Dragon Ball Z Abridged Episode 34 Reaction 

I really love how Goku and Piccolo's friendship starts to grow in this episode, and the OG series. They really do become pretty good friends and Piccolo basically gets adopted into the Son Goku family. After all, nothing bonds two men more than committing several acts of Vehicular Manslaughter together!

Your faces when its revealed that Trunks is Bulma and Vegeta's son is priceless. Great reaction.

Such a rare treat being able to see someone's initial reaction to DBZA without having been exposed to DBZ first.

In one of the show's official dubs, after trunks tests goku with his sword, the gang looks on confused at the fight and someone points out Trunks is putting away his sword And Krillen quips, "yeah, and Goku's putting away his finger!"

It never gets old that Goku thinks krillin dying is what triggers super saiyan.

Now you know why Trunks was internally screaming last episode.

It's really sweet of Goku to reach out to Yamcha after finding out he'd commit suicide in the future, give the guy anouther emotional anchor and some self-worth outside his failed relationship with Bulma.

The way Vegeta says "the fuck's a condom?" Always cracks me up

The reason why goku says "your my friend" to yamcha because he hanged himself 😂😂 Goku meant by that means "you can talk to me if need to talk Yamcha"

10:55 This little exchange is even mire wholesome when you consider Yamcha is among Goku's oldest friends And, yeah, Yamcha basically gets the short end of the stick and nothing else from here on. Unless you're a Super Saiyan, a Super Namekian or an Android/Cyborg you're essentially cannonfodder

"Wanna driving cars again?" "Hell yeah". That was a real thing actually. Chi-Chi only allowed the training because she demanded that Goku live and work like a normal person... so he also learned to drive a car... but that was a disaster... But at least he and Piccollo have saved a school bus with children from crashing... And they didn't pass the exam, because they remembered they can fly. 😅

Fun fact, this arc in the series was written by Toriyama around the time the Terminator film(s?) were released. So, you can definitely see where he got some of his inspiration from for Trunks' story

Now you get why trunks was screaming internally in the last episode.

Looks like Vegeta finally got to use his Phallic Gun.

When Goku says why does it smell like copper it actually hints towards him getting further brain damage by thinking to hard.

Some fun/interesting facts this episode. Trunks called Goku Sun Wukong because that is the name of the MC of "Journey to the west" which the OG Dragon Ball is based off of. No Yamcha never hanged himself in the Original, Yamcha is pretty well off and Happy. He is annoyed that Bulma dumped him for the guy who orchestrated his death, but he moves on pretty well. It's kind of sad to see Yamcha get picked on. He was one of the first supportive humans Goku ever met, and was like a big brother to Goku for a long time. Goku did learn teleportation on Yardrat, and most likely caught his heart disease there Tien's third eye is due to Tien being an descendent of an Alien who got stuck on earth, so Tien is also an alien/human hybrid. The reason why Piccolo and Goku were driving cars together was that Chi Chi ordered Goku to get a driver's license and Piccolo wanted to join in.

Just love how your jaws dropped multiple times this episode. Highlight of my evening 🤣

I loved your response to Trunk’s parents. Fun fact: Remember how Bulma’s dad is Mr. Briefs? That means Trunks’s full name is Brief Trunks. 😂

Goku destroyed the tyrannic Red Ribbon Army as a kid in classic Dragonball.. but some mad scientist survived.. long planned revenge is coming up for some good reasons.. You will love it. TFS made a fantastic job on these new characters.

The driving cars bit is from *THE* best filler episode 😂 If you get a chance I highly recommend just watching that one!! Also, I'm so glad you've finally met Princess Trunks! Now you know most of his story! Can't wait for you to see the *Perfection* that is to come

They "spoiled" the Trunks reveal early on (EP18). Remember Vegetas Rage ? Where his scream was heard everywhere on Namek, in Space, in the afterlife and we even see Trunks in the future hearing the scream and he goes "....father ?".

The reason Trunks’s hair is purple is because that’s actually Doctor Brief’s original hair color before it turned white. And in some of the original art Bulma’s hair was also purple.

