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025: Pikachu
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Meet Pikachu, the iconic mascot of Pokemon and the OG lil' guy to hold a place in your hearts. This legend can do anything it puts its mind to. Seriously, what CAN'T it do?
Join Katherine and Claudia as they stumble through the Pokédex and figure out which of these Pokemon might be semi-edible in a podcast full of stupidity and laughs.
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Introduction to Unown Radio
00:00:00
Speaker
This is a Muckstein Productions Podcast.
00:00:22
Speaker
Hello homies and trainers and welcome to Unown Radio, your mugs named production Pokemon talk show where we take a peek at every Pokemon. I'm Claudia and I'm here with my co-host and partner in Crime Catherine. Hello! As always Claudia brings us the facts and I bring us the pizzazz while we Pikachu through the Pokedex.
00:00:46
Speaker
Oh, that was good. Very on brand for our Pika-palooza today. We are doing number 25 in the Pokedex.
Diving into Pikachu's Characteristics
00:00:56
Speaker
Finally, we're a quarter of the way through a hundred, which is nuts. It's the man who missed the legend, the Pikachu!
00:01:09
Speaker
All right. What's his tagline? The mouse Pokemon. Absolutely. And he is an electric type. He stands at a whopping one foot, four inches, and weighs 13.2 pounds, which is six kgs. It's a smile. Yeah. He's friend size. He is friend size.
00:01:32
Speaker
All right, would you like to do the obvious and tell us what does he look like? He's the one with arms. Sorry, I had to. So he's a little yellow guy, he's got big pointy ears with black tips and then he's got little red little cheeks and he's got a lightning bolt as a tail and he's just mischievous. He's iconic and as my mother says, he's the one with the arms.
00:02:04
Speaker
My mother knows two Pokémon, Pikachu and Poliwrath. Both of them have arms and I don't know why those are the only two Pokémon she knows. Everyone knows Pikachu though, even my nan knows Pikachu. But not very many people know Poliwrath, which is very impressive. Oh yeah, it's gone with the arms. We'll have to give her a shout out when we do the Poliwrath episode. But we've not got time for useless chit chat today.
00:02:33
Speaker
No, we have a lot to get dug into with our boy, the Pikachu. As you said, he is just a small little mouse Pokemon with ears, lightning bolt tail, those cheeks that store energy. Go on. Fun fact is that Pikachu from the Alola region has silky smooth fur that sparkles in the sunlight. It's the skin of a killer Bella.
00:03:01
Speaker
There it is, a Twilight reference from you. Finally, after all these episodes. It's been 84 years. At least you get that one. I was throwing Twilight references at you before and you were like, I don't get it.
Pikachu's Design and Variants
00:03:17
Speaker
Harry Potter's my jam. You know that. So the Pikachu name comes from two different onomatopoeias. That's my word. Found in Japanese. Love an onomatopoeia. These are Pika Pika, which is the sound of electricity sparking in a Japanese language. And Choo Choo, which is the sound of a mouse squeaking.
00:03:44
Speaker
Oh, get out. That's adorable. Pika pika choo choo. Electricity mouse. Pika la choo choo. Pika la choo choo. Pika la choo choo. That's a new single coming to you, um, in spring. I've not seen that episode. With the Pikachu train. No! No, there's an episode of Pokemon anime with the Pikachu train. It's glorious. I'll send you a link for it later. Like a conga line? Yeah, but better because Pikachu's. That's beautiful.
00:04:14
Speaker
So a little bit of a fun fact is this might make you a little bit angry, but Pikachu was originally based on a squirrel, though it shares similarities to a mouse.
00:04:29
Speaker
The stripes on the back and the lightning bolt were added as details in the appearance, and the black-eared tips are the remnant of an early design representing a daifuku, I really hope I said that right, a small Japanese dessert. It is also reminiscent of, oh my wording, vishak...
00:04:53
Speaker
Viscaha, a rabbit-like rodent that lives in the deserts and from the Chinchilla family. Oh, that's cute.
