Mike and the bots riff Saban's DBZ dub

John Pannozzi · Post by **John Pannozzi** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:01 pm

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/7990/

tablet the eunuch · Post by **tablet the eunuch** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:51 pm

Dragonball-Z -- the popular, impossibly violent children's program from Japan.

I read that, rolled my eyes and just left it.

Meri · Post by **Meri** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:13 pm

tablet the eunuch wrote:
Dragonball-Z -- the popular, impossibly violent children's program from Japan.
I read that, rolled my eyes and just left it.

The site's also from 1996 or 1997, so.... actually, I'm not sure where I was going with that, so never mind. O_o

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:32 pm

I remember that from ages ago. It does have some funny things, but it's no Dragon Ball Z Rewrite.

tablet the eunuch wrote:
Dragonball-Z -- the popular, impossibly violent children's program from Japan.
I read that, rolled my eyes and just left it.

Why? It's pretty much accurate. It's popular. It's a children's show. It's violent. And it's from Japan. Winner!

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:09 pm

I don't have the time to read that (Yeah, like I have better things to do), so I'm just going to say "Oh, it's not even worth reading. It couldn't possibly hold a candle to SRG's Rewrite." like a little pussy.

My god, is that the first time I've used underline tags?!

Ben Plante · Post by **Ben Plante** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:10 pm

I remember that rewrite. Is that still around?

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:00 pm

No. You'll have to use the Wayback Machine.

And no, it's not as funny as DBZ Rewrite. But that's no reason not to read it. That would be like eating the greatest ever sandwich, and then refusing to eat any other sandwich ever made because it didn't taste as nice.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:18 pm

PsyLiam, that sounds exactly like something I'd say.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:27 pm

You'd use a metaphor that was as retarded as that? You poor thing. You poor stupid thing.

Ben Plante · Post by **Ben Plante** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:12 am

Dorkily enough, I've said much cornier things.

Alias · Post by **Alias** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:14 am

I read the DBZ MST years ago. Really nostalgic to see it again. It reminds me of when I went on the Wayback Machine a few weeks ago to see the old DBZ sites; Planet Namek, Old TOT, Old Daizex, Old GGG and Wuken's home page. I had never used the Wayback Machine before, so it was strange to surf them and read the stuff I only vaguely remembered...

I never finished SRG's DBZ Rewrite. I got really disgusted when I got to the part with Chichi and Gyuu-mao. Sure, the metal bikini was weird and all, but that interpretation of it didn't belong in a humor fic. I don't understand how the readers are supposed to laugh at the 'flavors' scene.

Ick.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:46 am

Ah the DBZ rewrite, good stuff. Anyone still have a link to it?

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:37 pm

Wayback machine. Use it. The original address was somerandomguy.com

As to the metal bikini thing...I guess it depends on whether you think that paedophilia is something that you should make jokes about (which in turn leads to questions about what exactly you can make fun of, and everyone ends up drawing the line in different places). I found it amusing, personally. It's not like he was advocating dressing children up in metal bikinis, or anything.

And "No! You've activated me! Now you die!" is possibly the funniest line ever written. It actually hurt when I read it. Hurt.

Alias · Post by **Alias** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:27 am

It has nothing to do with whether he's advocating it or not. It has to do with the idea that a father raping his little daughter is amusing. It isn't. Humor is good, but some things just aren't funny.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:27 am

In your opinion...

And I don't think he does, anyway. Wasn't the whole point of that segment based around the misinterpretation of "quoted" sections?

Alias · Post by **Alias** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:13 pm

It's not just opinion. I hate it when people deem that all moral values are just a matter of viewpoint ("Sure she's 16 and he's her 49 year old teacher, but they were in love! It's just your opinion that it's weird!").

The thing with Chichi was just plain sick, regardless of what it was based on. Why on Earth would anyone find that sort of thing humorous?

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:39 pm

I agree with Alias that you have to draw the line somewhere and incest and pedophilia are where I do. That's the one thing I hated about Martian Successor Nadesico, the father's sexual attraction to his teenage daughter. I never found it funny, just annoying and sick.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:56 pm

That wasn't funny with Nadesico, you're right... But Onegai Twins was WAY worse.

Either way, if anyone knows how to pull that sort of thing off, it's SRG.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:26 pm

Alias wrote:It's not just opinion. I hate it when people deem that all moral values are just a matter of viewpoint ("Sure she's 16 and he's her 49 year old teacher, but they were in love! It's just your opinion that it's weird!").

There's a world of difference between laughing at something, and condoning it. Laughing at that bit in DBZ rewrite doesn't mean that you agree with fathers doing naughty things to their daughters. In DBZ rewrite, some of the humour comes from the fact that Chi Chi is some super-powerful demi-god who tortures Goku, but that doesn't mean that spouse abuse is a good thing.

The thing with Chichi was just plain sick, regardless of what it was based on. Why on Earth would anyone find that sort of thing humorous?

Because it was. Some people don't find jokes about mental or physical disability, or cancer, or death, or STDs, or many, many, many other things. And others do. Making jokes about them is not the same as saying "hey, wouldn't it be great if everyone got AIDS?"

Alias · Post by **Alias** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:46 am

PsyLiam wrote:Because it was. Some people don't find jokes about mental or physical disability, or cancer, or death, or STDs, or many, many, many other things. And others do. Making jokes about them is not the same as saying "hey, wouldn't it be great if everyone got AIDS?"

Those aren't the same thing. There's a world of difference between making a joke about death and having a father raping his little daughter. Just because a laugh track's added doesn't make it funny. It reminds me of the times I've gone to DBZ humor sections and found sick jokes about how Piccolo was molesting Gohan when they were training, or how Freeza was raping Vegeta. How is that amusing? Why would someone being raped make somebody laugh? IMnot-soHO, people who write or like that kind of stuff really need to get their heads examined.

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