Tien: Don't tell me, you're not in the mood Vegeta: What, does that 3rd eye make you psychic? Tien: No, but it does help me see bullshit Vegeta: Hey... know what?.... F**** you ( flies away) Vegeta finally got a taste of his own medicine 😂🤣😂

The Reveal, Trunks is the Future Son of Bulma and Vegeta, also remember I pointed out in the episode where Freeza planet 419's inhabitants kept SEEING THE FUTURE and one of the lines they said "BULMA AND VEGETA HAVE A KID", and in the episode where Vegeta was screaming over the Dragon Ball being stolen and everyone was hearing it, Trunks was the last one able to hear it in the Future "Once that time machine is done I can go back into the past to save Goku and my Fath… *hears Vegeta's Scream" … Daddy?"

Abridged Goku may not be smart, but he really does care about his friends. It was very sweet that he took that moment to let Yamcha know he's his friend.

It was such a cool plot twist seeing This in the OG and finding out who Trunks is.

Ive always loved the scene where Goku just tells Yamcha that hes his friend. I know DBZA doesnt like to take things serious, but simply the fact that Goku said that stops Yamcha from um... dying. Sometimes thats all it takes

TeamFourStar said that in they originally wanted Puar to ask if he can stop being the rope yet.

Puar the cat wanted to stop being the rope while Yamcha was hanging around.

Still watching but just wanna say.... Bulma's his mom... Remember previous episode when she said she... "Be his mommy".... Ohhh yes that's extra funny if you knew XD

Yay. I wish you guys also watch the show afterwards for more context.

I always forget how good this episode is.

Obligatory explanation: In the original, Goku is expected to contract a new virus that attacks the heart, and he'd die from it before the Androids arrive. Trunks gives him a cure for the virus that already exists in his time, so he'll be able to heal from it when it comes. In the Funimation dub, Goku says "It's purple too. I bet it's grape flavored!" TFS clearly decided to play with that in their own way.

The next couple episodes are gonna be Pure Unadulterated Badass.

The Driving School filler is an all-time classic

When Trunks calls him Sun Wukong by mistake. That’s the name of the Monkey King from the novel series Journey to the West. Goku in Dragonball (not z) was based off the Monkey King. The Monkey King is actually pretty insane as he is insanely powerful and causes tons of mischief. I’d highly recommend watching something related to it because he’s up there for outrageous power.

one of the lines trunks says "so your Sun Wukong?" which is the character goku is based off "Son Goku"

There's a deleted scene with Yamcha's suicide where it turns out his cat is the rope and asks if he could stop being the rope

I love the dialogue with Goku. Between muffin buttons, pink shirts, and not even caring when he is attacked by a Trunks, you never know what to expect and it's always hilarious.

For a fun bonus check your reaction to episode 18 - at 5 mins 55 seconds you both actually see Trunks for the first time...that scene will make a LOT more sense now :P

Trunks warns that the "Androids" arrive on May 12th... remember that day for a later episode.

Let’s take a moment to realize that Vegeta’s SON can turn Super Sayin but VEGETA HIMSELF CANNOT! Also, your reactions to the reveal of Trunks’ parents identities was DEFINITELY worth the wait! One last little fact (NOT a fun fact): I’ve heard that Yamcha’s pet talking cat was supposed to be what he used when he died, and the cat was supposed to say something really upsetting but the creators of the Abridged decided to not have that happen because it would be too dark

Interesting note, Goku actually destroyed the Red Ribbon Army when he was a kid

0:55 when "Yamcha" becomes a verb.

I do have to agree with Goku, Vegeta does look good in pink. The song "Highway to HFIL" is a reference to the fact how the show had to censor "hell" to "hfil" in the Ocean dub of the series. Team Fourstars took that term and ran with it, making it an acronym that stands for "Home For Infinite Losers". This might also be a good moment to point out that physics of time in Dragonball is NOT linear and there are multiple diverging timelines. This technically means that you can't save your timeline by going into the past, you're just making a new timeline continuum. This means that most everyone is dead in Future Trunks' own timeline.

Lol it’s refreshing seeing people who have no idea what’s going on respond to this story. It’s also hilarious watching your jaws drop 😂

Goku and piccolo drivin cars was such a fun episode xD chichi threatened both goku and piccolo to get a driver's lisence or she wont feed them. So it took some time but goku does get his driver's lisence

I been waiting for your reactions to learning who his parents are.

