@@adrianrodriguez-zb3tp Deus Ex Machina means “god out of the machine”, essentially when characters in a story get out of a seemingly impossible situation suddenly in an unexpected/unlikely way. In this case, Krillin said “legume ex machina” because beans are legumes.
I thought he said "Thank you Mex Machina" and I always wondered just what the joke with "Mex Machina" was supposed to be. Because Mexican food has beans in it? That was my best guess anyway.
It's funny to see how they change their posture according to the opinion of the episode. Specially Kaiser, so nice to see him not covering his face in shame lol
@@robertpirtle7642 i mean, its not uncommon for people to cringe at their early work of art. They thought the jokes were funny at the time and now they do not, its not like anyone forced them to be ashamed of it, they have grown and cringe at some of the stuff they said in the past. I see what you are saying but i dont think your comment and what is happening correlates
@@robertpirtle7642 or just, it’s mostly old jokes with outdated references and equipment from a decade ago and it’s just embarrassing looking back at it. Everything doesn’t have to be through the lens of a non existent culture war
4:41 I’m glad they acknowledged Ganxingba’s delivery for Tien mourning Chiaotzu. That yell has been permanently imprinted into my mind, god-tier voice acting. 7:43 Gan, once again, killing it with his academy-winning delivery as Tien.
Have you seen GanXingBa's other work? He has the best Avatar fan content I've watched. His Zuko date video is one of my favorite videos on youtube, it's so clever and funny.
Vegeta: uh... Ugh...*nose bleeds* Nappa: are you ok Vegeta? Vegeta: no I'm just having an aneurysm from sheer stupidity. Nappa: I didn't think you were that stupid Vegeta. Vegeta: AAAAAAAAAAHHH
But I never noticed until this video. Toriyama did animate the hell out of him, even though he was a throwaway character. His facial expressions and poses were a bottomless well for these guys to pull from.
@@geordineilson5476 Yeah, but you don’t want to waste time with a Pokémon that knows Self-Destruct/Explosion. It’s a shame Nappa didn’t know False Swipe… or had the Damp ability to prevent the boom.
This is the point where I think the show really took off. The first 7 episodes were hit-or-miss a lot of the time, but from episode 8 until episode 60, it’s just hit after hit
@Monika On DSI no, that’s literally what a joke is. You thought it was one thing, but it’s a different thing. The one you were talking about is the same thing, too. I don’t thing there’s anything wrong with either of them
I always think of a moment in OG Dragon Ball where after Yamcha gets back from training, Bulma tells him “you’re going to make this up to me, and you’re going to enjoy it” whenever I watch her crying on Roshi.
lani calls it a cheap joke but I think it's rlly funny how they both chose the most inappropriate time to say such things. bulma makes yamcha's death all abt herself and while she's literally crying on roshi he's like "no way in hell are you a virgin" lol I find that hilarious
20:55 I think the way you guys dealt with the scouter scene was PERFECT, you found a great way to handle a moment that had already been ran to the ground. You knew there was no way to make a decent joke with it because that moment has already been supremely exhausted, just screaming "over 9 thousand" again would have felt tired and old. So then you go the other way, subvert expectations and create something else entirely; make the gag about it being upside down (which makes zero sense making it even funnier) then just nonchalantly deliver the line. Just, really great writing
@@eliasmolck5566 IIRC the "scouter is upside down" joke does predate DBZA, I'm sure I saw it before DBZA came out but I could be wrong and I'm basing this on a memory of a decade old episode.
@@SnausageKing Well, it doesn't help that he attacks Tien instead of Gohan right after that line, who is definitely not a minor. (Unless we're going with the Plan to Eradicate Christmas special of minor meaning "minor character.")
funny thing is I don't know if (in the actual series) chiaotzu was even made aware of that rule before that scene, so that joke tracks. correct me if I'm wrong, tho
I came down here to post this. The "Wait, what?" legit had me laughing out loud for a while the first time I saw it, and it's still one of my favorite TFS jokes to this day.
