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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#2351: Dec 19th 2012 at 5:58:14 AM

[up] In Season 2, yes. Well, not necessarily during the episode, but whenever a character like Dodoria, Zarbon, Nail, Super Kami Guru, Dende, Vegeta, or Krillin read the disclaimer, death usually followed shortly therafter. If not that episode, then the next.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2352: Dec 19th 2012 at 6:00:44 AM

...what the hell are the Insurance Agencies going to do against Krillin if he just decides "Fuck off, I'm keeping the money?"

SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#2353: Dec 19th 2012 at 6:15:17 AM

^Make him unable to use the money? tongue He might as well go super villain.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#2354: Dec 19th 2012 at 6:29:19 AM

Frankly, Krillin would still be able to outfight any government in the world. Tax evasion is a thing he could in fact get away with, considering Goku doesn't understand taxes, or money, or governments, Vegeta doesn't care about puny humans, Gohan isn't likely to want to hurt his best friend, and Piccolo/Nail/Kami are too busy being sarcastic.

At this point, there aren't many that can stand up to Krillin and would. I mean, the Androids aren't a thing yet. Neither are Trunks or Goten and the other Saiyan hybrid abominations.

Krillin is in the top five most powerful warriors in the world right now. It won't last when Goku comes back, but eh.

edited 19th Dec '12 6:29:52 AM by unnoun

Filby Since: Jan, 2001
#2355: Dec 19th 2012 at 6:40:44 AM

He could get away with tax evasion... but he won't. Because he's Krillin.

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#2356: Dec 19th 2012 at 7:57:41 AM

Unless he robbed everything forever, he wouldn't be able to let someone use his money, especially if it wasn't cash, and he'd force them to drop The Masquerade.

For Season 2, the disclaimers were used as a form of A Death in the Limelight half the time.

nairoxev Since: Nov, 2011
#2357: Dec 19th 2012 at 8:57:14 AM

If they do Buu saga, then it would be great if this debt is brought up again after 18 wins the ultra large money prize in that tournament.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#2358: Dec 19th 2012 at 9:22:45 AM

Poor Garlic Jr.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#2359: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:00:13 PM

I think Lani, Kaiser, and Taka also just really dislike the Garlic Jr. Saga and wanted to get right to Trunks.

I'm surprised we even got this much.

Season one covered a decent amount of filler*

, but even then they left just as much out*

Season two had most of the filler completely unmentioned*

or only appearing as one-off jokes*. Basically all they kept, besides very minor things, were Fake Namek (which even then was a mini-arc covered in just one episode), the flashback to Freeza killing King Vegeta, and the Namekians leaving Earth.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#2360: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:04:39 PM

I figured they'd just cover Garlic Jr. in one episode or so before moving on to the main saga here.

Which reminds me. Do we call the whole thing the Cell Saga (The Trunks and Androids mini-sagas included), or just the parts once Cell actually gets introduced? I'm not sure how naming conventions work for this.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#2361: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:10:22 PM

I thought the whole thing was called "The Android Saga", because the show's use of the term android/jinzōningen included Cell.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#2362: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:12:28 PM

I always just called them the Saiyan, Frieza, Cell, and Buu sagas.

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#2363: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:15:33 PM

I just went by whoever the predominant villain of the arc is "Saiyin, Freiza, Android, Cell, Buu"

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#2364: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:18:27 PM

I love how Lord Slug is Guru's good half. Makes you wonder just how relentlessly evil the original Namekian they split from was.

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#2365: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:21:46 PM

I might've liked two episodes on Garlic, but it was nice to see something completely different. Also, I'm glad Nail is still around, and has already established a rapport with Kami.

I liked Garlic Jr. saga and almost everything in that first bullet. Gohan and the orphans was also alright.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#2366: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:31:01 PM

I thought Lord Slug was Guru's brother. Not a half.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#2367: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:41:52 PM

Abridged version states they're two halves just like Kami and Piccolo. Guru does refer to him as a brother at one point, but it's not hard to imagine they consider each other brothers.

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#2368: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:43:32 PM

Ah, I thought the abridged had them brothers only.

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#2369: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:50:59 PM

At first I thought Krillin should've been able to keep his money since he did, in fact, die. Then I rewatched the scene and realized just how outrageous his confession sounded.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#2370: Dec 19th 2012 at 12:58:13 PM

I like how while Krillin is already a Butt-Monkey, Yamcha just so unbelievably surpasses him in that regard that he exists solely to be humiliated whereas even Krillin gets to do some other things not related to being owned.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#2371: Dec 19th 2012 at 1:11:43 PM

[up][up]He confessed to really being Krillin; they can just ignore everything else he said and assumed he faked his death instead.

And even if they do accept that he came back and that this doesn't invalidate his claim (or destroy the entire life insurance industry because everyone finds out Death Is Cheap), he's still guilty of insurance fraud because he used a fake identity as a beneficiary.

edited 19th Dec '12 1:20:39 PM by thatother1dude

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#2372: Dec 19th 2012 at 1:13:54 PM

You know what I just noticed on rewatching? Turtle's line. "Why aren't you upstairs sleepin' with your girlfriend like everyone else?". At first I didn't assume much of that, then this time I thought about that question a little more...

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#2373: Dec 19th 2012 at 1:15:22 PM

Well, the scene prior had her sleeping next to everyone else, so it could just be an innocent innuendo. The tuna lines were hilarious additions.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#2374: Dec 19th 2012 at 1:22:20 PM

I just thought Turtle meant "sleeping next to her" or "sleeping alongside their respective partners" the first time, but I kinda wonder if they meant for it to imply she's sleeping with the other men there in the sexual sense. Though the only guys I saw were Master Roshi, Yamcha, and Oolong, and we know it won't work out somehow for the middle one since it's Yamcha.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#2375: Dec 19th 2012 at 3:26:16 PM

I'm pretty sure it was intentional innuendo, since she offers to whore herself out to Yamcha earlier.

I'm glad they skipped a lot of the filler, because filler is absolutely awful and needs to perish in a fire.


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