Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 065

"Mime Control, Part 1"

Names
English	Mime Control, Part 1
Japanese name Japanese マリク始動（しどう） 神（かみ）のコンボ Base マリク始動 神のコンボ Furigana マリクしどう かみのコンボ Rōmaji Mariku Shidō Kami no Konbo Translated Marik Makes His Move: God Combo
Series
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh!
Number	65
Season	2
Music
Japanese OP	"S H U F F L E"
Japanese ED	"The Afternoon of that Day"
English OP & ED	"Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 2 Theme"
Staff
Screenplay	Atsushi Maekawa
Air dates
Japanese	July 24, 2001
English	March 8, 2003
Chronology
Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes (season 2)
Previous	"Playing with a Parasite, Part 2"
Next	"Mime Control, Part 2"

"Mime Control, Part 1", known as "Marik Makes His Move: God Combo" in the Japanese version, is the sixty-fifth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. It first aired in Japan on July 24, 2001, and in the United States on March 8, 2003.

Strings, controlled by Marik via Millennium Rod, Duels using "Slifer the Sky Dragon" against Yami Yugi.

Featured Duel: Yami Yugi vs. Strings, Part 1

Turn 1: Strings
Strings draws a card (Strings’ Deck 35 - 34)and subsequently sets it. He then Normal Summons "Humanoid Slime" (800/2000) in Attack Position.

Turn 2: Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi draws. He then Sets a card and Normal Summons "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" (1500/1200) in Attack Position.

Turn 3: Strings
Strings draws "Worm Drake" and subsequently Normal Summons it (1400/1500) in Attack Position. He then activates "Polymerization" to fuse "Humanoid Slime" with "Worm Drake" and Fusion Summon "Humanoid Worm Drake" (2200/2000) in Attack Position.

Since Fusion Monsters cannot attack during the turn they are Fusion Summoned, Strings activates his face-down "Quick Attack" to bypass that rule. "Humanoid Worm Drake" attacks "Gazelle", but Yami Yugi activates his face-down "De-Fusion" to return "Humanoid Worm Drake" to Strings' Fusion Deck and Special Summon both "Humanoid Slime" (800/2000) and "Worm Drake" (1400/1500) in Attack Position. A replay occurs, and Strings chooses not to attack.

Turn 4: Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi draws "Buster Blader". He then Normal Summons "Beta The Magnet Warrior" (1700/1600) in Attack Position. "Beta The Magnet Warrior" attacks and destroys "Worm Drake" (Strings 4000 → 3700). "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" attacks and destroys "Humanoid Slime" (Strings 3700 → 3000).

Turn 5: Strings
Strings draws "Revival Jam" and subsequently Normal Summons it (1500/500) in Defense Position. He then activates "Jam Breeding Machine". Now during each of Strings' turns, A Slime Token will be Special Summoned to Strings' side of the field in Attack Position. If Strings summons any other monsters besides Slime Tokens, "Jam Breeding Machine" will be destroyed.

Turn 6: Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi draws. Yami Yugi's hand contains "Buster Blader", "Spellbinding Circle", "Dark Magician", and "Magical Hats". He then Tributes "Beta The Magnet Warrior" and "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" to Tribute Summon "Buster Blader" (2600/2300) in Attack Position. "Buster Blader" attacks and destroys "Revival Jam". Since "Revival Jam" is destroyed, it revives itself (1500/500) in Defense Position via its own effect.

Turn 7: Strings
Strings' hand contains "Pot of Greed" and "Slifer the Sky Dragon". Strings draws "Jam Defender". Strings then activates the effect of "Jam Breeding Machine" to Special Summon one "Slime Token" to his side of the field (500/500) in Attack Position. Strings Sets a card.

Turn 8: Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi draws. "Buster Blader" attacks "Slime Token", but Strings activates his face-down "Jam Defender" to redirect the attack to "Revival Jam". "Buster Blader" destroys "Revival Jam" instead, but "Revival Jam" revives itself (1500/500) in Defense Position shortly after.

Turn 9: Strings
Strings draws "Nightmare's Steelcage". Strings then activates activates the effect of "Jam Breeding Machine" to Special Summon another "Slime Token" to his side of the field (500/500) in Attack Position. He then activates Nightmare's Steelcage". Now for two turns, no monsters on either side of the field can attack.

Duel continues next episode.

Featured cards

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Strings
Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Humanoid Slime Worm Drake Effect Monsters Revial Jam Slifer the Sky Dragon Magic Cards Jam Breeding Machine Nightmare's Steelcage Polymerization (Alternate version in the dub) Pot of Greed Quick Attack Trap Cards Jam Defender Fusion Deck Fusion Monsters Humanoid Worm Drake

Joey Wheeler
Monster Cards Effect Monsters Insect Queen

Cast

Japanese character name	Japanese voice actor
Yugi Mutou	Shunsuke Kazama
Anzu Mazaki	Maki Saito
Katsuya Jonouchi	Hiroki Takahashi
Hiroto Honda	Hidehiro Kikuchi
Ryo Bakura	Rica Matsumoto
Sugoroku Mutou	Tadashi Miyazawa
Marik	Tetsuya Iwanaga
Ishizu	Sumi Shimamoto
Rishid	KONTA
Man	Eiji Takemoto
Woman	Mariko Nagahama

Differences in adaptations

• In the dub, Yami Yugi's transparent spirit looks around and senses a "darkness approaching" and then disappears, while in the original, although his spirit still looks around, it is Yugi who claims that something is coming after Yami disappears.

• The words "TO BE CONTINUED" are added at the end of the dub episode.

Errors

• In the dub, when "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" is Summoned, its DEF is shown to be 2100.

• In the dub, when Strings draws "Worm Drake", it is shown to be a Level 8 or higher monster instead of Level 4.

• In the dub, when Strings activates "Polymerization", a "De-Fusion" card appears instead. This is corrected on the DVD version of this episode.

• After Yami plays "De-Fusion", Strings is shown with four cards in his hand instead of the three he should have had.

• In both versions, when Strings Special Summons his first "Slime Token", "Revival Jam" is not on his Duel Disk.

• In the dub, when Strings Sets "Jam Defender", "Jam Breeding Machine" is shown on his Monster Card Zone instead of "Revival Jam".

• In the original Japanese version, when "Buster Blader" is in Yugi's hand, it is shown to be a Level 6 monster instead of Level 7.