@@tiablue9106 I'm not 100% sure, but I think I recall Tien or Yamcha telling Krillin and Chiatzu to hang back at first because they've already died so they can't be brought back, unlike Tien and Yamcha.
That whole bit Lani references with Nappa basically saying Goku broke his arm was something i never noticed in previous watches until today. It’s great. Also them noting Taka’s good at that stuff reminds me of the breakdown of episode 60 that you can’t find anymore (I think) where they had the full audio clip play for Cell giving birth lmao
It's a great bit, and honestly one of my favorite Nappa lines. I used to quote it out of context, and even to this day will say "Now it does!" like that.
It's amazing to watch creatives go, "awww maan wtf were we doing?!" On stuff none of us noticed in the slightest. I do understand it, but it's great to see it from a third party perspective. You guys are dope!!
I am starting to believe all those errors people point out in movies were actually discovered by editors watching the movies after they were released and going "Oh man, in three frames right here you can see the cameras reflected in the main character's sun glasses. How did I miss that?"
I just want to thank you guys for literally changing my life, not to make you guys feel old but dbza was what got me into watching anime when I was pretty young.
I always imagined Gohan picked up the language from Chi-Chi when she would swear in frustration when she thought he wasn't around but he could hear her anyway. Speaking as a parent, it is not difficult to do.
To be fair, they say later they tried not to overdo it on ones where THEY made a change in the show. It wasn't always consistent but they disliked having so many be things that didn't happen in the actual show in retrospect.
Love how Piccolo's "That's right. I can take anything you can dish out (Oh God there go my organs)" Would later be echoed by Tien's Shin Kikoho barrage against Cell sating "Huh. Not dead yet. That's weir---OH there we go"
Abridged Nappa: Ooooh, a frisbee Vegeta! Abridged Vegeta: NAPPA NO! IT’S A TRICK! Abridged Nappa: But Vegeta, Tricks (Trix) are for kids… Still gets me 😂
Considering what we've seen of Lani's knowledge of Pokemon type matchups in the Nuzlockes, I think he's the last person who should be criticizing Nappa's choice of move
My biggest expectation from this series is that they might finally explain the "jockstrap incident" I have been agonized by this mystery for years literally.
When you think about it, in a world where magical beans can instantly heal all wounds, magical healing pods can heal you in a couple hours and green slug people can wave magical glowing hands around you to heal wounds in minutes, vegeta killing Nappa solely because of a broken back is pretty hasty! XD
Legume-ex machina and arm doesn't bend that way are two jokes that I never even knew were in the show!! I either never picked up on them or understood, but I'm glad that even all these years later I can find out new things about a show I love :')
I think what sold the subverted "over 9000!" joke wasn't Vegeta having the scouter on upside down or his uninterested delivery afterwards, but the super forced delivery of the lead up line from Nappa. It's so stilted and it sells how much of an anti-climax it's building towards.
I've noticed quite a few cheesey lines like that they've taken right from the funiamtion dub, usually when someone loses an arm. I think Freiza said the same thing Raditz did a couple episodes ago when he takes off Nail's arm.
I kind of appreciate the vintage ass memes like "firin' mah lazor". If I have to be old, I may as well get a smile from something from when I was a teen or less old adult
Keeps the memery alive for the next generations, especially when used like this, where it's funny enough in the piece without its external context, but obviously has some kind of external context to then look into.
Well, they were right about one thing........ nappa is hilarious and we will quote everything he says lmao My favorite delivery was when vegeta and nappa learn the Dragon balls don't work anymore. Nappa: hey vegeta, remember the *bug* planet vegeta? Lmao kills me every time
@@Insan1tyW0lf it's kinda ironic cuz I didn't watch dbz growing up. I know I know but we didn't have cable lol I didn't watch it until I was like 13 or 14 when kai was out. That was around the same time tfs was making their abridged series. In fact they were dropping episodes ahead of the kai series so in a sense I grew up with the abridged series more than I did the actual series. And I prefer it that way lol
It was around here that Lani and Taka recorded an announcement that TFS was going to be at a convention (it may have replaced the eyecatch for ep 9, come to think of it, but I don't know for sure). One of my favorite exchanges of the series came from that clip: Nappa: What about Bleach, Vegeta? They're like us, but with ~swords~ Vegeta: I liked that show better when it was called Yu Yu Hakusho Vegeta: and I liked That show better when it was called DRAGONBALL Z!
