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1->"''Jesus, I overslept. It's already night. ...for the first time since I got here... ...on a planet with three suns...''"
2-->--'''Vegeta''', right before realizing the Dragon has been summoned
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4!!!Original Airdate: June 29, 2011
5[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tfs_24.png]]
6 [[caption-width-right:300:King Kai has had enough of the Earthlings and the Namekian on his planet. Can't imagine why. They literally haven't done anything there.]]
7With Goku in a healing pod and Vegeta napping, Gohan and Krillin decide that it's the perfect time to use the Dragon Balls with Dende's help. Provided that Super Kami Guru doesn't die right then and there. Be reaaaal dick move, right?
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9Oh, and it sure would suck if Freeza stopped pummeling Nail long enough to figure out what's going on, wouldn't it?
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11!!It would be a real dick move to kill these tropes right now:
12* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Subverted; at first it looks like Nail's laughing along to one of Freeza's comments about getting his hands dirty, but actually it's because while Freeza was wasting time fighting him, Dende was helping Gohan and Krillin summon the dragon.
13* AnArmAndALeg: ''24'' arms from Nail, in fact, thanks to Freeza.
14* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In a downplayed example, Dende is pretty nonchalant about Guru dying, despite the Dragon Balls losing power. Krillin feels sorry for his loss. Given the Elder's jerkass attitude, Dende just responds that "someone has to".
15* AtomicFBomb: Vegeta does this when he realizes he's been played.[[note]]Technically, it is the first time the word "fuck" is uncensored in the main series, though it straddles two shots, with half of it at a substantially lower volume.[[/note]]
16-->'''Vegeta''': OH YOU MOTHERF-- (cuts back to Gohan)\
17'''Vegeta''': --[-UCKERRRRRRS!-]\
18'''Piccolo:''' (''still'' in the distance) [-Ow, my ears!-]
19* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Nail calls Freeza 'racist' for complaining how everything and everyone on Namek looks the same. He doesn't deny it, but handwaves the notion under the impression that he "can't be racist against a race that [[ImpliedDeathThreat doesn't exists]]".
20* BackFromTheDead: Piccolo and Kami, thanks the Namekian Dragon Balls.
21* BadassBoast / ImpliedDeathThreat: Freeza asks Nail if he's ever heard of [[EarthShatteringKaboom Planet Vegeta]]. When Nail says he hasn't, Freeza replies that that's what he expects the next person to say when he asks them if they've ever heard of Planet Namek.
22* BrickJoke: At the end of the ColdOpening, after Nail regrows the arm Freeza just tore off, Freeza just casually tears the arm off again. The next time we cut to them, there's a whole pile of ripped-off arms next to Freeza.
23* ButtMonkey: Yamcha is specifically ignored in this episode, only getting in an inhale. At this point, they had not hired [=Vegeta3986=]'s replacement for the role.
24* CallBack:
25** Krillin notes that his Space armor makes him look like Nappa, causing Vegeta to briefly superimpose Nappa's head over the human's.
26** Krillin justifies summoning the dragon without Vegeta by pointing out that Vegeta still hasn't pledged his allegiance to Team Three Star yet.
27** The resurrected Piccolo once again calls Gohan a nerd when the demi-Saiyan is explaining how the Namekian dragon being a LiteralGenie is like Literature/TheMonkeysPaw. Notable in that Piccolo's yelling it from the other side of the planet.
28** Vegeta discovers that Namek's sky resembles night. At first, he is confused how this happens on a place that has been daytime in forever, only to piece together that the planet's dragon has been summoned. Krillin explained this to him a couple of episodes back.
29** Vegeta and Gohan repeat the "Thwartin' Mah Plans" routine they had in Episode 18 when the former discovers Gohan and Krillin have summoned the dragon without him. This time, Gohan hesitantly answers "Yes."
30-->'''Vegeta:''' Imma f*ckin kill you!!!
31* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original, Guru dies from his failing health, canceling the Dragon Balls' power. Here, he ''purposefully'' does this by stopping his own heart, all just to troll Dende and the others.
32* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Krillin's desire for a three-foot hoagie suggests [[spoiler:[[BiggerIsBetterInBed ultimately unfounded]]]] size issues. This becomes a BrickJoke at the end of Season 3.
33* DrivenToSuicide: King Kai hates the Z-Fighters so much for taking up space on his planet that he threatens to kill himself if they aren't wished back immediately.
34-->'''Krillin:''' Wait, can gods kill themselves?\
35'''King Kai:''' I'M ABOUT TO TRY!!!
36* ExactWords: Just like in the original, Dende mentions after the fact that Krillin had to be specific in his wish on where to summon someone. As he simply wished for Piccolo to be on Namek, he appears somewhere on the planet instead of right in front of them.
37* ExplainExplainOhCrap:
38** Freeza wonders why the Ginyu Force aren't doing anything to stop the Earthlings from summoning the dragon when a quick check of his scouter has him calmly announcing that they're dead before shouting out "WHY ARE THEY DEAD?!"
39** Vegeta's commenting how night fell while he was asleep, for the first time since he arrived, on a planet with three suns, when he realizes that Krillin and Gohan have summoned the dragon without him.