00:05:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's all the rodents in one. That's always too many rodents, just on the side. Yeah. Squirrel, chinchilla-y thing, food. That's not a rodent, but rodents like food. They do. The little fun fact is that Pikachu is another Pokémon that has a gender variant that when they were introduced in generation of four, do you know what that variant is?
00:05:27
Speaker
Don't the females have little heart tails? They do and I love that. See this is actually one Pokemon that I do have facts for. Look at you go! Do you know what the shiny colour is of a Pikachu? I want to say orange but I think I'm just thinking of Raichu at this point.
00:05:45
Speaker
No, you're right. It's just a slightly darker colored yellow with pink cheeks instead of red. Very disappointing, but kind of on par. I feel like you can't mess with an original, you know what I mean?
00:05:58
Speaker
Yeah, if they went too far off like making it blue or something, which also is another fun fact. When Marill was first introduced in the next generation of Pokemon, people just saw a picture of it and they called it Pika Blue because they just assumed it was Pikachu but blue until it came out that it was Marill. So Pika Blue did exist for a little while and I think that's funny. I could get a ball with Pika Blue, like maybe put it in a cold region, make it a water Pokemon.
00:06:28
Speaker
Oh, that would be dope. I would love to see like a whole different series of Pikachu that are just all different types. That would be so cool. Yeah.
Imaginative Discussions on Pikachu
00:06:39
Speaker
A little rock one that looks like it's made of rock and has like a boulder tail, or like a pickaxe as a tail or something. Or he just carries a little pickaxe and has a hard hat. Oh, safety jackets. Oh, imagine him in a high vis.
00:06:54
Speaker
So they did have, you've probably seen, as we were talking about, Bobapedia, but they do have a lot of different Pikachu that were released in games, cards, anime, collectibles, whatever, of just Pikachu in different crazy outfits. Yeah, Surfin' Pikachu is one of the good ones.
00:07:14
Speaker
Surfing Pikachu, flying Pikachu. They have Chunkychu, which is based off the original Pokemon cards. And it's just a very chubby looking Pikachu before they slimmed him down for the anime. All right. Would you like to go into a fun fact or would you like to go into the behavior and characteristics of our boy Pikachu? Ooh, surprise me.
00:07:40
Speaker
I'll hit you with the fun fact first. Are you ready? I am ready for this jelly. So when the Pokemon franchise was localized in the US, Nintendo wanted to redesign every known Pokemon back then, including Pikachu, to be more appealing to American children. That's just silly.
00:08:02
Speaker
So what do you think is the idea they came up with for Pikachu? Oh God, God knows. Do they make you have round ears and AK thoughts? No. And a baseball hat. You're on the right path when you said the word round. Pikachu was initially redesigned into a tiger with huge breasts.
00:08:33
Speaker
Not Tony Tiger's down for it. Yes, Tony Tiger's little side piece. What could be more- They're great. Tiger titties, they're great. Fortunately, the idea had been scrapped because apparently that was not as interesting to American children as a Pikachu, which me as an autistic adult can relate. Pokemon over titties.
00:09:03
Speaker
Yeah, do you know what, fair?
00:09:07
Speaker
All right, on to our characteristics of our little Pika, I almost called him Pika Blue. It's in my head now. It's the tiger titties have me all up in a tizzy. I've just got Pika La Choo Choo, Pika La Choo Choo. So Pika Choo charges itself while it sleeps overnight. Through stress, though stress and a lack of sleep can affect this, it is able to release electric discharges of varying intensity. Okay.
00:09:34
Speaker
So if you make it very angry or you don't let him sleep, he will explode. Me. It's fair. Me and Pikachu have a lot in common. I wonder if you could just plug a Pikachu into a socket. Maybe. Do you think you could charge them during a thunderstorm? That has happened in the anime. Yeah.
00:09:55
Speaker
And I'm pretty sure at one point when Ash's Pikachu depleted all of its charge, Nurse Joy did just shock him with the boop boop things. What are they called? Defibrillators?
00:10:14
Speaker
Yeah, I knew exactly what you meant, though. Yeah, just did that and gave him a bit of a... And then he felt better. So, like we said, in the anime, Pikachu has been known to build up energy in its glands, which is what the cheeks are called, it's disgusting, which you would need to discharge to avoid complications. It is also able to release energy through its tail, which acts as a grounding rod, as well as recharge fellow Pikachus with electric shock.
