History Trivia / YugiohTheAbridgedSeries

** While it did begin early in the series, it really got bad around 2010. To give some perspective: While the series started halfway through 2006, LittleKuriboh was still able to crank out 15 episodes before the end of the year. In 2007 that dropped to 10. It dropped to 7 in 2008. He rebounded a bit in 2009 with 13. In 2010 it plummeted to 5, then 3 in 2011, then 5 in 2012, 2 in 2013, 3 in 2014, and (to date) only 1 in 2015.

* Nowacking as the Dark Magician Girl.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Website/{{YouTube}} bots have taken Creator/{{LittleKuriboh}}'s account down maybe fifteen times by now.

** Meta-example: Bots have taken down the series' YouTube account repeatedly. The channel has been reinstated each time, but some episodes haven't been as lucky.

* ScheduleSlip: LK started off by promising one episode a week. It started to slip around Episode 10. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Cr@psule Monsters 2".

*** Creator/{{Hbi2k}}: Gansely. ([[TheOtherDarrin Ganxingba]] for a scene in Season 2)

*** Creator/{{Lanipator}}: Lector.

** In the flashback to young Marik's past, the Egyptian Merchant is voiced by [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]].

* CreatorsFavorite: {{Word of God}} says that Marik is his favorite character. Marik also has more appearances in side videos than other characters.

** In Episode 47, one of the Big Five, formerly voiced by [=GanXingba=], claims that now that ''Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged'' is cancelled, children will have to make do with watching ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' reruns for anime. When Kaiba points out that Avatar isn't an anime, he responds "It might as well be." [=GanXingba=] does WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries, one of the most successful non-anime AbridgedSeries.
** Inverted slightly In the Kami-con Season 4 promo video, Seto Kaiba mentions that Eric Stewart will be attending, and mentions only that he played Dr.Z from Dinosaur King and Brock from Pokemon. When prompted by Mokuba he also mentions Bastion from ''Yu-Gi-Oh GX''.
** During Season 3, Team Four Star voices the Big 5 (4Kidz's group of executives responsible for cancelling the show in-universe). During one scene where Yugi and Joey are about to duel all of them, Gansley refers to all of them collectively as "Team Four Star," which Yugi corrects instantly.

* AscendedFanon: Yami Bakura's name, Florence, was a joke used in Season 1 where he said his parents wanted to call him that. Eventually Little Kuriboh decided to run with it.
* ColbertBump: A rather odd example. Prior the the abridged series [[DeaderThanDisco the franchise had started to slip off the radar.]] The series ended up breathing new life into the fandom. 4Kids themselves seemed to have acknowledged this, even having LittleKuriboh join their voice actor panels during Conventions.
* CreatorsFavorite: {{Word of God}} says that Marik is his favorite character. Marik also has the most appearances in side videos than other characters.
* FakeAmerican: The actor is actually English. It's fairly easy to tell early on, too. The biggest example is episode 6, "Everybody Hates Mako", [[OohMeAccentsSlipping where Yugi suddenly has a distinct English accent]] while he's yelling at Mako for lobbing a freakin' harpoon at him.

*** Melvin succeeded in canceling the show [[spoiler: in Episode 46]].

* TalkingToHimself: Prior to the cast expansion in season 3, all characters, except two, were voiced by the same man, while the other two were voiced by the same woman. The impressions are ridiculously good, though.
* TropeNamer: The series has named numerous tropes:

* ColbertBump: A rather off example. Prior the the abridged series [[DeaderThanDisco the franchise had started to slip off the radar.]] The series ended up breathing new life into the fandom. 4Kids themselves seemed to have acknowledged this, even having LittleKuriboh join their voice actor panels during Conventions.

** In-universe: Johnson is responsible for the series being taken down twice.

* [[spoiler:FakeAmerican: Bandit Keith, though technically, Canadians ''are'' North Americans.]]

** Kirbopher is Noah Kaiba.

** In the flashback to young Marik's past, the Egyptian Merchant is voiced by Linkara.

--> '''Yami Yugi:''' By the time you finish watching this episode, our {{YouTube}} account will probably be taken down.

** Lampshaded in the current episode (61):

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Website/{{YouTube}} bots have taken Creator/{{LittleKuriboh}}'s account down maybe fifteen times by now.

* ApprovalOfGod: Although the subject of many jokes in the series, the staff at 4Kids enjoyed it, and some elements of the series have become {{Shout-Out}}s.

** In the flashback to young Marik's past, the Egyptian Merchant is voiced by [[spoiler:[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]].]]

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: YouTube has taken Creator/{{LittleKuriboh}}'s account down maybe a dozen times by now.

---> '''Joey:''' One episode every two months isn't so bad!

** Jaden in ''Bonds Beyond Time'' was voiced by [=ShadyVox=], who was Jaden from ''YuGiOhGXTheAbridgedSeries''. He also voiced him during two bonus episodes: his rap and his battle with Yugi.

* ApprovalOfGod: Although the subject of many jokes in the series, the staff at 4Kids enjoyed it, and some elements of the series have become {{Shout-Outs}}.

* ApprovalOfGod: Although the subject of many jokes in the series, the staff at 4Kids enjoyed it, and some elements of the series have become {{Ascended Meme}}s.

** In the flashback to young Marik's past, the Egyptian Merchant is voiced by [[spoiler:[[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]].]]