Hello, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone between and beyond, and welcome to week 103 of the first Dragon Ball rewatch of the decade.
We're doing five episodes a week, and we'll be watching every single episode of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT. All 508 episodes. Plus the TV specials and the movies.
I encourage you all to watch in Japanese with subtitles, especially if you have never done so before, but watch along in whichever way brings you the most joy.
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I'm going to be super busy the rest of this year and into the beginning of next year, so we are going to take a week off at some point soon. The question is, which week? That's really down to all of you.
We can certainly write up a thread to be posted on the 27th, but I realise it may be more convenient for others if we hold that back and only post it on the 3rd, so the week off is instead next week.
Here's a strawpoll to decide:
Update: We're taking both the 27th and the 3rd off from the rewatch proper (see the replies), but we posted an extra thread on Christmas day.
Previous thread: Week 102 (GT 1-5)
Extra thread: Christmas Bonus (Jump Special)
Next thread: Week 104 (GT 11-15)
Anyway, without further ado...
BONUS Trivia!
So, we had a couple more entries to add last week, but we reached Kanzenshuu's post length limit, so we had to cut them off. In addition to that, there are a couple of the typical sort of "Oh, right, I just realised!" Missed Trivia entries, so we've actually got quite a few extra entries this week:
Spoiler:
- Missed Trivia: As noted by VegettoEX on Twitter last week, the upcoming fusion of Goku and Vegeta was initially called Gogeta in the margin hype text at the end of Chapter 503, the same name for the Dance Fusion from Z movie 12.
- KBABZ theorizes that it's possible this is an accidental leftover; perhaps Toriyama was intending to use the Fusion Dance between Goku and Vegeta, but changed the fusion method after Movie 12 did it first. It's also possible that the name was changed at the last minute for Chapter 504 to avoid confusion between the two fusions.
- Robo theorises that it's likely Toriyama knew about Z movie 12, so it's possible he always planned on using the Potara earrings for Chapter 503, but he didn't actually see the movie and didn't realise (or forgot) that fusion was called Gogeta until Toei's staff called him up after Chapter 503 debuted.
- Yet another possibility is Shueisha's editors wrote the blurb and made a mistake, assuming it would be the same fusion as the movie.
- Missed Trivia: Despite being the second episode in a row to have fan-favourite Vegetto, at 12.1% Episode 273 has the lowest ratings share of any episode in either Dragon Ball or Z.
- Missed Trivia: In the manga, Pan is the only character who wears a gi in 100% of her appearances. She actually beats out Goku, who is highly associated with only wearing his gi, but has numerous instances where he briefly did not (suits to the 21st Tournament, an embarrassing newspaper boy getup in the Baba Saga, Shuu's ninja outfit after the Pilaf Gang roasted Goku's gi, the caveman outfit when arriving at the 22nd Tournament, full bandages after fighting Vegeta, etc).
- Missed Trivia: Dragon Ball GT is the first time the anime has sported a logo without the Shen Long emblem. Z inherited it from the original Dragon Ball anime's logo, which itself was taken from the logo for the very first manga chapter. Toriyama only used this emblem for the first manga Chapter before dropping it altogether.
- Missed Trivia: In the OP shot where the GT Trio get close-up panels of their attacks, if you pay attention you can actually see them performing their moves on the giant suit of armor. Trunks kicks through the shoulder, Goku punches across the chest, and Pan kicks through its leg just above the knee!
- Missed Trivia: In the group shot at the end of the first OP, Goku initially has a more "puffed up and proud" pose as in Toriyama's concept art, before he settles to a more neutral version.
- Missed Trivia: That the Pilaf Gang can appear in GT's first episode confirms they aren't truly evil, despite wanting to take over the world. This is because Porunga's wish was to revive everyone on Earth killed since the day of the Tournament "except the really evil ones", which by Porunga's judgement they are not.
- Missed Trivia: Bizzarely, Goku gets a slightly darker skin tone while he's a child in GT, and is shown even in the first shot of the OP. To our knowledge this change has never been explained.
