"Hyperbolic Plot Device" is the fifteenth episode of Season 3 of Team Four Star's DragonBall Z Abridged and is the forty-fifth episode overall. It was first uploaded to YouTube on November 24, 2014.
Summary[]
Krillin returns to Capsule Corp with the blueprints for the Androids and explains to Bulma what's going on. They decide to create a new remote to activate the bombs in the Androids. Krillian is horrified, as he has a crush on 18. Dr. Briefs is wondering why Krillian even cares as their basically just wires and metal now. However, he then corrects himself; 18 is still able to reproduce. Krillian hesitantly asks what he means, only for Dr. Briefs to bluntly say she still has a vagina. Krillian smiles, rating 18 a 10 out of 10.
Tien and Piccolo are still searching for Cell, while Trunks is trying to get Vegeta to train with him with no results. There is no update on Goku's recovery until a shock wave occurs at Kame House, and he's not in bed. Fortunately, he's okay, and back at 100%. Unfortunately, he accidentally throws Chi-Chi up to space after warming up. Goku suits up and prepares to train against Cell with Gohan, but instead of getting angry, Chi-Chi allows it on the condition that they have another child. Goku leaves before answering, but Chi-Chi is still hopeful.
On Yamcha's ship, Piccolo and Tien meet up with Krillin, noting the death toll is rising fast. Tien isn't bothered by this though since they can always wish the victims back with the Dragon Balls, but Piccolo reveals that fusing with Kami has led to the Dragon Balls being non-existent. Everyone panics until Goku appears and takes Gohan with him, lifting everyone's spirits. Goku teleports to where Trunks and Vegeta are and tells them about a place where they can do a years’ worth of training in a day. This piques Vegeta's interest and Goku brings everyone back to Kami's Lookout to meet up with Mr. Popo.
Meanwhile, the Androids arrive at Goku's house but find no one is there. 18 believes that they are hiding him at Kame House, which 17 notes that's the second place they would go to look. 16 then demands they fly instead of getting a boat like 17 suggests.
Mr. Popo introduces the Saiyans to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and explains that this room slows down time to make the illusion that they are training for a year, when in actuality, they are training in a day, and only two people can go in at a time. Goku thought it was called the room of spirit and time, but only because he couldn't (and still can't) pronounce it correctly. Goku also reveals that he knew about this location since he was a child, causing Gohan to ask why Krillin and the others didn't use it during their training for the Saiyans, or why they didn't use it during their training for the androids. Mr. Popo first explains that they had other training before the Saiyans arrival, and that he thought they wouldn't survive in there yet (Popo once threw Goku in there once when he was a kid, and he almost died in there). Vegeta decides that he and Trunks will go in first, and Goku will go after. Goku then notices that Popo hasn't been himself lately, with Popo missing Kami since his fusion.
Back at Kame House, everyone is resting while Piccolo is agitated over the news reports of Cell's rampage, ignoring Kami's suggestion to sleep. The Androids make it to Kame House, but unfortunately, Goku isn't there anymore. Since the Androids came to kill somebody, Piccolo takes them to a quarry to fight so they don't damage the house, with the rest of them noting that with the Saiyan's training and no Dragon Balls, Piccolo is their last hope. Meanwhile, Trunks is amazed at the spacious and barren land of the Hyperbolic Chamber but is interrupted by Vegeta saying their training starts now.
Cast[]
- Megami33 – Bulma
- Hbi2k – Dr. Briefs, Nail
- Takahata101 – Anchor 2, Anchor 3
- Lanipator – Krillin, Vegeta, Piccolo, Master Roshi, Mr. Popo
- KaiserNeko – Trunks, Anchor 01
- MasakoX – Goku, Gohan
- Hnilmik – Chi-Chi
- Remix – Kami, Android 16
- Ganxingba – Tenshinhan, Android 17
- Shudo Ranmaru – Android 18
Music[]
- Shunsuke Kikuchi - Cha-La Head-Cha-La (Variations)
- Shunsuke Kikuchi - Namek Star and Hope Vanish
- Hironobu Kageyama - Cha-La Head-Cha-La
- Kenji Yamamoto - The Gods' Bolero
- John Fox - Drug Addiction
- Paddy Kingsland - Finders Creepers
Running Gag/CallBacks[]
- Goku's inability to pronounce the Hyperbolic Time Chamber
- Krillin mentions SpaceBooking Android 18, which is a reference to the FaceBook spoof Piccolo mentions back in Nail is Piccolo, and So Can You!.
- When Goku briefly appears on Yamcha's ship, he says "I'm taking Gohan bye." which is similar to what Piccolo said in And They All Lived Happily Ever... Oh... and how he himself said in The Island of Dr. Gero.
Trivia[]
- Goku mentions the pirate and ninja dream he had in the last episode. He even notes that the ninja dream ended while he was sleeping. This is a reference to how around the episodes release, Naruto ended it's original 700 chapter manga run.
- It's revealed by Dr. Brief that Android 18 still has a vagina.
- This is the only time since his debut in Fear and Loathing in Ginger Town that Cell doesn't appear in the Cell Saga.
- A scene from the Celloween: A FLIGHT OUT OF CELL special is mixed into this episode. Krillin is even heard saying one of his dialogue while in his sleep.
- When Trunks is in the Time Chamber and says "It's nothing but a white void," the word "void" does not echo in Goku's voice (or at all), as this running gag has not been set up yet.
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Episode Transcription (English)[]
BULMA: Wait... so you're saying he had a sub-lab?
DR. BRIEFS: *Of course* he had a sub-lab! We all have sub-labs; where do you think I keep your mother's clones?
BULMA: Mom's *what*?!
DR. BRIEFS: Don't go in the basement. Oh, look! There's bombs in the androids! I could probably make a detonator for that!
KRILLIN: I don't know - do you really have to blow them up?
DR. BRIEFS: Why do you care? They're mostly just machinery at this point. Oops! Except for the lady; baby-maker's still intact. Guess she's still useful for somethin'.
KRILLIN: So, you're saying she still has a--
DR. BRIEFS: Vagina, yes.
KRILLIN: Just went from a nine to a ten!
BULMA: Ugh! Anyway, where's everyone else right now?
KRILLIN: Well, Piccolo and the others are searching for Cell...
PICCOLO [off-screen]: How are all these rides still running?!
TENSHINHAN [o-s]: Why are the clothes still on them?
PICCOLO: THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A PLACE OF FUN!
KRILLIN: ...So hopefully that's going well… And Trunks went out to find Vegeta.
TRUNKS: NOTICE ME!
VEGETA: NOOO!
KRILLIN: Best of luck there.
BULMA: And any update on Goku?
KRILLIN [o-s]: Oh, he's just resting at Kame House... probably still asleep.
{BOOM}
CHI-CHI: Uuu-uhh! Uh, huh?! AHHH! THE ANDROIDS ARE HERE! Bring it on, you robotic sons of– ...huh?! Oh no! They've already got him!
[Footsteps]
CHI-CHI: AH!
MASTER ROSHI: Did I miss something? Ehh...? Well, either Goku's awake or Moses has brought the Jews. Either way, my pantry's not full enough.
CHI-CHI: (Gasp!)
MAS. ROSHI: Hm?
CHI-CHI: Goku!
MAS. ROSHI: Eh heh! IEEE...!
GOKU: Oh hi!
CHI-CHI: (Laughs joyfully)
GOKU: Aww, hugs are nice!
CHI-CHI: Oh, tell me you're finally okay!
GOKU: Yuh-huh! Never felt better! Wanna see?
CHI-CHI: Hold on– [Goku throws her into the stratosphere] AAAHHHH...!
GOKU: Huh! Wonder when she'll come back down--
CHI-CHI: AAAHHHH--!!
[♫ "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" ♫]
"ANDROID" 18 [o-s]: I can't believe you took this thing off-roading...! This thing *barely* handled on the *freeway*!
"ANDROID" 17: Oh, come on, Eighteen! Where's your sense of adventure?
18: About 15 miles back with the shocks!
ANDROID 16: I personally enjoy this alternate route. It is decked with foliage and wildlife and– ...and spending time with you. But clearly, you disagree.
17: Won't lie, sis. Kind of a dick move.
18: Oh, come on! We'll take him to a zoo after this. How's that? You wanna hit up the zoo, Sixteen?
16: I want to see the parrots.
[Waves splashing as scene shifts to Kame House]
[Goku gearing up]
{SNAP}
MAS. ROSHI: Goku! You have missed a hell of a day!
