Board 8 > Anagram rates the Pokemon anime 8: First Contact (spoilers)

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Totally lol'd. Although only the guy on the left with the beard actually looks Jewish.

Naaaaah, I've seen Jewish guys who look like the others. Oddly, the only one to really speak in the episode is the thin one. The others just keep their mouths shut.

DO NOT ARGUE WITH A JEW ABOUT WHAT "LOOKS JEWISH"!

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But I'm Jewish too.

I think we just created a paradox.

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Nah, as the saying goes, "Put two Jews in a room; get three opinions." We just love arguing.

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Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.

Argh damn Jewish holidays coming up, I hate dealing with these things.

"Adam it's not a big deal to spend four hours listening to an Orthodox Jew from New York talk about insanity during your Friday afternoon."

Worst part is my dad is extra hard on me to go because my sisters always refuse, and they're better at refusing than I am.

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Does "Dad I adamantly refuse to go and there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind in this matter" not work?

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Also Tidus/Jecht, Squall/Seifer, Sora/Riku... but mostly Balthier/Dr. Cid :)

GenesisSaga posted...
Does "Dad I adamantly refuse to go and there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind in this matter" not work?

Maaaaaan

I guess I could say that, but I mean, no one else in my family will go. My sisters hate religion (whereas I'm just apathetic) and my mom isn't even Jewish, and everyone else in his side of the family is dead, lives in Northern California, or is too old to leave their home even to go a temple. Plus he keeps IMing and texting me when I refuse to do stuff with him and I can't block him because then it would be a huge deal. I'm just glad he doesn't have a Facebook page or he would probably write on my wall about stupid holiday crap.

So I suppose the problem is that I just don't want to go, but I'm not actually "adamant" about it.

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GenesisSaga posted...
Does "Dad I adamantly refuse to go and there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind in this matter" not work?

Maaaaaan

I guess I could say that, but I mean, no one else in my family will go. My sisters hate religion (whereas I'm just apathetic) and my mom isn't even Jewish, and everyone else in his side of the family is dead, lives in Northern California, or is too old to leave their home even to go a temple. Plus he keeps IMing and texting me when I refuse to do stuff with him and I can't block him because then it would be a huge deal. I'm just glad he doesn't have a Facebook page or he would probably write on my wall about stupid holiday crap.

So I suppose the problem is that I just don't want to go, but I'm not actually "adamant" about it.

Tell your sisters that, if they don't go in your steed, you'll tell your dad about how you saw them and their boyfriends yiffing in the bathroom.

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People who have steeds shouldn't play the yiff card.

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Anime Elesa I am disappoint
where were the volt switch shenanigans?

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I think Iris's Emolga stole them and fled.

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Anna, you've really been slowing down with your rating, what's up?

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BNVshark123 posted...
Anna, you've really been slowing down with your rating, what's up?

Well I have a lot of work to do. I had to start school again and it eats into my time.

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Anna, you've really been slowing down with your rating, what's up?

Well I have a lot of work to do. I had to start school again and it eats into my time.

What, is it eating into your computer too? If not then forget about your precious social life and rate more episodes.

i R angree wiff u!

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What I Did For Love!
"Fasten those seat belts and let's get busy!"
Score: 6/10

This episode has literally nothing to do with seat belts. That line makes no sense at all.

It's contest time in Gardenia Town, and May meets the rival for the day, a girl named Molly. They run into a pokemon breeder named Yuma, and she praises Brock’s breeding skills. Yuma once won a grand festival, and she encourages Brock to enter this contest. She mentions that she’s looking for a new student, but refuses to train May because she’s already too experienced.

Molly is the first contestant, and her Raticate does well, as does May's Squirtle. Brock is the final entrant, and he sends out Bonsly. Even though Brock has literally never trained Bonsly for this purpose, its fake tears does well AND OH MY GOD

10/10 episode just for that.

Well, the coordinators who advance include May, Brock, Molly, and five people we've never seen before. Brock does so well that Yuma asks him to stay in the city and study with her instead of moving on after the contest ends.

Molly sends out Absol, Brock Marshtomp, and Brock destroys her, and now we skip to the final battle. Yep, apparently nothing of interest happened with May and Brock for the entire rest of the contest.

