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Happiny, Chansey, & Blissey (Ft. Adventures in Collecting)
252 Plays3 years ago
HELLOOOO NURSE! Erik from @AIC_Podcast joins the Daycare Dittos for the big, pink egg Pokemon. Behind every successful Nurse Joy is a Chansey holding down the Pokemon center. This HP powerhouse changed a lot through the generations but she has cemented her place in the Pokemon World.
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Transcript
Egg-themed Daycare Introduction
00:00:04
Speaker
Hello, nurse. Look at my eggs. Welcome to daycare, Ditto's. We've got a full dozen eggs. Who's touching the eggs? Hi, everyone. It's Dave. And does everyone say hello? A big egg shaped hello to all of you. That was egg-ceptional.
Guest Introduction and Pokemon Discussion
00:00:24
Speaker
I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs. I don't want to bury the lead.
00:00:32
Speaker
So I'm going to introduce our guest from the Adventures in Collecting podcast. We have Eric with us today. Hi, egg friends. Oh, egg friends. There's something so sincere about just an egg. It's delicate. You paint them for Easter. They taste pretty good.
00:00:57
Speaker
Isn't it like the egg is the only single item that's a complete meal? Really? It has all the nutritional things in it to make a complete meal. I mean, I eat one every day. I eat three every day. Well, yeah, I eat more than one a day. But I make sure I eat an egg thing once a day, at least. Yeah, me too. I love eggs. My day is not complete without eggs. So that makes sense. There you go.
Food and Pokemon Tangents
00:01:21
Speaker
I'm not sure.
00:01:24
Speaker
Saw a video recently about how rice and beans have all of the necessary proteins and acids that you would need during a day. I think eggs probably are right up there too. Tacos. Tacos. It's got meat. It's got vegetables. It's got grains. And they grow on trees, so it's perfect. They get fired out of chickens. No taco Pokemon yet.
00:01:54
Speaker
I was just going to say, is there a taco Pokemon? Yeah, give them a generation that's coming. I mean, they got the keys out of the way. They haven't gone to South America yet. That's a good point. I did see like this Reddit post where it was different regions that were like made up by people. I was just like fan art and one of them was like a
00:02:21
Speaker
South American region and they had really cool versions of like Zatu and stuff. It was really cool. Oh, that's sick. Yeah, I guess like there are a few South American themed Pokemon like Hualucha is a Mexican wrestler. Ludicolo. Ludicolo. Halucha is one of my favorite Pokemon. I really like Halucha. He carried my ass in Pokemon X and Y. What's Sigalyph supposed to be?
00:02:48
Speaker
Is that South American? It's kind of like Aztec in right now. I think, yeah, I don't know. For everybody who wants to tell us about South American Pokemon, sound off in the comments somewhere. I guarantee we won't find it, but if we do, we'll totally talk about it on the show. But today we're not talking about anything that has to do with South America unless you have a delicious egg meal there.
Eric's Pokemon Journey
00:03:14
Speaker
Huevos. Huevos.
00:03:17
Speaker
And it's time to run Cheros with our good friend, Eric, and ask the question that we always ask. Eric, what is your history with Pokemon? Oh, man. Well, being a child of the late 80s, when Pokemon hit in the United States, I was kind of like right in that butter zone, especially when Red and Blue hit. I grew up
00:03:43
Speaker
with a friend who is half Japanese, shouts to Mike Young, wherever you are in the world. And he actually would bring like cool import stuff over. So like we had, my first experience with Pokemon was, was a Game Boy, a Japanese cart. And, you know, I obviously didn't know how to read anything, but like, you know, under started to understand the mechanics of the game and everything. And, you know, of course, when it came out, he was like, see, told you. But, um,
00:04:13
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's just one of those things where like red and blue was so it was like it was so penetrating, right? Like it kind of took over everything. And then, of course, like the trading cards and, you know, the the initial like little minifigures and stuff. So I kind of burnt myself out on Pokemon by gold and silver by the end of gold and silver and then took like a pretty long break from it.
00:04:43
Speaker
and came back kind of like with the next gen stuff and kind of like the re resurgence of Pokemon and you know, I have a six year old daughter and you know, she started to show an interest. So, you know, kind of playing it with her again. But yeah, it was it was weird for me because like I remember there being 151 Pokemon and then all of a sudden like.
00:05:06
Speaker
opened my eyes and there was, you know, what is there like almost a thousand now, right? Yeah, something like that. It's like eight hundred nine hundred.
Adventures in Collecting Podcast and Toys
00:05:14
Speaker
It was weird like, you know, watching some of the new anime and like jumping into the new games and she's like, what's this poem? I'm like, I don't know. It's like 28 days later. You've been in like a Pokemon Center unconscious for a couple of years and you wake up.
00:05:32
Speaker
That's the thing that I love the most is seeing the little ones still loving Pokemon. Yeah, I love that. You know, we're three for three now on our guests who have had experience with Japanese cards. I was going to say that this is like three in a row. Incredible marketing that Nintendo is doing sending Japanese friends. They were like, fuck it, everybody already has an uncle that works at Nintendo. Let's have a friend that's from Japan.
00:06:01
Speaker
Find a guy who looks like he's gonna have a podcast later. Yeah. Get him. Speaking of which, Pokemon also bleeds into what you do on your day-to-day with adventures in collecting.
00:06:16
Speaker
Oh man, Jazzwares, they're Pokemon toys, they're unbelievable. That new Pokemon Select line, those 112 scale super articulated Pokemon that are basically like SH figure arts killers at a $20 price point, they're unbelievable. And the team that they have over there working on them, Aaron and Scott and all the other designers,
00:06:41
Speaker
Uh, it's just, it's unbelievable what they're, what they're pulling off and like, you know, the way that they're using kind of built-in flight stands for, for ones like, uh, like Haunter and Gasly and, um, yeah, it's just, it's super fun, the world that they're creating and, you know, turning it now into like a tabletop game with that surprise attack game. Uh, yeah, Pokemon toys are, I think, I think it's actually fair to say that like Pokemon toys, like action figures are bigger than they've ever been now, like in, in 2021, 2022.
00:07:13
Speaker
I'd say so. So if people didn't catch on yet, Adventures in Collecting is a toy podcast where you've started off just discussing love of toys with your brother and have kind of grown into the direct connect with the entire industry. Talking to people from all of the biggest toy companies down to people that are doing it out of
00:07:37
Speaker
their own little workshops, people from toy history, and like you were saying, a lot from jazzwares who, if you go through the target aisle and are lucky enough to find some Pokemon toys right now because they sell like hotcakes, they're producing some of the best stuff. And one of the coolest requests ever made is set to hit soon. And I'm so excited. That is a big boy. That thing is unbelievable. And like, you know,
00:08:05
Speaker
given the way that Requaza operates, they were able to make a very, very long Pokemon in kind of coiled up inside the box. So you're really getting bang for your buck with that one in terms of it like scaling with the other larger Pokemon that they've made so far. So yeah, it's super cool. Hells yeah. Love Requaza.
00:08:31
Speaker
I need them to make Lugia next. That's the one that I really want. So I learned from your podcast that they had a little Easter egg. I don't think so. They talked about speaking about South America. They talked about counting in Spanish. So we got Articuno first. So I think we're going to get Zabdos second and then maybe Moltres.
00:08:58
Speaker
And then we'll maybe we'll get Lou Quatro. One could only hope. I know. Well, I mean, everything that they've announced and have come out are very, very cool. But.
00:09:12
Speaker
I think you can expect to see a lot more, because like you said, they're selling, they can't keep them in stock. I don't think the line is going to go away anytime soon. Pokemon is the biggest franchise in the world. It's the most successful franchise in the world, period, in terms of merchandising and everything.
00:09:31
Speaker
So jazzwares and with Jeremy Padour over there kind of overseeing things, he's a huge nut about Pokemon. So I think they're going to hang on to that license, and they're proving that they're doing it justice. Definitely. But one, I don't think we've seen a figure from this Pokemon for a little bit, did a little Googling.
