Goku getting smacked off the lookout was great. It's been about 15 episodes since there was a real "Popo is the most powerful being" joke anyway, so it felt pretty unexpected.
Favorite part of the episode was 17 and Piccolo punching indents into each other's bellies with serene music playing, with 18 expressing that the fight just got even more stupid.
edited 25th Dec '14 11:15:13 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!I predicted back on Namek that the joke would get weaker over the course of the series as the characters' power rises, probably ending in a fantastic subversion when Super Buu kills everyone on the lookout, Popo included, similar to how the Kaio-What joke met its final fate in dramatic failure against Frieza himself.
That Goku didn't seem too off-put by getting punched off the lookout supports this theory, that the power gap between Popo and the rest of the cast is diminishing. Popo's impossible strength seems rooted in a filler scene where he parries Goten and Trunks as Super Saiyans simultaneously; if so, there IS a specific power Abridged Popo is supposed to be, and the Saiyans are coming up on him fast. It's just that the specific power Abridged Popo is supposed to be is about as far removed from the Saiyan Saga protagonists as Beerus is from Goku.
edited 26th Dec '14 9:14:25 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Thinking back on it... the Kaioken was literally made irrelevant after that arc, so it doesn't seem intentional, like they just used it too much. They didn't really have a choice.
Popo, while mostly irrelevant, is still around in the Buu Saga - though, I rather like the idea that Super Buu's Establishing Character Moment could be taking out Mister Popo in one shot. I'd be disappointed if that was the last time we saw it.
The Dodge joke? Nah. They can still get some mileage out of that one.
edited 26th Dec '14 12:48:37 PM by FOFD

If they ever get to Battle of Gods, that is. It'd be interesting if they did, but it'd take forever for them to get to that point.