"PHYSICAL MEDIA IS FOREVER! BUY LASERDISC!"
—Android 16
Original Airdate: July 2, 2019
Forget Android 17's threat. We already know they're totally gonna do it.
The story races through the Android Saga to the appearance of Cell.
- Bulma, Yamcha, and Krillin discuss Dragon Ball Z Kai's score when Vegeta interrupts, announcing Freeza's return.
- Freeza is immediately killed by Future Trunks.
- Bulma flirts with Future Trunks, to his chagrin.
- Goku arrives, and Future Trunks privately warns him of Androids attacking in three years before giving him heart medicine.
- Vegeta is mocked for his pink shirt, and he decides to prove his masculinity by breeding the nearest female (I.E. Bulma).
- Three years later, Androids 19 and 20 attack Ginger Town.
- Yamcha gets impaled by Dr. Gero.
- Goku suffers a heart attack and is pummeled by 19.
- Vegeta returns, goes Super Saiyan, and fires a Big Bang Attack at 19 (who utters an uncensored F-word).
- Dr. Gero escapes, but Krillin finds his lab.
- Androids 17 and 18 are awakened, with Dr. Gero insisting they were always part of the story.
- 18 awakens Android 16, despite Dr. Gero warning her not to "for some reason".
- Future Trunks destroys the lab and kills Dr. Gero.
- Vegeta hurls demeaning insults at 18, and she gives a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in response.
- With the Z Fighters defeated, the androids leave, but not before 18 flirts with Krillin (despite 17 warning him not to bang his sister).
- Piccolo decides he needs character development (while the others think Gohan needs it), so he makes amends with Kami and fuses with him.
- Goku dreams he's Deku.
- Piccolo and Kami debate over Dragon Ball Z's 1999 dub score when they're interrupted by Imperfect Cell singing "All-Star".
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Actor Allusion: Nappa being All-Might in the Episode's stinger is a reference to the fact that in SomethingWittyEntertainment's My Hero Academia Abridged, Takahata101 (Nappa's voice actor) voices All-Might in that Abridged Series.
- Adaptation Distillation: Cuts Episodes 32-42 down to around 5 minutes.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Right before merging with Kami, Piccolo says they're going out to kill some teenagers. His reply?Kami: You had me at killing teenagers.
- Book Ends: Begins and ends with discussions about song covers. Opens with Yamcha, Krillin, and Bulma discussing them; closes with Piccolo, Kami, and Nail discussing them. The ending is interrupted by Cell whistling the song "All-Star" by Smash Mouth.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The franchise's Sequel Displacement is joked about once again when Trunks warns Goku about Dr. Gero, name-dropping the Red Ribbon Army. Goku expresses his confusion with "Only saw Z, who dat?" Later turned on its head when Dr. Gero is confronted by Vegeta, only to ask "Only saw Dragon Ball, who dis?"
- Call-Back:
- Just like when he fused with Nail and said "I'm two guys now!", Piccolo says "I'm three guys now!" after he fuses with Kami.
- The "Yamcha's here! Yamcha's dead!" from Kai 1 returns.
- Character Development: Piccolo says he needs character development when he flies off to fuse with Kami. All the other Z-Fighters say Gohan needs it.
- Country Matters:
- Vegeta has to be censored for the c-word eight times, then at the end of his rant, says "vagina". 18 promptly breaks his arm.
- In reference to that, the first letters of the title spells the same word.
- Help, I'm Stuck!: Trunks' sword gets stuck while slowly cutting Freeza in half. And Dr. Gero gets his hand stuck in Yamcha's chest after impaling him; he says his sleeve is stuck on a rib.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: How they allude to Krillin and 18.Android 17: Hey. Don't bang my sister.
Krillin: Oh.
Android 18: (kisses his cheek) He might.
Krillin: Oh!
Android 17: But don't.
Krillin: Oh...
Android 16: He wants pussy like I want Goku.
Android 17: That sounds a little gay, dude.
Android 16: It is a little gay, dude. - Running Gag:
- "I feel like I/we am/are underprepared for this." Dr. Gero says it after Vegeta turns Super Saiyan, and Krillin says it after Android 18 breaks Vegeta's arm.
- People exclaiming someone's dead when they're not. Goku for Yamcha when he's impaled, and Gohan for Goku with his heart attack.
- Running Gagged: Android 16 gets the line from Nappa and Guru, but malfunctions on it.Android 16: Hello, I am Android 16. I am hilarious, and you will birds-birds-birds Goku.
Android 17: Hmm. I like him.- Although played with due to how the gag is referenced again in the next Kai.
- Shout-Out:
- A French-accented voice says "Three Years Later" for the Time Skip.
- Vegeta's "Big Bang Attack" changes to "Bazinga Attack!"
- Android 19's death references Pinocchio:Android 19: Father, I wish to be a real boy.
- The Pirate Dream and Ninja Dream are replaced by a Superhero Dream, with Goku taking the form of Izuku Midoriya, or "Dekurot". Vegeta makes a cameo as Katsuki Bakugo, or "Bakugeta".Dekurot: God, you're such a deep character.
Bakugeta: F**K ME!!!
Goku: (mumbling in his sleep in the 'real' world) I wish I was All Might.
Gohan: I wish my dad was All Might. - Instead of Cell singing "Mr. Sandman" during his introduction like he did originally, he whistles "All Star", with the episode ending with him saying "Some...".
- The Stinger: After the ending, it shows an animated Nappa!All Might saying he's gonna go bang Dekurot's mom, in reference to the Fan-Preferred Couple of All Might and Inko Midoriya.
- Nappa!All Might is a Super Saiyan when flexed, much like how All Might looks completely different when he flexes.
- His adding that it was "straight up Professor Oak-in' that bitch" is a reference to the popular Pokémon theory that Professor Oak sending the player off to catalog all 150 original Pokemon is just an excuse so Oak can get together with the player's mother.
- [Trope Name]: The establishing shot of Ginger Town following the timeskip features a girl exclaiming, "Filler!" before debris crushes her.
Piccolo: Who-
Cell: SOME-
Cell: SOME-
