Duel of the Dead is the twelfth episode of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series.
Description[]
Zombies make everything better.
Does Citizen Kane have zombies? Well it should.
Joey doesn't stand a ghost of a chance when he is up against Zombies.
Summary[]
Joey Wheeler is having a nightmare in which he is being chased by a Blue Eyes White Dragon and encounters a giant Seto Kaiba, who makes him dress like a dog. Joey then wakes up and Téa Gardner gives Yugi Muto a letter from Mai Valentine, but it's just pink smudges. Tristan Taylor mocks this and accuses Mai of being Yugi's girlfriend, after which Yugi comments that Tristan will be getting a mind crush.
The group is then being spied on by Zombie Boy, Zygor, and Sid who have been employed by Bandit Keith, who decides to orchestrate a duel between Zombie Boy and Joey. Zygor captures Joey and takes him to a duel arena in a cave. Yugi, Tea, Tristan, and Ryo Bakura then start wondering about Joey and decide to go search for him. During the duel, Joey questions why Keith didn't just take his star chips when he was unconscious and then Keith has Zombie Boy sing "The Star-Spangled Banner," but Zombie Boy can only say "brains".
In the cave, Yugi and the group continue searching for Joey, but crazy shenanigans ensue, such as Tea getting attacked by a skeleton, and discovering a fake boulder that seemingly crushes Bakura. Eventually, Joey is found and has almost lost to Zombie Boy. However, Joey is able to defeat him and the group proceeds to try and get out of the cave, but they are sealed inside it with a cardboard boulder by Keith's henchmen.
Trivia[]
- Yugi's inability to read Mai's letter pokes fun at the 4Kids version of the episode, which censored the kanji.
Cultural References[]
- The title is a reference to the film Dawn of the Dead. Also, the famous shopping mall music The Gonk plays at the end.
- Bandit Keith's Shakespeare quote is from Hamlet, with "Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest" replaced by "in America". It is the most frequently parodied line in Shakespeare's works and is traditionally mentioned whenever a character picks up a skull.
- The song that plays during the duel between Joey and Zombie Boy is Thriller by Michael Jackson.
- The song that plays while the boulder is chasing Yugi, Téa, Tristan, and Bakura is the theme song to Katamari Damacy.
- The line "The only way to kill a zombie is to destroy the brain" is from The Walking Dead.
- Joey misinterprets Yugi's comment about Serenity for the Joss Whedon film of the same name. Serenity was based off the short-lived TV series Firefly, which is also mentioned by Joey.
- Joey's line, "let's get out of here before we get eaten by a grue," is a reference to the Zork text game (and later, video game) series created by Infocom (now owned by Activision) in the early 1980s, in which the player character will be eaten by a grue if he spends too much time in a place without any form of light, usually caves, and/or tunnels.
- The stinger is from an episode of Family Guy.
- When Bakura trips a trap, he says "oh smeg", a reference to a British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf.
- "Yugi touched me. That means we're engaged." A particularly ridiculous episode of You're Under Arrest claimed this was the law in Mongolia.
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