Top 241ways you can tell if your addicted to DBZ

Here they are!


1. You watch unsubtitled DBZ movies and episodes again and again, and like them better each time, even though your entire Japanese vocabulary consists of three words (all of which were learned *from* watching them again and again).

2. You take Japanese in school mainly so you can find out what they actually *are* saying in the movies and episodes.

3. You see the first commercial for Dragon Ball Z in the States, and you start to hyperventilate.

4. When you think pride, you think Vegeta.

5. Instead of doing work in class, you write a "How to tell you're addicted to DBZ" list and more chapters for your fanfic.

6. You continue to write snatches of said list during after-school band practice.

7. You have previously decorated your instument with the 1½ inch figurines you bought from a friend who used to live in Japan.

8. The only way you got through 9th grade orientation at your new school (which has 4,000 students 7-12 grade) was to carry around your Cell-era SSJ2 Gohan and long-hair future Trunks of above figurines.

9. You think Trunks (or Bulma or #18, as the case may be) is hot.

10. You think almost any guy with a short-hair Trunks style haircut is cute.

11. You refer to that haircut as "Trunks hair."

12. When your Japanese teacher asks you what the word for rice is in Japanese, you nearly scream, "Gohan!"

13. You get up at 8:00 AM Saturday morning to watch DBZ in English.. after marching at the football game the night before which ended up making you stay awake until about 12:30 AM.

14. You explain what's happening in the DBZ movies you are watching to your four unknowing friends.. all at different times.

15. You sit down and figure out how to play the first part of "Cha-La Head Cha-La" on the piano.

16. You set your tape recorder next to your computer speaker and record all of your DB/DBZ/DBGT MP2s onto a cassette so you can listen to them without having to boot up the computer.

17. You start coming up with goofy ideas like "Dragon Band Z" (All the DBZ characters playing instruments or doing vocals in a band of their own).

18. You actually spend some time revising Dragon Band Z, like making one for earlier when Gohan was 10, and one for later when he was 17, and agonizing over who would play what.

19. Four out of six members of your group dressed up as DBZ/DBGT characters for Halloween, and the only reason it wasn't five was beacuse you couldn't find a long enough shirt for Videl.

20. You yell out in your most annoying young Gohan voice, "PICCOLO-SAN!" in the middle of a crowd, then you and your friends start laughing your heads off while everyone else stares at you.

21. You constantly do impressions of DBZ characters. (I.E. yelling out "Gohan-chan!" in your Chichi voice, and "Goku-san!" in your Kuriring voice.)

22. You write a DBZ fanfic.

23. You think up a sequal to your fanfic before you're done with chapter 3 of your first one.

24. You think up a goofy idea like ( sung to the tune of "Addicted to Love") "Might as well face it, you're addicted to Trunks."

25. You think it up in the middle of Biology.

26. You tape DBZ pictures to your covered textbooks, and each book has its own theme. (English: All of DBZ; Biology: Trunks; World Studies: Son family)

27. You decorate your TI-83 calculator with a picture of Goku, Gohan, and Goten (all SSJ) doing a Kamehameha.

28. You pretend that one or more of the DBZ characters is standing next to you, and you have conversations with them.. including telling the male characters to stay out of the girls' locker room.

29. You're a teenager and you willingly get up at 8:00 AM on a Saturday just to watch DBZ.

30. You watch the first English-dubbed episode a total of three times... on the day it was aired.

31. For any period of time your Windows '95 start-up sound was all of "Cha-La Head Cha-La."

32. Your Windows '95 background has ranged from Trunks to Vejito to Cell.

33. You print up a picture of Cell and show it to your Biology teacher.

34. You're modest enough that you turn your 1½ inch DBZ figurines towards the wall when you change, but leave the rest of your figurines untouched.

35. You work for over an hour perfecting drawing the Capsule Corp. logo on your TI-83.

36. You draw Gohan's face on your TI-83.

37. You write #s 22-37 of your "How can you tell you're addicted to DBZ?" list during school, along with nearly all of Chapter 4 of your fanfic.

38. You're watching a movie or TV show and you think to youself, "Wouldn't it be cool if Goku showed up right about now?"

39. You regret not bringing in your Cell figurine when your Biology teacher said she wanted a cell model from each person in the class.

