Broken Base: A lot of people are divided on the quality of Yu-Gi-Oh GX Abridged since ShadyVox left to pursue his music career, some think it's still good, some don't but think Xthedarkone just needs time to find his voice on his own and some have given up entirely on the series. Specifically, this was sparked by episode 19, his take on a much-maligned filler episode of the original series, which barely parodies the episode and instead spends 2/3 of the video on either commentary or a mock trailer for the next one.
Creator's Pet: Syrus. He regularly one-ups Jaden in terms of one-liners, everyone thanks him for doing something even when it's Jaden who did it while Syrus just stood around doing nothing, and most of his canon baggage is either underplayed or outright gone. xthedarkone later admitted that he likes Syrus more as the protagonist and doesn't like Jaden that much, hence Syrus' preferential treatment.
Fridge Brilliance: Crowler really hates Jaden. One would think after so many mishaps he would expell Jaden with no issue. Yet in episode 13, Crowler insist to punish Jaden with Tennis even when Jaden himself dangled the chance of getting expelled. Was Crowler being an idiot? Well, maybe, but there's a chance Crowler knows more than he lets on.
During the duel against Cameron, Jaden lets out the fact he (and a lot of the students as well) hates Tennis. Crowler maybe knew that and that's indeed why he punished him with Tennis.
Also, Jaden dangling the chance of getting expelled because he's tired of all the craziness around might had clued Crowler that expelling him wouldn't feel like a punishment. So instead he decided to keep Jaden at the school playing Tennis just to make him suffer.
In episode 16 Jaden rails on Dimitri hardcore for using Dark Magician of Chaos because it's banned. Since the airing of that episode Dark Magician of Chaos is not only not banned, but it's completely unlimited (meaning you can have the maximum 3 copies in a deck) at that.
Win Back the Crowd: Episode 20 offered a much tighter, funnier script than what came before, xJerry64x giving a better performance of Jaden than before, Syrus doesn't act as a Spotlight-Stealing Squad, features PurpleEyesWTF as Ojama Yellow, AND Shadyvox returns! Worth the wait indeed.
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Growing the Beard: The footage that was used was originally ripped from low-quality dubs, and the humor was what one might expect from an early Abridged Series. Come the second half of the Seven Stars arc however, and the quality of the footage increased by using raw footage of the Japanese version, while also making more consistent characterization in the process, even using elements from the original series, which also boosted the quality of the jokes as well.
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