Post by LUNI_TUNZ on Apr 20, 2015 18:34:08 GMT -4
860: Satoshi to Serena Hatsu Dēto!? Chikai no Ki to Purezento!!
854: Under the Pledging Tree!
Now that Ash has won the Plant Badge (real original name), Serena is at the Pokémon Center registering her Pokédex for the Pokémon Showcase, and asking her Pokémon if they're ready.
Unfortunately according to Clemont the Showcase doesn't start just yet, but Serena figures she'll just train some more so she can be just like Ash.
The twerps leave the Center, and notice everybody decorating the town in all kinds of lights and shit. According to Ramos, they're getting ready for the Festival. The Coumarine City Festival - as told by Ramos - started because a Trainer and his Pokémon who travelled for a long time came to settle in what is now known as Coumarine City, to commemorate their time together the Trainer got his Pokémon, a Gogoat, a tiny tree, that eventually grew into the biggest tree in town. Apparently the Coumarine City Gym is only the second largest tree in town.
Well, over the years, corporations got a hold of the legend, and turned it into an over commercialized celebration, telling the townsfolk that to properly celebrate, they must buy their Pokémon a gift to give to them under the tree.
Sounds like a fake, made-up Hallmark Holiday if I ever heard of one.
The twerps - suckers for capitalism, they are - think it sounds like a lot of fun, and head off to buy the presents like good little consumers.
Except Clemont, who's going to make his present by hand, which Ash assures him his Pokémon will love, though the big corporate CEO's keeping tabs on the spending habits of the ordinary citizens are gritting their teeth in anger, as Bonnie teases him about his gift exploding.
Ash leaves his Pokémon under the watch of Bonnie and Clemont so they can get their gifts, and keep them a surprise, and head off.
Bonnie and Clemont staying behind of course means that Serena and Ash will be heading off alone, almost like... almost like, a date. Poor girl is delusional, as this is the closest she'll ever get to a date out of Ash, since his mind don't work that way.
Either way, Ash and Serena walk on down the street wondering what they're going to get as Team Rocket, who all took a personal day last week decide this week to steal all the gifts, to give to the boss because, he likes random crap, I guess.
Ash and Serena shippers (what are we calling them, now?) are sure to be busting a nut over these next couple of scenes, as Ash and Serena ride the monorail, and Serena beams happily just staring at an oblivious Ash.
Next they're at the "heart" of the shopping district, and Serena agrees with Ash that they should check out all the stores, as I'm reminded, how the fuck do these penniless twerps expect to buy anything, with all that "lack of money" they have.
Well, anyway Serena starts swarming the cute shops looking at cute shit, while Ash's poor Squirrel brain spots dumb shit like... some large plush face... thing, and some ugly ass hat.
Eventually he decides to split and look at the shops somewhere else, as he wouldn't be able to pick up the OBVIOUS vibes Serena is throwing at him if she sat in front of him spread-eagle the entire time.
Back at the Pokémon Center Bonnie gets all the Pokémon lined up as Hawlucha constantly flexes, impressing the hell out of Bunnelby. Gommy almost dies again as he's running dangerously low on water, and and Chespin and Pancham get into another fight.
Ash continues to walk down the streets with his pocket full of no money trying to figure out what to buy his Pokémon, eventually thinking of the most Ash answer ever figuring he should get them something to help with battle.
Meanwhile, a vendor spotting a sucker when he sees one tries to get Ash to buy a whole bunch of shit, collapsing him under the weight of his bullshit.
Serena eventually emerges from a shop with all the shit she bought, and meets up with Ash at the Monorail station. apparently she plans on decorating her stuff as well, and then she notices that Ash ain't bought shit.
They head into the monorail and... Ash is apparently the "One Millionth Customer", and it's surprisingly not a Team Rocket plot? For being the Millionth customer of the monorail, he gets a gift. Serena asks Ash can she see it, and he opens it up, and it's a shitty ribbon.
Cheap bastards.
But Ash is still worried he failed the capitalist system and didn't buy anything, but Serena assures him that Pikachu and the rest will love whatever dumb thing he gets them.
She tells him that he should get them something that makes him happy, because they think like him, so Ash tries desperately to rub two brain cells together and figure out what he would want if he was them, and he gets a spark, and stands up and announces "that's it" loud enough that a bacground character actually reacts to something happening in the foreground.
