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we just finished kanto (finally) so we went back and picked up banned pokémon episode 4: holiday hi-jynx this episode establishes that santa claus is real and canon in the pokémon universe and a single rapidash pulls his sleigh. also lapras are telepathic. until orange islands when they're not

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allegedly the next banned episode (and original next episode), holiday hi-jynx, was shuffled in the order (due to the show going on hiatus after porygon) and still exists dubbed with jynx repainted purple, although i don't know where exactly

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absolutely baffling stuff. apparently this originally aired in japan in early october, though i guess it would've been slated for the previous year's dec 23 (a week after electric soldier porygon) and then uhh some stuff happened

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indescribably tragic that dropping this episode removes santa claus from the american pokémon canon anyway santa has an army of jynx instead of elves, and i can safely say that the optics of having them doing unpaid labor are, um, worse

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i was always under the impression that jynx was inspired by ganguro, but i guess we don't actually know for sure? but i would like to think this was a wildly unfortunate cultural coincidence

25/10/26, 10:23 pm0 reposts13 likes

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i can't stop thinking about team rocket tying up santa and stealing all the toys. fairly oddparents ass episode

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oh i guess it is helpful to mention, for those not aware, that this episode was pulled because the original jynx design bore an unfortunate resemblance to blackface. whoops

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oh right, ash's pokédex emphasized that lapras can understand human speech, as if that were a distinctive capability. but uh the entire show is people talking to pokémon all the time?? trainers give complex commands?? they can very clearly understand humans what are you talking about