Pokemon
#4 : Poke-friends
Pioneer
60 minutes
English
Dub only
05/18/1999
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Pokemon
Pioneer
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Daimien : That puny thing was so weak,
it couldn't even beat the weakest opponents!
These Pokemon DVD menus are WAY too cute. When you make a selection the pokemon next to the title animates and gives a squeaky "Char!" or gruff "Bulbasaur!" or quirpy "PIKA!". If I was six years old I'd rather play with the menus than watch the show. Though, I'd be absolutely intriguied by the MENSA applicant of a first grader that could figure out how to use a DVD remote. -I- have trouble with my remote, why does it say "Root Menu" on the screen when I push "DVD Digest"? What's a "Title Menu"? Why the hell does my remote have a numerical keypad? There's like sixty thousand buttons on the damn thing and I use THREE. When I want to play, I push play, when I want to stop, I push stop, and when I want to skip all the front end trailers ADV puts on their discs, I push Root Menu. I think the people at Apex are just trying to tell me that I bought a crappy player and I really should've invested some damn money into the thing, but what does it matter? I'm running it to a 20" Sony Panaphonic deluxe model.** You want to know the reason I bought my TV? Because it has A/V ins on the front panel. |
| So, Ash needs to catch some damn pokemon and catch them fast because Gary and the other two trainers (who will never be named) probably have about eighty by now and he's still got three. Of course, continuing the propoganda the three more he "catches" in this episode aren't actually captured, they just decide to go along with him. See people? People and pokemon can be friends!*** While being lost again the troupe triggers a trap (alliteration!) on a rope bridge and sends Brock spiralling into the rocky waters below. Hopefully not TOO many of you have had a fear induced heartache from thinking that Brock is dead and will never come back, it actually turns out as a good thing as he gets to meet the person who's been setting the traps, Melanie. |  |
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Pokemon Hot Girl #4 : Melanie. Melanie runs something akin to a Pokemon "health spa". She and her friend the Bulbasaur protect injured Pokemon from the outside world and the cruel trainers that would capture them. Her double knotted ponytail and overalls really set off her "girl next door looks". Melanie is the first one to bring out Brock's "Let me live with you forever" ploy, to no avail. Unfortunately for the poor guy he's stuck hanging around with the two eleven year olds with no chance on hitting the blue haired girl's good stuff.
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| Then the gang goes off to such exoitic locationd
as the "Pokecenter in the middle of nowhere" where the trainer named after
El Diablo goes on his tirade about how he's tired of his weakass Charmander
not carrying the weight. The team realizes that it's the very same pokemon
who they saw abandoned on a rock earlier. According to the pokedex a Charmander
DIES if the flame on it's tail goes off. First off, how the hell does someone
light a fire on their tail? And second, what happens if there's a strong
wind?
Then finally the crew is waylaid by a team of ruffian Squirtles. A gang, if you will. You can tell they're a gang because they all weird sunglasses, the leader being the one with the outrageously eighties glasses. Meowth of Team Rocket convinces the group that he is Jessie and James' owner and asks them to help him capture Pikachu, to which they quickly agree. Pikachu is hurt and Ash begs the Squirtles to let him get a "superpotion" to heal the poor thing, feigning sympathy to save his own ass. The Squirtles allow him, but with an ultimatum...come back by the next day or Misty gets her...HAIR DYED PURPLE (oh no). Ash doesn't make the deadline, but fortunately Team Rocket shows their evil side and the lead Squirtle saves the day, joining Ash along with the other two misfit pokemon to complete his team of six. |
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I hate my work, that was rushed as hell because I now get to go out in a ridiculous thunderstorm to deliver a turkey cheesburger to some woman complaining because it wasn't cooked well enough. I would say I'm sorry, but hey...you get what you pay for. (I'm talking about you, the reader...not the dumb woman.) Andrew : You'd think giving ten year olds god-like powers would only turn out bad, but once again Pokemon proves me wrong through hilarious escapades. |
**Item SKU : #1384Pieceofcrap.