Honestly the characterization here is pretty on point. James expressing the most empathy for other people and Pokémon, Jessie constantly fumbling what could be good ideas, meowth having no filter, and the podcast being a simple get rich quick scheme that has larger consequences (albeit positive initially)
Hmm... I figured it wasn't real when they were discussing Wooper's Ice Punch. The anime never touches upon such extremely illogical moveset options like that.
To be honest, 52 episodes before getting canceled isn't half bad considering they blatantly advertise themselves as wanted criminals. Even the police listen to the podcast
I mean....in their own words: "We don't KILL people! We only STEAL pokemon! Well....one specific pokemon, really....and even that we don't do particularly well"
The fact that Officer Jenny just smiles as Meowth reveals they're part of an evil organization says alot about how seriously she takes her job in this canon.
Team Rocket actually had a whole radio show in Japan IRL where the actors would take more liberties to talk than within the anime's script. Obviously it's not quite the same but the concept of "casual" TR always works really well
Wait so in my own theory, Team Magma are straight up nazis and Maxie is hitler. ………always knew I liked Archie more! And there’s absolutely nothing more to be read into! Team Aqua did nOTHING WRONG!
I love how officer Jenny's listening to that like it's no big deal. Though to be honest, with how bad they are at stealing, the only crime they can really be arrested for is child harassment.
The worst part is that's really the only crime they're bad at. on the rare occasion they try something else they succeed with flying colors. Ignore ash and they steal stadiums of pokemon, wreck towns, snag ultra beasts, infiltrate near any organization with ease. In gen 5 they went back into the past through a time gate and started snagging ancient pokemon. In thier backstory episode they pulled off a great heist. Ash always hunts them down and stops them when they ignore him, but if they just left the kid alone and went elsewhere they'd have great success. and we would have no show XD
Darn you, IGN! Rating games just because of how much water they have instead of over their quality. You know, I was going to make a list of every game I played that has water in it and where, but it’d be too long for TH-cam.
You know what? Here it is: -Super Mario Bros. - World 2-2 and World 7-2 -Super Mario Bros. 3 - Most World 3 levels Mega Man 1 - Ice Man -Mega Man 2 - Bubble Man -Mega Man 3 - Gemini Man -Super Mario World - Most levels, Soda Lake, the Sunken Ghost Ship -Sonic the Hedgehog - Labyrinth Zone -Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant, Aquatic Ruin Zone -Sonic Mania (Plus) - Chemical Plant -Mega Man and Bass - Intro Stage, Cold Man -New Super Mario Bros. series - Most World 3 levels -Sonic Rush - Water Palace (it’s even in the name) -Super Mario Odyssey - Cap Kingdom, Lake Kingdom, Seaside Kingdom, Snow Kingdom -Mega Man 4 - Toad Man, Dive Man -Mega Man 8 - Aqua Man -Super Mario Land 2 - Some Tree Zone levels, most Turtle Zone levels -Kirby series - Float Islands, nearly any beach/rocky mountain/underground cavern area And…that’s about it.
@@siyahseeker sonic mania has chemical plant too its not an exclusive level to mania plus.And the very first level of odyssey(not counting cappy's planet where there is a tutorial)has some water too
Meowth goes from "Maybe Maxie wasn't entirely unjustified" to "I wish everyone in Hoenn was dead if it meant there was no water" over the course of 2 minutes
Yeah that's pretty much how it goes. I've got 'conservative' family who will start with border security or lower taxes... and when they're comfortable bring in their support of genocide and outright praising of Hitler.
@@NeostormXLMAX EXCEPT Meowth only cared about the water from a personal perspective, of course a cat hates water… that doesn’t mean the humans should evaporate even part of the ocean! Giving in to their demands is how you get those evil Meowth variants in Alola and Galar! We got more land routes and now all of us have to live with Garfield the Pokémon, now with additional Nermal and Arlene variants!
@@JayPlusForerunner Yes, but that's what I like about him. He doesn't shy of being political if he needs too. And I think the particular aspect that he highlights does have a political impact. Indeed, we can always count on Wobbafet to point out certain things that people tend to overlook.
@@lukahmei2000 I feel like you're just saying that cuz you haven't watched double J's content as much cuz I certainly wouldn't call comparison between such great voice actors
@@TheTrashyboi i personally don’t think jehtt is better than JJ, but his content does appeal to me more. JJ focuses on various old comic book/tv franchises, whereas jehtt does a few video game IPs (mainly sonic) that are more in line with my interests as an epicc heckin gamer
@@Madara8989 yeah but Im saying after team rocket not before team rocket when i said before i was referring to before team yell you know the gen 8 bad guy teams
you would think that at this point they would've already thought up of making a unity of pokemon trainers specifically meant for dealing with these kinds of threats but eh to be fair these so-called bad guys are always getting thwarted by pre-teens so
The way Meowth slowly goes from being just slightly in bad taste to condemning an entire culture to threatening genocide is exactly how most last episodes of podcasts before they get cancelled go.
@@dansmith1661 I sometimes feel like there's some kind of U-shape of depravity. On one end, there are the unhinged people dwelling in the darkest corners of the world. On the other is mainstream media
I mean yeah but u can tell it was rly just to save his ass from getting more public flack over what he said, more like he was sorry he got caught. Then Meowth will probly go on Twitter and say smth abt how cancel culture ruined him so I wouldn’t give his apology too much thought
@@kaphizmey6229 “but in other news, Meowth has to report on the phenomenon of gender neutral pokemon. Meowth?” “Thanks Barbara. So anyways, STARMIES AND STARYUS ARE OUT HERE PROMOTING NOTHING BUT PROPAGANDA! WHEN IT COMES TO GENDER PICK ONE AND STICK WITH I-“ ---- “So I got cancelled again. “Goddamnit.”
Okay but your voice acting? Absolutely amazing, your James, Meowth and Wobuffet are so good! They sound so similar to the actual voices, it was hard to spot the difference. I hope you do more Pokemon skits because this one was hilarious and your acting makes it even better!
I don’t think a lot of people would have noticed but, “Wobbufett”’s Japanese name means “that’s the way it is” and since the anime is produced in Japan and Wobbufett was a joke character used for this purpose, and him saying that after James said “and killed a lot of people too” implies he is on Meowth’s side. Also that concerned cry of Wobbufett at the end is probably him siding with Meowth and telling Jessie and James not to “silence” him.
as in the words of the great thinker wobbufett "it is what it is." team magma did nothing wrong and if you think otherwise you're eating the team aqua fake new propaganda!
@@BreadLoeuf Maybe they could have called him something like " _itswatis_ " after "" _it_ i _s_ _w_ h _at_ _it_ i _s_ "? It's not a very catchy name but it carries over the pun.
In German his preevolution is called "Isso" and the last stage "Woingenau". "Isso" is slang in German and comes from the saying "Es ist so!" /"Ist so!" which translated means "That's how it is!"/"It is like that!". "Woingenau" sadly loses its Japanese meaning and is basically "Wohin genau?" which translated means "Where exactly?"
I like how the punchline of this is “meowth agrees with magma only becahse he’s a cat.” Also wow, this really is still in character even if it would never happen in the show. Idk how you do it but this was funny.
@@slippinjenny7410 No, it doesn't. You get the ability to fly early on and if you're annoyed by Tentacools battling you, use a Repel. It's literally half land, half water, and the water routes are all relatively short and self contained.
