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The DarkSideIncorporated version (by ShadyVox and XTheDarkOne) provides examples of:

• Actor Allusion: There's a reference to ShadyVox's The Lion King fandubs in episode 2.
  • LittleKuriboh voices Dimitri, the duelist who impersonates Yugi.
• Berserk Button: Jaden + marijuana - Cheetos = RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:
  "Here you go kids, I made you some rice balls. You got three flavors: strawberry, chocolate and antifreeze. Now dig in!"
• Buried Alive: Played for Laughs with Tory.
• Butt Monkey: Syrus and Jaden (see Chew Toy).
• Call Back: Syrus comments that stealing mail is fun in episode eight, which he did in episode three.
• Call Forward: "Yesterday it was tennis, today is a duel giant, TOMORROW IT'S TARZAN!"
• Captain Obvious: Syrus, lampshaded by Jaden.
  Jaden: Syrus, we can play "State the Obvious" later!
  Jaden: Once again, thank you, Captain Obvious.
• Catch Phrase:
  • Reaction shot!
  • Sucks to be you.
  • (Really?) F*** no!!
  • Shutup.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Alexis. She can be Dangerously Genre Savvy sometimes... and other times really really not.
• Chew Toy: For constant emotional trauma, Syrus. For constant physical torment, Jaden (At least once an episode something or someone will cause him grievous bodily harm... and he's broken his coccyx more than once)
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: During Wheeler the monkey's training to be a Duelist, every time it made a mistake, Miley Cyrus music gets blasted in his ears. Alexis wants in on this training.
• Contractual Immortality: Unfortunately for Jaden, everyone is Genre Savvy enough to know he can't die. Hence nearly every single character has mortally wounded him at some point... including an off-screen dog who did something unspeakable to his legs and ate his liver.
  Jaden: I'm the main character, I can't be harmed.
  Syrus: Oh really? (cocks gun)
  Jaden: Uh, guns are my only weakness!
• Cosplay Otaku Boy: Syrus says he likes cosplay, much to Jaden's displeasure.
• Creepy Uncle: Jaden apparently had one of these.
  Bastian: Your uncle sounds...odd.
  Jaden: Actually, my dad said we're not supposed to call him "uncle" anymore.
• Cross Over: With the other Yu-Gi-Oh abridged series for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Tenth Anniversary Movie.
• Dissimile: About half of everything Harrington says.
• The Ditz: Alexis in particular stands out from all the others.
• Drinking Game: "Nuts on the Table". It's just as painful as it sounds.
• Dumb Blonde/Brainless Beauty: Alexis, oh so much.
• Expy: Chazz is basically Seto Kaiba from the original series. Then again, he's too rich to be an expy.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While more of a Jerkass than evil, even Jaden who constantly rags on Syrus and acts more like a dick to him than a friend admits that Zane was too much of a dick to Syrus when they were younger.
• Gone Horribly Right: "OMG! We tried resurrecting Jinzo, and we did!"
• Groin Attack: Nuts on the table.
• Heh Heh, You Said X: Heh, heh, you said "pump action".
  • Bob, this is not the time or the place!
  • Another example from the same episode, when Wheeler the monkey changes all its monsters to Beast types:
  Jaden: Wow, talk about bestiality! ...Heh heh.
• Heroic BSOD: Jaden was very much hoping Wheeler the monkey's deck would not be monkey-themed. Boy was he wrong.
• Ho Yay: With all the ways Jaden describes his relationship with Chazz, his "eternal rival", you'd think someone would bring this up. But he really only wants to skip class to find him. invoked
  • Syrus has a restraining order out against Jaden who tends to violate his personal space in very unwanted ways. Jaden does ask Syrus if he'd be uncomfortable if Jaden kisses him.
• I Banged Your Mom: During Jaden's and Dmitri's duel.
  Dimitri: (impersonating Yugi) You know he's struggling to fit in.
  Jaden: Yeah, well I didn't struggle fitting into his mama.
  Dimitri: E-excuse me?
  Jaden: I. Plowed. Your. Mother.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Jaden. "Don't you dare try to run away from me, Syrus, you can't win! I've been playing Sonic all day." Accompanied immediately thereafter by sound effects from the games.
  • Jaden is also able to jump rooftops due to all his time playing Assassin's Creed.
• Interspecies Romance: Prof Banner and his partner, Pharaoh, aren't in a relationship. He was just joking.
• Jerkass: Jaden. And Zane.
• Larynx Dissonance: All the females, particularly Alexis.
• Left the Background Music On: Jaden uses "Flawless (Go to the City)" by George Michael in his first duel. It is lampshaded and becomes a Leitmotif in later episodes.
• Made of Explodium: All duels somehow end with an explosion. Also lampshaded.
• Most Common Card Game:

  Jaden: "King Me."

