It's a good thing the people who died in that big explosion were really holograms and dummies.

my two biggest beefs with this show:

1) in the american dub they constantly refer to rice balls as "donuts'

2) zyklon-b is tinted yellow not green

I have to wonder what's going through the censors' minds when they're considering translating/editing these shows to an audience more geared towards younger children. I'm know I'm not the first one to say this, but if you're going to take a show like Dragon Ball Z, edit out the nudity (makes sense) the blood (not a lot of it) and rare occasions of body parts falling off, and change all references to the afterlife as "another dimension," wouldn't you just throw your hands up and say "fuck it.. this is too much useless work for a show that's probably going to be aired at 5:30AM anyway. Let's just release it as-is, dubbed, on VHS instead"?

Moral outcry had a lot more influence back then.

This is a strange show in terms of what they censored and what they didn't. Lots of characters are shot with "stun guns" and run away off-camera, and yet there's a creepy quasi-date-rape scene in one of the early episodes. Weird.

(...because us kids obviously had a sense of empathy for the foot soldiers of COBRA...)

Oh yeah. Like the Transformer's Movie. Prime just nods off to the Robot Afterlife. Prowl on the other hand gets fucked up like a Cybertronian Quentin Tarantino movie.

That's one thing World Events Productions did well. Even Denver, The Last Dinosaur had a memorable opener.

BRAVE Starr.