History YMMV / YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries

** The general mockery of the DOMA/Waking the Dragons {{Filler}}. Some watchers are perfectly happy with Little Kuriboh's {{Take That}}s against this filler arc and its plot elements, either because they didn't like the arc themselves or found the derision in-character for Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged. Other watchers, some who liked the DOMA/Waking the Dragons arc, were not fond of Little Kuriboh's contemptuous ridicule for it and consider his abridgedment of the arc a low point for his series as a result. Alternatively, people have criticized the arc for leaning too heavily on meta jokes that the general writing quality of the episodes suffered due to relying too much on just potshots at the season itself. Fans who are neutral toward DOMA arc thought that while it was okay to not like the said arc, damaging his own series to OOC character level (even for abridge standard) was unacceptable, especially for experienced abridged series youtubers like Little Kuriboh, who should not let his biased contempt clouded his works.

** It's big enough in Japan to have an [[http://youyakuyugioh.blog90.fc2.com/ unofficial Japanese site]]. As of August 2009, however, all the Japanese-captioned episodes have been deleted except for those since episode 42. LK's Website/YouTube channel was at one point the #1 most subscribed in Japan. You do NOT want to know how he celebrated. (SchmuckBait [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxbFiymmqaQ here.]])

** ''4Kids themselves'' [[JustForFun/OneOfUs are big fans of YGOTAS.]] It should be noted that they are not the ones who took the episodes down. That would be one of Website/YouTube's copyright bots acting on its programming.

** The antagonism between Jaden and Yugi, and the live action recreation where the former's voice actor Shadyvox is physically attacked, don't seem so humorous anymore after [=LittleKuriboh=] ended his friendship with Shady over political differences, which was followed by Shady attempting to frame [=LK=] for abuse.

%% (Zero Context Example)** The Pharaoh. Deconstructed in episode 70.

** In episode 32, Yami Bakura mentioned that his gaydar once led him to Creator/KevinSpacey autograph signings and commented that "everyone knows that [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday he's straight as a die."]] This joke did not age well after Spacey coming out as a gay man... after multiple accusations of Spacey molesting several young male actors came to light.

** Joey claiming his parents split up after he tried to teach Serenity how to drive becomes a lot less funny when you find out [[spoiler:that Serenity ran Noah over while driving.]] [[HilariousInHindsight If the joke doesn't get even funnier, that is.]]

** Yami's insults towards Creator/RobinWilliams in ''Cr@psule Monsters'' 3 are a lot less funny after Williams' suicide.

** The punk beating up Rex and Weevil in episode 73 for not meeting his standards becomes this, when 1Kids Entertainment, who voiced said punk, was revealed to be abusing [=NoWacking=] and [=XJerry64X=] for years.

** Yusei's mistreatment of Aki in ''Bonds Beyond Time Abridged'' became much less funny when years later, Aki's voice actress, [=Squeaky93=] (who at the time of the movie's upload was The Azure Crow's real-life girlfriend), made a [[http://squeakychiona.tumblr.com/post/142481590788/a-warning-about-theazurecrow-trigger-warning tumblr post]] talking about Yusei's voice actor, The Azure Crow, having a history of abuse towards girls.

** The antagonism between Jaden and Yugi, and the live action recreation where Shadyvox is physically attacked, after they blew up their friendship over political differences, and Shady tried to frame Martin for covering up someone else's abuse allegations.

** PTSD is not funny. Kaiba having PTSD triggered by the sight of Exodia, including paraphrasing his reaction to it in the first episode, is. Kaiba ''continually'' freaking out and quoting himself whenever "Exodia" is mentioned, even when he himself says it, is hilarious.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A lot of the older episodes will be much harder to watch nowadays when compared to the up-to-date quality and humour [=LittleKuriboh=] has added into his newer works. It got to the point where [=LK=] began to constantly lampshade in Season 4 how things like the reference jokes got old for people.

* ShallowParody: The various shots at the sequel series. The jokes basically boil down to "it sucks" and the characters has paper thin personalities with only the most superficial resemblance to their canon counterparts. [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch The jokes started to more closely resemble what they're supposed to be parodying after LittleKuriboh actually started watching GX]].

* {{Adorkable}}: At least two people have mistaken Yugi for [[PandaingToTheAudience a baby panda,]] including the spirit that possesses him regularly.