00:10:45
Speaker
Oh, sweet. They can charge each other. They can share his charge, yeah. Yeah. I have a lot of time for that. And then that runs true
Pikachu's Behavior and Habitat
00:10:54
Speaker
with any electric Pokémon too. They could all charge each other.
00:10:58
Speaker
Like, um, I don't know, it was just really cute. Kind of like, um, when you're playing in science class with the wires and you make them go zz, zz, zz. Exactly. Be like, be like, this is a Pikachu and this is a Magnemite, zz, zz, zz. Essentially how they work. The kids would understand that better, actually. They probably would. A science teacher should just stick to Pokemon, Pokemon analogies. I would have learned science real easy. You would have, actually. You'd have been great. You'd have been real good.
00:11:28
Speaker
It would have been a real good scientist just with Pokemon. No tiger titties for me. Pure Pokemon. Well you stop comparing titties to Pokemon. I can't. I can't do it. Jinx is the only Pokemon that's allowed titties. Oh for god sake, Jinx and its titties. Forgot about that.
00:11:50
Speaker
So in the anime, it has been shown that wild Pikachu live in groups in forested areas. Pikachu communicate among themselves using squeaks and tail shaking as friendly gestures. That's cute. Yeah. And then Alolan Pikachu are known to greet each other by sniffing one another and rubbing their tails together.
00:12:12
Speaker
Aww. It's like a dog. Yeah. The dogs, yeah, hopefully they don't sniff each other's butts and then shake their tails together. Though I suppose they could. They are animals. They are animals. So the electricity can be used to receive and send messages with each other as well as other Pokémon species. So not only can they charge other Pokémon, but they can talk. What to each other or to other Pokémon?
00:12:40
Speaker
To other Pokémon, all the electric Pokémon can communicate through electric sharks. Oh, that's so cool. Because other Pokémon can't, can't they? No. Well, they just talk in weird language, unless they're like a psychic Pokémon. I wonder what is the distance that they're able to communicate through electricity.
00:13:00
Speaker
I can't imagine it's that long. I don't know. Maybe like, say one does a thunderbolt in like, like a really big thunderbolt in like one town. Maybe they can feel it in the forest next door. Oh, yeah. I guess it would just be, yeah. However far they can do their electric attacks. Yeah. Like a text message. Or I guess more like a walkie talkie cause they can't be too far away. Yeah. I reckon it gives off, it gives off a walkie, walkie, walkie, walkie talkie vibes.
00:13:31
Speaker
Pikachu, the walkie-talkie Pokemon.
00:13:34
Speaker
That's what they're missing. So the Pikachu raises its tail to check its surroundings and occasionally it has been known to be struck by lightning in this position. So does lightning hurt it though? I guess it would depend on the veracity of that lightning because any electrical item, if you overcharge it, it can make it die. But I guess it would just make the Pikachu incredibly unstable if they have too much charge.
00:14:04
Speaker
Yeah. No one wants an unstable Pikachu. There's a lot of math in Pikachu. I don't want to hear about it. I'm sure you can't get this math in it. I haven't had to think about how electricity works since high school science. Now I have only to help other children.
00:14:26
Speaker
You have to work with kids, you don't have an option. Yeah, I still don't understand it even now. So when in groups, when the group grows, they can inadvertently cause lightning storms, and Pikachu forage for berries, which it roasts with electricity to make them tender enough to eat.
00:14:47
Speaker
I want to know what berry is not tender to eat. You can get hard berries. Like I've never had one. Like cranberries hard? I think so. Well like general berries in the... I don't know. Unless it makes like the plum stone nice and tender.
00:15:07
Speaker
Oh, so they can just gobble down a whole plum. Gobble, gobble, gobble. What a useful Pokémon and a very specific set of skills. If you think about every single Pokémon.
