Dragon Ball Z Abridged EP 56 | DBZA REACTION 

I am dying. Melon being deep about Goku's struggles with fighting and being number 1 and he was talking about doing the deed with Chi-Chi. I just can't

Dende saying "that hurt me more than it hurt you" is a reference to the fact that namekians are sensitive to whistling as established in Lord slug and that's why piccolo went "ow!" when Dende wolf-whistled.

I love when Popo literally cracks his smile at Dende's "your funeral," line.

Krillin had one of my favorite lines in the episode "I feel like a man dying of thirst watching another man drown"

Like how Mr. Satan is such a great character and practically a joke that TFS didn't even need to abridge him. His lines aren't far off of what he would have said in the actual show

I just realized that video of 16 had a bird in the cage behind him. Wow, they did some incredible things with that bit.

"GO for TEN!" .. I literally just got that.

Love how Dende's still referring to Piccolo as Nail🤣🤣

"I feel like a man dying of thirst watching another man drown" Probably one of my most used quotes from the series. Genius writing

19:20 one detail I love is that Bulma is the first person Goku tells about Ch-Chi's pregnancy. It's especially sweet when you remember that Bulma was Goku's first friend.

In the original, Vegeta, Trunks and Piccolo went separately into the Time Chamber during the 10 days before the Cell Games and somehow didn't get stronger, or at least not significantly, one would think at least Trunks and Vegeta would get mastered super saiyan just like Goku and Gohan, but they didn't, so going in alone, becoming crazy and leaving early after a couple of days is TFS explanation on why none of them got stronger.

2:20 lmao you actually took TFS Goku serious.

This video of 16..was dark and intense, it was a good way to gave all this some relatable background.

This was honestly my favorite of your reactions to this show. Just the fact that you actually understood the "go for ten" joke and the android 16 is gero's son bit, something I have seen others somehow miss, just made my day. Can't wait for the next one!

I loved that scene at the beginning in actual DBZ because I remember Goku just resting peacefully while Krillin thinks that Goku is actually on high alert and chucks a rock, which nails Goku in the forehead and causes him to scream in pain and yell at Krillin ‘Why did you do that?!’ Also, I’ll forever be sad we didn’t get to see Dende’s interactions with Videl in Abridged since they had to stop at the end of the Android Saga.

"I'm already pregnant.." "...HOW!?". Actually...i think that is a thing even Goku would say in the original show. 😅

2:45 "She'll send Gohan for groceries five counties over in the middle of the day just to get him out of the house!" And that is how they adressed my favorite filler episodes. I would have loved to see Gohan deal with the corrupted dude with the bunker, and Tao Pai Pai, and getting to know the friendly grandpa and the first girl he gets to meet

It took me just now realizing that when Dende whistles. Piccolo says ow because of how it’s Been established that whistling is painful for them. And therefore since Dende was the one creating the sound. It did in fact hurt him more than it hurt piccolo 😅😂😂😂

10:15 her realization as she thinks of everything post-Cell

"Go for Ten" ....Oh my god, I JUST got the joke there, lol XD. Chi-Chi want that 2nd child ASAP.

Just to clarify, Piccolo Daimao was also a member of the Dragon Clan, due to him and Kami being the same person originally, but he deliberately birthed Piccolo Jr as a member of the Warrior Clan. Despite him not knowing what a namekian actually is, he knew that he was the physically weaker version of his species, and made Piccolo Jr the stronger version. Dragon Clan can lay eggs, use healing magic, and make dragon balls, while the Warrior Clan can absorb other members of the same clan, and they mature faster (Piccolo is fully matured at only 3 years old when he fights Gokū in the last arc of Dragon Ball, whereas Dende still looks like a child even 5+ years after the end of the Namek Saga, and still only looks like a teenager during the Buu Saga)

Not sure if it's been recommended to you, but there's actually a series of DBZA original shorts before the Cell Games, and they were all hilarious AF.

Super Kami Guru would be the most based guardian of Earth.

The reason I watched the OG dragonball was the tfs references 100% and it was totally worth it!

The Pulitzer is the sigle most important prize in journalism. Getting awarded a Pulitzer means you are the elite of the elite of journalism with a degree of prestige that the Oscars only can dream of having. What I mean is, they are a pretty big deal.

Im so thankful for reaction channels that pause to talk AND go back 10 seconds or so. Nothing gets missed.

“I feel like a man dying of thirst watching another man drown.” LITERALLY the story of my dating life!!!! Also there is a video of the voice actress for Chi-Chi in DBZA while she is recording the line “who told you you could leave THE BEDROOM” over and over and it’s hilarious.🤣

3:35 "Goku has standards!" "But if you had a wig..."

