It is now a public misconception in Brazil that, in the moment Goku is about to turn Super Saiyan 3, this episode was interrupted Globo TV's 9/11 coverage in 2001. In 2020, then editors-in-chief Ali Kamel and Amauri Soares debunked this rumor. They provided the channel programming from that very day, which indicates the first brief interruption brought down a Mickey Mouse episode. The second and definitive 9/11 interruption came during a break from Bambuluá (2000), of which this anime series was part.