I was rewatching Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero today and it had me dead laughing that Bulma canonically uses the Dragon Balls to wish for BBL and other vain nonsense like that.
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Dragon Ball Super as a whole is dumb, but what stood out to me is how Goku, despite having two sons, didn't know what a kiss was and needed Vegeta to explain it to him. Makes you wonder if Chichi fucks him in his sleep when he's too tired from his battle autism.
To this day I think this is a rare case of Goku trolling Vegeta.
Either that or that entire scene is a misunderstanding, where Goku was curious about feeding someone senzu beans mouth-to-mouth and Vegeta thinking he was asking about kissing
I remember seeing this comment on youtube and dug it up
Also, funniest dumbest thing I seen in anime is Ultimate Teacher (1988) the entire damn thing.
I like that interpretation. There was a funny comic with him talking to Chi-Chi in bed about it and them continuing the misunderstanding, wondering what kind of weird stuff Vegeta and Bulma are into.
Its best to understand DBS as them just naming a few traits of each character and then using them to create more random "epic" moments.
Everything about it is designed just to advertise the 2 minutes every 40 episodes you should watch, and character depth gets in the way of that.
Kissing is not involved in marriage or making children. That’s the joke.jpg.
Literally was just a bad translation for a double entendre in Japanese
"People die when they are killed."
"The archer class really is made of archers!"
Fate franchise has the best awful writing.
But I think the prize for dumb anime things (outside of Ghost Stories) is Dragonball Super's "Police, hold your fire! This man isn't Black!"
You call it dumb, most people would consider it based.
Corollary: "Did you really think killing me would be enough to make me die?"
So relevant.
The guy who voices Gilgamesh should have won an award.
Yeah, that's why she was looking for the damn things in the first place, when she first meets Goku in the woods. She wanted to wish for the best boyfriend ever .....
Dragon Balls or not, she seems to have gotten it granted.
Keeping in mind she really was only a teenager at the time.
Another one to the list to watch ( or at least try ).
You probably know about Campfire Cooking anime, if not, check it out it's fun / relaxing.
What's BBL?
Brazilian Butt Lift, a cosmetic surgery to make a girl’s ass perkier and/or bigger.
I am brazilian and never heard of that.
On the dumbest front, nothing particularly memorable springs to mind. I probably blocked it out. Maybe..."No, Senpai, this is our fight!"
Funniest would be just in general; KonoSuba, Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, The Great Cleric, and, of course (and what a title)...The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants. Yeah.
Konosuba is just a treat.
Black Lagoon, Hind versus PT boat. PT boat uses torpedo, it's super effective.
If we're talking about stupid as in hilariously entertaining, then mine would be this scene from Dragon Ball Z, or as I call it, the Most Massive Face Fault Ever. And that's about the most positive thing I'll probably ever say about anything that's ever come out of Shonen Jump.
And if we're talking stupid as in utterly retarded and which the writer should feel ashamed for even concieving...eh probably Naruto defeating Kiba by accidentally farting in his face. Actually, no, that wasn't the stupidest part. The stupidest part was how everyone treated that victory as if Naruto was actually this super-skilled badass, when he spent the fight largely getting his shit kicked in and only won out of dumb luck. I'm sure there are worse things in Naruto, but there's a reason I stopped reading that series early on.
I love japanese cast of Lupin the 3rd, but English dub is a fkn goldmine of dumb and funny quotes.
One Punch Man whenever the big bad is talking, and then is killed because the main character forgot it's coupon day.
Evangelion. All of it. It's so pretentious.
Otherwise, Sunohara going down the dustshoot. The cut to the outshot is perfect.
Evangelion does not deserve the reputation it has.
It's basically a litmus test for whether or not you're a midwit.
Okay, clearly I need to watch Clannad. I've heard good things, but personally the art style isn't to my taste, so I never really dove in. Looks like it has some hilarious moments.
Clannad lures you in with the ultra funny in the beginning so that way it can destroy you emotionally later.
This is in my top 10 at least.
El Psy Congro
Also the but he's a guy moment was one of my highlights, I still quote this on occasion.
That scene is one of the few instances I PREFER the Dub over the Sub.
The sub is funny don't get me wrong but the Dub pairs this with a tone of frustrated disappointment of 'I found the perfect wife but he's a dude'
Not a Japanese show as far as I know, but there was some old Saturday Morning cartoon in the late 70s or early 80s I think, that featured a family of generic superheroes with your standard "secret identities". The thing is, the only thing they changed about themselves was their clothes; they didn't even wear masks. Their friends must have been very dumb, even in a world where people only own one set of clothing ....