40* HowWouldYouLikeToDie: When Vegeta realizes that he's not immortal, he's about to go on about what Freeza will do to Team Three Star...and Freeza appears, asking for suggestions.
41* IneffectualDeathThreats: The one he doesn't carry through on: Freeza never did get around to killing Nail before going after the Dragon Balls.
42-->'''Freeza:''' I WILL F*CKING MURDER YOU!!!\
43'''Nail:''' (''smugly'') Whatever.
44* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Krillin mentions to Gohan how it feels like they've been on Namek for a year when it's only been six days. Team Four Star had been working on Season 2 for a year at the time of this episode.
45* LoopholeAbuse: Because Namek's Dragon Balls can only revive one person per each of its three wishes, that means only three of the four Z-Fighters on King Kai's planet can be brought back to life. Like the source material, Piccolo suggests being wished back first so Kami can be revived as well, resulting in Earth's Dragon Balls being usable again to revive the rest. Earth's variant would still be ineffective on Chiaotzu because he was wished back by them before, which is where the Namek ones come in.
46* KnewItAllAlong: Krillin has spent the past episodes suggesting the name "Team Three Star" ever since he, Gohan, and Vegeta teamed up. When Gohan finally expresses criticism about the name, Krillin does this, claiming he always knew it was dumb, but no one said anything (save Vegeta).
47* OhCrap:
48** Freeza after learning, from Nail, that the Namekian he passed by (Dende) has the means to summon Porunga, and Nail was just stalling for time.
49** Krillin after sensing that Freeza is on his way.
50** Gohan and Krillin when Vegeta arrives.
51** Krillin and Vegeta when Freeza arrives right as the Dragon Balls lose power.
52* NotSoAboveItAll: In TheStinger, when Kami returns to existence (thanks to Piccolo being revived), he spots Mr. Popo watering pots of... pot. Popo refuses to get rid of it, but Kami doesn't mind as it can help with his glaucoma.
53* PottyEmergency: Gohan and Krillin might have gotten away with using the Namekian Dragon Balls without Vegeta's knowledge had the Saiyan Prince not woken up needing to use the bathroom.
54* TheScream: Dende gives one when he thinks he's been caught by one of Freeza's soldiers. He only screams louder when it turns out to actually be Krillin.
55* ShoutOut:
56** The cartoon that shows when Vegeta is putting two and two together on why it's dark on Namek (a planet with three suns that shouldn't have any nighttime) is from the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''Farm Frolics''.
57** The song Master Popo is humming in TheStinger? "Because I Got High" by Music/{{Afroman}}.
58** When meeting Dende, Krillin says "[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Stop right there, Namekian scum!]]".
59* TheStinger: Following the end titles, we see Kami reappear at the Lookout.
60-->'''Popo:''' -humming and watering plants-\
61'''Kami:''' (''poofs'') Fan-freaking-tastic, we're back here again.\
62'''Popo:''' Oh, you're back. Hi Kami.\
63'''Kami:''' Mr. Popo, what are you watering?\
64'''Popo:''' Pot.\
65'''Kami:''' Pots of what?\
66'''Popo:''' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pot]]. (''beat'') I'm not getting rid of it.\
67'''Kami:''' [[NotSoAboveItAll Are you kidding? That sh*t's great for my glaucoma]].
68* SuperSenses: Piccolo can hear the others from half way around Namek.
69-->'''Dende:''' He is on Namek.\
70'''Gohan:''' Wait, where is he?\
71'''Dende:''' [[ExactWords On Namek]].\
72'''Piccolo:''' (in the distance) [-You dumbass!-]\
73'''Krillin:''' Why didn't it bring him here?\
74'''Dende:''' You must be specific.\
75'''Gohan:''' Oh, so it's a [[ViewersAreGeniuses sort of monkey's paw.]] [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor You have to be careful with the hubris in your wishes.]]\
76'''Piccolo:''' (still in the distance) [-[[CatchPhrase NEEEEEEEERRRRDDD!]]-]
77** Not long after, Vegeta's AtomicFBomb is so loud, it hurts Piccolo's ears from half way around the planet.
78* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Krillin suggests they can summon the dragon while Vegeta is still sleeping, Gohan believe this sounds like a "very dangerous idea that can easily backfire". Indeed, by the time they get to the third wish, Vegeta is ''pissed'' in discovering their plan.
79* {{Troll}}: Guru, being the creator of Namek's Dragon Balls, mentions that it would be a "dick move" to die as, much like Kami and Earth's Balls, it would render their power useless. Even knowing this, he decides to ''will himself to death'' while Dende and the others are in the middle of using Porunga's third wish and, by extension, denying Vegeta his bid for immortality.
80* WastefulWishing: Turns out that Krillin was wanting to wish for a three-foot hoagie, but is frequently interrupted before he can make it.
81** Krillin uses the first two wishes to revive Piccolo and bring him to Namek. With how Piccolo protested that being there sounded like a bad idea, wish number 2 counts.
82* WeNeedADistraction: Once Nail feels that he doesn't stand a chance against Freeze, he decides to keep him busy while Dende helps the Earthlings summon Porunga, only bragging to Freeze when he feels confident the tyrant's wish for immortality will be denied.
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