Question: how many times did Dragon Booster break the fourth wall?

For those of you who don't know what this is, it's when a character on the show makes a reference to the watching audience, be it a smart remark (E.g. Paper Mario did this quite a bit; a villain in disguise made a remark to the audience not to tell the good guys who he really was; or two characters openly debating about plot holes and blaming it on the original creator) or looking out at the audience itself (I think Beau did this once; he winked at an ending sequence).

From an old comment of Sarah Frost's, I think this applies to pop culture references too.

I'm not sure if this is common in DB, though. I mean, a lot of cartoons break the fourth wall.

The Star Wars references break the fourth wall (because I assume the movie doesn't exist in the DB world), and to some extent the plagiarised Samuel Clemens quote does too.

DB culture is effectively "modern USA plus dragons". Breaking the fourth wall isn't inherently awful in terms of comedy, but in terms of "this is really really an independent fantasy world" it destroys that. Which is not to say that independent fantasy worlds are not permitted to have comic moments, only that said comic moments shouldn't depend on the characters peeking through into our world for inspiration. Of course, whether DB "should" represent an independent fantasy world is another question entirely, and I don't know what my opinion is on that. In general I prefer independent fantasy worlds to canned-laughter-low-comedies, and I think DB so often attempts to be the former (despite the less than unique culture) that it's jarring when it breaks the fourth wall, but no doubt some disagree.

Dragon Booster isn't Duel Masters over here :lol: