Kabuterimon's Electro Shocker
Denkou! Kabuterimon!
Oi. Kabuterimon's voice sucks. Lots of stupid dialogue. They ruined one of my favorite scenes. Izzy announces that he's going to ditch his alien theory. All in all, an eventful episode.
Stupid Dialogue:
Sora: "... he had one of those weird, flying, black gears stuck in his back..."

It came out through his back, but it was in his torso. Not that Sora would know that... or enough to be narrating the episode to begin with.

Sora: "We'll just see how long that lasts."

No you won't. You never visit the Pyokomon village again.

Also, the dialogue before Mimi falls to her knees wasn't there in the original.

Matt: "Check out Izzy! I bet he's trying to e-mail the aliens."
Tai: "Maybe he's asking them to beam him up."

Yep. That's gotta be it.

Sora: "Maybe Izzy doesn't want grimy fingerprints and dents all over his computer."

Psst... Taichi's wearing gloves. Gloves = no fingerprints!

Censored:
Yay, the first censored scene! Wait, is that a good thing? O.o Oh well. When Koushiro's computer boots up, there's some Kanji and Kana along with the three little pineapples. These were painted over instead of translated.

The screen in all its uncensored glory:

The first line says 「起きます」, which means "waking up". The second line says 「動きます」, which means "moving".

Stupid Dialogue:
Anything said when they're looking around the factory until Takeru and Yamato are standing at the assembly line is Stupid Dialogue and wasn't there in the original.

Tai: "Doesn't sound good to me."

What they hear in the original is someone groan. This line is "A person's voice!"

Izzy: "Prodigious!"

Uck! The debut of Izzy's "catch phrase!" >.< Why must we be tormented so?

Joe: "My mom doesn't want me moving any heavy objects. I got bad knees."

Jeez! Saban is giving you a whole slew of health problems! Nasal problems, weight problems, allergies, and now bad knees!

Andromon: "I am Andromon!"

Okay then.

Joe: "There's this movie where a robot came to life and ate everyone!"

He was telling Agumon not to hit machines (good advice).

Side Note:
When Sora and Jou are talking through Andromon's vision, their voices sound as if coming from a tape recorder as if they are being heard from Andromon's POV. This nifty effect is absent in the dub.

Andromon's voice is also very robotic in the original. In the dub, it's just monotonous, but in the original, he sounds exactly like he's a robot and it's very cool.

Side Note:
Tentomon: (introduces Andromon on the Digimon Analyzer screen)

*jumps and looks around* Huh? Where'd Tentomon come from? He's supposed to be with Koushiro!

Tai: "How about trying to blast the roof?"

That's the ceiling, not the roof. The roof is on the outside, the ceiling's on the inside.

Mimi's stuff about tour guides with plaid outfits and bullhorns is obviously stupid.

Izzy: "These markings are binary anotations of some sort. A computer program."

Binary - 1's and 0's. The symbols: a computer program, but clearly not binary.

Joe: "I break out in hives in the dark!"

o.o Funny. A few episodes ago, it was night-time and you didn't break out in hives. Come to think of it, you aren't breaking out now!

Sora: "I hope it isn't Andromon."

Wouldn't we all? But the reality is that the rest of us would assume it was Andromon and take necessary precautions.

Joe: "Can anyone explain why we're tiptoeing instead of running for our lives?"

Because you're sneaking away in hopes that Andromon can't see in the dark and won't hear you.

Side Note:
Andromon - Spiral Sword = Lightning Blade

Inside the battery, Koushiro and Tentomon's voices echo. And the marker Koushiro used was a simple marker, not metallic paint (where would Koushiro get metallic paint and why would he have it with him?).

Stupid Dialogue:
Mimi: "(something about not paying a power bill)"

Hmm... When you forget to pay the power bill, they generally shut off your electricity until you do pay it, and seeing as there was no one in the factory to pay it...

Joe: "This... is... not... good... I... don't... like... this... at... all!!!"

At least he's talking like he's running at the same time now.

There's no dialogue as they're hanging off the rail in the original.

Izzy: "And I'm about to abandon my alien theory as well!"

And there was much rejoicing. *yaaay*

Joe: "Please stop taunting the deranged android!"


Matt spews a lot of crap that he shouldn't know about the factory but apparently does anyway...

Anything said by Andromon or Mimi before he uses his missiles isn't there.

Side Note:
Andromon - Gattling Missiles = He just says "bring missiles to postion! Fire!"

Stupid Dialogue:
Aside from attack names, nothing is said by either Andromon, Garurumon, or Greymon during their battle.

Also, the black gear is not an energy source. It only makes Digimon evil.

Tai: "That's wicked!"

Okay.

Anything stated by Tai or Joe while in the sewer didn't happen until Tai tried to kill Izzy's computer.

Side Note:
Dear Jinnai, what on earth did they do to Kabuterimon? Luckily, his voice gets better later in the series, but jeez! That was the last thing I was expecting.

Kabuterimon - Mega Blaster = Electro Shocker


ARGH!! They completely ruined the most hilarious scene (when Taichi and Agumon try to slap Koushiro's computer to get it to work)! The music in the original and the dialogue made that scene so utterly BRILLIANT and the dub score and dialogue ruined it!

Total episode retained: 100%. We got our first censor today, so the cuts are soon to come!

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