00:09:59
Speaker
An interesting fave from you. I did not expect this. Oh, yeah. This is a weird one, right? The next question we ask all of our guests, why Chansey?
00:10:12
Speaker
You ask all of your guests, why Chansey? That's a weird question to ask. We've been waiting for this episode. We're going to stop. Because we're going to get the genuine answer now. Yeah. Our next one is going to be, why Audino? Or Spinda. Yeah. Never Clefky. Every episode, we've got to bring it up. That's how I just need everyone to really understand how much I hate that Pokemon.
00:10:43
Speaker
Do you think we can just skip the Klefke episode? Yeah, I think we talk enough about it, right? Yeah. Not much to say. It's keys. We're done. What do you call a podcast that's not a fan podcast, but like more of like a disdain podcast? This isn't a Pokemon fan podcast. This is a Klefke game. This is a Pokemon minus Klefke fan podcast.
00:11:04
Speaker
I don't think I've ever heard you get this mad about something, Sarah. Listen to some of the older episodes. Listen to every single week. Oh, man. So why Chansey? You know what? Chansey is a very strange design. I mean, not that like most of the Pokemon have kind of their own unique thing, right? But I don't know. Something about the way it kind of has
00:11:33
Speaker
I don't want to say like dreadlocks, but like I like the things coming off the side of its head, you know, just the kind of permanent smile, the egg. And honestly, going back to the video game, the safari
Chansey's Role and Evolution in Pokemon
00:11:45
Speaker
zone was so cool. Like the idea of like, you know, the Pokemon that you can only catch there. And, you know, I know Genghis Genghis Khan was another one. But, you know, it was just there was something cool about that kind of whole experience from the get go and like just, you know, weird.
00:12:02
Speaker
you know, like a weird looking Pokemon and also Chancey had a sweet foil card in the trading card game. That was awesome. So I think it's just like a lot of my favorite Pokemon when I think about them kind of boils back to like just kind of that design, whether it's the
00:12:21
Speaker
you know, whether it's the sprite in the in the video game or whether it's the, you know, the art on one of the, you know, original trading cards. I kind of picked them based on how they look, which like in retrospect makes my team like an absolute hot mess of nothing that works together. But yeah, like like Chansey was just cool for that. And I dug the the the appeal. Solid.
00:12:50
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I totally relate to that, too. Honestly, there's something about Chancey's just like unending smile that just makes me feel so calm, like that no Pokemon does that to me. But Chancey and then the anime like she shows up in the the the the the with the nurses, you know, and she's got like her her fun little apron on. Yeah, she was like a little Buddha.
00:13:17
Speaker
Yeah, there's a Buddha vibes coming coming from Chansey. I love learning about Pokemon with jobs in like Pokedex entries or Pokemon whose like excretions are used in like different industries, like how how Pokemon and humans mesh nicely. And Chansey is like the first version of that.
00:13:45
Speaker
and also has a good hint of the Trix Rabbit. Well, no, reverse Trix Rabbit. I guess it would be more of like a Lucky Charms kind of thing. Yeah, the white and pink. Well, no, this is from Everybody's Trying to Steal.
00:14:02
Speaker
Chancey's Lucky Charm. Imagine if your belly is an egg and everybody's trying to sneak up to you and eat the egg out of your sack that's attached to you. But you know what? If you're just good enough friends with it, it'll give it to you. It's so rude that they try to take it. Yeah, just be friends. So where do we want to start? I mean, where it all begins at number 440, right? Yeah.
00:14:28
Speaker
So, Eric, is this was this a surprise to you? When did you learn about happening? Uh, when I did the research for this, really? Yeah. Yeah. Um, is it happening or happening? Happy knee? Yeah, it's happy knee. Happy knee. Yeah. No, I, I, this was one of those ones where I pulled up the good old, uh, Bulbapedia.
00:14:54
Speaker
And and went down that rabbit hole and discovered that there was this little custard looking thing. Oh, it looks like when you have a hard boiled egg in one of those hard boiled egg holders. Yeah, that's what it's open. Yeah, that's what it's supposed to be. And it's adorable. Like it cute. It jumped right back up in like it jumped right up into the the top ski list.
00:15:22
Speaker
Yeah, it's got a cute little ponytail. Yeah, but you know what? It hates its hair. It hates its ponytail. I know, but it's so cute. It's so cute. It's like, okay, I think it's one of those Pokemon or people really who, if you have straight hair, you really want curly hair. If you have curly hair, you really want straight hair kind of thing. They just want it to be long enough to rock the dreads like Chansey. Yeah.
00:15:46
Speaker
It's got some strong Tommy Pickles energy Because it's like bottom is supposed to be a diaper and it carries around all of its shit in the diaper Well, not not in the way that a diapers use I mean shit hasn't things but also I imagine it's polka shit as well Did you guys know that it's egg is not really an egg because it's too young to make eggs. Oh
00:16:09
Speaker
Yeah, it's just a baby. No periods. No, not yet. So anything. She's not a woman yet. Anything round or white? Yeah, anything round or white goes in her diaper. Now I'm getting what was the Tiny Toon Adventures like blue ball go down the hole. Hey, lady, I love you. Bye bye.
00:16:37
Speaker
Yeah, that's Pokemon Diamond has a Pokedex entry. It says it loves round white things. It carries an egg shaped rock to an imitation of Chansey.
00:16:49
Speaker
Oh, so if it loves round white things, we would be best friends. This is great. This works out great for me. It will actually pick up so many things that it will become overloaded and can't move. Imagine having a diaper full of round white things. My dream. Round white balls.
00:17:09
Speaker
It actually might feel good to have a diaper filled with smooth white stones. That sounds like a good textile experience for me. You can kind of just roll back and forth and get a little bum massage. Yeah. Yeah, especially if they're a little warm or something.
00:17:29
Speaker
89 Geoprism or an 88 Geoprism. And there was like this beaded like mat that was by the driver's seat. And it kind of reminds me of like if I had a diaper filled with like little round white beads, it would probably feel like that. So like a beaded diaper, like a diaper that Cher would have worn in the 70s. Like a candy thong, you know, like that. Yeah.
00:17:59
Speaker
Oh, now that's what that's for? So you're happy to cosplay. Cosplay. Yes, Dave, that's what it's for. I mean, it beats Tommy Pickles. He has a full-ass screwdriver. He's got like his diapers, like the diaper equivalent of a Mary Poppins bag. Yep. A spoonful of sugar and baby dick. It's gross. Gross boy Tommy Pickles. There's an episode where they became nudists.
00:18:29
Speaker
I forget who started the nude movement, but they all learned the behavior eventually. And the adults got really annoyed that the babies were learning that nudist behavior from that pervert Tommy Pickles.
00:18:54
Speaker
Yeah, I think wasn't it like they all wanted to be like Spike and he doesn't have to wear clothes because he's a dog. Yeah, I think that's what it was. Yeah. I just remember I don't know the full story of this, but I know that a lot of the episodes featuring the grandparents are no longer aired. Really? Yeah, because apparently something about them is like racially insensitive to like Jewish heritage. Oh, really? Yeah. But I think like they go into a lot of different things. I know there's a whole episodes about the Dybbuk.
00:19:25
Speaker
the Maccababies. The Maccababies, yeah. I think it was specifically the ones about the Jewish demons. They had a whole episode where they talked about the Menorah story and everything. The Passover episode is like annual watching.
00:19:43
Speaker
You guys see the thing where a stew pickles is dressed up exactly like Spike Spiegel in that one. Yeah. Yeah. They knew what was up. They knew what was up. You know what else babies do? They wander around people's feet and cause them to stumble, which is what Hapini also does. You know, my cat does that also. Oh, yeah, I've tripped over cats many a time for the same reason.
