Intro.

Hello and welcome to our weep. There yet an exploration and education in anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime researcher that got trapped in a cabudo costume. Don't kink. Shame.

I Will.

Hey, yeah. Research is a funny way of saying you're going to the first convention.

It is a fun way of saying it. That's why I say.

A shelley.

Yeah. A prehistoricy fossil.

I don't know. Well, let's get some Pokemon assistance to sort out what type of furry falls under we have a guest this week. You know him from the Detective pikachu game pokemon Masters and the new game out. After party, we're joined by coy Dow.

Hello. Is it safe for me to come out yet?

You're allowed now. Come on out.

This is the same thing.

I don't know. dugan's been keeping me in his filing cabinet. There's, like, colored Led lights hooked up to it to indicate to me whether or not I can or cannot move or speak. Just turn green. So I'm assuming typically, as I'm recording.

I need you to sit as silently as possible. But I'm going to let you speak this time.

This time? Okay.

Oh, my goodness. This atmosphere we've created chilling.

We're visual storytellers, baby.

Would be weird to have me on as a guest if I wasn't allowed to articulate anything.

They're silently minding your own business.

That's why we promised. He's here.

He's totally here.

He's giving the thumbs up throughout.

So is our other guest, rodney dangerfield. Hey, rodney. Yeah, rodney.

The ghost of rodney dangerfield.

What?

Isn't he dead?

Oh, no. This is a terrible way to find out.

Oh, no.

Anyway, move past. Move past it.

Okay. Back to Pokemon.

No. It's a dangerous field of Pokemon battle.

That's the segue, right?

That was good.

That was fine.

Hey.

Holy shit. I got me outside the aggression.

My goodness.

Well, it's time both for Brendan to finally die and for to talk about the long awaited series. We're going ultimate classic for the close out of our four kids marathon. We're going to go and watch indigo League of the Original Pokemon.

Yeah.

Og the good stuff. Good, good shit. Yeah.

This this has been recommended by several people, but it was sort of inevitable that we would get here, so I don't have your names, so thank you for suggesting it. Of course we are going to get to it.

Don't you worry not.

But yeah, this is such a classic. Of course, we've all seen it. But, yeah. I want to touch into everyone's specific Pokemon history.

I, as a child, didn't understand it, but I bought a Pokemon Moon when it came out, and I tried to play it and still didn't quite understand it. But, boy, do I love these little friends. I love Pokemon.

Purely aesthetical Pokemon.

Oh, yeah. I have a Pope plushie. I love those boys. Can we all say what our favorite Pokemon is, too. Mine's bulbasaur. I love bulbasaur.

Oh, we did a poll recently on Twitter about this.

We did. bulbasaur is my favorite. So shout out shouts out to everybody that voted for bulbasaur because bulbasaur won. If your favorite wasn't another one, or.

Lucario, which was the other one that won? Or Ludicola? Which? What did I write? I already forgot mine's dragon. That sure shit didn't win. Yeah.

Brendan. What's your Pokemon history?

I was there day one. I remember a friend of mine visited with Pokemon Red, because he wanted to play it, and I was like, Let me see. And he's like, no, he wasn't my friend anymore. That sparked the interest being denied access to it. And as soon as I could, I got into it and just, like, way into it. I think I skipped, like, Gen four and then maybe like, Gen six, but otherwise, I got a pretty good understanding of games. Shows unnecessary amount of furry furrization of the Pokemon. I think there's a specific term genchi or genjuchi Gajinko maybe, where it's like turning the Pokemon into humanized versions of them.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

Yeah.

It came about porn.

We're always, like, one or two steps away from porn at any given point, especially me. I'm not proud of it, but gajinka.

I was close.

This took a drastic turn that I was not liking.

Sorry.

Poker. Porn got a fat to them all. I've done work for Nintendo.

Are you sure you want to put this out there in the world?

Yeah.

Goy. Before working for Nintendo, what was your Pokemon experience?

Oh, my goodness. Pokemon came on the scene when I was but a wee child and interestingly, a we child who did not yet speak English. My first experiences with Pokemon was when I was still in when I only spoke French. So I played Pokemon in French, and I watched the French dub of the Pokemon anime.

Oh, wow.

Yeah. And I had a pretty as to be expected reaction from a kid. Like, holy shit. You can catch the animals and bake the fight. Bobby. Bobby. I was the Game Boy color, and she's like, no, you do math. And I'm like, okay, fine. But I wore her down, and she got me a Game Boy color for Christmas, and I would proceed to get halfway through the game before losing my Game Boy on the train.

Oh, no.

Tragic.

That was, like, the worst day of my life.

Maybe it's still out there. Maybe it's like Toy Story and trying to find its way back to you.

Maybe it's walking Game Boy somewhere.

Oh, the lost Game Boy.

Yeah. And the plaque is like, some dumb ass kid lost this on the train one time. Speak English.

What a loser.

What a freaking loser.

What a great museum.

Yeah.

What about you, dugan?

Yeah, as I've mentioned previously, I didn't really grow up as a Nintendo kid as a indoctrinated Sony Boy, so I only first played well, I watched the show, of course, growing up, I have, like, specific memories of watching the premiere of the dub. That is weirdly. One of my, like, first memories.

Oh, wow.

Just being like, oh, hey, this new show, it's called Pokemon. Okay, so I remember watching it as it came out for the first time, but for the games. When I was a freshman in college, I played Red on an emulator, and I still have yet to beat it, so I've never completed a full Pokemon game.

What is wrong with you? Hey, you and me both.

So many things. But yeah. The Switch is the first console I've had from Nintendo. I've had a Game Boy SP, but I, at that point was like, I don't know what this Pokemon thing is. It was a cartoon. I don't need to play the game.

Watch it. I don't have to put effort into it.

I already know the story. duh.

I don't need to have a unique.

Experience with it to personally bond with individual Pokemon on my team. I love you, Per loom.

But yeah. So Sword and Shield, which is about to come out as this episode airs, is going to be the first one I get and hopefully finish Fingers cross knock on watch.

Really?

Yeah.

You waited this long?

I've dipped my toes in since I played on an emulator. Don't sue me, Nintendo. I know that's your thing, but I had it on a laptop, so it was, like, bulky, and I didn't have the convenience of a ds or one of the handheld consoles where it was out on. So this is going to be the first time I have that convenience, man.

Oh, wow.

How exciting.

I remember being thrown out of my house because my dad said I need to go outside and play more in the sunshine instead of being locked up in my room. So he locked me out of the house for like, 6 hours, and I just sat on the car playing Pokemon.

I'll show you. Dad.