For those who don’t watch the Journey’s anime this was a filler episode where Team Rocket needed to recruit people to Team Rocket and so decided a radio show/podcast was the way they did episode 1 and found 0 viewers, and so tried and revamped the entire thing forgetting their original goal and making a relatively popular podcast The episode is surprisingly good for a Pokémon filler episode if you plan on watching Journey without fillers give this episode a chance instead of skipping it
the best thing ever is that in Sun and Moon if you take a picture of a Pokémon with too much water in the background one of the replies you might get actually is "7.8/10 too much water." the fact that GameFreak (or at least the localizers) know and embrace the meme just makes my day
Sun and Moon came out in 2016, and this was made in 2022, so it's the opposite way around (Especially since James talks about Chairman Rose, the main antagonist in Sword and Shield which released 3 years after Sun and Moon)
bruh i'm talking about my actual experience playing the 2016 game. there is a line of text in the game that says "7.8/10 too much water" which can appear in the photography minigame. i know when the games came out. to spell it out for you, i am just commenting on the popularity of the 7.8/10 meme, which originated with oras (2014).
he's got a point, one of the grunts said that they wouldve had a nice house in hoenn if there were more land, because house prices are probably extremely high there, and the rest of the world too. team magma didnt want to get rid of ALL the water, just about 20% of it (making it a 50/50 ratio) so that humans could develop further into the future, however it was a horrible miscalculation in the end (if i got any of this wrong, i played pokemon alpha sapphire)
Team Magma and Team Aqua's plans only have a proper motive in ORAS. In the original games they're only trying to expand the land/sea just for the sake of the games having an evil plot related to the box legendaries to thwart. I will say Maxie wanting to make more land so Hoenn could have more livable space has better intentions than Archie wanting to flood Hoenn to "reset the world". ORAS is notably the first time the absurd house/population ratio usually found in Pokémon games is ever lampshaded as a main plot point. Awakening Primal Groudon and not being able to control it still would have horribly disrupted the nature, wildlife, and human population of the region, if not destroy it all outright.
Jessie, James, Meowth, and Wobbuffet's voices are truly on-point. They almost sound like actual voices in the anime series. It feels like I'm watching an actual episode of the series.
James doesn't sound exactly like he did in Journeys unless they changed VAs after season 23. He sounds like an old Englishman who is mildly bemused all of the time in Journeys, this sounds closer to his voice early on in the anime, and is more tolerable as such.
@@pinkpeppers5580 I thought that they were changing their voices to maybe not get recognized or something I haven't seen the episode yet lol I've been watching the whole anime in order and only seen the 1st season on the gen 8 anime.
You know I don't like how everyone is so dismissive of Wobbafett on this stream. He expertly dismantled Meowth's entire argument before it even got started with one succinct statement, and everyone just ignored him. Maybe it's better that this show get cancelled.
I mean honestly wobbafett was the only one on the podcast speaking reason for the 52 episode runtime, I think he should just go off and make his own podcast honestly
That's canon. There used to be scenes where Team Rocket is talking about their stupid plan, Wobbuffet goes "Wobbuffet!", and Meowth goes "who asked you?". He's the group's voice of reason. They just never listen to him.
Meowth does have a good point though. I do get tired of running into Tentacool’s and Wingull’s, so maybe drying some water would do some good. Edit: I have no idea what’s happening in the replies, so I suggest you don’t go down there.
@@DrCoeloCephalo Fair point, but I feel for Meowth a little (not with the whole killing Pokemon thing) but like I'm not trying to swim foward a tad bit, and get encounter every single time
I’ll gladly tune in to this podcast everyday, Jessie, James and Meowth’s voices sound so accurate it sounds like you got the real voice actors to do this
The "we don't kill people" statement had me flash back to that pokemon safari episode where they put a revolver to an old man's head. I remember thinking as a kid "Oh man this shit got real"
@@christmasgrinch4017 No, when I was 13 I heard that there were "illegal" pokemon episodes and said to myself "well now I need to watch them". I found them on some bootleg streaming site and that is the story of how I discovered anime streaming as a child.
...Y'know, maybe Maxie *was* onto something. I mean, just the fact you need diving gear to actually access Sootopolis City, a place important enough to have a Gym, *should* be a red flag; what if someone doesn't have that gear and/or drowns trying to access the city? What then? Also, Hannah did a pretty solid job with Jesse, ngl.
@@jaguarnick4643 Yes, but that'd require having been to Sootopolis City *beforehand,* which can only be done by diving underwater. Do you see the problem, here? EDIT: Also, what if you just started your adventure in Sootopolis City? You'd have nowhere else to fly to, and the ability to dive underwater out of the city is only possible if you beat Mossdeep City's Gym, which you can't fly to yet.
The funny thing is, Meowth didn't even want to hurt anyone at the start. He just disliked getting wet a bit. But then they started shooting it down and hurting his feelings without explaining what was wrong with what he was saying, so he got very aggressive about it. Which actually happens when you don't deal with dangerous thoughts in the correct approach.
They said flat-out that it was a sensitive topic and that the water routes are part of Hoenn's culture. Meowth just decided that his personal comfort was more important.
@@MsAnimefan95Meowth is right. Stupid cultures should be left behind. Groudon could have just created a big volcano in the middle of the hoenn islands to create new land without killing anyone.
In other words: argument, not censor. When people just seem to want to shut you up instead of simply elaborating why they disagree with you, it's natural for you to want to get a one-up on them. *Even if you unintentionally end up becoming a radical.* 🤦♂️
@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong There is less land for individuals to live, therefore hoenn's sea culture is objectively worse than a groudon land culture.
Honestly, Maxie DID have good intentions, at least to start with. Hoenn is mostly water, yes, but Hoenn is also going through a mild housing crisis and overpopulation issue. Raising the land and or removing a chunk of the ocean’s mass would mean more land to expand on for both humans and non-aquatic Pokémon to live on. Meanwhile Archie just wanted to wrestle a fish
@@itsturniptime3699 Well considering they build cities on the waters too thanks to wood, I'd say It can be helped, or you can add more towers for People and multi-family housing options, at least that would help without necessarily disturbing natural underwater fauna
A month later I shall interject, raising the land would make certain higher parts of the Hoenn region inhospitable due to crop drought, it is entirely possible that a lower water level or higher land level could reduce total habitable space in the region rather than increasing it assuming the reduced amount of water did not also affect climate conditions.
What makes this even better is the "too much water" thing was actually about water types, not water routes. Meowth is just dogwhistling that he wants to wipe out all the water types, truly dispicable
@@zeograndmaster6507 No, you got it all wrong. Wild Pokemon don't actually exist; they're a lie manufactured by Big Repel. I bet you believe everything you see on Jubilife TV. Wake up Mareeple! Repel makes the Politoeds gay!
You know, everyone gives team aqua and magma loads of crap for having the worst plans in the franchise, but Idk if they were even trying to be that insane with it, when either of them learns their legendary is gonna go overboard with the whole thing and flood/dry the earth completely, they are pretty surprised. Maybe archie just wanted to change the coasts just enough to wet drought-prone areas, and Maxie just wanted to expand the coasts by just a bit or surface a landbridge between Hoenn's islands. The only problem is that neither of them were geologists or meteorologists. So effectively they're just like redditors arguing over the world's problems except they have legitimate followers and power.
Oh nonono. Most people I talk to see Lysandre and Team Flare as the worst. "We're going to reset the world!" "Okay, why?" "It's so ugly and cruel!" "And what will you do when you create this new world?" "Only Team Flare can belong!" "So criminals. Got it. F-- is your grade."
@@MegaManJakeand to make matters worst, that whole "we need to reset the world" wasn't even their original idea, team Galactic tried pulling that shit years before flair even existed.
If wasn’t until I was about half way through this video that I remembered this is a parody and not an actual Pokémon anime skit. The voice acting is really good and this kinda sounds like the sort of inane discussion TR would have in the show. Might actually be better than a lot of your Sonic videos
At first I thought it was real being like "wow, pokémon got to the next level, talking about controversial topics and region's culture", then I knew it was acting when they mentioned genocidal terrorism, and absolutely confirmed with Meowth swearing 😆
The Pokemon anime swears in Japanese, also this would def not be a English episode. Japan is extremely lax with topics, cussing, and stuff like that for a kids show. I completely believed this, but then I watched the cuts and notice the amount of reused scenes and knew it was not real.
Even though I don't agree with Meowth entirely, there's one thing we all agree in from his argument: The Wingulls and the Tentacools piss us off every time we try to surf on Hoenn's waters
i don't know which i hated more, the fact that i keep running into a wingull/pellipper or tentecool/tentacruel or the fact that i only run into them despite the fact that there should be a lot of water type species in the big ocean
@@wilsonweiseng6485 I think that's the biggest issue. The game had plenty of water types, but largely running into the same two for much of the game was annoying. Maybe they could throw a rare out of bounds spheal or clamperl here or there.
