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40-2 - Dragon Ball Z [Ocean Dub] - Episode 10-11
One of these episodes you may never have seen growing up. That's not nostalgia talking, it's because Saban’s syndicated broadcast genuinely skipped it.
This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Ocean Dub Episodes 10 and 11: "Escape from Piccolo" and "Showdown in the Past,” and we need to talk about the fact that "Escape from Piccolo" is a technically a Banned Episode.
"Escape from Piccolo" follows Gohan as he tries to sneak home to see his mother without Piccolo noticing, and along the way encounters a group of homeless orphan children being rounded up by the authorities to be placed in an orphanage.However, due to it showing social workers as evil, stick-wielding cops and features a scene where Gohan beats one of them up, it was pulled from the original 1996-1998 first-run syndication broadcast entirely. It wasn't shown in North America until Cartoon Network picked up the series and showed the episode like nothing happened.
Then "Showdown in the Past" shifts gears completely: Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu enter the Pendulum Room to fight illusory recreations of two Saiyan warriors from the past, in a filler scene that has us genuinely confused about the Dragon Ball Z timeline.
We dig into why "Escape from Piccolo" got pulled, why it is Saban at their most Saban-ey, and how the Pendulum Room ruins the stakes for the looming Saiyan invasion.
🔔 Subscribe for our ongoing watch-through of Dragon Ball Z in the Ocean Dub!
📌 Topics covered this episode:
– DBZ Ocean Dub Episode 10 "Escape from Piccolo" recap & review
– DBZ Ocean Dub Episode 11 "Showdown in the Past" recap & review
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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.
From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.
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See more Toonami Absolution stuff (including the video version of the podcast) by checking out our Linktree!
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By Toonami AbsolutionOne of these episodes you may never have seen growing up. That's not nostalgia talking, it's because Saban’s syndicated broadcast genuinely skipped it.
This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Ocean Dub Episodes 10 and 11: "Escape from Piccolo" and "Showdown in the Past,” and we need to talk about the fact that "Escape from Piccolo" is a technically a Banned Episode.
"Escape from Piccolo" follows Gohan as he tries to sneak home to see his mother without Piccolo noticing, and along the way encounters a group of homeless orphan children being rounded up by the authorities to be placed in an orphanage.However, due to it showing social workers as evil, stick-wielding cops and features a scene where Gohan beats one of them up, it was pulled from the original 1996-1998 first-run syndication broadcast entirely. It wasn't shown in North America until Cartoon Network picked up the series and showed the episode like nothing happened.
Then "Showdown in the Past" shifts gears completely: Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu enter the Pendulum Room to fight illusory recreations of two Saiyan warriors from the past, in a filler scene that has us genuinely confused about the Dragon Ball Z timeline.
We dig into why "Escape from Piccolo" got pulled, why it is Saban at their most Saban-ey, and how the Pendulum Room ruins the stakes for the looming Saiyan invasion.
🔔 Subscribe for our ongoing watch-through of Dragon Ball Z in the Ocean Dub!
📌 Topics covered this episode:
– DBZ Ocean Dub Episode 10 "Escape from Piccolo" recap & review
– DBZ Ocean Dub Episode 11 "Showdown in the Past" recap & review
****
Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.
From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.
****
See more Toonami Absolution stuff (including the video version of the podcast) by checking out our Linktree!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.