#some looney tunes bullshit would be happening either way

[kaiobeast]

@threewaysdivided

The first time they hit a ghost shield lmao

I think if danny was a member of the YJ wally would get a handle added to the back of his costume so danny can just grab on turn them both intangible and dangle behind him like a balloon whilst KF races straight through every obstacle in his path. Utterly unstoppable

[sarah-dipitous]

Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 169

Hunteri Heroici

“Hunteri Heroici”

Plot Description: After learning that Castiel plans to be a hunter, Sam and Dean join him to investigate a case where a man’s heart literally burst through his chest

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: what in the looney tunes bullshit…I mean. Probably not? Like, that felt pretty inescapable

PLEASE. I AM BEGGING THE WRITERS OF A SHOW THATS BEEN OFF THE AIR FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, GIVE ME JUST ONE EPISODE WITH GARTH AND THE TRANS. He has set Kevin and Mrs Tran up on his houseboat for a safe house…

You would think that after four and a half seasons, I would be less susceptible to Cas smiling. But no. When I tell you I screeched and had to walk around a little after seeing him so proud of himself for deciding to become a hunter…he’s had so precious little to smile about, like, this whole fucking time. LOOK AT HIMMMMM

And then him telling Dean the benefits of a third wheel (adds extra grip, great stability). I just…I love him a lot

Wait. Now I want Cas and Garth on a case. Just one. PLEASE.

I really want the dead guy’s recent bladder infection to be relevant eventually. Sure, Cas is being a little weirdly gung-ho about investigating but he’s LEARNING

Ugh, another flashback from Sam’s year off. Did they BUY A HOUSE TOGETHER?? Oh……..Amelia’s dad is an asshole

OMG. Cas baby noooooooo that’s not how you do thisssssss “I was being bad cop” “you were being bad everything”

Pausing because my guess is this guy (standing on the roof of a several story building) will either bounce stupidly high OR he won’t actually fall until he looks down. My money is on the latter, though

I was RIGHT. Because of COURSE he can’t LIVE. This is SUPERNATURAL

“We’re looking for some insect-rabbit hybrid?” I adore Castiel and him not understanding pop culture

They made him watch Looney Tunes

Omg his sincerity telling Dean he’ll watch over him while he gets his four hours of sleeeeeep. I can’t

Dean, if he doesn’t want to go back to heaven, stop trying to make him

Oh…..Oh, Castiel. He’s so devastated over what he did to heaven. He can’t bring himself to go back (little does he know he HAS been back and his memory has been wiped of it, and who knows how many times that happened??)

What an interesting case…

Kicking my feet at Cas quietly telling Dean he doesn’t think he pronounced that correctly when he said “it’s wabbit season”

Omg…Cas is gonna interrogate the cat soooooon

Huh…so an old friend of the Winchesters just HAPPENS to be in this retirement home and he just HAPPENS to be psychokinetic and he just HAPPENS to love old cartoons and he just HAPPENS to be kind of stuck in his own head

Cas you can’t just jump straight to murder. I mean, that IS what the boys do most of the time, but aren’t you trying to atone from all the murders you did??

I’m terrified to see what’s going to happen with this near dynamite stick of a birthday candle. YEAH, THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT YOU WOULD DO, YOU DUMB SHOW

Ok it wasn’t EXACTLY what I thought. Just the cake exploded, not any of the people around it

So what cartoonishly terrible way is the doctor going to die? What HAVEN’T we seen? (We’ve gotten heart beats out of chest, falls only after looking down, anvil dropping from the sky, painting a black hole on a wall as a doorway, dynamite….what are we missing??)

Sure. Let’s transport ourselves into his brain. Yeah.

Omg of course Dean took the opportunity to get to say “what’s up, doc?”

OMG NOT THE “BANG!” FLAG INSTEAD OF BULLETS

NOOOOo. You can’t do that. You can’t make the doctor shoot himself and then say “well, that’s all folks”

Fuck you, Naomi

[impala1967dwinchester]

Dean Winchester: Feels Like Home

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VhtbpPBgHk - FEELS LIKE HOME 

Paring: Dean Winchester X Reader/ Y/n, Mention of Sam 

Pov: Y/n / Dean’s 

Rating:Adult Mature 

Warnings: Drinking, Cursing, Fighting, Love, Reminders of love, Passion 

Summary: “I still love you Dean” “I’m all your Y/n” “Say you still love me Dean!”

