@@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.
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.
@@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.
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
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@@robertpirtle7642 or just, it’s mostly old jokes with outdated references and equipment from a decade ago and it’s just embarrassing looking back at it.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
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.
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
The irony of all this is that TFS made Nappa an ICONIC character when he was a throwaway character by Toriyama. Plus I love hearing the jokes that didn't quite make the cut.
Basically every media aside from the creator's, does more for every character. TFS just went another step beyond for a handful of characters, while doubling down what was established for others.
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.
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.
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
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"
@@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.")
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?"
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.
When I worked in retail as a stockboy/backup cashier Krillin's "pleasenotmepleasenotmepleasenotme- WOO NOT ME" used to play in my head almost every time the PA system went off
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
I have been watching this series since I was in highschool, since I was 14. I am now 28 years old, and UP UNTIL THIS DAY, i had no idea Taka voiced the "arm doesnt bend that way, arm doesnt bend that way, OH NOW IT DOES" I had to reverse the video and relisten to the lines to catch it! Yall made my chuldhood, and my husband and I STILL quote lines of this to this day
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 :')
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
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.
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
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.
21:41 "He loves recording stuff likfe that." Yeah that's something I only became aware of and started listening to during HFIL episodes, but I can't believe I never knew how funny his background lines were here. Thanks for pointing it out Lani.
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 just realized, 5:31 the Healthy communication joke is because Nappa isn’t really clear on who he is talking to when he says it. It could be either Vegeta or Tien
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!
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.
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
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.
To be fair, it packs a punch even when it isn't damaging. The one here's weaker since Tien's already almost dead but still damages his armor unlike Chaozu's explosion. Very strong impact with the attack, plus Tien had a lot more energy to spare with Cell.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
Season 1:(Finishes)
The Fourth Wall:(Bloodied and bruised)"I didn't... Hear... No bell..."
“Idiot used a fighting type move on a psychic type Pokémon.” Glad to know I wasn’t only one that thought that.
I dunno, would be a good way to weaken it before capturing it.
To be fair Nappa probably thought he was an electric type, y'know with the whole Pikaclone cheeks and using self-destruct
@@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.
I guess he hadn't given up on capturing it yet.
Yeah but Chiaotzu was under-levelled to the point that type advantage didn't matter.
10:00 Yeah...you were right...It's me saying "It's like..." or s'like.
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.
Underrated VA, just like like Tien
My favorite tien line is when he says I am not spectator. I am a warrior.
glad to know he won a Three Eyed Oscar
Tien's my top favorite human warrior, this Abridged did him justice.
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.
I never knew Krillin said “legume ex machina”; I always thought he said “thank you-ex machina”. That makes it so much better
Also same, had no idea
Same
Background story please?
@@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.
Tien being utterly brutalized while Piccolo chooses not to help him praising him for his "bravery". Is always gonna be one of my favorite jokes.
Help me, for the love of God, *HELP ME!!!!*
@@multiverse_media2023 . . . Like a hero.
@@AttemptedVoices
Mr Piccolo! Help him!
@@multiverse_media2023 Oh, fine! Krillin! GO!
*Piccolo and Krillin go to save Tien from the wrath of Nappa.*
@@AttemptedVoices
FOR PONY!!!!
I love Tien in TFS. He was the only serious one, but that made him both hilarious for being out of place but still badass
The Straight Man in a world full of crazies. Hell even Piccolo goofs off almost as much as some others
"Eeney meeney miney...you" is a technique I use in my classroom teaching, and I got it from you all. Thanks!
Does it include the kick?
@@markkoetsier6475 I hope sou
"Midget's next!"
And that's how I lost my teacher's license!
I love how Princess Snake is cool with Goku and even apologizes, though. Another enemy turned friend for our big orange goofball.
I love how Lani is having a field day with repeating quotes decades ago.
Well, a decade and some change, thirteen years. TH-cam still hasn't been around for two decades yet.
Like we do!
One might call it a best day
Although he said he watches watchalongs so it's not that far back for him
It's Rock Smash. You're dealing single digit damage either way.