@@craniifer a Relicanth or a Lanturn could’ve worked too as well as buffing the spawn rate/locations for Feebas I’m not sure why there was such a lack of different water types in gen 3
I like how Wobbuffet saying "Wobbuffet!" at 0:35 is an affirmation of James' statement. It fits perfectly with how he acts in the anime itself, since his Japanese name (Sonans) is Japanese for "that's right", so whenever he says his name he's agreeing with something another member of Team Rocket says. His very different English name caused that to get lost in translation, but he still says "Wobbuffet!" to agree with the other members.
It's so annoying how the subreddit keeps whining about a drop in quality. Honestly the pod is better without Wobuffet on, all he would do was scream over the end of people's jokes. He didn't do any research, was just there for self-promotion.
In fairness, he's also conpletely incompetent in terms of a fight. Hell, he openly says he put so much energy into learning to talk that be basically doesn't know the first thing about actually battling. And most people would be looking for a super strong pokemon, not one that can talk. Not to mention most other pokemon are at least nearing human intelligence, they just can't speak.
@@redraven123I'm sorry, but with all do respect, what are you talking about? There is literally zero reason other than the comedy of it that Meowth isn't world famous as the bridge between Pokemon and Humans. But also that every trainer in the world doesn't want him. He's literally the equivalent of a talking cat in real life. And yeah I know psychics exist. But the ones that can talk to people via telepathy are basically as rare as bigfoot in their world. Ash and co likely just run into them all the time because plot. And even with the existence of psychics Meowth would still stand out as one of a kind. Opening the bridge of Pokemon science with regards to teaching them to speak since he's proven it can be done. Yet every Pokemon scientist they've met could care less.
I mean, Maxie and Archie were by far the least "genocidal" evil team bosses (other than obviously Guzma and Piers.) They just wanted what was best for humanity or Pokemon.
All they needed to do is consider the butterfly effects of their actions and they'd be just fine. They just had to go too far, though. Maxie went and tried to dry everything up, leading to global water shortages if a certain 10 year old didn't intervene. Had he just decided on trying to get the okay on some simple terraforming projects, not much would be hurt. Still plenty of water for the ecosystem to thrive. As for Archie, he also went too far and tried to flood out Hoenn, with the storm likely reaching other parts of the world and causing even more floods had another certain 10 year old not intervened. Hoenn already has excess water as is, so the ecosystem is already thriving. If you're that desperate to add water to a region full of it, get permission to do some terraforming projects to add rivers.
@@Darth_Bateman Their plan didn’t involve the murder of anyone. What the plan would have done would have killed the entire region. Also if I remember correctly a guy tried to erase everyone and replace it with world where he is God. So I would say those are probably the ends of the spectrum
This was so well done and pretty close to the voices from Journeys to a point I actually thought some how this was a real clip up until Meowth said "prime-ape shit"
Meowth: Maxie's got a point, Hoenn has too much water! Venice, Jakarta, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Maldives all facing rising sea levels: He's right, y'know The Netherlands, historically at war with the sea: *Tell me about it...* Love how Archie isn't on the list, as he should. No matter what Meowth says, Maxie still looks like a virgin. And Archie is a Chad. Ocean Man should be able to expand and rule as he wishes
Even ignoring the mass genocide, Maxie stole a who knows how old arifact to awaken a beastly dinosaur of earth and fire to do so. I get that they're team rocket, but they literally call stealing "evil" themselves most of the time they do it. So while I find meowth looking up to maxie plausible, i refuse to believe he would say "maxie did nothing wrong".
Meowth was right. On my visit to Hoenn I got my car wrecked by a tentacruel. On top of that, these rising sea levels are just absurd. Hoenn’s “culture” means that a main highway that is flooded with a foot of water isn’t closed or raised, but rather get confronted by some sour-faced prick that tells me that my car has wheels. Then that tentacruel jumps out of nowhere a few minutes down the road. Black eye for me and bloody nose for my friend.
As a person living in hoenn… yea there’s a LOT of water, and the fact we haven’t even build any water dams yet is somehow concerning. I’d say kalos has the best geography, at least I won’t have to worry about falling in some kinda river or sinking in mud ~_~
The beginning seems so real I couldn’t tell that it was fake! If this was a real podcast from team rockets point of view just talking I would totally watch it
The beginning clued me on to it being fake dialog, actually. The anime _never_ touches on those weird move/Pokémon combos like Ice Punch Wooper, Iron Tail Primeape, and Mega Kick Dusknoir.
Before getting into the... scarier part of the rhetoric, I have actually seen team Magma as well intentioned but naive. They genuinely just wanted to create more land to deal with overpopulation and crowding. Their ideals were noble but they did not realise the scale of the consequences for their actions. I actually genuinely think they shouldnt be listed with the others as they were acting trying to do good before realising the severe damage they caused. Chairman rose, while also well-meaning, is not the same, as he knew about the consequences and risks, but did not care and thought he could handle it.
The best interpretation I've ever seen for the Hoenn teams is that they were actually really good people, if a little too stubborn about their personal ecological ideals, originally being a single environmentalist group as they were. But then they stumbled upon the Orbs, and were slowly corrupted by their power into essentially being avatars of their respective legendary. Then the Protagonist™ happens and they're freed, and have to deal with the horrible guilt of their actions, Archie especially because flooding the entire world is *so much worse* than the admittedly severe consequences of hyper-accelerating natural land growth.
Ok but Maxie’s different ( same as Archie) in that the thing he would of caused if not stopped by the player wasn’t their intention. Both hoeen “evil teams leaders” when they awakened their respective legendaries actively try to stop them when they realize just how badly they screwed up. Meanwhile ghestis straight up tries to kill a kid. Pretty significant difference
Thanks to Hannah Chapin for voicing Jesse! She's very talented and you should follow her.
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Griffith did nothing wrong
@@mndsgn1 Wrong
wait a sec, you used a different female va than izziibel? impossible
@@Lunatic89097 wong
More of this please
Honestly the characterization here is pretty on point. James expressing the most empathy for other people and Pokémon, Jessie constantly fumbling what could be good ideas, meowth having no filter, and the podcast being a simple get rich quick scheme that has larger consequences (albeit positive initially)
Yea I honestly thought it was a real scene until they start swearing
Team Rocket are really just Always Sunny in Philadelphia but for kids
@@amuro9624 me too. It was VERY convincing.
@@BrianMagnan Exactly. 😊
Hmm... I figured it wasn't real when they were discussing Wooper's Ice Punch. The anime never touches upon such extremely illogical moveset options like that.
To be honest, 52 episodes before getting canceled isn't half bad considering they blatantly advertise themselves as wanted criminals.
Even the police listen to the podcast
Because they speak the truth....and this is probably the least threatening thing they could be doing at any given moment.
Stop self snitching, shout out Bruce Rivers
@@roberttaylr what?
I mean....in their own words:
"We don't KILL people! We only STEAL pokemon! Well....one specific pokemon, really....and even that we don't do particularly well"
@@roberttaylr Wtf are you on about?
I'd unironically listen to full podcasts made by these 3.
Same
They should make this into a series
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the only podcast id listen to
like dead serious. bonus points if its the actual voice actors tho.
"The way I see it, Kyogre is surrounded. Because what's under the water? More earth." -Meowth, probably
When are they gonna invite homophobic ferrothorn onto the podcast?
@@noinfo1018 Meowth should catch a Ferrothorn
Lol real geologists know that there's more water underneath Earth's crust than in the oceans on the Earth's surface.
What's inside us? Blood. What is blood made of? Water. Kyogre and Groudon both have blood in them.
@@ramonreyes7421what’s in blood? Iron. Checkmate, liberal.
Team Rocket didn’t deserve to be cancelled, Meowth was THIS close to giving Hoenn a nice 7.8/10!
A nice Magnitude 7.8
Awesome! That’s tantamount to 78%.
I feel old for getting this joke
7.8/10
Too much water
Your profile picture matches up so well here
The fact that Officer Jenny just smiles as Meowth reveals they're part of an evil organization says alot about how seriously she takes her job in this canon.
She's a fed, not much surprise there.
I mean, she is a cop
She's smiling because she's driving to a sting operation that's coordinating to take down their podcast.
@@vadarman9906 dude...