00:20:12
Speaker
Yeah, I can confirm that I have a six-year-old and I have a one-year-old and I have tripped over both of them. It's just part of the experience, you know? Do they also throw tantrums and you take their white rocks away?
00:20:31
Speaker
You know, so Maddie was never really like that, but, uh, but Callie does, does she does like to hoard things, not in her diaper because like, I mean, that's on there pretty snug, but like she likes to take things and kind of like squirrel them away.
00:20:46
Speaker
Yeah, so so yeah, I mean it's it's it's true to life. It's let's life in it or art imitating life life imitating art But it however that goes sounds like she's having her own adventures in collecting. Yeah My uh, my friend his son he he told me he leaves like old remotes around the house so that his son will go for them instead of the actual remotes they're just like
00:21:12
Speaker
They're decoys. I thought that was wonderful. One of my least favorite trends in toys as a parent are toys that look like real things. So they make a toy that looks like an Xbox controller. And they make a toy that looks like a phone and a remote control and keys. Obviously, the keys one is classic. Oh, we love keys. We love keys. Man, we love keys. They had a face.
00:21:39
Speaker
Those toys are the worst because it just teaches them that like oh the things that these things look like are also toys And I hate that oh man. I'm gonna bring that power drill Fisher price power drill That Fisher price welding kit Fisher price hand grenade they used to have like
00:22:04
Speaker
actual radioactive material in science kits. Better than that, I guess. We have come a long way. Yeah. I used to eat pink chips off of railings. Oh, no. I think back to that and I'm like, I wonder how much lead I have in my system. Well, they shouldn't call them chips if you can't eat them.
00:22:28
Speaker
I mean like people were talking about it now that tinsel used to just be made out of lead. Oh, yeah And then when they wanted to have fake snow and displays it was literally just asbestos They would just rain mesothelioma down on you and then wish you a merry holiday
00:22:47
Speaker
People are, I've seen like papers about how like the boomers aren't empathetic because there was so much lead in the gasoline and in the atmosphere that it caused them like brain damage. Oh my gosh. Well, that kind of makes a little sense. At least for my family.
00:23:07
Speaker
Sorry if there's any boomers listening. You probably have a lot of lead. I think this is a safe place. Something I like about Hapini is that it was the only Pokemon designed by Emi Yoshida.
00:23:25
Speaker
Emi Yoshida was an illustrator for the Pokémon Trading Card game, but was brought onto the team to help design and work with the graphic designs for Gen 4.
00:23:38
Speaker
So while working for Gen 4, they wanted to, of course, add some Pokémon. I believe Hapini was one of two baby Pokémon added in that game. Isn't it Chingling? Oh, wait, yeah, no. Chingling. Junior. And Munchwax. Munchwax. Mantyke. Mantyke. There were a bunch. Damn. Was Tyrogue that?
00:24:03
Speaker
What was that earlier? Potentially. Azuril. Azuril. I take it back. There was shits on a baby's. Did we say man tyke already? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So they needed a baby. So Emi Yoshida was like, I got you. I'm an arter. I'll art it for you. And that's how we got a beanie. Yeah. She does really cute, uh, pictures, uh, cards and stuff. I saw she did a Chingling, a Shuckle, a Mudkip, and a Castform card, and they were all adorable. So.
00:24:33
Speaker
It makes sense why they brought her on to help with the designs. Another thing I never thought of too was that chancy and the whole chancy line exclusively female, which makes sense that it's constantly birthing eggs, but I never really thought about it.
00:24:52
Speaker
Yeah, just like all nurses are female. I think this is the first time, too, because we've had 100 percent male Pokemon, but I don't think we've had 100 percent female yet. Other than Nidoran. OK, yeah, but that's kind of that's cheating. Yeah, this is one of those things, too, that was interesting for me, is like I always just kind of assumed that they were all female.
00:25:18
Speaker
Like just, you know, cause red and blue, it didn't, didn't really make a difference. Right. Neater and Neaterino were, uh, where the, yeah. But like, other than that, like you kind of just had your assumptions, like, you know, I mentioned it already, but like going back to like Angus Khan, like, you know, it had a pouch. So like, presumably.
00:25:38
Speaker
So, you know, they're all female and like Chansey always just carting around eggs. So like female. But then again, like taking a big time off from the game coming back and being like, whoa, we have genders now. And like, is Mr. Mime still Mr. Mime? You'll never believe how they got the genders too.
00:25:58
Speaker
That was the attack, uh, DV. Yeah. Yeah. If they were weak, they became females. And if they were strong, they became men. I was going to say, I actually know that because I listened to that episode. How about that? You guys taught me something. Yeah, but it ended up, uh, it ended up changing in the future. I think that's a separate stat, although.
00:26:23
Speaker
After last episode, I've been learning a lot about Pokemon because of that one YouTube channel that our last guests suggested. There's always more to learn. Yeah. I bet you I probably only know like 1% of Pokemon facts. Right. Yeah. There's just so much to learn.
00:26:50
Speaker
I just, I love that there was so much imagination in the beginning. Like we didn't need gender at that point because we were just, you know, your kids, you just, there wasn't any space for it. But also like, I love the idea where it's kind of like, is it a parks and rec where they're like, all dogs are boys and all cats are girls.
00:27:12
Speaker
Like it's so arbitrary to like I want this rat to fight your snake. Yeah, I still don't get why like some splits for like the genders are like like what? Eighty seven percent male. Yeah. It's just a little weird sometimes that like
00:27:38
Speaker
such an arbitrary percentage are male as opposed to female. Yeah, I know the starters for sure, just because they want to make it hard harder for people to breed them. But yeah, you know, Ditto fucks all that up. Yeah. Good old Ditto. Yeah, you lived in a pure Pokemon world, too, with the first gen. Nobody was fucking yet.
00:28:02
Speaker
No, no, everyone was just appearing contured out of nowhere. Out of the ether. Yeah, like when it actually said the Pokemon appeared on, like this Pokemon has appeared on screen, that's actually, like it was born into existence in that moment. I know when I was birthed, I can't even speak, when I was birthed, the whole hospital flashed and went...
00:28:31
Speaker
a shitty little baby appeared and and somewhere someone was like i'm just trying to walk through the grass yeah oh my god i guess i'll catch this one yeah your mother in texas they're like stop sending repels to planned parenting
00:28:51
Speaker
Oh my god. Too bad. Uh, that was bad. That was bad. There's people we need to vote against anyway. Yeah. Have you ever, have you subscribed to Wokemon? No. Wokemon? No. It's just a bunch of like, uh,
00:29:11
Speaker
You know, pro like labor, pro women, like philosophy, uh, that are put to cute Pokemon pictures. I love that. Yeah. That's great. I need to, is that, is that an Instagram? I don't know where I first found it. I just see it pop up every once in a while. Um, it's probably Instagram. Yeah.
00:29:36
Speaker
it. It's just something that stuck with me and I really should look at it more because it's like, all right, I follow the motherfucking share zone, but welcome on is so much better. So don't say that about the motherfucking share zone. I mean, the motherfucking share zone is great. But you know,
00:29:58
Speaker
I don't know the backstory and what these skeletons have all been to. I just see Charmander saying the oligarchal ruling class systematically oppresses women in minorities. Get them Charmander. Exactly. This is good. I got a Bulbasaur saying infinite growth fueled by capital accumulation of finite resources is unsustainable.
00:30:25
Speaker
I'm glad I was here for this episode so I could share that with the masses. Oh, here we go. Togepi says, our genders are as unique as we are. No one's definition is the same. And carpenta- oh my god, compartmentalizing a person as either a boy or a girl based entirely on the appearance of genitalia at birth undercuts our complex life experiences.
00:30:49
Speaker
Cool. Thanks, Togepi. Yeah, this one. These happiness all have vaginas. Pikachu just is saying fire spin can't melt steel beams. So moral of the story. Moral of the story, Hapini, Chansey, and Blissey all have pussies, but they may not all be women.