Best ones for me are: Cromartie High School and Excel Saga "I'll distract them from the front while you slip in the behind."
Grand Blue was also good.
Dead Tube as a whole is the dumbest thing I've ever read in a manga, but its somehow amazing because of it. Its almost a perfect distillation of what a B-movie should be, with some of the most over the top retarded plots and reveals you can imagine. Despite that, it still manages to have amazing moments with characters that are actually compelling and you want to root for, despite them being fucking ridiculous.
Justice Man alone deserves to be in more series just as a foil. A legitimate superhero who worked until he had superhuman strength and abilities, who has an actual sense of true and pure justice that is only compromised by his own naiveity regarding black/white, and yet gets massively turned on by committing acts of justice and fucking the shit out of his sidekick afterwards.
You'd think there would be some point about how that last one means he is actually evil, but no. He is probably the only truly "good" person in the series, he just really fucking loves JUSTICE.
Immediately what jumped to mind. Not the most out there but it always makes me laugh.
pretty much the entirety of Kill la Kill, God bless Gainax/Trigger
Every time an adolescent anime character starts monologuing during a hysterical temper tantrum, it's the dumbest thing ever. Bonus points in cringe for when they're ranting and raving during a fight and all the fighting miraculously stops to give the whiny character the time to finish his hysterical monologue.
Any real villain would have instantly used the opportunity to slam his head face down into the ground, only to stomp on it, until some of that infamous nineties anime gore started to pop out of the whiner's pulverized skull.
Bring back nineties anime. Death to nu-anime.
I'd say just about anything in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but I think one of the funniest moments to me was when Joseph pulled a Thompson out of nowhere and emptied a drum into Straizo. I think that was S1E10. There was also that bit in one of the later seasons where Polnareff gets possessed and starts acting weird. I've seen most of the Jotaro arc, but I never saw the show from the beginning until recently.
Expect a lot more amazing moments then! Tequila Joseph though, now that one was hilarious to me.
I think I'm a few episodes past that part, where he infiltrates the German outpost in Mexico to rescue Speedwagon. That was pretty funny. My favorite part of that episode was when he punched the Pillar Man, and made a big spectacle pretending his hand was swallowed.
I will never stop being mad at the wasted potential that was GATE. They took the rad premise of having a modern military face off against a Tolkienian fantasy army with dragons, demigods, and wizards, and decided waifu trash was what people wanted. Incredibly dumb.
Waifu trash was exactly what I wanted and it delivered in spades. I just wish they'd continued making it.
I'd be ok with a more serious take on that scenario too though. It's a cool space to explore.
Most of those aren't unfunny because they're unfunny, they're unfunny because they're overused. Also, plenty aren't even supposed to be funny; you're basically just hating on tropes in general for being overused, not comedy.
That said, I agree with you to some extent; I personally don't find a lot of anime comedy that funny. The stuff I do has me rolling, though...but it's few and far between...
Haha, exactly. The anime I tend to find most hilarious is the anime that pokes fun at those very same overused tropes. There's things like KonoSuba and Overly Cautious Hero that are mainly funny if you've already seen a fair bit of others in the genre.
This one is often alright, in my opinion. Kind of funny/silly exactly because it's so overplayed. Kind of self referential in my opinion. Also takes basically a second or two, so no real loss either way.
Man, and I know this goes against what I said earlier a bit, but this one pisses me off because it's so overused and almost always out of place. I agree that the subversion can be funny, though. I've seen a few where, "for equality" for seeing the women undressed, the stumbling dude starts stripping. Obviously does not go well. There's also a version where he says 'I know I'll get beat for this so might as well keep looking.' Couldn't find that, but found this clip from the same anime.
Again, not even necessarily funny, just often used.
I would argue that all of those overused scenes he mentioned are intentional and meant to be "funny" in the self-referential way you explained...
The Planners/Animators know what they are doing and are anime superfans themselves.
Oh, also, check out Combatants Will Be Dispatched! if you haven't already. Same author as KonoSuba; not as good in my opinion, but similar comedy style as I recall.
If you've never read the actual manga they made for it, you are doing yourself a disservice.
Its even more dumb weird and funny nonsense.
It was made at the same time as anime, but its also so different its closer to a companion piece rather than just any form of adaptation.
It actually explains a lot of what is going on in the anime, simply by moving slower and letting you read instead of speaking at Mach Speed, while not explaining enough to remove the mystery and weirdness.