Noel has a traumatic experience with a certain Pokémon card that he never recovers from.
Audio from Black Heritage Month Podcast
https://roosterteeth.com/watch/rttv-specials-2021-bhm-2-5
Animated by: Chris Bak
Directed by: Andrew Lhotsky
Oh man-THIS REMINDS ME so much of when I got hustled of my 10 bucks when some kid in my class said he had the last japanese volumes of an anime I was into-I DIDN'T get those vhs tapes. I got hustled.
yeah every school had those hustler kids with the pokemon and yugioh cards. if they thought you had something good they would trick you out of it. or make you think you wanted something else.
When I worked at a Q'doba back in the mid 00s, we used to pound Diet Surge just to mess wit h the owner's inventory counts. Diet Surge had, by far, the most inventory roll-over of any of the drinks.