Little Dub Lines you Love

[Drabaz]

In the Ocean dub, I was actually really fond of:

Vegeta: "Let's see what you've got, Kakarot! Galick Gun, FIYAAA! (FIRE)"

The delivery of that line left an impression on me that I'll never forget.

[Super Sonic]

"My name is Recoome. It rhymes with doom. And you'll be hurting all too soon."

Have to say, this guy owned this role and made it his own. If not for censoring and he was able to bluntly talk about killing, it would've been perfect. And to top it off, he's played by Megatron, which makes it cool vicariously.

[TheMightyOzaru]

Ugh, that anyone could like any of these awful dub lines is sickening to me. I can only assume some drug-addled hack they pulled out of a community college creative writing course wrote this crap.

Silly penguintruth, these lines are supposed to be so bad they're good .

One of my favorite lines was in the Ocean dub when Vegeta goes to take over Freeza's base on Namek and sees Freeza's guards. Vegeta says: "Well, it looks like Freezas out on the town. This is going to be easier than coloring inside the lines."

That wasn't the Ocean-cast dub, that was FUNi's in-house season 3 dub.

Brain Drummond isn't Ocean?

That is definitely Sabat.

[FortuneSSJ]

our portuguese dub has so many epic lines that I have a hard time to remember them all at once.
Is like a abridged version itself.

[penguintruth]

"When I finish with you, Garlic, you'll wish you were dead. You'll be helpless. Try to imagine how it'll feel to live unable to do anything with all that power you possess. Then you'll know what Hell is really like." - Piccolo

[Polyphase Avatron]

"Sounds like he's got a bad case of hemorrhoids or something"

[jjgp1112]

Japanese version:

Master Roshi: "Hey Bulma, yell that spell well!"

The dub line is the one in my sig.

[Anarchistguy]

Mine is from the Ocean dub.

It in the Namek arc, when Vegeta realises that Gohan stole one his Dragon Balls. It goes something like this:

"YOU WILL ALL FACE MY WRAAAAAAATH!!!"

The line itself wasn't great, but SWEET BUTTERY JESUS did he sound pissed!!!!

[Polyphase Avatron]

I think it was actually "You won't escape my wrath!"

[Saiga]

I don't think this has been mentioned, but I like Trunks' comments about finding schematics for a toaster in Gero's lab.

And I also really like Vegeta's "That's right boys, mondo cool".

[Gonstead]

"That's right boys, mondo cool".

I love how it's portrayed in a "Seriously? Did you just say that?" type of tone. Almost like breaking the 4th wall.

[Storm]

I'd love to hear Ryo Horikawa's delivery of this line:

Cell: Your cells are a part of me!
Super Vegeta: Now I'm going to take you apart. How ironic.

EDIT: Also a fan of the previously mentioned line with Cell and the bee stinger.

[TheBlackPaladin]

And I also really like Vegeta's "That's right boys, mondo cool".

Ugh....."mondo cool." Oh boy....that line. Even when I first heard that line, and was still a kid under the impression that DBZ was an American-made cartoon (and not a rather poorly-adapted English dub of a Japanese anime), I hated that line. I cringed when I heard it. I also remember thinking that whoever wrote that line obviously had no idea how kids talked.

[penguintruth]

"Mondo cool" is no worse than "Holy cosmos, look at that thing! That's one whopper of a lizard!"

[TheBlackPaladin]

"Mondo cool" is no worse than "Holy cosmos, look at that thing! That's one whopper of a lizard!"

Well, I had the good fortune of missing that particular episode when it aired on Toonami due to an after-school commitment, and by the time I got around to that scene again, it was on the "Season 3" box set, where they (thankfully) redubbed and rewrote that line. So I learned about that horror after the fact.

It does make you wonder, though...a couple of the voice actors have said that during the recording of the DBZ dub, they were occasionally given lines so corny that they compulsively begged to have them rewritten. So if they thought "mondo cool," and "whopper of a lizard" was acceptable, it makes you wonder what atrocities of writing were adjusted and never saw the light of day. For example, Sean Schemmel once mentioned that he was given a script where Goku referred to himself as a "Super Duper Saiyan," and he flat-out refused to say the line.

If that's true, that was wise of him. That likely would have gone down in history as one of the worst lines in the dub (which is saying something).

[Storm]

Huh, I wonder if the TFS line about Super Duper Saiyan in the recent episode was a reference to that.

The actors can contest the lines as much as they want, but at the end of the day, they still have to record what they're told. Sabat would later reflect that his least favorite line he's ever done is Piccolo's fusion speech.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Huh, I wonder if the TFS line about Super Duper Saiyan in the recent episode was a reference to that?

I can't say for sure if it was or not, but when I first heard that line, that was my immediate assumption.

And yes, you're right, the actors can contest to a degree, but at the end of the day, if they're thought of as too difficult to work with, they're fired. Unfortunately, they were working with management who did not particularly care about the quality of the final product. Thankfully, it would seem that the people who did care about producing a quality dub (like Chris Sabat and Justin Cook) gradually gained more power behind the scenes as time went on.

[Storm]

They got a new script writer around the Buu saga, and it shows. Whereas before it was pretty much 50/50 if a dub line was accurate, Buu was more like...75/25.

Good work, FUNi! A C is an improvement for you guys at the turn of the century. Even if I'm not always the biggest fan of their work these days, at least now you get the impression that they really care about the integrity of the series (particularly Chris Sabat, who talks passionately about his work on it, not just as a voice actor, but as a director).

[Polyphase Avatron]

Sabat would later reflect that his least favorite line he's ever done is Piccolo's fusion speech.

I liked that speech...

[Storm]

Personally, I didn't feel so incredible about it.

EDIT: Bah, it didn't work as well as I hoped.