When Dende came back and asked "where is my family" you said his family is dead, which *was true,* but they got wished back remember?

So many great lines that are easy to miss. One a lot of people do is Briefs comments to Bulma "5,000 zeni says it's interracial" "Ugh" "Oh, NOW you find it gross!" (referring to her having a baby with a Sayian)

I love them taking a moment to have Goku tell Bulma about Chi-chi's pregnancy; Bulma's reaction is so wholesome.

"Go for TEN" Oh god, I just realized it. As if I needed more reasons to feel sorry for Goten.~ LOL

Honestly we don’t get enough of Goku in casual clothes like that. I really like that outfit

You should definitely watch the TFS Cell Games series of all the competitors from other animes that come to challenge Cell at the arena before Goku and the gang get there.

Can you IMAGINE how much CONTROL goku has to have over his godlike power at this time? Perpetually a super saiyan and smashing chi chi ten times a day and she is still alive.

"He did more work than Kami ever did". Kami, who created dragon balls on Earth, trained kid Goku with Mr. Popo, kicked the crap out of Yamcha and recreated Moon at least two times: "Am i a joke to You?!" :P

10:34 I think the reason Piccolo can't do it is simple. Personality dominance. Kami wasn't much of a fighter and when he split with his angry side from the exposure to the angry, evil sides of humans, King Piccolo became obsessed with fighting while Kami retained his peaceful Namekian nature. Piccolo didn't fuse back into Kami, Kami fused with Piccolo, so the dominant personality took over. Hence why Piccolo is a fighter and not a Namekian magic man.

I think she should watch the cell vs other anime characters right now, its literally him waiting during the week b4 gokus arrival

The "If you had a Wig" part killed me... That and "GO for TEN!"... GOTEN... I fell out of my chair on that one.

Goku would lick up ALL the peanut butter... I just realized it...

Dende's family isn't dead, his father and brother were brought back with the Dragon Balls at the end of season 2 along with the rest of the Namekians. In fact his father, Moori, was the one who became the new Grand Elder after devouring Guru.

Do love how team four star animated that heard that rumor back in the day and to see them be one of the first to officially put that in any dragonball content

Something that flies over our heads a lot. The date on 16's video journal, May 12th? That's the same date Trunks warned Goku about Androids coming to attack.

Mr. Satan looks like the failed fusion of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage

love that little detail that namekians are sensitive to whistles so when dende does it it hurts him and piccolo lol

That 16 video hit different. I love that you heard the Kid Goku going ham outside that tipped you off. It added weight to it all.

"crunchyroll is the best" is something I never thought I'd hear especially with the recent stuff about shafting VAs who unionized and when Broly

I looked it up. Turns out Gero's son was killed in an unrelated fight, and Gero didn't want to risk losing him in battle again, so he programed 16 to be the complete opposite of his son.

Think it's time for the "Cell VS" videos now. That will be fun

The spot with 16 from og dragon ball always gets me 🥺

I wouldn't say I'd rob a bank to secure the funds to pay for a full audiobook retelling of all the events so far from Perfect Cell, but I'm not NOT saying it wouldn't happen

The part about 16 being based off Geros son wasn't just a creative decision by DBZA, but rather Toriyama mentions this in an old interview. He never states this in either the anime or manga, so this and the Super movie (I've not seen the movie yet) is a lot of peoples first time learning this. Toriyama always had a freeform style of writing without any hard plans, a noticible difference being the Android/Cell (where his producer directed Toriyamas efforts) and Buu (where Toriyama was kinda left unchecked) arks, so him forgetting to mention this (along with a large part of the original Dragonball roster) sounds pretty valid to me. I'm not sure if it's his canon name or not or even if I'm spelling it correctly, but MasakoX (voice of Goku in DBZA) calls him "Gearbol" on his channel that deals in a lot of "What If" Dragonball stories. I don't remember him mentioning the name was something he made up, so I'll assume it's canon. Seems fitting anyway. Gero "Gyro" and Gearbol "Gear". Something else mentioned in that old interview was that Gero actually wanted to help humanity. He was using the Red Ribbon Army to fund his cybernetic research before Goku ends up killing his son. Gero was never a "nice" person, but neither was he "evil". It was the years of grief that lead him to become who we see in the anime and manga. With how Toriyama got a lot of his ideas from other media I suspect Gero is a "Lex Luthor" kind of situation. While his vengeance against Goku was an initial driving force learning that Goku was an alien and that there are stronger of his kind out there, information from his bots that were destroyed only after Vegita and Nappa landed, he probably became more aggressive with his experiments to counter this likely danger.

