Recap / Dragon Ball Z Abridged E 41

Master Roshi: Wait! So you didn't beat the androids?!
Tien: Well, they broke both of Vegeta's arms. So, ya know, that was pretty fun. Otherwise, it was a total wash.

Original Airdate: April 6, 2014

With no idea where the Androids went to after their fight, Krillin decides it's best if they move Goku away from home so they have some time. However, Bulma sends them something that might change the tide of the battle.

This episode is frickin' tasty! What tropes are in it?

• Actually Pretty Funny: Despite the brutal beatdown by the Androids, Tien admits seeing Vegeta getting his arms broken was fun, at best.
• All for Nothing: Trunks reveals that when he returned to his future, his mother informed him that saving Goku and having he and his allies prepare for the Cyborg/Android threat didn't change it for the better. That is to say, it created an alternate timeline due to Multiverse Theory, rather than fix his own.
• Ask a Stupid Question...: Krillin asks Trunks if he ever found Android 18 "cute". Considering what 18 and 17 were capable of in his timeline, Trunks goes silent for a few seconds before answering with a cold "no".
• Call-Back: At the end of The History of Trunks Abridged, Bulma suspect that time travel would be more complicated than expected due to Multiverse Theory, but was unable to warn Trunk as he left for the past. This is discussed between Trunks and Gohan in this episode.
• Call-Forward: When Tien tells Master Roshi they were defeated by the Androids, he decides to order a submarine. Master Roshi, Oolong, and Puar are holed up in a submarine during Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks and its DBZA version.
• Carnivore Confusion: The meal Chiaotzu is serving to Master Roshi and Oolong at Kame House is chashu ramen. Which contains pork. This is also a Call-Back to Revenge of Cooler, where Oolong was almost served pork.
  Oolong: I'm delicious.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Deconstructed when Tien retrieves Chiaotzu.
  Tien: I'm here for Chiaotzu. We need to train.
  Chiaotzu: But Tien, the doctor said if your shoulders get any bigger—
  Tien: That's why we don't see him anymore.
• Cranial Eruption: Happens to Krillin when Chi-Chi accidentally opens the door of her house on him.
• Description Cut: When Yamcha asks where Vegeta is, Krillin believes he's out there coping. We quickly see Vegeta in a bad mood.
  • Tien tells the others he should retrieve Chiaotzu from Kame House "before things get weird". Cut to Chiaotzu serving Master Roshi and Oolong food.
• Did Not Think This Through: When Bulma faxes a photo of a destroyed version of Trunks' ship to the crew as they fly Goku to Kame House, Trunks deploys his ship to prove he has it with him. Inside the plane they're flying.
• The Door Slams You: Krillin gets the door slammed on him courtesy of Chi-Chi. Cue the Krillin Owned Count.
  Krillin: (to Trunks) Be super nice to Goku's wife, she can be a total—
  Chi-Chi: (swings the door open on Krillin before he can open it) GOHAN—ohhhh... It's you.
  Krillin: Yeah, fine, I pretty much asked for that one. (gets a knot on his head)
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Ever since Bulma learned that she tried to flirt with a future version of her son Trunks, things become awkward between them both. Krillin takes a jab at this twice in this episode.
  • To Trunks:
    Yamcha: I don't get it. If it doesn't affect your timeline, why even come back to ours and tell us anything in the first place?
    Trunks: Well, besides wanting to make at least one timeline without the world being destroyed... my mother didn't tell me until after I'd already done it once.
    Krillin: (sing-songy) ...And then she tried to bang you.
  • Then to Bulma:
    Krillin: Krillin spea—.
    Bulma: Shut up. I got some important news.
    Krillin: Good or bad news?
    Bulma: It depends. Is Trunks there?
    Krillin: ...Is this a booty call?
    Bulma: KRILLIN!
• Right Under Their Noses: Sets up the Running Gag of where to hide Goku. His house is the first place the Androids will look, and Kame House is very likely the second.
  Krillin: Androids are coming! Gotta move your dad! Get on the ship!
  Gohan: Where are we going?
  Krillin: Kame House.
  Gohan: Isn't that literally the second place they'll look?
  Krillin: LESS LIP, MORE SHIP!
• Running Gag: 18 breaking both of Vegeta's arms last episode is frequently mentioned.
• The Stinger: Cuts to the Androids driving along to find Goku, and they turn on the radio, soon hearing country music since they are out in a rural area. With immediate disdain, 18 thinks of what the first thing they're going to do after they kill Goku. This turns out to be a Call-Forward to The History of Trunks, which in the DBZA universe explicitly states that they destroyed the entire country music genre in the Bad Future.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: As the title suggests, Trunks discusses that his previous attempt to change his future was for nothing due to the Multiverse Theory where, according to Gohan, altered events in the past create new timelines instead of changing the main one; as if traveling to a parallel universe. Trunks returned to the present to discover three new androids added to the two he had warned Goku and the others about, and it gets worse when Bulma faxes a photo with an alleged and decayed version of his Time Machine, when he still has his in the capsule.
• Vague Age: Master Roshi asks Chiaotzu how old he is. Chiaotzu is actually within two years younger than Goku (Goku's birth year is slightly ambiguous, ±1 year). And Roshi should've known that, since by the Cell Saga, he would've known Chiaotzu for more than 15 years.

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Android 18: So, I've been thinking about it... What do we do after we kill Goku?
Android 17: Whatever the hell we want. Who's gonna stop us?
Android 16: Not Goku.