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banned pokémon episode 5: stage fight! the least interesting pulled ep so far. there's a showboat and they do pokémon theater with human actors voicing their dialogue from backstage, a technique pioneered by the well-known musical Singin' In The Rain Dance

i may have made that last bit up there is a moment where meowth is briefly fooled by the ventriloquism and thinks he's met a bunch of other talking pokémon and starts tearing up and saying he understands what they all went through. it's slightly heartbreaking that it's not real

anyway the pokémon all do a chorus line, at which point it is revealed that jynx (who appears briefly but has no bearing on the plot) has human feet under there. i choose to believe that this, specifically, is why the episode was pulled

there's a brief subplot about a girl who is scared of her raichu because it shocked her. about ten seconds after explaining this, she just gets over it. that's most of what happens oh togepi does try to go on stage. i very much enjoy "togepi wanders somewhere" as a plot driver. best character

lost lore i don't remember seeing elsewhere: team rocket's magikarp submarine can fire magikarp missiles OH you know what, also? in BOTH this and holiday hi-jynx, jessie sends out james's weezing! i don't remember them ever using each other's pokémon before but now the jynx eps are two for two!