The 1006 joke was the joke that I saw that first showed me what this series was. It wasn't even the full episode, just the clip. Funnier yet, it was actually months before a realized that it wasn't just a single funny scene someone made, when I tried to find the scene and show it to a friend of mine. Then we had the great time of binge watching up to Trunks showing up. Good times.
Nappa's honest question of "or were they never there to begin with....?" Has become one of my favorite lines that I've incorporated into my own vocabulary.
I remember when youtube videos were limited to 10 minutes. On my old channel I use to record Pokemon battles, my recording quality was so bad. I recorded ds screen using older camera that still used those mini vhs tapes, than i put that camera on a wooden drawer divider that was on top of 6 to 7 books on each side, so that my netbook (remember those pieces of garbage) camera could record my cameras preview screen or whatever it is called. I remember i struggled so much to get those under 10 minutes on few occasions and had couple battles that took 2 parts. I also used GUitar Hero microphone, and when adding music i put earbuds next to microphone playing songs from my Ipod.
I found your abridged series when you had just put out episode 11 and I was in 8th grade. You guys always made my day when you posted a new episode or Hellsing. You truly helped me through uni and well into adulthood with laughs and jokes and your nuzlockes so just thank you for what you created.
Figured out these commentaries were a thing yesterday! That reignited my DBZA love for the weekend, now just saw this come up right as I finished rewatching the video of the commentary of all the movies. Thank you guys so much for this amazing series, it holds such a special place in my heart, as I'm sure it does for many, many people.
The dynamic between Nappa and Vegeta in this abridged series is a great example of how to exaggerate a characters base personality for comedy. The Nappa and Vegeta from the show/manga were depicted as these ultra powerful genocidal warriors. Aliens so astronomically powerful that not only can they vaporize planets with their bare hands, but they are consistently unable to be challenged. The scene wherein they choose to wait 3 hours for Goku to show up in the manga was a great display of how casual this type of evil has become for them. That the act of butchering a planets greatest warriors has become so mundane and their eventual victory so assured, that they have no problem putting the entire act of hold for awhile in the hopes of seeing something mildly interesting. The abridged series does an excellent job of exaggerating this dynamic. They play up the casual nature of their perception of the situation. Nappa never for a second takes ANY of the fights seriously. He's constantly mocking and laughing at his opponents, finding any kind of interest in what he's doing as he slaughters them. When they put the fight on hold, it's literally just to satisfy Nappa's boredom as he's done all the fighting so far and none of it has really interested him. Vegeta on the other hand is depicted as so above it all that his only real motivation at this point is to keep Nappa from annoying him any further. The context for the 3 hour pause is then exaggerated beyond simple mild curiosity and becomes a situation in which this kind of brutality is so common for the two that they hardly even register the situation itself. It's more about Nappa being bored and Vegeta not wanting to listen to it than it is about them literally butchering the inhabitants of this planet. As rough as Season 1 may be in some places, it's great to recognize that these men always had a knack for comedic writing and parody in general. Super talented for sure.
In hopefully the least parasocial sounding way possible, watching with Lani and Kaiser kinda feels like you’re just sitting down with some friends watching something you love & getting to hear cool stories about the production of the series
I love the "I can fly" joke. Its one of my favorite jokes from your whole series. Family Guy did a conceptually similar joke when Peter, while talking to Brian suddenly realizes, to his shock, his dog can talk, and this is years into the series.
