Board 8 > Favorite banned episode of Pokemon?

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Big_Bob
03/15/23 9:00:53 PM
#1:


Which banned episode is your favorite?






Yes, only season 1 episodes on this list.

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Underleveled
03/15/23 9:03:55 PM
#2:


I barely count Tentacool & Tentacruel or the Tower of Terror as banned, since they were included in syndication in my childhood and have long since been unbanned (not to mention banning them was pointless to begin with since Tower of Terror was only banned for the name and the offending scene in T&T was literally left in the opening theme of every single season 1 episode).

So with that in mind it's between Porygon and Dratini and I just barely give the nod to Porygon. It's a decently entertaining episode and it's a shame what happened with it, obviously because it's bad that it happened but also it's a perfectly fine season 1 episode that otherwise had nothing objectionable in it.

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BetrayedTangy
03/15/23 9:24:44 PM
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Gotta go with Dratini. Kaiser and the gun gags were a ton of fun, plus the Dratini story was cute. It's also where Ash caught all the Tauros, so it's also pretty important in the grand scheme.

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UshiromiyaEva
03/15/23 9:45:46 PM
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Dratini and Porygon probably wouldn't get banned today (they'd just edit Porygon, guns too accepted now), but 40 year old white woman would get the Beach one banned and the Jinx stuff is still the Jinx stuff (this is actually wierd because I would think this would get banned now but WOULDN'T think it would have been banned back then).

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ctesjbuvf
03/16/23 5:04:40 AM
#5:


It's been a long time since I watched any of these.

The last two were only temporarily moved from rotation following 9/11 and we're probably nearing 20 years of them being available everywhere again.

Its probably the Safari Zone one. Catching the 30 Tauros has always been hilarious and such a huge slap in the face to how difficult it is to get Tauros in the games.

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ctesjbuvf
03/16/23 5:08:02 AM
#6:


Also did Beauty and the Beach not eventually air just without the scenes where James has inflatable boobs? I'm pretty sure I recall having watched it in English.

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ctesjbuvf
03/16/23 5:15:41 AM
#7:


One more thing. I'm pretty sure including non-season 1 episodes would only be two more episodes. There's another one with Jynx in late Johto story line, around the time they're at the ice cave, and then much much later they banned an episode from the Sun and Moon series became Ash dressed as Passimian using dark face paint.

The other banned episodes never aired anywhere so you can't really have seen them. There's one in Advanced that permanently saw earthquake and similar moves banned and thus there's never an explanation for why Ash is traveling to that city of the final gym. Then two episodes of Black and White for similar reasons that unfortunately meant Team Plasma was not introduced until post Pomemon League. Maybe I'm forgetting something, but some have also just been delayed.

Oh and the dub skipped some clip shows or something, but that's hardly a ban.

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SHINE_GET_64
03/16/23 6:32:21 AM
#8:


The one where they gave James big tits

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Underleveled
03/16/23 8:41:20 AM
#9:


ctesjbuvf posted...
One more thing. I'm pretty sure including non-season 1 episodes would only be two more episodes. There's another one with Jynx in late Johto story line, around the time they're at the ice cave, and then much much later they banned an episode from the Sun and Moon series became Ash dressed as Passimian using dark face paint.

The other banned episodes never aired anywhere so you can't really have seen them. There's one in Advanced that permanently saw earthquake and similar moves banned and thus there's never an explanation for why Ash is traveling to that city of the final gym. Then two episodes of Black and White for similar reasons that unfortunately meant Team Plasma was not introduced until post Pomemon League. Maybe I'm forgetting something, but some have also just been delayed.

Oh and the dub skipped some clip shows or something, but that's hardly a ban.
There are a couple more episodes that have been permanently removed from reruns and DVD due to Jynx in her original design. The Lorelei ("Prima") one and the showboat one.

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Underleveled
03/16/23 8:56:46 AM
#10:


ctesjbuvf posted...
Also did Beauty and the Beach not eventually air just without the scenes where James has inflatable boobs? I'm pretty sure I recall having watched it in English.
Yes, this aired in the dub with the James bikini scenes removed nearly two years after it would have aired sequentially, heavily promoted as a "lost episode." It aired in June 2000, then was rerun once that August, and has never again surfaced in any official form (not even on DVD). Furthermore, as far as I've been able to find, there's no recording of the dubbed episode as it aired available online. Any version I've found has the English audio synced to the Japanese episode, so it has the deleted Japanese scenes intact (with Japanese audio, obviously), and that duller, almost 80s-ish look that the first season had in Japan as opposed to the brighter, more polished restoration that they gave the dub (and noticeable cuts where they added the theme song and Who's That Pokemon... honestly I'm not sure why they went through the effort).

One more curiosity about this episode. The episode Hypno's Naptime includes a flashback to this episode with Ash saying goodbye to Delia and Professor Oak on the beach, but only in the dub. In the original, the flashback is to them saying goodbye in Pallet Town. Weird that 4Kids would add a flashback to an episode they didn't originally intend to air. My best guess is that they wanted to put the master tape to some use since they had it (similar to how they used clips from the Dratini episode in the Pokerap and What Kind of Pokemon Are You music videos).

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paperwarior
03/16/23 9:54:50 AM
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I remember Beauty and the Beach for the subplot where the Rockets and Ash's group are working for rival restaurants and that kind of encapsulates gen 1 slice-of-life comedy plots.