Broly movie next!!

The "hot Asian wife" gag is a reference to a white pro wrestler who, when working as a heel in Japan, bragged about his hot Asian wife to draw ire. Lanipator and Takahata are both big wrestling fans (which tracks because it's just theatrical Shonen).

The Pulitzer joke is underrated as hell. Notoriously the pulitzer award is rarely awarded to women to the point where it's mocked as a men's category award. Wild that one joke is a set up for such a niche followup.

Only just realized why that date sounded familiar to Bulma. I thought she just remembered when Goku fought the red ribbon army but May twelfth is also the date the androids attacked.

Melon, watching your brain get fried as DBZ Abridged suddenly turned into a sex comedy made my day. I hope that in addition to the Broly movie, you'll also check out the Cell Games series, which is a group of short videos where, during the week leading up to the tournament, groups of different heroes from various anime and video games come to challenge Cell, and there's one other last movie, called "Plan to Eradicate Christmas", which only loosely ties into the timeline. I hope you'll watch and react to them all, as always it's a pleasure reliving the series with you and seeing your reaction to it.

That was Goku talking in the intro. You can tell by how tired he is 😂

Dende: WHERE AM I!? WHO ARE YOU!? WHERE'S MY FAMILY!? Melon: Your family's dead! Me: Uh, remember when they wished back everyone killed by Frieza and his men? And that Dende's family was included among them? Including Moori, the _current Grand Elder?_

Fun fact: Clark Kent has a Pulitzer too! So he gets to be smart AND look kinda like that Superman fellow maybe.

Piccolo went in alone and he started hallucinating. Vegeta also went in alone and he was hallucinating Nappa. 😂 The hallucinations also manifested in 3 days. I love TFS' attention to detail.

'please support the official release' never sounded more ambiguous

Apparently they discussed some of geros family in the dB manga. His name was gevo, and apparently he died in combat before goku ran into the red ribbon army.

On a sidenote. The whole android 16 video was made by TFS and has been officially recognized as canon now.

Someone tell AniMelon that after she watches the Broly movie, to make sure she watches the "Cell vs" episodes. Get those out of the way before the tournament starts.

There's a few serious scenes in DBZA, honestly some of their best moments are played straight.

"Your family's dead" Melon casually thinking that Goku killed the entire Namekian race 😅🤣

Omg,I just noticed the “GO for TEN” joke,after watching the series like four times,well played tfs,well played.

Also a fun fact/coincidence - the date of that recording matches the same date that androids 19 and 20 attacked the islands

I have a bit of fondness for this episode cause it won me a prize in a bonus question of a DBZ quiz! They asked us it recount what happens in the (at the time) latest episode of DBZA and I was able to remember the most!

Dende insulting Trunks as "bowl cut"...while his idol Gohan literally had that on Namek. Dodoria used the insult on him!

"What has Kami ever done?" Like the rest of the supporting cast, a lot before the Saiyan saga, and bugger all since.

The whole Android 16 being based on Gero’s son fact was revealed by Toriyama in a interview a while ago. Honestly does add a much deeper layer for Gero’s hatred for Goku. I wish he had included this when he was actually making the manga but hey better late than never I guess. Anyways after you do finish reacting to TFS’s broly movie but before getting to the Cell games episodes, I would recommend reacting to TFS’s series of short videos called ‘Cell Vs’. Each episode basically has characters from different franchises challenging Cell to a fight before the Cell Games begins, taking place between Episode 56 and 57. So if you’re into crossovers then I’d suggest checking these videos out. It was pretty cool thing they did while we waited for them to abridge the cell games. Good times lol.

Dang this episode is dirty.. and i love it ! Great recap from Cell btw.

Guru came back for a bit, then he was eaten. Later he is part of the cast of HIFL

You'd be interested in how TFS made a bunch of Cell VS videos. They originated it, and DevilArtemis Popularized it.

Sincerely enjoying your reactions from the standpoint of someone who has already watched this series several times over. I hope you also get a chance to react to the "Cell Vs." videos that take place leading up to the Cell Games.

Remember to watch the cell vs. mini series before watching ep 58 it’s hilarious. it’s shorts of random characters from anime’s and other pop culture “fighting” cell before goku and the others show up

Dende's family isn't dead anymore. They were revived with the rest of the namekians. The only ones who weren't in this timeline are the ones Vegeta killed, which was a different village.

Wait a minute! Am i the only one that just realized " Go For Ten" in DBZA lore would be why they named his son " Go Ten"

The humor is fantastic as always. But I loved how TFS put that recording of Gero's son in there. Like it peels back so many story layers, like how Goku did kill innocent people, why Gero hates him so much, and why 16 is programmed to be obsessed with killing him.