** The Pharaoh. Deconstructed in episode 70.

* BizarroEpisode:
** Episode 16 (which makes sense, given that it was based on the equally bizarre episode 28 of the original dub). Yugi even lampshades it.
--->'''Yugi:''' This is a f**king bizarre episode!
** Creator/LittleKuriboh sees DOMA/Waking the Dragons as this - and it ''shows'' in his adaptation of the season.

** Mokuba, as his DamselScrappy status from the original series managed to be turned into something more funny and amusing.
** Rex and Weevil are pretty popular due to how insanely hilarious their characters are (it helps by the fact that the duo are parodies of WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead). Ironically, Weevil was considered a {{scrappy}} in the original series.
** Duke Devlin is one of the most beloved secondary characters due to his catchy theme song and his dialogue which is [[RefugeInAudacity so outrageous it's hilarious]].

* {{Moe}}: Parodied in episode 36, where Yugi claims that he's so cute, people have mistaken him for a baby panda.
--> '''Yami''': You mean you're not a baby panda?\\
'''Yugi''': Nope.\\
'''Yami''': Wow, you're good.

* BetterThanCanon:
** How some feel about the abridged series, with all the hilarious dialogue and constant lampshading making the original look boring and [[{{Narm}} nonsensical]] by comparison (even more so if you think the [=4Kids=] dub was already bad). Some fans unofficially consider ''TAS'' the "definitive" version of the ''YGO'' anime, which may be one reason why Konami started officially exporting the uncensored Japanese version of the actual series (as a possible attempt to break its AnimationAgeGhetto and "{{narm}}y {{bowdlerization}}" stigma), to the point that ''TAS'' and the official anime cross-promote each other.
** The show is also praised for giving various characters more unique personalities (like Tristan and Dartz) and name changes (such as naming Yami Bakura "Florence" and calling Yami Marik "[[TomTheDarkLord Melvin]]").
** The show has also been praised for Yami Yugi's character arc in season four. While both iterations of the character share the same Fatal Flaw of pride, in the original anime it was never truly treated as something he had to work on after season one. This made his FaceHeelTurn in his duel with Raphael come out of left field since there was nothing at stake at the time. This also made Raphael's claims that he ''could'' have been a wicked pharaoh odd since Yami had spent series as a kind, heroic character who had his moments of GoodIsNotNice at the worst of times. The abridged series always exaggerated his pride and made him much more of a {{Jerkass}} at best, HeroicComedicSociopath at worst. This ends up making Raphael's claims a little easier to swallow, and his FaceHeelTurn more in character. Later on, Dartz's [[BreakThemByTalking breaking speech]] is so effective because he's [[VillainHasAPoint absolutely right]].

** Episode 63. Crump has ADateWithRosiePalms while watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}''. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Twice]].

* ValuesDissonance: Little Kuriboh added a disclaimer to many of the episodes on [=YouTube=] apologizing for the "transphobic, homophobic, sexist, or other types of humor or dialogue that no longer represent how I, the creator of this video, wish to present my works."

** [[https://www.youtube.com/SwedishKuriboh The Swedish dub]] replaces some jokes that would not make sense in Swedish with jokes that do. Bakura's accent [[AccentAdaptation is now]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scania Scanian]] and Joey now makes references to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stureplan Stureplan]]. The fact that the Swedish dub comes out years after the original episodes also means that some references have to be changed to something more current at the time. For example, as the final ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book had been out for years when the Swedish dub of episode 23 was released, the book Téa had spoiled was changed to the final ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' book, a-and her ship was changed from [[CrackShip Harry/Hedwig]] to [[YaoiFangirl Edward/Jacob]].

* AcceptableTargets:
** Internet killjoys.
---> '''Kaiba:''' I'm busy flagging Website/YouTube videos to compensate for the fact that I have an extremely small penis.
** Creator/FourKidsEntertainment in general gets bashed in almost every episode due to their rampant [[{{Bowdlerise}} censorship]] and cheesy scripts. Ironically, [=4Kids=] themselves are actually quite fond of the series, and [[https://twitter.com/yugiohtas/status/958531665776672769?lang=en this is reciprocated]] on [=LittleKuriboh=]'s end.

* TheWoobie:
** Bakura, especially when he's being the ButtMonkey.
** Serenity, until she recovers her eyesight.
** Mokuba takes the cake for this: constantly being told to shut up [[spoiler: and possibly molested by Noah]]. And he's a ButtMonkey too. Actually, being a TheWoobie and the ButtMonkey is practically the same in this show.