The Not-So-Super Roba Bros. | |
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Season 2, Episode 29 | |
Air date | June 11, 2008 |
Length | 0:07:27 |
Created by | LittleKuriboh |
Link | TeamFourStar | DuelTube |
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Episode Synopsis[]
This episode has Joey duelling the faux-psychic Espa Roba. Joey has a difficult time at first, because Espa's younger siblings are helping him to cheat. However, after Mokuba thwarts the Roba siblings' attempts to cheat, Joey is able to defeat Espa and take his rarest card, Jinzo.
References[]
- (Title) The episode title is a reference to the "Super Mario Bros." franchise.
- (00:00) This is an example of the Don't Try This at Home trope.
- (01:10) "Eeeeeh (munches) what's up Doc?" is the catchphrase of Bugs Bunny from The Looney Toons .
- (01:16) Charlie Brown is a character from the comic strip/cartoon, Peanuts . Espa Roba is wearing a shirt similar to Charlie Brown's, although Charlie's is yellow with a black stripe.
- (01:47) Miss Cleo is a self-proclaimed psychic and shaman who achieved fame as a spokeswoman in television ads.
- (02:04) DuelTube.com is a play on YouTube.com, with a similar logo. Like the fake DuelTube, YouTube has many illegally uploaded movies, as well as self-made music videos.
- (02:19) Windows Movie Maker is an amateur video editing program that is packaged with many Windows operating systems.
- (02:20) The music playing during Tristan's AMV is "I Swear" by All-4-One .
- (02:55) Waldo of "Where's Waldo" fame is briefly seen while Roba is pretending to use his psychic abilities.
- (03:52) Bakura is crushed by a "Thwomp" from Super Mario Bros. Random people getting crushed by Thwomps was a common fad on YTMND at one time.
- (03:58) When Mokuba chases the Roba siblings, "Ghost Love Score" by Nightwish plays and "Epic Mokuba Manoeuvre" is shown on the screen. This is a reference to another YTMND fad which began with a clip of Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation rolling under a door (when he had ample time to just crouch and walk under it), titled "Epic Geordi Manoeuvre".
- (05:09) Peanut Butter Jelly Time is an animated, dancing banana singing "It's peanut butter jelly time!" , a song by the Buckwheat Boyz .
- (05:23) The "lame internet references" that Joey is holding include, from left to right :
- 1st card : Tay Zonday from "Chocolate Rain" .
- 2nd card : Suiseiseki from Rozen Maiden , the doll that keeps saying "DESU!" , which is a Japanese word that doesn't have any specific meaning in English.
- 3rd card : The O RLY owl .
- 4th card : Kroze , from the YGOTAS forums.
- (05:46) Naruto: The Abridged Series , created by MasakoX and Vegeta3986, often involves jokes about how Sasuke is emo and his difficulties telling apart people from logs.
- (06:01) Joey is reciting the lyrics of "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" by Dead or Alive .
- (Credits) Grandpa's audio is a speech made by Senator Robert Byrd after Michael Vick's illegal dog fighting controversy.
- (Post-Credits) This is a reference to LittleKuriboh himself, who proposed to his current ex-wife through a YouTube video , also in a field backed by trees.