Funny / Dragon Ball Z Abridged E 60 Part 1

• Picking up where the previous episode left off, Jimmy Firecraker brings back the gag from episode 2 as Gohan gets beat up.
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• Goku isn't worried by Cell repeatedly punching a helpless Gohan in the face over and over because soon Cell's arm is going to cramp up. Then Cell kicks Gohan down into the ground.
  Goku: Oh god, feet!
• Gohan's problem dodging has reached its conclusion. Piccolo prepares to shout dodge to him only to notice him already dodging.
  Kami: You must be so proud.
  Nail: Your precious runt is becoming a man.
  Piccolo: Yeah, but... I mean he could be dodging better.
• Gohan's response to Goku telling him to stop hiding his power level after leading everybody to believe he died is a sigh of exasperation. It's clear the Saiyan teen just doesn't want to be there and was hoping to just wait out the rest of the tournament under a pile of rocks.
• Gohan tells Cell that he knows why his father "threw him to the wolves" to fight Cell. Cell responds by saying he'll huff and puff and blow him down.
  Krillin: He's eleven!
  Cell: I'm six!
  Krillin: Wow!
• Gohan attempts a Badass Boast about snapping so hard that he'll kill Cell. Unfortunately, this has the opposite effect because it's Cell.
  Celll: (bursts out laughing) Well, threaten me with a good time!
  Gohan: Huh?
  Cell: At first you had my curiosity… but now you have my erection.
  Gohan: You mean your attenti—
  Cell: You all know what I'm about! (fires a finger laser at Gohan)
• Upon witnessing Cell perform one of Freeza's moves:
  Krillin: That's Freeza's move! The one he killed Vegeta with! Remember, Vegeta?
  Vegeta: I was there...
  Krillin: You should really watch out for that.
  Vegeta: Didn't Freeza blow you up?
  Krillin: Whoa-ho-hoooo, yeah!
  Vegeta: "Then you should really watch out for that!" That's you.
  Krillin: ...Team Three Star?
  Vegeta: No!
  Yamcha: What's that? Is that a club? Can I join?
  Vegeta/Krillin: NO!
  • Even funnier is that Vegeta technically doesn't deny that there isn't a club, and that even if there is, that Yamcha doesn't get to join it.
• The translators note on Goku saying "Just according to cake".
  Translator's Note: Cake means Keikaku.
  Translator's Note: Keikaku means plan.
• The sheer fact that Goku, of all people, had planned for Cell to start a tournament and Vegeta to let Cell reach his perfect form borders between funny and kinda frightening.
• As Cell is squeezing Gohan, he causes him to squeak.
  Cell: Ha! Like father, like son. No. Like father, like Son Gohan. Perfect.
  Gohan: [slurring] It was alright, Cell...
• When Goku finally starts to realize that Gohan doesn't like fighting he turns to everyone else for aid. They can only mumble their own agreements with Piccolo, and Cell puts in his own opinion shouting "Eh, no one's perfect!"
  Goku: I've made a terrible mistake.
  Piccolo: "Oh, I've made a terrible mistake!" That's you.
• When Goku asks Krillin for another senzu bean, Krillin outright refuses. Clearly Goku has lost everybody's trust for pulling such a plan behind their backs.
  Krillin: Oh-ho-ho, no way, Gosé!
  Goku: Krillin, I'm serious! I'm gonna use it on me this time!
  Krillin: "Krillin I'm serious! I'm gonna use it on me this time!" That's you.
  [Cell suddenly swipes the bag of senzu beans]
  Cell: Just a quick update, everyone: These are now tournament illegal …a'ight, thank you!
  [Cell hops off with the spring sound from Sonic 1]
  Krillin: [staring at his empty hand] …Okay, that's my B.
  Goku: It's alright, Krillin. This is everybody's B.
  Piccolo: I have done literally nothing wrong.
  Tien: Yeah, join the club.
  Yamcha: So there is a club.
  • Funny thing is, Goku's technically right since Cell is made from all of their DNA. Except Yamcha. No wonder he's Locked Out of the Loop!
  • Another thing to consider is that among the Z Fighters in this arc, only Piccolo, Tenshinhan, and technically Yamcha didn't make any critical mistakes at that point so Yamcha can join that club.
• Android 16 grapples Cell, which Cell mistakes for a hug.
  Cell: Listen buddy, I'm glad you're finally coming around to me, but your timing is less than ideal!
• Android 16 reveals his plan to blow up Cell with a nuclear bomb... and belatedly realizes that this will also kill the Z Fighters.
  Android 16: That is my B.
  Cell: I don't consent to this!
  Android 16: Your compliance isn't a factor.
  Cell: You had a chunk of your head missing, how do you remember that?!
• When Krillin begs 16 not to blow himself up to take out Cell, he gives two reasons he has to. First is that if he doesn't, Cell will keep killing everyone on Earth. The other reason?
  Android 16: ...Also, I call dibs. If I cannot kill Goku, nobody will kill Goku!
• Cell trying desperately to get 16 to let him go, even offering to kill Goku together. Android 16 pauses for a bit, but refuses, like he actually considered taking the deal.
• Android 16 counts down from 10 before he detonates. However...
  Android 16: Three... Two... One... Zero!
  (Android 16 begins to glow. Nothing happens and the glow fades.)
  Android 16: Negative one! Negative two! Negative— A critical error has occurred! WHERE'S THE KABOOM? THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CELL-SHATTERING KABOOM!!!
  Trunks: Oh, right. Um, my mom said she took out your bomb during repairs!
  Android 16: WHO GAVE HER THE RIGHT?!
