Family Dragonball stories

[samuraix123]

Hello!
I thought this would be a fun little topic for everyone to laugh at each other Do you have any funny Dragonball stories involving your family? have they said or done something that's dragonball related? here's two funny stories from me.
My grandfather always used to watch Dragonball Z with me when I was younger and everytime a bad guy would show up he would say ''Don't worry Gohan will save them'' and when Majin boo blasted Gohan away he said ''Welp I guess there ain't no saving them now'' & I wasn't aloud to watch dbz at my uncles house because he thought they were demons because their hair glowed yellow and he would turn it off I used to get so mad at him when he turned it off

[Hellspawn28]

My family was never into the show. I remember my little sister would GT when it was on in 2004 or 2005, I remember her saying that Trunks was her favorite character.

[Bussani]

One time, when I was in the hospital, I brought along some volumes of the manga to read. While I was in recovery, my mom read them for something to do, and later said it wasn't what she was expecting. Years later, around when Evolution was coming out, she borrowed and read all 42 volumes from me.

My mom's pretty cool.

[SSJ Helldog]

When I was 15 my dad went to Mexico on a business trip (not a drug dealer) and brought me back some badly painted bootleg action figures. Goku and Vegeta I recognized, but I had no clue who SSJ3 Goku and Broly were.

[samuraix123]

When I was 15 my dad went to Mexico on a business trip (not a drug dealer) and brought me back some badly painted bootleg action figures. Goku and Vegeta I recognized, but I had no clue who SSJ3 Goku and Broly were.

I haft to admit I laughed when you said ''Not a drug dealer'' I would have never assumed he was

[Castor Troy]

When my nephew was around 10 or so, he brought over his friend who believed that DBAF was real. You could even seen the conviction in his eyes.

It's a decade later now, so I dunno if my nephew's friend's dream came true or not at least in doujinshi form.

[Ringworm128]

My mom once walked into the room while I was watching DBZ and she said that "it looks like the artist used triangles as a base for the drawings".

[Corpsecreate]

I watched DBZ on tv in the mornings before school. I was in primary school at the time and my older brother was in highschool. His school started earlier than mine which meant that he had to leave just the episode had started. I remember taping every episode on VHS and cutting out the commercial breaks every single morning so that he could watch it when he'd get back.

I still have these tapes

[soulnova]

There was only one TV in the house so what we watched, my parents watched. My mom and dad (but mostly my mom) watched the whole series from the beginning.

Once, my dad was saying that there was this annoying guy at his job. "Tomorrow I'll show him. I'm going over there, transform into SSj and go HYAHYAHYAHYAHYAH!!!" *Vegeta's multiple blast technique* He would also make fun of the "5 minutes to explode" arc.

Back in 1996, I would sing "Romantic Age" to my newborn brother. By 1997 I taught him all the basic Ki Techniques. Not kidding. I would say "Kamehameha!" and he would place his little hands on his side and then thrust them forward. "Kienzan!" he would rise his hand. "MASENKO!" his two hands over his forehead. "Genki dama" little arms extended to the sky. ToT It was beautiful.

I just posted the full teaser trailer and he went nuts with it.

[Ringworm128]

Back in 1996, I would sing "Romantic Age" to my newborn brother. By 1997 I taught him all the basic Ki Techniques. Not kidding. I would say "Kamehameha!" and he would place his little hands on his side and then thrust them forward. "Kienzan!" he would rise his hand. "MASENKO!" his two hands over his forehead. "Genki dama" little arms extended to the sky. ToT It was beautiful.

I used to do the same thing with my nephew when he was about 3. His favorite one to do was the Galick Gun and Makankosapo.

[Piccolo Daimao]

None of my family have ever had more than a passing interest in Dragon Ball. My sister bought me my first Dragon Ball manga volume for my birthday and occasionally played the Budokai games with me, and my brother played my copy of Shin Budokai for a while (mentioning that Vegeta was his favourite character because he looked like a badass), but later denies it whenever I ask him about it. He still sometimes refers to someone powering up or yelling angrily on TV or something as “going Super Saiyan”, though, so it had something of a lasting effect, at least. My mother sometimes incorrectly refers to the series as Dragon Z Ball.