- Missed Trivia: Unlike the Earth Dragon Balls, the Dark Dragon Balls don't turn to stone for a year when used. Presumably the exploding planets is the tradeoff for this, perhaps by distributing their energy directly into the planet rather than by turning them to stone to dissipate it uninterrupted.
- Missed Trivia: As reported by Kanzenshuu forum veteran Kei17 via a now-dead website, Dragon Box GT (alongside Dragon Box: The Movies) sold better than either the DB or Z Boxes. There may be a few reasons for this:
- The Dragon Boxes were the first time the anime could be bought on home video in Japan. Previously only the festival Movies could be.
- The GT and Movie Boxes were much more affordable than the DB/Z ones due to having less content.
- GT was the least-viewed anime series, so buying it meant you'd own Dragon Ball episodes you likely hadn't seen before.
- Kunzait attributes part of these sales to Western fans: by the time Dragon Box GT went on sale, the quality of the Dragon Ball and Z Boxes were known to be superior to the US's only readily-available DVD option, the infamous Orange Bricks, and thus Westerners were also buying some to import across the pond. However, we remain sceptical of this, since the Japanese boxes are/were sub-only, expensive to import, and generally would only appeal to the most hardcore fans, which is likely a very small number of people.
- Missed Trivia: In the ED shot of Gill and the butterfly, Gill briefly fades into a painted background element for the duration where he doesn't move.
And NOW without further ado...
Episode 450 - It’s Going to Hurt?! Goku the Dentist (GT episode 6)
Ocean dub title: This May Hurt a Little. Goku, the Dentist.
Funimation dub title: Like Pulling Teeth
Originally aired 13th of March 1996
Written by: Atsushi Maekawa
Episode director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
Animation supervisor: Naoki Miyahara
Goku, Pan, Trunks and Gill go to a planet where they're ripping off Super Mario Bros. 3!
Trivia:
Spoiler:
- GT Episode 6 is the first self-contained episode that isn't filler since Dragon Ball Episode 9, the Boss Rabbit episode. After the Pilaf Arc, all of the manga-based episodes were part of longer storylines that weren't wrapped up until the end of the arc.
- To get the rumble effect in the planetary entry scene, the lineart of the characters was copied into the frame and significantly offset.
- Gill is able to tell the contents of the planet's atmosphere without leaving the airtight ship. This is perhaps because he's plugged into the socket on the dashboard, allowing him to integrate with the ship's systems (given the shape it's possible this was intended for the Dragon Radar he absorbed in Episode 5).
- Trunks notes that he's never piloted a spaceship before. Goku at least flew the Capsule Corp. ship from Earth to Namek, and more notably the Ginyu pod from Namek to Yardrat, and from Yardrat to Earth, so as the most experienced pilot, he should really be the one flying the ship.
- Then again, all those ships basically worked on autopilot, and Goku is FAR less skilled at using vehicles in general than Trunks, if DB Episode 1 and the Driving Episode are anything to go by, even if pre-Cell Games filler suggests Goku eventually did get his driver's license.
- Since the trio was immediately attacked by alligators, one can only surmise the planet of this episode is Space Florida.
- Depth and scale perception is actually a big problem in space: while on the moon for example, the lack of atmospheric haze can make it extremely difficult to tell the distance between two landmarks. Which is to say, it's actually resonable for the GT Trio to not have realized the giant-sized nature of the planet until they landed on it.
- Episode 6 is based on one of Toriyama's coloured paper concept drawings for GT, depicting Goku, Pan and Trunks hiding behind a giant glass bottle in the grass as a giant observes the Octopus Ship. This art would be re-used for the third ED (Blue Velvet), and would be homaged in a shot during this episode where the GT Trio hide behind a tree root while the giant observes his cooking fish.
- Goku surprises Trunks and Pan by already being outside the ship. Were it not for Gill's readout of the atmosphere earlier, this would be the exact same situation when Gohan and Trunks shocked Bulma by exiting the Namekian Ship without bothering to check if they could breathe the atmosphere back in the Namek Arc.
- The beetle that Goku rides on is based on a Rhinoceros Beetle.