00:15:22
Speaker
has such little useful skills. That's why it's so hard to find a job for some of them. What job could it be? A friend? A good friend. Isn't that what we said about Bulbasaur? I think it is interesting how it can cook food with electricity though I'm not sure how much I would trust like a pork loin that's been cooked
00:15:49
Speaker
battery-powered? I mean, I'd probably start off with like beef. Right, because that's fine to eat raw. Yeah. And then maybe see how he tackles that before I move on to like pork and chicken. But I definitely trust him to cook vegetables and stuff. Oh yeah, vegetables, fruit. I reckon anything you can pop in a microwave, I would trust a Pikachu to heat up.
00:16:17
Speaker
Yeah, but isn't he just like a microwave? He's an external microwave. You don't have to put anything inside. You could. You could stick a carrot up his butt. That sounds like sexual assault. Moving on. If Santa can do it, we can do it.
00:16:40
Speaker
So a sure sign that Pikachu inhabits a location is patches of burnt grass. In the TV series, it has been observed eating and sometimes destroying telephone poles, wires and other electronic equipment. It's just Rattata all over again. It is, but at least this one's cute. And it's not eating your houses. At least this one can battle.
00:17:10
Speaker
But can this one pick out your groceries? Right, look, I'm not having the Rattata debate again. Rattata is still shit. You can't compare Pikachu and Rattata. We will do this in a future episode of mouse Pokemon, which we'll have to revisit.
00:17:29
Speaker
So by occasion, it can be unintentionally swallowed by Cramorant. Cramorant? Cramorant. In the new game, is it in the newest game? In one of the new generations, there's a Pokemon, it's like a pelican, and it hangs out with its mouth open, and sometimes you can just see a Pikachu's butt sticking out of its mouth.
00:17:57
Speaker
Is this a fun little easter egg? That's the choice that they've made and I like it.
Gigantamax Pikachu and Its Implications
00:18:02
Speaker
And one of the very fun things about Pikachu is that even though it is not in its fully evolved form, it does have a Gigantamax type. Because he's a legend. Because he's an icon. He's an icon. So with our history with Gigantamax Pokemon,
00:18:27
Speaker
What are you expecting with Gigantamax Pikachu? I actually feel like I've seen the Gigantamax Pikachu. He's like a really, he's like really round and like, he's just massive. I want Gigantamax Pikachu to be able to cook a seven course meal, right? Just for seven. I want him to be able to power a whole city, mate. I want him to be wild. That's what I want.
00:18:57
Speaker
I think you will be very, I think you're underestimating Gigantamax Pikachu. I don't think I am. Like, I feel like we went so deep into Gigantamax Venusaur that we create, he cured like world hunger and a global warming. I just, I don't think he can get that good, you know? Okay. Well, Gigantamax Pikachu stands at 68 foot and 11 inches.
00:19:27
Speaker
Holy roly. He's so big his weight is unknown. I said he was fat. He's a big chunky boy. He is a chunky boy. He's a big boy. So as Gigantamax Pikachu, he becomes larger and chubbier. Its tail becomes longer and stores all of the electricity it generates.
00:19:50
Speaker
causing it to glow a bright yellow and enabling it to become as powerful as a lightning strike. Its power is equal to that of a power plant. However, it is difficult to use in people's homes since Pikachu can only remain in its Gigantamax form for a short time. So you can't power a city then? I was right. More than a city, this is like an entire power plant. This is a region.
00:20:18
Speaker
So he's a good boy. He's a big old... If there was a way to use technology to make Pikachu be able to stay as a Gigantamax Pikachu for a long time, or have a lot of Gigantamax Pikachus taking shifts, this will solve the energy crisis.
00:20:39
Speaker
So you're telling me that with Gigantamax Venusaur and Gigantamax Pikachu, and what was the one that could regrow his tail, Ekans, we've cured world hunger, global warming, and fossil fuel. Yep, and we're only 25 into the Pokedex. Pokemon needs to be real, let's be honest. It's beautiful. That's like, oh, he's such a good boy.