@@vadarman9906 .....
I could watch a whole spinoff series of the rocket podcast. Especially with radical meowth
DUDE YES!!!!!!!!
“I don’t like them putting Muks in the water that turn the freaking Poliwags gay!”
Team Rocket actually had a whole radio show in Japan IRL where the actors would take more liberties to talk than within the anime's script.
Obviously it's not quite the same but the concept of "casual" TR always works really well
I could watch a whole spinoff series of the rocket podcast period.
@@jeremyrossi2716 "Drifloons are racist? Baloongate?"
If they didn't curse I would of assumed this was a actual episode because the voices/animations are so accurate
I’m pretty sure it’s dubbed over actual footage from the anime
Bruh no 😂
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Wobbuffets voice was too off
I LOVE the idea of 7.8/10 being a pro-Magma dogwhistle in the Pokemon world
“7.8 out of every 10 tiles in Hoenn is a water tile! And it’s time we DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!” Like 7.8 is the 88 of Hoenn lmao
Wait so in my own theory, Team Magma are straight up nazis and Maxie is hitler.
………always knew I liked Archie more! And there’s absolutely nothing more to be read into! Team Aqua did nOTHING WRONG!
An okidogiwhistle
Seems more like a play on the 13/50 dogwhistle about black crime statistics@@mikamo
@@thesunwillneverset13/60 actually 😉
"You're sympathizing with a genocidal terrorist"-- iconic line from James Pokemon
JAMES POKEMON 🤣
I didn’t know his last name was Pokémon….good to know lol
@@JayTohab Sans Undertale
@@seaangel1430 kel omori
Pokémon XY in a nutshell.
I love how officer Jenny's listening to that like it's no big deal. Though to be honest, with how bad they are at stealing, the only crime they can really be arrested for is child harassment.
And their not good at that either
@@BigBoy257 they're*
Ah yes, only harassing a child, no biggie
@@gamerpeck8517 why do you care that he used the wrong there seems kind of stupid to me to fix his grammar
The worst part is that's really the only crime they're bad at. on the rare occasion they try something else they succeed with flying colors. Ignore ash and they steal stadiums of pokemon, wreck towns, snag ultra beasts, infiltrate near any organization with ease. In gen 5 they went back into the past through a time gate and started snagging ancient pokemon. In thier backstory episode they pulled off a great heist. Ash always hunts them down and stops them when they ignore him, but if they just left the kid alone and went elsewhere they'd have great success. and we would have no show XD
"You know, I was going to give Hoenn a 7.8/10" is peak comedy. Perfect reference.
Darn you, IGN! Rating games just because of how much water they have instead of over their quality.
You know, I was going to make a list of every game I played that has water in it and where, but it’d be too long for TH-cam.
You know what? Here it is:
-Super Mario Bros. - World 2-2 and World 7-2
-Super Mario Bros. 3 - Most World 3 levels
Mega Man 1 - Ice Man
-Mega Man 2 - Bubble Man
-Mega Man 3 - Gemini Man
-Super Mario World - Most levels, Soda Lake, the Sunken Ghost Ship
-Sonic the Hedgehog - Labyrinth Zone
-Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant, Aquatic Ruin Zone
-Sonic Mania (Plus) - Chemical Plant
-Mega Man and Bass - Intro Stage, Cold Man
-New Super Mario Bros. series - Most World 3 levels
-Sonic Rush - Water Palace (it’s even in the name)
-Super Mario Odyssey - Cap Kingdom, Lake Kingdom, Seaside Kingdom, Snow Kingdom
-Mega Man 4 - Toad Man, Dive Man
-Mega Man 8 - Aqua Man
-Super Mario Land 2 - Some Tree Zone levels, most Turtle Zone levels
-Kirby series - Float Islands, nearly any beach/rocky mountain/underground cavern area
And…that’s about it.
@@siyahseeker sonic mania has chemical plant too its not an exclusive level to mania plus.And the very first level of odyssey(not counting cappy's planet where there is a tutorial)has some water too
@@alptugraakan7490 I put Plus in parentheses since it’s featured in that game, too.
@@siyahseeker you forgot jungle joyride from sonic unleashed
Meowth goes from "Maybe Maxie wasn't entirely unjustified" to "I wish everyone in Hoenn was dead if it meant there was no water" over the course of 2 minutes
people get radicalized the more people go against them or try to silence them, thats why free speech is important
Pretty much the Alt-right raricalization pipeline on TH-cam.
Start with SJW owned videos and ends with Rogan, Jones and Nazis
Yeah that's pretty much how it goes. I've got 'conservative' family who will start with border security or lower taxes... and when they're comfortable bring in their support of genocide and outright praising of Hitler.
@@NeostormXLMAX EXCEPT Meowth only cared about the water from a personal perspective, of course a cat hates water… that doesn’t mean the humans should evaporate even part of the ocean!
Giving in to their demands is how you get those evil Meowth variants in Alola and Galar! We got more land routes and now all of us have to live with Garfield the Pokémon, now with additional Nermal and Arlene variants!
Meowth doubled, then tripled down LOL
"You're sympatizing with genocidal terrorist!"
Worse. He's sympathising with IGN journalist.
Maxie seemed more of a eco-terrorist than a genocidal one.
Yeah, that's one of the most heinous things you can do.
But what did IGN did?
@@lautarogomez9711 They do a lot of bad things. Didn't they gave Doom Eternal a low rating cuz' they suck at the game?
@@UsherGT3 Ohhh, Well. Should we raid IGN?
It wasn’t until Meowth swore did I realize this was fan made
Same here 😜
@Team Plasma Colress [TPC] because only the audio is fanmade, the footage are spliced from real episodes. it IS real in a way.
I figured it out when he talked about Wooper's Ice Punch. The anime never covers weird moveset trivia.
Yeah same. I almost thought it was real
idk if im trippin or not but the voices definitely didnt sound like the eng dub for me
I really think a show about these guys talking for 20 minutes would be the GOAT
This is proof that a Pokémon show with adult humour would be the best thing ever.
At least target it for young adults, more. It's not nice that they focus on little kids so much.
I mean some lore in pokemon pretty dark like the ultra beast that genocide pokemons and humans in 1 dimension
Yeah what op said
@@ericx6969 *looks at the lore all the way back in gen 1* yeah it’s had dark elements since the beginning, not including the mangas
@@Sparkle8205 Gamefreak just tries so hard to pretend those moments don't exist. But we have a long memory.
the fact that meowth is the one to get them cancelled is actually so in-character
@Lilith does stuff this is a youtube comment ur not allowed to disagree with me sorry 😎
This reminds me of that time J-Wittz covered the Pokemon Christmas Album and Meowth had some pretty insensitive takes there too.
@@TheStarsTwilight meowth singing is not something i knew i wanted until i heard it, thank u for enlightening me
Ikr
@@moon_lava If you was joking, that was a bad joke
I appreciate Wobbafet’s input. Very insightful
he's obviously the audio producer/engineer that tried to de-escalate the situation
That's the way it is
🤣
I thought his take was a bit too political, but yes, very insightful
@@JayPlusForerunner Yes, but that's what I like about him. He doesn't shy of being political if he needs too. And I think the particular aspect that he highlights does have a political impact. Indeed, we can always count on Wobbafet to point out certain things that people tend to overlook.
As a lifelong member of Team Magma, I support this message.
Go Team Aqua!
AQUA GANG RISE UP 🌊🌊🌊
water cooler than magmaa 100%
Land's hotter than lame water
have fun with the infinite zubats in caves
This feels like something straight out of a SolidJJ video, but actually animated
Its humor and everything is simply amazing
Holy crap I didn't even realized this wasn't Solid JJ until you pointed it out!
Jehtt is way better anyway
Welcome to Jehtt, I hope you enjoy your stay!
@@lukahmei2000 I feel like you're just saying that cuz you haven't watched double J's content as much cuz I certainly wouldn't call comparison between such great voice actors
@@TheTrashyboi i personally don’t think jehtt is better than JJ, but his content does appeal to me more. JJ focuses on various old comic book/tv franchises, whereas jehtt does a few video game IPs (mainly sonic) that are more in line with my interests as an epicc heckin gamer
"If there was more land, I'd be able to get a house of my own!"