- Aside from Super Saiyan 4, the Dark Dragon Balls, Baby and Kid Goku, Pan wearing the bee costume is one of the most famous parts about GT.
- It isn't explained where exactly Pan gets the Bee Fluff and Wings from. Presumably they were in the ship, meaning someone, possibly Pan herself, had to have packed them before taking off.
- It isn't exactly clear how a glowing yellow disc in the sky is a swam of bees, let alone what the red and blue discs are supposed to be. Maybe they're suns that the planet orbits around?
- Robo: I don't know much about bees, but I don't think it's likely they'd confuse someone who looks like a bee for their own queen. Then again, these are alien bees. (KBABZ note: Goku actually points this out later once they give them their lost queen).
- In this episode, Goku takes a bite out of the big apple!
- Very appropriately, the first Dark Dragon Ball found is the Four Star Ball, equivalent to the one Goku looked after in Gohan's Hut at the very beginning of the series.
- Trunks and Goku must have EXTREMELY good eyesight to be able to spot the Dragon Ball inside the giant apple from so far away! For Goku, this is keeping continuity with VERY early DB where he had incredibly good eyesight, being able to see Roshi from very far away in Episode 3, and similarly being able to see Kuririn approaching the island in Episode 14 and DB movie 2. Perhaps it's a trait of Saiyans.
- While flying away, Trunks says that they can find the Dragon Ball later with "the Dragon Radar", and doesn't refer to Gill specifically.
- Goku and Trunks fail to use ki sensing when searching for Pan, and so genuinely think that Pan was captured by the spider.
- The spider that Goku and Trunks beat up appears to be based on the Black Widow spider, the most poisonous spider on Earth.
- This also confirms at least one Avenger Goku could beat up.
- Typically, queen bees don't leave a beehive and instead stay within the nest, thus it's totally unknown how exactly the original queen bee managed to get lost in the first place. Some species of bee do have backup queens, so maybe something happened regarding that?
- By this point it's obvious that the bees have mistaken Pan for their queen bee. This has some uncomfortable implications considering the queen bee is expected to breed with the male bees in order to expand the hive. Although considering what happens with Pan and a deer later on, we wouldn't put it past Toei at this point.
- For possibly the first time in its history, the anime uses a giant river fish that isn't THE giant River Fish from the first manga chapter!
- Goku can be seen dancing happily with Gill as Trunks explains the two of them haven't recovered the Dragon Ball yet.
- When Goku looks at Gill's Radar display, it shows five readings at once before everything disappears. Unless zoomed WAY out, there should only be one dot on the display.
- Appropriately, the dragonfly has the same sound effects for its wings as Cell did.
- Finally, a cooked fish large enough for Goku's appetite!
- In the wide shot of the campfire the GT Trio walk around, Toei felt the need to add a moving red arrow pointing to where they're hidden within the grass.
- The giant both ignores the five second rule AND eats an entire apple whole!
- It would actually be dangerous for Goku to eat an apple of that size: apple seeds contain trace amounts of cyanide (it would take about 2000 ground-up apple seeds to kill a human), but at such a large scale there's probably enough to kill him!
- Brave of Trunks to assume the giant cooking the fish and the giant who took the apple are the same guy!
- Goku tries to convince Pan to reconsider her refusal to search through the giant's feces by pointing out how angry Chichi will be if he stays as a child. This ignores their goal for this quest, which is NOT to restore Goku but to recollect the Dark Dragon Balls so the Earth doesn't blow up. If they DID use the Dark Dragon Balls to fix that, the planet they make the wish on would explode (to be fair, Pan just said that she doesn't care what happens to the Earth if she has to do that).
- Ocean altered this line to instead have him say a more sensible "Be reasonable, Pan; everyone on Earth is counting on us." In Funimation's dub, he says "You're the one who wanted to come on this mission; you volunteered."
- The visual of them going through the giant's feces in the bathroom calls to mind the Dragon Ball filler where Roshi uses the shrink watch to try and "get a peek" while Bulma uses the toilet, only the fall into the bowl and get flushed away with her bodily waste.