00:31:13
Speaker
I'm glad we have that out in the open. It said that in the Pokedex. We have anything else to talk about Hapini? We can get to the main attraction. A little few things real quick. Hit us with it.
00:31:30
Speaker
Yeah. So first is the shiny is just like a lighter pink color. Oh yeah. It's nothing really that special. Um, the other thing I was going to say is that, uh, this Pokemon gets along well with children and we'll sometimes play house with them for fun. And that is fitting cause it is the play house Pokemon. Yeah. Adorable. Um, then the Japanese name is pin Puku, uh, which comes from the word pink who,
00:31:57
Speaker
which is pink and fuku, which means good fortune. Oh, something different where I'm from. And then the French name, which will, uh, I will tell you, Blissey's, I believe is the best. Uh, but the French name for a happening is, uh, petit Ravi, which is a small and Ravi, which is delighted.
00:32:19
Speaker
And then something else I noticed too, and this is the last thing, it's just these Pokemon are way lighter than I thought they would be. I thought they were like big old Chubbos, but they're really not that heavy at all. Maybe they're just hollow. Blissy is 103 pounds. What? Yeah. And how tall is Blissy? Blissy is four foot 11. OK. I was like, oh, that big round egg that
00:32:48
Speaker
It has tons of HP and contain all sorts of hits. A hundred pounds. I think I'm scarred by Arceus now because there's like an enraged Blissey in the game. That's like fucking enormous. Yeah. A hundred pounds. No, no, that that Blissey's got to be like a thousand pounds. That one's huge. Because in comparison, like Snorlax is only two feet taller and like
00:33:16
Speaker
just as round around the the old egg sack and is at least a thousand pounds, I think. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I mean, I didn't expect it to be super duper heavy, but I was just very surprised at how light it is. She's a light and bouncy gal. Yeah, yes, that is true. And they do describe in Chancey's Pokedex that she is light on her feet. So happiness is not that heavy.
00:33:47
Speaker
that's true it's like how they played emotion that they like got a human body and they like weighed every organ but they were missing like six ounces or something isn't that it and they say like that must be the human soul never hear that
00:34:05
Speaker
Is this Fullmetal Alchemist bullshit? No, I think this was actually something that was done where they like literally had a dude and then they weighed him out and they were missing like weight and they were like, that must be a human soul.
00:34:20
Speaker
kind of reminds me of just the beginning of full metal alchemists where Edward like lists off everything that's in a human body. He's like, I can buy all that for like 30 cents, bro. Yeah, humans are really, really fucking cheap. It's like building a deck on like TCG trainers. We're mostly just energies and trainers.
00:34:43
Speaker
Yeah, right. I would never throw away energies because every Pokémon card is sacred to me, but I always wanted to just put them in like the farthest closet imaginable. The Mariana's Trench, the farthest closet. Space, the final frontier, the farthest closet. To Davey Jones's locker with you.
00:35:12
Speaker
If we ever like, yeah, if we ever get like a time capsule and it's like we open it up is filled with energy cards. We know who to blame. Yeah, it might be mine. So Chancy was originally named Lucky in the beta. There's that. Yeah, Daft Punk was always trying to get them.
00:35:37
Speaker
Up all night. Up all night. They even hired Pharrell to help. Yeah. That guy knows a thing or two about being happy. All you got to do is hold an oval stone and level up. During the day, has to be during the day. Basically, I wonder if the oval stone is white. I wonder if Hapini just randomly finds this stone during the day and is like, oh my gosh, I'm so enchanted by this. I must turn into a chancy and grow out my dreadlocks.
00:36:07
Speaker
Yeah, you you have to find the perfect stone and put it in your diaper just the right way. And you got to be really good friends, right? That's the one thing I've learned. You need to be high friendship. It's like an anime. Friendship is really the most powerful for happy. No, but for chancey. Yes. No, for Blissey to make a chancey into a Blissey. You need high friendship. Oh, got you. Which is interesting, because this is a Pokemon, too, that it
00:36:36
Speaker
so many things need to be happening for them to evolve. And that's not even like the end of it too, because in order to get a happy knee in the first place, you have to breed Chansey with the hell light of luck incense, or else it's just going to produce a Chansey? That's something weird about Gen 4. I always thought it was weird that you need to like
00:37:01
Speaker
set the right mood for when the Pokemon fuck so that they have a special baby. Like you need to put on like fucking genuine or something and like have them like for Munchlax it needs to be a full incense. Like there's different smells that get them to shoot out different babies. Yeah. They just needed a reason for why in the past they were not producing these Pokemon. It's just because oh you didn't have the incense.
00:37:27
Speaker
So you should have went to Spencer's gifts and got a special axe body spray. Get the edible underwear. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The candy, the candy thong, right? That's the Pokemon game I want to play. It always comes back to the candy chancey and a candy thong. I was at Spencer's gifts looking for a gag gift as one do and was blown away at the different lube flavors they had.
00:37:54
Speaker
This was a while ago, so I imagine that they've really upped their game since. I mean, we are in a pandemic, but shouldn't be licking things off people. But the one thing that blew my mind more was they had two different like latte flavors. Oh, among other things like you could pick like there was like a Starbucks menu of lube. And that was like was one of them pumpkin spice. I really know, but it probably just wasn't seasonal.
00:38:20
Speaker
There was like a French vanilla latte and then there was like a caramel something. They were both different lattes and I'm like, there's no way both those just don't taste and smell like shit.
00:38:32
Speaker
I mean, I've never really understood the idea of flavored lube to begin with, because if I have lube, I don't want lube in my mouth at all, like in any capacity, whether it tastes like banana or not. Well, the only time I've ever eaten lube was at Spencer's gift when I wanted to taste what the lube tasted like. So the guy, it actually all started from Francis Arthur lube.
00:38:57
Speaker
who made Loub. Of the Loub dynasty. Yeah, and he was actually traveling to a sex convention when his plane crashed on a desert island. Into a peanut butter truck. All he had on the island to eat was Loub, so he swore that if anybody else had this awful fate, they would be okay.
00:39:18
Speaker
Wasn't his name originally pronounced Lube? And when his product came to America, it was changed to Lube? Yeah, if you're going back, the French have the accent égrove.
00:39:33
Speaker
Luckily, we made two friends, Spencer. And Spencer was just like, you know what? I have this big warehouse full of disco balls and Chucky dolls. Full of gifts. Yeah. I don't know what happened. Half of my beaded curtains are all mixed up. One's Bob Marley, and it's mixed in with all the lion heads, too. What are we going to do? I don't know. Just put them next to the velvet neon posters.
00:40:03
Speaker
I always wanted to go into Spencer gifts when I was a little kid because, you know, it just looks like a toy store. And my mom always was like, no, no, we don't want to go in there. Let's, let's go this way. Away from it.
00:40:19
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, but it was in the the mall that we most of us worked in. It was right next to the Sears and pretty sure that the Spencer gifts is still there and the Sears isn't. So it's the real lesson of this podcast is yeah. Conquers all. The United States will never run out of lube. Yeah. Never. So long as Spencer still breathes.
00:40:46
Speaker
Um, and Chancy is always there to help you. Like, let's say you get some awful crotch burn from not enough lube. Chancy would run up and help you with its delicious eggs. This Pokedex really hits home about how fucking good this egg is. Yeah. It only gets better as it evolves. Like, this egg is the egg. High class. Yeah, I would want it.
00:41:14
Speaker
people crave it or jealous like it hasn't it's so good it has a nickname it's called the doctor's doubles
00:41:23
Speaker
I love Arceus for the new Pokedex entries that we're getting. They look like they're really good, high-quality entries. I wanted to talk about Chansey in Arceus. Almost blew my wide a little early last episode, but... Happens. Especially with Hygophas, Lube, from Spencer's Gifts. Only the French from the other kind, though.