“Vegeta!”
“What?“
“I can flyyyy!”
Still does not get old 😂😂😂
Catch it, catch it with your teeth.
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
For me it's the Naruto shadow clone joke but that one is good as well.
@@furionmax7824 Vegeta I didn't know you were that stupid!
and the "or was he never there to begin with...?" LMAOOOOO
If it wasn't for the outdated sound effect, that would still be fuckin perfect
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
What shame?
@@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
Byeeee
@@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
@@robertpirtle7642 Reminds me of when they released rainbow-colored TFS merch in June for publicity
I still quote Nappa's Italian rage.
"You make-a me SO mad!!"
Chiaotzu's death is still one of my favorite early jokes just because of Tien's delivery
I love the "Wait what" too
I hardcore picture Gohan picking up the language from Chi Chi when she was mad at Goku
I saw it as Goku picked up cursing from Popo, and Chi-Chi wasn't a fan of it.
Agreed. Chi Chi does threaten Krillin with castration with a rusty carving knife, so Gohan could have very well picked it from her.
Abridged Nappa is probably more memorable than canon Nappa.
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.
Probably?
@@JohnCalk
Toriyama doesn’t animate, it’s Toei or anyone who’s involved in it.
@@75JUNAKI he drew the original facial expressions tho
Original Nappa is getting a lot funnier thanks to games.
So I'd argue him and Raditz still have some fans.
First time watching Bulma cry on this, I said "bullshit" the same time as Roshi.
I ended up laughing so hard....
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
@@tiablue9106 Verbal karma is what you call that.
Calling bullshit on her being a virgin *and* on her making Yamcha's death all about herself.
That reaction unites all of humanity even if they have never seen an episode of Dragon Ball content in their life.
The irony of all this is that TFS made Nappa an ICONIC character when he was a throwaway character by Toriyama. Plus I love hearing the jokes that didn't quite make the cut.
Funny how the games, even older ones, have given some more small bits of character to Nappa.
Basically every media aside from the creator's, does more for every character. TFS just went another step beyond for a handful of characters, while doubling down what was established for others.
whoever did the voice for tien delivered every line flawlessly
GanXingba, he does A LOT of voices for TFS and gotta say he's phenomenal in all of em.
Ah, Nappa. In retrospect I agree with the decision to minimize his post-mortem appearances, but he certainly was the highlight of season one.
Every season has that character that is hilarious and you will quote everything they say
@@JefflezZz
Nappa, Guru and?
I guess 16 has some memorable lines but isn't that it?
@@deltaone2837 it’s Cell
@@deltaone2837 Cell
@@_mango_ Oh yeah, I guess. I do quote him a lot.
Seriously, no discussion of " Child Psychology... with a minor in pain!"? One of the best jokes in the series!!
Woulda been better if he attacked Gohan after saying that
It has been a decade, I JUST GOT THE "BELIEVE IT" JOKE, I DIDN'T CLICK IT WAS A REFERENCE
Is that right? Well, I guess I have no good reason to not... _Believe It!_
It took me a long time too since I had watched Naruto in subtitles.
I watched naruto sub so I had no idea until recently
The whole " Arm doesn't bend that way" thing.... killed me when they pointed it out. Never noticed before.
Thanks to the start of Episode 8, whenever I see a dead body in a movie, I mean a very very dead body in a movie, I always call them “Cadaverific”!
I swear, we watch all the same series. You're always there in the comments!
Same. "Cadaverific" has been permanently etched into my lexicon thanks to DBZA.
I said it in med school when this episode just came out... Needless to say, people didn't laugh. Also I quit med school soon after that.
@@malchir4036 holy sh*t sorry but that's hilarious 💀🤣
@@askthepizzaguy For me it's either this or Lucahjin
Bruh, for YEARS, I thought Nappa was screaming “FOR KONYYY,” as a reference to the Kony 2012 memes
And I just now realized that this episode came out in 09. I’m dumb 😵💫
Fuck, even I forgot Kony 2012 was a thing
Stay gold Gohan.