- In the "imagine spot" where the giant goes to the bathroom, the door was "W-C" written on it. This stands for Water Closet, an archiac term for a bathroom. "WC" is still used on UK road signs alongside an image of someone in a wheelchair to indicate toilets with access for disabled people.
- The giant must be pretty damn strong if Goku's having a hard time holding his mouth open (as well as his tooth not shattering to Goku's Kamehameha!).
- The giant is immediately not in pain after Goku blasts his tooth out despite using no anasthetic at all!
- The GT Trio take four episodes to get their first Dragon Ball after departing Earth and beginning their quest. This is the seventh-shortest amount of time to get their first one, behind only the two depictions of the Namek Arc:
- The Pilaf Arc starts with three in their posession right off the bat, and it takes them two episodes to get their first new one.
- The Cell Games period takes a couple of minutes after Goku begins towards the end of the episode.
- The Red Ribbon Arc takes one manga-based episode.
- The Dragon Team getting their first in the Boo Arc filler takes one episode.
- In the Evil Dragons Arc, it takes 1½ episodes to recover the Dragon Ball from the first dragon after Goku and Pan begin their quest.
- The Daimao Arc takes two episodes after Roshi, Tien and Chaiotzu formally begin their quest.
- The Dark Dragon Ball Arc takes, as stated earlier, four episodes.
- The Red Ribbon Arc takes six if you count the filler episodes.
- In Kai, the Namek Arc takes seven episodes after the trio depart Earth.
- In the original Z, seventeen episodes pass between the trio departing Earth and acquiring their first not-fake Dragon Ball.
- We've pointed this out in the past but will reiterate it again: in the classic anime, most depictions of the Dragon Balls show the stars printed on the surface of the ball and just to happen to always be facing the camera. It wouldn't be until the 10th anniversary movie that they would be depicted as objects within the balls themselves, and Dragon Ball Super would highlight that the stars always facing where you're looking is an in-universe optical effect.
- At the end of the Next Episode Preview for Episode 7, Goku notes that they can't let Vegeta see his son Trunks in the outfit he wears.
Episode 451 - Beloved Honey?! Trunks is Betrothed (GT episode 7)
Ocean dub title: The Bearded Guy Who Shook a Planet
Funimation dub title: Trunks, the Bride
Originally aired 20th of March 1996
Written by: Aya Matsui
Episode director: Kazuhito Kikuchi
Animation supervisor: Masayuki Uchiyama
Goku, Pan, Trunks, and Gill go to a planet where they're ripping off Oolong!
Trivia:
Spoiler:
- Pan says that Gill ate all of their spare parts. This is possibly referring to all the parts the GT Trio were forced to buy from the residents of Imegga back in Episode 3.
- Gill's Radar arrow at the start of this episode is a different design from its appearance in the previous one.
- Trunks and Gill use the same system of co-ordinates, which Trunks confirms independantly (possibly since Gill isn't connected to the ship via the dashboard socket).
- While landing, Trunks says that they'll buy some spare parts for Gill. This never winds up happening, at least on-screen.
- Once again GT forgets the members of the GT Trio can fly during the walking montage, particularly when Goku falls down the small hill.
- In the wide shot of the GT Trio just before they spot the village, their animation frames are playing too fast, going between each footstep in one frame each.
- It's unclear how exactly Leine's hairpiece cords are able to keep the Dragon Ball on the end of them. It's apparently a suction cup-like effect, but that shouldn't work with cord wrappings.
- Episodes 7 and 8 rather famously recycle several story elements from Chapters 5 and 6 of the manga, re-using the following story ideas:
- The group arrives at a village that, at first glance, appears empty.
- A monster appears regularly to make demands of the village, in particular a young bride.
- The situation is solved by having a male member of the team cross-dress as a woman, to their frustration. In both cases, Goku is the first choice.
- Goku is physically 12 years old in both instances (although in the Oolong encounter, Goku believed he was 14 since he hasn't properly learned how to count).
- The threat of the monster turns out to be a farce, exposing them as a fraud.
- The threat is genuinely apologetic for their deceit, albeit for different reasons in each.
- In exchange they receive the Six-Star Dragon Ball, which is in the possession of a woman.