Probably been mentioned to you before, but just to make sure: There are a series of Cell Games short episodes and the Broly movie, which all should take place before the next episode, which is when the Cell Games proper start.

2:04 I mean, he tried. He wanted the kids to take out Buu, but at that point Toriyama reazlized Goku IS always gonna be there. 13:16 That's been confirmed before in some Daizenshuu (books full of DB facts and trivia). 16 was modeled after his son who died when Goku destroyed Red Ribbon army. It's why he's the strongest android, but Gero didn't want it to fight, so his son doesn't "die" again and gave him kind personality. TFS were just first to "animate" that. It was also in DB FighterZ story mode before Super Hero came out. 18:11 Watch HFIL that TFS is kinda making after this ends.

5:30 I’m glad someone else realizes who the actual main antagonist is in this part of the series is

This series really is tainting your mind lol. Not to mention peanut butter would make _terrible_ lube. It'd be used for... other things... Also, while you were pausing and having a real talk about Goku's struggles I was dying of laughter waiting for you to unpause and hear what he was REALLY talking about lol. Same with the crazy amount of sex jokes this episode. Dunno why they're so funny, but they are. Maybe it's the reaction to them that's making them seem funnier to me. I really love that original animation addition of Gero's son in that video. The detail talking about cyborgs, the bird in it. Adds a lot of depth, and adding the plotline of Goku killing him. It hits almost as hard a Goku himself does.

Next up, chronologically, you have the Broly Movie, the Cell vs. videos, and the Christmas special!

Said it on another vid, but thank you for your videos. If you ever doubt yourself, just remember you've already made a big difference in at least one life.

If you want more guru, tfs made cell in a hell mini series and it is GLORIOUS!

I definitely like much more the implications of 16 being made after Gero's son, who was murdered by Goku. It adds an extra layer to Gero's motivation for all the stuff he does in the series. Wanting revenge for the Red Ribbon army was okay I guess but losing your son feels more personal.

As soon as you started going in about "Goku's struggles" in my head I was screamin "oh this poor girl got played" 😂. Never thought about it before but I love how this episode tied up so much stuff thats just left in the open, like when did Chichi get pregnant, How Vegeta goes into the time chamber twice and STILL isn't stronger than Goku, and a backstory for 16. On the note of 16 though I want to say it is mentioned that he was "modeled" after Gero's son and nothing more (which is the assumed reason he is fully an android vs the cyborgs like 17 and 18).

I'm so glad i found you, haven't laughed like this in a long while :D

That reaction to the infestation joke 😂😂😂❤

Would’ve been funny to see what would have happened if Krillin actually had tried to impersonate Goku with Chichi. I’m thinking the show would have a eunuch on the show after that.

FYI, after finishing dbz abridged, you should check out the FourStarBento channel. Lani and Scott are doing dbza commentary vids. I think you'll enjoy it! (If you want to start watching now, they're up to ep 19)

My absolute favorite Line in this Series 7:33 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I would love for a TFS Cell commentary of DBZA. lmao

Peanut butter reference meant for Kurillin to use it down there, so the dog would lick it off. Gross I know, but I've seen that parodied in movies and such. It's a gag for a guy who can't get a real girl, and uses his pet dog instead.

"What do you call a group of humans?" "..an Infestation.." WOW ! But Mr. Popo ist kinda right: Remember Men in Black 1995 ? Agent K: "This is a universal translator and we shouldn't have it at, and I'll tell you why: The human intellect is considered to be so primitive that in other galaxies it is considered to be a contagious disease... Such a thing makes us proud".

Melon, stop questioning your thought about this show. You know what you are watching, and you know what it is about. Wait till the later episodes.

I think it's really cool how the idea that Android 16 was a completely robotic copy of Dr. Gero's son really first was explored as a concept in DBZA. I think it was a fan theory that was floating out there, but it wasn't really confirmed as official canon for a while. They hinted at it in Dragonball FighterZ the fighting game, but that, of course, wasn't canon either. I think the new Super movie was the first time it was officially recognized, and I actually really enjoy the theory. It hasn't been confirmed *how* he was killed, though. I think it may have actually been confirmed that Goku specifically wasn't the reason he died, but it's still an interesting idea AND it explains the reason why Gero would hate Goku so much. We never really got a reason for why Gero hates Goku other than Goku defeated the Red Ribbon Army while he was a scientist there, but we never actually saw Gero as a character. It wasn't like somebody Goku personally fought against during his time as a kid, so him hating Goku never really made a lot of sense. Once again, TFS is answering the original story's questions really well I think. I like this idea a lot.