>>52664448I stopped watching mid-johto but in retrospective I can't help but love how ridiculous and absurd yet also creative and ingenious the first two seasons were with the setting and story
>golden ho oh in the first episode>hostile and obstinate starting pokemon>10 yo gary driving a convertible with a squad of college-aged cheerleaders>joy and jenny's absurd genetics>pokemon talking out of nowhere>petty, rude, lazy or cheating gym leaders>all of team rockets ridiculous plans, mechas and disguises>togepi's metronome turning into a nuke everytime>jigglypuff putting an entire city full of cunts to sleep>hypno and drowzee mindbreaking a bunch of kids for the sake of some richfags>school of hard knocks>jigglypuff seen from above exam>duplica and her faulty ditto>james getting scammed multiple times>james' family>brock and jessie ridiculously poor backgrounds>clefairy using spaceships>giovanni using fucking mewtwo to completely wreck gary>that one fucking bellsprout that got muked and its smug trainer>disco drowzee>misty's ridiculously attractive and bitchy sisters>giselle>prof ivy sexo>lorelei sexo>that chad doctor that wanted to fuck misty>nastina with her boytoy harem, and guns>kaiju episodes (dragonite, tentacruel, theme park island and pokemopolis)>catastrophe episodes (tentacruel, ss anne, hindenburg)>emotional episodes (bye bye butterfly, bye bye pikachu, bye bye lapras, snowstorm, surffing pikachu, meowth backstory)>horror stories/parodies (maiden's peak, sabrina, attack of the prehistoric pokémon, ghost ship, sewers monster)>romeo & juliet with nidorans>gangs and gang warfare episodes (squirtles, bike bridge, scyther vs electabuzz, jiggly vs clefairy)>pink butterfly>crystal onix>prof ivy/pink islands alternate color pokemon>pokemon used for other things than battles (seaworld, races, beauty contests, photography, circus, movies, plays)It even seems like many of these inspired game features and tropes later on.