GOKU: Oh, I know everything; I learned it in my pirate dream. I was having a ninja dream too, but it ended.
CHI-CHI: Alright, now listen: I know you just woke up, so--
GOKU: Yeah, I was outta permission for a while! I really oughta get back to training...
CHI-CHI: (Growls)
GOKU: ...so I can fight Cell!
CHI-CHI: (Growls louder)
GOKU: What? I-if you're worried about Gohan, I'll bring him along with me!
CHI-CHI: (Sigh)... fine!
GOKU: Huh?
CHI-CHI: Go ahead, go train! Take Gohan. Fight your evil android bug monster! But I want you to promise me *one thing*...
GOKU: Okaaay... what's that--
CHI-CHI: I want another baby!
GOKU: Mmm, mmm… K, BYE!
[Instant transmission]
MAS. ROSHI: Uhh... was that a "yes"?
CHI-CHI: It~ *wasn't* a "no"~!
MAS. ROSHI: Mmm! Mmm1 K, BYE!
KRILLIN [o-s]: Thanks for swinging by to pick me up!
YAMCHA [o-s]: What were you doing at Bulma's house anyway?
KRILLIN: Oh, just droppin' off the blue-gina-- I mean vag-prints! I mean, thanks for swinging by to pick me up!
PICCOLO: This is bad! We can't keep running after Cell. Every time he slips away, we lose another city!
TENSHINHAN: Don't be so melodramatic. Worst case scenario - we wish people back with the Dragon Balls.
PICCOLO: Uuh? Uhhhhh...
KRILLIN: Oh God, what?!
PICCOLO: So, remember how Kami and I fused?
TENSHINHAN: No...!
PICCOLO: Aaand, remember how we used to have Dragon Balls?
TENSHINHAN: Holy shit!
KRILLIN: Wait, I'm still confused!
TENSHINHAN: The Dragon Balls don't exist anymore, Krillin.
KRILLIN: OH! OKAY!
YAMCHA: Dude, don't worry. I still have the bunker--
KRILLIN: WHY DON'T WE HAVE GOKU?!
GOKU: I'm taking Gohan, BYE!
GOHAN: Wha--?
PICCOLO: Good news! We have Goku!
KRILLIN: Bitchin'! Let's go hang at Kame House!
KAMI: 'Oh, good! We'll have to see if he's carrying.'
PICCOLO: 'Carrying what?'
KAMI: 'I'm asking if he's got any grass on that island.'
PICCOLO: 'Well, yeah. But it's mostly covered by that house.'
NAIL: 'He's asking if he has any pot.'
PICCOLO: 'I don't know, probably. I mean, he knows the Mafuba.'
KAMI: 'Oh, my God...!'
NAIL: 'The *what*??'
[Instant transmission]
TRUNKS: Huh?!
GOHAN [still processing]: What just happened?!
TRUNKS: Goku... and Gohan?!
GOKU: I'll fill you in later, Gohan. Hey, Trunks! How's the training coming?
TRUNKS: I don't know, let's see… Hey Dad, do you wanna train with me?
VEGETA: F*** OFF!
TRUNKS: About that well.
GOKU: Ooh! Only on two words, huh? I'll go talk to him. Hey, 'Geets!
VEGETA: (Growls)
GOKU: I heard you lost your fight pretty bad.
VEGETA: (Growls louder)
GOKU: But you know what they say, Vegeta: When you fall off that horse, you get right back up, and you *eat that horse*. Come eat that horse with me, Vegeta!
VEGETA: What the hell are you on about?!
GOKU: Oh, I just found a place where we can do a whole year's worth of training in a day.
VEGETA: I'm listening...
GOKU: It's up on Kami's Lookout. Although, now I guess it's just... "The Lookout." Either way, they call it the...
MR. POPO: ...Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
VEGETA: WHAT THE F*** IS THAT?!
[Scene shifts to the Androids]
17: So Eighteen, what's it look like in there?
18: It looks like Goku's wife is a Chinese princess. Seriously, I'm glad she's my size, but who wears this junk?
17: I mean, is Goku there?
18: Oh, no; place is empty. Devoid of both people *and* taste.
17: Huh! Didn't figure Goku for a runner.
18: Well, if I were a guessing girl, I'd say they're at Kame House.