- In the Funimation dub of GT, Goku actually points out the similarity of Pan's plan to the Oolong episode by saying he's done it before. From Funimation's perspective, they had dubbed and aired the original Dragon Ball for the second time just a few years before GT, so this is probably why they decided to highlight it.
- The episode also has a broadly similar setup to the first half of Second Coming, with a village elder and a young couple as part of a ritual sacrifice for a stronger being.
- The village elder has the same type of staff that Master Roshi uses.
- Goku says that they've heard about Zunama a lot lately, howver Doma's mentioning of him is the first time the GT Trio heard of him.
- Zunama is a rearrangement of "namazu", a word for catfish, who are said by Japanese folklore to be able to predict earthquakes. This explains Zunama's character design and abilities, as well as his verbal tic of saying "mazu" at the end of his sentences in the Japanese version.
- Domo's name in Japanese is the same as a word of thanks.
- Leine (the name of the damsel) is an archaic word for rope or, more especially, a washing line, which is fitting of Leine's character in the episode.
- This far-off alien planet has perfectly ordinary Earth ducks.
- Trunks implies Piccolo is stronger than him by listing the Namekian alongside Gohan and Vegeta as people who are possibly stronger than him. Trunks doesn't mention Oob, but to be fair nobody except Goku is especially familiar with him.
- The bridal dress has a short-cut vest with long sleeves over a black shirt, the same style Future Trunks wears and thus rather appropriate for the current Trunks.
- In the Japanese version, Pan's plan is to feed Zunama a lot of Sake so he becomes drunk. Ocean censored it slightly to a drink laced with sleeping/dizziness powder. Funimation completely changed these lines to remove this aspect of her plan entirely, though they did still imply they would be giving him something in the scene where the woman gives Pan the jug of Sake, dancing around using any words that Toonami might not let them get away with, even on the uncut DVDs.
- The jar with the sake has no cork or lid on it. The smaller one Trunks has on him in the next episode does have a cork, however.
- While Goku is a Saiyan, DBZ Movie 1 shows that even a child Saiyan can easily get drunk. Thus if Goku were to drink the Sake jar, it'd probably kill him!
- In the Ocean dub, Pan accidentally refers to the last Z movie by asking Goku "If you don't do it, who will?"
- With his green tunic and brown scabbard for his scissors, Domo can look a lot like Link from The Legend of Zelda. Leine's pink and white appearance with the cloth that runs down the middle of her legs also looks incredibly similar to Princess Zelda herself.
- Domo's scissor scabbard has a design very similar to that of Future Trunks' scabbard.
- When Zunama approaches the village, he sings to the tune of Bridal Chorus, a Richard Wagner composition from 1850. It entered popularity when it was used at Princess Victoria's wedding in 1858.
- Princess Victoria's wedding is also where white wedding dresses became popular. For his part, Zunama wears only a bow tie.
- When Zunama first approaches the village, his dragging tail cuts into the ground. Not only is this not visible later, the second time he approaches the village his tail doesn't cut the ground at all!
Episode 452 - Even Goku Gets Hit!! Full-Force Whisker Power (GT episode 8.)
Ocean dub title: Even Goku Gets Knocked About: The Full Use Of Whisker Power!
Funimation dub title: Whisker Power
Originally aired 17th of April 1996
Written by: Aya Matsui
Episode director: Yoshihiro Ueda
Animation supervisor: Yūji Hakamada
Goku, Pan, Trunks, and Gill are still on a planet where they're ripping off Oolong!
Trivia:
Spoiler:
- Pan doesn't hide behind a planter but a wooden prop of a planter!
- This episode actually has a decent explanation for why the trio can't just pummel Zunama into the ground; as Pan points out in the opening minutes, they can't risk him causing an earthquake and killing everyone in the village. As it turns out of course, Zunama doesn't have that power at all.
- Before he dives into the flooded water tunnel, Goku ties his clothes to the top of his head. This completely voids the point of taking them off in the first place: to keep them dry!
- Gill appears to be waterproof given he can go in the water tunnel completely unaffected. In a filler episode, 18 reveals she doesn't do well with water, meaning Gill > 18. We're sorry, we don't make the rules.
