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mnkboy907 posted...
Wasn't there also a Lapras that communicated with Ash telepathically? And there was that Gastly that turned into a Venustoise.

Yep. Holiday Hi-Jynx.

And Drew's just a bishonen; they're pretty much a dime a dozen in anime and while they seem kind of gay the first few times you run into them, you quickly learn that this is just Japan being Japan and having wildly different standards for what is considered attractive. Let me quote TV Tropes Wiki for a good example of how Japan and the US have very different standards:

Stuff

I can accept Drew as just a bishie, but he's got that thing going on where he runs his hand through his hair in slow motion. I know bishies are just a thing in Japan, but it's still fun to poke at them, especially since the show just has so many of them.

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Showdown at Linoone
"You guys relax for me!"
Score: 3/10

This episode is really boring, so here's a picture of Professor Oak I edited to make him look younger.

Sexy, ladies?

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Best write-up yet.

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Good GOD dude, I kept up with this way back during the first two topics. How has your soul not totally been devoured and crushed yet?

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ProtoPiranha posted...
Good GOD dude, I kept up with this way back during the first two topics. How has your soul not totally been devoured and crushed yet?

Oh, it has. It's just that I no longer am able to conceive of existence except by relating to the Pokemon anime.



Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut?
"Prepare for trouble, your moves are lame! Make it double, ours put yours to shame! We'll it short this time."
Score: 5/10

The heroes are screwing around some island when they see Drew practicing with his Masquerain's silver wind. May and Drew derp against each other for a while before May challenges Drew to a battle, and because it's been like forever since Drew did anything (seriously, I can't even remember his last appearance), he accepts.

Because Drew is using Masquerain, May uses Beautifly even though Combusken or Skitty are much more logical choices (they know fire and ice attacks). Because a legitimate rival battle hasn't happened for dozens of episodes and this is an interesting and rare occurrence, the writers make the completely logical choice of Team Rocket interrupting at this moment. Through a series of events so complicated I won't even try to explain them, all of the heroes and Drew get stuck in Team Rocket's submarine, which then explodes and causes them all to land on Mirage Island in three different groups.

May and Drew meet Roderick, who explains that Mirage Island is surrounded by whirlpools and no one can approach it except for him, because he's learned the whirlpools' pattern. Drew also mentions that Mirage Island is full of Lichi Berries, which are useful for making pokeblock. He knows this because, as we just established, no one can come here except Roderick. While talking with him, May and Drew fall into a river and are almost killed, but luckily a group of Wynaut save them. I especially love how May asks if they're pokemon, when they're all blue blobs that chant "Wynaut." They take them to their cave and offer them Lichi Berries and more puns with "Why not?" than you can handle. How many puns do you think you could make with "Why not?" I guarantee the answer is "fewer than the Pokemon translators can." May plays with the Wynaut in a scene that has absolutely no innuendo at all.


Team Rocket is also on the island and finds some Lichi Berries, and even though it's established that humans find Lichi Berries sour and pokemon love them, Meowth still hates them. Team Rocket steals all of the Lichi Berries, so May and Drew fight them until Roderick finds the others andblastingoffaaagain. Roderick then rewards May, but not Drew, with some free Lichi Berries even though Drew did just as much as she did to help the Wynaut.

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Date Expectations
"What would the boss do with Donphan?"
"Use 'em for bowling bolls!"
Score: 4/10

The heroes have almost reached Pacifidlog Island, but the boat breaks down near Donto Island and they're forced to stop while Carlos, the ferryman, fixes it. Unfortunately, fixing the boat will take so long that May will miss her next contest (I actually paid attention to the timing Carlos describes, and she would not miss her contest if they just waited, but whatever), so Carlos tells the heroes to cross the island and reach the port on the other side. Yes, the adult tells the children to cross a potentially dangerous forest on foot by themselves.

They come across a group of Donphan rolling around in a circle, and they realize the Donphan are doing their mating dance because it's their breeding season, and give me a new reaction image.

By the way, I love how everyone in this image is looking in a different direction.