Once the Monorail stops he rushes off to get whatever it is he thought of in that desolate wasteland he calls a brain.
At the Pokémon Center, Hawlucha cotinues to flex and try to impress all the other Pokémon, as Bonnie gets sad because she wants to give everyone a present, too. So she decides to do a drawing of all of the Pokémon.
Ash running continues running through the forest as a Dunsparce for no reason leaps it's wretched form from behind some bushes. Ash is SO EXCITED, and decides he wants to catch the useless piece of shit, so he can go back to that shithouse town in Johto and show everyone how fucking cool he is, except he doesn't have any Pokéballs. The Dunsparce ambles away to never be seen again... until the next time it shows up.
Back at the Pokémon Center the twerps come out and admire the sight of all the trees in town lit up, as Ash has found a present. They meet at the tree to put their presents down, and Ash slams his giant sack of present next to Serena.
Ramos prepares to begin the ceremony... and a giant vacuum begins sucking up all the presents. Well, this is a strange ceremony indeed. Frogadier runs up the tree attacks the source and reveals... TEAM ROCKET!
Ramos wants to know what's the meaning of this.
"Prepare for trouble, the meaning's quite clear!"
"We steal your presents and fill you with fear!"
"To protect the world from Devastation!"
"To unite all people within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of twerps hoarding gifts!"
"To extend and trach the virtues of thrift!"
"Jesse!"
"and James!"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare for a festival fight!"
"Meowth, dat's right!"
"WOOOOOBBBBUUUFFFEEETT!"
Team Rocket announces that the presents are not a part of the Team Rocket festival, and with their Pokémon will according to James, they'll have a cornucopia cache, mispronouncing it "Cash-ay".
Ramos prepares to fight them, but Ash takes them on instead, destroying their vacuum with Pikachu's Iron Tail.
Ash tells them to quit while they're ahead, which may not be bad advice as Team Rocket are horribly outnumbered. Fortunately none of the townspeople lift a finger to help, and the Twerps instead fight them off sending them blasting off quite soon.
Christmas is saved, the presents are still here, and that's what really matters.
Everybody sorts the gifts and Ramos prepares to start the ceremony again, as the countdown to lighting the large tree.
The twerps give out their gifts, Bonnie showing off her crude drawing, Serena reveals her gift, a ribbon for Fennekin, and Sunglasses for Pancham. Clemont reveals his as a mini music box with little versions of Luxio, Chespin and Bunnelby, as Heliolisk, Magnemite and Magneton check into therapy for abandoned and unloved Pokémon.
And Ash's gift... it's a bunch of berries. That's so Ash.
Meanwhile in a tree not that far from the Pledging tree, Team Rocket apparently didn't blast that far off as they grup about their misfortunes. However, Meowth spots a tiny present in the tree, and apparently it's for him. Apparently Jesse and James also got gifts for their other Pokémon as well.
D'aaaawww! Dat's shooo shweet!
While Serena admires her Pokémon wearing their new swag, she notices an abondoned gift still at the tree, and wonders who it's for. Clemont picks up the green note card and inside it just has some pseudo-Japanese looking gibberish.
Clemont lies and says he can read it and that it's for Serena, becasue who's going to call him on it, and inside it'a a dress. And fortunately it's Serena's size. According to Nurse Joy, it was delivered to the Pokémon Center for her, which doesn't make sense. Why would the Pokémon Center accept a package for someone they've never seen before, and how would Nurse Joy know to give it to her?
Serena calls Grace and she totally takes credit for Nurse Joy's lies and says she just picked something she wouldn't like, since Serena usually hates the dresses she picks out for her.
Meanwhile as fireworks go off dangerously close to the Pledging Tree apparently Ash reveals that he also got her a present too, and Serena is all to happy to get a gift from Ash, and say's she'll treasure it forever.
Knowing Ash, however it's probably more berries, because he doesn't understand humans, and wishes they were more like Pokémon.
Pokemopolis Episode Name: Serena's Delusional One-Sided Date!
Dodgyness Rating: 4/5
Animation: 4/5
Story: The Twerps endulge in the citiy's comsumerist greed.
