History Recap / YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeriesS4E2PuzzledShipping

* AbhorrentAdmirer: While Yugi isn't exactly ''repulsed'' by Rebecca, he does seem slightly annoyed and flat out states that he will never have sex with her.

** When Joey mentions Johnny Steps, Tristan wonders out loud how Joey knows who that is, as if Tristan himself met the guy. Tristan was just as absent as Joey was for meeting Johnny Steps, so he shouldn't be acting like he met Johnny.

* FandomNod: The episode's title is a play on "puzzleshipping", which is the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' fandom's term for portraying Yugi and Yami Yugi as a romantic couple. The 4kids dub of season 4 in particular is (in)famous for the RelationshipWritingFumble going on between them.

** Professor Hawkins's lackluster exposition is chalked up to the fact that he got his archaeology degree online at the [[https://jitterymonks.com/university-of-phoenix-uop-answers-and-assignments/ University of Phoenix]].

** Professor Hawkins's lackluster exposition is chalked up to the fact that he got his archaeology degree online at the University of Phoenix.

* TakeThat: Professor Hawkins's lackluster exposition is chalked up to the fact that he got his archaeology degree online at the University of Phoenix.

->"This show [[ScheduleSlip is so infrequent]] [[SelfDeprecation that the last new episode came out when I was still Pharaoh.]]"

* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Tea feels threatened by Rebecca's attempts to get with Yugi, but Yugi has no romantic feelings to speak of for her.

* RunningGag: Tea read a book about that once.

** Everyone, especially Yugi, is thoroughly unimpressed with Professor Hawkins and his credentials as a researcher, to the point where Tristan says that the guy's even dumber than him. Rebecca kicking him in the shin immediately after he says that prompts him to yell, "Ow! My penis!", showing that he's in no position to be calling others dumb.

** The movie {{Tomorrowland}} is called "a pile of shit". Harsh.

* LampshadeHanging: Tristan questions how Joey knows who Johnny Steps is when he wasn't even there during the single episode that character appeared in... [[{{Subverted}} which is also weird]], because Tristan was also not present for that episode.

** Yugi expressly forbids everyone from making a {{Sharknado}} reference.

* CliffHanger: Yugi is finally going to get answers about the spirit world and- ''[[TrollingCreator WHAT DOES POT OF GREED DO]]''

* CallBack: Yugi objects to enslaving human beings no matter ''what'' the voice in his head tells him, a reference to Yami's many attempts to justify slavery in ancient Egypt.

* CliffHanger: Yugi is finally going to get answers about the spirit world and- ''[[TrollingCreator WHAT DOES POT OF GREED DO]]''

** Yami later decides at random that the evil beast being unleashed must be [[HarryPotter Voldemort]].

* AsYouKnow: Professor Hawkins explains how Duel Monsters is based on an ancient Egyptian game... which the protagonists already know about, along with [[ItWasHisSled every person on the planet]] with even the slightest knowledge of YuGiOh.

* DontExplainTheJoke: Yami makes yet another "Kuribohs are basically hairy testicals" style joke, which ends up falling flat due to overuse. His attempt to follow up makes it worse.

* FandomNod: The episode's title is a play on "puzzleshipping", which is the YuGiOh fandom's term for portraying Yugi and Yami Yugi as a romantic couple. The 4kids dub of season 4 in particular is (in)famous for the RelationshipWritingFumble going on between them.

* MythologyGag: Yugi has a nightmare that follows the exact plotline of the YuGiOhR spinoff manga.

* ShoutOut: The alternate Duel Monster dimension's possession of both a castle and a giant floating eye ball leads Yami to conclude that they are in [[LordOfTheRings Middle Earth]].

->"This show [[TakeThatMe is so infrequent]] that the last new episode came out when I was still pharaoh."

->"This show is so infrequent that the last new episode came out when I was still pharaoh."

* LampshadeHanging: Tristan questions how Joey knows who Johnny Steps is when he wasn't even there during the single episode that character appeared in... [[Subverted which is also weird]], because Tristan was also not present for that episode.