Shout Out / Dragon Ball Z Abridged

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This page covers Shout-Out in Dragon Ball Z Abridged.

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Season 1

Episode 1: The Return of Raditz! ... Wait...

• A farmer mistakes Raditz for Sonic the Hedgehog in the first scene.

Episode 2: And They All Lived Happily Ever After... Oh...

• Due to his green skin and him having hatched from an egg, Piccolo is assumed to be a Yoshi.
• Phil Ken Sebben makes an appearance to quip about Raditz undressing.

Episode 3: Happily Ever Afterlife

• Mr. Popo reacts to being told to train the Z-Warriors with maniacally laughter accompanied by Psycho Strings.

Episode 4: Snakeway to Heaven

• Goz and Mez introduce themselves and speak in German accents just like Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon's body builder characters Hans and Franz from Saturday Night Live.
• Princess Snake's voice is an impression of Solid Snake's.
• Piccolo's line, "Everyone of Gohan's race can become a giant gorilla," is delivered in the same manner as an almost identical line given from Turles in the infamous Big Green dub.

Episode 5: Vegeta: Kills Bugs Dead

• The episode title references the slogan of the Raid brand of insecticide.
• One of the bugs in the prison Vegeta and Nappa are sent to pays homage to The Monarch.
  Green Bug: Welcome to Oz, bitch! Yes, you with the spiky hair, you're going to be my bitch! I'm going to sell you for a cigarette but not before I violate you because you're my bi-
• The episode features an extended sequence with the Justice League.

Episode 6: No One Ever Listens to the Magical Dragon

• "YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS."

Episode 7: Saiyans? On My Planet? (It's More Likely Than You Think)

• The title comes from a memetic ad for ContentWatch, which originally read "Pornography? On my computer? It's more likely than you think."
• "First Rule of Popo's Training: Do not talk about Popo's Training!"
• "No." "Don't be rude, Nappa." Made all the more appropriate by the fact that Vegeta is voiced by Lanipator, creator of Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged.

Episode 8: Nappa's Best Day Ever

• The TV reporter who is asked for a word to describe how dead Yamcha is gets addressed as "Mr. Kent", and even tells Jimmy to get a picture of the bald one. His voice actor (hbi2k) also voiced Superman from episode five's Hall of Justice scene.
• Krillin's Butt-Monkey nature comes to a head, which devolves into a rage-induced Final Fantasy Limit Break attack. Comes complete with the End-of-battle victory theme.
• Nappa borrows a Battle Cry from Looking for Group.
  Nappa: FOR PONYYYYYYYY!
• Krillin and Piccolo performing their multi-form techinque (which resembles the Kage Bushin no Jutsu) prompts a groan-worthy reference from Nappa.
  Nappa: Vegeta! I can't... believe it!

Episode 9: The Set Up

• Krillin throws a Destructo Disc/Kienzan at Nappa, leading to this conversation:
  Nappa: Ooh! A frisbee, Vegeta!
  Vegeta: Nappa, no! It's a trick!
  Nappa:: But Vegeta... Trix are for kids!
  Vegeta: ... You know what, Nappa? On second thought, catch it. Catch it with your teeth.

Episode 10: The Punchline

• Piccolo drops this one during a flashback to him destroying the moon.
  Piccolo: MOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
• When Vegeta cuts Oozaru!Gohan's tail, he starts singing a familiar song.
• For some reason, Kirk and Spock are investigating the Saiyan pods.
• The episode ends with a cover of the Ghostbusters theme upon the introduction of Ghost Nappa.

Season 2

Episode 11: Looks Like the Z-Warriors Are Blasting Off Again!

• "This season. You." Possibly doubles as a shout-out to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged, considering Antfish is a member of Team Four Star, and Lanipator made a guest appearence as Mr. Popo in that series.

Episode 12: A Rose by Any Other Namek

• The fake Namekians are transparent parodies of the Plutonians.
• "Damn it, man, I'm a doctor, not an English teacher!"

Episode 13: Dr. Briefs Made This Episode in a Cave… WITHABOXOFSCRAPS!

• "You couldn't hit the broad side of a space barn!"

Episode 14: No Country for Old Namekians

• Krillin's reaction to seeing the Namekian Dragon Balls for the first time prompts a reference to the song Big Balls.
  Krillin: Whoa, those things look huge! AC/DC be damned.

