Tropes
- Acting Unnatural: Marik tries to "behave totally normally" by encouraging everyone to make out with each other violently (because that's what friends do). Tea and Mai immediately glance at each other.
- Big "NO!": Yami, when Melvin sends Mai to the beach.
- Clip Show
- Incest Subtext: Noah makes several questionable (and unwanted) moves toward his adoptive brother Mokuba. And of course, both he and Gozaburo want Kaiba's body.
- Lame Comeback: "I guess I could have picked your butt!"
- Mythology Gag: Black Tristan brings up the Blue Peeps Honkey Dragon
. - "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Tea gets hit with an "actual 4Kids dialogue" subtitle for randomly shooting Serenity down for calling some kids cute.
- Rapid-Fire Comedy: While every episode of the series dabbles in this trope, this episode takes it up to eleven by recapping two seasons in one go.
- Running Gag:
- I don't understand why it's called that! / Nobody does, it isn't funny.
- Dick move, bro!
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the end of the episode, Serenity stops trying to convince Téa to take her to the mall and instead wants to go home because Téa crossed the line by bringing up Serenity's surgery and her parents' divorce.
- Shout-Out:
- Joey makes a call to the cast of Pokémon The 'Bridged Series to let them know that his Rattata is top percentage.
- "Watch [adult swim] Bakura!"
- "It looks like this meme... is really old". YEEEEEEAAAAAAAH
- Yami swaps the "Tell me!" meme with "It's over 9000".
- Gozaburo mimics Oz.
- Noah's death scene is compared to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Tristan does his take on Russell Crowe's Javert for... some reason.
- The title references Dragon Ball Z Kai, which redid the original Z series before the new arc.
- The Smurfette Principle: Kaiba describes Mai as Battle City's "token female lady woman".
- However, it's implied that Kaiba couldn't discern Ishizu's (very obvious) gender when she has her face covering on, because her involvement in the tournament means this trope isn't in effect for once.
- Take That, Audience!: One episode later!Melvin: Winged Dragon of Ra!
- This Is Gonna Suck: Serenity's reaction to Téa fondly reminiscing about traumatic events.
- [Trope Name]:Yami: We're in a four-way!
Joey: Sex jokes! - Who Writes This Crap?!: This episode's ample use of flashbacks makes for a lot of mocking of past jokes that ended up falling flat. Targets include:
- Kaiba's Nazi henchmen.
- The joke names of the Egyptian God Cards.
- Yami Marik being named Melvin.
- The members of Team Four Star being cast as the Big Five.
- The entire time that Tristan was a robot monkey.