40. For a school project you try to develop a material that will allow you to actually build Karin Tower.

41. You do.

42. No, I mean you actually build Karin Tower.

43. The most memorable event on your trip to Paris was seeing about 2 seconds of Mirai Trunks in the closing credits of some French show about anime.

44. You own enough DBZ shirts to wear a different one every day of the week... for three weeks.

45. You wear nothing but DBZ shirts, even to church.

46. You spend all your spare time searching for dragon balls.

47. Your World Literature book report was on the first ten issues of the Dragon Ball manga.

48. You strap a piece of colored glass over your left eye and laugh at everyone,telling them what pathetic power levels they have.

49. You hire a hypnotist to make you think you're a saiya-jin.

50. You demand that Japanese be taught at your school. When the principal says no, you leap on his desk and start doing a Kamehameha.

51. You get arrested because of the last one.

52. You only answer people when addressed as Goku.

53. You've been wearing the same Dragon Ball Z t-shirt for the last 6 days in a row.

54. You conquer a small country and make Akira Toriyama your second in command, and all the characters form DBZ your advisors.

55. You start wearing weighted clothing to increase your power level.

56. When faced with a problem, you wonder what Trunks would do, then you do just that.

57. You try to do a fusion with your best friend, but only end up with a headache.

58. You name your son Gohan and have him genetically altered so he has a tail (or at least plan to).

59. You avoid the full moon for fear of turning into an oozaru and destroying all your cool DBZ stuff (although causing mass devaststion in your town would be cool!).

60. You see a grossly over-weight plump guy and call him Majin Buu.

61. You actually read your own fanfic!

62. Next time you come across a frog you're sure you'll say "Hi, Ginyu!"

63. You're in your thirties and still contemplating on keeping 2 full sets of the DB manga - one set from each publisher!

64. You're gay and have a crush on Future Trunks or Normal Goku.

65. You scream on hearing that a DBZ episode is postponed to the following week owing to a beauty contest or indeed any other stuff.

66. You find Perfect Cell wearing quite a handsome face!

67. A cat reminds you of Karin.

68. A lizard/chameleon reminds you of Furiza.

69. An African reminds you of Mr. Popo.

70. You *KNOW* your addicted and you won't admit it, but you dream of hanging out with DBZ Characters, even on dates.

71. When you have a crush on one of the protagonists.

72. When you yell "baka!" to your anoying little brother or sister.

73. When you check out DB pages on the net every day or every other day.

74. When you don't do you homework and instead see DB or write your Fanfic.

75. When you print all the DB drawings you can and keep them in a safe vault together with your most valued possesion (your Fanfic, you DB drawings and posters, your DB toys) etc.

76. When you call by mistake a family member or your best friend by a Dragon Ball character.

77. When you have "erotic" dreams with your favorite character.

78. When you wake up in the middle of the night with a nightmare that your favorite character was defeated.

79. When your best dream is being saved by your DB crush.

80. When someone asks you what is the first word that comes to your mind you answer "Dragon Ball".

81.You run around the house screaming KAMEAMEHA!! for no obvious reason.

82.You dress up like a DBZ character for Halloween.

83.You dress up like a DBZ character for no reason at all.

84.You take your DBZ action figures(and your dad's video camera)and make your own episodes.

85.You spray paint a DBZ character on the side of your house.

86.You catch yourself thinking what would happen if Goku or another character showed up at school.

87. When people ask you, "Why'd you go into martial arts?" you reply, "Because one day I'll beat that lousey third class Saiya-jin!"

88. Lima and kidney beans remind you of senzu seeds.

89. You print out summeries of the manga and use them for making sure your 20 fanfics fit into the series fairly well. =)

90. You try to grow senzu seeds.

91. You spend 7 hours trying to focus your ki to enable you to either fly or make an energy ball.

92. You spend the next three hours trying to find if you have any ki at all.

93. You make up a character and place him/her in every DBZ timeline/alternate universe you can.

94. You take sewing lessons just to make yourself a gi that looks exactly like Goku's or Piccilo's (and that's after you try to conjure them out of thin air first).

95. You find yourself learning katakana faster by memorizing how the Dragonball characters' names are spelled in katakana.