May sends out Eevee, Brock sends out Marshtomp. Eevee uses dig, and Lillian displays why she got the job of contest host, with commentary like "a super-duper dig!" Eevee's attempts to attack with dig fail, as Marshtomp can detect where it is underground and easily counter it. Marshtomp handily defeats Eevee in a head-on fight as well, leaving May to use dig over and over again even though Marshtomp can effortlessly dodge all of them. Eventually, May realizes she can have Eevee run on top of water guns (?!). She takes advantage of this to knock Brock's points just beneath her own, and then waits for the timer to run out so she doesn't actually have to defeat Marshtomp. Wow, what a respectful way to defeat your good friend in a friendly rival battle.

After the contest, Yuma tells Brock that he's too good for her to coach him, and takes Molly with her to train. I like how at no point does Brock mention that he ran a gym, and would obviously be way too experienced for her to begin with.

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Gardenia town huh

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Anti-purge

Is no one else gonna do this?

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Anti-purge

Is no one else gonna do this?

I was gonna.

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Anti-purge

Is no one else gonna do this?

I was gonna.

You just did.

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It's the same for Ash in the few contests he's entered. I don't think he's ever lost by his pokemon fainting.

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Have you guys ever used the Raticate-equivalents in any of the games? I've played all of the gens, but I've never used Linoone or Watchog or any of them after the first hour, if that.

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I've only ever used Linoone. It was surprisingly good; ignoring its capacity as an HM Slave, it can utilize Headbutt/Strength really well. It does drop off pretty hard by the end of the game though; not a huge movepool it can use. Pick-up's always good, though!

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I think I've used Furret.

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ph33r teh masta~!

I used Raticate in LeafGreen for most of the game.

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Bump

May update tomorrow

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More like Max update tomorrow.

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"First time I got punched in the face, I was like "oh no", then I was like "this is a story"."

Oy

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Anna, you're killing me here!

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Anagram, how long have people been calling you "Anna"? I wanna know if I started that.

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I hope you can get through BF soon.

Well done on chugging through this though, as always

GenesisSaga posted...
Anagram, how long have people been calling you "Anna"? I wanna know if I started that.

Hm... gotspork called me "Annie" at least back in 2009 and maybe earlier, but I don't think she called me "Anna." You may be the one who started it, I'm not sure.

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Muahaha, enjoy it then. >=)

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I used Bidoof/Bibarel in Pearl. In fact, it was the highest levelled Pokemon on my team!

least those are reasonably close to a girl versions of my actual name of Adam!

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Callin' you Ada from now on.

I'm going with Adelle.

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Madam.

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"Ada" makes sense, but doesn't play off of "Anagram" at all. Adelle doesn't work at anything.


Three Jynx and a Baby!
"Work, work, work, that's all I ever do, and then when I take a break, I work some more to catch up!"
Score: 3/10

The heroes find a Smoochum, but before May can add it to her collection because it's so cute (by the way, did you know May is a girl? And girls like cute things? I thought you should know, the show has been a little too subtle about these points), it apparently flies off using psychic and an icy wind freezes them.

The psychic and the icy wind are the doing of three Jynx, who want to protect Smoochum, and because they dared to oppose Ash, he decides to attack them. He's never really had a problem with pokemon that wanted to stay away from humans before (except when he has), but now he does, and-- oh Pikachu gets its ass kicked. Haha.

Brock convinces Ash that the Jynx aren’t worth fighting, so the heroes leave. Unfortunately, Smoochum wanders off again and stumbles onto Team Rocket. Jessie takes it without capturing it (why?), and they fly away in their balloon, the Jynx seeing it happen but not being able to stop them.

The Jynx make the only logical decision: go into the nearest human town and use ice beam to freeze all of the roads. Because that will definitely lead them to Smoochum, am I right? They stumble onto the heroes, and tell them using telepathy that Team Rocket has their Smoochum. This is where it gets weird: even though Ash agrees to help them, they insist on being allowed to continue causing mayhem throughout the city and refuse to accept his help, so why use telepathy at all? Also: Jessie has does nothing except capture a wild pokemon, which is established to be completely legal.

Swellow quickly finds Team Rocket and alerts Ash, but Ash has no way to tell the Jynx that he knows where Team Rocket is, even though it's been established that all pokemon can communicate with each other regardless of species and also that these Jynx can communicate with humans. Thus, he has Pikachu shock the Jynx to anger them into following him in a crazy rage.