Goku saying "you're my friend" to yamcha is what stopped him from killing himself

In am earlier cut of this episode, the suicide rope Yamcha was using was Puar, the shapeshifting cat that hangs around Yamcha

Goku: "Why does everything smell like copper?" Goku's Brain: "Oh just a aneurysm of to much thinking Goku, don't worry" The smell (and taste) of blood is often described as 'coppery', so the joke is that Goku was thinking too hard and somehow gave himself some sort of brain bleed

Hi Definitely not Definitive, I think your reaction to this episode was my favorite so far, really great (especially the Bulma and Vegeta turning out to be the parents reveal 😁) and love it when you have your dog chilling with you😊 Also some people will tell you to watch the history of trunks now wich is kind of a special episode/movie but I recommend watching it between episode 41 and 42 since the latter will refer to some jokes from that movie. Also there are some characters in there that have not yet been revealed in the series. Again really loving your reactions and keep on enjoying!👍

Actually, Goku was saved from the explosion in Namekusei because there were some of the Ginuo special force ships nearby. That escaped the planet and the disease has Goku attacks the heart in his time line, there is no such medicine.

This is how Trunks was born! 13:55

Fun Fact: The in universe reason that Goku and Vegeta are attracted specifically to Chichi and Bulma. Is that Saiyans are hardwired genetically to favour a strong willed woman as their partner.

5:40 that I believe is real… like in that timeline Yamcha kills himself and Korn is there asking for him while he swings….so dark….

1:54 Sun Wukong was the character that Son Goku was based loosely on.

Imma drop some lore on you two, who missed og Dragon Ball. Back in the early days of the series Goku's search for the mystical orbs got complicated when he bumped into the Red Ribbon Army, a terrorist organisation with designs for global domination, using the balls to wish for it after stalling despite their vast resources. Now these guys threw everything, from tanks and planes, to warships and missiles, at the young Goku, but his strength and skills bested them again and again. When their leader, Commander Red, hired the world's top assassin to kill Goku, the jerk killed an innocent civilian, turning Goku's quest from a leisurely romp to a personal mission to revive the poor guy. This culminated in storming their main hq and decimating it, ending the army as a big threat. Now for the more important bits, during the journey one of the weapons the army sics on our hero is Android 8, a Frankenstein's monster looking guy, but he's a pacifist and Goku befriends him, dubbing him Eighter, not the greatest name but it works. Now in the true show, Trunks tells Goku that the top Scientist of the RR Army and the lead creator of the Android series of weapons is Dr Gero, who survived the destruction of the HQ and swore revenge on Goku. There is no big reason for it, the guy just really believed in the Army's goal of conquest and hated losing his primary source of revenue. So the guy spends 14 years lying in wait, preparing to strike, and according to Trunks the time traveller, succeeds in ending the heroes with his latest batch of mechanical monstrosities. Now 11 years ago the top Android model waa #8, which number do you think the latest would be?

Son Wukong is the name of the monkey king who was forced to travel west with a priest as punishment for his many pranks on the gods using a magic circlet that tightens around his head at the priest's whim. The story is called Journey to the West and many of the characters in Dragon Ball are based off of them (Goku as Son Wukong, Krillin as Tang Sanzang the Priest, Oolong as Zhu Bajie, etc.).

The Android episodes ware probably the slowest part of this whole season, mostly because the 'Android Saga' in the show was meant to be a big setup for the next 'big bad' of the series. Akira had to set up huge stakes so that when he introduced the next bad guy, it was made clear how horribly slanted the whole situation was. That said, Abridged did a really good job of making the Androids fun characters, whereas their impact on the original show were pretty minimal (at first). They got expanded upon after the time where Abridged ends, but I'd heard through the grapevine Toriyama had been so impressed with the Abridged series that he'd decided to expand on some of the character in Super. Yamcha even becomes a professional baseball player!

You two may already heard but Goku didn't die from high cholesterol, he contracted a heart virus to which there was no cure at the time but there was by the time Trunks grew up.

Muffins are super heat absorbent. Yardrat butter is also 500% thicker than earth butter.