96. You spend a good half hour looking up names in the phone book like, Son, and Briefs. And when by chance you do come across one, you immediately call them up and ask for Goku, or Trunks, or whatever personage my reside at under that name

97. You try to find the Capsule Corp phone number, but the closets you get is Capsone Healing Hypnotherapy

98. You spend hours trying to teleport, but all you end up with is two finger marks imprinted on your forehead.

99. You're looking for a car and one of the first questions you ask the dealer is, "Do you have anything by Capsule Corp?"

100. When making a grilled cheese sandwich, you accidentally call the artificial cheese Vegeta instead of Velveeta

101. Actually walk around school on Halloween in a Goku gi made by your friend who works at a karate studio (blond hair dye and all) and get recognized by students.

102. Convince your firned to make a Cell Era Gohan costume for Halloween so you don't look stupid by yourself.

103. While playing pool, you take the cue and call it Goku's staff and threaten to beat your opponents.

104. Have half of a broken pair of goggles from a science lab your friend gave you and make a scouter out of it.

105. Make a scouter out of an old pair of headphones and blue, transparent plastic.

106. You stay up until 11:00 PM on a school night just so you can finish watching the Cell Saga.

107. You and a friend come up with a fusion name for the two of you (a normal form and a "earing" form)

108. You create a picture of it on your comp.

109. In an empty field, you scream out NIMBUS and you are dissapointed when nothing happens.

110. You think you DID see something come for you.

111. You draw a version of yourself in Super Sayain form on the cover for your Histroy notebook.

112. You've printed all our DBZ pics from the internet and spent 5 hours cutting them and pasting them to poster board. (mind you this takes up the whole east wall)

113. You've jumped from a diving board for 3 hours trying to learn to fly.

114. You learned how to fly (well, not really, but you got so sick the world seemed awfully distant).

115. You've phonetically memorized all our DBZ mp2's even though you don't speak a word of Japanese.

116. You've driven to Boston (from Albany) just to get a DBZ comic a vacationing friend said he saw at a comic store.

117. In choir you heard a familiar rhythm and 2 of you broke out into Hikari no will Power.

118. You stand in front of the TV's speakers and attempt to block out the sound waves coming from the kitchen while recording the DBZ opening theme song.

119. You record whole episodes of DBZ onto a cassette tape so that you can listen to Vegeta's/Trunks' sexy voice while sleeping, on your way to school, in your car...


120. In your answering machine there's the Japanese voice of Gohan telling: I'm not in home, but you can left your message after the tone. PIIII (in Japanese, of course)

121. You lose your "powers" because you don't watch DBZ in one week.

122. You go to a publisher, to publish your fanfic.

123. You make your own manga, with the special starring of the DBZ gang.

124. You "wake up" your ki, because someone tells you: DBZ sucks!!!

125. You download all the midis and realplayer music that are about Dragonball.

126. Your role model/inspiration is either Goku, Vegeta, Gohan or Trunks… or a real strong bad guy.

127. You memorize DBZ songs in Japanese due to excessive watching.

128. You look in the mirror and do power up poses and a shout to go with it if no one's home.

129. You have a Super Nintendo and get all the DBZ fighting games.

130. You get the DBZ RPG and finish them without understanding it.

131.You are in a class and suddenly think you saw Future Trunks (or your fav. character) walking by.

132.Your friends look bored whenever you talk about DBZ, because you've been talking about it all the time.

133.You get totally bummed, for your favorite DBZ character isn't real, but you have High Hopes that they are.

134.You spend your time staring at a group picture of DBZ ppl and wish that you were squeezed in there between Gohan and Future Trunks.

135. You sit on your bed and practice talking like Vegita until your throat goes raw.

136. You try to convince all your friends that you're Akira Toriyama and that your best friend is your bodyguard.

137. You're in gym class when you think you're about to die when, you suddenly think 'would Trunks stop?' and force yourself to keep going...

138. When your mother tells you to eat all your vegetables, you scream at her for committing high treason and say she's being cruel to Saiya-jin royalty

139. When someone insults you, you threaten to send them to the next dimension!

140. You sit for 3 hours and watch a Backstreet Boys concert on much music because your convinced Nick Carter is really Trunks but then you think of how much of an insult that is and promptly change the channel.

