Dueling Shows

Bakumon.

Kinda like Digimon (with the goggled leader) and Yu-Gi-Oh! (cards) combined.It is seriously getting annoying.I watched enough of that show to get the hotshot-spikey-hair leader,the smart kid,the dumb blonde and the rival-who-thinks-he's-better-than-everyone-one-else-black-haired-rebel-anti-hero-who-eventually-pulls-through-for-his-stereotypical-friends.Also,the main monsters selected for the humans reminds me of that Metabot show.
 
I don't mean to nitpick, but you named two shows since Chaotic and Yu-Gi-Oh! are two different shows.

As for the thread, I can't think of another series, unless you count Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. They're both obviously Yu-Gi-Oh! series, but they're two different series that still function under the category of a duel show for this thread.
 
I'd like to point out that the link provided at the beginning of the thread really has nothing to do with card game shows...



That's Bakugan. :sweat:
 
I suppose that one could compare “Drawn Together” with “Total Drama Island”, despite the fact that they’re not really competing with one another. They both share the same premise of “animated reality show”, but both were modeled after a different type of reality show and were handled differently than one another.
 
In Ed, Edd and Eddy, there was an episode that involved a duel. Eddy insults Rowlf by throwing a fishball at a fence, an insult in Rowlf's country. Later, when Edd suggests Eddy bring a flower to Rowlf and attempt to apologize for his actions, Rowlf mistakes the flower for the "potted shrub of ridicule" and challenges Eddy to a duel.

Eddy refuses, but then Kevin drags him over to the battle arena--essentially a 10-foot(?) deep trench with a log spanning it, and Eddy and Rowlf's weapons are, believe it or not, Fish!

Interesting side note: Eddy and Rowlf's Fish duel was almost perfectly ripped off in an episode of Brandy and Mr Whiskers, substituting Whiskers and Ed the Weasel in the roles of Eddy and Rowlf. To this day I wonder if someone at Disney had seen the EE&E fish duel and borowed from it.
 
This thread isn’t about duels, nor is it about card games. People should really click on the link and read the website before they post. :sweat:

Just to be clear, this isn’t directed at anybody in particular; I’m just trying to clear up some confusion.
 
Just FTR, it's Rolf. 'Rowlf' is the name of the piano playing dog on the Muppets. Rolf is a real name; Jim Henson just added the 'w' to the dog's name for comic effect, to imitate the sound of a dog barking.


Also, I don't think that's the subject of this thread; not sure what the theme is, though. :sweat:
 
I tried watching Yu-Gi once... They spent literally about 2-3 minutes actually setting up the danged monsters..the monsters fought for maybe half that time or less... Ugh. Where's a show like He-Man, or Thundercats? THAT'S an action show..
 
Yu-Gi-Oh is about more strategy and tactics then action.I don't mind that but I rather have a show that can balance it all out better.
 
Spongebob Squarepants and Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island.

Or so I've heard. I haven't really watched the show, but people keep saying Coconut Fred was a ripoff, so....
 
The fact that both shows featured an excitable man-child character with buck teeth as the titular star and the vocal talents of Bill Fagerbakke didn't help to dissuade the constant comparisons between the 2.
 
You know, I'm surprised that so far no one has mentioned Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Test. Fans are constantly drawing comparisons between the 2 shows.

Both shows star prepubescent boys who live with their parents and have older sisters, and both stars lead active lives involving the government, mad science, super heroes. super villains, space aliens and the like that are mostly unknown by their parents, and both main characters are rarely (if ever) seen hang out with other kids their age, but that's where the similarities end.
 
Dexter is mentioned on that page but is compared with Jimmy Neutron on the grounds of "boy genius with science projects that repeatedly go wrong".
 
Yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh! is more about the strategy and tactics than anything action. Anytime my mom catches a bit of it, at least when it was one television, she would say that it was just dialogue with a card game eventually put into play. That's basically right, yet I enjoy it for what it is anyway.



The link actually didn't really work for me. I thought that this thread was about actually dueling/card game like shows, based on the two posts before me. My mistake. Sorry about that.

I do have a pair of similar shows that would fit for this thread. Beyblade and Battle B'Daman. Beyblade, as most people here know, was a show about kids playing with spinning tops in important tornaments that had spirits inside of them. Battle B'Daman, on the other hand, pretty much involved the same thing except it pretty much had a dramatized version of marbles. Yes, I said marbles. It was that weird. And people here complain about Bakugan when Battle B'Daman was pretty much worse, in my opinion.
 
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