Reacting to DBZ Abridged Lord Slug Movie Without Watching Dragon Ball Z 

The whistling works because Namekians have extremely sensitive hearing. HFIL is actually canonical to the DBZ dub. They couldn’t call it Hell so they named it the Home For Infinite Losers.

I love how he (in this video) refused to elaborate on HFIL or the fact that Namekians' ears are sensitive to high pitched noises 😂

The King Piccolo jokes are also made because Slug's motivations are exactly the same as King Piccolo: use the dragon balls to return to their prime. Both succeed, only to die shortly afterward courtesy of Goku going through their chest. And in the Abridged version, both are one half of another Namekian - Kami for Piccolo, Guru for Slug.

In an early English dub they couldn’t use the word hell so when Goku went to the afterlife they called hell hifl. And team four star just leaned into that

It's not just Slug being the only other evil Namekian. King Piccolo also used the Dragon Balls to wish for eternal youth.

Really like this version of: Kaioken!!! Slug: "Kaio--" Piccalo: "WHAT?!"

The running gag with most the DBZA movies is that they tend to take place at Christmas. There are some exceptions, but the plot point gets put down pretty heavily that Goku loves him some Christmas. Also, in the original movie it is discovered that namekians have suuuuuuper exceptional hearing. Like, ridiculous. Gohan's whistling nearly drives Piccolo mad but it winds up being Slug's weakness to, so realizing this, Piccolo, rips his god damn ears off in order to not be affected as he tells Gohan to whistle so he can reach Goku to give him energy... Hence why in this version he perpetually screams "What?!" The plot of the film is also suspiciously close to the King Piccolo Saga of the original Dragon Ball, hence Slug getting angry whenever someone calls him King Piccolo. A tongue-in-cheek joke akin to "Simpson's did it." Lastly, HFIL has a bit of a story to it. In the original manga and anime, it's just Hell. The demons Goku meets on his way to King Kai's planet both sport shirts that explicitly said HELL on them even in the Japanese original. When it was Westernized the term "Hell" was deemed inappropriate and thus needed to be changed. Easy enough when doing a dub, but the visual representation of the word also had to be altered in the animation. Rather than just blanking the demon's shirts they altered the lettering from "HELL" to "HFIL" and referred to it as the Home for Infinite Losers. TFS has always played on gags making fun of the editing and localization changes for the sake of a laugh to people who know a bit more about the show and its history. Like Master Roshi commenting on how he was drinking Orange juice, which suddenly became apple juice, and then became beer. It was always beer, but again, to make it more suitable for kids, ya know.

HFIL is what they called Hell in one of the dubs for censorship reasons. It stands for Home For Infinite Losers. Anyways, yes TFS is doing a series by that name.

Like all the villans they made Lord slug is great in dbza cause honestly he was very underrated imo

in the english dub they changed every reference to Hell into HFIL (because the word appears quite often in writing, it stands for Home For Infinite Losers). The show HFIL that they are doing is just a sitcom that takes place in Hell with all of the killed Villains from Dragon Ball Z.

HFIL is how the American version censored the word "Hell" when Goku died the first time. Team Four Star Ran with it.

10:51 Gohan has an Arale poster in his room! Fun fact: She comes from another anime of Toriyama's "Dr. Slump", and even appears in Dragon ball and then later Dragon Ball Super where she fights Vegeta & SS Blue Goku!

Slug's voice actor in this, Takahata 101 (or Curtis Arnott) also voices Nappa, Dende, Slug, Bardock, Guru, and Cell

And now we reach their favorite joke. Ill wait down here and catch him by surprise

12:28 so this is the creators’, especially Lannipator (voice of Krillin, Piccolo, Vegeta, and more)’s favorite joke in the series

Love how even Slug’s death is the same as how King Piccolo got killed by kid Goku😂

Yeah the HFIL was basically because they couldn't use the H word in the first dub of DBZ back in the 90's. Gaz and Mez shirts were even changed to have HFIL

They call him Lord Piccolo because Evil King Piccolo did the exact same thing where he wished himself to be young again and then destroyed the dragonballs so they couldn’t be used against him which is why the dragon says this seems familiar. Also when Kami was younger he split his soul/body in half with his good half being Kami and his evil half turning into Evil King Piccolo. Then right before kid Goku killed King Piccolo, he spit out an egg that grew up into the Piccolo we all know. So Piccolo is essentially the “son” of Kami’s evil half

A great thing they did for this movie is establish that Guru is actually the EVIL half, which explains how he is DBZA.

HFIL (Home For Infinite Losers) is a dub-ism replacing “hell” for ratings reasons. Like how nobody dies in the Yu-Gi-Oh dub, they just get sent to the “shadow realm”.