There’s actually a deleted scene of Yamcha’s death that features Puar(his transforming cat) asking if she can stop being the rope

There's something so heartwarmingly simple about Goku mistaking Trunks for a girl and treating "her" no different than any of his male fighter friends. 😁

13:28 He counts Nappa, since he knows Nappa is alive again :D

That was the first time ‘Fuck’ was uncensored for the series. And given the scene that just played out, appropriate.

Something they cut out of DBZA (and I get why) was a particularly haunting dream Vegeta had where both Goku and Trunks go Super Saiyan in front of him. In DBZA, they play it off as simple frustration, but in DBZ, Vegeta's pride was seriously wounded by the fact that two others could go SSJ and he couldn't. Also, something DBZA won't ever explain: Goku can only teleport to an energy signal (someone with a power level). He can't just teleport anywhere he likes. That's why he stole Roshi's glasses: he needed someone far away that he could "lock" onto. In DBZ, he was going to teleport to Frieza once Frieza and King Cold landed on Earth, but when he sensed Trunks's power, he knew everyone was safe, so he didn't bother. Apparently energy sensing also gives you the ability to tell good energy from evil energy.

A few notes about the original: Namekians (and Piccolo by extension) have super hearing, so Piccolo is able to hear the conversation while no one else can (thus he corrects Goku). Yamcha dies to the Androids, too. The driving episode is an iconic filler that happens. There's a few more things, but some are spoilery, so I'll end it here lol.

Just Piccolo laughing in the background, and only Vegeta asking why. The rest know better than to poke the dark humor bear!!

Funny thing is, there isn't a proper canon explanation of how Goku got that heart disease

The whole cyborg versus Android argument is actually talked about a lot in the Dragon Ball community. The term Android is only present in the dub. In Japan they're known as Jinzo ningen, which actually means modified humans, ie human beings who have been turned into machines

By the way in the original story: -It's a new heart virus that kills Goku (not his cholesterol) trunks come back in time to give goku a cure for the heart virus which has been discovered in his time. -It is actually grape flavored. Goku is excited for receiving the medicine and says Wow Awesome I bet it's grape flavored too! -Goku tells Trunks he could've teleported to stop freeza and was going to but didn't because Trunks showed up, Trunks didn't realize and said he would have stayed out it in order to keep his coming to give goku the medicine a secret. -Goku and piccolo do go driving. They essentially become family and chi-chi makes them go get their driver's license so they both go together. Piccolo is good but drives like an old man and goku is reckless as hell and goads piccolo into a race that causes them both to fail.

"Sun Wukong" is legit funny. the Monkey King protagonist of "Journey to the West" that Goku is loosely based on.

Sorry about deleting & reposting a little too frequently the editing feature was glitching for me. Ahh Son Wukong line referencing the inspiration for the Son Goku character & some of the Dragon Ball stories. Son Wukong is in a Chinese Story called "Journey to the West". Overly Sarcastic Channel has a playlist about it.

5:40 If you wanna hear a fun fact that is also super dark.. They thought about having Yamchas cat say "..Can i stop being the rope now...?" Because his cat can transform into almost anything. even ropes. But even THAT was TOO DARK For TFS's sake.

You may have guessed most of the names are parodies.....trunks as in swimming or male trunks..bulma is Japanese female undergarments company...but my favourite are the ginyu force...they are dairy products....racoom(creem) butter(butter) jeese(cheese) gurd(curd or yogurt) & ginyu is milk....and they are also parodies to power rangers or Japanese super sentais

Quick question, are you guys going to react to highlights of actual DBZ after the abridged ends? Because the Abridged doesn't cover the whole anime and I think it would be cool to see your reactions to the events that come after

The whole android thing was always a little weird to me as a sci fi buff. I feel like that whole robotics field wasn't Toriyama's forte. I guess most people don't really know the difference, at least at the time, but it always makes my brain do a double take.

Now that you know who Trunks and his parents are, you also know that Bulma was hitting on her own son 3 hours ago😏🤣

Fun fact about the heart medicine bit: the high cholesterol is a bit for abridged. In the original anime, it wasn't necessarily a heart attack, but a heart virus that killed Goku, and Bulma in the future gave the medicine to Trunks, to give to Goku. It's a "cure" of sorts for the virus, and Trunks instructs him that when he starts to feel symptoms he should take the medicine.