Team Rocket: They try to be Grinches, but totally have hearts 3X large.
Moral Learnt: SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!
854: Under the Pledging Tree!
Now that Ash has won the Plant Badge (real original name), Serena is at the Pokémon Center registering her Pokédex for the Pokémon Showcase, and asking her Pokémon if they're ready.
Unfortunately according to Clemont the Showcase doesn't start just yet, but Serena figures she'll just train some more so she can be just like Ash.
The twerps leave the Center, and notice everybody decorating the town in all kinds of lights and shit. According to Ramos, they're getting ready for the Festival. The Coumarine City Festival - as told by Ramos - started because a Trainer and his Pokémon who travelled for a long time came to settle in what is now known as Coumarine City, to commemorate their time together the Trainer got his Pokémon, a Gogoat, a tiny tree, that eventually grew into the biggest tree in town. Apparently the Coumarine City Gym is only the second largest tree in town.
Well, over the years, corporations got a hold of the legend, and turned it into an over commercialized celebration, telling the townsfolk that to properly celebrate, they must buy their Pokémon a gift to give to them under the tree.
Sounds like a fake, made-up Hallmark Holiday if I ever heard of one.
The twerps - suckers for capitalism, they are - think it sounds like a lot of fun, and head off to buy the presents like good little consumers.
Except Clemont, who's going to make his present by hand, which Ash assures him his Pokémon will love, though the big corporate CEO's keeping tabs on the spending habits of the ordinary citizens are gritting their teeth in anger, as Bonnie teases him about his gift exploding.
Ash leaves his Pokémon under the watch of Bonnie and Clemont so they can get their gifts, and keep them a surprise, and head off.
Bonnie and Clemont staying behind of course means that Serena and Ash will be heading off alone, almost like... almost like, a date. Poor girl is delusional, as this is the closest she'll ever get to a date out of Ash, since his mind don't work that way.
Either way, Ash and Serena walk on down the street wondering what they're going to get as Team Rocket, who all took a personal day last week decide this week to steal all the gifts, to give to the boss because, he likes random crap, I guess.
Ash and Serena shippers (what are we calling them, now?) are sure to be busting a nut over these next couple of scenes, as Ash and Serena ride the monorail, and Serena beams happily just staring at an oblivious Ash.
Next they're at the "heart" of the shopping district, and Serena agrees with Ash that they should check out all the stores, as I'm reminded, how the fuck do these penniless twerps expect to buy anything, with all that "lack of money" they have.
Well, anyway Serena starts swarming the cute shops looking at cute shit, while Ash's poor Squirrel brain spots dumb shit like... some large plush face... thing, and some ugly ass hat.
Eventually he decides to split and look at the shops somewhere else, as he wouldn't be able to pick up the OBVIOUS vibes Serena is throwing at him if she sat in front of him spread-eagle the entire time.
Back at the Pokémon Center Bonnie gets all the Pokémon lined up as Hawlucha constantly flexes, impressing the hell out of Bunnelby. Gommy almost dies again as he's running dangerously low on water, and and Chespin and Pancham get into another fight.
Ash continues to walk down the streets with his pocket full of no money trying to figure out what to buy his Pokémon, eventually thinking of the most Ash answer ever figuring he should get them something to help with battle.
Meanwhile, a vendor spotting a sucker when he sees one tries to get Ash to buy a whole bunch of shit, collapsing him under the weight of his bullshit.
Serena eventually emerges from a shop with all the shit she bought, and meets up with Ash at the Monorail station. apparently she plans on decorating her stuff as well, and then she notices that Ash ain't bought shit.
They head into the monorail and... Ash is apparently the "One Millionth Customer", and it's surprisingly not a Team Rocket plot? For being the Millionth customer of the monorail, he gets a gift. Serena asks Ash can she see it, and he opens it up, and it's a shitty ribbon.
Cheap bastards.
But Ash is still worried he failed the capitalist system and didn't buy anything, but Serena assures him that Pikachu and the rest will love whatever dumb thing he gets them.
She tells him that he should get them something that makes him happy, because they think like him, so Ash tries desperately to rub two brain cells together and figure out what he would want if he was them, and he gets a spark, and stands up and announces "that's it" loud enough that a bacground character actually reacts to something happening in the foreground.