Develop like, muscles. Yeah. I also got real drunk in rhode Island and wander around my cousin's playing Pokemon Go.

Love that.

Hell yeah.

I can't wait until Pokemon just exists because I feel like the Pokemon company will not rest until we can have a physical Pokemon.

They're going to get the breeders work.

In secret somewhere underneath Tokyo.

Just set a Google alert for, like, when the Pokemon company buys up stock in, I don't know, biochemical engineering or something.

Then, you'll know, that's the time Nintendo bought 23 and me so they can perfectly pair your Pokemon. And also, it's made of your DNA.

That's terrible.

But also, what if Resident Evil is just failed Pokemon experiments trying to make them real, and they're just turn into monsters?

It all types, every video.

Please don't give them more ideas.

It's all cannon.

Well, so we picked a couple of select episodes because we know how this show starts, we know what's up. So we went through and picked some favorites, both of just the world in general and our personal picks, the world's favorite. So, yeah. coy, you requested watching the episode where brock gets his Vulpics. Any significance for that episode? For you?

Yeah, vulpix.

That's it? That's all you need?

Yeah. vulpix is cute as hell.

Oh, yeah.

We didn't get your favorite Pokemon. Is that vulpix?

No. Okay, before everybody rolls their eyes, my favorite Pokemon is mudkip, which I liked before the do you like mudkip's? meme was ever a thing. Okay, I'm sorry if I get very defensive about this, but everybody's like, oh, you just like it because of the meme. And I mean, no, you don't understand history here. Little point playing Pokemon. emerald was a very strategic thinker and considered that mudkip evolved into Pokemon, that it was immune to electricity when it gains the ground type, therefore reducing its weaknesses to just one type, which is the least damaging type. So essentially, mudkip is the strongest starter in the Pokemon universe thus far.

Yeah, that's honestly why I picked them, too. You get Mud shot up in that. Battle done. The battle is over.

Yeah. Oh, my God. So good, dude. Like, if you encounter a good grass.

Type Pokemon, you're fine.

That's the end. Your swamper's dead.

Let's get out of here.

Yeah, for you. But mudkips are great, and I like them. Before it was cool.

The og mudkip fan.

My audio might have peaked a little there when I.

No understandable.

Yeah.

So yeah, I also didn't say mine. Of course it's my boy Far fetched, because he's just a duck, which I am so excited for the new Far fetched. And is it shield or sword? Which one? I know it's gallon.

It is far fetched.

Yeah, I think it's in one of them.

Shield.

But you think it's shield.

Knight.

Okay.

It's the right one.

Dude, it's in shield. It's in shield. Because I remember noting really wanting Surfetched, but also really not wanting the weird Shield. Dog. Legendary. Yeah, because that just looks like a dog that got its head stuck in a thing. And the other one is like a badass wolf with a sword in its mouth, which I don't know if it's a part of its body or if it's found a sword. It's an organic sword.

So confused that Surf fetch is fighting type. It doesn't make sense. Anyway, we're going to fight anyway.

Too deep into the games. We need to talk about the show.

Yeah, show.

So, yeah, we're we're gonna touch on some classics. We're gonna watch episodes 1217 and 27. That is Squirtle Squad, island of the Giant Pokemon and the introduction of voltage. Oh, I got my team. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to fight. I'm ready to kill time of murder with some Pokemon.

Oh, shit. Is it just all squirtles?

It's all squirtle.

But you can discern that there's a hierarchy based on the shape of their glasses.

Yes, we got General Squirtle and the grunts.

And then there's common a squirtle.

Squirtle number one.

Where'S the heavens?

You got that newbie squirrel who just joined the team. But he's got the transition sunglasses inside. Regular glasses outside of sunglasses.

He'll get there.

He'll get there.

He'll earn his as he ages, the shades will just darken permanently. But, yeah, let's jump right in. We're starting out with our team, the Squirtle Squad. Of course, right off the bat, we got that baller opening. It's a classic.

It's so good.

It's part of my workout mix for the gym.

All right. I like Pokemon johto better than the original opening. I know I'm probably going to get crucified for saying that, but I am.

Unfamiliar with that one.

Really?

Yeah. I don't think I've seen much of any Pokemon besides this indigo League.

The sun and Moon openings are genuine bob. It's a very good song. Yeah, that sounds like anyway, scorbaccod.

But, yeah. We start out where we got a series of episodes where all the starters join the team. So Ash just picked up charmander and bulbasaur, and now we get the introduction of Squirtle. So our gang of Ash, misty and brock are walking into a town when they fall into a pit. It's dug by the Squirtle Squad, a team of prankster squirtles that are just running amok, just causing havoc. Raising havoc.

How long do you think it took those itty big turtles to dig that.

Big asshole for 37 minutes?

Exactly.

Yeah.

On the nose.

Did they use shovels? They had to use shovels. They're not big enough. How did they get out?

Or, like, if they can produce sufficient friction by spinning on their shelves, they could probably display oh, yeah.

Just drill down.

Yeah.

Get the dirt wet. So it's nice and easy to move.

Pokemon logistics. That's why I'm here.

We're all about the world building of Pokemon.

Interestingly, the pokedex identifies turtle I mean, Squirtle, as the turtle Pokemon, which implies the existence of actual, just normal, regular turtles.

Turtles, yeah.

In the Pokemon world. Like, they have turtles as a point of reference for squirtles. But you never see regular animals, which.

Is really well, you'll see, sometimes when they eat fish, they'll be like, regular fish.

That's fish. What if it's magic harp?

No ssn episode. Or before ssa. And when James gets sold a magic carpet, he said, well, at least we can eat it. And he bites it. And the scales are rock hard. He's not even good as food.

Poor magic arf.

But the polka deck says that pidgey eat magic carp, don't they?

Or, like, there's a very hard beaks.

Then, yeah, maybe pelican.

You just eat some whole no, probably.

Every Pokemon eats every other Pokemon. Let's leave it at that food chain.

Who eats? Me, too.

It's just a wild west for Pokemon.

The answer is don't think about it.

Don't think about it. Oh, God. What does porrigan taste like anyway?

It's just digital anyway. No. We get their introduction of Squirtle as the turtle Pokemon, and they try to capture or ashes, like, oh, fuck, yeah, I got to steal one of these boys. And tries to have pikachu fight it to steal it. But they all run away because they hear sirens from Officer Jenny pulling up.

Shit, the cops. 50 boys.

So we get Officer Jenny and we get the establishment that there's an Officer Jenny for every town because they're all cousins.

All of our names are Jenny.

We have terrible parents.

That's another great don't think about it.

Just don't think about it.

Just don't think about it.