One female in particular is extremely popular, a brown Donphan (which is not their shiny color, so I don't know). The heroes bond with a particular random male Donphan and start rooting for it to win her affections, and after so much padding, it succeeds, and the two fall in love. Team Rocket attacks the two Donphan with a net, but even though catching wild pokemon is completely legal, the heroes attack them.

Sadly, dealing with the Donphan makes thems miss the last boat to Pacifidlog Town, but Carlos gets his boat fixed earlier than expected and is able to take them, rendering the entire episode completely pointless.

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okay
why a Donphan devotion episode
whyyyy?

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htaeD posted...
okay
why a Donphan devotion episode
whyyyy?

It wouldn't even bother me except that Donphan has had multiple spotlight episodes, was the third GSC pokemon revealed in the anime (Ho-Oh and Togepi predate it), and Ash owns a Phanpy. It's just really weird that of all things, they chose Donphan.



Mean with Envy
"Time to teach you a lesson or two! Make it three, just because I'm so furious!"
Score: 5/10

May has finally reached Pacifidlog Town (which is an island instead of a group of houses on logs), and practices with her pokemon for the contest. She meets another coordinator, Joshua, and his ridiculously jealous girlfriend, Erika, who for some reason looks exactly like Haruhi.

I would call it an intentional reference but this episode predates the Haruhi anime by years. Joshua and Erika are both entering the contest.

Team Rocket attacks, so Joshua has his Houndoom help May fight them, which makes Erika even more jealous. After they defeat them, they go to register. Jessie decides to register Meowth because he can "understand human speech" even though all pokemon can understand human speech, just most can't speak it, and she's trained her Dustox specifically for contest purposes.

The contest begins,

And Jessie has Meowth use fury swipes to make an ice sculpture instead of having Meowth speak, which was the entire reason she picked him.


After round one (May, Joshua, and Erika all do well), in the locker room,

We learn that the four named entrants all made it to round two. Wow, I didn't see that one coming. May will be fighting Joshua in the second round, and Jessie will be fighting Erika.

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Pacifidlog Jam
"I couldn't find any good quotes so I'm seeing who's still paying attention."
Score: 6.5/10

We begin with Jessie versus Erika. Meowth gets his ass kicked by Jynx, so James cheats and helps Meowth pretend to use transform to turn into a Sunflora. No one suspects that the Meowth might be cheating, they just think it's surprising. After razor leaf fails, he turns into a Kirlia, and then into a Wailord.

It's only after the Wailord balloon pops that the judges finally suspect something is amiss and Jessie is disqualified.

Joshua versus May! I'm pretty disappointed, to be honest. The writers were doing really well with remembering type weaknesses in the past few seasons, but shadow ball works on Skitty here. Skitty and Houndoom start attacking each other in sync, which makes Erika think Joshua and May are "the perfect battling couple," which makes no sense, but Erika is like ten years old so I'll accept it. May wins.

It's now Erika versus May. Erika apologizes for being jealous and annoying earlier. May literally does nothing except spam assist, and with less than thirty seconds left, May is losing by a lot. She uses assist yet again, and Skitty finally gets fire spin, which is enough to win the battle for it. Yay for winning by luck.

Yaaaay.

Despite this, the episode is actually pretty good. I'm a little surprised May used Skitty, to be honest. Each of her ribbons was won by a different pokemon, so to use Skitty twice would imply it's like her "main" pokemon, like Pikachu is to Ash, but... it's not. Combusken is. Skitty has no real significance.

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Anagram posted...
Pacifidlog Jam
"I couldn't find any good quotes so I'm seeing who's still paying attention."

I was paying attention, lazy bum.

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GenesisMana posted...
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Pacifidlog Jam
"I couldn't find any good quotes so I'm seeing who's still paying attention."

I was paying attention, lazy bum.

I have no choice! I can't think of any other jokes for when I can't find any good quotes.

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We're always paying attention.

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I've read through all of these and I've actually never noticed any of the times there wasn't a quote until someone else pointed it out >_>.

Whitney in Heartgold uses assist in a mean way :(

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Maybe it's because the first contest episodes I bothered to watch were in early-to-mid Sinnoh, but I'm surprised at the high quantity of "Jessie cheats in a contest" scenes in your writeups. By Sinnoh, they're about the only time she doesn't cheat.

