Yugioh GX season 1 is so funny when you watch with the knowledge that the protag has a secondhand bodycount that only the principal knows about.
The kid with a secondhand bodycount is applying to your school? Sure, but he only gets in if he makes the grade - but oh no, his train is late and your elitist teacher is trying to reject him before he even gets a chance? Well, maybe you can grease the wheels a bit.
Your elitist teacher is openly cackling about the matched he rigged to get the kid with a secondhand bodycount expelled? Do nothing, say nothing. Make a snippy comment when the kid with a secondhand bodycount wins anyway.
Need some top-tier duelists to protect the keys to unleashing the god cards lite? Okay, maybe the kid with a secondhand bodycount does make sense here. Or it could still be a terrible idea.
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...You know what? Originally I left it here for the joke but actually no, I'm gonna pull out my tinfoil hat and talk about the other kid at DA with a dueling bodycount. No, not Hell Kaiser. Not the abandoned dorm stuff. Not any of the kids who hold seances to summon duel spirits for a winter horror episode or anything. I mean:
Motegi, AKA Belowski. The season 1 opponent who's introduced for a one-off episode and then left to cameo a couple times in the rest of the series, mostly in crowd shots. He's at DA as late as the series finale, at which point he's been a student for six years (Judai's first year is his fourth). And he might be there even longer! I'm not even sure he's even allowed to graduate, as opposed to being indefinitely contained at Duel Academia.
If Judai still had Yubel around when he started at Duel Academia, and they were found to be causing problems...would Judai be isolated the same way Motegi does? It's not like DA has the resources to actually handle their spirit problems, and yet the resources it does have make it a better place than most to keep them in the meantime.
GX has a lot of weird one-off episodes whose implications are never fully explored but the Motegi episode stuck with me, so much that I wrote a whole fic as a baby GX fan trying to imagine what his deal was. Now in the year 2k23 I'm looking at this and wondering what his situation could have suggested for Judai's fate if his spirit/dueling bodycount problem hadn't taken a couple more years to rear its head...
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The Ultimate Episode Tournament: Round 2 Match 23
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I've seen these Love in the Air special episode GIF(t)s so much that I noticed:
Payu is fucking with a necklace that has a cross on it, and the Catholic in me appreciates a man of faith educating the masses on the difference between father and daddy
The photo Prapai has on his desk came from this trip after they dried off
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Ooooh, you've got some good tastes there, I've been meaning to check out Behind the Bastards myself. If you are an Adventure Zone enjoyer, I can and will point you towards Dungeons and Daddies (HIGHLY RECOMMEND), and SkyJacks. If you want more I can pass a few more your way ez pz~
Behind the Bastards is a good one but i would definitely. space it out with some lighter topics cos some of those eps get Dark. I havent gotten into the DnD/Roleplaying podcasts yet, i struggle with more like....fictional ones? but i think TAZ is on my eventual list.
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kurt hummel in every performance
2x09 - Special Education
Valerie - Santana Lopez + New Directions
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How would Wally interact with an autistic child if he's there special interest? And what's more, are there any adult who treats the puppets well?
The puppets meet a variety of children at their meet-and-greets, but Wally is especially ready for all scenarios 
He’s ready for anything
He’s trained himself to be the most open and welcoming figure kids can look up to (figuratively) he’s basically fluent in asl
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He’s not fluent in any , but he knows a few languages which includes Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and a few more he’s especially not good at.
Worth noting, he studies Child Development to help write the best educational and entertaining episodes they can
I forgot to answer the second question, but yeah of course there’s adults who treat puppets equally, not everyone can be a horrible person. It’s the majority of big industries that are still assholes, and some small groups of bigots will always exist . That’s the way humans are
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