Tien is mostly human, but according to supplementary material he has distant alien ancestry- Also technically Chichi's dad has been referred to as a demon, but that may just be a title

HFIL is what they used in the censored version and some games, it stands for "Home For Infinite Losers"

The jokes on Lord Slug being king Piccolo are not just because he is the only other evil Namekian. Both Lord Slug and King Piccolo have a title of nobility, they both used the Dragon Balls to regain youth, they both grow gigantic, etc. Movie villains are often just rehashed versions of regular villains. Lord Slug is basically King Piccolo, Cooler is basically Frieza, Broly is a rehash of the Saiyans and Android 13 is a rehash of the Androids.

In this movie we can see Goku's most powerful form - the legendary Champion of Christmas! And lord Slug's beautiful singing voice (especially before his rejuvenation) makes me laugh no matter how many times I hear him.

Everyone else has already covered the DBZ stuff, but here's a fun fact about the Andy Griffith Show theme song: did you know it has lyrics? The version used on the show is just whistling, but there was also a vocal version written, later performed by Griffith for one of his albums. The actual title of the song is The Fishin' Hole. That's why Andy and Opie are carrying fishing poles and walking by a lake in the opening titles of the show.

Teamfourstar did not invent "HFIL" HFIL is actually an old and hilarious western attempt to censor the word HELL in actual hell (the place) in the dbz dub HFIL is actually an acyrnym that spells out "Home For Infinite Losers" which is where all of the dead villains if Dragon ball would go, while in reality, in the original Japanese version, and later renditions of dragon ball z, kept it as "Hell". This was changed for similar reasons for Mr Satan being changed to "Hercule" HFIL is now a running gag in dbza when goku refers to hell in the dbz world. Now with a show of the same name thats about the dead villains in Hell.

iirc, the Dead Zone movie is officially canon. It was actually written as the official entry into the DBZ era.

I forgot how much piccolo roasts the henchmen in this movie 😂

So Goku could've just whistled in order to defeat King Piccolo and Piccolo.

H.F.I.L is the dub dodging around certain concepts/swearing the meaning is Home For Infinite Losers as an alternative to hell.

(At 17:00) this part I actually like, because they played my favorite song from Disturbed… "Stupify" And this is also Goku's fake Super Saiyan form.

They're also calling him King Piccolo because he did the exact same thing, wish himself young again to take over the planet.

“I need you to do that thing that really annoys me!!! You mean talk?”😂😂😂 made my do a spit take.😂😂

Goku spends most of his time leaving, dead, or training. Usually more than one. Chi-Chi stopped looking for him after Dragon Ball.

It's honestly an interesting theory that Slug was the evil half of guru. I don't think that part was explained in the original movie. I know it's not canon but still really good to think about. I'm sure they'll end up making all the movie villains canon but time will tell

The dub of dbz edited the word hell to be Hfil, which stands for Home for infinite losers. So HFIL is canon to dbz, and their newer post dbza show called Hfil is based on that

Oh yeah, Goku doesn't actually become a farmer until way later! So rn Chichi actually demands p much nothing of Goku. They just live off of her dad's money.

I love that the reason they included Stupify at the end was because in the original dub they added the song for no reason.

All of the movies are non-canon, but the plausibility of each movie ranges from only one small detail preventing them from being possible to no fucking way could this fit in the timeline. The most plausible movie is Wrath of the Dragon. If it wasn't for the fact that Tapion gives Trunks the sword at the end, implying that it takes place during future Trunks's original timeline, it would be entirely possible. Bojack is also decently plausible if not for a few details.

Love how at the end they not only establish that Slug is the other half of Guru, but that Slug is the "Good" half

history of trunks is cannon i think, cause its based on a gaiden toriyama wrote, also they joke about demon king piccolo cause this movie is just his arc in dragon ball, alot of the movies are just different arcs redone for movie format with a fresh coat of paint

The brightest knife in the crayon box 😂😂😂

23:40 It's from Dragonball. It's because Namekians have extremely good hearing, and a whistle is like a sonic attack to them. Think "Solar Flare" but for hearing.

They weren't allowed to say HELL in original us broadcast so they edited the bottom of the E an the first L off on the demons shirt below snake way making it appear to say HFIL which later became Home oF Infinite Losers

This movie has one of my absolute favourite lines in all of DBZA: “If you’re with the government or the church get the fuck off my property. Which considering I now own this planet, is effectively everything.” Also this one: “There’s a certain sport I excel at.” “What’s it called?” “Competitive bitch toss!” 2:46 I believe Bardock Father of Goku was canon until Dragon Ball Minus. HFIL was the censored name for Hell in one of the original dubs. It stands for Home For Infinite Losers. The reason Nappa sung Stupify is because the original song was in the Funimation dub of the actual movie.

I love when they stop to explain dbz lore and get it wrong 😂

HFIL is the Home For Infinite Loses, aka the dub's censor for Hell lol

Goku saying HFIL is not a reference to the show they hadn't made yet, it's a reference to DBZ. In the show when Goku died against Raditz he went to other world and went on snake way, then he fell because he's an idiot and ended up in Hell. Now because censorship, they weren't allowed to say Hell, and on top of that the ogres had Hell written on their shirts. So they changed it to HFIL, the Home For Infinite Losers. TFS then took that idea and actually made it a proper thing IN Hell to rehabilitate villains with high power levels, resulting in the series. And it is hilarious.

8:40 that’s because abridged Lord slug is voiced by the same guy that voices abridged Nappa

I'm a bit late, but in the movie Lord Slug wasn't a split part from another Namekian in the original movie, he was a genetic mutant predisposed to being evil. Also HFIL isn't a reference to another show, the English dub called Hell the Home for Infinite Losers instead of calling it Hell.

super kami guru is actually the evil half, which makes so much sense

I think the only Z movie that came closest was the Wrath of the Dragon because it has a lot of post Buu elements Like Super Saiyan 3 Goku and kid Trunks with Goten

So this came out in the middle of the Freeza arc, although canonically it’s really just after the Dead Zone, and now that y’all have watched this (and I’m guessing the next episode or two) y’all can go look up the direct translation of this movies Japanese title. TFS go into it on the creator commentary’s for this movie. That it’s a hilarious how the Japanese will straight up spoil any mystery of the plot in the title alone. Also this was basically supposed to be where Toriyama was fiddling with the idea of the Super Sayin but still had little idea of what they were gonna to look like.

(At 8:13) Didn't King Piccolo, Piccolo's father, *kill* Shenron AFTER that wish was granted?

What I wanna know was how long did that letter take to reach slug when Nail was not fused with Piccolo..

The joke with HFIL is that the American version of the show censored the word hell on the shirts of the two ogres when Goku fell off snake way. They censored it to HFIL. So they are joking about the American censorship. Also, King Piccolo was towards the end of Dragon Ball. Really think you guys should watch Dragon Ball.

15:13 actually really really good editing considering that the vegeta scene is from a completely different movie

(At 2:28) that, and Bardock's and Trunks's backstories. Until they rebooted Broly… for the former.

"The only saiyans are Goku, Gohan and Vegeta" so far...

FYI Nappa Singing Stupified was a reference to the Dub replacing the original background music with the song

I like how they noticed lord slug is Napa aka both voiced by taka

1:57 that moment the review crew and world are introduced or reintroduced the birth of the Pokémon Jynx as Popo’s wife meme 🤣😂

HFIL is what Goku calls hell because he doesn’t curse. Their other series “HFIL” is a dbza spin off that takes place in the bad part of otherworld (Hell)

HFIL is how funimation censored hell on the blue and red ogres shirts. Instead of hell it became Home For Infinite Losers aka HFIL

Fun fact: they kill Icarus in every thing he appears in. His skeleton can be seen at 9:18. HFIL was a dubism because that's how the English dub censored out Hell when Goku fell off Snake Way. TFS just ran with it because it's funny.

"The first canon db movie was battle of the gods" Bardock, Father of Goku:

Town is not human says bandana boy…yes he is. Goddamn this dude refuses to not take Ls every episode. The Krillin of the group.

18:15 also Lord Slug and King Piccolo's plan and motivation were the exact same, something Abridged Slug doesn't like hearing lol.

Just a note, they pronounce HFIL like that every time. HFIL (home for infinite losers) was originally the replacement term for hell in the dragonball universe and was renamed as such due to US censorship.

It makes so much sense that Guru is the evil half.

anyone else notice that about 5 minutes of this is cut out from multiple scenes?

Namekians have incredible hearing, and human whistling is just high pitched enough that it causes them noticeable pain. And it's thanks to TFS and DBZA that I realized that most of the movies were arcs from Z or the OG Dragon Ball. Like Dead Zone is *basically* just the Raditz arc, and Lord Slug is pretty much just the King Piccolo arc without killing off Master Roshi, Krillin, and Chiaotzu. If you look closely enough, just about every movie is just a condensed arc, and im sort of sad it took me so long to realize that!

25:00 priceless ending by Team 4 Star

The idea of gohan watching red dawn is hilarious 😂 😂 😂

Don’t know if you guys have caught this, but Taka (the voice for Abridged Nappa) is also the voice for Slug, Guru, Porunga, Dende, and Guldo. In keeping with the theme, he also voices a certain other green character you haven’t reached yet

Let’s be honest…. Bulma is the leader.