00:41:50
Speaker
Not egg flavored lube? That's just normal eggs. Like you just need to smash an egg on a dick. It's egg flavored lube, I guess. You ever buy spermicidal condoms? They smell awful. They smell like eggs that have gone bad. Do they? Yeah. I went and saw spermicidal tendencies at Asbury Park.
00:42:19
Speaker
So that's the egg flavored lube. Yeah. What's what's your Arceus load, Dave? So my Arceus load is so Pokemon in the game every now and then are coded a little different to act a certain way. People are so fucking mad about Paris. Guess I was just coded different. Yeah, Paris and the Paris sector basically blind and they will spot you fucking no matter what. They're like, yeah, it's the worst.
00:42:45
Speaker
and everybody hates them now, but something really fascinating. Chances, like in the original games, are hard to find a lot in the early levels and will run away from you if you don't sneak up on them right. Unless you get injured by another Pokémon, fall, hurt, or take an attack, Chances and Blissies will actually run up to check on you.
00:43:09
Speaker
to make sure you're okay there's even I'm not sure how far this goes there's a move where like well there's a there's a video online where somebody gets like decimated by a Pokemon and the Blissey runs up in front to like between it and the wild Pokemon
00:43:27
Speaker
that's adorable so one of the tactics if you want to catch or be near this pokemon get one to come over to you is if you take damage from another one it'll come to your aid isn't that also kind of messed up though because it's like all right i'm gonna get hurt on purpose and i'm gonna throw a pokeball at you yeah that's like some total manipulation right there but so many
00:43:47
Speaker
Pokemon episodes are like that. It's just like the Pokemon comes to your aid and it's like, you know What you were there for me when no one else was and then you like no getting this tiny ball Yeah, that's what that music starts to play Fucking do you want to change you want to sing the whole thing later? Okay Something about the egg
00:44:13
Speaker
is that they say the egg tastes better if the chancy is raised with love and care. And I'm like, free range chancy. I thought it was if the chancy gave a lot of love to the egg, because it lays several eggs per day, so it can't be given love to every egg. But I thought that it was just if the chance he was giving love to the egg. Listen, look at that smile. It could give love to all the eggs.
00:44:42
Speaker
You know what was stuck in my head while I was doing all this research? That Andrew Byrd album, The Mysterious Production of Eggs. I kept on thinking of just that entire album while I was reading about all these eggs.
00:44:59
Speaker
and it really doesn't stop like the ruby sapphire emeralds chancy lay nutritionally excellent eggs every day the eggs are so delicious they are eagerly devoured by even those people who have lost their appetite yeah which i thought was amazing because one of the things that really
00:45:20
Speaker
hurts people when they're sick is they need to keep up their strength but their appetite is gone because the body is diverting all the energy away from your tummy system and trying to keep you healthy but you need the food to stay healthy too. So that shows us that Chance makes a great nurse because it will
00:45:48
Speaker
make sure that you're fed even if you're sick. So one thing that bothered me though about reading this is like, so Chansey has become the nurse, right? Like in the show, Chansey is Nurse Joy's assistant in every Pokemon Center, but then they say that it's super rare. So
00:46:09
Speaker
Like, do Nurse Joyce just have like a monopoly on Chansey's? Maybe they're maybe like in in you were saying in Arceus, you know, maybe they're drawn to the the pokey centers to to help. That's what I see. They're not actually registered nurses. They're just volunteer helpers. Oh, yeah. They're being drawn to the suffering of Pokemon like magnet light to
00:46:36
Speaker
high energy areas or grimer to the filthy sea. Or it's like Elliot was talking. Somebody found the clone like the whoever was like the father of Nurse Joy was like unplugging his trade cable from his wife when they were having sex that he could make multiple of the same child. It's like Evangelion with all the Ray clones. Yeah. So maybe these chances are just all bred somehow.
00:47:07
Speaker
They have a very busy ditto. Well, yeah, something that I also found like I they don't talk about this at all and I don't get it. Are.
00:47:19
Speaker
Are these eggs that everyone's eating going to become happenings or chances? Are they just not formed fetuses? That's why their populations are so small because the eggs are never given time to... No, I like to imagine that it's like a chicken where it's going to lay the egg regardless and then only the ones that are unfertilized are the ones for eating. Yeah, but who's going to fertilize them? The Arceus, I don't know.
00:47:48
Speaker
Have you ever had a chancy balut? That's exactly what I mean. As soon as you said this, that's exactly what I was thinking, just like a little like stringy, malformed chancies and happenings inside eggs and just the nightmare fuel of that. All right, Pokemon, let's make a new Pokemon of that.
00:48:11
Speaker
Ultra Moon always goes hard. Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon have the most fucked up Pokedex entries. And they're the ones who say because the eggs on their bellies have been over harvested by people in the past, the chancees population remains very small. Yeah. Hmm. And then kids. Yeah, because obviously in the wild, they're very
00:48:40
Speaker
selective with who they give the eggs to. Because one of the Pokedex entries, is this for Chansey or Blissey? I forget. Says basically, they used to be slow Pokemon, but because people wanted their eggs so much, they developed speed in order to protect their eggs better.
00:49:01
Speaker
Yeah, and they won't even share them with people who have any evil in their heart. Yeah, if you have any evil in your heart, then Chancey's not going to share an egg with you. Which also brings me to... Sorry Dave, no eggs for you. Jesse from Team Rocket was friends with a Chancey and she must have not been so evil way back when because
00:49:27
Speaker
Yeah, they were good buds. She was sucking down air. It wasn't she was in a whole class of chances. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I totally love Jesse and James because
00:49:40
Speaker
Obviously they've had some trouble on their way to adulthood and they've tried different things and failed at it. And I just think that it's so amazing that I can totally empathize more with them than this stupid kid who just wants to be the very best because I've never really woken up in the morning and said, yeah, I'm going to do the same thing today. Be the best that I can be. You never see Ash taking like a
00:50:11
Speaker
a me time day. He's always he's always on the grind. He's got that mindset and I hate that. What I always wondered about Jesse and James is like how how did the rest of Team Rocket feel about them? Like just constantly dropping the ball? Like every every on every outing? Butch and Cassidy did not like them very much, right?
00:50:32
Speaker
Yeah, but I think that the boss tended to protect them and be kind to them. And they were still high ranking in the Team Rocket universe. So I think Team Rocket, the grunts revered them and followed their orders.
00:50:50
Speaker
I love the idea too that all of Team Rocket wants Ash's Pikachu because they believe Ash's Pikachu is astronomically powerful just for the fact that it keeps beating Jesse and James. So like the idea to them originally in the anime was like, wow, if this Pikachu keeps beating us, it must be the greatest thing ever. It's like when your team loses
00:51:17
Speaker
and then but you lost to like the super bowl champion and you're like well of course we lost we lost to the champion but like in reality
00:51:25
Speaker
they think that they're a nine and Pikachu's a 10 when like. That Pikachu is always. Well, they made. I was going to say, I mean, that Pikachu like fucked up a ride, a ride horn. Aim for the whole beginning. That was the whole beginning to like Team Rocket. They were cutthroat and not as goofy in the early episodes. They had this real like tuxedo mask kind of animation and feels. It was awesome.
00:51:53
Speaker
That's before James would do his silly laugh and grow tits and stuff. Oh yeah, by the way, we didn't talk about James growing tits, getting a boot job in the James episode. We're just gonna have to have a full episode about James' tits. What a moment. What an icon. Yeah. Cultural reset, really. It's true. I mean, if jazzwares wants to make any figure, I won't say it, because then they won't talk
Team Rocket and Blissey in Pokemon
00:52:20
Speaker
to us ever again. But James with tits is my highest.
00:52:23
Speaker
I just wanna, I would love a Jesse and a Tuxedo and then a James and a Tutu. Aww, I just, anything, I have the Tomy figures of them and they're just like, they're basically like 3D paper dolls. It's just them exactly as they're always pictured just standing there. And it's great, but Figma made some. And this is when I was moving and not really collecting as much. Now they are hundreds of dollars, but they are,
00:52:51
Speaker
the perfect Jesse James and Meowth, they're import figures, look them up, Figma, F-I-G-M-A, and they come with them screaming faces and they're blasting off faces and you can switch different accessories and parts, but I think it's time we get, in retail, Jesse James and our good buddy Meowth. I'm just gonna say it, I don't like Meowth that much. What? Whoa. Dude, those are some hate words right there.