Word Count: 2k 

All relationships have their ups and downs. All people get into fights, we all say things we don’t mean. We all love a little to hard. We all get hurt. It’s all normal for those things to happen. 

Maybe I just loved a little to hard. “You know Y/n you don’t have to be up my ass everywhere we go. I had to take care of Sam my  life I’m taking care of you for the rest of mine.” Again like I said words can hurt a person. Words like those can hurt not just any person, but me Dean’s girlfriend. 

And yes maybe it was true maybe I was always up Dean’s ass, and yes maybe it was true that I, myself had said some pretty hurtful things “You know Dean  I take a lot of shit from you on a daily. You’re a mama’s boy with no intention on actually being any better then your fucking father was.” See hurtful words from me too. 

Was all this worth it? Was the fighting worth it to be with Dean Winchester? 

It all started because Dean had forgotten something, something so important that it wasn’t acceptable for him to just forget it. Yes I know your boyfriend is a hunter, he has to save the world blah, blah, blah. This really important date was our anniversary, which just ended up turning into a huge fight, with hateful words thrown in each others faces and slamming of doors, and way to many tears. 

You see Dean and Sam had just gotten back from a hunt a quick salt and burn something simple. So that the two of them could get home before my cooking was over. When they finally did get home I knew that they would both me tried but I expected something from Dean, a hug, a kiss on the cheek and an “I love you baby, Happy Anniversary.”, or even a stupid fucking card something to acknowledge that we had something important going on that day. 

But instead nothing, no cards, no kiss, no hugs. That was normal from a hunt, he would be so dog tired that there was no kissing, no hugging just sleeping. That wasn’t what got me so mad it was the fact that I waited another two fucking days and still nothing. I tried to stay positive, optimistic, but I just couldn’t. So I did the only logical thing and talked to his brother. 

“You know Sam, Dean forgot a really important date and I don’t know if I can just let it slide.” I said to Sam while taking food out for dinner.

“What do you mean? What did he forget?” Sam spoke looking up from his computer. 

“You mean to tell me that you don’t know either? It’s Deans and I’s 2 year anniversary!” I said looking at him over the bridge of my glasses. “It’s written on the calendar!” I walked around forgetting about making dinner.

“I’m Sorry!” I heard come from the kitchen, but continued walking away. I just needed to be away from both of those Winchesters. 

I went to our shared bedroom, just laying down. I fell asleep just needing the time to myself. I awoke to Dean slamming our bedroom door, a crisp look of anger and frustration on his face. 

“Y/n wake the fuck up!” He said his voice booming in the small cinder block room “Huh, hey deanie!” “Don’t Deanie me, you can’t just go around being a bitch to everyone because you woke up on the wrong side of the bed!” He said. 

“What do you mean being a bitch?” If Dean were a cartoon from Looney Tunes you would be able to see the smoke that was fuming out of his ears. “You walk around this entire bunker, don’t say a word to me, and then go yell at my brother.” Dean said, “Go yell at your brother that's not what happened. I was talking to him because of YOU, Dean. You forgot something that was so important and at this point it doesn’t even matter,”

“You’re too mad to even realize that everything that is coming from your mouth is bullshit and that you’re wrong, but no Dean Winchester can’t be wrong can he. He can’t admit that he forgot our anniversary.” I said my grip on the sheets becoming tighter as I got more frustrated.

He just stood there taking in everything I had said. With no response a few seconds I continued “ You know if you weren’t such a hot head then maybe  I would have just come to you about it, but I thought your brother could help me. I guess not.” Breathing heavily I started up again. “You know Dean, let me ask you this Do you even still love me?” 

He stood there leaning up against the door frame in shock, maybe what I had said was a little harsh but it was a serious question “You act like you don’t and yes  I Understand you have a lot of weight on your shoulders, but you took that on yourself nobody asked you to save the world. I asked you to me love, hug me, kiss me, talk to me when things are getting hard for you. At least say you love me Dean. Because Dean if you don’t I don’t think this can work, I can’t love you for the both of us, I can’t sit here and love me when that’s your job.” 

