Episode Title: O Captain! My Captain!
Original Air Date: January 30, 2022
What the frog doin'?
- Ambiguous Situation:
- It's never really made clear whether the Ginyu we see is actually the frog he swapped bodies with or the real one following a severe mental breakdown like most of the Ginyu Force believes. Episode 6 would confirm that this is, in fact, Ginyu's body with a frog's soul.
- The Ogres say that if Cell doesn't sort recycling and trash properly, he'll go to Super Hell. When he states that they're making it up, Mez says "Are We?" It's not clarified if there is such a thing as Super Hell.
- Bait-and-Switch: Combines with Brick Joke, but the "Camps" that the German sounding ogre Goz was sinisterly referred to in episode 29 of the abridged series turns out to be just that, a campsite. The cul-de-sac was built over it.
- The Bus Came Back: Captain Ginyu's body returns with the frog's mind.
- The Cameo: Nappa and Cui are both in a group photo in the Ginyu Force's house.
- Continuity Nod:
- When the Ginyus got punted into the Blood Fountain, Goz makes a sinister comment about taking them to the camps. Here we find out they meant a campsite and The Ginyu Force proceeded to construct the houses the cul-de-sac is found in as community service.
- Freeza's white board with his plans to beat Cell has a circle around his crotch that's labeled "Weakness?"
- The book Cell is reading is "The Fault in our Makyo Stars" by Vinegar, who was performing an interview about the book at the end of the Garlic Jr. saga of Kai Abridged.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: When Cell rings the Ginyu Force's doorbell, it plays the chorus of "Sanjou!! Ginyuu Tokusentai!!".
- Dumbass Has a Point: Jeice is like the others in thinking that Ginyu just went feral due to whatever trauma he suffered on Namek instead of having his body swapped with a frog. However, he does bring up a valid point: if "Ginyu" was really a frog he swapped bodies with, that would imply the frog was evil enough to be banished to HFIL.
- Evil Is Petty: Freeza tries to come up with a way to get back at Cell, and the only thing he winds up doing is taunting Cell about his "bussy" at Dodoria's suggestion.
- Exact Words: After Burter tells Cell he and the others actually fixed Cell's broken window before he even arrived from next door.Cell: Well I'll be damned.
Burter: We all are! - Fridge Logic: Invoked. Jeice's counter-argument to Guldo's belief that Ginyu swapped bodies with a frog is to ask if that means the frog was evil.
- Ironic Hell: Cell "drank" hundreds, if not thousands of helpless, frightened people while he was alive. Now in his afterlife he finds himself constantly assaulted by a creature trying to eat him.Cell: I do not like being on the receiving end of this!
- Laser-Guided Karma: After spending most of his time in the Present Timeline making damn near everyone uncomfortable making liberal use of Double Entendre among other things, Cell has to deal with a Captain Ginyu who has zero respect for his personal space at all and wants to literally eat him. As Cell puts it himself: "I do NOT like being on the receiving end of this!"
- Literary Allusion Title: The episode shares its name with a famous poem by Walt Whitman.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Said word for word by Cell when he returns the Ginyu Force's frisbee to them and Burter invites him inside.
- Remember the New Guy?: To a small degree. Apparently, Ginyu has been in HFIL the whole time. This is justified since, well, either he's a frog in Ginyu's body, or Ginyu has gone insane, and thus has been kept in the Ginyu's house and/or property as a way to keep him safe.
- Shout-Out:
- Freeza's white board has a picture of Kermit the Frog on it. Kermit happens to be a main character in the DevilArtemis videos alongside Perfect Cell.
- The Ginyu Force has a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 cabinet in their house which Burter and Recoome are shown playing.
- Stating the Simple Solution: While the other Ginyus think Captain Ginyu got so traumatized by what happened on Namek that he regressed to the mind of a frog, Guldo says he probably just swapped bodies with a frog. Jeice points out that that would require the frog to be evil.
- Take That!: The book Cell is reading in bed is The Fault in Our Makyo Stars by Vinegar from Kai Abridged. Included on the back
cover of the book is the words, “Fuck NFTs.” - The Un-Reveal: Guru makes a comment about Raditz sneaking out at night, and we see Raditz actually sneaking out later in the episode, but we never find out where he goes.
- Voodoo Shark: In-Universe. Guldo thinks that Ginyu is acting weird because he swapped bodies with a frog. While it seems like a case of Occam's Razor, Jeice points out that it would require the random frog Ginyu swapped with to be evil and Ginyu is acting like a mindless animal.
