Gary Oak

Okay.

Even though there's, even though there's Red and Blue, and Blue would be essentially like Gary Oak, right?

Gotcha.

So, right, 'cause it was actually Red and Green in Japan.

Like pterodactyl.

Yeah, Shigeru is Gary's name.

Geru.

Gary.

So you guys want to know how the episode starts? The episode starts with Oak shopping for Ash's mom.

No.

yeah, not dating ages.

Oak is meeting Tracy at the pier of this town because they're waiting for a boat.

All right.

Last week, Team Ash kicked off their long-awaited 100-episode cliffhanger rivalry showdown with Gary Oak.

Only for Gary to skip his cool Pokemon, drop an Eevee, and completely dismantle Ash's Pikachu in under five minutes.

After getting thoroughly humbled, Ash was left wallowing in Pallet Town while Professor Elk investigated the mysterious GS ball with cutting-edge technology that literally just looped flashing question marks, mostly as an excuse to push Ash out the door so he and Delia could conduct their own experiments in peace.

Finding out Gary was heading to Johto, Ash decided to be a copycat, prompting a returning heartbroken Brock to invalidate Tracy's, oops, I put the wrong name in there, not Brock's entire existence by promising Ash would finally get back to eating, training, and fighting right.

Meanwhile, Team Rocket crashed the Ketchum family send-off feast, pulling off a shameless direct parody of the Japanese dining show, Tatsugeki Tanari no Bangohan, by inhaling all the food off the table.

In the end, Knobrock's geriatric Scyther and Meryl blasted Team Rocket into the stratosphere one last time, clearing the way for him to sweep Oak's lab floors forever, while Misty delivered a fake sad goodbye as the original trio set off for Johto.

You'd be like rivals.

He's like Ash Ketchum and what's the other name? Gary Oak or whatever.

You're like, can

you put out that cigarette? Oh, you're nuts.

That would be the best thing in your life.

Like I want to, I want to Gary Oak.

Gary Oak? Yeah.

From Pokemon, dude.

Oh, is that like

Meanwhile, Tracy aggressively bugs Professor Oak with a staggering 50 sketchbooks, like an annoying 90s mall hustler handing out unsolicited mixtapes, only to sit sweating on a couch clutching a pillow while Oak, Ash, and Misty openly whisper about him.

Things go crazy when Team Rocket erects an actual circus tent over the lab to vacuum up Pokeball, send Jigglypuff into orbit, and gets taken down by Gary Oak, who pointlessly sneaks to his grandfather's house in a cloak before using Niddle Queen to save the day.

When an overconfident Ash immediately challenges his longtime rival to an impromptu battle, Misty asks Brock if he thinks Ash can actually pull off a win, prompting Brock to deliver his legendary hard-hitting analytical commentary.

Maybe? Maybe not.

jeff i'm just glad that you wrote uh previously on pokemon for this week after last week's debacle

yes i i'm i made sure not to forget all right now going on to this week's episode which was titled the rivalry revival or as it was known in japanese a rival showdown ash versus gary Or if you wanted to use Ash and Gary's real names, Satoshi versus Shigeru.

Because Ash is named after Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, and Gary is named after Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and many other.

And Nintendo Legend.