He again stood still I got up and walked up to him “At least say you love me Winchester, because if not I’ll walk out of this bunker with the cloths I came with and you can your brother can go back to having your normal easier life. JUst say I love you Dean”  

He grabbed my arm as I went to leave the room “Don’t say I don’t love you when you know I do!” And left me in the hallway of the bunker. I had been through much that day that I did a normal Dean this and grabbed a bottle of jack. 

   ----------------------------------Dean Winchester--------------------------------------

Dean’s POV

I couldn't do it anymore I needed out of that bunker away from my girl, away from that fight. She said some pretty truthful things. As I drove with Sam to the next hunter which I didn’t and couldn’t tell Y/n about I realized that she was right. 

That date that special day was everything to her. She had told me a long time ago that important dates and anniversary were what she lived on, and if you forgot one she’s be pissed off. I just never thought she would drop a bomb like that. 

She knew how hard everything was for my brother and I. She got that part which I was grateful for.  I was also grateful for the fact that Sam didn’t say a word about the fight or what had happened, he only talked about the hunt. 

If  I do remember correctly it was written on the calendar in the kitchen, she had programmed it into my phone and even sent me a text. God if there was a award for the worst mistake and worst boyfriend  I think I’d get it. Not even Sam would get that award. 

As we drove I kept seeing things that reminded me of Y/n. The dinner that Y/n would have pleaded us to stop at. The small shops in the town that were filled with old antiques. The little flower garden that should definitely would have forced Sam to take pictures of her and I.

I missed having her next to me in bed, waking up to her arms wrapped tight around my waist and how our legs always were intertwined. I missed her snarky comments, and her saving our asses. 

I think what I miss most was how she said “I love you”  before we would go into a vamp nest, or into a fight. Her giggles, her annoyance with Sams “So get this” After a hard and dreadful hunt, I again drove back with Sam sitting next to me, no Y/n in the back seat though, no giggles, no loud singin to my favorite rock songs, no gentle snoring, not a single thing for me to know Y/n was with me physically of course. 

Besides knowing that I had a few things in the car like hot and heavy memories of long nights in the back seat, a few stupid little cards with her hand writing written in them, a few trinkets she thought were such so cute. A single rose from the first date I took her on, sat on the dashboard of the impala. 

She was here in things, and memory, I loved her, I still love her. I just sometimes forget. I looked over at a out cold Samuel. “Sammy you asleep?’  I asked in a quiet voice. He didn’t move or respond so I did what I wanted to do. I drove off one of the exits and stopped at a store, grabbing Y/n another bouquet of red roses, a card, and a bunch of snacks. 

I wasn’t try to make what had happened okay, but I just wanted her to know that during this hunt, I had thought and thought hard. I wasn’t a hardass I was just a little all over the place. 

Before I pulled into the bunker garage, I woke up Sam and talked him. “Sammy, I stopped a while back and got Y/n some stuff. I love her Sam. It takes me being away from her to realize that though, and maybe she is right I don’t like being wrong, I do need to make things better. “ He was so out of it I just started to write down how  I felt about her in the card. After what seemed like 20 minutes I was finally done Sam had fallen back asleep in the process of me writing and talking to myself. 

I parked my baby, and quickly grabbed my stuff while waking Sam up. I rushed into the bunker. I just wanted to make sure Y/n was still here. She is my everything, I honestly think I’d lose my mind if she were to leave me. Hopefully she wasn’t gone, and to my surprise she was fast asleep in our bed, curled up in a ball, the bottle of jack that I had just bought was empty I guess our fight had made her that upset. 

Y/n didn’t drink unless, she was very nager or heart broken. For her to be heartbroken I don’t think I could ever forgive myself so I went with the latter. 

A ball she was wrapped tightly into herself. Her muscled flexing under the fleece blanket. It was as if she sensed I had come into the room. I carefully placed the flowers into the ready vase, and places all the snacks on her table, alongside the card that had my whole heart in it.

I threw off my green flannel, dirtied jeans, and my worker boots. I hoped into the shower trying my best to be the quietest I could be. When I came out Y/n was up and looking at the card, she had a few tears in her eyes. As she looked over at me, the first things I said was “Guess I wasn’t quiet enough for you to continue getting your sleep?” She shook her head, she probably was going to have a headache, but we could worry about that in the morning. 

