"YOU! NAMEKIAN! TOO STRONG! EXPLAIN NOW!"
—Vegeta, confronting the fused Piccolo
Original Airdate: September 30, 2014
DO I HEAR FIVE!?
As Cell runs off to search for a city to devour, Krillin and Trunks go back to Dr. Gero's lab to find anything more on the Androids.
I AM THE TROPES!!!
- A God Am I: Vegeta wants to know how Piccolo became so strong.Trunks: [Piccolo] fused with Kami so he can become stronger.
Vegeta: The f*ck's a "Kami"?!
Krillin Basically "God".
Vegeta: But I'm still here!
Trunks: Do you really believe your own hype that much?
Vegeta: I AM THE HYPE! - Call-Back: Upon hearing about yet another Android, Vegeta exclaims "DO I HEAR FIVE!?"
- Continuity Nod: Piccolo apologizes to Tien for his father killing Chaotzu in the original Dragon Ball.
- Do Not Adjust Your Set: After killing TJ and the Wombat, The Stinger has Cell takes over their radio show, absorbing his victims live on-air and playing tracks that fit his character. Note that Dead Man's Party is playing in the back.Cell: Hey! Welcome back to 98.5 the Cell! We have another caller making a request.
Victim: PLEASE don't kill me!
Cell: Sorry, that's not in the lineup. (absorbs the caller) Speaking of the line-up, in the next half-hour we've got "Hungry Like the Wolf" by Duran Duran, "Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Lauryn Hill, followed by "All By Myself". Now don't touch that dial... - Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you pause on the scene where Trunks is looking over the schematics for 17 and 18, you can see a note Gero made about their real names...Dr. Gero: Who the devil names their children after crystals? It's like they wanted them to grow up to be strippers.
- Freudian Slip: When Trunks finds the schematics for the Androids:Trunks: These... these are the schematics for the Androids! We could use these to find a way to turn them off!
Krillin: (thinking) Don't ask how to turn them on... don't ask how to turn her on... don't ask how to turn Android 18 on...
Krillin: How do you turn Android 17 on?
Krillin: (thinking) SHIT! - I Am the Noun: Vegeta's response to Trunks asking if Vegeta believes in his own "hype", or thinking that highly of himself.
- Lame Pun Reaction:Piccolo: So yeah, that's basically it in a nutshell.
Krillin: You mean a nut-CEL—
Everyone else: Shut up! - Mythology Gag: The notes on the Androids Trunks finds in Dr. Gero's lab reference the
Word of God from Akira Toriyama that 17 and 18 were twins named Lapis and Lazuli before being converted into Androids and that 16 was modeled off of Gero's son. - "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: When Trunks is going through the Androids' schematics, he mentions the above Mythology Gags found in them. Krillin initially doesn't believe him.
- Shout-Out:
- In the intro, "Jeepers Creepers" is playing on the radio and they noted in the commentary that it is a reference, as both involve creatures menacing people on buses.
- Pirate Goku, Sword-Guy Piccolo,note and Ninja Goku while Goku is dreaming.
- At one point, Cell speaks in a manner incredibly reminiscent of the Teen Girl Squad.
- Soapbox Sadie: Parodied in Trunks and Krillin's assault on Dr. Gero's lab when Trunks hesitates on killing fetus!Cell.Trunks: Hold on, I-I've been thinking. Technically, it's never done anything wrong... so, doesn't it have the right to life?
Krillin: This isn't about a right to life, it's about making a choice. A choice we both need to make. A choice between a terrible mistake that can ruin lives, or—f**k it, I'm dropping the pretenses; we're aborting Cell. - So Last Season: When Vegeta tries to state that Piccolo is still not strong as a Super Saiyan, Piccolo immediately says that it's not much of a milestone anymore.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Right before he enters their studio to kill them, Cell requests TJ and the Wombat to play "Video Killed the Radio Star" which they do. Cell then brutally kills and absorbs the two of them as the song plays, complete with Last Note Nightmare as the episode ends.
- Xanatos Gambit: Tien tells Krillin this is why he continues to taunt Vegeta believing that the Saiyan might easily kill him.Tien: At this point, it's a game. If he gives in, I win. And he knows that.
"That was fun. We should hang out more."
