Original Airdate: May 12, 2017
With Mr. Satan defeated, it's now Goku's turn to battle Cell. Can our hero defeat Cell before he finds himself lost in his beautiful looks?
Just trope me already!
- Domestic Abuse: Thanks to Jimmy Firecracker and Goku's poor choice of words, Goku is made out to be a wife-beater. Chi-Chi, for what it's worth, just realizes that what he said was ''kind of'' true, if not nearly as bad as Jimmy made it. Of course, pretty much everything Goku listed was from Chi-Chi's old-fashioned views on marriage. Gohan, meanwhile, is suddenly grateful to still be home-schooled to avoid any public reactions with this baggage.
- Double Entendre: When Goku powers up, he beckons Cell to whip out his power and let him feel it.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: Much like the source material, Mr. Satan is in complete denial of the stuff happening during Goku and Cell's fight. Here, he loses himself further in this - he claims that magnets under the ring caused his ring out, Goku and Cell have lit themselves on fire for their Battle Aura, mirrors are being used for Cell splitting himself into four, and the Kamehameha is just lasers and an industrial fan.
- Foe Romantic Subtext: Good grief, it's ramped up here.
Cell: So, you gonna to take a swing? Or are you just going to stand there, staring into my eyes?
Goku: Hmm, what was that? I was busy staring into your eyes.
Cell: Oh you beautiful Saiyan bastard, just punch me already!
- Foreshadowing: Gohan has no trouble following Goku and Cell's battle, and can tell they're still warming up.
- Forgot About His Powers:
- Handwave: Krillin remembered that Trunks had short hair before and now he's long-haired again. Trunks claims that he liked it better longnote In the anime, Trunks' hair grew out since he went back inside the Time Chamber, but the Abridged series cut this part out.
- Honor Before Reason: When Cell teases Goku about the possibility of having his friends face him first, leaving their match for last. The moment Goku considers this, Cell immediately rescinds the offer, wanting to start it now.
- Hypocritical Humor:
- In a meta sense. Krillin mocks Yamcha for assuming Cell would just fall out of the ring. In the original series, he was just as happy.
- Then there's Goku telling Cell he won't be able to defeat him with stolen techniques, only for Cell to ask if Goku is going to use one of his stolen techniques. Even the Z-Fighters confirm that none of Goku's attacks are original.
- Insane Troll Logic: Mr Satan handwaves Cell's multi-form technique as a mirror-trick. One problem there: how do the mirrors only duplicate Cell and not Goku?
- Interplay of Sex and Violence: Much of the banter between Goku and Cell during their fight comes off as flirting.
- Made of Iron: Like the original show, Mr. Satan survives getting backhanded by Cell, albeit with a mean concussion.
- Mistaken for Racist: When Goku and Cell's battle gets very quick and they're not even playing for keeps, Krillin just casually says "Saiyans, am I right?". In front of Trunks. He catches himself a few moments later.
- Mythology Gag:
- Goku recounts that he beat Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, and Chi Chi at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament with a ring out.
- Vegeta brags about destroying planets, which Tenshinhan tops by bragging about the time he beat Goku during the 22nd World Martial Arts tournament. This is likely a reference to when Goku taunted Freeza in the original dub by saying "I can't be harder to destroy than a planet, right?"
- Pet the Dog: Once again Cell is nice to Yamcha, this time by telling him NOT to thank Tien for after Tien hits Yamcha with a Stealth Insult.
- Rearrange the Song / Shout-Out: The fight between Goku and four Cells is done to a Bruce Faulconer-inspired rendition of "We Are Number One".
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Jimmy declares that Mr. Satan is killed by Cell, much to Vegeta' amusement. It was then revealed a moment later that he survived, much to Vegeta's chagrin.
- Skewed Priorities: Vegeta is so upset that Mr. Satan is still alive that he declares that wanting him dead is more important than killing Cell. Tien, naturally, would be surprised if this wasn’t the case for Vegeta.
- Stealth Pun: When Goku and Cell starts fighting, Cell sings out "Chickity-China, the Chinese Chicken". The name of the song? "One Week".
- The Stinger: Krillin wonders aloud what happens to the energy blasts that are constantly seen flying off into space. Gohan's reply (as demonstrated in the stinger) is that, should they last long enough, they would just keep on traveling until they hit something.
- Troll: Cell once again showing what he got from Tien, Vegeta, Freeza, and Piccolo by making fun of both Vegeta and Trunks at the same time.