Grabbing a pair of boxers I slipped them on, and climbed into bed. I grabbed the card from her hands placing it on her side table, and wrapped my hands around her waist. I just wanted to be around her, have her in my arms. 

“I’m all yours Y/n, And I love you to the moon and back baby!” I said before falling deep into sleep. She hummed in return. 

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[tanakavox]

Sequal to the post I posted yesterday.

What the hell are you doing here?!" Oscar and the pretty brown-haired girl, Velvet covered their ears as Jaune shouted. The young boy looked up to Jaune a bit scared.

"I followed you to school?" He said uncertainty.

Jaune growled at Oscar. "I can see that!"

At that moment, Velvet decided to speak up. "Is this your little brother Jaune? He's cute." She said with a smile as she ruffled Oscar's hair a bit.

Jaune picked up Oscar and tucked him under his arm. "No, he's a pain in the ass and it's time to say goodbye to him. Before Velvet could respond, he walked away with Oscar in tow without a word.

"Bye Velvet! I'll make sure Jaune comes to school more!" Oscar shouted to her.

Velvet smiled sadly as she watches Jaune's form leaves her sight. xoxoxoxo

"How did you even sneak into the school! Jaune said furiously.

I disguise myself as a school bag! Oscar said proudly, puffing his chest out.

Jaune slaps his forehead and groans."And everyone fell for that?!"

Oscar pulls on Jaune's pants leg to get him to pay attention."Jaune we have to start your training!

Jaune looked down at the cloaked child in suspicion. "Training for what.

Oscar smiled widely and pulled out a sheet of paper that Jaune read as, MAKE JAUNE POPULAR!

"What?" He deadpan.

"Right now, you have no friends, not counting Miss Velvet, but if we follow this we make you a ton of friends by the end.

Jaune stares blankly at Oscar as he continued. "The first step is simple, Go find a bully, and beat him up! Perfect right?"

"Wrong," Jaune replied with a shake of his head. "I don't know if you can tell, but I'm not exactly John Wick, you know?

"Who's John Wick?" Oscar asked with a tilled of his head. Jaune sighed.

"You know what, Go find a bully and beat him up. Okay?"

Oscar fist-pumped and began to run off.

"I won't let you down Jaune! I'll find the nasty guy, pick a fight with him, and then you can make a ton of friends! He called out to him.

Jaune smirk. "He'll be looking for awhile."He thought to himself. "Even if he does find someone, the kid will be fine. He can shoot lightning. What could possibly go wrong?. XoXoXo

Velvet sighed as she watched Jaune leave with the little boy tucked between his arm.

Velvet decided to walk to the vending machine. As she walked she remember the time she spent with Jaune back in elementary school up to high school. She had moved from Australia back as a kid because of her parent's jobs. Not a lot of kids would talk to Velvet because of her bad french. No one but Jaune.

"At least he didn't leave school yet." She muttered to herself.

He even helped improve her french. Because of him, she made friends outside of the two of them. But when they got to high school, something changed. People had started to hate Jaune. Started to avoid him because they thought he was looking down on them for being smarter. Jaune Arc is, or at least was her best friend. And it hurts to see such a dear friend push her away after being friends for so long.

But she wasn't gonna let it happen again, she was going to help Jaune the best she could. She snapped out of her thoughts as she bumped into something.

"Ah Velvet." She heard a thuggish voice say to her. " Just the girl I was looking for.

Velvet looked up to see the school's bully and all-around Jackass. Cardin Winchester. XoXoXoXo

Oscar ran around the school grounds, his cloak flapping behind him with a huge grin on his face as he looked look for bullies for Jaune to beat and become popular.

He heard a scream and he sees a huge orange hair boy drag that pretty lady that was Jaune's friend somewhere.

"Ah-ha! A bully!" Oscar grinned and ran after them. XoXoXo

Jaune walked down the hallway. He didn't know why but he had a bad feeling and his mother wouldn't be happy to hear that he had just let an eight-year-old go and pick a fight with some teenagers. So Jaune went looking for Oscar. It took him until near the end of the lunch period when he heard Velvet's voice scream out near the door to the roof.

"What's wrong with you?! He's just a kid leave him alone!"