Episode 15: Operation: Dodoria Drop

• Krillin starts calling Dende "Little Green" in a tangential reference to the AB Groupe dub, nicknamed the "Big Green" dub after what it chooses to call Piccolo.

Episode 16: Vam qan Namek

• This episode features the first instance of the show's depiction of the Namekian language, which is just Klingon. The episode title is even written in the language.
• During the Curb-Stomp Battle between Zarbon and Vegeta, while Vegeta is being head butted by Zarbon, he can be heard saying narf, zort, poit and troz.
• The reference to the "Big Green" dub is further strengthened when Krillin refers to Nail as such. Nail threatens to snap his neck in response.
• The Albino Namekians could be a reference to the White Martians: they're white, the other sentient species on the planet is green, and the two races don't get along too well.
• The theme from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes plays when Super Kami Guru unlocks Krillin's full potential.

Episode 17: A Lovely Bunch of Dragon Balls

• After Zarbon recovers Vegeta's unconscious body, he can be heard mumbling in his sleep.
  Vegeta: M-my power is maximum...
• Appule can be seen playing Budokai Tenkaichi 3 as himself fighting Bardock. Doubles as a Call-Back to the Bardock special.
• The song Vegeta sings as he steals the Dragon Balls is a parody of I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts, a song written by Fred Heatherton famously sung by Danny Kaye.

Episode 18: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Saiyan

• The Ginyu Force announce their presence by saying "We're here" in an ominous tone identical to the one used in Poltergeist.

Episode 19: 到着を恐怖!! 敬礼, ギニュー特戦隊!!

• Vegeta pulls a "Look at your X, now look at me" when confronting the Ginyus.
• Guldo quotes DIO when using his time-stopping ability for the first time. The Colour-Coded Timestop visual is also directly based on how DIO's Stand ability is depicted in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.
  Guldo: ZA! WARUDO!
  Krillin: What are you [time stop] going on abou- [a steamroller drops on him]
  Guldo: You see that? That was just a taste of my power! [a still intact Krillin lifts the steamroller] Huh?
  Krillin: Ow! What the hell was that?
  Guldo: [in disbelief] That... was supposed to crush you.
  Krillin: Gohan, did you see it? His power! He can—
  Gohan: Stop time?
  Krillin: --summon steamrollers!
  Gohan: Y-You sure about that?
  Krillin: Positive!
• The uncensored version of Vegeta's Cluster Bleep-Bomb has him say "find me in the Alps", a Shout-Out to an edited line from the TV version of The Big Lebowski.

Episode 20: Namekimania 2011

• The episode in general serves as one to pro wrestling, with its title referencing WrestleMania specifically.
• Recoome's theme song is E1M1 from Doom... because that's what his name rhymes with. Specifically, it's the remix "Hangarmageddon (E1M1)" by Evil Horde off of Disc 1 of "The Dark Side of Phobos", an album off of the music remix site OCRemix.
• After Vegeta declares that "wrestling's fake," one of the fans heard heckling him is a Ned Flanders soundalike.
• The Spacey's restaurant is a parody of the Sonic Drive-In restaurant chain.
• The song that plays when Goku lands is "Real American", Hulk Hogan's theme.

Episode 21: Stop! Celebrate and Witness, Goku's Back From 100x Fitness!

• When Goku asks if Vegeta actually lost to Recoome:
  Ghost Nappa: You fell down some stairs.
  Vegeta: I fell down some stairs.
• Super Kami Guru tells Dende that he could be Batman.
  Dende: I don't know who that is!
  Super Kami Guru: See?! This is why we need TV!
• Vegeta finishes off Recoome and Burter with a Renegade interrupt.
  Goku: Vegeta! That was not very Paragon!
  Vegeta: Renegade for life.

Episode 22: The Good, the Bad, and the Purple

• Doubles as a Mythology Gag:
  Freeza: I'll dispatch of this worm and then I'll be back for you, slug.
  Super Kami Guru: Leave my brother out of this!

Episode 23: Grand Theft Goku

• Two Freeza soldiers are seen discussing the Wilhelm scream before actually performing it as they die.
• Vegeta says this after getting punched by Jeice.

  Vegeta: Thank you, sir. May I have another?

  • Jeice returns the favor as Vegeta kills him.
  Jeice: Clever girl.