You can identify which Officer Jenny and which Nurse Joy it is by their hats. They have different symbols.

The character designer didn't want to work that hard.

Listen, I got a lot of Pokemon to draw are going to look similar.

Just go, please. These fucking idiot kids won't care.

They're right. We didn't.

But Jenny picks them up, takes them into town, and warns them that the Squirtle Squad is made up of all deserted Pokemon who are abandoned by their masters. And they banded together and resorted to being pranksters because they all hate humans now, which is relatable.

Fair.

Fair. Yes.

As the team leaves the police headquarters, we see Team Rockets spying on them. We get our gay icons, Jesse and James.

Yes.

It's amazing watching the show. Everyone wants to be Ash in the gang. In hindsight, everyone wants to be justine and James. So what?

I wouldn't give yeah.

Their storyline, watching it as an adult, it just works so well. Because they are the outcast. They're the losers. They're trying to make papa team Rocket proud.

Rocket.

Also, James comes from money, doesn't he?

He's filthy rich.

He's a rich kid. So he's just doing this for fun because he can.

Jesse is poor as hell.

Oh, is she?

Yeah. She grew up eating snow like, she made, like, her little rice cakes.

Oh, yeah, that broke my heart.

Yeah, it's a real sad episode.

Oh, my God. Yeah, Pokemon gets sad. She fails out of med school or something. Pokemon med school.

She had some other goal. And yes, she failed out of it.

And then tried to frog it.

Wow.

We already have nurse Joy. You can't be a medical professional in this week.

We don't look like her.

We have the one nurse, but yeah, they're spying because they're plotting to steal pikachu when they are surrounded by the Squirtle Squad, who wants to steal their picnic. Steal their picnic basket.

Yeah.

So they surround them. They also fall in a conveniently placed pit.

Got you.

So they are captured and they say, hey, rather than robbing us, how about we rob these fucking children? Let's band together.

Also, isn't this like another classic instance of my jelly doughnuts. Yeah, my jelly filled donuts when they're obviously not claire's. I mean, I like how, like, the the line could have easily been adapted to just be ambiguous about what the foods were like, oh, they're eating our freaking food. They didn't have to call attention to what the items were.

Classic four kids needing to relate it to American foods. They're like, I'm tired of pizza and tacos. Let's have anything else. Oh, no. These squirtles are eating our jelly donuts and hot dogs.

James says he's like, can we get Chinese food? I'm like, So you're establishing China exists in the Pokemon world? They could have picked other food. You don't even see it. You could just say anything anyway.

But yeah, the Squirtle Squad doesn't trust their proposition because they were all abandoned by humans, so they don't trust them. So Miauth comes up with the plan that Miauth owns Jesse and James, and they are subservient to meowth. So the Squirtle Squad can trust the leader Miauth because meowth is a Pokemon and can talk.

Yeah.

So we get them teaming up, and the gang is out fishing. But a squirtle?

Yeah.

I don't know. The passage of time is weird because one of the Squirtle Squad is just hanging out in the river waiting to squirt them as they're fishing. pikachu tries to fight and shocks everyone because they're all wet. And in the fight, pikachu is knocked into the water where he's stabbed in the butt by a golden nice and is knocked out. He's down for the count.

I love that pikachu, the leader of the Squirrel Squad, has the girl and leg on glasses, but then all the other ones have the little round sunglasses and look like Paul schaefer from David letterman's Tonight Show.

They're just all honorary beatles. But yeah, the Squirtle Squad captures them while pikachu is drowning, I guess. So they're all captured. They get lassoed and brought to a cave where meow confronts and says they're going to steal the pikachu, who is now caged and passed out. So Ash is like, hey, you gang of thugs, this meowth fucking sucks. Don't believe them. But they're like, no, we're going to trust this Pokemon over a human, so go to hell, Ash. But as they are all captured, pikachu is dying. Just a chronic illness dying. And they're like, okay, we got to get him a super potion or he will be dead. If you want to steal a living pikachu, we got to revive him. So they don't trust Ash, but they say, Go get your medicine. But if you're not back by noon the next day, we're going to dye misty's hair purple.

Oh, man, what a pg threat. You're going to save me $100 at the airship.

What if misty was on board with it? Like oh, fuck, yeah. punk of shit, don't eat.

I don't need to go to scissors to eat and get a makeover.

Yeah.

So they? Ash runs away to the next town, trips and falls because he's a dumb kid.

I like how that's the best obstacle they could come up with, trips over nothing.

What's the next obstacle?

A bridge.

Yeah, he gets to the classic rickety drawbridge, which of course collapses and he falls in the water and also gets stabbed in the butt by a goldene.

Oh, man.

But eventually he gets to the town but is knocked out by his rival Gary leaving the shop, slams the door in his face and he's out cold.

He's like knocked out for like 12 hours. It's the next day.

Yeah.

No one found this kid.

They just walk right past him.

He's in this alleyway with some barrels. Yeah.

Let's leave this ten year old just dead on the store shop.

It's fine.

I mean, it is the Old West for some reason in this town.

Well, speaking of the Old West, when Ash wakes up, he wakes up to Jesse and James. Just straight up armed robbery. This place. They have guns.

Why don't they ever use the guns instead of their Pokemon? Because clearly the Snake and the poison Ball don't do anything.

There was a canonical war Lieutenant serge was in.

Oh, yeah, true.

He's a lieutenant.

At the very least, the existence of guns is implied. But do they fight with Pokemon?

It's vague.

They give the Pokemon guns.

Okay, perfect.

You haven't seen anything until you've seen a jiggly Push just mow down a group of caputos.

There's just a gun taped to executor because he has no arms. Anyway, store robbery.

So yeah, they robbed the store and in typical anime fashion, they just shout out their plan saying, yeah, we're going to use this but to betray the Squirtle Squad, so give us all your flash bombs. And Ash is like, oh no, they're going to get double crossed. I got to immediately get back there. So he goes inside and all the shopkeepers and people inside who just got robbed now pull out guns.

Apparently they also have guts.

They're packing.

This must be like rural, just yeehaw Pokemon land.

Yeehaw can't tell.

Is there a gun or a Pokemon with a gun?

I mean, let's get surfetched evolved and see what that guy can do.

Pokemon with swords. And there's Pokemon that are literal swords.

Oh, God. There are Pokemon.

Where are the Pokemon with guns? Where is the Gun Pokemon?

I mean, those are just digimon.

What is his type?

They acknowledge that someone else has to have a gun. Who here has a gun? Raise your hand.

Honestly, I'm surprised no one has just loaded a cannonball into a blastoise. Just like yeah, just propel it with water. But the main thing is the cannonball that we're firing at people or load.

