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I can only imagine how confused American kids were when these episodes aired on Toonami back in the day. Even by the standards of OG Dragon Ball, Penguin Village is weird, and there's of course a bunch of references to a series that never aired in the U.S. except for maybe a single-episode pilot nearly two decades prior. Senbei in his first appearances onscreen here was even posing directly to the viewers and said how it had been a long time since he had been on TV.

Of course, nowadays Toriyama creating Dr. Slump before going on to Dragon Ball is common knowledge, but back then, I doubt most American kids had a clue as to what was going on here.