Episode 24: The Best Laid Plans of Saiyans and Nameks

• Krillin yells "Stop right there, Namekian scum!" upon reuniting with Dende.
• Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" plays as Gohan, Dende and Krillin sneak off with the Dragon Balls.
  • Not long after, Krillin starts yelling "SUMMONITSUMMONITSUMMONITSUMMONIT-" in a manner similar to Kaiba demanding to see the Winged Dragon of Ra. According to Word of God, however, this was a coincidence.
• Mr. Popo can be heard humming Because I Got High while watering his pot.

Episode 25: Nail is Piccolo, and So Can You!

• Councilor Nappa appears to be wearing a particularly familiar yet oddly concerning choice of hats◊.
• One of Gohan's Unstoppable Rages references another character famous for them:
  Gohan: GOHAN CRUSH EFFEMINATE ALIEN! GOHAN STRONGEST THERE IS!
• After Krillin cuts Freeza's tail off, you can hear him make Curley and Zoidberg's 'whoop' sound as he runs.
• An odd reference to Grand Theft Auto IV appears when Team Three Star attack Freeza all at once.
  Krillin: I'm an optimist.
  Vegeta: You're an idiot.
• Piccolo's Big Damn Heroes moment at the end is accompanied by theme music for a different Demon King.

Episode 26: Alien vs. Piccolo

• Piccolo comments that Freeza's third form will make Ridley Scott sue them. He's got a point.
  • This may also be a reference to "George Lucas is gonna sue somebody" from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Episode 27: The Saiyan Formerly Known as Prince

• Vegeta isn't the first person to use the phrase "Super Saiyan Swagger".
• Who else but Vegeta should make a 40K reference while Beam Spamming?
  Vegeta: DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!

Episode 28: Leave It to Freezer

• The voice of Goku's brain is based on Orson Welles. The reference is made stronger when Goku asks it for a status report as he's drowning, to which it responds, "Gaaaaaablaaaahh, frozen peas…" referencing a memetic a blooper reel.

Episode 29: Freeza Burn

• Goz can be heard singing "Haben sie Gehort das Deutsche Band?" from The Producers when the Ginyus land in Hell.

Episode 30: Freeza: The Final Cut

• Freeza's reaction to Goku going Super Saiyan for the first time:
  Freeza: That's not funny.
• At one point during Goku's nonsensical Super Saiyan speech, he describes himself as "the terror that flaps in the night."
• When Vegeta rises from his grave:
  Vegeta: When there's no more room in hell, Vegeta shall walk the—[notices Namek collapsing on itself]—other hell. What the hell?
  • Not the only Romero reference in episode 30. When Guru is eaten alive, his last words are "Choke on them!"
• After using Porunga's third wish to transport all the Namekians to Earth, Dende says "It's good to be the king."
• Freeza's Ignored Epiphany moment seems to be directly inspired by Denis Leary's Asshole Song.
• According to Bulma, her father is a genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist.^note Cue “Back In Black”
• The blip.tv exclusive stinger for the end of Part 3 has King Cold and his men turning the maimed Freeza into Mecha Freeza, mimicking Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader at the end of Revenge of the Sith, complete with Big "NO!"

Season 3

Episode 31: There's Something About Maron

• Gold Digger can be heard playing from Krillin's car as he drives off with Maron.
• There's a brief segment featuring a show called The Walking Zed.

Episode 32: Battlefield Ee-arth

• There's a subtle one when Gohan and Vegeta ask for their suits of armor, with Vegeta sounding a bit like a certain ice-themed superhero...
  Gohan: Mom, where's my Saiyan suit?
  Vegeta: [with an "urban" accent] Woman, where is my Saiyan suit?

Episode 33: Cold Cuts

• When Future Trunks goes Super Saiyan and Freeza loses it, the theme for a different alien cyborg starts playing...
  Freeza: EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
• When Trunks is lifting up Freeza's planet-destroying-attack, the opening theme from The Lion King plays.
• Also doubles as a Call-Back:
  Vegeta: Wait a second! Did someone drink the last Hetap?! I'll kill you!
  Krillin Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop!

Episode 34: News of Future Past

• Future Trunks' time machine vanishes to the iconic TARDIS sound effect.
• When Goku accidentally sends Chi Chi flying out a window, Gohan takes the fall for him, saying "THE WORST SHE CAN DO IS GROUND ME, NOW RUN!"