A voltorb into a blastoids.

Interesting combo.

We're here with some quick Pokemon hacks. This was also leaked about the new game.

The combo hacks are canonical now, but yeah.

So Officer Jenny saves this boy from being held up by a store full of people with guns.

Don't shoot this child.

He gets the potion. And Officer Jenny takes him back to the cave where he goes in through the secret side entrance, conveniently leaving.

Convenient.

Yeah.

He doesn't sell into the bridges out.

Yeah.

The entire body is riding with the bridge. And they're like, oh, no. I guess we'll just go around. It wasn't really a big factor. Oh. The perfectly fine bridge that doesn't collapse was 10ft down the road. So they climb into the cave. Everyone is outside because they're about to try to steal the pikachu. Jesse and James fly over with their meow hot air balloon and they just start fucking bombing. Do a bombing run on this squirtle squad.

Yeah. It is literal bombs, isn't it?

Yeah.

They're like, hey, yeah, flash bombs. But they're just straight up explosives. They're not like flashbang blind them and run away, but whatever.

Oh, in the leaked Pokemon sprites from a way back of designs they didn't use, there's remicant who evolves into, like the octopus one. I forget. But that was supposed to be like a handgun fish. And the octopus was supposed to be like a tank. So there would have been a canonical gun Pokemon, but they changed it because.

Of the epidemic of gun violence. Maybe.

Interesting.

Weird.

Americans can deal with food being named, but they can't deal with the acknowledgement of gun violence.

No.

Anyways, on that cheery note, back to the bombing.

Back to bombing children and turtles.

So meow steals pikachu and hops back up in the balloon, and everyone runs the cave for cover. But poor Squirtle gets stuck on his back.

Loves him so much. It's like the leader of the gang. They can dig pits he can just create water from, but he gets stuck on his back like a goddamn turtle.

He is a goddamn turtle.

You can throw your shell like 30ft in the air to like, spin attack, but just laying flat on your back is death.

This is really funny to me.

But Ash, of course, being a noble savior, jumps over and covers a Squirtle from a bombing because, yeah, boy flesh is a lot stronger than a turtle shell. So he absorbs the explosion. And seeing the love of a human again, this Squirtle is like, okay, now I'm going to choose to jump up and save you.

Exactly. Now he can jump up and hold a full grown child over.

He can't flip over, but can throw a child and himself up from the back. But yeah, now that they're bonded, ash has Squirtle use his water gun to knock the balloon down. And Team Rocket blasts off again.

And then the squirtle squad gets government jobs.

Yeah. The bombs start a forest fire and the squirtle squad teams up and they put it out. So Officer Jenny knights them as the town fire department.

They get little jackets.

But yeah. So the leader now bonded with Ash, is going to join the team and that's the episode.

Takes off his sunglasses and his eyes are beautiful.

Eyes.

Take off your glasses, let down your hair.

You're beautiful. Now, I really wanted the leader of the Squirtle Squad to have just, like, a full back tattoo on a shell, like a yakuza leader. If it's so rad, I wonder if.

He passed on his glasses to another member of the Squirtle Squad so that they could be the leader.

No, because they go back in a later episode and they're just part of the fire department. And when she gets real, they don their glasses again, so he still got them.

I love that. Oh, shit. yo, what if the Squirtle Squad had guns, too?

I'll shoot the fire.

I'm going to be self focused on Pokemon with guns.

No, like, just guns taped to their shells. Could you imagine that's? Like the ultimate defense offense combination. Oh, yeah, it's true.

See, that's just them practicing for when.

They yeah, yeah, I want to be.

Them taping guns to their back like a kid playing with a fake sword.

That makes so much sense. Oh, man, I don't know. The moral of the episode is you can reduce Squirtle street gang violence with a universal jobs guarantee by establishing a.

Fire department, which apparently that town didn't.

Have before, which is concerning.

In this world. It's the Pokemon emerald. New deal. Anyway, thank you.

We'll jump ahead to episode 17, which is aisle of the giant Pokemon. Excuse me. And we got started on with another previous on, and it's the gang on a raft out in the middle of the ocean for some goddamn reason, and a swarm of Garritos just start doing dragon rage and suck them up in a hurricane and launch them off to God knows where, which is very concerning. If you're ten or any other age, it's a very big problem.

Ash goes through a lot.

I mean, this is what happens when he's cursed by hoo for eternal youth. He's got to endure this on his child body. And they get launched off, and then they all wake up on a beach. But Ash finds out all of his Pokemon are gone except for two, which at this point, I don't remember what they are. But we never see him in this episode, which is odd.

Yeah, he never pulls them out to be like, hey, who's here? Who's that? Roll call.

I think it does. One of them is Metaphod, and I don't remember what the other one is. And then we cut to we see Jesse and James stuck, like, waist deep, head down in the sand and face down, ass up. And we see a little no.

Jesus Christ.

We see a little crabby run over, and he's like, hey, what's these things he pokes? And it's like, oh, they're not moving. Then that was my. Chance and just chomps them in the legs and then runs off because crabby is a little shit and I love him, and he's just running rag going and they're missing their pokemon as well, along with me, al. And then they find a random phone booth because it's the we had these back in the day, and they're like, oh, well, we'll use this to call the boss. And then it cuts away. We see Pikachu luckily, being the only one out of its ball because it's Pikachu, I was able to release all the other pokemon out of their balls. So we got Pikachu, charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, the main ones, they're wandering around, trying to figure out what happened, where everyone is, and they find a Slow Poke, and they're like, oh, maybe we'll ask slowpoke. You're like, hey, where are we? What's going on? What's happening? slowpoke just, like, gets up, scoots back a bit, and it drops the tail into the water and starts fishing. And that's it.

I love this. I was smiling the whole time because they're just all talking to each other, and they have subtitles. All these pokemon have little conversations. I love it.

Pokemons be common. They all understand each other. And Slow Poke shit is running on his own time. He don't care. He's got shit to do. And meanwhile, Bulbasaur, Squirrel are just sitting back, just vibing on the beach and be like, hey, this ain't bad. Just Vibe.

Yeah, bulbasaur was sitting like a cat.

Yeah.

All his arms tucked in. I love Bulbasaur lopen on the beach. The sweetest boy. He's actually pretty mischievous and sassy in this one, though.

This one, asha still has to earn his trust. So ash's pokemon start venturing off now that it's nighttime. And charmander is using his tail to guide them all with the light. And Bulbasaur starts suggesting, like, oh, maybe we got abandoned. Maybe they left us. And this is when I realized all of Ashes pokemons are damaged goods. Like, they all got baggage. Quick. They'll be like, not again. They have abandoned me again.

It's just like, oh, shit is, like, super emo.

Yeah.

He's like, I can't trust anybody.

Well, he's the one with the whips.

He's got a dark straight to him.

Yeah.

And right around then, miao shows up with atkinson coffee. He's like now I can get pikachu myself. Get him. Guys and coughing are like, nah, I don't listen to you. The fuck you think you are? You're not my dad.

You're not my dad.

Knows better than me. Just because you speak English, you speak.

Gooderer, doesn't mean you're better.

Yeah, no, I like how the eccles in the coffin have, like, a dumber more like a simpleton's vocabulary. And the other pokemon are like, so articulate.

Pikachu is the learned folk, I dare say. Yeah. coughing says, like, two words at most in a sentence.

You not master.

No master. No. Listen. And yeah, atkins. atkins. And coughing only obey one bad bitch. And that's Jesse and James.

Hell, yeah.

And atkins whips out, though. There's no such thing as bad pokemon. Just bad masters. Just like Shit atkins. Damn.

I love that.

I love it getting real.

They're acknowledging their own downfalls, and it's that they must listen.

They're too loyal. And so they all group together and just agree, like, all right, we're not fighting. Why waste our energy? So they set up down and start a little campfire, and they time me out because he's being an asshole. So they're all eating, and they got, like, a bunch of different little fruits on leaves and just having a little chill time. It's adorable.

Love it. pokemon picnic.

And then me out screaming, like, let me out. I got to get food, too. squirrels like, oh, are you going to stop being a dick? He's like, no, squirrel is like, all right, cool. And then just eats, like, really close in front of him. I love squirrels. He's such a sassy bit. And while they're on their campfire, they hear this fumbling and the ground shaking. And they look over and they see a giant Ryhorn walking around. And they're just like, well, fuck this. And they just all take off running.

And finally, the introduction of dynamaxing.

Oh, my God. I was just about to bring that up way back. Would this be the inspiration for this concept, which is just basically pokemon, but bigger?

What if everyone in the arena could see that?

Yeah, it wasn't. Oh, God. Imagine being in the nosebleed sections of a stadium, and they're fighting with an oddish it's just like, oh, fuck me. Who is this thing?

Come on. There's so many buff pokemon I could see.

Give me a mud, champ. I feel like one of the pokemon designers is just sitting at a desk, and they had a toy of pichu on their desk and a toilet godzilla on their desk. And they're just like, what?

Can you imagine this idea being pitched? Like, all right, how about big pokemon? Oh, you mean like, we designed a new, bigger pokemon? No, you don't understand. Just current existing pokemon. But we make them huge.

What if we do no extra design work? We just make them large.

Just chunky large boys.

They're not shifting it anymore. They're just circling big on the whiteboard over and over again. Big, big. And so, yeah, they start running from the ride on. Cut to the ashton Gang. They're running from a giant Zaptos, and they escape from that. And it would cut to Jesse and James. They're running from a giant Maltros. Everyone's having a good time getting that cardio. And Jesse and James run into a keep out sign and knock themselves out of it because then it gets to the next day. So they've just been passed out on this grass for, like hours again. But we come back to the pokey gang, who are eating at this little food stand and slow poke there and, like, a Little Chef outfit, like some takoyaki and shit. And it's just like, what's happening? And atkinson and coughing are just crying because Bulbasaur suggested that they might have been abandoned. Like they were bulbasaur was drunk. It's just real nuts.

It was a very chimp, straight vibe.

And then it cuts to them all. Like atkins wrapped around everyone. And everyone was sleeping together. So it's like, oh, that was just a dream. But, like, was it? So everyone wakes up, and we see Jesse and James passed out from that running into a sign still. They wake up, and then they run to the phone booth they saw earlier, and they call their boss, who we don't know yet, but it's the leader from Team Rock is giovanni. If you play the game, is giovanni.

But his voice is, like, all distorted.

Yeah, this really crazy voice disorder, which isn't necessary because we've never met giovanni up to this point, so it's not like we'd recognize it anyway. It's not Dr. claustro. Yeah, Dr. kal from Inspector gadget. So it's just like this crazy voice changer. And they're like, hey, boss, we're in trouble. But first, our routine. And they do the whole Team Rocket intro through the phone. And they even make a letter R out of the phone cordy, just like, no, I'm not dealing with this. Fuck you. It hangs up.

You call me collect. You make me pay for this call, waste my time. No, don't get to your point.

Fuck you. I love how little time he has for their bullshit.

He still listened to the whole thing, though.

Yeah, he said, I did give them that. He secretly loves it. That's why he waited for them to finish. He loves listening to it. So they say, all right, boss isn't going to help us. New idea. We're going to stay inside the phone booth, and then we're going to pull ourselves in the phone booth with the phone cable to the phone company because someone's got to be running this phone line. And it's like, you know what? That's clever. That's not a bad idea. Especially if they think there's giant pokemon out there. So then we cut to everyone's looking for each other. Like, different shots of the different gangs looking for everyone. And as jess and James are pulling themselves with the phone booth, they see Pikachu. And they're just like, Hot damn. now's their chance. And they jump out like, we got you this time, Pikachu. And they realized it was just far away. And as Pikachu got closer, it's gigantic. James goes like that's. Not pikachu. That's Pikachu. And it's just like, James, how cool. A god, an icon. So good. And we see ash's gang running from a giant charizard. And then cut to you. We see the pokemon gang run into a giant, or they see a giant blaster it's off in the distance, like, hey, squirtle, you're related to like, why don't you go talk?

It's like, okay, wow, racist. Not all squirtles are related, but aren't.

My only brothers are the Squirtle, squirt.

Squirtle Squad, my founded brothers, my companions, my bros. So he goes up to like the giant plastic, and he's just kind of like, hey, bro, what's up? And plaster out and just start shooting with the water cannons at him. And she's like, no chill. There's absolutely nothing. So as they're running away, they hide. And then they see a giant Venosaur walk by. And they try it again where it's like, hey, Bulbasaur, you want to, eh, you want to give that a shot? Bulbasaur just goes full Batman. He's like, I have no family. I'm an orphan. Just like, you all right, bulb. He's just Batman. I mean, I love him, though.

No, bulbasaur.

