Androids 19 and 20 (S5E12)

What could be more threatening than *checks notes* an elderly man and a porcelain doll?!?!? Wait....what?

Join Jelli and Bekinney as they continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon Dragon Ball Z by looking at episodes 126 through 130, "The Androids Appear," "A Handy Trick," "Double Trouble for Goku," "Upgrade to Super Saiyan," and "The Secret of Dr. Gero." We get into the Android Saga proper, and discuss Androids 19 and 20.

In this episode:

• Jelli and Bekinney are ready to leave again
• Vegeta's transformation to Super Saiyan and how it is the mirror of Goku's
• Akira Toriyama's challenge from Kazuhiko Torishima to create different villains for this arc
• Android 19
• Traditional Turkish clothing and its significance in Ottoman history, including its roots as religiously important and into its post WWI meanings
• Traditional Japanese dolls
• Okiagiri-koboshi dolls or basically Weebles
• Gosho dolls and their importance to Japanese culture
• Karakuri dolls, early automata that are puppets without strings
• Android 20
• Gero Jeh-roh, Guh-roh...ruh-roh
• Vomit
• Gero's visual similarities to Albert Einstein, Christopher Lloyd as Emmet Brown in Back to the Future, Dr. Wily from the Mega Man franchise, Victor Frankentsein, and Dr. Rotwang from Metropolis
• Gero's stunning and uncanny resemblance to the Greek general Theodoros Kolokotronis
• and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual 

Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise.

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