That's correct. I've mistaken the Funi dub for a parody several times, in fact. It's quite amusing how the actual parody dub, DBZ Abridged, manages to sound far more professional than the actual professional dub.TripleRach wrote:That's getting kind of off-topic, though.Adamant wrote:To be quite fair, that's the case with the Funi dub too.SylentEcho wrote:Any one who watches this would think this dub is making fun of Dragon Ball.
But since people seem to be bothered by this post, I feel compelled to say that I personally remember Adamant once being shocked by a FUNimation dub clip on Youtube. He thought it was a fan parody at first. So I don't think he's trying to be jerk so much as just add another perspective.
And yeah, I know the subject was said to be off-topic, but I'm sure the people bothered by my post would like some actual first-person elaboration, so...
I don't hate the Funi dub. I really don't. Apart from the fact that I stumble upon the odd clip every now and then, and its responsible for some really terrible voices in dub-only video games (which I don't really play either), it's pretty distant from me.
What I do find so silly is that people who grew up on that shit are perfectly fine with making countless posts, threads and videos about other horrible dubs, offer insight such as "I can't believe people actually watched this", "It sounds like they're making fun of the series" and "Those poor kids having to grow up with this garbage instead of something proper", yet go into defensive mode if people dare suggest something similar about the Funi dub. While the Funi dub obviously isn't as bad as this "breathing-into-our-mikes-equals-reading-our-lines" thing, it's way way past the point where it can be taken seriously instead of just laughed at. And still, we got tons and tons of people who grew up on that joke of a dub and saw that as "the way the series is supposed to be", just like these Boys and Girls Club kids saw this as the way it was supposed to be.
When you consider how many people out there consider the Funi dub as "good", "perfect", "better than the original" etc and present themselves as actual die-hard fans of it, the idea that some kids would enjoy this BnGC dub is really not much of a stretch.