Hello there and welcome to the world of Pokémon.
My name is Professor Jacob and thank you so much for attending
this lecture on Pokémon biology. Joining me here in the classroom
today is, of course, my wonderful teaching assistant,
Mr. Curtis. Mr. Curtis, how are you today?
Oh man, I was getting a little stiff.
I haven't been sitting here for the last couple weeks, but I'm
so happy. I'm so happy to be to be here in
class. Professor, I told you I wouldn't
move a muscle and I have not. I've been sitting here the
entire time. Wait, what about?
What about the? I mean, I'm loath to ask this,
but what about your spinner rack?
Well, the the colony back home is fine and the.
They're, they're self-sufficient.
The 2 to 300 that have been living here with me in the JoJo
region, they're the ones that have been bringing me food and
water. They they made like a little
assembly line. It goes all the way back to you
know, where I've been living at the shack, you know.
So they bring me, bring me some food, some water, a a a bucket
to go to the bathroom in you know, and and maybe like a a
good book. So see, look, here comes one.
Now. See.
Wow, look at. It Oh, thank you.
I brought some juice for you. Yeah, yeah.
See. That's nice.
Very tasty. Let.
Me. Just get a quick couple of
things, jeez. Thank.
Thank you, sweetie. You can go back.
Go back to the shack now. Couple of things.
First of all, you call it the Shack.
Now are you naming it after the Jigglypuff that we set loose in
the SCLC? No, no, no, no.
The the shack is just the like the shed shack that they have
let me lived in living at the nursery that's just South of
town just. Affiliated with my uncle?
It is a shack. I'm living in a shack, so I
don't. I don't know what else you would
call it. So shed house, I suppose.
Small small house with single walls in one room.
Question #2 If you didn't move a muscle, how are you eating or
drinking? Well, I mean, I didn't move from
that spot. I mean, I didn't have to, all
right? I mean things.
Dow died. Purple has too much.
Well, I didn't leave the desk, OK?
I mean, I had to. Had to.
To chew with my mouth and, you know, had to.
So interesting. I mean, you know, suck it
through a straw. Sure.
All right. OK.
Well, also joining us here in the classroom today is the the
reason for the season our young trainer and training, Corbin.
Corbin, if you could please say hello to everybody.
Hello everyone. It is great to be here.
As of today, I am officially three weeks sober from rapping.
Wow. Thank you.
Wow. So you had the the entire what
was it a rehabilitation camp is? That what it was Rehabilitation
center? Yes.
OK, Wow. You went that entire time
without wrapping once. I yeah, I got a little bit of
wrapping in on the car ride there and then when I got there,
the second I tried to wrap, they just slapped me right across the
face and they said hey, now is not the time or place.
That's right, so. Right.
So that's what happened. And ever, ever since that night,
they have throttled the artistic, you know, poetic being
that I am. So don't expect good poems from
here on out anymore, because I never do.
Well, I you expect a certain quality from me, not Mr. Kurt.
I'll give you. I'll give you some pointers if
you want. No, please, no.
But I'm. I'm feeling good mentally and
spiritually. I feel like I'm in a better
place. The wrapping was taking up a lot
of my mind and my head space. Now have more time for studies
and other extracurricular or, you know, academic things.
He's he's slipping. He's slipping a little bit.
I'm not slipping. I'm not slipping.
I've just, I feel change and I feel like there's more head
space for things that matter, like work in school and the
responsibilities of being a man. That's right.
Oh, well, you're still 10 years. Old, so I still have to think
about now at this age. Better start, better start.
You know, that's very It's never too early to start.
Well, we are back. We are glad to be back.
We'd certainly been. I mean, I've just been kind of
like wandering around my my house this.
This time I didn't really know what to do.
Maybe I should have been preparing for class.
But regardless, I'm. I'm happy to be back.
I'm sure my students are happy to be back as well.
Thrilled, professor. I can hear it in your voice.
I am so Chris is too thrilled to even speak.
I'm, I'm foaming at the mouth over here.
I don't know. If he was just smiling really,
really big, you guys couldn't see if he was smiling really
big. Yeah, you might.
You might have heard his his lips creaking with the grin.
Yeah, he's so happy. All right.
Well, before we get into this lesson, I do have a couple of
Gengar males that I would like to read, if you would indulge
me. Whoa, OK, yeah.
Sure, sure. OK.
What are my fans saying this week?
