Shorts Review: Dragon Ball Z Abridged Episode 42 “Fear and Loathing in Ginger Town”

Next up, on “The Not-So-Amazing Race,” we have the Android team chugging along slowly.

In case you haven’t seen DBZ yet, there are SPOILERS below. I’m just going to warn you now.

When I said slow, I meant it. The episode starts with 18 in a clothing store in the snow, that specializes in winter cowgirl gear. She ends up in something that resembles wild west Saiyan armor. After the store owner displays his desperate daddy problems, she bails, stealing the clothes. They kick it in reverse, just to scare the owner. Trunks and Gohan are close to the site, and Gohan asks how he is in the future. When Trunks says he’s just like his dad, he gets scared. Luckily, it’s for being a fearless warrior, and not being full blown retarded. However, Gohan notices that Trunks keeps staring at his arm, but he distracts him with the old time machine.

They land just in time, because Bulma isn’t far behind. We still have the awkward interaction between Bulma and Trunks, and I am dying every time I see it. I have no idea why. Trunks shows that he has his time machine, but they all realize that they’re the same thing, save for the moss and the blown out top. Detective Gohan is now on the case, and he derives that whatever was inside the ship shot its way out of said ship. Trunks gets in, and finds an egg shell. Meanwhile, Bulma decides it’s smart to play Pac-Man with the egg.

At Roshi Island, Goku is placed inside the house, and Krillin is still going on about 18. Roshi cuts him off and gets to the important information, her rack. Meanwhile, Turtle is in with Goku, who is sweating purple. Since he’s going on color, my guess is that Goku drank purple Gatorade. If not, then the commercials mislead me. That lasted all of a minute, until we go back to Detective Gohan and the case of the Mystery Egg Inhabitant. Gohan finds the molted skin of a huge bug. Trunks goes elbow deep in the skin, pulling out a bunch of pink goo reminiscent of the goo from Ghostbusters 2. Bulma freaks, and bolts out. As Bulma flies away, Krillin calls, telling her about the not good stuff going on in Ginger Town. Yeah, it’s an actual name of a town in the show. I was surprised too.

The news is reporting on the disappearance of the entire town, and they try to blame the legalization of Marijuana, until a really ugly creature shows up and attacks the news team. At the lookout, Kami is still putting off the fuse with Piccolo. Piccolo is just losing his shit, mainly because Kami thinks he is going to take his job. Kami drops the bomb, when he says he’d rather watch the world burn than fuse with Piccolo. Kami gives us some story about how he can’t fix the problems from the lookout, finally realizing that he needs to fuse with Piccolo. Popo is still tripping balls on his LSD, when Piccolo finally fuses with Kami. With Kami and Nail in his head, he gets a little happy when they’re quiet for a change. That kind of changes when they both chant Piccolo’s “YES! YES! I can win! I feel great! I can do this!” from when he fused with Nail in DBZ proper. He flies off, ignoring Korin trying to ask him to grab Yajirobe and bring him back. On the lookout, Popo takes Kami’s walking stick, and drops the biggest party the lookout has ever seen.

Back on Roshi Island, they still have the news on, when Trunks decides he is going alone to Ginger Town to assess the problem. Trunks says he’d take his father, but has no idea where he is. Speak of the spikey haired douche bag, we see him in the desert, talking to himself about how it wasn’t his fault he got beat like a bitch. He finds his resolve again, but stands in place. Meanwhile, Ginger Town gets a new dweller in Piccolo. He walks around, and hears the creepy singing of  what is the creepiest bug this side of A Bug’s Life.

Thank god! We get a full-powered Piccolo, and Cell, all in the same episode! That’s good, because these tires were about to spin really bad. The jokes were kind of lost, at the expense of moving things along, which I was okay with. What the episodes need is less exposition, and more worthwhile events going on. I know that I say this in some of the more boring points of the show so far. But hell, we have all of that footage from Piccolo and Goku trying to get their licenses, and had the perfect opportunity to use them. The next couple of episodes should be awesome, because it’s fight, after fight, after fight, and they’re all very good Team Four Star always manages to put their signature on every milestone they come across in DBZ, and this should be no exception.