We get Jesse and James being chased by giant caboutops. And at this point, like, this is what, episode 27? No, episode 17. So they're whipping out a lot of big name pokemon, or at least like endgame pokemon really early. So this is a great teaser for the game. And as they're running away, they run into like a railroad cart. It's like, oh, great, now we can get away from it. And they take off the brakes and go launching in the back towards the kabutops. They're just like, oh, fuck. But then there's a cable. There's a cable wrapped around the cart for some reason. And it gets caught up between the kubutop's legs and trips them. And as they're flying back down the track, they're dragging the giant kubu tops with them. And that's when we see cuts back to Ash and the gang walking on some just mountainside cliff for some reason now. And they're just like, oh, hey, what's that big dust cloud? And they see the Caboo tops and the rail car say, oh, that's going to be trouble. And right as like they say, that the cliff they're on crumbles. And they fall right into the cart with Jesse and James. And right as they do, they run into the bigot shoe again. And I'm going to say Pikachu for now because it sounds like I'm saying bigot shoe. And I don't like that big pikachu.

We don't know it's. Political leaning.

Shouldn'T be that big and that extreme leaning. So now all the people are in the cart, and they're just like, stubbed the cart. And they're like, yeah, I can't. And they let up a break that broke off when they released it. The rail cars flying down the rails get two giant pokemon being dragged behind it. And as they're going, we see the pokemon gang, the Pikachu, and them running from the giant evolutions like blastoids, charizard, Venosaur. And they run alongside the cart and they're like, oh, everyone's caught up. How convenient. And they're like, no, but the pokemon can't catch us. They're too far behind. Like, how do we slow down? And then we see just a big ass loop de loop for a mine cart, which makes zero sense in any universe. It's silly. So they go through the big loopy loop and flip around, and I guess that kills enough time for Pikachu and the gang to run up to the cart and catch up, and they jump all in. And once everyone's in there, jesse and James just sort of, like, narrating everything. I'm like, well, now what happens? Well, the cable is probably going to break, and it does. We're probably going to be launched into the air. And they do. And then we're going to hit something. They hit the Zaptos, and when they fly through the zappos, they realize, like, oh, it's a machine. We didn't just kill a legendary bird with a flying heart. This endangered species, yeah, that's only one of its kind. And then we're probably going to hit the water. And then they do. And it's at this point after they hit the water that we see just a boat going by and just as pokey islands on it. And we hear a woman, like, on a loudspeaker giving a tour and say, all right, everyone, if you look to the right side of the boat, you'll see some giant pokemon. Don't worry, though. They're all machines. It's all it's ruined. It's all destroyed.

Millions of dollars down the drain.

Everything is ruined. And that's what I get cut to of Giofani getting another call, hearing about poca land being destroyed, and he says, I put millions into it. It's just like why? You're a crime lord.

You got to have one legitimate business that you can launder all the money through.

I guess so. I mean, it makes sense. And then we just get to the next scene, and it's Ash and the gang running to a beach city. So I guess it all worked out.

There were no consequences for leveling an entire park. Yeah, they just went to the beach.

I'm out of here. I'm going to Brazil. See you.

Hey, Patrick. How was your vacation? It was great. I went to disneyland. I fought all the presidents and the hall of Presidents, and then I went to the beach and went home.

It's also just such a wild idea for a theme park of just like, if you're not supposed to be around the giant pokemon, if you're supposed to stay in the boat, why do they all have to be like they seem sentient. They seem to be aware of their surroundings. When stuff changed, it didn't seem like they were on tracks and also completely.

Hostile, like they've been programmed park goers.

Yeah. Or is it supposed to be like godzilla, where they're supposed to fight each other, and that's like a show for the park, then, because that'd be rad.

That's like jurassic Park. They created the things, and then it all went wrong.

We should have learned.

I mean, it seems to be an economy based on what is essentially dog fighting.

That's a fair point. That's a good point. And then the episode ends with slowpoke finishing his day efficient on that little rock in the ocean, lifts up his tail, and then, see, there's a big old clam monster on it. And now he's slow. Bro.

I love it. Slow Bro.

Yeah. My favorite is that we've seen any pokemon evolve. It's this glowing, blinding light, and the form changes and all this. And this is literally he says, Slow Poke. When the tail stone in the water lifts it up, it's like, oh, I guess I'm a Slow Bro now.

A single tear running down his cheek as he's like, Finally, I'm a man.

I could be bipedal. Now I can use two legs instead of four.

Does slow bro have a mega evolution?

Yes. It's dub as fuck, and I love it.

It's a bay blade. It's a bayblade gold and silver.

We get the kingstone, and it becomes the Slow King, and that's the only game that ever uses it. And then, yeah, the Mega Evolution is slow Poke goes inside the shell. Like, it goes around him and upside down, and yeah, he becomes a big bayblade. It's wow. So dumb. I love it.

Incredible.

You know, there's someone at the pokemon company who's like, all right, we can phase out Slow Poke. And so it's like, no, we're keeping it. I refuse at any cost. I'm keeping this dumb idiot in this game, which would probably be me. I'd be that person.

He's pink. I love him.

I love him.

There are other pink pokemons. No, he's the pinkest.

He's dumb and pink.

He's the best one.

And then all right, we end with.

The poker rap, because I completely forgot to talk about the poker rap. I am so sorry.

And because this show was on five days a week for four kids, they were like, hey, let's do 150 in the poker wrap in segments of five. So we ended up at getting the exact same poker wrap we got for the last episode as we did this episode, because it was ten episodes later, or, no, five episodes later. So convenient. A little disappointing, little sad. But that's our luck. That's episode 17.

Yeah. So now we jump on over to episode 27. Let's talk about fashion. So our gang is on scissor Street, and it's a place where all the latest pokemon fashion is. And there are some pokemon beauty parlors, and they're there because brock wanted to go there, because there are also pokemon breeders on scissor Street. And that's what brock wants to do.

Yeah.

And they pass by a store that has an R on it. Well, it's a salon, and the advertisement is a coffee and an ekins all dressed up. And then inside the salon, it's called Salon roque. And surprise. It's Jesse and James doing pokemon fashion.

Holy shit. I just realized roque is just rock.

Rocket that said fancy Target. Target?

Yeah.

What? Those aren't two different stores. I thought white suburban moms were going to an exclusive club.

Mom Club. Yeah, I was wondering about that. How many successful businesses have Jesse and James started as a disguise and then abandoned the media? They could easily just retire.

I mean, James is rich, so he has all that investment capital from daddy.

I thought, daddy, I want to open another store.

Will this one stick? We'll see.

Maybe. daddy.

At least for 22 minutes.

Are you ever going to come back and marry Jesse Bell? No.

Absolutely not. daddy. So they're doing the pokemon fashion, and the pokemon that they're working on, they see themselves in the mirror and they do not like it.

The Ride shoe is actually kind of cute. The dough trio was ugly. Shit.

