The Man Who Would Be Steve is the thirty-sixth episode of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series and the fourteenth episode of Season 2.
Description
"Friendship is like an ointment, when you've been stung by fifty bees! Wherever you rub it, it always feels better, because it's a topical analgesic! Oh, and uh, Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged. There."
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Cultural references
- The episode title is a pun on the book The Man Who Would Be King.
- The passing cards in the opening include Jeff Goldblum (in an image from the movie Jurassic Park), a Cylon (from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV show), Tinky Winky (from the Teletubbies TV show), the G-Man (from the Half Life game franchise), and Purple Tentacle (from the Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle game).
- Kaiba blames rap music for Joey's brainwashing; which was a common blame for teenage delinquent behaviour in America during the 1990s.
- Joey says "There is no Joey; there is only Steve," similar to the line "There is no Dana; there is only Zuul," from the movie Ghostbusters.
- Yami asking what happened to his jacket references how in the actual episode, Yugi is hit by a fireball which makes his cape fly off; this scene was cut from the English version.
- Tea sings "Total Eclipse of the Heart", a song written by Jim Steinman. The well-known Bonnie Tyler version is played later in the episode.
- Devlin states that "You're making me sexy. You won't like me when I'm sexy," a reference to the Hulk's catchphrase "You're making me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry."
- Tristan asks "English motherf*****, do you speak it?" which is a famous line from the movie Pulp Fiction as well as the line "I dare you, I double dare you moutherf*****".
- The way in which Kaiba aims the separate parts of the Steve's body refers to the VATS system in Fallout 3.
- Yugi, Joey and Tristan recite the lyrics of "No Matter What", a song by Mike Pasternack.
- The cut-away line refers to the Jonas Brothers, also reference in the previous episode.
- The description is made up of the lyrics to a song from "The Brak Show".
- The stinger is a quote said by former pro-wrestler the Iron Sheik.
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