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That's because Jessie starts winning for a change instead of being good enough to reach the second round, but never winning.

Heck she thought she cheated when she won her first ribbon.

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FalconPain posted...
Maybe it's because the first contest episodes I bothered to watch were in early-to-mid Sinnoh, but I'm surprised at the high quantity of "Jessie cheats in a contest" scenes in your writeups. By Sinnoh, they're about the only time she doesn't cheat.

Really? Sounds interesting. Jessie has actually done better the times she played fair than the times she cheated, though she's never actually won.




Berry, Berry Interesting
"Although I try to never agree with you, this IS pretty relaxing..."
Score: 3/10

Normally, episodes where a main character catches a new pokemon are pretty decent. This isn't a normal episode.

Also: why a Munchlax? A main character already has a Snorlax. Is Munchlax like really popular in Japan or something? Is this like how in America people asked "Why did they put Jigglypuff in SSB?" whereas in Japan it was an obvious choice? If the writers just wanted to advertise Gen IV, weren't there better choices than Munchlax, especially since there already was a Munchlax in the Deoxys movie?

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Less is Morrison
"But it's like feeding a bottomless pit!"
Score: 5/10

I know, but there's no practical alternative to the teachers' unions except to throw money and them and hope it somehow works. I know they're corrupt, but they block any attempts at changes and they're some of the biggest contributors to politicians in DC, who won't do anything to stop their blatant corruption.

The heroes are eating when a "sandwich" rolls down a hill. The quality of this superimposing a sandwich over a riceball is so poor that I'm not even sure why they did it, we meet the guy who owns the sandwich a few seconds later and he's obviously Japanese. I mean... did they think American children would be unable to conceive of Japanese people eating Japanese food?

In any case, a guy named Morrison shows up and declares that he plans to be the best pokemon master ever, so Ash challenges him to a battle.

Morrison sends out Beldum, so Ash counters a steel/psychic type with Pikachu instead of Torkoal. They knock each other out, and when Ash learns Morrison has only seven badges, well...


They all go to the pokemon center, where Ash and Morrison continue to act like rivals because Gary was too cool for this show.

Morrison and Ash sleep outside and talk about the stars and leaves and blahblahblah. Let me tell you, I used to go camping all the time as a kid and teenager (I'm an Eagle Scout), and I will take a bed to a sleeping bag every time. Team Rocket attacks while all of their pokemon except for Pikachu and Beldum are with Nurse Joy, and captures their only pokemon, so they have to bring down the balloon by jumping on it and biting. Team Rocket attacks again, so Ash and Morrison just tackle Seviper and Cacnea until they free their pokemon and blastingoffaagain.

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Anagram posted...

The quality of this superimposing a sandwich over a riceball...

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...this actually happened?

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Really? Sounds interesting. Jessie has actually done better the times she played fair than the times she cheated, though she's never actually won.

It's amazing, since James is usually competent when he doesn't cheat, too.

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The quality of this superimposing a sandwich over a riceball...

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...this actually happened?

What's confusing is how inconsistent they are with changing riceballs into sandwiches, but this time it was particularly poorly done.


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Also, Munchlax was really popular for awhile after it was revealed. It was the first DP Pokemon, it was in the Deoxys movie, it was a playable character in Pokemon Dash, it was in Pokemon XD and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue/Red Rescue Team, etc... And I remember seeing a lot of promotion pictures.

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...this actually happened?

Someone made a video.



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This... this had to be an animator playing a joke. That's just ridiculous.

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If anyone has ever pointed out loudly that SANDWICHES DON'T ROLL, this scene is why.

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GenesisSaga posted...


This... this had to be an animator playing a joke. That's just ridiculous.

I wish. It's just that they don't care at all.


mnkboy907 posted...
Also, Munchlax was really popular for awhile after it was revealed. It was the first DP Pokemon, it was in the Deoxys movie, it was a playable character in Pokemon Dash, it was in Pokemon XD and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue/Red Rescue Team, etc... And I remember seeing a lot of promotion pictures.

But why advertise Munchlax of all things? I mean... so many options, and Munchlax? I understand that Lucario is too cool to be a main character's pokemon, but come on.