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AriaOfBolo
03/16/23 10:21:08 AM
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SHINE_GET_64 posted...
The one where they gave James big tits


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Shattered
03/16/23 10:47:53 AM
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SHINE_GET_64 posted...
The one where they gave James big tits

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GuessMyUserName
03/16/23 11:05:08 AM
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pretty rigged poll to include james tits

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UF8
03/16/23 11:08:48 AM
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came in to vote for the cancelled team rocket vs team plasma arc tbh

can honestly point to its removal leading to the decline of the series as a whole :|
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StifledSilence
03/16/23 11:41:19 AM
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paramore James boobs

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Johnbobb
03/16/23 12:39:00 PM
#17:


Porygon was one of the few banned episodes of TV where I watched it and thought "yeah that makes sense."

and also "ow"

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Underleveled
03/16/23 1:19:56 PM
#18:


Johnbobb posted...
Porygon was one of the few banned episodes of TV where I watched it and thought "yeah that makes sense."

and also "ow"
I really don't know what they were thinking with those lights in that one. I'm not even photosensitive and watching the highest-available-quality version of that one irritates my eyes/brain.

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ctesjbuvf
03/16/23 3:42:56 PM
#19:


Johnbobb posted...
Porygon was one of the few banned episodes of TV where I watched it and thought "yeah that makes sense."

The only one of Pokemon I fully agree with.

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-hotdogturtle--
03/16/23 3:46:26 PM
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The flashing lights are also the easiest one (out of everything listed here) to modify to removing the offending content. Just slow down the flashing. Every other episode was banned for reasons central to the plot of the episode.

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Underleveled
03/16/23 3:52:13 PM
#21:


-hotdogturtle-- posted...
The flashing lights are also the easiest one (out of everything listed here) to modify to removing the offending content. Just slow down the flashing. Every other episode was banned for reasons central to the plot of the episode.
Japan takes "too soon" way more seriously than America does (hence why the earthquake and tsunami episodes never aired even after a long time had passed). They immediately posed a permanent ban on the episode and with the series in the process of coming to America, they didn't even give the episode to 4Kids in the first season package and Nintendo basically wiped it from history. Some voice actors have said that the episode was dubbed but never aired but nothing else about it adds up.

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-hotdogturtle--
03/16/23 3:55:27 PM
#22:


I know the story, I'm just talking about (hypothetically) being able to revise it for later showing (which we know wouldn't happen due to the backstory, but it could be done without neutering the episode).

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Kenri
03/16/23 3:55:40 PM
#23:


Maybe it makes me a buzzkill but even as a kid I felt all three OG banned episodes kinda deserved it. One has people shooting realistic guns at children, one looks like garbage (and literally causes seizures), and one has a 12 year old in a bikini contest*. Arguably none of them really fit the tone of the series, either.

Banning Tower of Terror and Tentacool & Tentacruel, on the other hand, feels needless and overreactive.

*this is obviously not the reason the episode was banned but let me have this

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ctesjbuvf
03/16/23 4:12:35 PM
#24:


Tower of Terror is the stupidest thing and how difficult would it be to change a title?

UF8 posted...
came in to vote for the cancelled team rocket vs team plasma arc tbh

can honestly point to its removal leading to the decline of the series as a whole :|

Absolutely agreed here.

Though it's hard to call it a favorite when it never aired.

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ctesjbuvf
03/16/23 4:16:32 PM
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...
The flashing lights are also the easiest one (out of everything listed here) to modify to removing the offending content. Just slow down the flashing. Every other episode was banned for reasons central to the plot of the episode.

And yeah maybe eventually but the show was pulled for months and during that time considered canceled. It was a huge deal and the show (and a lot of other shows) still comes with a warning because of it. Not everyone was gonna like it if you put it on air again and said "we've fixed it" no matter how true that might be, it needed to be gone for any foreseeable future. I would not have personally minded, but it absolutely makes sense.

Where if they just edited the potentially problematic scenes in the other episodes no one would have been bothered by them aired

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hombad46
03/16/23 4:21:15 PM
#26:


Poor Porygon and its evolutions were banned from the anime ever since. Porygon wasn't even the cause of the flashing :(

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ctesjbuvf
03/16/23 4:24:26 PM
#27:


hombad46 posted...
Poor Porygon and its evolutions were banned from the anime ever since. Porygon wasn't even the cause of the flashing :(

Now that I didn't think made too much sense. Especially given the time the evolutions came.

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Pokalicious
03/16/23 4:25:24 PM
#28:


Why was Tower of Terror banned? Because of 9/11?

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ctesjbuvf
03/16/23 4:27:51 PM
#29:


Yup, simply beucase of the title.

Though only for a few years.

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Underleveled
03/16/23 5:05:21 PM
#30:


ctesjbuvf posted...
Tower of Terror is the stupidest thing and how difficult would it be to change a title?
The insane thing is, the episode "A Scare in the Air" DID have its title changed to "Spirits in the Sky" for the exact same reason rather than being outright banned, and that one actually had to do with an aircraft crash.

So way to make any Goddamn sense.

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StealThisSheen
03/16/23 5:10:45 PM
#31:


I wanted to see Ash catch those Tauros, dammit.

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Underleveled
03/16/23 5:11:46 PM
#32:


Even knowing about the Dratini episode, I had no idea Ash caught Tauros until their first appearance.

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