17: But that's, like, the second place we'd look.
16: Confirmed: That is the second place we shall look.
17: Mmm... but it's on an island, so we can't take a van...
18: Oh, thank God!
17: ...So we'll find a boat!
16: *No*!
17: Pardon?
16: We have done it your way. Now we do it my way: the bird way. We flyyy~!
18: He's finally speaking my language. I mean... kind of...
[Footsteps as scene shifts to Kami’s Lookout]
MR. POPO: Here it is, maggots - the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
GOKU: Waiiit... I thought it was called the "Room of Spirit and Time".
MR. POPO: I said that because you kept mispronouncing it.
GOKU: N'aww, I can do it! Hypebola Mine Chamber.
MR. POPO: No.
GOKU: Hyperglycemic Crime Chamber.
MR. POPO: You get one more.
GOKU: ...Hypebonics Rhyme Chamber.
MR. POPO: Hmm. Inside, time moves at 365.24 times that of this dimension. In Goku terms: One day out here - one year in there. And only two of you maggots can enter at a time.
GOHAN: Wait! How long have you known about this?
GOKU: Since I was a kid.
GOHAN: Then why didn't Krillin and the others use it to train against the Saiyans? Why didn`t WE use it to train against the Androids?!
MR. POPO: They had... other training… Besides, they most likely would not have survived. I threw Goku in there once when he was a kid.
GOKU: I almost died.
MR. POPO: Hmm.
VEGETA: Then the boy and I will go first and save you two the trouble. Move it, boy!
TRUNKS [quietly]: Help me...!
GOKU: Have fun, Trunks! You too, best buddy! Huh! You know, you don't really seem like yourself today, Mr. Popo.
MR. POPO: Hmm.
REPORTER [on TV]: ...find a cabin in the woods, and if anyone comes knocking, make sure you let the right one in, or you'll be dead by dawn.
KRILLIN [sleepy]: Not today...!
NEWS ANCHOR: The death toll keeps rising as...
ANOTHER NEWS ANCHOR: ...the unknown creature continues its...
YET ANOTHER NEWS ANCHOR: ...terrifying siege across our nation!
PICCOLO: I GET IT, HE'S ABSORBING PEOPLE! I'M TRYING TO STOP IT!
KAMI: 'Maybe you should get some sleep like everyone else.'
PICCOLO: I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD!
17: I can help with that!
PICCOLO: Huh?! WAKE UP!
KRILLIN: AHH! Oh man! I had the craziest dream - Cell was there.
PICCOLO: Well, the Androids are *here*!
17: Yo.
KRILLIN [o-s]: AAAHH!!
17: We're here for Goku.
PICCOLO: Son of a bitch!
16: Son Goku is not here.
17: Son of a bitch!
PICCOLO: You heard him: Goku's not here.
17: Oh, I heard him. We're just not very happy about it. Right, 16?
16: Son Goku... is not here!
17: Exactly! And we came all the way out here to kill *somebody*. So, you've got one of two choices: You can either tell us where Goku is, or, well...
PICCOLO: Or, what?
18: Or we kill you! Oh, my God!
KRILLIN: Hey, Eighteen! You... you come around here... often?
18: Nope!
KRILLIN: Hmm!
MAS. ROSHI: Uh, excuse me Androids? If you're gonna fight, could you please move it off the island? It's quite literally the only thing I own.
17: That's fine. But when I win, I'm blowing it up for funsies.
MAS. ROSHI: Hmm!
PICCOLO: Alright then, follow me. There's a series of uninhabited islands over there.
17: How do you know that?
PICCOLO: You three stay here. I'll handle this.
KRILLIN: Okay! I'll Spacebook you later!
YAMCHA: So, if he fails, we're all gonna die, right?
TENSHINHAN: Basically... and we have no Dragon Balls.
YAMCHA: Hope training's going well...
TRUNKS (shudders): Holy...! This place… It's... nothing but a white void! I can't see where it ends... or even where it begins! It's... overwhelming! I need time... time to adjust, time to--
VEGETA [o-s]: TRAINING BEGINS NOW!
[Backhand]
TRUNKS: AHH!
VEGETA: You weren't ready.
TRUNKS [o-s]: (Groans)
[♫ Closing theme (DBZ intermission) ♫]
DR. BRIEFS: Soon… (Sinister chuckling)
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