One of these episodes you may never have seen growing up. That's not nostalgia talking, it's because Sabanβs 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,β 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.
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β DBZ Ocean Dub Episode 10 \"Escape from Piccolo\" recap & review
β DBZ Ocean Dub Episode 11 \"Showdown in the Past\" recap & review
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