Tropes
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Kaiba can no longer remember the events of the first episode due to being mind crushed.
- Serious Business: Losing a children's card game causes many a person to have an existential crisis.
- Shout-Out: Tristan describes himself as the Jar Jar Binks of YGOTAS.
- "Yeah? Well, I'm Knuckles the Echidna."
- "I'm the goddamn Kaiba Man."
- "I don't want to be an American Idiot!
- Sure, Let's Go with That: During a flashback to Marik and Bakura's Villain Team-Up.Bakura: We should be partners.Marik: You mean like partners in CRIME?Bakura: ...yeah. That's precisely what I meant.
- Whole Episode Flashback: Yami and Kaiba flashback to all previous episodes up until that point in order to "save the animators time and money."