FalconPain posted...
If anyone has ever pointed out loudly that SANDWICHES DON'T ROLL, this scene is why.

"Sandwiches don't roll" is a sentence that was never uttered until 4Kids. I want you to know that.

The Ribbon Cup Caper!
"I don't care! We're blasting off again!"
Score: 7/10

The heroes are on a huge cruise ship for Grand Festival entrants, so huge that it's more like a city than a ship. It's so large it even has a Nurse Joy devoted to it. Can you imagine training as a nurse, following a great line of amazing nurses, and you're assigned to a cruise ship while all of your sisters and cousins are assigned to proper cities or outposts? It even has an Officer Jenny and OH MY GOOOOD this new voice actress is beyond terrible. She sounds so nasily, she doesn't even have the same accent as the previous voice actress, at least put some effort into it.

Officer Jenny is searching for Brody the Phantom Thief, the same guy who dressed as a woman at the Weather Institute like thirty episodes ago. She suspects he plans to steal the Ribbon Cup, the reward for the winner of the Grand Festival. The heroes go to visit the cup and May imagines herself as the winner, surrounded by all of her pokemon... except Beautifly, for some reason. They accidentally break the cup, and when Contesta (one of the judges. The others are the resident Nurse Joy and Mr. Sukizo, who only says "That's remarkable!", so Contesta is the only judge whose opinion is worth anything) shows up, he realizes that it's a fake because it broke too easily.

Contesta is ready to cancel the entire tournament because they don't have a back-up Ribbon Cup. but Officer Jenny tells him that Brody couldn't have escaped yet, since they're at sea, even though she has no way of knowing when Brody stole the cup and he could very well have done it before it was transported onto the ship but pokelogic. The heroes offer to help Officer Jenny, and because she's a professional investigator with dozens of security guards at her disposal (they're in the background of like every shot), she accepts the help of untrained children.

They quickly figure out how Brody did it (dressing up like a guard), but that doesn't help them: Brody could be dressed up like anyone, so Jenny decides the only logical thing to do is paint a pokeball gold and claim it's the second prize in the festival and extremely valuable... even though no one ever mentioned it before. She has the heroes pretend to be interested in it to spread word throughout the ship.
"I almost forgot, I've got to go see the golden pokeball! I hear it's golden!"

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Brody dresses up as the captain and tells Jenny and the heroes that Brody is stealing the pokemon in the pokemon center to get them to leave, and man, Jenny is the worst cop ever. They do catch Brody anyway, but only through pure luck.

When Jenny attempts to arrest him by saying "You're under arrest" (that's literally all she does, no Growlithe or anything), he sends out the most logical possible pokemon for a disguise expert to have: a Golbat. He escapes with a haze attack, but Jenny reveals that she hid a transmitter inside of the ball (I won't ask why she had a transmitter on this cruise ship). They start catching him several times, and he escapes each time, eventually realizing the ball is a fake and dumping it. Max realizes Brody is probably going to try to escape using a jetpack like the last episode (even though you would have to assume jetpacks are fairly short range), so they all go up to the deck. They take their eyes off of Jenny for one moment, and suddenly, there are two of them.


Given that Pikachu has been established to have a sense of smell that can easily pick up on tracks in dense forests and it's spent the past several hours with Officer Jenny, you would think it would be able to easily tell which is the real one, but no, this is a huge problem. It's up to Brock, who can tell the difference between Officer Jennies and Nurse Joys because he studies them.

Ew. I mean, ew. There's no way that any woman in the entire world wouldn't be creeped out by a guy who studied the minute differences between her and her sisters.

Brody gives the Ribbon Cup back because he's ceased caring about this episode and escapes with his jetpack (GEE, IF ONLY YOU HAD A GUN, OFFICER JENNY.), so after some Team Rocket shenanigans, blastingoffaagain.

Actually, this is a pretty good episode. Not because of Brody, though he's entertaining, but because everything actually does come together. I was hoping for a slightly cleverer ending, where it's revealed that Jenny was Brody all along and he'd kidnapped her and hid her in a closet or something, but this still works.