This grunt made me really empathize with Team Magma.
Completely forgetting the many, _many_ spots even a child can go and build their own furnished 'home-away-from-home'.
Personally I prefer the "What did I do to deserve this guard posting? My left ear is burning up!" guy from Emerald.
@@budgetcoinhunter Hey! Not anyone can just get their hands on that TM!
What? who said that lmfao, timestamp?
@@Galeboy It was on Mt. Chimney in Ruby/Sapphire version.
During the whole "I hate water, team magma was justified, " I forgot Meowth is a cat.
That's the entire basis of it. Lol. Meowth ain't fooling nobody!
Me too
I love how the team rocket justifies considering themselves above team magma by saying they don't do their jobs well
"He tried to destroy the world"
"That sure seems to happen a lot these days"
Team Rocket has a point
Basically every main-series original Pokemon Game at this point.
@@khristopherkomodoensis4734 well every one after team rocket but before team yell so like 4 out of the 9 gens
@@Madara8989 yeah but Im saying after team rocket not before team rocket when i said before i was referring to before team yell you know the gen 8 bad guy teams
you would think that at this point they would've already thought up of making a unity of pokemon trainers specifically meant for dealing with these kinds of threats
but eh to be fair these so-called bad guys are always getting thwarted by pre-teens so
The way Meowth slowly goes from being just slightly in bad taste to condemning an entire culture to threatening genocide is exactly how most last episodes of podcasts before they get cancelled go.
How tf is water a culture.
Like i understand the parallel but water is not a culture.
Shame it doesn't happen to media. The mainstream is increasingly unhinged.
If you're a communist you can support genocide and no one cares though.
@@dansmith1661 I sometimes feel like there's some kind of U-shape of depravity. On one end, there are the unhinged people dwelling in the darkest corners of the world. On the other is mainstream media
@Cirrus I am joking. He was made an incel and got radicalized over the internet.
MORE POKEMON SKITS PLEASE.
This was fucking brilliant
Specifically more team rocket skits
As a Floridian- Louisianan I can verify that Team Magma is saving us from rising sea Level
As a floridian myself i 100% qgree
tbh Florida kinda deserves to sink into the ocean, its the only way to make all the Florida Men pay for their sins
yes, he's really doing Arceus's work.
I am typing this from my underwater house.
As a Hawaiian, I would rather not have my country become the next Atlantis, so I'm voting Team Magma in the next chance I get
As a Nevadan-Californian, I disagree
Don't worry guys, Meowth did an Apology video later and got everything sorted out.
Yes and surprisingly it surpassed more views than that social media star Pogan -Laul- Lol's apology vid
I mean yeah but u can tell it was rly just to save his ass from getting more public flack over what he said, more like he was sorry he got caught. Then Meowth will probly go on Twitter and say smth abt how cancel culture ruined him so I wouldn’t give his apology too much thought
Meowth got in the Daily Wire after Twitter banned him.
@@ΓιάννηςΜεταξάς-ρ5φ “today on the daily wire, trans people are taking over the sinnoh region! meowth has more on the subject…”
@@kaphizmey6229 “but in other news, Meowth has to report on the phenomenon of gender neutral pokemon. Meowth?”
“Thanks Barbara. So anyways, STARMIES AND STARYUS ARE OUT HERE PROMOTING NOTHING BUT PROPAGANDA! WHEN IT COMES TO GENDER PICK ONE AND STICK WITH I-“
----
“So I got cancelled again.
“Goddamnit.”
Okay but your voice acting? Absolutely amazing, your James, Meowth and Wobuffet are so good! They sound so similar to the actual voices, it was hard to spot the difference. I hope you do more Pokemon skits because this one was hilarious and your acting makes it even better!
knowing the other stuff, I was like "where's this from? where's this from?"
I stopped watching Journeys a while ago, so I thought that this actually happened in the show until about halfway. This was so good. ❤️🤣👌
I legit thought it was real but I recognised Jessie's voice was abit off but still this is amaaaaaazing I laughed so hard at 'too much water'
Meowth was easier to spot, since the lower tones were very much not fitting. But those were handled so well they worked excellently.
Wobbuffets voice felt the most bad
I don’t think a lot of people would have noticed but, “Wobbufett”’s Japanese name means “that’s the way it is” and since the anime is produced in Japan and Wobbufett was a joke character used for this purpose, and him saying that after James said “and killed a lot of people too” implies he is on Meowth’s side.
Also that concerned cry of Wobbufett at the end is probably him siding with Meowth and telling Jessie and James not to “silence” him.
as in the words of the great thinker wobbufett "it is what it is." team magma did nothing wrong and if you think otherwise you're eating the team aqua fake new propaganda!
I'm disappointed that the localisers didn't make an attempt with this name like they did with wynaut.
Actually he’d be on James’ side.
@@BreadLoeuf Maybe they could have called him something like " _itswatis_ " after "" _it_ i _s_ _w_ h _at_ _it_ i _s_ "?
It's not a very catchy name but it carries over the pun.
In German his preevolution is called "Isso" and the last stage "Woingenau".
"Isso" is slang in German and comes from the saying "Es ist so!" /"Ist so!" which translated means "That's how it is!"/"It is like that!".
"Woingenau" sadly loses its Japanese meaning and is basically "Wohin genau?" which translated means "Where exactly?"
Meowth calling James "Jimmy" made my day
I like how the punchline of this is “meowth agrees with magma only becahse he’s a cat.” Also wow, this really is still in character even if it would never happen in the show. Idk how you do it but this was funny.
The punchline is that RSE/ORAS actually does have too much water and that "too much water" is a completely valid complaint about those games
@@slippinjenny7410 do you agree with the unabomber?
@@chrisdawson1776 uncle ted is correct
@@slippinjenny7410 No, it doesn't. You get the ability to fly early on and if you're annoyed by Tentacools battling you, use a Repel. It's literally half land, half water, and the water routes are all relatively short and self contained.
Reading this comment plus the thread gave me multiple tumors in my ass.
For those who don’t watch the Journey’s anime this was a filler episode where Team Rocket needed to recruit people to Team Rocket and so decided a radio show/podcast was the way they did episode 1 and found 0 viewers, and so tried and revamped the entire thing forgetting their original goal and making a relatively popular podcast
The episode is surprisingly good for a Pokémon filler episode if you plan on watching Journey without fillers give this episode a chance instead of skipping it
I did watch all of pokemon journeys, but didn't find this filler episode.
H u h
Does it really count as filler when the podcast appears over several episodes with narrator-chan
@@planeded5885 I assume this hasn’t been dubbed in English yet
@@zidanez21 huh
Oh which episode is this? I probably skipped it thinking it was filler, but this actually seems really dope
the best thing ever is that in Sun and Moon if you take a picture of a Pokémon with too much water in the background one of the replies you might get actually is "7.8/10 too much water." the fact that GameFreak (or at least the localizers) know and embrace the meme just makes my day
@Bill Clinton Enjoyer "7.8/10 too much water." Is an infamous criticism for oras from ign. That's where the meme comes from.
Sun and Moon came out in 2016, and this was made in 2022, so it's the opposite way around (Especially since James talks about Chairman Rose, the main antagonist in Sword and Shield which released 3 years after Sun and Moon)
bruh i'm talking about my actual experience playing the 2016 game. there is a line of text in the game that says "7.8/10 too much water" which can appear in the photography minigame. i know when the games came out.
to spell it out for you, i am just commenting on the popularity of the 7.8/10 meme, which originated with oras (2014).
I read this in Nia's voice
Same
he's got a point, one of the grunts said that they wouldve had a nice house in hoenn if there were more land, because house prices are probably extremely high there, and the rest of the world too. team magma didnt want to get rid of ALL the water, just about 20% of it (making it a 50/50 ratio) so that humans could develop further into the future, however it was a horrible miscalculation in the end (if i got any of this wrong, i played pokemon alpha sapphire)
Depending on the game they fight, Team magma hates water in Ruby, but the pirates got a brain and on sapphire the roles swap
Team Magma and Team Aqua's plans only have a proper motive in ORAS. In the original games they're only trying to expand the land/sea just for the sake of the games having an evil plot related to the box legendaries to thwart.