Jaune rushes up to the door to the roof and looked out the window to see the school's biggest dickhead Cardin. He wonders where Velvet was when he look to where Cardin was looking.

He saw that Oscar beat up and bruised as Velvet being in a similar way, her standing in front of the young boy like a shield. Tears Streamed down Velvet face as she pulls out her wallet.

"Listen just take my money and leave okay! I don't wanna cause any more problems.

Oscar grabbed Velvet hand and managed to smile despite the blood dripping down his freckled face.

"You don't do that. Jaune will be here to kick this guy ass!"

Cardin laughs at the young boy words. "Arc? You think Arc gonna come to your rescue?" The ginger clutches his stomach as he laughs even harder.

"That aggronce ass doesn't give a shit about anything! All he does is look down on people. Nobody cares if Arc is here or not!"

Jaune lowered his head and smiles bitterly. Cardin wasn't wrong in a sense. No one really cared if he was here or not. He wonders why he came here in the first place. To get away from Oscar? Who was he kidding?

If he wanted to get away from him he could have gone anywhere but school. He came hoping that he would be accepted by his peer. But what was the point? No one wants him here.

"Shut up!" Oscar shouted surprising Jaune and Cardin. "Do you know about Jaune?! I know he's a good person deep down! Everyone else is mean to him! You jerks just can't handle that might be smarter than you! And when he gets here, he gonna beat you into the ground!"

Jaune chuckled a bit.

"You don't know me that well either kid." Jaune thought to himself with a slight smile.

"Well…. I guess I better not make the kid liar. Jaune kick opens the door with a grin. "Never fear! Jaune Arc is here!"

"Jaune!" Velvet said as Oscar grinned. Cardin cracks his knuckles as he walks up to Jaune.

"Well, Well Well. Cardin chuckled. "So that little pipsqueak said you came to beat me up Arc." Cardin grinned, trying to hold in his laughter.

Jaune smiled boldly wasn't as confident as Cardin. The bully was taller than him granted not by much but it was enough. To Jaune's credit managed to keep his voice from cracking as he spoke.

"That's right. Unless you leave these people alone." Jaune peak over Cardin's shoulder to look at the bruised up Oscar and glared at Cardin."Seriously, who the hell beat up an eight-year-old?"

"I do. And after I kick your ass I'll take his money along with your and Velvet money as payment for wasting my time with this bullshit."

"Bold of you to assume you're going to-" Jaune was cut off as the wind was knocked out of as Cardin slammed his fist into his stomach. At the moment Jaune was full of regret. He shouldn't have tried to fight this guy, what was he thinking? Cardin was a monster compared to him he didn't have a chance. As Cardin throw a punch to the side of Jaune head, he felt his vision dim a bit. But an idea came into his head.

If he read that book he had taken from Oscar he could get out of his mess. After Cardin wailed on Jaune for awhile he throws him toward Velvet and Oscar, to Jaune's luck.

"Jaune!" Velvet cried out as she saw her friend on his back. She helped him to his stand to his feet. "Just let me give him the money and we can end this.

Jaune winched as he stood on his feet. "Nah. No need. I got a plan Vel."

Oscar grin at Jaune. "I knew you were a hero Jaune!" He turns back to glare at Cardin. "How are we taking this jerk?

Jaune pulls out Oscar book and opens it to the first page.

"Like this: Ozkeiru!" He bellowed out.

Oscar's eyes went blank and he opened his mouth, lighting gets fired out of his mouth.

Shard of the roof went flying as the bolt went fly toward Cardin, narrowing missing the ginger.

Cardin looks at the trio in horror before fainting on the spot.

XoXoXo

Oscar sat in front of the tv in Jaune's room laughing at old Looney tunes cartoons. He was still wearing the cloak that he came with. Jaune seems to notice that Oscar didn't really take it off, even when he sleeps. The blonde shook his head and went back to the book Oscar came with. He needs to learn how Oscar power work. There is no telling if he'll need it again or not.

"Okay… let's go down the list of things that I know about. Jaune mutter to himself quietly enough so the tyke in his room couldn't hear him.

One: Oscar has no idea that he can fire lighting out of his mouth. The truth was after what happened on the roof Oscar said that he could only remember blacking out and when he came to he say the butthead(His words, not Jaune unconscious on the roof. Along with some parts of the roof being gone. Jaune didn't tell, Oscar the truth about what happened, he didn't know why and he was grateful that Velvet came to her own conclusion that lighting that came from the sky and destroys the roof instead of lighting coming out of Oscar's mouth. It saves him explaining from not only her but the teachers that had come up to the roof. But back, on track. Number two is that based off the two times Jaune had the book in his hand Oscar could only use his powers then. It seems that Oscar couldn't do it own. 3. Jaune could only read one word off the book. Which frustrated him to no end! He read every old text he could find but nothing could match what language that was in the book. He was going to go to the book again with a hand covering his eyes.

"Guess who Jauney!" A voice sang out, one Jaune recognizes quickly causing him to groan.

"Hmm. Either it's Napoleon or Saprhon. I'd rather have Napoleon."

Saphron took her hand up a Jaune's face allowing him to see her smiling at him, blue eyes meeting blue eyes. Jaune turned around the face Saphron and then noticed that his elder sister was holding Oscar in her tucked arm, looking quite confused to why this stranger was holding him. But Saphron oddly went on like Oscar wasn't in her arms.

"It's been a while Jaune! Mom said you've been going back to school again! That's great!" Saphron smile again.

Jaune decided to roll with Saphron and wait for her to notice she was holding Oscar.

"Yeah. I deduce that it was time to rejoin society and all that jazz. Anyway, how was your trip to that College?" Saphron walked over to Jaune's bed and sat on it with Oscar trying to squirm out of her arm.

"It was alright. Don't think I'm going to go to that college. I rather stay here in France near you and mom." Saphron looked around the room.

" Mom told me that there was a little boy that dad spend to live with is but I don't see him anywhere. Where is the Jaune?"

Oscar during is squirming decided to speak up finally.

"I'm here! My name is Oscar pine!"

Saphron looks down to smiled sheepishly at the little boy.

"Hello, Oscar. I'm Saphron. When did I pick you up?"

"When you entered the room."He said, not trying to escape anymore. It was futile Saphron's grip was too tight.

"I'm so sorry. How old are you Oscar?"

"8!"

Saph couldn't stop smiling for some reason, Oscar reminds her of Jaune when he was the same age.

"I use to pick up Jaune without noticing when he was around your age!" Jaune let off a little cough to let them know he was still there.

" I'm actually glad you're back Saph." He said opening the green book and showing his sister a page. "I was hoping you can help read this, Dad and I can't do it so far."

Saph seat Oscar in her lap and squinted her eyes to read the book.

"Sorry, bro I can't read this. It's all a bunch of gibberish to me."

"Can you read the word in red at least?"

Saphron looked at him confused.

"What red line?"

Jaune paused. Only he could read the book?

[slothcritic]

Dragon Ball Z Abridged - Episode 9 Review

Consistently funny. The weak points do not drag this episode down.

The Set Up begins with a great cold open. Piccolo is drop-dead unconscious on the ground, Gohan is desperately trying to wake him up, and Krillin is anxiously awaiting for Goku to show up. After all, he’s their friend who would never let them down right? Meanwhile... Goku is busy eating at Jadoshin's palace. Even as a departure from the original series, I like the idea that the two of them made up and are friends now. Jadoshin, however, has to remind Goku about the Saiyans. Goku then runs out in a panic.

[Title Sequence]

Piccolo isn't getting up and Nappa needs a new toy. He chooses Gohan seemingly at random from the two remaining, and floors him in one kick.

"Wooo! Not me!"

When Krillin isn't being the resident Milhouse, he's the rimshot comedian. The joy doesn't last for much longer though, as Gohan stays down.

Nappa is about to tear Krillin a new one, when the bald monk suddenly screams out that it's his turn. And for some glorious reason, this actually works on Nappa. This is some straight up Looney Tunes, "Duck Season, Fire!" type tomfoolery.

Vegeta does not handle Nappa's stupidity very well, and in his anger does a fourth wall break where he references a timestamp in the video. This is kind of clever and a bit of a break from the other fourth wall jokes that they've done so far, but I feel like it could lose its charm if it's done more than once. As for the timestamp itself, which is at 9:18 in the video... we'll get to that later.

Krillin decides to use the Destructo-Kienzan, and Vegeta shouts a warning to Nappa that it's a trick.