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but Officer Jenny tells him that Brody couldn't have escaped yet, since they're at sea, even though she has no way of knowing when Brody stole the cup and he could very well have done it before it was transported onto the ship but pokelogic.

Not to mention Water and Flying Pokemon do exist.

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and Brody was never heard off again

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but Officer Jenny tells him that Brody couldn't have escaped yet, since they're at sea, even though she has no way of knowing when Brody stole the cup and he could very well have done it before it was transported onto the ship but pokelogic.
Not to mention Water and Flying Pokemon do exist.

Oh my God.

I am honestly ashamed that I didn't realize that.

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Hi Ho Silver Wind!
"WILL SHE KNOW FRIEND FROM FOE?!"
Score: 5/10

The heroes are at the Slateport City Grand Arena when May's mom shows up and announces that she couldn't have missed May competing, which is why Norman is missing her competing. When May learns Norman isn't here, she says "Okay." in exactly the same way as you imagine the Okay Guy saying it.



May talks about all of the contest rivals she's had over the past three seasons like Kelly and Timmy (remember them?), but she's obviously extremely nervous. Brock explains that 247 trainers will compete in the preliminary matches, but only 64 will advance to the real contest. We see some competitors practicing, including a guy with a Zigzagoon that can... run and jump. This guy has five ribbons? Also here are Drew and Harley and EW ASS SHOT

WHAT THE HELL WHY DID YOU LOVINGLY DRAW HIS ASS IN SUCH DETAIL LOOK AT THAT THE CHEEKS EVEN ARGH

Harley apologizes for cheating in the previous contest with May, and conspicuously takes a picture of May and Drew. Only Max thinks he's incredibly suspicious. Harley tells May to use only silver wind in the preliminaries because it'll be extra impressive, and she takes his advice because she's even more stupid than Ash. Drew straight-up tells May that that's an incredibly stupid idea, but she decides that Harley is much more trustworthy than a guy who's only played honestly. We also see a cameo of the guy who beat Drew with a Milotic, I don't know what's going to happen, but I bet he's going to be the winner.

The next day (I assume), Drew and Harley sail through the preliminaries, and May uses Harley's advice to use only silver wind, and to Harley's surprise, it actually works.

She then announces that she plans to continue using only silver wind, and Drew disapprovingly tells her with his eyes that she's a complete dumbass.

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Deceit and Assist
"And before you know it, they'll give me a recording contract whether I can sing or not!"
Score: 5/10

Well yeah, but that's how all recording contracts work.

Ash meets a guy named Anthony, who had his ribbons stolen by Team Rocket, so he can't compete because the ribbons are worth so much to him that even though he could report the theft and compete anyway, it wouldn't be the same and WHAT

Does that random-ass extra have a Dragonite?! What?! Oh, Ash agrees to help him look for Team Rocket, and they succeed (I can't make any jokes out of it, it's not very interesting).

Harley, who has the most trustworthy face in the world,

Tells May to use Skitty in the second round and use only assist. This time, even May's mom can tell how stupid this idea is, but she decides to do it anyway.

Cut to the contest, and we learn that in addition to Contesta and Mr. Sukizo, there are three Nurse Joys acting as judges, who all speak perfectly in sync.

For the second round, Harley sends out his Banette, or as I like to call it, his "Completely Appropriate for Children."

Banette summons eerie blue flames and shocks itself with thunder while laughing like it's Satan. Anthony and Drew also make it, and May's plan to spam assist works out, Skitty using only impressive attacks like silver wind, razor leaf, and flamethrower, and even solar beam, which we learn Munchlax knew all along but never told anyone. At this point, I learned my video was corrupted and couldn't continue the episode (seriously), but I checked a synopsis, which tells me that May realizes that Harley is obviously evil.

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Oh man, I love Banette.

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For the second round, Harley sends out his Banette, or as I like to call it, his "Completely Appropriate for Children."

Banette summons eerie blue flames and shocks itself with thunder while laughing like it's Satan.

How is that a good idea for a contest like this?