Episode 35: The Island of Dr. Gero

• After they arrive in South City:
  Piccolo: Look! In the sky!
  Goku: Is it a bird?
  Piccolo: It's the androids!
  Goku: …my second guess was plane.
• Goku gets distracted philosophizing about the Androids.
  Goku: I wonder if they dream of electric sheep... Mmm... techno-lamb...

Episode 36: Super Saiyan Swagger

• Doctor Gero enthusiastically exclaiming "bully!"
• Vegeta repeating, "Mine!" over and over as he's flying closer to Android 19.
• This exchange between Tien and Vegeta is a clear, if inverted, allusion to Phelous' old "Is That OK?" video
  Tenshinhan: Is that OK?
  Vegeta: As a matter of fact, go f*ck yourself.

Episode 37: Catch Me If You Can-droid

• In The Stinger, Nail and Piccolo continue to discuss new attack names with references to various other series:
  Piccolo: Wind Scar!
  Nail: Spirit Gun!
  Piccolo: Bankai!
  Nail: Rasengan!
  Piccolo: Gum-Gum Pistol!
  Nail: That sounds… dirty.

Episode 38: Dr. Gero or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Androids

• The Cybermen theme plays when Androids 17 and 18 awaken.
• Dr. Gero keeps shouting "Inconceivable!" when things don't go his way.
  • And when he realizes the Z fighters are heading for his lab he shouts "Oh, find me in the Alps!"

Episode 39: Blood, Sweat, and Gears

• Vegeta gives the Androids some vulgar, Raggedy Ann-inspired nicknames.

Episode 40: 16, 17, and 18 Things I Hate About You

• Mr. Popo is said to have consumed "a literal gallon" of LSD out of a milk jug, similar to the milk jug Gallon of PCP skit from The Whitest Kids U' Know

Episode 41: The Trouble with Time Travel

• The drivers of the food truck Vegeta and 19 land on are given the names Chuck and Jones.
  • Along a similar line, the two officers that pull the Androids over are named Tex and Avery, though their names aren't spoken aloud.

Episode 42: Fear and Loathing in Gingertown

• Cell's introduction has him singing "Mr. Sandman" in about the most terrifying way possible while dragging a corpse around and stalking Piccolo, which could be a reference to the Halloween franchise which has repeatedly used the song as a Soundtrack Dissonance Leitmotif for Michael Myers. At the same time, it could also be a reference to Back to the Future, given Cell's status as a Time Traveller and the latter film being the Trope Namer for the "Mister Sandman" Sequence.

Episode 43: Cell Service

• 17 refers to Gero attempting to turn him and his sister off as going "all Blade Runner on us."

Episode 44: Cell Reception

• Goku has a Dream Sequence in which he imagines pirate and ninja versions of himself.
• Krillin attempts to make a Lost in Space reference when he and Trunks discover Gero's sub-lab. Having grown up in a ruined future, it goes over Trunks's head.

Episode 45: Hyperbolic Plot Device

• After Goku wakes up, he mentions the dreams he had in the previous episode, putting emphasis on the fact that the ninja dream "ended." The Naruto manga had recently published its final chapter at the time of the episode's release.

Episode 46: Percussive Maintenance

• 17 refers to Piccolo as a "Jolly Green Giant," the mascot of the Green Giant food brand.

Episode 47: Family Reunion

• Android 16's fight with Imperfect Cell has a lot of iconic sound effects from the Gundam series accompany his movements. Lampshaded in Kai Abridged Episode 3:
  Android 16: GUNDAM SOUND EFFECT.
• When 16 rips off Cell's tail, Cell regenerates it and tells him "If it's any consolation, that hurt like Hell."

Episode 48: Advanced Geometry

• The episode title references Takahata101's guest appearance in Xenoverse, which has him say "Advanced Geometry" when using the Tri-Beam/Kikoho.
• The way Goku uses Instant Transmission in this episode—abruptly vanishing from a still frame accompanied by a little "pop" noise—is awfully similar to how Brain Guy teleports stuff in Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Episode 49: Group Therapy

• Android 16 saying "Have you tried turning me off and on again?"
• In a Call-Back, Goku attempts to reference Vegeta's "Renegade for life" line from the previous season.