00:21:07
Speaker
Yeah, you'd need a couple of them though, but they're easy to catch. Not so much in like the first games. Yeah, especially like in like Legends, Arceus and the Scarlet and Violet games. They're just wandering around. You could catch hundreds of these things. I know, but I still get excited every time I see one. I know the first time you see one. Oh my god, it's the biggest one! Must catch it. It will be mine forever. Yeah. Oh, do you want to evolve it? Never!
00:21:35
Speaker
It's gonna stay! Though I was... Raichu is my favorite and I was very upset in Let's Go Pikachu that I could not evolve it and have a Raichu sitting on my back the entire game. Yeah, see I went for Let's Go Eevee because I knew that I'd want Eevee sat by my side the whole time.
00:21:53
Speaker
Yeah, and you can just catch the other ones and have those as well. So as we were talking about, the Gigantamax form appears to be based on the earliest depictions of Pikachu when it debuted in Red and Green and also the Pokémon card series. And during this time, its official artwork and sprites depicted it to be fatter and rounder. Yeah.
00:22:20
Speaker
So although the Gigantamax Pikachu has a lot of the modern design elements of the Pikachu, it has the body shape of its predecessor. He was a chunky boy. And I remember how excited everybody got when they introduced Gigantamax and people were like, chunky choos back. And like, people went insane. We're all surprised. He's perfect. He's beautiful.
00:22:47
Speaker
They could have done him any better if they tried. No. I get why they slimmed him down for the anime, but they should have just, he was so derpy. And we deserve a derpy, derpy tune. We do, but also just his general persona is just a derpy Pikachu. Like in the anime, he's just silly. Yeah. And he has a love of ketchup, as we also saw in the anime, steals the ketchup and then gets sad when the ketchup gets destroyed.
00:23:16
Speaker
That's a man after my own heart.
Pikachu's Diverse Roles and Diet
00:23:18
Speaker
He is me. Are you ready to move on to our little Pika question section? Oh, I think I am. Okay. So if you were just hanging around Viridian Forest, I believe is the first time we get to see. He is indeed. And if you catch him, you're lucky. Man's red and green ones. So much joy, you know?
00:23:44
Speaker
And then I remember when Pokemon Yellow was released because I got Pokemon Yellow and he started Pikachu. And he follows you around. I know! Oh, he was so cute. And instead of having like the sound that he made in the game, he actually said Pikachu and it was so exciting. I know. Oh, they're really up their game for that one.
00:24:06
Speaker
Bring back a remake. Oh, they did bring back a remake of Pokemon yellow and it was let's go Pikachu Yeah, and it's just so much easier. I remember playing it. I'm like, you don't know what do you mean? They gain XP by just being in your belt. That's not how it works Got right kiss one out and bring it back and share the XP And then eventually get the XP share that you could put on one other Pokemon
00:24:29
Speaker
Or just play it like the churro jeez, you'd have one level 100 and then the rest is just you never use them. That was my first playthrough and it was a Nidoking. Oh, that's embarrassing. Yeah, because Pikachu sucks for Brock so I used to just keep him. But I caught a Nidoran and that was my guy, I called him Tony.
00:25:00
Speaker
I just built up my Charizard. I weren't messing about. Oh, smart of you. So anyway, if you're wondering around Viridian Forest and Al scrambles a little scrambly boy Pikachu, what would you do? He's coming home with me. By hook or by grip, I'm taking him home. I don't care how I get him. He's coming home with me.
00:25:23
Speaker
Just go full on Team Rocket and get one of those electricity proof sacks. Honestly, are you telling me you do anything different? Nah, I'd pick him up. I'd have to have him. Yeah. Or her. Can you imagine the FaceTime call? Guess what? Oh my god, fucking Pikachu! I'm gonna be the very best like no one ever was! I gotta catch him all!
00:25:50
Speaker
Slowly becoming Ash Ketchum, one Pokemon at a time. Not slowly. He is our idol. What are you lying for? Ah.
00:25:59
Speaker
I wrote Peter a real one. He's not dead, but the anime's finished. He's had the longest lifespan of a 10-year-old I've ever seen. It's been 20 years. But my God, has he done it well? But did he? Do it all, that boy. It's when I went into an antique shop today and they had Pokémon cards.
