{"id":"next-time-on-dragon-ball-z","name":"Next Time On Dragon Ball Z","summary":"Next Time On Dragon Ball Z is a 1996 meme derived from the English dub narrator's episode-ending narration, popular for mocking the show's notoriously glacial pacing and repetitive cliffhangers.","tags":[],"howToUse":["**The cliffhanger parody:** Set up an absurdly mundane situation (waiting for a microwave, loading a webpage) as if it's a life-or-death crisis, then add \"Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!\" as a dramatic closer.","**The filler joke:** Describe an event that should take seconds but somehow fills an entire episode, then promise resolution \"next time.\"","**The narrator voice:** Record or type out a series of increasingly dramatic rhetorical questions about a trivial situation, mimicking the narrator's breathless delivery style.","**The instant answer:** Ask dramatic questions in the narrator's style, then immediately answer them all (as TeamFourStar popularized), deflating the suspense on purpose[2]."],"imageCount":1,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/next-time-on-dragon-ball-z/next-time-on-dragon-ball-z-format.webp","caption":"Canonical 'Next Time on Dragon Ball Z' meme format.","width":100,"height":100,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/next-time-on-dragon-ball-z/history.md","related":["its-over-9000","this-isnt-even-my-final-form","black-frieza","son-goku","we-saiyans-have-no-limits","bitch-i-look-like-goku","dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-30-dollar-haircut","dragon-ball","dragon-ball-af-dragon-ball-hoshi","gohan-blanco","just-saiyan","kamehameha"],"popularityRank":1094,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}