141. Your entire room is painted purple and has a major DBZ mural (hand painted by yourself) running on the walls.

142. You have permanent frown creases on your forehead and cannot stand without crossing your arms.

143. You scare your friends by telling them you're going to tattoo a Majin M on your forehead.

144. You find yourself comparing every guy/girl you see to your DBZ crush and find nobody worthy enough to date then waste away the rest of your life watching DBZ reruns and playing with your figurines. (not that this is a bad thing)

145. When babysitting, you suggest that you and the kids play 'Saiya-jins and Androids' instead of Cowboys and Indians.

146. You stitch a Capsule Corp. logo to your jacket sleeve.

147. You go out and buy 300 bottles of styling gel and 40 bottles of moose trying to style your hair like Goku's or Vegita's.

148. You wish you were a witch because they can fly through electrical storms to get the hair style they want.

149. You're lying in bed, wake up and decide you suddenly want to go to Vegittasei then pack up your things, then suddenly realize its impossible and go back to sleep, putting yourself into an amazing funk, and don't come out of your room for three days.
150. You're involved in more than 4 DB/Z/GT RPGs.

151. You refer to yourself as your RPG character daily.

152. You argue with your friends on who has a higher ki.

153.Your parents can't remember your friend's names so you tell them to refer to them as their favorite DBZ character.

154. You write DBZ everywhere: Home Work, math books, shoes, clothes, etc.

155. You name your pets after the DBZ character that suites them the best.

156. You tell people who bug "Don't make get up and turn SS4."

157. You freak out the people who bug or they begin to laugh.

158. You attempt to turn Super Saiya-jin, but become frustrated because your hair is not turning gold.

159. You refer to Akira Toriyama as a God.

160. You set up a shrine in your room for every DBZ thing you own and surround it with candles.

161. You convince your self you're either Shenlon or Kami when ever your friend has a problem and asks for advice (hey works for me).

162. You keep finding yourself thinking up cool new merchandise and new T-shirt designs in Art class.

163. You've memorized all the Ginyu Force poses and do them along with the series or movie.

164. You sing "I love mister Piccolo" along with Gohan in THE WORLDS STRONGEST.

165.You and your friends and any other DBZ fans take Chi-Gong.

166. Your pet name is Chrome Dome (Krillin), and you like it too. :)

167. You've made up 5 names if you mixed Goku, Vegeta, and Krillin.

168. Your new name is Vegilin when you friend lets you wear their beloved DBZ freak nametag (Vegeta+Krillin).

169. You dress as Chou-zu for Halloween because you look similar.

170. You call your Vegeta-loving friend "Vegetable" daily just to see those veins pop out of her head as she screams at you "I'm not PRODUCE!!"

171. Whenever a strong wind hits you, you sneer and say "Is that it?"

172. Whenever someone pisses you off, you crouch down and try to gather enough ki to get medievel on his/her booty

173. You get your face kicked in when you try it.

174. You keep a DBZ card in your wallet and when people ask for your ID, you point to it.

175. You keep a card of the entire Son Family and refer to it as the family portrait

176. Whenever someone asks what you need to survive, you say "Food, shelter, and Dragon Ball"

177. You learn how to write the first kanji to your fav. character's name and write it wherever you can.

178. All of your screen names and e-mail addresses have the name Gohan embedded somewhere

179. You dye your hair blond and get green contacts for special occasions

180. The walls in your room show no sign of being walls. They are covered by DB/Z/GT posters.

181. You have DB/Z/GT wall scrolls covering some posters

182. EVERY single folder in your computer has a different DB picture in the background

183. You make up a song about Vegeta and sing for two hours just to make your "currently hating DBZ" friend mad.

184. Your heart rate rises when you see "Vegetable" posted on a wall in Canada then sulk for an hour realizing Vegeta isn't real but get happier when you tell yourself there's always a chance.

185. You read this list and relize that you match most of these.

186. You say "Thank Kami" rather than "Thank God" when somthing bad dosn't happen.

187. If you're a girl you keep a pic of Goku/Vegeta/ Trunks in you're pocket- at all times.

188. You kiss it when no one's looking.

189. If you're a boy it's a pic of Launch or Bulma.

190. If you're a boy, you fantasize that your girlfreind is Bulma/Launch/Chi-Chi.

191. If you're a girl, you fantasize that your boyfreind is Goku/Vegeta/Trunks.

192. Your pet name for your bf is Goku/Vegeta, and he calls u Chi-Chi/Bulma, or vise-versa.

193. You yell your head off if the cable is down during the normal time DBZ is on. *person writing this looks at clock and
curses cable company*