"But Vegeta... tricks are for kids."

The tense background music just completely stops here, but you can still hear the vibrations of the kienzan in the background. Great sound design. The long pause afterwards is also well timed, and Vegeta takes up the "fuck it, you wanna die, then die." mentality with Nappa. This skit is succinct, well paced and well editied.

Nappa receives a deep cut to the face for his troubles, as it just nearly takes his head off. Nappa laments his modeling career, and the scene cuts to a photoshopped rendition of Nappa on Vogue magazine. The bald, beautiful Saiyan, and his 10 tips on being a better lover!

This might have been a joke before its time, or perhaps the intention was different while writing this in 2009, but Nappa shows us all what a "nice guy" he was trying to be during all of this, and now decides "okay, full ultra-violence it is!" and fades Krillin with a white sparkly angel dust attack. I'm sure it has an actual cool sounding name (Like "Galaxy Breaker" or something) but I'm going to keep calling it the white sparkly angel dust attack. The owned counter ticks up to 8 here, but it doesn't feel deserved.

Piccolo jumps up with an "I'm back" and shoots Nappa... in the back. He sees what you did there. Just as Piccolo and Nappa are about to throw down, Gohan appears out of nowhere and roundhouse kicks him through a boulder. More indication that Gohan has some incredible hidden power inside of him. This surprises Piccolo, and Gohan is initially apologetic, but Piccolo begs for him to stay angry before Nappa just as quickly hops back to his feet.

It turns out Gohan hit Nappa so hard that he turned Italian. Seems a little out of left field, but why not. The "I'm a firing my laser" reference is perhaps the most dated thing I've seen since Episode 1. Would this even count as a meme? Wasn't "Firin Mah Laser" something that came out before the word meme even became popular as a way of describing internet fads, jokes, templates and trends? Back when Demotivational Posters and I Can Haz Cheeseburger ruled the internet? Truthfully, I loved this joke when it came out, but now all it does is remind me of the proto-internet days. And part of me feels weird for being nostalgic about that, because I just know someone in their 30's is going to read this and roll their eyes saying "Oh God, I'm getting old", in much the same way I'll feel horrified when people start to become nostalgic for Fortnite in the next 10 or 20 years.

Back to the episode, Piccolo's sacrifice happens right about here, and the scene does a good job of pointing out a plot contrivance in the source material. Piccolo could have just grabbed Gohan and moved out of the way. Though the scene plays up the amount of time Piccolo had to work with, there was still nothing stopping him from just grabbing him and chucking him like a bag of potatoes out of the way, even in the original. However, if Piccolo doesn't die, there's no real reason to go to Namek. What I think might be a more practical reason is that, this is a turning point for Piccolo as a character where he starts thinking emotionally. It's no real secret across both the canon and the abridged material that Piccolo is actually a pretty decent parent. So this right here is the idea of Piccolo more or less abandoning rational thought and considered only protecting Gohan. That contrasts a little with the ruthless, methodical, cunning, intelligent character he's been shown to be, just to throw that all away to save him, but the contrivance definitely becomes less egregious when you consider these factors.

However you want to address it, then end result is that Piccolo sacrifices himself to protect Gohan. In the original this is capped off with Piccolo comparing Gohan to his son, which is what Gohan begins to explain before Piccolo calls him a nerd. In this series however, Piccolo laments one final time:

"Why... didn't you... DODGE!!!"

Bleh. And with Piccolo's death, Kami is soon to follow. He explains the Namekian Dragon Balls to Mr Popo, and the long (very long) journey that must be undertook in order to revive everyone, but Mr Popo outright refuses and simply reminds Kami of the pecking order. Kami dies, and thus the Dragon Balls become inert.

Back at the battlefield, Vegeta was busy reading an issue of that very same Vogue magazine with Nappa on the cover and thus didn't see him kill Piccolo, like a mother three sangria's deep at her kid's soccer practice.

