Dr. Briefs appears in this episode, which means necessarily that a cigarette does as well. And his ciggy is, as usual, painted over.

Narrator: (Various stupid ass baseball metaphors during the recap: "Freeza came up to bat..." "It's going, it's going, it's...no!" "Up against the fence, it's Goku with a great catch!") FUNimation's keen sense of humor and panache strikes once again. Kuririn: "This is nuts!" Ah. There it is. Good to hear ya again, ol' buddy. Amazingly, dub Kuririn has gone through all of Season 3 up to this point without uttering his little "catch phrase" once, but here it is to bring joy to us all once again. Freeza: "You're the first one who's ever hurt me, besides my loving parents, that is" OK, now that one's just... spooky. Is this intended to be some kind of biting social commentary about parental abuse and its effects? A writer venting his pent-up Oedipal rage? Or is it just a crappy line that was not in the original script, and does not belong here? Perhaps all three. UPDATE! Well, I'll be jiggered. This is what you get when you don't have subtitles, aren't paying close attention, and are scan fast-forwarding through the Japanese version because you're too lazy to check the translation. Thanks to an alert from Spamdini (and some other people, but he was FIRST, so he gets credit), I went back to the tape and checked this line because according to him, this was indeed what Freeza said in the manga. I was a bit skeptical, but sure enough, my ears transmitted the following to my brain: "Boku ni hokori o tsuketa no wa oyai nai de wa kimi hajimete da yo" Switch the order around a bit, and the literal word-for-word is: "You know (da yo), except for my parents (oyai nai de wa), you are the first (kimi hajimete) to have ever put dust on me (boku ni hokori o tsuketa no wa)." So Freeza is indeed saying basically the exact same thing, albeit in an evasive and VERY Japanese fashion. Looks like I owe FUNimation a Coke. So I guess it was Toriyama's OWN social commentary and/or pent-up Oedipal rage after all. And the only reason I called the line crappy is because I thought it wasn't in the original script. and FUNimation was trying to create more relationships between characters that didn't really exist. It certainly wouldn't be the first time. I STILL think it's a pretty weird line, but that's our wacky Toriyama for ya. Ahem. But I'm POSITIVE this next one was not in the Japanese version: Goku: "Hammer time!" Wonderful! Now they're referencing late 80's rap! That's JUST what Dragon Ball needs! Hopefully they'll have contemporized a bit by Season 4, and if we're lucky we might hear Cell asking the real Slim Shady to please stand up. Oh FUNimation, YOU are the original kings of comedy.

Ya know that part where Freeza uses "his native language?" Well this is not in the original script in any way, shape, or form. As a matter of fact, this line is nothing but a chuckle in the Japanese version, which kind of explains why Freeza's shoulders are shaking in the animation. I thought the line was a very weird idea on the part of the dub script, but I kind of like it to be honest. It adds a little something to the DB universe.