00:53:18
Speaker
But okay, do you like Meowth more than you like Ash? Yeah. What about Misty? Yeah. What about Brock? No. I mean, he's still pretty high up there. Yeah. What about... I like the other regional Meowth better. But I meant Meowth the character, not the type. Meowth the character it transcends. He's just so funny.
00:53:46
Speaker
I like that he's got a straight up like New York accent too. I think that the accent grades on me. I think I've just seen too many like blustering New Yorkers in my day to take me off seriously anymore. I get you. I get you. So did you guys know that Chancey has a signature move?
00:54:13
Speaker
Is that soft boiled? It sure is. And it restores up to 50% of its HP. But it fails a lot. Yeah, it fails when obviously its maximum HP is there. But I think there's also like a sweet spot number that your HP is at. And it'll fail too. I think it's like 255 or something like that. It's weird, some weird number. You're never supposed to get high on your own supply.
00:54:40
Speaker
Right. Imagine if it, like, I heard Chansey got one of its ribs removed so it could eat its own egg right out of its patch. Oh, my gosh. I bet you Chansey doesn't have ribs. I don't think so. They really wanted to be a huggable Pokemon. Yeah, I bet you it's just a marshmallow. It's the original Squishmallow. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. They're just so cute.
00:55:06
Speaker
Damn. It's soft. They make a lot of really soft Pokemon plushies if they don't have a Chansey. So Dave got me like a life-size Snorlax plush and it's stuffed with all those little, what are they called again? Squishmallows. Chansey eggs. Yeah. Yeah. No, what do they call those? Squishmallows. Squishmallows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. His whole head is a squishmallow.
00:55:26
Speaker
Yeah, they were on sale at Walgreens and I harvested their corpses. Oh my god. I didn't know that. I've seen that Snorlax with my own eyes. I didn't know his who's filled with the corpses of Squishmallows. No, I think there's only three in there, but like, I don't know, they got like... What's a Squishmallow?
00:55:45
Speaker
It's this very soft pillow of like these cute things like a unicorn or I don't know. An avocado. Yeah, they're just like cute little characters that have the softest, softest fluff in them. But once I'm done with, you know, the pillow, it goes into my Storlax because he's more important and I got to feed that dude, you know? Yeah. Kind of taking the corpses of your other plushies. Yeah. That's normal.
00:56:11
Speaker
I mean, I don't cut them up. I just shove them in there. Yeah, there's still some hole. Yeah, just like there's some dignity. Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:19
Speaker
The Greek and Roman gods used to eat their children so that they wouldn't rise up and kill them, just to be killed by them. You hear that, Eric? Some tips. Yeah, the parenting tips from the gods. Taking notes. So Chancy was a beast in the first game. We have to talk about this. We've mentioned Chancy's HP increase.
00:56:46
Speaker
is the largest single stat increase after evolving. It's 150 points, which is wild. But also, Chansey received the biggest decrease in its special stat in Gen 2. It lost 70 points of special attack, which they needed to do to make way for Blissey, without making it too OP. Yeah, well, that's mainly because also that's the generation where special became special attack and special defense.
00:57:15
Speaker
And so they wanted to keep Chansey and Blissey as special defensive powerhouses, but you gotta sacrifice something. So just as Hitmonchan gained special defense when it split, and I think Hitmonchan gained like 70 special defense, but Chansey lost 70 special attack.
00:57:44
Speaker
Because it's special defense and was just so high. Yeah. And other than that, it is based on an animal I can't pronounce. Oh, the axolotl, axolotl, axolotl. Oh, axolotl. Yeah. Yeah, kind of. It's the hair, right? That's the axolotl-ish. It's the same one that Mudkip's based off of, right? Mm hmm. Yeah, it's like that and like
00:58:14
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. They, they really, they really did it, uh, more justice with mudkip, but the, the color of the act axolotl or whatever it's called, uh, is definitely Chansey. Yeah. I just got to say Chansey's shiny is pretty dope. I love that. Like the cream and then the green accents. I love it. Other than the fact that it makes me think that they colored it that way because of like a rotten egg.
00:58:42
Speaker
Oh, no, that kind of ruins it. Yeah, but it is a really, really cool color coloring, and it's way better than happy knee and lizzies, which are just like an off shade of pink. Right. Oh, why would it be a rotten egg? Maybe he's just an Easter egg. Yeah, just a regular egg. Yeah, no, definitely. But I also just was like, oh, it's green. Yeah. Eggs turn green when they go bad.
00:59:10
Speaker
So, you know what? Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's St. Patrick's Day. Yeah. Everyone dies their eggs green.
00:59:19
Speaker
And they're bagels. My last fact about Chansey is that when they were working on Gen 5, they decided that Chansey needed some love and something to differentiate it. But also for the anime, they were like, listen, Chansey has been standing next to Nurse Joy forever. We have to do something different.
00:59:42
Speaker
So they also needed a new cute type Pokemon. So they're like, let's kill two birds with one stone. And they invented Audino to take Chancey's place, but also gave Chancey a baby to kind of, you know, they're like, Chancey's older. Chancey has a family now. So they filled that gap. So Chancey's job got taken by. Yeah, that's fine. They took her germs. Yeah, sometimes a lot of people leave the health care field because they're being abused.
01:00:12
Speaker
Sometimes. Just all at once, you know. I have a couple of things about Chansey. Mainly about special items that Chansey can hold.
01:00:24
Speaker
There is one item that you might find a chancy holding in the wilds. If you are very lucky, get it because Chancy's Japanese name is Lucky. If you're very lucky and you catch a chancy, there's a 5% chance that it's holding something called the Lucky Egg. The Lucky Egg is a held item that I think boosts your experience by 50%.
01:00:51
Speaker
just any experience that you gain. It's kind of like the amulet coin where it just boosts the amount of money you get after battle, but the Lucky Egg is just, you know, that with any experience points for somebody holding the Lucky Egg gets multiplied.
01:01:10
Speaker
And then a Chansey can also use a item called the, oh shoot, is it called the Lucky Punch? Yeah, it's just a boxing glove attached to like a little extendo arm. And I don't think it's that good, but it's a special item that a Chansey could hold to boost its critical hit ratio in battle. What a weird- Yeah, I like him around gen two, right?
01:01:39
Speaker
I think so, yeah. But why? I don't know. It's like some Acme Looney Tunes shit. It's to compensate for the fact that nobody was ever going to use Chansey again because it had an evolution. Oh, okay. I don't think the Lucky Punch works on Blissey.
01:01:58
Speaker
But also, funny enough, Chansey is the one that's currently used in competitive battling instead of Blissey. Nice. Wasn't Chansey also used in Let's Go Eevee for chaining shinies? I know people would catch a Chansey in the speedrun route or try to catch a Chansey if they popped up because
01:02:22
Speaker
Another thing that's really interesting about these three is they give bongo amounts of experience when you kill them. So I saw a speedrun of Let's Go, where Chansey is rare and hard to catch, but if it pops up, it can boost your entire team, a bunch of levels.
01:02:46
Speaker
I seem to remember in Gen 4, kind of by the daycare center, I believe there was a trainer that had a chancy or a happy knee and I would constantly just fight it for the experience. Yeah, Gen 4 in, what's that town called? It starts with an S. It's like the ranch town that is after the second gym, but before the third gym. I also was doing
01:03:15
Speaker
a competition with my friends where we would before we before every single badge, we would do competitive battling. And by the time I got to before the third badge, I was killing happiness over and over again. And I had a level 70 Gengard, a level 70 Gyarados because I just kept on
01:03:42
Speaker
Killing happiness. My goodness. Genocide. It's fertile. Yeah, that's why there's not a lot of Chances in the wild anymore. You took them care of them all, huh? Overhundred. I was just going to real quick mention the Pokemon Stadium minigame. Oh, yes. Because that was Chances, right?
