Wait, this is your first time through DBZ?
Yeah, pretty much first real attempt at the entire thing.
The first time I saw the series it was literally probably just Namek and Frieza's defeat. The series bored the [parasitic bomb] out of me, either a mixture of the really crummy music and Goku being in the [tornado fang]ing pod. I didn't like waiting another day for another episode when it ended almost as quickly as it began.
I think I also watched a small bit of Cell and Buu but that's it. Watching it after Dragonball and with the original Japanese music has made it much better.
Lots of the stuff on Toonami bored the everloving [parasitic bomb] out of me back then, Gundam was lots of talking, Sailor Moon was a girl's show and I was never really big on action shows.
Anyway Tien's basically doing the last thing he'll ever do in the series.