  Syrus: "Jaden, we're playing Yahtzee."

  Jaden: "Oh, well, okay, then I want to buy Mayfair."

  Syrus: "What the hell are you talking about!"

  Jaden: "Go fish."

• Noodle Incident: Jaden does a real Motor Mouth one.
  Jaden: Oh, you watch me. I'll get this guy faster than the time I was invited to Crowler's birthday party and everyone got absolutely... ...made things worse and it was rumored that Chazz and Bastion had a gay relationship and no one believed it because... ...and Syrus was convinced that he was pregnant and then he made us go to the emergency room where—
• Noodle Implements: After Yugi's deck is stolen, Jaden says they'd need an armadillo, a chess piece, and a car. The armadillo was later seen wandering the blue dorm, and Bastian believes they're not welcome there anymore.
• No Periods, Period: The story of Alexis' first period... in class.
• Off Model:
  Alexis: Hey, guys look at that badly drawn bush!
  Jaden: Yeah, it does look slightly animated! Almost as if something is about to jump-
  Cue monkey. Hilarity Ensues.
• Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Inverted and subverted in Episode 13
  Alexis: Is that an erection in your pocket or are you just a tennis ball?
• The Other Darrin: In Episode 5 and 6, ShadyVox voiced all the characters during Xthedarkone's temporary absence.
• Overly Long Gag: Bob's, um, Susan's phone call.
  • Tory falling through their glass doors.
• Parrot Exposition: In episode 15 with the words "Stake out".
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Syrus, in episode 9, when he raps.
  • Zig-zagged with Jaden, who can't rap within the series itself (such as episode 9) but in the crossover videos he can rap extremely well.
• Running Gag: Numerous, including...
  • Reaction shot!
  • Meanwhile, back at the toolshed. (+1 watermelon)
    • Subverted when the announcer tries to say, "Meanwhile, at Duel Acadetoolshed"! His attempt to get a watermelon failed.
  • That's the last time we take directions from a blind guy!
  • Also Jaden experiencing grievous bodily harm (usually inflicted by the other characters) off-screen. E.g.:
  Jaden: Ow! My coccyx!
  • Crowler getting hit in the face with balls.
  Crowler: And that was the last time I ever got hit by a ball. (Gets smacked in the eye with a tennis ball) Oh God, not again!
• Schedule Slip: Although intoxicated, ShadyVox said a new episode would be finished soon. (He was telling the truth. One did come out.)
  • Most of the Schedule Slip can be explained by the fact that Shady Vox is paid to rap or create theme songs.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Chazz.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jaden tries to surrender both his Winged Kuriboh card and quit the Academy because of how insane it all is, but by trying to quit he accidentally reforms the villain of the week and he gives up on trying to leave.
• Shout Out:
  • Time's up, ready guys? Let's do this! CHAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ PRIIIIIIIIIIINCETON!!
    • It doesn't work nearly as well as when Syrus tries it.
    • And Jaden got cut off before he could finish his.
  • Probably unintentional but in Episode 6 'Taggin' Tactics' we have this exchange.
  Syrus: Jaden, do we really have to do this?
  Jaden: Yes, yes we do because that's what friends do.
  • "Ring, ring, ring. Phone call! Phone call!"
  • "Come on, let's go! Three on three, Red vs. Blue, no camp kills!"
  • "Cheese it!"
• Stop Helping Me!: Winged Kuriboh in Episode 14.
• Strange Minds Think Alike
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The Paradox Brothers are really out of practice at first. They get better.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: "Syrus, sit down! And I definitely did not put a whoopee cushion there."
• Synchro Vox: "Tennis (close-up to Jaden's mouth) suuuuucks."
• Take That:
  Jaden: That's right! That Millenium Item is as fake as all the other Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Abridged Series! Everybody knows that mine is the best!
  • And, of course, LittleKuriboh and Shady Vox's fans get a Take That too.
    Jaden: I gotta comment. "First." Yes! I am awesome... I'm gonna ask him when the next one's going to be.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Jaden sees Winged Kuriboh as this. He's tried selling it, he's tried trading it, he's tried sending it to Australia, it's like droopy, it always comes back.
• The Unintelligible: Chumley.
  • Jaden subverts this by interpreting one of Chumley's grunts in incredible detail.
  • Chumley finally starts talking while dueling his father - and he is not pleased. But it's never mentioned again anyway.
  • Winged Kuriboh. Jaden can also understand him, though.
• Vocal Evolution: Whilst ShadyVox and TheDarkOne have always been consistently good in the earlier episodes, the audio quality improved over the episodes. The higher quality professional setup probably helped too.
• “Well Done Son” Guy: Chumley and his father.
• Weirdness Magnet: the Duel Academy. hilariously lampshaded by Jaden in episode 14.

  Jaden: Seriously, why does this crap always happen here! Yesterday it was tennis! Today it's a duel giant! Tomorrow it's TARZAN! THIS PLACE IS CRAZY!

• Your Other Left: Bastian has to tell Jaden which way to look.
  Bastian: There's a duel going on. On your left is Dimitri.
  Jaden: (looks right) Ooooh.
  Bastian: No, no, Jaden. Your other left.
  Jaden: (looks left) Ooooh.
  Bastian: And he's dueling Syrus.
  Jaden: I see.
  Bastian: ...He's on the right.
  Jaden: (looks right) Ooooh. Gotcha.

The Sephirex version provides examples of:

• Berserk Button / Cluster F-Bomb: Do not steal Alexis's Lucky Charms.
• Catchphrase: "It's time to cheat!"
• Crossover: After being defeated by jaden, that guy from youtube decided to quit, meanwhile Sephirex warns ZionKraze about the flaggers.
• Emo Kid: Chazz. "I'm not emo, it's just my card!"
• Gag Sub: In Episode 11, when the subtitles counted the days of Jaden and his friends' travels, eventually they read, "The Day I Stopped Caring What Day It was!"
• Hide Your Lesbians: 4Kids Lesbo Alarm!
• No Fair Cheating: So. Totally. Averted.
• Phrase Catcher: Dimitri - and he even did it wrong, too: "Turn your game on!"
• Precision F-Strike: Holy s***! Did Yubel say f***?
• Reference Overdosed
• Running Gag: Dr. Banner is apparently really the other Dr. Banner.
  • The elemental heroes are power rangers.
  • Crowler's Super Smelly tokens.
  • Most of the main elemental heroes are references to the characters they are based on, execpt for Clayman who is Clay Aiken.
  • V-Tiger Jet is Tigatron while the VWXYZ dragon catapult cannon is a megazord. Flame Wingman was also referred to a megazord but this joke was promptly dropped in favor of "Elemental Hero Manwoman".
  • Jaden's finishing move phrases which he says very, very fast.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted.
  Jaden: Okay, the longer they rhyme and argue, the more time I have to set up my deck and cheat.
• Take That:
  • "Man, these guys are worse than K-Fed!" / "Alright, Jaden, let's knock 'em dead!"
  • "Who watches Chaotic?" This tends to happen a lot when another show's name appears on-screen, starting in episode 2, "Seriously, who the hell watches D.I.C.E.?"
  • Shortly after chazz [called wing kuriboh more worthless than a regular kuriboh, it destroyed the V to Z dragon catapult canon, it then said something and the subtitles translated to "Who's worthless now bitch?"
• Theme Tune Cameo: Jaden's ringtone in episode 2 is The Legend of Zelda theme.
• The Unintelligible: Bastion (even in his head) and Winged Kuriboh.
• Too Dumb to Live: TWICE, Bryer has a card that says "If you play this card you win" in his hand and he doesn't play it.
  • Not to mention a Chuck Norris card the first time around.
• Wall of Text: Bastion's description of Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of Chuck Norris.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: "You know it's times like these where it would make more sense to go over there and punch him in the face"
  • "I Swear when I get a hold of the writing staff I'm gonna kill them for this."
  • "Hey lady why you so darn big?" "Moo!(Blame the character desginer)" "Wow for once I can't blame 4kids!"
  • "I play fairy doll wing, therefore making winged kuriboh level 10, giving it retarded dragon-like armor" "What the F**K?"

The RaymsCreator version provides examples of:

• Author Existence Failure