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Rhapsody in Drew
"You call that an 'ice beam?' It's more like a 'nice beam!'"
Score: 6/10

This round is a double battle of Banette and Cacturne versus Beautifly and Bulbasaur. May defeats him with, I'll be honest, surprising ease. He knocks some of her points off, but he's never really in the match at all.

Outside, Jessie attempts to steal Robert's identity (the Milotic guy), so Ash sends Snorunt to stop her. When it gets hit by a dual psybeam/pin missile, the stress causes it to evolve into a Glailie. Maaaaaan, if you wanted a DPP pokemon, use Froslass, it's way cooler than Glalie. Glalie is like the least cool ice pokemon in the entire franchise, except for maybe Regice.

Cut to Anthony versus May, already in progress. Anthony is about to win by having his Pinsir snap Combusken's beak shut, but the time runs out and May wins. She then learns that her opponent for the third round is Drew.

Drew sends out Roselia and Flygon, "a secret weapon he's hidden all this time!", and Ash scans it because he's never seen one before even though ah screw it, you know the drill. May has Skitty and Combusken on her side.

You would think this battle would be in May's favor, given that Combusken can roflstomp Roselia and Skitty knows blizzard, a move that Flygon is x4 weak to, but nope. After four minutes and thirty seconds of battling during which Drew has the clear advantage, May is left with less points than him, so she decides to go for a quick knockout, but Drew counters with stun spore and steel wing and wins. The audience loves May more than Drew, and even though she lost, she's still the clear favorite, everyone (except Harley) chanting her name.

Cut to Drew versus Robert, and wow, Robert demolishes Drew. Well that's what you get for using Masquerain, Drew. He doesn't even knock off half of Robert's points. May tells Drew that she's sorry he didn't win, and Drew declares that there's always someone better.

Unless, uh, you're Robert. Then there's not always someone better. Drew tells May that you always need to practice and get better, or someone will pass you by, and walks away in slow-mo into the distance.

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Glalie is like the least cool ice pokemon in the entire franchise,

>:(

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Nice prediciton on Robert winning.

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Glalie is like the least cool ice pokemon in the entire franchise, except for maybe Regice.

From the Pokedex "Its body is made of ice from the ice age. It controls frigid air of -328 degrees Fahrenheit."
Regice is actually canonically the coolest ice pokemon!

Maaaaaan, if you wanted a DPP pokemon, use Froslass, it's way cooler than Glalie.

I AGREE SO HARD

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Yeah Froslass >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Glalie

Glalie is p lame (sorry mnk)

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mnkboy907 posted...
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Glalie is like the least cool ice pokemon in the entire franchise,
>:(

I won't apologize for the truth.


muddersmilk posted...
Nice prediciton on Robert winning.

It seemed obvious. They couldn't have May win, and Drew winning would up the stakes between them and make him seem like a level above her instead of just a rival. Plus, they wouldn't have brought back Robert at all if not to use him.


BlackMetalex posted...
From the Pokedex "Its body is made of ice from the ice age. It controls frigid air of -328 degrees Fahrenheit."
Regice is actually canonically the coolest ice pokemon!

>:(


htaeD posted...
I AGREE SO HARD

To be honest, I am biased toward Froslass. Trick Scarf is an amazing lead in Pokemon Online.

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GenesisSaga posted...
Yeah Froslass >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Glalie

Glalie is p lame (sorry mnk)

It's not even that Froslass is good, though it is very good, it's that Glalie is bad. I don't know how it is in battle, but it's just ugly. Not cute-ugly, but ugly-ugly.

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It's badass... :(

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mnkboy907 posted...
It's badass... :(

Sorry man, I have to disagree with you, and it doesn't help that Snorunt has, thus far, performed worse than Torkoal.

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It performs better as a Glalie.

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Island Time
"I guess this is it. I just wish I had eaten a whole lot more candy."
Score: 4/10

Those are May's intended last words. This is canon.

The heroes and Team Rocket crash a plane into a tiny island surrounded by whirlpools, inhabited only by Robin. Robin used to be a traveling salesman for a multinational corporation, and yes, he looks exactly like Tom Hanks in Castaway and that his entire gimmick. He lives with a Wailmer that saved him years ago.