  • Also, a moment of Black Comedy right before 16 gets blown to pieces:
    Cell: Now, if I'm correct, you were looking for a… kaboom?
    Android 16: …if I said no, would you still—
    (Cell destroys 16's body)
    (The others watch in horror as 16 is destroyed)
    Krillin: NOOOOO!!!
• When Roshi asks Bulma why she'd even take 16's bomb out to begin with she freaks out and points out that he could have blown it up when he saw Goku that asks how she's supposed to explain that to Chi-Chi. Roshi tries to help her chill out.
  Roshi: Bulma, I think you need to relax more. How's about a brewski?
  Bulma: I'm still breast-feeding.
  Roshi: Well, then two of us are thirsty! (Baby Trunks coos) You go, baby!
  Trunks: Mmmmilk.
• The creation of the Cell Jrs, while horrifying, is lightened slightly with the fact that throughout the whole thing Cell is screaming a rant befitting of someone giving birth:
  Jimmy Firecracker: Ladies and gentlemen at home, the terrible Cell is now...doing one of two things—I'm pretty sure we can't show either on network television.
  Piccolo: I don't understand! Where's the egg?!^note Piccolo might be up to date on anatomy but some things about the human body he's clearly still not familiar with
  Cell: You did this to me! You all did this to me!
  Krillin: Life, uh, finds a way.
  Vegeta: To make me vomit!
  Goku: [after watching Cell spawn several offspring] Wow, this seems easy! I don't get what Chi Chi was complaining about.
• Cell gives all of the Cell Jrs names. The last one is named Vegeta Junior Junior.
  Vegeta Junior Junior: Vegeta…
  Vegeta: It's like every nightmare I've ever had fused into one, cloned itself, [bleep]ed the clone and then made those!
  Piccolo: That is… terrifyingly accurate.
  • The other names are all Actor Allusions to various actors who have played Cell, including Takahata101 himself.
    Cell: So behold! My children! Norio, Dameon, Travis, Curtis,^ExplanationCurtis Arnott is Takahata's real name Dale,^ExplanationDale Wilson from the Westwood dub and Jonathan!^ExplanationJonathan David Cook from the Animaze dub Oh, and of course: Vegeta Junior… Junior.
• And what's worse for Geets? Vegeta Jr. Jr. sounds like Nappa.
  Vegeta Junior Junior: Vegeeeeetaaaaaaaa… I'm fighting you.
  Vegeta: ARGH!
• Despite how nice Cell has been to Yamcha, he still has his children fight him, and the poor guy just can't catch a break with keeping his arms intact.
  Yamcha: Please don't break my arm.
  Dameon: Hmm… no. [mercilessly breaks Yamcha's arm]
  Yamcha: Gah! My baseball career!
• Android 16('s disembodied head) tries to recruit the help of Jimmy Firecracker and Mr. Satan, but ends up scaring the living daylights out of them:
  Android 16: Why are you screaming?
  Jimmy Firecracker: Because you're a talking head!
  Android 16: So are you.
  Jimmy Firecracker: …That is cutting, sir.
• In the middle of Mr. Satan's Rousing Speech
  Mr. Satan: Sure, that may sound crazy—
  Jimmy Firecracker: No, it's definitely crazy. Larry?
  Larry: I have been finding God throughout this entire experience.
• Mr. Satan volunteering to take 16 over to Gohan counts as a crowning moment of awesome, but then he tells Jimmy everything is all a bunch of tricks. 16 has to tell him otherwise.
  Android 16: They are not. You could die.
  Mr. Satan: Do you have a mute button or something?
  Android 16: Not anymore.
• Cell watches one of the Cell Jr.s literally kicking Yamcha while he is down:
  Cell: (thinking) Dameon sure is kicking the shit out of Yamcha. It's like a metaphor. Eh, he honestly doesn't deserve this… Buuut it's still funny!
• The fact that Android 16's Rousing Speech to Gohan is now a brutally honest reprimanding about Gohan's cowardice, compared to the original's saccharine sermon about protecting the earth.
• When Android 16 gives Gohan his speech he mentions that Vegeta is a giant failure of a father and this exchange happens
  Vegeta: You wanna come up here and say that!?
  Android 16: I am a head!
  Vegeta: Then maybe you should quit while you are!
• Even in his last moments, 16 wants to kill Goku as he asks Gohan to use his head as a bludgeoning weapon on Goku just before Cell crushes him. And this is after his Rousing Speech gets Gohan to finally stop holding back.
  Android 16: And hey. If we do make it out of this, please pick up my head, and beat your father to death wi—
  • And Cell's one-liner to Gohan after killing 16 is a call-back to the ginger joke in Episode 38:
    Cell: I'd say he's gone to a better place, but… we both know he never had a soul.
• The former title of this part of the episode^note Gohan stars in a million Linkin Park Music Videos references the sheer amount of "Linkin Park Ball Z" Anime Music videos that spawned when the series was at the height of popularity in the early 2000's, mostly starring Gohan when he transforms to Super Saiyan 2 at the end of this episode. Cell and Gohan even start Waxing Lyrical on their most commonly used songs for said videos.
  Gohan: H-Hold on, I'm just one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to...
  Cell: Everything. You Say to me. Is pissing me off. You had your chance kid, and in the end… it didn't even matter.
• When Cell gets tired of beating on Gohan until he snaps, he decides to kill the Z Fighters instead.
  Cell: Don't worry. I'll save your dad for last. You hear that, Piccolo?
  Piccolo: I mean if you're just gonna say it.
  Goku: I don't get it.