I always thought he was saying "For PWNAGE!"
For Kony is a funnier reference, that's my headcannon for it now
“You know what Napa catch it catch it with your teeth” It’s probably the line that got me hooked when you guys were starting
I love how despite these scenes being 15 years old Lani can still get every line he recorded almost beat for beat.
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
And just look at how often you see the numbers 1006/9001 used as a reference. They went and made a whole new meme out of the scene!
@@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.
@@Waniou137 I mean somebody probably thought of the same 1006 joke back then anyway but still
The simple fact that over 9000 was a dead ancient meme at the time of writing of this episode, which ITSELF is ancient, is really amazing to me.
I love the fact that Goku was just *1* power level above 9,000!
Chiatzu's "wait what" joke was the first joke I remember that I legit cried while laughing
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.
"Kick his ass Nappa!" has somehow been a part of my lexicon for all this time.
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
The beginning of the Namek Arc was a little slow. Up until we met Dende.
@Monika On DSI what slurs?
@@PatheticApathetic probably "freaky alien genotype"
@@entombedentity7059 what’s wrong with that?
@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
Changing Vegetas motivation works especially well when you consider zenkai boosts and how Nappa definitely would’ve been stronger after healing there.
Did Vegeta have the Saiyan Handbook at that point tho?
@@marxist-leninist-protagonist he probably did, but he either forgot or was just too angry at Nappa to care
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"
“Child Psychology!”
“Wow, that sounds really interestin-“
*”WITH A MINOR IN PAIN!”*
This joke absolutely wrecks me everytime
Only took me 10 years to get the pun
Wrecks Gohan too
@@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.")
I caught that now
Looks like he’s been… *DISARMED!*
i cant believe it took me until TODAY for me to realize 'with a minor in pain' is a pun with the child psychology line
Sonuva bitch, I didn't catch 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?"
“Eeny meeny miney you” has become a part of my regular vocabulary.
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.
When I worked in retail as a stockboy/backup cashier Krillin's "pleasenotmepleasenotmepleasenotme- WOO NOT ME" used to play in my head almost every time the PA system went off
Keisers soul is slowly rebuilding itself after being torn to shreds for the first 7 episodes
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.
DBZA is my literal therapy. I constently rewatch this series endlessly. Thank you for this wonderful experience.
"Nobody cares, Krillin!" is something I still randomly throw at friends "that know" all the time.
It's been a whole month, and Scott still hasn't finished his route 44 beverage from Spacey's
Worth every space-penny.
Such a shame. It's good food. In space, even.
"Quack"
I'm so proud of this community for this comment thread
I’m craving a good space soda
Farewell Nappa
You were hilarious and we will quote everything you say
It's a nice moment that Vegeta was still gonna make Nappa immortal along with himself, despite how much he's annoyed by him.
"There go my organs"
"All of them?!?!" 🤣🤣
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 😂
It gets me too!
“…You know what, Nappa, on second thought, catch it. Catch it with your teeth.”
Goddamnit nappa....
WAIT IT WASN'T TRICKS
I think the "everyone important" part from Nappa deserves the Krillin owned count in place of the one earlier you said you felt was unnecessary.
Oh yeah you're right.
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.
I get that, it's just that a few of the "owned" counts were things they added, so I feel their could be one more
Chiaotzu's Death: Top Tier "Wait what" joke ever
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.
*whenever Taka isn't on screen People should be asking " Wheres Taka?"*
always in my mind
The question always in my heart, along with “how is Taka?” Follows by “hope he is finding life okey”
Is this Taka, or Travis?
@@vishaansingh1019 Taka.
@@MrTravyTrav And how would you know, huh? I'm gonna need a more direct source.
I can't get over that Lani is kind of fanboying with us
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.
i’m excited for the 16 speech, so impactful and in their own words
I have been watching this series since I was in highschool, since I was 14. I am now 28 years old, and UP UNTIL THIS DAY, i had no idea Taka voiced the "arm doesnt bend that way, arm doesnt bend that way, OH NOW IT DOES"
I had to reverse the video and relisten to the lines to catch it!
Yall made my chuldhood, and my husband and I STILL quote lines of this to this day
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 :')
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
"Hah! You better have BRN HEAL!"
"BUT VEGETA...Trix are for kiiiiids" lost my absolute shit when I first heard that joke.
3:37. The face Lani makes here legit cracked me up.
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.
got you into anime? why would you thank them for changing your life for the worse?
@@pdfbanana sad thing is I can't tell if this is genuine, or a joke from weeb to weeb lmao
You guys are old.
@@FujiwarnerCo1dj nah
Can't wait to finally see them do the finale of Episode 1.
Glad I wasn't the only one that caught that 🤣 🤣🤣
Ooooh be nice :P
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
I was actually really disappointed to be reminded of just how un-funny actual Nappa is. DBZA Nappa is best Nappa.
@@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
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.
I would have NEVER noticed 9:37 if Kaiser hadn't pointed it out.
21:41 "He loves recording stuff likfe that." Yeah that's something I only became aware of and started listening to during HFIL episodes, but I can't believe I never knew how funny his background lines were here. Thanks for pointing it out Lani.
Sounds like I need to go back and rewatch some of those episodes.
i forgot about the part where Krillin asks if Piccolo has a plan, and Piccolo says "can you get him in a full nelson?" that really got me. 😭😂
"Hey! I'm still alive!" one of the most underrated lines ever.
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.
"Vegeta...I can flyyyy" is the exact moment I fell in love with DBZA. It's my name in d DBFZ and the reason I main Nappa.
I just realized, 5:31 the Healthy communication joke is because Nappa isn’t really clear on who he is talking to when he says it. It could be either Vegeta or Tien
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!
AWA Special. It's still there at the bottom of the Videos tab. Dragon Ball the Movie.
I always thought the disarmed joke was poking fun at Vegeta saying it in the Funimation dub
Ocean dub
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.
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
Especially since there were so few Saiyans left at that point.
I mean, sure but... do you really want Nappa and his IQ ananywhere NEAR a repopulation effort?
It's less that Vegeta had no more use for Nappa, and more that Toriyama-san had no more use for Nappa.
@@TetsuDeinonychus really was a missed opportunity never seeing super saiyan nappa
@@alonedownthere47 I wonder what his hair (or lack there of) would look like.
To this day "For Pony!" Makes me laugh. I love LFG and it absolutely made my day on my first time watching this series!
I quote "catch it. catch it with your teeth." probably twice a week
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.
Having only just now seen Naruto since the last time I binged all of DBZA, Nappa's "I can't... believe it." joke just hit me. Brilliant.
its good when popo now was "oh, he died, not my problem" to cell saga "oh... i think i miss that green guy"
Kikouho didn't damage Nappa, but showed hell to Cell.
To be fair, it packs a punch even when it isn't damaging. The one here's weaker since Tien's already almost dead but still damages his armor unlike Chaozu's explosion.
Very strong impact with the attack, plus Tien had a lot more energy to spare with Cell.
Also, power levels are bull****
“Go for the Oscar!” That was amazing
Cadaverific is a word I still try to use when I can to this day.
I love Lani acting with the episode and just having a blast going back and poking fun at themselves.
“Oh god It cut off his whole face!” That editing tho lmao loved it
The world of youtube would not be the same without you guys thank you for everything
love how much of kaiser's humor comes from archer lmao "yep yep yep!" and "little column a..."
cant wait till we get to the Freeza and Cell Sagas. maybe even the movies!
In lieu of new DBZA, this is easily the next best thing. Thank you for doing this!
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
y'all being proud of the little bits is such a joy to watch
like scott cracking a big smile at 'legume ex machina'
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.
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.
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 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.
With as much as DB and Naruto have crossed over in official publications, that Multi-Form Technique gag is deserved.
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
It is my personal head canon that gohan got that language from a mix of studying and chichi.
Taka's line about Nappa's arm not bending that way is still one of my most favorite lines to this day 😂
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.
As a psychology student, I can now understand the genius of "DAMN YOU PAVLOV!!!"