  Goku: Hey look, Vegeta, I'm you! "Paragon 'til death!"
  Vegeta: (Beat) ...You ruined it. You ruined it and I'm leaving.

• Semi-Perfect Cell passive-aggressively dismissing Vegeta has a very familiar tone.
  Semi-Perfect Cell: So, if you just want to run along and bring back someone substantial, say...I dunno...Goku, that'd be greeaaaaat.

Episode 50: A Raging Semi

• When Semi-Perfect Cell asks Vegeta if he can have a break, he replies, [[{{Pun "Sure, you can."]] Cell is initially grateful, only to wind up on the receiving end of a Shoryuken.

Episode 51: The "Perfect" Guy

• The cold open features Goku singing a parody of the song Giant Woman in sing-along form.
  • Hidden within it, the follow-along icon uses the muffin model of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (which doubles as a Call-Back to their own Muffin button jokes).
  • Lapis Lazuli's theme plays in the background as Krillin looks upon 18 and starts having doubts about killing her. Incidentally, 17 and 18's non-android names are Lapis and Lazuli.

Episode 52: Flashpoint

• Cell's speech about how he wants Vegeta to hit him as hard as he can takes some clear inspiration from Fight Club.
  • Perfect Cell responds to Vegeta's Final Flash with "Oh, cute he named it— OH, SHIT!", a reference to Cell's Precision F-Strike in several dubs of DBZ.

Episode 53: My Body is a Temple’o’Trunks

• While Trunks and Cell are fighting, Cell gives a familiar "d'oh!".

Episode 54: Tiles and Tribulations

• The cold open features the words ""All work and no play makes Gohan a dull boy…" written over and over on the walls after Gohan wakes up from a nightmare.
• When Dr. Briefs sees Dr. Gero's "subliminal programming" in Android 16's mind, the "music" playing is My Heaven, the final boss battle background music from Silent Hill.
• The country music channel is a scene from the 3rd Mazinger series, UFO Robo Grendizer
  • Similarly, the Hetap commercial uses footage from Mobile Suit Gundam.
• In the list of cities Cell terrorized and absorbed, Penguin Village is listed among them.
• Cell takes a social media pandering cue from Michael Cole:
  Cell: Be a part of the conversation on Twitter! #CellGames

Episode 55: It's Been a Year If It's Been a Day

• Goku talking about how handsome Cell is brings to mind another character voiced by Dameon Clarke.

Episode 56: Deities, Devils, and Doing the Dirty

• Mr. Satan promotes Jimmy Johns when he cuts his promo addressed to Cell. Also, he and Goku both refer to their hot Asian wives.
• Vegeta goes insane after three (both in and out the time chamber) days and creates a version of Nappa using a broom and a volleyball.

Episode 57: Opening Serumonies

• Android 16 begins singing I Have Waited For So Long in his head when he first meets Goku.

Episode 58: Cell Mates

• Mr. Satan declaring that "magnets under the ring" was what caused him to be defeated by Cell. Sorry, only works for the God Gundam.
  • It also doubles up with Jimmy Firecracker's confused comment of "How does that work?" referencing the infamous "FUCKING MAGNETS" meme inspired by the Insane Clown Posse song Miracles.
• A remix of "We Are Number One" can be heard when Cell splits himself in four.
• A thousand years in the future, New Arlia is destroyed by Cell's Kamehameha, in another Shout-Out to Phelous' "Is That OK?" video.

Episode 59: The Hard Cell

• According to Mr. Satan (and a poster in her room as seen in The Stinger), Videl is a Harry Potter fan.

Episode 60: Cell-Out

• Goku at one point thinks to himself that everything is going "according to cake."
  Translator's note: "cake" means "keikaku"
  Translator's note: "keikaku" means "plan"
• It's a bit botched due to what Cell's about, but he drops this one when Gohan explains how he's going to kill him. And it seems Gohan is even trying to correct him.

  Perfect Cell: At first you had my curiosity... but now, you have my erection.
  Gohan: You mean your attent-
  Perfect Cell: You all know what I'm about!

• When Android 16 grabs Cell and prepares to detonate his nuclear Self-Destruct Mechanism to take out Cell, Mr. Satan exclaims from afar:
  Mr. Satan: Find me a bomb shelter! NO, A FRIDGE!
  • 16 drops another reference after his gambit fails, asking, "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be a Cell-shattering kaboom!"
• When Cell starts spawning Cell Jr's, Krillin drops the obvious:

  Krillin: Life, uh, finds a way.