Loving this thing that you're doing more and more each episode. I really enjoy peeking behind the veil and understanding why certain things are the way they are and the insight behind the actors. Really hope y'all can do the movies as well as they make sense. I cant imagine a DBZA retrospective series without them
its nice to see them dreading doing this to quoting line for line seeing that glow in there eye and the joy in there voice seeing smile takes me back to when i was a teenager lol
GangXingBa was always fantastic. Lani is really underrated as a VA imo tho - his normal speaking voice shouldn't be able to voice all the baritone lads he does, but he does and very, very well and naturally I might add!
I love you guys. you guys put 110% effort in everything, y’all were a big part of my teenage years. And I just wanted to say “Thank you” from the bottom of my heart, for all the hard work and entertainment y’all have given me over the last 13 years . From me, and also the countless fans who feel the same way. We love you guys, keep being amazing.
I absolutely love this comfy series of you guys reflecting on early TFS. Iconic stuff, even if you guys reminisce over how you'd do it differently, you brought joy and laughter to so many fans young & old you should be proud. For what it's worth, the logo & ending outro jingles are so "2007" and nostalgic and remind me of a better era of youtube where you could watch G-Gundam in it's entirety for free lol. I don't know, when this debuted it was an era of hope and creativity and I hope you guys honestly know you are legends and helped a lot of people and brought many smiles and bouts of laughter with your project with your online buddies and I want you guys to feel great about it. Thank you for the insane amount of time, work & development you gave this and your fanbase. I can't really express how good it was. Well done and well earned. :)
I use soooo many DBZA references in my day to day life without meaning to. I totally forgot Cadaverific was you guys. Even though you use it again with Mecha Freeza. I know it’s not in the cards atm, but I sure hope you all decide to make the Buu saga eventually. Even if you don’t, a hope to see a short or two with you guys with moments from that arc.
I still say "byyyyyyyye!" like Mr. Popo at the 18:30 joke. I used it jokingly with my niece as she was leaving sometimes that it became a running joke between the two of us. We'd repeat it back and forth as one of us was leaving. I don't think she's ever watched DBZA, but the running gag makes us laugh.
16:51 Funny, I always assumed that "time to redeem myself ... through one final act of redemption" was intentionally written to sound ridiculous as part of the joke. It never occurred to me that they just didn't think of a better way to phrase that.
Waited til we got here to make this comment. As someone who has been watching TFS since the first episode of DBZA who is also a creative, I get the impulse to look back at your early stuff and mostly focus on where it could have been better. I do the same thing with my work. But to defend the reference-based humor for just a moment: it might not be as timeless as jokes from season 2 and 3, but it does have important historical value. You guys started working together 15 years ago - I think when people look at your work now it's hard to understand exactly what that means, just how much you've all grown as actors, editors and creatives. The references help ground the place and time you were at when you started this journey, and while that gets into very metatextual territory it's an important part of your and the series's story.
4:15 It’s fine. Nappa’s high physical attack and the level difference makes up for it being not very effective. 8:23 I thought they would’ve commented on how Nappa’s armor was fixed when he came rushing at Gohan, Piccolo, and Krillin.
I'm loving this series, I'm pretty sure back in the day episode 8 is where I started watching DBZA, it's kind of wild when i actually think about how long it's been
If Krillin killed the equivalent of three Raditz with one attack, shouldn't that mean Nappa being the equivalent of five isn't that big a deal? Oh wait, I know! Powerlevels are bullshit.
I mean, it did basically take all of his energy to destroy 3. And I don't know if there's a logic to it in an actual fight but I'd rather fight 3 guys that equal my strength than 1 that is equal
I love how Krillin figures out how to stop Nappa with the "My Turn My Turn My Turn!!!" I feel like that's a result of being friends with Goku for as long as they were
After so many times re-watching this I never realized that it was Aquaman saying the "noooooo" when the whales were all dead. Also with the "minor in pain" joke was part of the child psychology and attacking Gohan. Also never heard the "arm doesn't bend that way" by nappa till now.
I know it's a creators curse to overly criticize your material, but man even the easy or cheap jokes still make it what it is, and it's legendary. The theme of this saga would be completely different otherwise