[AnimeMaakuo]

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[TheBlackPaladin]

Not really, unfortunately. Most of my "family Dragoball stories" are relating to their weirded-out reactions to the brief glimpses they took/brief things they heard about the show. A few that come to mind...

ME (at 12 years old): My favorite show is called "Dragon Ball Z."
DAD: "Dragon...Ball...Z?"
ME: Yeah, "Dragon Ball Z," it's about Dragon Balls. There are seven of them.
DAD:....Son, are you sure this show is appropriate?

MY SISTER: "Oh, wait, 'Dragon Ball Z'...I vaguely remember that...who was the bad guy? That one guy with the blonde hair?"

Okay, actually, one more thing. I think you subbies will get a kick out of this. I remember when I was 19, I was watching the FUNimation dub of "The World's Strongest," but with the English subtitles on. By that point, FUNimation no longer had two subtitle tracks...just one, for the Japanese audio track. My dad stumbled in, watched for about forty seconds, and then said...

DAD: How come the subtitles are saying something totally different?

[samuraix123]

Haha TheBlackPaladin I so feel like putting this in my signature

"Oh, wait, 'Dragon Ball Z'...I vaguely remember that...who was the bad guy? That one guy with the blonde hair?"

Maybe she was referring to Broly? Maybe?

[TheBlackPaladin]

Haha TheBlackPaladin I so feel like putting this in my signature

"Oh, wait, 'Dragon Ball Z'...I vaguely remember that...who was the bad guy? That one guy with the blonde hair?"

Maybe she was referring to Broly? Maybe?

Haha, yeah, sure, sig it if you wish. You want to know the hilarious part, though? She never watched the series, she only glanced at it every once in a while when my family lived in a smaller house. We eventually moved into a slightly bigger house where we mostly watched TV in our own rooms. We moved shortly before the Garlic Jr. Saga started airing, so she never saw anything beyond the Freeza saga.

...See what I'm saying? In what she had watched (or rather, glanced at), there had so far only been ONE guy with blonde hair. So...when she said, "the bad guy, the one guy with the blonde hair"...she was unknowingly referring to Goku. Meaning she somehow thought that Freeza was the good guy. Which always made me wonder what she would think if she saw the scenes out of order, with the role of "good guy" and "bad guy" swapped. It would have been hilarious if she was like (referring to Dende), "Why did the good guy just murder that little boy?"

[soulnova]

My cousins from my mother side would all watch Dragon Ball with us, but my cousins from my father's side were told by their parents that DBZ was "of the devil".

That was at the same time they were saying Pikachu meant "1000 times more powerful than God". My face when they told me that:

[samuraix123]

Yeah that always sucks when parents tell their children that stuff.
my mom never pushed anything on us as far as religious stuff goes. if we believed, we believed. if we didn't, we didn't lol but one of my EX-best friends had these super rare Pokemon cards and his mother made him throw all of them away because she heard atheists made the cards LOL and you can just image what his mother's like.

[soulnova]

That's awful.

I wonder how your friend turned out.

There was a phase where my mom wouldn't approve my anime either. Sometimes she would give me a stern look and "I don't think that's appropriate". I think she used the "It's evil" card once... but she never took anything away from me. She simply started to get use to it the more she watched it. For example... Naked kid Goku fighting or swimming in the river. Her mouth made a thing line the first time she saw that... now, if she catches the original series she just rolls her eyes and chuckles.

[samuraix123]

That's awful.

I wonder how your friend turned out.

There was a phase where my mom wouldn't approve my anime either. Sometimes she would give me a stern look and "I don't think that's appropriate". I think she used the "It's evil" card once... but she never took anything away from me. She simply started to get use to it the more she watched it. For example... Naked kid Goku fighting or swimming in the river. Her mouth made a thing line the first time she saw that... now, if she catches the original series she just rolls her eyes and chuckles.

Well I won't turn this thread into a religious thing but there's a reason he's my EX-best friend. he started going to church at this big ministry and when he got back from it, he won't come talk to me anymore won't accept my calls or he won't call me.

[DBZAOTA482]

ME (at 12 years old): My favorite show is called "Dragon Ball Z."
DAD: "Dragon...Ball...Z?"
ME: Yeah, "Dragon Ball Z," it's about Dragon Balls. There are seven of them.
DAD:....Son, are you sure this show is appropriate?

Hey, would you mind if I use this as my signature?