• After the Cell Jr., Norio, evades Krillin's attack:

  Norio: You're too slow!
  Krillin: Blue, blurry bastard!

• As Gohan is about to unleash his anger, he and Cell start unknowingly quoting Linkin Park songs. Appropriate, given the association between DBZ's western fans and AMVs.
  Gohan: I'm just one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to—!^note One Step Closer
  Cell: EVERYTHING... YOU SAY TO ME...^note Also One Step Closer is pissing me off! You had your chance, kid, and in the end, it didn't even matter.^note In the End]]
• Goku mentally singing "Senzu beans are gonna heal ya" to the tune of this Juicy Fruit gum commercial jingle.
• As a last resort, Cell attempts to take the Z-Warriors out all at once by self-destructing, bloating up to immense size in the process.
  Goku: Wait, I've seen this before! Krillin, if he turns blue, you gotta go sing a song!
  Krillin: For the last time, I am not an Oompa Loompa!
  • Cell later warns Gohan that anything could set him off — even a wafer-thin mint.
• When Cell is finally defeated for good, a "Dramatic Finish" tag from Dragon Ball Fighter Z appears.
• Krillin refers to Trunks as "McFly" as he departs back to... well, you know.
• A clip from 300 can be heard in Wombat's final broadcast before it cuts off.
  Wombat: Watch out, TJ! I'm COMIN' HOME, BROTHA!
  Leonidas: "FOR TONIGHT! WE DINE! IN HE—"

Movies and Specials

Bardock: The Father of Goku

• The "Halo is a pretty cool guy" meme is quoted.
  Dodoria: That Bardock's a pretty cool guy.
  Zarbon: He conquers planets and doesn't afraid of anything.
  Freeza: Doesn't afraid of anything indeed.
• Bardock realizes his friend Toma is dead by staring at his own bloody hand.
• One of the soldiers sent to kill Bardock references Red vs. Blue with his final words.
  Lemi: Goddamn it, Mango, you team-killing f**ktard!
• After Dodoria leaves Bardock buried under the bodies of his friends:
  Bardock: Oh, God! It's true! You really do soil yourself when you die! Ah, it's everywhere! It's in my Dodoria wounds!

Christmas Tree of Might

• Piccolo saying, "Bitch, you look like Goku," to Turles upon meeting him.
  • This is followed by a reference to Harry Partridge's "Nicholas Cage Wants Cake" short.
    Turles: You want this kid?
    Piccolo: I want him.
    Turles: You want this kid?
    Piccolo: I want him.
    Turles: You want this kid?
    Piccolo: I want him.
    Turles: You want—you want—
    Piccolo: I WANT THAT KID!

Lord Slug Abridged

• After Lord Slug has conquered earth.
  Chichi: Bulma, Gohan is missing! And so is the outfit Piccolo gave him! [Beat] And Red Dawn is on Netflix!
  [cut to Gohan fighting Slug's henchmen]
  Gohan: WOLVERINES!
• Dorodabo's "Please don't break my arm" line is spoken like it's being read from textspeak. This is possibly a reference to a troll on Second Life named Ralph Pootawn. He`s a big green creature that when is asked to "Plz" not do something responds with "No".
• Slug drops both a "COME HERE!" and a "GET OVER HERE!" when attempting to grab Goku with his stretchy arms.

Revenge of Cooler Abridged

• Krillin mentions that he doesn't want to go pick up the Senzu Beans because last time, he forgot Korin's name and kept calling him "Whiskers the Wonder Cat", which is the name that was given to him in the infamous Harmony Gold dub.
• When Salza finds Gohan on his way to deliver the Senzu Beans.
  Salza: Hello, Diddy... where's Donkey?
• Goku, in his injured state, keeps trying to eat Icarus.
  Goku: I got a fever, and the only prescription is Icarus.
• Cooler says this after transforming into his Shredder-esque form.
  Cooler: Tonight, I dine on monkey soup!
• After Goku is nearly defeated:
  Cooler: When your planet is in ashes, you have my permission to die.