- Mount Calvo gets its name from the word volcano.
- When Zunama realises Trunks isn't Leine, he asks him what his name is. In Japanese, he says his name is Tolerence, in the Ocean dub he says Teresa, and in the Funimation dub he says Trunksette.
- Not the first time Trunks has been called cute by a male. Unfortunately both times have been characters designed to be unlikable to the audience.
- Goku probably shouldn't be concerned about Zunama trying to attack Pan, assuming she's continued to get stronger since the Tournament at the end of the Boo Arc.
- The lava should in fact have instantly cooled as soon as it entered the water.
- Goku uses a Kamehameha to propel him and his friends quickly through a tunnel of water, just as he did to escape the Pirate Cave in the Red Ribbon Arc.
- It's also one of the few times a character doesn't verbally say the words for a Kamehameha before firing it.
- The pool that everyone bursts out of isn't the same spot in the forest where they first entered.
- An erupting volcano threatining a village is exactly what happened in the final episode of Dragon Ball's Heavenly Training Arc, where Yamcha, Kuririn and Tenshinhan also use their signature moves to try and stop the disaster.
- Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT both dedicate Episodes 7 and 8 to a two-part story that ends with a Kamehameha blowing up a fiery mountain, when the user only intended to put out the fire. Both result in those present doing a face-plant when the user apologetically says they overdid it.
- Through a chain of villains-serving-higher-villains, the Para-Para Brothers are the earliest signs leading toward Baby, Dr. Mu, and eventually Super 17.
Episode 453 - Oh, Crap!! Goku Plunges into a Trap Planet?! (GT episode 9)
Ocean dub title: Goku Rushes into the Trap Planet!
Funimation dub title: Lord Luud
Originally aired 24th of April 1996
Written by: Aya Matsui
Episode director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
Animation supervisor: Toshiyuki Kan’no
Goku, Pan, Trunks, and Gill are lured to a meteor where they're ripping off Dune!
Trivia:
Spoiler:
- In the Recap of Episode 8, the shot of the Dragon Ball being lifted out of Pan's hands has a small bit of Goku talking with the audio still present.
- With the theft of the Six Star Ball, every Dragon Ball quest in the story is foiled at some point by someone stealing at least one of them. The only exception is Goku's quest before the Cell Games, if you don't count the filler episode where Tao Pai-Pai and Vodka stole them (the filler Boo Arc search episode also had a theft by a flying pink Triceratops).
- The design of the Para-Para Brothers' spaceship is similar to a mushroom. However with the disc shape and the thrusters at the bottom of the sloped stalk, it's also similar to the USS Enterprise from Star Trek.
- The Para-Para Brothers are named after Para-Para, which is a Japanese synchronised dance routine. In their case, the emphasis is on "synchronised".
- Mucchi Mocchi's name is a reference to the fact he carries a whip; Muchi means whip, Mochi means carry.
- It took KBABZ until this viewing to realize that all the villains of GT's opening arc know about the Dragon Balls because of the original Namekian ones. After all, Freeza knew about the stories, and the events of the Namek Arc proved to the universe that the stories were true!
- It doesn't appear that the forces looking for the Dragon Balls have any sort of Radar, instead relying on Lood's "revelations".
- Danpara is the first character to kiss a Dragon Ball.
- The ship's display appears to be based on an oscilloscope, which is famous for being the platform of the world's first video game: Tennis for Two.
- Trunks manages to hit a rocky object with the Octopus Ship twice in the span of four episodes.
- Bonpara swirling his glass of wine is something Freeza did in the anime version of the Namek Arc.
- Planet Bihe gets its name from a Japanese word, "hebi", which refers to a snake monster.
- It's also closer to a large asteroid than a planet, being far too small to be even a dwarf planet like Pluto.
- The shot of a ship blasting off in an L shape is used no less than six times in the first half of the episode. It's use two more times in the recap of this episode in Episode 10.
- Lord Lood's name likely comes from the English word "doll", but it also has similarities to the word "lewd", which will become disturbingly appropriate regarding Doll-taki in a future episode.