I will say Maxie wanting to make more land so Hoenn could have more livable space has better intentions than Archie wanting to flood Hoenn to "reset the world". ORAS is notably the first time the absurd house/population ratio usually found in Pokémon games is ever lampshaded as a main plot point. Awakening Primal Groudon and not being able to control it still would have horribly disrupted the nature, wildlife, and human population of the region, if not destroy it all outright.
Jessie, James, Meowth, and Wobbuffet's voices are truly on-point. They almost sound like actual voices in the anime series. It feels like I'm watching an actual episode of the series.
James doesn't sound exactly like he did in Journeys unless they changed VAs after season 23. He sounds like an old Englishman who is mildly bemused all of the time in Journeys, this sounds closer to his voice early on in the anime, and is more tolerable as such.
I thought it was real until Meowth said he was going to go apeshit
@@pinkpeppers5580 yeah, that kinda clued me in too
@@pinkpeppers5580 SAME
@@pinkpeppers5580 I thought that they were changing their voices to maybe not get recognized or something I haven't seen the episode yet lol I've been watching the whole anime in order and only seen the 1st season on the gen 8 anime.
You know I don't like how everyone is so dismissive of Wobbafett on this stream. He expertly dismantled Meowth's entire argument before it even got started with one succinct statement, and everyone just ignored him. Maybe it's better that this show get cancelled.
naw its thinking like that is poisonous to the industry
I mean honestly wobbafett was the only one on the podcast speaking reason for the 52 episode runtime, I think he should just go off and make his own podcast honestly
That's canon. There used to be scenes where Team Rocket is talking about their stupid plan, Wobbuffet goes "Wobbuffet!", and Meowth goes "who asked you?". He's the group's voice of reason. They just never listen to him.
I guess you could say Wobuffet had a perfect Counter to Meowths argument.
frfr, dese nigguz bêê hatin' on tha nigga Wobuffet . . .
Honestly, it sounds like an actual conversation these three (four if we count Wobbuffet) would have
We count Wobbuffet.
@@algar6616 Always.
Nah Jessie is never going to be that polite. It's not possible.
If you don't count Wobbuffet, fix yourself.
Bro predicted the kanye podcast 💀
looked for this
😂
"You're sympathizing with a genocidal terrorist!"
Wobbuffet, as usual, is speaking nothing but facts here!
a truly underrated hero
That's right!
That is right!
that is right!!
Fun fact: wobbufet’s name in Japanese means “that’s the way it is”.
Meowth does have a good point though. I do get tired of running into Tentacool’s and Wingull’s, so maybe drying some water would do some good.
Edit: I have no idea what’s happening in the replies, so I suggest you don’t go down there.
He wants to kill people.
That's not the fault of the water or the water monsters. It's the fault of old game design because random encounters suck ass.
@@DrCoeloCephalo Congratulations, you identified half the joke.
@@DrCoeloCephalo Fair point, but I feel for Meowth a little (not with the whole killing Pokemon thing) but like I'm not trying to swim foward a tad bit, and get encounter every single time
@@KiraSlith It doesn't play into the joke at all.
I’ll gladly tune in to this podcast everyday, Jessie, James and Meowth’s voices sound so accurate it sounds like you got the real voice actors to do this
Yup, hopefully they work on more videos together. This stuff sounds and looks great for the jokes.
Too bad they got cancelled
All y'all be hatin on meowth but you forget he made graduation
Now that takes "The thing We didn't know We needed" to another level
the thing was water
@@seventhspud no water is too wet
The "we don't kill people" statement had me flash back to that pokemon safari episode where they put a revolver to an old man's head. I remember thinking as a kid "Oh man this shit got real"
Oh yeah, _that_ banned one. The one that went too far for even the gun-toting USA.
but that episode never aired outside of Japan?
He saw it on that one TH-cam video that got reccomended a few days ago
@@christmasgrinch4017 No, when I was 13 I heard that there were "illegal" pokemon episodes and said to myself "well now I need to watch them". I found them on some bootleg streaming site and that is the story of how I discovered anime streaming as a child.
@@tytris203 facts. The internet shows you everything bro. Even things that you shouldn’t see. The internet is a big ass place.
This one got me laughing my bum off today, thank you!
The writing in this is incredible. The script is exactly like it would be in the show with a good deal of adult humor thrown in.
Masterfully written!
...Y'know, maybe Maxie *was* onto something.
I mean, just the fact you need diving gear to actually access Sootopolis City, a place important enough to have a Gym, *should* be a red flag; what if someone doesn't have that gear and/or drowns trying to access the city? What then?
Also, Hannah did a pretty solid job with Jesse, ngl.
But For some reason I guess about team magma they’re actually doing something that could benefit than team the other team now that I think of it
To be frank, we *do* need more land, on earth we have *MUCH* more water than we do land. Maxie relates to us.
You can also fly to Sootopolis, I'd assume flying taxis would be used like those in Sword/Shield nowadays
@@jaguarnick4643
Yes, but that'd require having been to Sootopolis City *beforehand,* which can only be done by diving underwater.
Do you see the problem, here?
EDIT: Also, what if you just started your adventure in Sootopolis City? You'd have nowhere else to fly to, and the ability to dive underwater out of the city is only possible if you beat Mossdeep City's Gym, which you can't fly to yet.
@@Brown95P not talking about in game mechanics, moreso real life implications as its just more likely people fly there
Props for the voices, absolutely nailed all three.
Especially wobbuffet
WOBBUFFET!!? 😠😡🤬
@@tctyt ye
@@christhe2dprotogen511 he said 3,not 4
Exept WHUBBOFET he sounds exactly like meowth
I like how Jehtt is doing other things and not just sonic videos but I still love those videos.
ikr? nice to see him branching out
I wonder which other franchises he'll try next
Some variety I did not expect, but I highly welcome.
The funny thing is, Meowth didn't even want to hurt anyone at the start.
He just disliked getting wet a bit. But then they started shooting it down and hurting his feelings without explaining what was wrong with what he was saying, so he got very aggressive about it. Which actually happens when you don't deal with dangerous thoughts in the correct approach.
They said flat-out that it was a sensitive topic and that the water routes are part of Hoenn's culture. Meowth just decided that his personal comfort was more important.
@@MsAnimefan95Meowth is right. Stupid cultures should be left behind. Groudon could have just created a big volcano in the middle of the hoenn islands to create new land without killing anyone.
In other words: argument, not censor.
When people just seem to want to shut you up instead of simply elaborating why they disagree with you, it's natural for you to want to get a one-up on them. *Even if you unintentionally end up becoming a radical.* 🤦♂️
@@YOTSUBA_desuWhat about hoenns culture is stupid, other than "it bothers me personally therefore bad"
@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong There is less land for individuals to live, therefore hoenn's sea culture is objectively worse than a groudon land culture.
Honestly, Maxie DID have good intentions, at least to start with. Hoenn is mostly water, yes, but Hoenn is also going through a mild housing crisis and overpopulation issue. Raising the land and or removing a chunk of the ocean’s mass would mean more land to expand on for both humans and non-aquatic Pokémon to live on.
Meanwhile Archie just wanted to wrestle a fish
Actually Hoenn is equal parts land and water. Half the routes are on land and the other half are on water.
@@quantasium Still, not very good percentages all things considered
@@itsturniptime3699 Well considering they build cities on the waters too thanks to wood, I'd say It can be helped, or you can add more towers for People and multi-family housing options, at least that would help without necessarily disturbing natural underwater fauna
A month later I shall interject, raising the land would make certain higher parts of the Hoenn region inhospitable due to crop drought, it is entirely possible that a lower water level or higher land level could reduce total habitable space in the region rather than increasing it assuming the reduced amount of water did not also affect climate conditions.
This is just the Pokemon version of Atlantropa. (Never thought I'd type that sentence)
God, this feels like a TFS Abridged show, and I mean that as a compliment in every way
So true lol
More like pokemon briged from 1 kids. Too bad they don’t do more episodes anymore
It's fucking hilarious
he isn't exploiting his patreon fans so not really
@@constantinethe2hpencil409 that's...not what happened.
hope this turns into a series. Team Rockets insightful views on those kind hot, modern topics is what the people are truly craving for
Fr make a podcast
I would genuinely love to see a “team rocket discusses” type podcast
If you could sign this petition
All I'm saying is that everybody had something to bring to the table, especially Maxie
Dude. Maxie isn’t there.
