Not really so much a comment on the dubbed version as it is on the original. This episode starts out by going back to a point BEFORE the previous one ended, and essentially repeating the very last scene. The interesting thing is that there are some slight changes to the way that things play out. Not only do they go as far as to completely redraw and reshoot the scene, some of the dialogue (as well as the order of events) is actually completely different. This is an interesting phenomenon that happens from time to time in DBZ, and I often wonder why they do it. Perhaps it's because they change from one director to another from episode to episode, and the second director decides that it would be better to redo the final scene in his way. Or it might just simply be a means to fill up time, which the producers of this show were under constant pressure to do. The whole Ginyu/Buruma thing was just anime-only filler, in fact. It's pretty easy to identify it as such, since it's a ridiculous little subplot (a translator that can MAKE A FROG SPEAK, invented within a matter of hours in a place where Buruma has no access to any resources??? Come on. DB can get pretty implausible at times, but Toriyama would never write crap like that). In any case, the "repeated scene" thing certainly made things easier for FUNimation back when they were hacking up episodes and combining them, because it made for some very obvious time-saving cuts. They could simply decide which version of the scene they liked better and use that one without anything important being lost.

Goku's dream sequence, a VERY cool scene in my opinion, is utterly ruined in the dub. There are just a few small alterations, but it's amazing how much they change this from something very cool to something absolutely laughable. First of all, the dub music just sucks here. The Japanese music used, on the other hand, just happens to be my absolute favorite piece from the entire series. It was written for Movie 3, but occasionally shows up in the episodes, and it adds a haunting beauty to whatever scene it appears in. It works here perfectly. My second beef is with the sequence that shows the faces of Goku's Earth friends flashing by rapidly. In the dub, we see their faces, and hear each of them laughing. It's really, REALLY annoying and sounds quite goofy. Incidentally, Lunch is one of the people who appears in this sequence, which will only confuse American viewers who don't know who the HFIL she is because FUNi skipped most of Dragon Ball and cut all of her scenes from DBZ. Amusingly, she is the only person whose laugh we don't hear. In the Japanese version, we don't hear them all giggling one after another like a bunch of jackasses, all we hear is FREEZA'S laughter. It's SO much more effective, and makes a lot more sense dramatically. I can't wait until this scene comes out on the bilingual DVD's so that you all can compare the two versions. It really is amazing.