This is set in the time frame of Goku's training on his way to nemek

They introduced HFIL in the Saiyan saga when Goku falls off Snaaaaake Waaaay. I forget if that's what they called it in the dub so to not say "Hell" on American TV for kids or if TFS dubbed it that for giggles but either way yeah they have a whole ass show about the villains in HFIL now.

Battle of Gods & Resurrection F are just DBS movies that sum up its respective saga for the story, though can be watched as their individual episodes

Guru really said "sincerely your evil half" lol

HFIL is an acronym for Home For Infinite Losers. This is the censored name for Hell in DBZ

18:24 we’ll it’s not Slug is just another evil Nemekian, it’s that his whole plan is King Piccolo’s. KP was an old man who used the Dragon Balls to return to the prime of his youth, and used that newfound power to conquer the world. That’s the biggest issue with a lot of the DBZ movie villains, they’re just “Cannon villain done worse.” Cooler is just Freeza. Slug is just King Piccolo. Jinemba is just Buu. The androids are just the androids.

Lord slug his voice by the same guy, who voices Napa in the abridge

You guys should watch the "Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!" movie, its only in japanese but, it came out in 2008. I think the interest in that movie sparked Toriyama to do battle of gods and the subsequent content

That's Professor Layton as Bubbles, btw.

Piccolo explains the making of Dragon Balls to Goku later on. He says, "I'm from the warrior clan. If you want Dragon Balls, you need someone from the dragon clan. One makes Dragon Balls, the other punches people."

A bit of correction. The movies are non canon (until Battle of Gods), but the specials (the 2 bardock specials and the History of Trunks special) are canon

6:23 He actually said "Oh balls balls balls."

HFIL is a censor for the word Hell in the DBZ Funimation Dub. Hell was written on the shirts of two demons in Hell, but because of the censorship, they changed it to HFIL.

Hell got censored to HFIL in the dub and DBZA makes a joke about it

17:00 fun fact, thats the super saiyan original desing

Taka did indeed voice Slug

Remember, lord slug is his good half.

So Lord Slug's movie is kinda a rehash of the King Piccolo plot, including being killed by Goku going through his chest, as DBZA Kai said 'Nobody watched Dragon Ball'. Lord Slug in the actual movie is a separate entity but the abridged version made him the 'good half' to Super Kami Guru for the swerve, since King Piccolo was the evil half of the Nameless Namek who came to Earth, the good half being Kami. It was clever though that Gohan's whistling was his undoing, since Namekians have sensitive hearing due to their larger ears, and with Slug being giant it was even more sensitive. Canonically this was pre-Namek, but the abridged series doesn't really have a clear timeline because Nail is here but Goku hasn't gone Super Saiyan, instead having this 'False Super Saiyan' state. At the least Piccolo did indeed get a bigger role like the last movie said, fitted with Stone Cold Steve Austin music and just being overall a badass, plus the Christmas theme comes back for Goku and Icarus the non-Canon Dragon recurs in being Gohan's pet but also often killed off. Last I checked though Cooler isn't canon, like he doesn't show up in canon material (aside from GT, but it's GT) he's just very popular and designed by Toriyama HFIL is actually a censorship joke, see when Goku died and in filler fell off Snake Way he met the two Ogres (Goz and Mez) with 'HELL' on their shirts, who Goku outwitted and then returned to Snake Way with an energy boost to retcon any lost time, censors changed the word HELL to HFIL, which the abridged series used as Goku's substitute word for Hell, and then became the later post-Cell Saga Spinoff show

This movies placement makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It would have to be after Goku lands on Namek and Piccolo is revived but before the final battle against frieza.

"Debatably Chi-Chi's the leader." What the fuck??? No????? She tells Goku what to do at home, that doesn't make her the leader of Earth's martial arts forces, especially since she fucking hates them and never wants to participate in what they're doing. BULMA could be seen as a commander, she often keeps tabs on what's going on, detecting threats and keeping communication between all the fighters, plus designing tech they need and providing support and transportation. That being said, I wouldn't really call anyone a leader, they all function as a team. And if there is a leader, it's not Goku. He's definitely their big gun, and he often has a good sense for battle and can make good decisions under pressure, but he's never been very good at managing other combatants. That's why Gohan would fill that role in a much later story arc.

In the US they couldn’t say “Hell” so they changed it to HFIL which stands for Home For Infinite Losers.

The first movie with Garlic Jr. Is semi-cannon..

The bit at the beginning where the guy is killed because he calls him "King Piccolo" is because the whole plot is basically just a repeat of the King Piccolo arc...and Team 4Star is mocking that. The Dragon saying "this seems familiar" is another jab at it. BTW, there's a line where Freeza is talking to Guru and says "then I'll be back for you, slug," and Guru says "leave my brother out of it! "

No one ever catches this, but Piccolo yelling “what?” is not just because he tore off his ears, it’s also another stone cold Steve Austin reference.