Ash leads them to Team Rocket, and the Jynx tell them (through Meowth) to return Smoochum, so Team Rocket... runs away. Team Rocket leads everyone on a chase that ends at a huge tower. Ash tries to climb up a ladder on the side, but Jessie drops Smoochum. Ash dives after it instead of telling Swellow to grab it, and it looks like this is the end, but the Jynx just use psychic to pick Ash and Smoochum up out of the air and guide them safely to the ground. Why didn't they just use psychic at any point earlier to pick up Jessie? Because then the episode would have ended at nine minutes in.

Team Rocket tries one last time to steal Smoochum using its balloon, so Ash finally remembers that he has a Swellow and frees it in roughly two seconds. I wish, just once, just once, Team Rocket would do something bad and Ash solved it four minutes in using any of his competent pokemon, and then the remaining sixteen minutes were spent commenting on how much more quickly than usual things wrapped up.

Team Rocket gives up and runs away, but Ash vindictively orders the Jynx to shoot down the balloon with ice beam because why not? It’s not like the Jynx were the troublemakers and Jessie was just capturing a wild pokemon, one that didn’t resist her at all and in fact seemed kind of okay with belonging to her. Also: why didn’t the Jynx just shoot down the balloon when Jessie first captured Smoochum using ice beam?

The heroes leave the Jynx and Smoochum, and Smoochum evolves. Everyone thinks this is a great thing even though Jynx is kind of hideous, let’s just be honest.

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Smoochum looks worse, if you ask me.

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Smoochum is adorable. Jynx is hilariously ugly to the point that I like it for how bad it really is.

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The Jynx make the only logical decision: go into the nearest human town and use ice beam to freeze all of the roads. Because that will definitely lead them to Smoochum, am I right? They stumble onto the heroes, and tell them using telepathy that Team Rocket has their Smoochum. This is where it gets weird: even though Ash agrees to help them, they insist on being allowed to continue causing mayhem throughout the city and refuse to accept his help, so why use telepathy at all?

Ada, quit trollin'. There's no way the writers are this stupid.

Also, if Jessie didn't know (whether she cares is another matter) Smoochum had a family and "captures" it, why is she punished for it?

GenesisSaga posted...
Smoochum is adorable. Jynx is hilariously ugly to the point that I like it for how bad it really is.

I used to hate Smoochum, but the show has actually made me like it, I will admit. Not to imply it's in my top one hundred or anything, but it's definitely above most of the baby pokemon.

Jynx, however, is just awful in every way and I really wish it had never been invented and the spot instead went to a lion with hamburgers for claws or something.

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demonfang178 posted...
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The Jynx make the only logical decision: go into the nearest human town and use ice beam to freeze all of the roads. Because that will definitely lead them to Smoochum, am I right? They stumble onto the heroes, and tell them using telepathy that Team Rocket has their Smoochum. This is where it gets weird: even though Ash agrees to help them, they insist on being allowed to continue causing mayhem throughout the city and refuse to accept his help, so why use telepathy at all?

Ada, quit trollin'. There's no way the writers are this stupid.

You wish

You wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish

I'm confident they found the most insane people in Japan to write this show sometimes.

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Bump

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So... Anna, I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled out tomorrow. You should write a crapload of episode ratings to help me feel better.

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bah there's nothing to wisdom tooth pulling

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BNVshark123 posted...
So... Anna, I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled out tomorrow. You should write a crapload of episode ratings to help me feel better.

I'll try to do an episode tomorrow, if I have time. I have to finish writing an essay.

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BNVshark123 posted...
So... Anna, I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled out tomorrow. You should write a crapload of episode ratings to help me feel better.

I'll try to do an episode tomorrow, if I have time. I have to finish writing an essay.

Anna... my mouth hurts... :(

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Pokalicious posted...
I think I've used Furret.

Yeah, same here. It was a good HM slave; learned Surf and everything.

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BNVshark123 posted...
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BNVshark123 posted...
So... Anna, I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled out tomorrow. You should write a crapload of episode ratings to help me feel better.

I'll try to do an episode tomorrow, if I have time. I have to finish writing an essay.

Anna... my mouth hurts... :(

So be it! I shall review an episode right now instead of continuing my paper. I do this for you, and definitely not to procrastinate continuing my essay on nineteenth century adolescent literature.

>_>

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