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Yugioh S1 Ep 39: Turns Out It’s Really Easy to Be Psychic

So this week I’ve been a little under the weather because of some very aggressive pollen that has given me an eye twitch for two straight weeks (I’m in the most mediocre hell), and so forgive me if the recap is a little sparse and also if I just don’t...get why some things happened this episode. This was the episode where stuff just happens and I asked why to my bro but he kept getting distracted by talking about the actual cards and y’all know I don’t follow those. I can only handle so much lore.

So, I figure well, I know you guys don’t care when I botch understanding the intricate lore of Yugioh so get ready, because here it comes, right out of the gate.

Why is Grandpa here? Did I miss something?

This is the first time Pharaoh and he have met and what wonderful timing. Not sure how Grandpa is able to just appear, or if maybe this is just a figment of Yugi’s left over brain, or if Pharaoh just willed this to happen with puzzle powers? I dunno, it’s unimportant because he shows up randomly for a few minutes and then zip, he’s just gone.

Like even in a dream Grandpa was a playing card. This grandpa is like...a full on Grandpa, just hanging out in the open forum that is Yugi’s head.

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On the other side of the pale, Yugi’s three friends decide they need to do the friendship thing. The power of friendship. The all-encompassing power of friendship that is in every anime but never fully explained. This is fine. I’ve seen anime before, so I’m already familiar with this.

But instead of thinking “I believe in you!” and then having Yugi -who is already psychic-overhearing it, they instead have this a ritual they go through to psychically hang out in Yugi’s head.

Where did they learn to do this? Like if Pharaoh or Yugi or Bakura or any of the psychic players had explained even a little bit of How To Do Psychic Stuff I’d be like sure, this is fine. Instead, it’s like the puzzle makes it so the friends can just bum on over to Yugi’s head? Just like that? Why would they even have this idea?

But nah, this is just a thing that happens now--and while it probably won’t be utilized ever again, now we know that, if they felt like it, the three friends could just shake hands and then be like “hey Pharaoh, what’s up?”

And I watch these episodes with my bro and I asked him “bro, what was...what was happening here?” and although he is my house expert on Yugioh he was like,

“Uh, I don’t remember this part at all.”

“So HOW did this happen? Like, freakin Joey can’t be more psychic than Pegasus with a millennium eyeball, right? Is Yugi just a discord server you can log onto? How was it that easy?”

“I dunno, puzzle necklace!”

“The answer can’t just be puzzle necklace!”

“PUZZLE NECKLACE!”

The first time that Yugi’s friends get to finally meet Pharaoh and throw a sweet ass brain party in his own space, is a time where Yugi is completely prone and won’t remember any of it. This show just loves dunking on Yugi Muto.

How sweet would that brain party be though? And I don’t mean in a literal sense, because that party would suck so much, but it would be sweet because it would be so weird. Pharaoh seems like the type of guy who, after being alone for 4000 years is like “crap, I have company!?” and then puts on an Enya CD and is like “Enya’s what you’re into, right? Sail Away?” and then pulls out like 100 gallons of alcohol and is like “finally! I can do something with all this beer I got buried with--oh wait--kid’s can’t drink in this century! Beans!” and then after about a few bottles in as the evening wears on is like “Pssst- I know what your thinking because I can literally read your mind and so CHECK THIS OUT: it’s a canopic jar: YEAH that’s my liver! Just kidding that’s a soap dispenser. I have no idea where my liver is.”

So there’s this monster on Pegasus’ side. My bro talked to me about 10 minutes of why this monster is the worst and I don’t recall any of it, but just know that apparently in the actual game this upcoming sequence is not even possible.

Not like I’m going to go into depth into Pegasus’ gross cards because 1.) I don’t cover duels here and 2.) it’s very...

There is a lot of...sexual undertones in the duel monsters. Like Pharaoh’s ultimate monster was just covered in belts, which is his MO, but also it’s like...kinda BDSM-ey? It’s hard to avoid it because...just look at that eyeball thing. How did that air? With that...appendage?

Anyway, they win, thanks to the unlimited supply of friendship but mostly an unlimited supply of hair. I spared you having to see that eyeball monster do a lot of really gross things.

Can you imagine if your best friends got to walk through your mind? It’s like if they read your journal but a million times closer than that. It’s more like if they saw you on the toilet. That type of closeness. Privacy just doesn’t seem to be a concept on this show.

Anyway, Yugi is back, with some battle damage, but overall just fine despite the fact he...died? Semi-died? Super unclear how he’s back or if he was gone or...if I’m thinking too much.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot that Pegasus’ wife is probably a zombie somewhere. Oh man this arc really isn’t over, is it? This isn’t the last episode of the season--we’re...really far off from that actually.

Man this high-five where they biff it is really good.

Pleased with themselves, they turn around to cash in their prizes only to realize the obvious:

I am very shocked, now that I think of it, that Pharaoh decided not to mind-wipe Pegasus. Of everyone you could have mind-wiped, this was The Guy. Like yes, it doesn’t work very well, but if it only worked long enough to get off this island, then it would have been worth it. I guess Pharaoh was overly distracted by other things. He was just so excited about the impromptu block party in his head.

WHAT?

We went through THREE EPISODES saving Mokuba from Bakura and now we’re just gonna leave the two together? Man, Tristan is so confident in his work he seems to forget that Everything Golden Is Magic And Can’t Be Trusted With Children.

JUST WOW!

Anyway, Bakura’s gonna take a break from snatching Mokuba because he wants to add an eyeball to his collection.

Anyways, next week, on Yugioh:

Will it be revealed that there’s like 60 Cecilia’s, but they’re all built horrifically wrong? Where’s my anime lunch!? Is Seto Kaiba also just hanging out in a cell waiting for Tristan to come over and give him a piggy back ride?