Poor Doug trio. So then miya is counting money and he's like, you're spending too much money on ads. We need to make revenue. And it's just like a weird part where they talk about money for a minute. It goes on just a little too long. It was really strange.

Yeah.

Talking about how to get their start up off the ground so they can immediately abandon it.

Yeah. And then misty is like, maybe I'll get in line. And then brock sees the store that he was looking for. He's, like, nervous to go in, and he doesn't want to open the door. But then misty and Ash just walk in. They're like, what are you waiting for?

Am I pussy?

And there's a girl in there. Her name is susie, and she's massaging a chauncey.

Yeah.

And then the guy who it belongs to comes in and he's like, where's my chancy? Oh, you look beautiful. chauncey is all shiny and sparkly and new.

I really like these throwaway characters, like we never see again outside this episode.

He was a good fella. I love this guy. And then they see a vol Pic sleeping on a chair. He's a very pretty boy. And then misty and Ash go up to it, and susie is like, oh, don't touch him, though. And then misty is like, what? And then picks him up.

I can't hear you.

I'm too busy touching your animals.

What? I'm too busy touching the animal you just told me not to touch. And then he blasts her with fire. Because this particular bullpick does not like to be touched by strangers. Much like a cat.

I feel like most people don't like being touched by strangers. Feel. He has a common rule.

Hey, speak for yourself.

Especially when they're sleeping.

It's like missy's never been to a museum or a strip club. Look, but don't touch.

Wow. And then brock introduces himself to susie, and he's like, all flustered because she's cute and also the best breeder. And he's like, jumbling his words. And ultimately he's like, Please be my teacher.

And he also says he introduces her to, like, ash and misty of, like, as the sensational susie of scissors Street, which, as you know, is the only reason the localization team picked her name as susie just for that line, because they love alliteration we got to get one in. I burnt them all on Ultimate Muscle. We got to do some for pokemon.

So, yeah, he talks about her accolades and how well she does with her breeding and her vulpix is, like, the perfect model of what she does. And then they sit down, and they have some tea together, and she says that Pikachu is really pretty. He has a shiny coat. And she says, oh, brock, are you the one that prepares his food? And then they're like, yeah, he is. He's the best pokemon cook.

Cook for pokemon. That's what we oh, shit.

Yes.

And then there are some snacks for the pokemon, and Pikachu is eating one, and then the vulpix comes up and sniffs. And then Pikachu feeds it one, which is very cute, very good. And susie is surprised, and she's like, oh, wow. vulpix only eats the food I make for him. Did you make it, brock? And he's like, yes. Yes, I did.

Yes, mom.

Yes, mommy. And then misty asks susie about this latest flashy pokemon fashion, and she's like, yeah, but I don't really like it because it focuses on the outside rather than the power of what's on the inside of your pokemon. And then Ash and misty get into an argument about that, about what matters more. And then misty decides to take psyduck to the salon badly. psyduck is not he does not handle any situation well.

No, he just needs a confidence boost of a makeover.

You just put some lipstick on that.

Boy or a punch in the head to unlock his psychic power to his level of city, open his third eye size high.

And then susie says that ever since the salon opened, she's, like, been questioning her techniques. And then Ash and brocker like, no, what you're doing is great. What's on the inside really is the most important. And that is a huge theme in this episode. They really don't stop talking about it.

Do you get it yet?

Which is an important lesson, but they're really just going at it. But so they decide to give a lecture on pokemon care to attract more customers. And to do this, suzy gives Pikachu a massage. And while misty is at the salon, the Team Rocket Salon, everybody leaves to go to susie's store. And then she has Ash demonstrate massaging pikachu's electric sacks on his cheeks, his sweet little cheeks.

I like how they call the electrical electric saxle socks electric sacks.

She also emphasizes that communication between pokemon and Master is very important, especially when you're massaging electric sacks.

It's electricity comes from sacks.

Like little.

Balls in its face, stored in the cheeks. Back with Team Rocket, they start in the fall.

Man.

It took a minute. But you got there.

I got that. Weird.

I thought electricity was usually blue.

So yeah. Back with Team Rocket. They're working on a poor squirtle that has a wig on.

Sorry. Inter beauty is great. And all this squirtle is gorgeous.

You like the squirtle with the human wig?

I love it. It's such luscious hair. And it's got roses painted on the shell.

Yeah, that's cute. If it was, like, just the roses, it'd be like a door bubble. So they only have one customer waiting, and it's misty and psyduck. And somehow misty doesn't recognize them, but they recognize her, and they give her a makeover instead of psyduck. She looks pretty cute. She's in some cute fashion. And then mia blows their cover because, again, misty does not recognize them. And he's like, what are you guys doing?

It's the classic Clark Cantiff. Yeah.

They're wearing glasses. And miaf is like, what are you doing? You should be grilling her about Pikachu. where's the pikachu? And that's when their cover is blown.

Because there's only one fucking meow in the whole world.

Yeah. Hey, that's not dating Rocket.

The music that's playing in Jesse and james's shop is the exact same music that plays during the look at tongue minigame in pokemon Stadium for the N 64. I don't know why that's lodged into my brain, but it is, apparently.

Yeah. What a reach.

Yeah.

Misty needs help. So psyduck runs back to susie's place to warn them about what's going on. And then they all run to the salon, and susie yells at Team Rocket about pokemon beauty. And it's the beauty that's inside that counts.

Again, once more.

And then Miyow just tells them what the plan was for the salon. Make money and steal rare pokemon. Which is not great business practice.

Can't really kidnap your clientele.

No. People will notice.

Yeah.

It's about the return customers. They can't return if you steal them.

Exactly. And then they're like, if you give us your Pikachu, we'll give you misty. And then ashton brock are like, no, let's fight.

But what if? No what if?

No, thanks. And then Team Rocket presses a button, and there was a battle stage built in their salon, and they do their intro. And Jesse is dressed in a very princely outfit, and she looks amazing.

Big revolutionary girl. A Tunia vibes.

Lutenna aunia aunia a Tunia.

It's been a long day.

And then James is dressed as a princess. subverting gender roles as they always have. Been.

Pretty good in the 90s.

Yeah. It's never like ha ha. These are the idiots who are dressing like girls and guys, but wrong. They're like, yeah, we just rock these looks. We just happen to be evil.

This is just fashion, baby.

There is that one episode where that was, like, banned from the Us. Yeah, that was a weird one.

That is too much.

Couldn't do it, titties. Not in my Christian dog fighting anime.

And instead of saying, Surrender now or prepare to fight, they say, Surrender your taste or Prepare to fight.

Yeah, they definitely twist on the song.