Ash is concerned: this means he can't join the Hoenn League. Yes, Ash is presented with the possibility of never escaping this tiny island, and his concern is pokemon. Well, you have to have priorities. Brock suggests they convert the airplane into a boat, instead of using the radio the plane must have because all planes need to have radios. Or hell, just write a note and attach it to Swellow's talon and tell it to find an Officer Jenny.

How do they plan to make fuel? By crushing coconut milk, of course. Well, they finish the boat after one day of work, and the next morning, Robin says goodbye to Wailmer. Max suggests he catch it, but Robin tells the heroes that he plans to live in a city, and what would Wailmer do there? He also laments that he's no longer certain the city even has anything for him now; as a salesman he was unsatisfied with life, but what else can he do?

Team Rocket steals the boat and Pikachu, but fails to realize that the boat hasn't been fueled yet, so they only succeed in getting it destroyed. They attack the heroes because what else would they do with their time? After losing the fight to Pikachu, Team Rocket gets annoyed and climbs onto Wailmer, which evolves for... some reason. Wailord blasts Team Rocket off, and with its huge size, it can easily carry all of the humans through the whirlpools. There's even a scene where a huge wave tries to knock them off of Wailord like the wave tried to knock Tom Hanks off of raft, but instead of getting over it by using guts and intelligence, Wailord just blasts it with an energy ball. That's how Castaway should have ended. Wailord finds a passing ship and drops the heroes off.

Robin can't say goodbye, so he decides to go back to the island because the city no longer has anything for him, he would just become an unsatisfied salesman again. Uh... you might at least want to say goodbye to your family, right? Right?

Right?

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Like a Meowth to a Flame
"One noodle from the Noodle Nosh and you'll never nosh anywhere else!"
Score: 7/10

The heroes have finally reached Ever Grande City. May wants to go to the Noodle Nosh, a restaurant famous for its chicken noodle soup. As they walk through Ever Grande City, where for some reason every single female except May wears a dress or skirt (Japanese women do wear pants sometimes, right?), they get attacked by several hundred evil Murkow, who hate outsiders. They're saved by another trainer in the Hoenn League, Tyson, and his Meowth.

You can't tell from that picture, but yes, it walks upright and wears boots. Even though Meowth's origin episode established that regular Meowth can't walk upright and indeed are actually better off on all fours because they can run faster, and Meowth in particular learned to walk upright just to seem more human. Tyson mentions that his Meowth could evolve, but it chooses not to. Good for it: the only cat with a better evolution than its first form is Glameow, and of course, May's Skitty will never evolve (I checked).

At Ever Grande City's pokemon center, Ash calls Oak, who offers to send Ash any of the pokemon he'll need, but Ash wants to stick with his six Hoenn pokemon because that's incredibly stupid. I mean, hell, at least bring Snorlax. At least send back Torkoal! Goddammit, Ash. Goddammit. What if you hadn't happened to catch a Snorunt recently? I hope you get knocked out in round one.

Just then, an alarm goes off: someone has stolen the Hoenn League torch. Of course it's Team Rocket, disguised as Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy. They do their motto imitating Jenny and Joy's voices, and inexplicably, Jessie mimics Jenny's old accent instead of her current accent... and she actually does a pretty good job of it.

After Ash forgets to use Swellow again, Tyson sends out his Metagross to stop Team Rocket. Eventually, it all comes down to Meowth versus Tyson's Meowth, because there was no way they were having another Meowth without it meeting Team Rocket's Meowth. Tyson's Meowth insults Meowth, defeats Meowth with fury swipes and iron tail, and then uses thunderbolt to blast off Team Rocket.

Tyson and Ash agree to have a good competition, which means Tyson will defeat Ash, and no, I didn't check ahead. Well, at least he's more believable than Richie. At least he has a Metagross and not a Charmander.

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Yay! Meowth-in-Boots!

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Tyson mentions that his Meowth could evolve, but it chooses not to. Good for it: the only cat with a better evolution than its first form is Glameow, and of course, May's Skitty will never evolve (I checked).

That... had to be a joke, right?

Purrugly is... Purrugly. The name says it all.

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From: Anagram | #250
I meant to say Glameow.

You did say Glameow. Or am I missing something...?

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