Episode 35 – The Legend of Dratini

Today on pokemon we’re on our second banned episode! This episode was banned due to it’s overuse of guns. In the states there had recently been a series of school shootings so they decided it was best not to expose more violence into the mainstream. You probably havn’t seen this episode but it does include a lot of pokemon captures made by ash that caused confusion in future episodes such as “where the fuck did all those tauros come from? Well without further ado let us begin!

Right from the start I’m fucking lost… This isn’t my intro? wtf this isn’t my theme song either!?! WTF IS THIS SHIT!?! it’s japanese that’s what it is. I mean look at this intro screen… whats this….

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Anyway Japanese ash Japanese misty and Japanese brock are all on their way to the safari zone. FINALLY the real thing and they’re getting close. Ash is so excited that he’s singing, as is misty but brock is getting a headache. Brock decides, fuck it I’ll sing too, and busts into song but is silenced by a man telling them to shut up. Ash asks him why he should listen and the man responds with this.

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Now that’s classy. Meet Kaiza, the safari zone grounds keeper. He’s old, he’s mean and he’s got a gun. w/e he lets them slide this time and they go into his cabin. He gives them their regulation safari balls and rod and warns them not to use anything else… or they get his "thunderbolt”. While waiting Misty spots a picture on the wall of kaiza and a dratini. She points it out and everyones real excited to find a dratini but kaiza denies it and takes the picture away.

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Ash decides to call prof. oak cuz he knows everyone right? right. Oak explains that 30 years ago kaiza met the dratini and trainers came from all over to find it again. While they were in the safari zone they caught many other pokemon and nearly destroyed the entire zone, thus calling for the use of safari balls only. Oak also bitches ash out for not catching any pokemon.
Team rocket sits on the roof and listens in. Hell yeah they’re gonna catch a dratini… no, Not just dratini… ALL THE POKEMON! 

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Right before ash heads into the zone Team rocket cuts them off. Kaiza’s pissed and begins to shoot until team rocket give up and make a deal with ash. They plan to catch more pokemon in the zone than ash and if they win they get all his pokemon but if they lose they leave him alone forever. Ash agrees cuz he’s a pokemon master of course and the game begins! 
Ash finds a group of tauros and throws a pokeball catching one. Fuck yeah first catch of the day! 

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Ash then spots a rhyhorn and chucks his ball at it but the group of tauros cut it off… 2nd catch of the day?… Fucking tauros… You can see where this is going.

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While ash is catching pokemon though team rocket isn’t playing fair like they promised. They’ve taken the guns from kaiza and begin prodding him about the dratini but he won’t budge.

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They try everything. They threaten to shoot him (which they don’t.), jessie tries to seduce him and they even try the good cop bad cop thing but no dice. Well they have one last plan… Shoot him in the leg? pffft that would make too much sense. No they bring in the TICKLE MACHINE!!! It breaks him too!

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Kaiza finds ash misty and brock and they’re fishing. He begs them to get this tickle machine off of him so pikachu thunderbolts it off. He tells them that team rocket has gone to Dragon Valley to find dratini… Wait… Dragon Valley… And people had to be told where it is… IT SAYS F*CKING DRAGON IN THE NAME! ugh. Anyway James and Meowth scuba down into the lake to find it but it finds jessie. Jessie is so excited and doesn’t notice she has stepped on the scuba suits air supply. Dratini begins to inch towards jessie but is scared off when james and meowth pop up for air

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Ash catches them and tells them he’s used all his safari balls already so he wins. Team rocket assure him it’s not over and throw a bomb in the water to stun all the pokemon inside for them to capture. Kaiza jumps in to stop it but he’s old so ash jumps in with misty’s staryu. Ash hands off staryu to kaiza and goes on his own for them bomb

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Ash finds the bomb at the bottom of the ocean and begins to valiantly swim up but loses his breath and sinks. Ash’s body lies cold on the lakes floor forever as he is left in his watery grave. What? you don’t believe me!?! I wouldn’t lie to you! Never… Well… fine… I lied.

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Up at the surface the weather suddenly changes to a rough storm and a whirlpool forms in the lake. A beam of light explodes out of the water and out come dragonair and ash as the clouds dissipate.

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Ash tosses the bomb back to team rocket and they blast off. Kaiza looks at the dragonair and realizes… It’s the dratini from 30 years ago. Kaiza and dragonair reunite and embrace each other in tears. Dratini swims up and Kaiza is introduced to dragonairs family.

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Once back at the cabin ash brock and misty talk to prof oak promising to never tell about the dratini or dragonair. Oh he also tells him about all the pokemon(tauros) he caught!

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Ash and friends say good bye to kaiza and head off on their way. In the sky dragonair say’s it’s final goodbyes to the one who saved it’s family

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Until next time,
smellyalata!

-w

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