THE SECRET'S OUT! i didn't comment on the last couple episodes because i wouldn't be able to hold in the trunks spoiler, but your reactions to that reveal was priceless! i feel like it's rare to see people who haven't been spoiled on trunks' parentage, so i'm VERY happy you guys got to experience it for the first time here. great episode, lots of fun setups here!

5:29 Oh no 😬 👀

OH wait, some additional comments: i Love that trunks really does look like bulma and vegeta's kid. he's got the permanent angry eyebrows of vegeta with bulma's hair and eyes (although the colour is more like dr briefs' hair). trunks is probably one of my favourite characters in the entire series (piccolo, vegeta and gohan are closely tied), so i'm very excited to see what you think of him! he's only about 18 years old right now, so it's a great addition to the cast to have a teenager around. his awkwardness is massively endearing. i also think it's really funny how the entire world would've been destroyed by androids if piccolo hadn't overheard trunks' speech - goku also needed piccolo to remind him of the date and location in the original series, too! once again, great vid! thanks for the awesome start to the day

In the og anime Goku does panic and once he flies out of Freeza's ship he sees one of the Ginyu pods falling and quickly gets into it and just hits the launch button. Its never explicitly said, but I think The Ginyus were going to Yardraat next to add it to Freeza's domain. I could be wrong though. I think in the og anime Goku does teleport to Freeza and his father and ends up killing them in F. Trunk's timeline. I think Trunks shows up to prove he's their ally and plus everyone would be gathered together to hatch out a plan to deal with the androids. I don't think he thought about Piccolo's super hearing, but Piccolo would keep the secret regardless. and obviously Yamcha does not cancel himself, he is killed with everyone else when they fought the androids. I remember being a little shocked TFS went there with that. xD There is a filler episode where Chichi makes Goku learn to drive a car, Piccolo is somehow forced to do it too. It's a really fun filler episode. :)

I love the Doctor Who references with Trunks. Now would be a good time to watch History of Trunks

HFIL stands for Home for Infinite Losers. That is Hell, just censored

I always loved how Goku tries to work through a time paradox, gets a good way through, then a wire gets crossed. Ever since the initial Super Saiyan, he has become a tad bit more ordered and logical. Almost like he gained a point or two in IQ, but remains a lovable, naive buffoon.

Btw guys the whole muffin thing is a joke LOL im sure you already know that tho, what actually happened is Goku left Frieza's spaceship and found one of the Ginyu Force's spacepods at like the last second and used it to barely escape the destruction of Namek and then of course crashed on Yardrat where he trained and learned Instant Transmission which explains his clothes as well.

5:41 That went dark so fast...

Bulma does make sense with her plan to stop the androids before they appear. And this plan was also in the show. And yes, they alos said no because they want to fight

The reveal of trunks being Vegeta’s & Bulma’s son makes that line Bulma made last episode so much worse 😂. The muffin button saving Goku is the most Goku thing I could think of .

So lol. How goku actually survived was that he found one of the ginyu force ship and used it to scape. Same ship he came to earth with lol Also i dont think they mentioned it during the frieza saga, vegeta actually destroyed the ship's main power source. So the ship was unopperable from the beginning

YES BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT

I don't think anyone pointed it out to you guys yet, but if you noticed, Goku shows traits of being high functioning, with extremely high intelligence when it comes to fighting, which is his character canonically. In the main series, he's an idiot. But in the Abridged series, that idiocy is amplified to the Nth degree.

The cut extended version of the Yamcha Yamcha-ing himself scene: Puar (the shapeshifter cat) being heard saying "Yamcha, can I turn back now?" after the part we see.

its cool that you guys are learning the DBZ story from Abridged; really its the fast and funny way to watch the series

Heart virus is actually an epidemic, in DBZ. That caused Goku's death.

welcome to season 3, I guess. They keep that pace :D

Well, I knew I was going to love your reactions to Trunks’ lineage. And his conception. As good old George Takei says, “OH MY~!” Also, what was wrong with Bulma’s idea, Vegeta?! You could have done it together! Made a date out of it!

13:49 Pretty much 😂