00:26:22
Speaker
Oh, it's a sign that you're old. Oh no. Pokemon cards are antiques now. I still have all the ones I had as a kid. Oh yeah. Oh, brilliant. So anyway, so we're both stealing. That's that. What other functions other than battling does a good old boy Pikachu have? What job can't Pikachu do? Oh.
00:26:49
Speaker
He's a detective. He's a surfer. I love it so much. I've got that game now on the switch. I can't wait to play it. Oh, it's so good. He's a captain of a ship. He drives taxis. He works in a hire balloon. He flies a plane.
00:27:06
Speaker
okay there is not a job that this boy cannot do he is such a good cook she food exactly it's a bloody microwave sweetheart i'm pretty sure he did wrestling at one point yeah he did i've seen the wrestling outfit ah what job does pikachu not do exactly walkie-talkie he's a walkie-talkie
00:27:30
Speaker
He even dressed up as Nurse Joy, didn't he, in one of them? He did, yeah, and Officer Jenny. Yes! And other Pokémon. What can't he do? He's a man of all traits. Ah, bless him. In the Poké Park games, you become Pikachu, so he can be human as well. I don't know how I feel about that. Well, you're a human and then you get transported into a body of a Pikachu.
00:27:57
Speaker
in the Pokey Park and you have to save the Pokey Park as Pikachu. I would like that. That sounds like a lot of fun. So a body snatcher? I'm telling you, like I said, the question should be, what can he do, sweetheart? What can he do? What a legend. So what does he eat? Ketchup. Berries. And ketchup. That's it. Just berries and ketchup. All apples.
00:28:25
Speaker
Anything. Yeah, he eats human food. Like, they show him eating human food in the anime all the time. He's like a dog. He can eat most things. He is like a dog actually. Like, you could just keep him around. Yeah. Alright, next question might upset you. Could we eat a Pikachu? Yeah. Not even any... Yeah, I'll have him. I'll give him a go.
00:28:52
Speaker
Right now, Claudia, what I'm going to say is shrek. Oh, rotisserie style. Rotisserie style Pikachu. There would have to be some preparation in the Pikachu. You would have to... I mean, the fur sparkles, so you'd have to remove all of that safely. That would make a killer outfit. Or a really good rug.
00:29:18
Speaker
Like I said, a tiger rug. Just a Pikachu rug. Not a tiger with tits. I could use it as one of the ones near your toilet. Keep your feet warm at night. That's beautiful. That's a horrible thought. You would have to go in and extract the glands in the face. If they can produce electricity, that would not be safe to have on an open flame. No. Would he be able to cook himself?
00:29:46
Speaker
Oh, see that's a hard one. Cause he cooks food with electricity, right? But Pikachu gets charged by electricity. He would definitely overcharge him. He could overcharge himself and kill himself. At that point he wouldn't be able to cook himself. And also is charging yourself like Pikachu masturbation.
00:30:10
Speaker
There's not many things that I never thought I'd hear you say in our 20 years of friendship or however long it's been. But Pikachu masturbation might be it. You might have genuinely made me speechless. But that would be what it is, just a continuous depleting his electricity to charge his electricity. But that's not masturbation though, is it? Unless I'm doing it wrong.
00:30:43
Speaker
You haven't shocked yourself with your own electricity glands? What do you mean you don't? What do you mean you don't have a electricity glands? Going back to the tiger tits, do you reckon? Do you reckon it was like a yellow and black stripy tiger, but then it's electricity instead of coming from its cheeks, it came from its tits?
Speculative Scenarios with Pikachu
00:31:16
Speaker
Oh my god, straight from the nipple. Like, you know that Austin Powers movie where she shoots guns from... I mean speaking with electricity. Alright, I looked it up.
00:31:36
Speaker
um someone has designed it and it it indeed is a tiger with titties but it still has the cheeks but the cheeks are pepsi logos whoa i did i did find um one of the ideas it doesn't it's not the one with the tits but it is like a little tiger cat with round ears and a little lightning ball in his belly it's very cute it kind of looks like if
00:32:04
Speaker
Pikachu and Maril and Spiel had a baby. There was a lot going on. Yeah. Pikachu tiger breasts. Should we go back to the questions now, please? Yeah, yeah, we'll go back to the questions. I'm sorry, the tiger fact really had me all up in a loop.
