaks nor does it respond to Seto's affections. Does this mean that Kisara is DeaderThanDead

** Knowing Duke Devlin, he's probably referring to some random girl he was with offscreen.