I've never much cared for Gohan's exasperated expletives in this or any scene in DBZA. This one in particular doesn't sit well with me simply because they went to the effort of being purposefully verbose but then still chose to use the word "condom" over "contraceptive" - A condom is made of latex, whereas a contraceptive is any kind of device at all that prevents pregnancy. As an example, some of the first contraceptives in history were made from linen and animal intestines, while the condom itself wasn't invented until 1855. Gohan specifically saying he's going to use Nappa's intestines as a condom serves the same purpose either way, but “contraceptive” would’ve been more technically accurate, in a bit of dialogue that is purposefully trying to be technically accurate. I wouldn't be picking on the semantics so much if that weren't the express purpose of this entire scene. Also it has more syllables and therefore sounds more smarterer.

Nappa gives this scene the backhand and the "bitch please" it deserves and we're done with that.

"Everyone important to you is dead." "Hey I'm still alive--" "EVERYONE important." "...Damn it."

See, this is where the Krillin Owned count should have gone up.

After Nappa doesn't smash, Goku appears on the battlefield. His reaction to showing up too late and everyone being dead is uncharacteristically deadpan, and it's hilarious. He asks where Chiaotzu is, and Krillin gives him the Achmed the Dead Terrorist explanation. Over there, over there, and up there. I'm not actually sure if this episode predates Jeff Dunham or not, but I enjoy both, both used the same joke at least once, and both make me laugh so I'm drawing the comparison anyways.

Goku asks why everyone is dead and Nappa immediately and without hesitation calls dibs. This leads into one of most famous and iconic scenes, if only for meme reasons, in all of DBZ.

"Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his power level?" "It's... 1006." "Wha-- Really?" "Yeah. Kick his ass, Nappa!"

Not gonna lie, this genuinely made me burst into laughter the first time I saw it. I don't know if it was just shock value or what, but it doesn't have the same effect now that I know it's coming every time I rewatch this episode. I just love the idea of the scouter being upside-down and Vegeta not questioning it. An even better headcanon is that the scouter was never upside-down, Vegeta was just getting tired of Nappa's bullshit and just decided to send him into an ass-kicking anyways.

We're treated to a solid 15 seconds of Nappa getting completely curbstomped while the various characters look on in shock and awe, until Nappa gets dumped at Vegeta's feet.

It's also here that Vegeta finally learns that Piccolo's life is directly intertwined with the Dragon Balls. I believe this was already established in the original series, but no such conversation ever occurred here. Vegeta has quite simply lost his chance at immortality and it’s all because of Nappa.

I actually wonder how an immortal Saiyan would work. They receive a Zenkai boost, which makes them stronger when they almost die, but if you can't ever die, you can't ever “almost” die either, so you wouldn't get the Zenkai boost and your power wouldn't increase that way. Then again, most expectations of logic or consistency within Dragon Ball are pretty much always doomed.

Speaking of doomed, remember that timestamp at 9:18 that Vegeta referenced earlier? Because Vegeta certainly does, and with both the camel’s and Nappa's back having officially been broken, Nappa is sent to the shadow realm in a blinding flash of light and a massive explosion.

Vegeta's smirk is all we needed to close out this episode. There is no stinger.

Conclusion

Really good episode, actually. I wouldn't consider it as strong as Episode 7, but it definitely holds the same energy throughout. There are more high quality comedic moments in this episode than I could count on both hands. At worst some of the dialogue was uninteresting, pointless or overproduced, but the average pace of this episode rests rather highly compared to its valleys.

Microphone quality and sound mixing on some pieces of dialogue is still meh. Krillin's first line in this episode peaks the audio or something similar, because it takes me out for a hot second just because it's so sudden and emphatic.

We also see a slight evolution in the dynamic between Vegeta and Nappa which keeps things fresh. This is becoming less of a deadpan snarker and over the top clown, treads more into the ticking time bomb territory which is great for slowly building tension, and not unjustly as it has a satisfying payoff.

Plot holes in the original are addressed and lampooned here, creative jokes such as the Vogue Nappa and “1006″ are present and accounted for, and on the whole there's a lot of very on the mark humor, and only some of it is overdone. The story for this episode also holds significant weight and momentum, and it all blends together quite well with an above-average script and some great visual and audio edits.

Score: 77

Passing Thoughts

"Riiiiiicola!" - Oh hey, it's this again.

"Oh and I totally killed that guy. Oh well, at least we still had fun getting here, right Vegeta? Vegeta? Remember the bug planet? Vegeta? Vegeta? Vegeta? Vegeta? Vegeta? Vegeta? Vege-- AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!"