00:32:26
Speaker
All right. We'll giggle it after. All right. We'll go through it together. Okay. So you're hanging out in Viridian City. You've had a long day and you just find a lovely, quaint little bar and you go in and you're going into crack open an ice cold one.
00:32:45
Speaker
And sitting at the bar is a Pikachu. In fact, maybe he's even working the bar because Pikachu can do anything. There's little Pikachu there with a tea towel over his arm. And maybe he's a little irritable because he has not had enough sleep and therefore is starting to struggle with his electricity levels. And seeing you just pisses him off.
00:33:13
Speaker
Who would win in a fight, you or bartender Krabby Boy Pikachu? I'm sorry, I'm gonna take the win I reckon, you know? He's got one foot and six kilograms, I could just pick him up and chuck him. Sure he might electrocute me, but I think that's a risk I'm willing to take. I'll make sure I'm wearing rubber shoes. Why did Team Rocket never wear rubber shoes? I don't know, maybe because it's a TV show.
00:33:39
Speaker
That's true. But I know what you mean. Yeah, either way is a win-win. Either way you beat him, then he can keep him as captive for the rest of his life. Or you'll get to blast off Light Team Rocket, just the ones. Yeah, exactly. And both would be good outcomes. If I beat you and said, by the way, I've been blasted off by Pikachu, you'd be like, get me the CCTV footage.
00:34:06
Speaker
Was it as fun as it looks like on the TV? You get to fly off in the sky and then bing, bing. You're gone.
00:34:17
Speaker
I don't know, I reckon I'd fall down at some point. Hopefully not back on to the same bar that I just got ejected from. You could just hope that you blast off and you landed a Lola and then you can piss off another Pikachu and just bing your way back. Yeah, maybe they had a chat about it beforehand, you know?
00:34:38
Speaker
Pikachu from Ash's Pikachu is like, look, Alolan Pikachu friends. I'm going to be blasting off this group of Team Rocket again and again, but there would be no content for our episodes of the Pokemon TV series if they didn't try some kind of shit every single fucking episode. So when I bing them to you, just be a good, yeah, be a good walkie talkie and bing them back. And maybe that's what they did the entire time.
00:35:08
Speaker
I mean, I think you're right. I can't see anything wrong with that plan at all. That's a great theory. Poor Team Rocket getting double binged on a Saturday night.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts on Pikachu
00:35:17
Speaker
Sounds like a great Saturday night. Alright, so that's that for our homey boy Pikachu. That's the end of that one. Of a double binging on a Saturday night.
00:35:32
Speaker
Alright, what'd you reckon? You already loved Pikachu. I did. I think, I love him a bit more, but like I've not really learnt that much this one. I normally learn loads, but because I already knew quite a bit. Yeah, I didn't know about, well you learnt about the tiger.
00:35:48
Speaker
Yeah, but that more affected you than me, I feel. I like that one slide where it's you've just... That tickled me. They pounded it, but that's not appropriate. I did. It pounded me and I pounded it back. Being on a Saturday night. Oh my gosh. Beautiful. But yeah, no, I'm happy. I love Pikachu. He's still iconic. What an icon.
00:36:16
Speaker
He is the OG, and no wonder they chose him as the mascot. Yeah, exactly. He is the mascot of my heart too. Yeah. And who else would they have chosen as a mascot? But no, because we love Pikachu, because he's bright, he's colourful. And like I said, he's always up to shenanigans. And you can just see the colours of Pikachu and know exactly who it is. Exactly. He's the one with the arms. He is iconic.
00:36:46
Speaker
He's got arms, and he's got little red cheeks. Anyway, I suppose that's it for this week, and we'll have a Pikachu at Raichu later. Oh, have a little cheeky Pikachu next week. Oh, can I just quickly ask you something? How do you get a Pikachu onto a bus? I don't know. You poke him on. All right. All right, cheeky.
00:37:16
Speaker
On that note goodbye!