"Why would they do something so dumb? (There must be an objective reason for it)!"
What, you want an honest answer?
My guess is that it's because the whole show was trying to get back to "Dragonball" both in tone and aesthetic. Goku's back to being a kid, has to find the Dragonballs again, is aided by a young teenage female who acts as the voice of reason, and the first few arcs are a series of weird comedic antics until they reach Myuu's planet and things get serious. When you consider how they brought back 17 and used the wishes from earlier in the series, nostalgia is the most likely reason.
Another reason is that someone saw Goku getting too powerful (imagine that) and turning him into a child once more was a way to hamper his abilities and provide tension without making gods and deities who could just steamroll over everyone.
edited 4th Feb '17 5:58:03 AM by Soble
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Then Toriyama made that moot by making said gods and deities and forcing Goku to power up to obscene levels that dwarfed even SSJ 4, but ended up making Beerus and Whis two of the most compelling antagonists in DB history, and paved the way for other compelling characters in the Champa arc and beyond, so that sorta evened itself out.
Wait, really? Huh. I guess it must've been in Gmod rather than SFM.
edited 4th Feb '17 6:33:10 AM by Cronosonic
Is it just me, or does it seem like they don't like Street Fighter that much.
I mean, yeah, Ken and Ryu stand no chance, but they were played much more for total jokes than Yugi, Yusuke and Kuwabara were.
One Strip! One Strip!Yeah, that was the weakest Cell Games Presented By HETAP short we've seen thus far. I think they just didn't have a lot of material to work with on this one.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I felt the same way. There is very little to it beyond "they get beat up," which is atypical for these shorts so far, and I got the impression they weren't as familiar with Street Fighter as they were with the other series they've been using and so couldn't back it up with character humor - like they did with the YYH short.
Who would you want it to be.
It'd work best if it was someone who is powerful enough in their own series that it would work in context...
Or if it was someone who has no right being able to so much as scratch Cell, so as to make it funnier.
One Strip! One Strip!I got the feeling they weren't that familiar with Street Fighter too. The YYH and Yu-Gi-Oh entrants were hilarious because they had so much familiarity with the show. That's to be expected since two of the people on Team Four Star did abridged series of those shows.
They should probably stick to that. Write what they know.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.You don't need to know much. They were mocking the gameplay more than the story.
It's as shallow as the traditional Dragon Ball parody of two guys with golden hair screaming for five minutes and then having a beam struggle.
edited 4th Feb '17 5:46:52 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.
I have no idea what was going on but it was pretty great.
I sort of want to see a Cell vs Mortal Kombat #Cell Games, just so we can have this exchange
Scorpion: GET OVER HERE!
Cell: No.
edited 4th Feb '17 6:41:38 PM by thok
In fairness, Scorpion can drag Cell into Hell. He'd still get slaughtered even on his home turf, but Cell would be stuck in Hell.
Unless he's already learned Teleportation from watching Goku do it a bunch of times coming to talk to him at the arena.
edited 4th Feb '17 6:46:02 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.@Zelenal: Precure is basically Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball having a baby. The original was directed by by Daisuke Nishio, the same guy who directed the Dragon Ball anime from the original series through Z.
In fact, have the original Pretty Cure team fight Cell:

Why was Goku magicked into a kid in GT anyway? I mean the out-of-show reason.
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