Once the Monorail stops he rushes off to get whatever it is he thought of in that desolate wasteland he calls a brain.
At the Pokémon Center, Hawlucha cotinues to flex and try to impress all the other Pokémon, as Bonnie gets sad because she wants to give everyone a present, too. So she decides to do a drawing of all of the Pokémon.
Ash running continues running through the forest as a Dunsparce for no reason leaps it's wretched form from behind some bushes. Ash is SO EXCITED, and decides he wants to catch the useless piece of shit, so he can go back to that shithouse town in Johto and show everyone how fucking cool he is, except he doesn't have any Pokéballs. The Dunsparce ambles away to never be seen again... until the next time it shows up.
Back at the Pokémon Center the twerps come out and admire the sight of all the trees in town lit up, as Ash has found a present. They meet at the tree to put their presents down, and Ash slams his giant sack of present next to Serena.
Ramos prepares to begin the ceremony... and a giant vacuum begins sucking up all the presents. Well, this is a strange ceremony indeed. Frogadier runs up the tree attacks the source and reveals... TEAM ROCKET!
Ramos wants to know what's the meaning of this.
"Prepare for trouble, the meaning's quite clear!"
"We steal your presents and fill you with fear!"
"To protect the world from Devastation!"
"To unite all people within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of twerps hoarding gifts!"
"To extend and trach the virtues of thrift!"
"Jesse!"
"and James!"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare for a festival fight!"
"Meowth, dat's right!"
"WOOOOOBBBBUUUFFFEEETT!"
Team Rocket announces that the presents are not a part of the Team Rocket festival, and with their Pokémon will according to James, they'll have a cornucopia cache, mispronouncing it "Cash-ay".
Ramos prepares to fight them, but Ash takes them on instead, destroying their vacuum with Pikachu's Iron Tail.
Ash tells them to quit while they're ahead, which may not be bad advice as Team Rocket are horribly outnumbered. Fortunately none of the townspeople lift a finger to help, and the Twerps instead fight them off sending them blasting off quite soon.
Christmas is saved, the presents are still here, and that's what really matters.
Everybody sorts the gifts and Ramos prepares to start the ceremony again, as the countdown to lighting the large tree.
The twerps give out their gifts, Bonnie showing off her crude drawing, Serena reveals her gift, a ribbon for Fennekin, and Sunglasses for Pancham. Clemont reveals his as a mini music box with little versions of Luxio, Chespin and Bunnelby, as Heliolisk, Magnemite and Magneton check into therapy for abandoned and unloved Pokémon.
And Ash's gift... it's a bunch of berries. That's so Ash.
Meanwhile in a tree not that far from the Pledging tree, Team Rocket apparently didn't blast that far off as they grup about their misfortunes. However, Meowth spots a tiny present in the tree, and apparently it's for him. Apparently Jesse and James also got gifts for their other Pokémon as well.
D'aaaawww! Dat's shooo shweet!
While Serena admires her Pokémon wearing their new swag, she notices an abondoned gift still at the tree, and wonders who it's for. Clemont picks up the green note card and inside it just has some pseudo-Japanese looking gibberish.
Clemont lies and says he can read it and that it's for Serena, becasue who's going to call him on it, and inside it'a a dress. And fortunately it's Serena's size. According to Nurse Joy, it was delivered to the Pokémon Center for her, which doesn't make sense. Why would the Pokémon Center accept a package for someone they've never seen before, and how would Nurse Joy know to give it to her?
Serena calls Grace and she totally takes credit for Nurse Joy's lies and says she just picked something she wouldn't like, since Serena usually hates the dresses she picks out for her.
Meanwhile as fireworks go off dangerously close to the Pledging Tree apparently Ash reveals that he also got her a present too, and Serena is all to happy to get a gift from Ash, and say's she'll treasure it forever.
Knowing Ash, however it's probably more berries, because he doesn't understand humans, and wishes they were more like Pokémon.
Pokemopolis Episode Name: Serena's Delusional One-Sided Date!
Dodgyness Rating: 4/5
Animation: 4/5
Story: The Twerps endulge in the citiy's comsumerist greed.
Team Rocket: They try to be Grinches, but totally have hearts 3X large.
Moral Learnt: SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!
