Ohhh, yeah!
♫ It was the year 2005, YouTube had just begun.
So we made a video just for fun. ♫
I can't help it, I have to sing the Smosh parody version whenever this come on.
♫ It was the year 2005, YouTube had just begun. ♫
♫ We lip-synched the Pokemon theme. We thought it was alright.
But suddenly... ♫
I don't even know the actual lyrics for the Pokémon theme.
♫ ...claiming copyright. Pokémon...
Gotta catch'em all! Pokémon! ♫
Oh, it's supposed to look like the game.
Oh my God, it became real life!
This is so exciting!
And everyone goes to an arena.
Look at that animation. It almost looks like a real crowd.
Everyone goes to the arena, and they watch Pokémon fight. Man, I wish I lived in that world.
Yu-Gi-Oh! kind of did the same thing.
And I think pretty much any other anime back then.
They even broadcast it on TV!
Yes! Ash! Ash!
And his room looks like any other ten year old's room. All with Pokémon posters, and toys.
NARRATOR: ...the town's Pokémon expert.
He is the Pokémon expert. Wow.
ASH: I will be a Pokémon Master.
Yes you will Ash, yes you will!
ASH: Pokémon Master! That is what...
Tomorrow he begins his Pokémon journey.
Pokémon! I Choose You!
Yes!
Kids, Ash is schizophrenic.
Man, it's like literally Pokémon replaced animals.
Oh, no!
It's time for you to get a watch!
GARY: Watch where you're going!
His voice just sounds so dorky. 'Watch where you're going!'
GARY: Mr. Gary to you!
Stupid Gary! You Jerk!
Gary sounds like the characters in Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged.
TRISTAN: I know what you mean.
How does he have a car? Why does Gary have a car just because he got a Pokémon? Is he like rich?
And he's not there.
No there.
No there.
This professor is such a jerk. Why didn't he just tell Ash that no Pokémon were there?
He just waits for Ash to be like 'Oh, not there, not there.'
Professor Jerk!
He's so easy to convince. Professor is like 'Oh, no, there is a problem with this Pokémon.
This Pokémon is really dangerous.'
'No, I have to have a Pokémon.'
'Oh oh, fine then.'
PROFESSOR OAK: Shocking, isn't it?
Shocking! Ha ha ha ha! Not funny.
This is so lame.
Everyone....
ASH: Don't you know I'm a big kid now?
He's a big kid. He's ten.
And that's how the whole town died. The end.
Aww, he's so cute! Pikachu!
Ash with his rubber gloves.
This was awesome. In the Pokémon world, they didn't have Google or anything.
They had something much cooler. They had the Pokédex.
Oh, another Pokémon.
This is so cool. You don't ev--you don't even need to say 'Okay Google'.
It just tells you, right away.
The Pokédex is much better than Google.
Who's that Pokémon that looks like Pikachu?
NARRATOR: It's Pikachu.
It's Pikachu! Who could have known?
PHOEBE: That is brand new information.
Yeeeaaah! Ash!
Faaail, Ash.
Yeah, that's a much more effective way to catch a Pokémon.
Instead of just throwing a Poké Ball,  you can just you know, grab some clothes and trap the Pokémon
POKÉDEX: ...to steal food from stupid travellers.
The Pokédex just called Ash stupid.
That something Google probably wouldn't do. Or they'd be sued.
You know, that would be a much more interesting plot for the Pokémon series.
Ash suits the Pokédex company.
It's been such a long time since I watched this.
Many, many years.
ASH: Pikachu!
Pikachu, no!
ASH: ...me alone, Spearows.
Leave Ash alone, Spearows!
Yeah, 'cause that changes everything. You just turn your hat, and then swim.
Oh, it's just a kid. Human don't matter.
This is ridiculous. She doesn't even care about like, the human.
You could have like drowned or something. No, I just care about the Pokémon.
Doesn't give an address or anything, it's just 'which way do I go for the hospital?'
'That way.'
This is, like, so dramatic and stuff.
Come on, Pikachu! Hang on!
This is way too dramatic for the first episode. But I guess that's how they hook you.
He just falls out of his bike.
Oh no, Pikachu! Pi-Pikachu! Pikachu! Pikachu!
Please, Pikachu! Please listen, Pikachu!
Come on, Pikachu!
ASH: Just trust me.
Trust Ash, Pikachu! Trust him!
ASH: Do you know who I am? I am Ash...
Why did he ask if they knew who he was if he was just gonna say it?
There's, like, really dramatic music playing right now. It's ridiculous.
Oh my God! It's really, like, really dramatic!
And it's like... it's replaying from like different angles. It's like, drama!
Pikachu just regained his energies all of a sudden because of love.
Chu!
Oh man, that's a really, really rare Pokémon, isn't it?
It's even shining! Of course, it's supposed to be really rare.
NARRATOR: Their journey is destined to be packed with non-stop action, millions of laughs...
Millions of laughs. Not thousands, millions!
How do you even measure how many laughs there are?
Did they, like, count all of the laughs that they were gonna have,
and they measured that it's in the millions?
To be continued.
Yeah! That was--that was awesome!
That was--that was...
awesome.
So that was the first episode of Pokémon.
I didn't really watch much Pokémon when I was a kid. Not on TV, anyway.
But I did have some VHS tapes for Pokémon.
I know some of you watch probably don't even know what VHS tapes are.
And I had, like, three tapes or something.
So I watched these first three episodes of Pokémon quite a few times.
And a little bit on TV, but not much.
And I think the Pokémon animated series is still going on.
Yep. Since 1998, and it's still going on. 2015, still--they're still--still making it.
So yeah, if you watched this and you felt nostalgia... we're old, dude. We're old.
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