Yeah. And then their pokemon come out, and they're all dressed up still. But Pikachu is ready to fight because he's all refreshed from the massage. And then Pikachu hits them with thunderwave.

Thunder Shock.

Is that it? Thunder Shock?

Shock.

It was thunder. I told you I didn't really play the game.

Thunderwave doesn't do any damage. Just paralyzing stupid.

Well, God, either way. Wow. I mean, I can go.

No, I didn't take notes on your episode.

So yeah, Thunder Shock is actually ineffective, and it seems like it's because of their clothes. It's a little unclear. They don't really talk about it. And then Kofing hits Pikachu and geodude, because geodude is also there. brock sent out geodude. He hits him in the face. uhoh, and then susie steps in with vulpix to finish the fight, and they argue more about inside versus outside. And then Volpics hits them with a fire spin, and it's super effective. And they're blasting off again. And then I wrote down the quote, acute exterior hides the pokemon's true strength. And then, like, it's shown, like, all of the people in the crowd are, like, taking the makeup off of their pokemon, taking off their cute stuff.

There's a Paris with a full on king crown, and I love it. Just regular shit. And that Paris deserves a little of attention before that mushroom takes over its brain and kills it.

That's.

What?

Paris. How sad.

Yeah, it's a rough ride.

And then they're back at suzy's shop, and she says that they're grateful to them for helping her gain confidence in her techniques and praises brock on his composure in battle, even though he didn't do anything.

He did a seismic toss that didn't work.

Yep. And then she makes the decision to just abandon her business and also go on her own pokemon journey, but without her pokemon, vulpix. This is when she decides to give her vulpix to brock because she noticed that he is the only person that vulpix has been comfortable with other than her. And he's on his way to being a great pokemon breeder. And then we see everyone chasing Team Rocket out of town. And that's episode 27.

I'm looking up if susie ever appears again in the show, because it'd be weird. It's just like, you can take care of my pokemon. I'll get back to it one day, and then she just never comes back.

She died two days later.

So many abandoned pokemon in this show.

The squirtle squad. She fell in one of the Squirrel squad's pit traps and just died in there of, like, exposure.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, the Squirtle Squad dug it and then forgot about it. But now they're off fighting fires, so they don't check them anymore.

They don't have time.

But, yeah, we got some selects, but it. Hits as good as it used to.

Yeah, there's some jelly doughnuts. Just the nonsense of Jesse and James. That's just boring issues. But everyone else is fun.

I was really smiling the whole time. I love Jesse and James. So good. I love it all. I love the cute babies. I love the villains, the annoying meowth. It's all good.

Quality.

Coy, how are you feeling? revisiting this classic pretty good.

I can't stop thinking about did you know that vulpix initially had a pre evolutionary form?

No.

Yeah.

Yes. That's one of the sprites that were leaked.

It's just a smaller, cuter vulpix.

They all have, like, how could it get cuter?

Okay, so, like, in Japanese, Vulpics and Nine Tails, their names literally translate to six tails and nine Tails. And there was another one called Three Tails, and it was just smaller, and it looked like a little baby. And then the developers were like, nah, let's make an ice cream pokemon instead. How about literal keys? Literally cheese.

Let's throw some straight up garbage in here.

How about a bag of trash instead? And what does it evolve into? A bigger bag of trash.

Give me more trash. In one of those leaked sprites, there's an evolutionary line that was just abandoned completely. But it's like a little electric tiger. And I will never forgive them for not giving me that little round tiger. Boy. So cute.

They did make a tiger legendary, though. That was an electric tiger.

Ryker it's not the same. This one's like a perfect sphere. Like a tiger. What else? Oh, there's a pre evolutionary form for zubat in the league sprites. It's just a ball with a single tooth and wings.

I love that.

That that can't hurt anybody.

It has no other teeth. It can't effectively bite anything.

It used tooth. It's super ineffective.

Like Splash.

Oh, God. Just because we have to say it every show.

Yeah, we have to say it. But of course I'm on board. Baby. It's pokemon.

It's pokemon. I'll get in. I like it.

Yeah, it's classic. Of course, I did watch it as a kid. If I was a kid, if I could go back in time, the first thing I would do would be watch more pokemon. So of course I'm on board.

Good shit. And sun and Moon apparently is really good in a number of, like, animation storyline. bash actually wins a pokemon league, so sounds like the most recent series.

It's also on Netflix.

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Easy to watch.

Daddy, Netflix. Give us that money.

Give me the money, please. We'll sell out. Good run. It was a good way to top off the four kids, I thought.

Yes. I'm happy we ended on a good note.

We needed a ringer because, oh, boy, we've watched some garbage hole.

Man, this marathon was a real gamble.

But thank you so much for joining us. Coy.

Good run. Fun time. Yeah.

So, yeah. Where can people find you?

Online coy I mostly just dick around on Twitter. I'm at koi dao with three o's. That's at K-H-O-I-D-A-O-O.

Just keep hit OS until you find it.

Yeah.

And After Party is fresh out at this point, right?

Yeah, it's out on PC on the Epic Game Store, and it's on ps Four and Xbox, and it's coming to the switch in a couple of months.

Oh, damn.

If you're someone who likes the switch, you should hold out for it or just buy multiple copies. I don't know. Whatever you want to do. I'm not your dad.

That's fine, too. I'm not your dad.

When you're done with the new pokemon, you can hop on to After Party. It'll be the pokemon's After party.

Yes.

Oh, there you go.

There we go. It works.

It's just Mr. mime at the bar with a glass of scotch, just like, I can't do it anymore. But he's a mine, so he can't talk. So he's just like, Mr. mime. Mr. Mine. Mr. Mi mib.

If you have a show, now that we're out of the Four Kids marathon, we're actually going to watch stuff you send us now again. So, yeah, you can send anime recommendations to arewither@gmail.com or reach out to us on social media at are we There Yet? On Twitter and Instagram. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Mr. Patrick dugan.

You can find me on Instagram at queen. Period weebu and on Twitter at queen underscore wiyabu and Queen underscore weeaboo art.

You can find me on Twitter at aBTS Brendan. It stands for almost better than silence.

And thank you to camille ruley for our artwork. And thank you to louie zong for the use of our theme song stories off the album Beats. You can find all of louie's music at Louisong bandcamp.com. Thank you.

And whoa. Next week we're watching.

It's the first one. It's the first one out of the Four Kids sing and I get to pick. I picked something that sounds chill, literally, from the title. We're going to watch the first three episodes of Laid Back Camp.

Ooh, sounds nice.

Straight, chilling, straight vibe and all through camp.

Yeah.

All right, well, we'll join us next week as we learn to live with anime.

I want to be.