01:04:05
Speaker
Yes, that was Pokemon Stadium 2, I think? Yeah, I think so. And you were in like a little Parisian town under a window and eggs were getting thrown out and you had to catch them by leaning to the left or to the right. And if you got a Voltorb, you would lose some of your eggs. And I remember playing that game over and over again, trying to get a perfect score because I didn't want any eggs to break. No.
01:04:31
Speaker
That was a fun one. It just very simple. You just had to use the left and right bumpers at the top. That rules. That was a good game. Oh, and this is the egg Pokemon. Just like execute. Yep. All right. Blissy, let's bring it home. There's not that much about Blissy. No, it's just like
01:04:56
Speaker
A fancy chancy. That's not a fancy chancy. Oh, that's so good. Am I in the minority here where I think of Blissey? I think of Raichu. I'd much rather have a Pikachu or a chancy than have a Blissey or a Raichu. I think, yeah, you're right on the money there. Aesthetically, I like Blissey the best out of all of them.
01:05:22
Speaker
but Chansey, I think is just the OG and you just have to go with it. Yeah, I think that's just because we're all, we're all predisposed to like gen one Pokemon. I'm not though. Yeah, that's true. I prefer to use Chansey if I'm going to have it on my team, but I think Blissey is the coolest looking.
01:05:45
Speaker
Blissi's got a lot of frills and extra little cotton candy things coming out of it. I think it's also we've had a lot of exposure to the anime and just seeing Chansey all the time. You're just like, oh, Chansey. Yeah, Chansey's my friend. Blissi's my friend's mom.
01:06:02
Speaker
Right. It's kind of like Gundams where like the original Gundam, you're like, oh, yeah, I know that guy. He's good at fighting. He's got a gun. And then like later Gundams, they just have a bunch of triangles sticking off of them and jets and shit. But like deep down, it's the same dude in there. It looks the same. I just always thought that Blissey looked like Chansey who needed a haircut. Yeah, like that's it. Or like Lolita, like like it's a Japanese street wear Chansey.
01:06:32
Speaker
Mm. It's like a little Harajuku situation going on. Exactly. It's got a coat on for the cold weather. Yeah. Do you guys know? In 1997, Blissi didn't exist. Really? And was originally named Happy, which is H-A-P-P-I-I.
01:06:57
Speaker
Oh, which is where Hapini's name came from. And well, and the Japanese name is happiness. Spelled with N.A.S. at the end, so it's similar. I kind of reminds me of the King of the Hill episode where Peggy needs to teach sex ed, but she can't say penis in vagina. She says happiness, penis, penis.
01:07:25
Speaker
Blissey. So this is what Blissey originally looked like. I hate it. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no. It's got a heart. It's got a heart on its head that looks like a butt.
01:07:39
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say it totally looks like an ass. It looks like a Clefable evolution. Imagine a Clefable that had a lot of droopy tits hanging off either side and then some droopy boobs on its side with two nipple hands in front of it. Well, what happened to his egg? Well, it's on the side. There's two of them because in Pokemon fashion, when it evolves, it has to go from one to two. Yeah. This is definitely an example of like, less is more like
01:08:15
Speaker
Kind of disturbing. It's like they went with like a dark pink over the pink, which when you do that, it doesn't give like a nice heart look. It just looks swollen. It looks like it looks like it's splitting its head open and something is protubering out of it. It looks like a boil. It's a puffy vagina. And also, I think it needs a third egg in the middle.
01:08:34
Speaker
They didn't need to do all that. That's way better.
01:08:41
Speaker
I don't know why, just the symmetry is off. Yeah, it's a little lopsided. That will definitely be posted on our Instagram because it's upsetting and we had to see it, so now it's your problem too. Yeah, you unfortunately, yeah. Yeah, I've never seen that before in my entire life. Don't show that to me again, Dave. Well, don't go on our Instagram.
01:09:02
Speaker
And blocked. Yeah. Well, Blissey is tied with Eternamax Eternatus for having the highest HP of all Pokemon. Say that 10 times fast. I refuse. And also it has the highest base special defense stat of all normal type Pokemon.
01:09:21
Speaker
Apparently a maxed out and dynamaxed Blissey will have 1428 HP, which seems like a ridiculous number. Because I never get Pokemon to level 100 anyway, and some of the HP values I'm used to seeing are like breaking 100 or 200. Like a hyper potion is going to bring me to max, and a hyper potion would
01:09:52
Speaker
Stephen, do the math. 200. What's the percent? That's like what? I hear the math going. You'll need seven hyper potions to fill out a yeah. And you will when my doduo uses Endeavor and brings you down to one HP. Jesus Christ. Yeah, I didn't even think about that. Yeah.
01:10:20
Speaker
It does give the highest experience gain of any Pokémon. So back when you could set up secret bases in Gen 3, you can have your character as an NPC camping out in your secret hideout for other people to come find you.
01:10:41
Speaker
So people would get a team of six max level Blissey's and just put them in their hideout so people could just chain experience. That's some nice community effort there. Yeah. And then these Pokedex entries also talk about the eggs, but these ones are kind of creepy to me.
01:11:08
Speaker
Because if you eat a blissies egg, you will become caring and pleasant to everyone and you will smile from extreme joy. It sounds sort of like like mind control. It sounds like drugs. Yeah, it's an upper. OK. It's like Joker toxin. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Joker toxin. I was thinking Molly. Is this Pokemon? Is this Pokemon's version of an antidepressant?
01:11:33
Speaker
So I did want to say real quick, the French name for Blissey is a leuforie, which is a combination of oaf, which means egg and euphoria. So it could be drugs. Yeah. Yeah, it could. Is euphoria good? I can't go anywhere without people talking about it. It's very heavy.
01:12:00
Speaker
I imagine it's Degrassi with drugs. Season 2 is. Yeah. It's very heavy. They touch on very real subjects that definitely happen. And if you've experienced certain things that happen in the show, it can be very triggering. That's all I'm going to say about that. OK. But I think the cinematography of the show is excellent.
01:12:24
Speaker
I mean, like with the music and just the filming, it's just very, very well done. I'm on the edge of my seat. I'm like, when is Spider-Man going to come save his girlfriend? Yeah. Right. I mean, it's a school. It's a show about high school. You know, it's probably just Mysterio who's making all this up. Yeah. But it's I think it's very well done personally. It's it's good. It's good. Blissey's the happiness Pokemon along with Togetic.
01:12:52
Speaker
Blissey would not fit in in the show euphoria. Unless she was a drug dealer. Yeah, she would be the drug dealer. Damn, I want a gritty street crime Pokemon show. She will heal any sick Pokemon, so she'll find you and she'll heal you if you're feeling bad. That's a threat.
01:13:14
Speaker
If you're feeling sad too, she can sense it with her fur and she'll travel any distance just to put a smile on that face. Yeah, right. I would love that. I would love to be in the Pokemon universe because A, everybody is happy. B, you know what your job is going to be when you grow up because it's going to be Pokemon related. And C, if you wake up and there is a, you know,
01:13:44
Speaker
a weird thing licking your toilet because it was too dirty and you feel sad, well, you could just wait for the blessing to show up and make you happy again.
01:13:53
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, seeing a Blissey gives me hope because Blissey is the happiness Pokemon just like toga tick. I think my, my job if I lived in the Pokemon world is I would stand next to like big rocks. And I'd be like, Did you hear that certain Pokemon can learn a move that would move these and then every time somebody walks by say the same thing. Oh, that'd be so much fun.
01:14:17
Speaker
I wish I could cut this tree down. Yeah, literally. You all day, even when it's cut. Your Pokemon are fighting fit. Thanks for coming. Your Pokemon are fighting fit. Thanks for coming. David, reminds me of when you and I were at a party together once, you kept telling people that I had a huge penis. Oh, yeah.
