(triumphant music)
- Well, hello, Pokémon masters!
Bird Keeper Toby here and welcome
back to another Fact Friday.
Now, this character is
one you have been asking
for since the beginning of Fact Fridays.
Because I covered "all of" the companions
except there was one I missed and
I get no end of comments saying
"Why'd you miss him, why'd you miss him?"
And to be honest I
thought it was 'cause it'd
be too hard to find
twenty facts about him.
But you asked for him, he's here, by
popular request, Tracey Sketchit.
He is a Pokémon artist, and speaking of
Pokémon art, you see
these posters behind me?
Well, they are available as art prints on
Gametee and today, to
celebrate Fact Friday,
we are going to be giving out a set.
Just make sure you tweet out a link to
this video with the
hashtag #PokémonFactFriday
and in a week's time I'm
gonna choose a winner.
I'll message you on twitter
and get you sent out a set.
And of course if you want to buy a set
they are available on
Gametee with a lot of
the other merch that I wear in my videos.
Links to that are in the description.
Right, let's get on with it.
Fact Friday, twenty facts about Tracey.
Number one, Tracey is
a Professor Oak fanboy.
Professor Oak being the person we
did the last Fact Friday about.
He thinks that the Professor's being a
famous expert on Pokémon and gets angry
when people don't recognise it.
Like that time he got angry at Misty when
Misty didn't realise that
Professor Oak was famous.
Number two, in an interview
it was revealed that
Tracey was brought in
when the Pokémon company
decided to preemptively remove Brock from
the show because they thought, they were
worried people would find him as a
racist character because of his eyes.
Then after the Orange Island series they
realised that no one actually cared and
people loved Brock and
wondered where he went
so they just brought Brock back.
Number three, Tracey
has the least amount of
Pokémon of any of Ash's
travelling companions.
This apart from the companions that aren't
actually Pokémon trainers
like Max or Bonnie.
Number four, Misty, Brock, May...
Tracey Sketchit is the only trainer of
Ash's companions to have a last name.
Number five, Tracey is also
the only male companion
that isn't a Gym Leader or related to one.
Number six, while Marill wasn't the first
Generation II Pokémon revealed,
Tracey was given a Marill specifically to
build hype for the Generation II games.
At the time, people were speculating
that Marill was called "Pikablu".
Number seven, while I
normally do a TCG fact,
Tracey doesn't have a Pokémon card.
And actually, he's the only
one of Ash's companions
to not have a Pokémon
card surrounding him.
Number eight, and this Fact
Friday is literally just
a list of things that
Tracey isn't involved in.
Tracey also appears in the least amount of
episodes out of any of Ash's companions.
However, number nine, he does appear in
a lot of side episodes and specials.
Whenever Ash returns to
Pallet Town he's usually
at Oak's lab and in the
Pokémon Chronicles series
he's actually a pretty big feature.
Number ten, Tracey isn't really a
Pokémon trainer, his official Trainer
class is a Pokémon watcher.
A Trainer class that he only shares
with one other person: Dr.
Quincy T. Quackenpoker.
Which means his full title is
Pokémon Watcher Dr.
Quincy T. Quackenpoker.
That is Mr. Professor Pokémon Watcher Dr.
Quincy T. Quackenpoker to you, sir!
Oh, Arceus.
Number eleven, Tracey's hair was
originally green in the show and
it was only in later episodes
it was changed to being black.
Number twelve, the voice actor for
Tracey was actually the original
voice actor of James before James
got replaced with Eric Stuart.
The same guy who voices Brock.
Number 13, Tracey's favourite type of
Pokémon is revealed in the episode
"Get Bugged" to be Bug-type Pokémon.
This in contrast to Misty having
Bug-type as her least
favourite Pokémon type.
Number 14, Tracey actually appears in two
different Pokémon movies after the
Orange Island series, those being
"The Spell of the Unknown"
movie and "Pokémon 4Ever".
In "Pokémon 4Ever" in the postcard he
actually discovers a
very important plot point
which is the Sam was
Professor Oak all along.
And number 15, there
comes a point where Max
meets Tracey and much like how Tracey is
inspired by Professor
Oak, Max is inspired by
Tracey and wants to learn
how to sketch Pokémon.
Number 16, in a flashback Tracey
is seen riding a Dodrio.
We don't know if this is his Dodrio or
just one he was borrowing,
it's kind of a mystery.
Maybe he was once a bird keeper.
Number 17, despite
having travelled with Ash
in the least amount of episodes,
he actually appears in the
most Japanese openings.
This apart from Brock who
appears in 12 different
openings and Tracey appears in 11.
Number 18, Tracey was actually the Trainer
that began the trend of
new companions coming
in as the old ones went out.
And every generation of Pokémon
would see the cast swap up.
With Tracey coming in to replace Brock
and then Brock coming
back and Tracey leaving,
then after that Misty
leaving and May coming in.
Tracey is the guy that started that all.
Number 19, Tracey is the only one of Ash's
companions to not make a manga appearance.
And number 20, the shipping fact.
There's a big popular
Pokémon ship that after
Misty leaves Ash, and
it's heartbreaking and
Poké-shipping is over,
that people actually
ship together Misty and Tracey.
These are little fun fun lines of banter
like in "The Movie 2000" where Tracey
asks if Misty is talking about her
when she was talking
about being a girlfriend.
Tracey is sometimes not in Pallet Town or
helping out Professor Oak because he
is off at the Cerulean
Gym helping Misty out.
And because after Misty's Togepi leaves
the show, sadly, Misty
has a new baby Pokémon.
Azurill, which is the baby hatched
of an egg of Tracey's Marill.
So maybe there's a secret
relationship going on there.
Hope Ash doesn't get too
annoyed when he finds out.
That's it for this Fact Friday, again I've
covered every other
one of Ash's companions
as well as the evil teams of each region
and Professor Oak and if you tweet
out this video with the link to it with
the hashtag #PokémonFactFriday there's
a chance for you to win a
set of the Gametee art print.
Don't forget to check out Gametee
in the description below.
Soar high, Pokémon Masters.
A tremendous thank you to those of you
who support me financially on Patreon.
If you wanna find out more about
supporting the channel check the link.
And a massive shout-out to Joey Powell for
once again being one of the most
splendid supporters of the month.
- [Ash] This is Ash Ketchum.
You just watched a video
by Bird Keeper Toby.
That makes you a Pokémon Master.