Edit: typo
What makes this even better is the "too much water" thing was actually about water types, not water routes.
Meowth is just dogwhistling that he wants to wipe out all the water types, truly dispicable
I must be suffering from mandela effect because its the first time ive heard its about too many water types
He's trying to get people to forget about _Vaporeon._
@@sasaki999pro *Hey guys did you know...*
And specist
@@TheHortoman
out of 211 pokemon catchable in Hoenn, fully 46 are water types. That's just over 21%
You know what: I’m not a Hoenn hater, but, like, Meowth has a point.
Hoenn has a LOT of water, that’s a big problem.
You have a LOT of money you're not spending on anything else, go spend some of it on Repels.
So all of us Hoenn citizens have to spend our money on repels because there's too much water?
Sounds like a Poke-Mart scam to me.
@@zeograndmaster6507 I mean, if you _refuse_ to take boats and _insist_ on swimming using Surf that's your own fault. You make your own problems, bub.
You could easily make bridges but hoennins are too lazy
@@zeograndmaster6507 No, you got it all wrong. Wild Pokemon don't actually exist; they're a lie manufactured by Big Repel. I bet you believe everything you see on Jubilife TV. Wake up Mareeple! Repel makes the Politoeds gay!
Pros:
clever jokes
Great voice acting
Cons:
Too much water
7/10
Nah, solid 7.8
@@rosykindbunny1313 more like a fluid than a solid.
@@dantran9962 Yeah, my bad
0 is too much?!
You know the idea of a scripted in universe podcast by the team rocket crew sounds like a great promotional material
You know, everyone gives team aqua and magma loads of crap for having the worst plans in the franchise, but Idk if they were even trying to be that insane with it, when either of them learns their legendary is gonna go overboard with the whole thing and flood/dry the earth completely, they are pretty surprised. Maybe archie just wanted to change the coasts just enough to wet drought-prone areas, and Maxie just wanted to expand the coasts by just a bit or surface a landbridge between Hoenn's islands. The only problem is that neither of them were geologists or meteorologists. So effectively they're just like redditors arguing over the world's problems except they have legitimate followers and power.
Oh nonono. Most people I talk to see Lysandre and Team Flare as the worst.
"We're going to reset the world!"
"Okay, why?"
"It's so ugly and cruel!"
"And what will you do when you create this new world?"
"Only Team Flare can belong!"
"So criminals. Got it. F-- is your grade."
@@MegaManJake You managed to stay correct while wildly veering entirely off topic to the point where it doesnt even matter that you're right
@@morgantellez758 LOL WHOOPS WHAT WAS I DOING WHEN I WROTE THIS?!
@@MegaManJakeand to make matters worst, that whole "we need to reset the world" wasn't even their original idea, team Galactic tried pulling that shit years before flair even existed.
Their plans are expanded in the ORAS remakes: Maxie's plan is to give more land to humanity, Archie's plan is to give more space for Pokemon
If wasn’t until I was about half way through this video that I remembered this is a parody and not an actual Pokémon anime skit. The voice acting is really good and this kinda sounds like the sort of inane discussion TR would have in the show. Might actually be better than a lot of your Sonic videos
Yes honestly at the beginning I thought this was just one of those jokes that goes over the head of most kids
That was hilarious, I genuinely thought this was an actual episode until Meowth swore
1:22 bro literally he isn’t wrong like going to the Pokémon league in brilliant diamond encountering wingulls and tentacruel makes me go craaazzzyy
But that region has only one story-required water route. Hoenn has several.
At first I thought it was real being like "wow, pokémon got to the next level, talking about controversial topics and region's culture", then I knew it was acting when they mentioned genocidal terrorism, and absolutely confirmed with Meowth swearing 😆
controversial topics?
@@JohnJohnBinks186 'creepy descriptions;? also that is not weridness as mich
@@mareksicinski3726 just search "creepy Pokédex entries"
@@themustardman219 “if Pokémon entries were realistic” covers it pretty well on some of them.
The Pokemon anime swears in Japanese, also this would def not be a English episode. Japan is extremely lax with topics, cussing, and stuff like that for a kids show. I completely believed this, but then I watched the cuts and notice the amount of reused scenes and knew it was not real.
Even though I don't agree with Meowth entirely, there's one thing we all agree in from his argument: The Wingulls and the Tentacools piss us off every time we try to surf on Hoenn's waters
But For some reason I guess about team magma they’re actually doing something that could benefit than team the other team now that I think of it
i don't know which i hated more, the fact that i keep running into a wingull/pellipper or tentecool/tentacruel or the fact that i only run into them despite the fact that there should be a lot of water type species in the big ocean
@@wilsonweiseng6485 I think that's the biggest issue. The game had plenty of water types, but largely running into the same two for much of the game was annoying. Maybe they could throw a rare out of bounds spheal or clamperl here or there.
@@craniifer a Relicanth or a Lanturn could’ve worked too as well as buffing the spawn rate/locations for Feebas I’m not sure why there was such a lack of different water types in gen 3
Me with stacks of repel, max repel and other items that Zigzagoon gave me : I don't get it.
"You can't just say Hoenn has too much water; that's a really sensitive topic!"
Freaking nailed it. I smiled the whole time watching this, lol.
Monark be like:
I like how Wobbuffet saying "Wobbuffet!" at 0:35 is an affirmation of James' statement. It fits perfectly with how he acts in the anime itself, since his Japanese name (Sonans) is Japanese for "that's right", so whenever he says his name he's agreeing with something another member of Team Rocket says. His very different English name caused that to get lost in translation, but he still says "Wobbuffet!" to agree with the other members.
Wow that's actually pretty interesting
That changes the team rocket into for me
The cut to officer Jenny in her van just adds so much and is such an unnecessary thing to do I love it so much this is great as always
are we just gonna ignore the fact that meowth called james "jimmy"?
i'd legit listen to a Team Rocket Podcast tbh
it'd start off as normal, and build up to be brutal a third way through the podcast.
I’d love a podcast with these 3!
"It would have ruined the scenery!"
"And kill a lot of people..."
How. The. Fuck. can you be this funny while still being 100% in character?!
Watch your mouth Andrew Taylor
Good acting, I have done a whole song in a toad voice with few and between fuck ups
Language, Andrew!
Andrew Taylor, watch your mouth your man!
By being incredibly skilled at writing. That's how.
1:11 Officer Jenny don’t give a darn!
Infact she lifer
It's so annoying how the subreddit keeps whining about a drop in quality. Honestly the pod is better without Wobuffet on, all he would do was scream over the end of people's jokes. He didn't do any research, was just there for self-promotion.
As a kid I always thought, isn't Meowth the most expensive pokemon to kidnap? A fully human intilligent pokemon that can talk
Doesn't know how to give out money.
In fairness, he's also conpletely incompetent in terms of a fight. Hell, he openly says he put so much energy into learning to talk that be basically doesn't know the first thing about actually battling. And most people would be looking for a super strong pokemon, not one that can talk.
Not to mention most other pokemon are at least nearing human intelligence, they just can't speak.
@@redraven123I'm sorry, but with all do respect, what are you talking about? There is literally zero reason other than the comedy of it that Meowth isn't world famous as the bridge between Pokemon and Humans. But also that every trainer in the world doesn't want him. He's literally the equivalent of a talking cat in real life. And yeah I know psychics exist. But the ones that can talk to people via telepathy are basically as rare as bigfoot in their world. Ash and co likely just run into them all the time because plot. And even with the existence of psychics Meowth would still stand out as one of a kind. Opening the bridge of Pokemon science with regards to teaching them to speak since he's proven it can be done. Yet every Pokemon scientist they've met could care less.
@@darksideofevil13well oak and Gary were pretty interested in him but then must have thought another one of team rockets experiments
ok but meowth was there friend
"and we can't feed Morpeko, so make it double" I love those smaller jokes so much, this is a masterpiece
Please do more of these, I'd watch a Team rocket podcast covering more world of Pokemon issues lol
Also the voice acting is really believable
Up until meoth cursed, I was under the belief that this was halfway canon.