01:14:41
Speaker
That would be your thing. Did you know my friend Peter has a huge penis? Yeah. I think we were in a depressing spot in our lives, and we were single dudes. And I was like, I'll just tell everybody that you have a really big wiener. And you were like, what? And I was like, hey, everybody, I'm here with my friend Peter. You might know him as big wiener Peter. He'd come out of the bathroom and be like, it was probably so hard to pee with a giant wiener of yours.
01:15:08
Speaker
It's called friendship, guys. Look it up in a book. Yeah. It's... I was very sad today because at my job we used Slack and Slack was slacking hard today and not working. Yeah. One of my favorite things to do on Slack is to send some of my friends this wiener emoji that's humping the air. And I couldn't do that. And it made me very sad today.
01:15:37
Speaker
Your little wiener story just reminded me of my inability to send a horny wiener. So my happy story made you sad? Speaking of wieners, you guys want to play the who you gonna fuck game? I just want to say one more thing. Okay. Why? Why? I just realized that Togepi, Chansey, Togetic, Blissey, like they're kind of just like happiness egg pogo on.
01:16:06
Speaker
Are eggs just like happy things? Wait, is like a chancy just like an inside out togepi and vice versa? Oh my goodness. Wow. I hate that. We're asking the real questions. Because like togepi is just like a pink thing in an egg and chancy is just like a pink thing with an egg.
01:16:29
Speaker
I don't know. It makes me happy because it's the first thing I eat in the morning and I'm usually hangry by then, so that makes sense. I like thinking of all the weird ways I can make eggs. Yeah, eggs are great. I had eggs this weekend.
01:16:48
Speaker
Poached eggs and holiday sauce. Oh, man. Eggs, bannies. Yeah. So good.
Pokemon Card Game and Competitive Play
01:16:54
Speaker
So, Dave, what are these eggs? Fuck. Yeah, let's do this. It's a this game is called Who You Gonna Fuck? Eric, if you're not, this is something we started recently where I'm going to list off three Pokemon and you are going to tell me which one cannot breed with Chansey.
01:17:14
Speaker
So, okay. In Pokemon, after you left, you could breed Pokemon, but of course, Chansey is only female, so it needs some sort of other side of the equation to make an egg pop out. Is this gonna be a trick question? No. I mean, that is a question. If it was a trick question, I would have been like, fuck. Like, but this one's not a trick question. So, because Chansey...
01:17:43
Speaker
is like a breakfast because supplies eggs. I've been doing a theme. These are all like you can put them all together to make like a nice breakfast. So here are the Pokemon. Can chancy fuck Sinisty? Al creamy. Or chirubi.
01:18:10
Speaker
Some eggs, some tea, some berries and cream. One of them cannot... Well, they all can fuck if they want. Like, they can rub their whatevers together, but, you know, only one can make a true egg, can fertilize all those eggs this thing shits out. Who wants to start? That's Sinisty, Alcremie, and Cherubie. I'm gonna guess Cherubie. Okay. I was also gonna guess Cherubie. Hell yeah.
01:18:40
Speaker
Yeah, me too. Just to be different, I'll say El Creamy. It's Sinisty.
01:18:48
Speaker
Oh, because Chancy is in the fairy egg group, which is out creamy. Yes. That's the I think grass and fairy. Well, Sinisteri is. I don't know anything about Sinisteri. So it's a ghost. It's a cool ass. It's a ghost in a teacup. And that is a non the amorphous one. So.
01:19:14
Speaker
And there you know, you can't fuck a glass of tea if you want to have a baby. And now we can finish up with a card game. Yes, let's play our card game. OK, so in this game, we guess how many times or how many different cards each of the Pokémon appear in the TCG. So we'll start with Hapini. I will just say this one may shock you. So who would like to make their first guess?
01:19:44
Speaker
12. Okay. Uh, who? 14. All right. I'm going to say five. Okay. Five and Dave. Three.
01:20:01
Speaker
Yo, Dave is correct. I thought Eric was going to take it. It is three cards. When you said shocked, I thought very few. That's how I took that. Well, yeah, because what was it? Gen four that Hapini came in? Yeah. Gen four. So pretty late.
01:20:18
Speaker
But she was made by a TCG artist. So I thought maybe it was shocking because... That's why it was shocking to me. Yeah. Because I thought, okay, so the TCG artist who created Hapini... I forgot that we were choosing for Hapini. My brain immediately went to Chansey. Yeah. Yeah. Also the baby mechanic in the card game is like, fuck. They just can't figure it out sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But Chansey's, I don't know.
01:20:48
Speaker
a chance you may redeem yourself. So what do we think? I'll go with 14 because I guessed 14 before. Okay. I'm going to go with 20. Okay. A nice 18. All right. A bulky 24. So Eric wins 20 on the dot. Nice. Yeah. Eric, you're really good at this game. You're natural.
01:21:16
Speaker
He's cheating. I'm not cheating. He's lucky. I'm imbued with the essence of Chansey. And they say he's so lucky. He's a star. I was a little surprised by Chansey too. I figured it'd be a little more popular, but I think 20 cards is
01:21:37
Speaker
Yeah, that's a good amount. Respectable. Yeah. All right. And then our final lady, Miss Lissy. 14. You're going to stick up 14. OK. 12. 8. Damn, I was going to say 8.
01:21:57
Speaker
Too bad. I already said it. Fuck. Seven. Okay. So, Peter, your commitment finally paid off. Hell yeah. 14 cards. Oh! I guess this is like, this is again, like everyone guessed the right number of cards. Except me. No, but I mean like, like everyone, it's like somebody guessed the right amount. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. We were all my money, but last week also it was not me. I was the odd man out. I was really good at it at first and now I'm failing.
01:22:28
Speaker
That's okay, it's Mojo back. Yeah. You know, guessing random numbers is hard. It's like the lottery, you never know. Right. I don't know, our luck has been pretty good, so maybe we should all play the lottery. Yeah, I also wanted to say that the reason that Chansey is used competitively is because of an item called Eviolite. That means that if they can still evolve,
01:22:54
Speaker
But are unevolved, they get more defenses, so that's why Chansey is the used one and not Blissey. I usually give that to my mudkip just to... Because I don't want to evolve that little cutums.
Podcast Promotion and Conclusion
01:23:07
Speaker
Yeah. But speaking of cutums, Eric, thank you so much for being here. Oh man, this was fun. This was disgusting Chansey. This was so much fun. Thank you for having me.
01:23:17
Speaker
You're always so much fun. Is there something? Of course, everybody can find you on anywhere podcasts are available by looking up adventures and collecting. AIC underscore podcast and now backup account adventures and collecting. Is there anything you'd like to plug?
01:23:37
Speaker
Uh, no, not, not at, not at, uh, not at this time. Just, just check out the podcast, take a look at the, uh, the Instagram feed. If you, um, if you have any, any crossover needs with, uh, with toys, we're always posting, uh, when things go up for pre-order and.
01:23:52
Speaker
you know, toy photography, toy art, all that good stuff. We do reviews once a week. So yeah, just check us out at AIC underscore podcast on Instagram. And yeah, listen to the show, Adventures in Collecting. You can find us wherever you find podcasts. Every Monday. And also, even if you're not a toy person, but you're a Pokemon person,
01:24:13
Speaker
Very, very good episode with the guys over at Jazzwares discussing the Pokemon brand. Definitely worth searching through and listening to that. I will find it. Yes, it is a treat. Just like all the other ones. Just like eggs. Just like eggs. Our show is just like eggs. And you're the yolk.
01:24:37
Speaker
I'm usually the butt of the yolk. Yolk has parts. Yolk, joke, yolk. Butt of the, butt of the joke. He's a local yokel, telling a little yokel. Fuck this podcast up. Alright, bye everybody.