>>17574222Volt Tackle ate the entire animation budget on it's own. You see that glorious looking shit? It looked good because they wound up having to pump money into it. Great for movies, but shit for every other episode's budget where it was bound to show up.
Electro Ball was just a shiny new thing they could throw in there instead.
>>17574261>>17574847That's the throwaway excuse for it.
>>17574351That's the "plot" behind it.