Episode of Bardock

• The Plants, who Lani gives a Kermit the Frog voice, are also all named after famous rappers and artists: Dr. Dray, Rizza, Twopock, and Aice Cube. Also Chris of the Clan Brown, but he's been exiled.
• When Twopock gets shot by Chilled, Dr. Dray calls him a "big... small guy."
• The Plants try to sing "Welcome Christmas" from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! to both Bardock and Chilled. Both stop them before they get any farther than the first eight words.
• The Stinger references a famous Dub-Induced Plot Hole by having Bardock referred to as a "brilliant scientist" who admits he's working on a "fake moon thing."

Dead Zone Abridged

• The opening sequence reuses the theme from The Dead Zone film adaptation.

Cooler 2: The Return of Coolers Revenge – The Reckoning

• After Cooler tells Goku that the Big Getti Star gave him regenerative power, he says "But enough about me, let's kill you!"
• After Gohan gets kidnapped by the robots:
  Piccolo: I'm coming!
  Krillin: Phrasing! I mean, HELP!
  • More generally, the comedic style of the show clearly takes some inspiration from Archer, such as cutting in the middle of a character's dialogue to another speaking character who finishes the first character's sentence.
• The music that plays during Cooler's regeneration is the theme of the REGIS mk. V.
• Goku's line to Vegeta when the two destroy a metal Cooler is a reference to the Garbage Pail Kids movie.
  Goku: See? We can do anything by working with each other…
• When the Big Getti Star beeps after Cooler reveals how he survived, Cooler replies, "Shut up baby, I know it!"
• The credits sequence expands upon the original movie's 2001: A Space Odyssey homage with an illustration of a baby Piccolo.

History of Trunks Abridged

• A brief snippet of the Terminator theme can be heard in TJ and the Wombat's broadcast when the Cyborgs are mentioned.

Super Android 13

• The first thing Android 13 does upon being activated is dramatically asking where his trucker hat is. A brief banjo rendition of "The Imperial Death March" plays as a mechanical arm places said hat on his head.
• Trunks is tired off these "Monkey Fighting Androids in this Monday to Friday timeline!"
• At one point, Android 15 takes a drink and holds up his finger when Vegeta tries to ask what he's doing, a behavior commonly exhibited by Archer's titular character.
• Continuing the Doctor Who shout outs associated with Future Trunks, a brief snippet of the Eleventh Doctor's theme plays when Trunks faces off against Super Android 13, even accompanied by a rather Doctor-esque speech from Trunks.
  • Piccolo's own fight against 13 is accompanied by Nail and Kami singing the same song Piccolo sung in a Weekly Tube Show short.
• A shot of a nurse's behind is accompanied by a familiar catcall, courtesy of Roshi.
  Master Roshi: Hellooooo, nurse!
• Krillin visits Gero's sub-lab and makes the same reference he did in the canon timeline.
  Krillin: Wow. "Danger, Will Robinson!"

The World's Strongest

• Fellow scientist Kochin wonders aloud if he left his keys over at "Slump's".

Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan

• Bardock is once again referred to as a scientist, in reference to an early dub.
• Just before Broly and Vegeta's "fight", they quote lyrics from No Church in the Wild.
• Goku promising to end the drawn-out fight with Broly in "one punch, man."

Plan to Eradicate Christmas

• Vegeta borrows a one-liner from John McClane.
  Yippie-ki-yay, MOTHERFUCKER!

Other

• In a video announcing the series will be hosted at Channel Awesome, Vegeta portrayed himself as "The Nostalgia Saiyan."
• In the #CellGames video starring Sonic and Knuckles, Sonic calls Cell a "Big Bad Beetleborg."
• In the #CellGames video starring Saitama and Genos, Cell calls Saitama Caillou, which was a big meme when One-Punch Man became popular.
• In the #CellGames episode featuring Deadpool, Cell asks him if his entire schtick is being "lol random". The titular character of The Unbelievable Gwenpool complained that this was the reason she never read him.
  • When Deadpool reveals that he was hired to take Cell down, he holds up a picture of Meruem from Hunter × Hunter, mentioning that it looks nothing like him.
• KaiserNeko reveals that some of the song choices made in the show are a meta shout-out to Shiro Sagisu, composer of anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Bleach, who he believes would have been a perfect composer for the Dragon Ball franchise, succeeding Shunsuke Kikuchi. This is why tracks from the aforementioned animes appear in Episode 60 and the abridged version of History of Trunks.

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