- The Lood cult chant is "Enyaka yakayaka Lood-sama-sama!" in the Simmons subs. The Funi dub left it mostly as is, only changing the end to "Lood-Rama-Lama-Sama". The Ocean dub translated(?) the chant to something you might actually understand as an English speaker, "Revive, return, Lord Lood." I've been unable to find out what the Japanese chant is supposed to mean outside of generic chanting, but I would guess the sentiment is essentially along the lines of the Ocean adaptation.
- While escaping the giant Muma Worms, Goku notes that the Bonpara's ki has disappeared. This is the first time anyone has so much as alluded to ki sensing in GT.
- The GT Trio and Para-Para Brothers shouldn't be able to breathe inside the large asteroid since it wouldn't have any atmosphere.
- Gill jumps out of the ship despite being of absolutely no use in a fight. He strikes a cool pose, though!
- The Muma Worm fight is the first time Pan is shown firing a ki attack in the franchise.
Episode 454 - Dance Attack?! Bon-Papa!! (GT episode 10)
Ocean dub title: Dance Attack! Bonpapa!
Funimation dub title: Dance and Attack
Originally aired 1st of May 1996
Written by: Aya Matsui
Episode director: Hiroyuki Kakudō
Animation supervisor: Kazuya Hisada
Goku, Pan, Trunks, and Gill are still stuck in a meteor where they're ripping off Dune!
Trivia:
Spoiler:
- The Recap of Episode 9 takes 50 seconds for the Narrator to cut in and explain what happened in it. The recaps often do this, presumably to fill out GT's 24-minute time slot by a few seconds.
- On top of the above, the opening of Episode 10 proper spends 40 seconds on an abbreviated version of Episode 9's ending starting from when Goku stands in the back door of the Octopus Ship, and skips over Gill freaking out and the Para-Para Bros. planning to steal the other Dragon Ball from the ship.
- After the GT Trio are beaten to the ground, the shot of the Muma Worms roaring lacks any sound effects whatsoever.
- This is the fourth episode in a row to feature at least one villain with a verbal tic, with the brothers collectively being the second, third and fourth villains to have it in this chain (Zunama is the first, of course).
- The servant of Lood specifically mentions the Western Galaxy as being where his captives are from, implying that Lood's reach spans at least two galaxies.
- One of the Western galaxy captives is wearing armor very similar to that worn by the Freeza Force.
- Donpapa tells the "Earthlings" to hang in there. Unless it was learned via Lood's "revelations", they shouldn't know where exactly the GT Trio come from (and if that is the case, how do they not know about Earth's Dragon Balls?).
- In another sound effect re-use, the sound of the Muma Worm coiling up uses the same sound effect for Cell's curling tail.
- After tying a second pair of Muma Worms into a knot, Pan and Trunks kick their heads in opposite directions. In the next shot however, both worms collide into the wall as a pair.
- After returning from the ad break, the Para-Para Bros. are no longer posing and are instead standing neutrally.
- After fleeing from the Muma Worms at the end of the last episode, Gill disappears from Episode 10 until the Para-Para Bros. do their dance.
- Robo will probably lie awake at night wondering how the Para-Para Brothers' body-controlling song affects Gill; and not only that, it affects him first. How does this thing work? (It's probably magic or something, which does of course exist in the Dragon World) It doesn't seem to make him smile of course, since Gill has no mouth!
- As Ratchet & Clank fans, KBABZ and Robo would be remiss to not point out that the Para-Para Bros. signature technique is exactly like the Groovitron!
- Bonpara says that talking is forbidden, despite requiring verbal instructions in order for the spell to work.
- In the re-used shots of Bonpara punching out the GT Trio, his mouth moves but now with no dialogue to go with them.
- The camera cuts to each of the three chestpieces no less than six separate times.
- When Bonpara reacts in shock to the dancing Muma Worms, his reaction is imitating Edvard Munch's The Scream from 1893.
Trivia written by KBABZ and Robo4900. Episode summaries, airdates, and titles courtesy of Kanzenshuu's episode guide.