@@brandoncastellano1858 same
They got canceled guess there won’t be
@@protobomber9822 But we could see the episodes leading up to this one...
@@Lokear that would work
I need to see meow this build
Up to this
Imagine if Team Rockets podcast was In real life I would genuinely listen to it.
Holy crap. This was so on-point that I initially thought this was an actual episode.... then further down the line, I was like "wait a second.."
"Primeape-shit" took me like.. >.>
"Wooper _can_ learn Ice Punch" took me out because the anime never discusses weird moveset trivia like this.
Someone in the comments said this was a filler episode?
@@BrianHallmond It was based on a filler episode. None of the dialogue in this video is in that episode.
Till you remember that this is a parody of the Kanye podcast where he says hitler wasnt the bad.
Edit: changed drake to Kanye because à mistake.
I mean, Maxie and Archie were by far the least "genocidal" evil team bosses (other than obviously Guzma and Piers.) They just wanted what was best for humanity or Pokemon.
Except the water-types.
All they needed to do is consider the butterfly effects of their actions and they'd be just fine. They just had to go too far, though. Maxie went and tried to dry everything up, leading to global water shortages if a certain 10 year old didn't intervene. Had he just decided on trying to get the okay on some simple terraforming projects, not much would be hurt. Still plenty of water for the ecosystem to thrive. As for Archie, he also went too far and tried to flood out Hoenn, with the storm likely reaching other parts of the world and causing even more floods had another certain 10 year old not intervened. Hoenn already has excess water as is, so the ecosystem is already thriving. If you're that desperate to add water to a region full of it, get permission to do some terraforming projects to add rivers.
@@emberthefox4951 Someone should have directed Archie to Orre.
Wait, what the fuck do you mean they were the least genocidal????
@@Darth_Bateman Their plan didn’t involve the murder of anyone. What the plan would have done would have killed the entire region.
Also if I remember correctly a guy tried to erase everyone and replace it with world where he is God. So I would say those are probably the ends of the spectrum
This was so well done and pretty close to the voices from Journeys to a point I actually thought some how this was a real clip up until Meowth said "prime-ape shit"
SAME
Exactly the same for me.
Same here
The most unbelievable part of this is that the hate speech would get their Spotify contact cancelled lmao
lol truuue
if that actually happened every time something controversial was said on a podcast, joe rogan and a lot of other people would be homeless by now lol
@@kaphizmey6229 its as if opinions existed for a reason.........
@@generic6099 hate speech isn't an opinion.
@@kaphizmey6229 Rogan is way too profitable for Spotify for them just to kick him off so easily
These are some damn good Team Rocket impressions. Need more of this.
Meowth: Maxie's got a point, Hoenn has too much water!
Venice, Jakarta, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Maldives all facing rising sea levels: He's right, y'know
The Netherlands, historically at war with the sea: *Tell me about it...*
Love how Archie isn't on the list, as he should. No matter what Meowth says, Maxie still looks like a virgin. And Archie is a Chad. Ocean Man should be able to expand and rule as he wishes
>Still shot of Archie grabbing Maxie in a headlock like Sam Hyde
"The weak should fear the strong."
Ocean man, he should rule the land with his own two hands, don't you understand? 🎶
Archie is just Poseidon with extra steps
Archie was based
The Netherlands: We sat her willynilly ass down and she's been quiet for the better part of the last 100 years. xD
99% sure Maxie was Dutch.
Even ignoring the mass genocide, Maxie stole a who knows how old arifact to awaken a beastly dinosaur of earth and fire to do so. I get that they're team rocket, but they literally call stealing "evil" themselves most of the time they do it. So while I find meowth looking up to maxie plausible, i refuse to believe he would say "maxie did nothing wrong".
Bro. Cats hate water. Maxie is meowth's hero
The added detail of Officer Jenny listening to the podcast and nodding along with it is excellent
Meowth was right. On my visit to Hoenn I got my car wrecked by a tentacruel. On top of that, these rising sea levels are just absurd. Hoenn’s “culture” means that a main highway that is flooded with a foot of water isn’t closed or raised, but rather get confronted by some sour-faced prick that tells me that my car has wheels. Then that tentacruel jumps out of nowhere a few minutes down the road. Black eye for me and bloody nose for my friend.
We really should of just let Ghetsis freeze Unova with Kyurem, after all, Those guys are so obnoxiously patriotic, plus it’d reverse global warming!
As a person living in hoenn… yea there’s a LOT of water, and the fact we haven’t even build any water dams yet is somehow concerning.
I’d say kalos has the best geography, at least I won’t have to worry about falling in some kinda river or sinking in mud ~_~
@@midnightartist43 Trainers would complain that its became harder to get access for wild water-types tho
@@skell6134 yea that’s true, I can’t deny that.
@@AAZ-yu5ss I agree, but for those happy few self-aware Unovan trainers, please let us move out first. I hear Johto's nice and cozy!
Meowth is giving off raw "Thanos did nothing wrong" energy and I love it.
Someone: "Hoenn has too much water!"
Cynic: "Then why did you stop team Magma?"
*mind blown*
If I actually had a choice and wasn’t forced to play a linear plot, I’d be wholeheartedly supporting Team Magma! 😅
You know you're crossed a line when Wobbuffet's telling you to shut up.
Wobbuffet’s Japanese name roughly means “That’s right!”, I think he was agreeing with James, but idk
I legit thought this was part of the actual show until meowth swore lmao
SAMME
Me too
SAME
James and meowth’s voices are too on point. Meowths here is a little higher pitched but i can’t hear the difference in james
@@w1nther930 Jessie sounds nice too
The beginning seems so real I couldn’t tell that it was fake! If this was a real podcast from team rockets point of view just talking I would totally watch it
Same
Same!! I was surprised by the VA but figured it had been over a decade since I'd watched the show so maybe they'd changed actors 😭
this actually was a real episode and it was focused on TR trying to recruit members by doing a podcast.
The beginning clued me on to it being fake dialog, actually. The anime _never_ touches on those weird move/Pokémon combos like Ice Punch Wooper, Iron Tail Primeape, and Mega Kick Dusknoir.
I honestly hope that these characters return one day in the anime as side characters
Yeah I agree
This feels like a real episode and I love it.
WAIT WHAT IS THIS THEN
@@shinoataya fan dub.
@@JacobAwsum ohh thx
@@shinoataya ever heard of Team Four Star? They fan dub Dragon Ball Z.
Minus the cursing…
Before getting into the... scarier part of the rhetoric, I have actually seen team Magma as well intentioned but naive. They genuinely just wanted to create more land to deal with overpopulation and crowding. Their ideals were noble but they did not realise the scale of the consequences for their actions. I actually genuinely think they shouldnt be listed with the others as they were acting trying to do good before realising the severe damage they caused. Chairman rose, while also well-meaning, is not the same, as he knew about the consequences and risks, but did not care and thought he could handle it.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
The best interpretation I've ever seen for the Hoenn teams is that they were actually really good people, if a little too stubborn about their personal ecological ideals, originally being a single environmentalist group as they were. But then they stumbled upon the Orbs, and were slowly corrupted by their power into essentially being avatars of their respective legendary. Then the Protagonist™ happens and they're freed, and have to deal with the horrible guilt of their actions, Archie especially because flooding the entire world is *so much worse* than the admittedly severe consequences of hyper-accelerating natural land growth.
Too bad Maxie and Archie were fucking color blind
Meanwhile Archie just liked surfing I guess.
@@Emidretrauqe Dude took one look at Pacifidlog and went "what if EVERYWHERE was like this???"
It all just snowballed from there, really.
Despite being 15% of the Pokemon world, water makes up 80% of Hoenn.
You can't say those kind of statistics, thats anti-hydration!
Wtf is this I love it
Meowth going full Kanye
Ok but Maxie’s different ( same as Archie) in that the thing he would of caused if not stopped by the player wasn’t their intention. Both hoeen “evil teams leaders” when they awakened their respective legendaries actively try to stop them when they realize just how badly they screwed up. Meanwhile ghestis straight up tries to kill a kid. Pretty significant difference