Something You Never Did Get

He was... a Super Saiyan... I don't know. I just think that he should have never been brought into the whole thing. It just raises up more questions... Is the Super Saiyan that Goku, Vegeta, etc. achieved a lower form of a Super Saiyan? Are they still a lower form when they're Super Saiyan 2 and 3? (Leaving out GT's SS4 because it really isn't canon at all.)

You see, he really just should have never been rbought into it. lol
 
Yep, that's a pretty big adult joke that I didn't get for a long time. I believe it went something like this.

(Gary walks into room and Spongebob is watching some sort of dancing plant on TV)
Spongebob: Gary! Uh, I was just, uh, trying to find the sports channel Gary...

I'm not sure if I should explain it though...

One joke in Fairly Oddparents that I still don't understand is in the episode where Vicky becomes nice. Timmy says that he needs to stick a net in his Dad's pants and his Mom says, "Is it Father's Day already?" :confused:
 
What I don't get is the Grape Ape seems to change sizes a lot. Sometimes he can be as big as 40 feet or he could be a mere 10 feet. I guess he gets resized to fit a particular situation.
 
Yeah, but by that point, the impact of shock was lost because it already happened. Emotionally, it doesn't work anymore.

Not to mention (and to keep this on topic), Danny's reveal to the entire world was another "I don't get it" moment. It again contradicts his claims when by Season Three, he wanted privacy from all the spotlight forced upon him (something which I consider a big leap in character development for him). True, I could argue and theorize that he was caught in an emotional turmoil after having saved two worlds from a near-apocalyptic disaster, rendering him unable to think straight and causing him to transform in public as a way to relieve himself, but it was an unnecessary story element that only had one justification for its use: it was the [hastily-wrapped] series finale.

I never did like Hartman's writing/story direction for Season Three. *shrugs*
 
Don't think that I'm not aware of that. It's just that he was in a DBZ movie and a lot of people do associate him with DBZ for that reason... Plus he IS called "The Legendary Super Saiyan"

I'm glad he's NOT canon, though. lol



Well still, what Vegeta said would indicate that going Super Saiyan is a lot more rare than what DBZ portrayed. I mean, perhaps with account of the technology Vegeta going Super Saiyan was alright. (he just kind of deserved to.) But when Trunks and Goten went Super Saiyan as little kids, it was taking it WAY too far.
 
4kids hates anything japanese, 'nough said. =P



The rules in the early sections of Duel Monsters were just plain screwy, even in the manga. IIRC, they started evening out around Battle City.
 
I'm not ashamed to admit that even at my age, I love the earlier Arthur episodes - so I wanted to mention this one episode.

In "Arthur vs. The Very Mean Crossing Guard," - hmm, maybe this one isn't so much as "never got" as "bothers me about the episode."

Anyway, it bothers me somewhat that Ted, the new crossing guard, expected Arthur and Brain to be able to tell that he was joking when he says "that'll be $10" to cross the street - does it bother anyone else that in this case (or likewise examples), the adults seem to think that kids will always be able to tell when they're joking?
 
Well, there was a later episode where Brock was demonstrating making the objects in question, wherein the scene it was undeniable that he was cooking with rice, and in the dub he does indeed refer to the confection as "rice balls", a sufficiently accurate translation of "onigiri".

Often, especially with kiddie fare, the licensors of foregin properties encourage the licensees to localize the content to the market country. What they then come up with are changes that any reasonable person would find absurd. Things like ethnic names and foods often get ground up in the process. Jokes and idioms usually just don't translate understandably, so those get changed too, and then anything left that's actually still meaningful has to be reconfigured to match the lip flap in the film.
 
I know I keep saying this, but....am I the only one who finds it slightly unnerving that adults seem to expect kids to always be able to tell when they're kidding?
 
I didn't see anyone mention this, probably because I'm the only one who doesn't get it. How come on Family Guy whenever Chris does anything, Lois or Peter tell him to "go to your room." Why does he need to go to his room? I mean I don't have a problem with him going away. He's the one character of the family that I wouldn't mind if I never saw again.
 
It's supposed to be a punishment. If he has done something his parents are not happy with. They do this to not show spanking.

And Chris hardly gets any screentime, anyway. At least, he didn't went like his sister.
 
Your parents have never sent you to your room when you were acting up or they just wanted you out of sight for a while? It's a pretty common household occurrence.

Anyway, they did the "go to your room" gag with Meg once or twice as well, as I recall.
 
Well, (in my opinion) some cartoon animals are anthropromorphisized to the point where they're not really animals anymore. They're basically people with the head of an animal. Take Goofy for example: Even though he's an anthropromorphic dog, he doesn't do anything that a dog does. However, he does do everything a human would do (eating soup, driving a car etc.). So that would make him more human than dog. The exact same thing goes for Arthur. The characters in Arthur are basically people with the head of an animal. Since they do absolutely nothing that their respective animals species does. Try to think of it that way.
 
Well I guess what I failed to mention was that a lot of times they tell him to go to his room and he didn't even do anything wrong! On the episode that I was watching last night, Peter shot holes in the ceiling with a gun. And Chris came crashing through to the living room. The only thing that Chris does is say "Hi Dad!" and Peter tells him to go to his room. It seems like whenever he's told to go to his room, he didn't even do anything wrong.
 
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