194. When you first get some silly-putty you instantly mold it into a Dragon Ball.

195. You wonder why you didn't think of that.

196. When you have a birthday party for a little kid, instead of a treasure hunt, you have a Dragon Ball hunt.

197. You find all 7 and yell "WHERE THE HECK IS SHENLONG?"

198. You wish to Kami that you had a Sayian tail.

199. You get p'd off when you wake up and your wish wasn't granted.

200. You refer to your older brother as Trunks if you're a girl, Gohan if you're a boy.

201. You refer to your little sister as Bra and your little brother as Goten.

202. When someone makes you mad, your still nonexistant tail (blast Kami where is it?) fluffs and waves around before settling back around your waist.

203. You finally catch the drift that Kami won't give you that tail, and glue a fake one to your bottom

204. You threaten your baby sister with a Kamehameha when she steals your silly-putty Dragon Ball.

205. You actually go through with the Kamehameah threat...

206. ...and when nothing happens you think, "Nuts she blocked it."

207. You break your neck trying to fly and insist on being put in a rejuvination tank.

208. You're at a sci-fi conventoin and when asked what's the greatest race in the galaxy you instantly reply "The Sayins, no duh!"

209. You think your baby sister has gone SSJ because she has blond hair and green eyes while everyone else in the family has brown hair and brown eyes.

210. You get your allowance and instantly head to the nearest comic store for the latest DB/Z/GT comic or wall scroll.

211. You become nervous and grab protectively at the spot where your tail STILL isn't.

212. You cry every time Goku/Tien/Yamcha/Piccolo/Chowzu dies.

213. While sleep walking you throw your sister's watch in the road because you thought it was a hoi-poi capsule.

214. You then sit on the watch and try to drive it to the store to buy more Dragon Ball comics/srolls.

215. You want to go to shape-shifting school like Puar and Oolong...

216. ...and so do your freinds and family.

217. You get annoyed because they don't sell senzu's in the produce section.

218. You go to a Japanese restaurant and get extremly p'd that they don't have any senzu beans.

219. You make a list of all the DBZ things that could beat up Sailor Moon.

220. You watch other Japanese cartoons in hopes that a DBZ character will be in it for even just a second.

221. You wake up in the ER and wonder why your not in a rejuvination tank.

222. The doctors at the ER know u as "That DBZ Freak."

223. You wonder y yer cat dosn't talk to, even though he looks just like Koran.

224. You write a follow up to your "addicted to DBZ" entry...

225. ...the very next day.

226. When in the shower, you shampoo your hair into a shape much like Goku's or Vegeta's.

227. If u have a " Trunks Cut" but you're tired of that, you wonder how long it will be till you can put your hair up like Chi-Chi's.

228. You can't remember what your life was like before DBZ.

229.You gather yellow koosh balls and paint red stars on them.

230. Everything you own has somthing from DBZ on it.

231. You read descriptoins of all the shows 'cause the cable is still out.

232. Even when you don't have a watch you know the second it's 5:00 and rush to yer TV, only to remember your cable's out.

233. You hear the words "A week at camp" and instantly try to figure out how much DBZ you'll miss and how you can get someone to record it for you.

234. You know all the characters by name, can tell someone else the complete history of each character, and you know who does the voices for each.

235. You're parents have forced you to go into therapy because they feel your obsession w/ DBZ is "Just not healthy."

236. You cry when your little brother succeeds in buying more DBZ stuff than you and swear to pass him up.

237. You go AWWWWW....... every time you see a clip of Vegeta hugging Trunks before he sacrifices himself.

238. You want to marry the chubby old man/woman who works at your comic store because they let only YOU do layaway on DBZ merchandise when you're out of money.

239. You eat all of the foods that the bad guys are named after...except the vegetables for fear of a big bang attack causing your innards to ruin mommy's clean kitchen.

240. You and your best DBZ friend spend hours online trying to find pictures of all the fusion poses so you can try it out.

241. You find a great pic of your fave DBZ hotty, spend 20 minutes drooling over it, then get your friends over so they can drool over it too, then you find a color printer so you can print it out and put it in your room.
242. You wake up with a boner and rather than waste it you jerk off to a picture of Goku!
243. You find youself charging up before sex.