Well, we're about to find out the first Gengar male comes to
us from. I don't think this is the real
name, but I'm going to use the name they gave me, which is they
say hi, I'm spinner rack to you. OK, well who are you to me
though? Well, it's the number two and
then the letter U, So spinner rack 2U.
Oh yes, a gamertag. A fellow gamer.
It could be their name. You don't know you don't.
But they say hi, I'm Spinner Rack 2U.
I have listened to every lecture and with the knowledge I get
from them, I find all of the Pokémon you talk about and take
pictures of them. Really.
All of them. Really.
All of them, All of them, 'cause we had to go through some
harrowing events to see a couple of those Pokémon.
Some of them, I don't know. Yeah.
Yes. And pictures if if you got them,
we'd love to see them. I would love to please.
Anyways, they go on to say Mr. Curtis, I have a proposition for
you. Would you like to join my
spinner Rack cult? Spinner rack.
No. Yes, they they say.
I have already sent a pin with a spinner rack on it to where
you're staying. I I hope you accept, because I
forged that out of only my strongest spinner racks.
Exoskeletons. Oh, no, not another one.
Sounds like you got it. Sounds like you got competition
here, Mr. Curtis. Wow.
Yeah. No, I I'll have to.
I'll have to go and. Look at that, I I wonder if it
was sent to my old house because I I mean, I certainly if I got
another spinner rack, piece of spinner rack art, I would have
to put it right, you know, here in my backpack.
You know, if you see it. I did have to patch it after a
gunk chewed a big hole in it this last time.
But that's character. I've got some, I've got some
nice spinner rack pins and buttons here and and one big
Aria dose looking patch. It's very cool.
Yeah, you can. You can hear Mr. Curtis coming
from a mile away. Oh yeah, It's just all clinking
and clanging. Yes.
So I I'd love the pin. I don't.
I'm sorry about. I don't.
I don't know about this cult, though.
I mean, I do worship the the perfect form of the spinner act
of the sense. But there there's only one Lord
that I can ever pledge my allegiance to.
And that that is, of course, the Night Mother.
Yeah, Curtis is monotheistic. OK.
Half expecting it to be me, but. I'll smile.
I mean, you know the professor. Your.
Your professor. It's it's you know, it's your
number two. We got the night mother, and
then we got the professor here. So yeah, I'll add that to my
list of accomplishments #2 your. #2 number.
Two to the night, mother. All right.
So that is a a declining Mr. Curtis is declining to join the
spinner act called unfortunately, sorry, there's
spinner act to you. But you're more than welcome to
join the The Cult to the Night Mother.
Hey, we're all-encompassing. And you know, we do from time to
time take over some other cults. What's happened?
What happened? What did you do?
So, so if you do want like a hostile takeover.
If you want to come and join the True Religion of the Night
Mother, then please, let's not. Have a religious warfare on our
hands. This isn't the time or the place
for that. That's for after class.
Seriously, not one over such a silly thing as spinner Axe.
Yeah, let's not start a bug crusade, OK?
All right, they say. And Corbin, I have sent one of
my weaker spinner racks to you because I have no need for it.
Oh yeah, I got that in the mail. It was actually dead.
It was so weak that it was dead. So thanks for mailing me a dead
spinner rack. Did they put holes in the box
for it to breathe? You know, now that I'm thinking
about it, yes, they did. Oh, good.
OK, that's. Good.
I think it was dead before it got into the box.
Yeah, I guess that would make it a weaker spinner rack.
Exactly. I think he was playing some sort
of sick joke. And Oh yeah, now that I'm
thinking about it, he did have a note there underneath the dead
body. That said, nothing's weaker than
Dead Smile. Yep, basically.
All right, the Gengar male continues with and Professor
Jacob for you. I've got you a brand new lab
coat, because the old one has been through a lot.
For example, chars are bursting through the roof and the
Kangaskhan Stampede is it is A1. Does one Pokémon really count as
the Stampede? Doesn't the Stampede have to be
multiple? It's got to be at least one and
a. Half it's well, what what would
you call the Kangas Khan incident, professor?
I mean a terrorist Khan incident.
Yeah. I mean the earthquake, the the
rampage, rampage, Rampage, yes, that's a very good word.
Yeah. The Kangas Khan rampage.
No to no to no one in particular's fault.
Just the you know, Kangas Khan just went crazy, you know?
Yeah, it was your. Fault.
It was your fault. Nobody's not sure, so I I love,
I love the lab coat, although it does have a giant embroidered
spinner rack on the back of it and.
I love it even more now. You see, I'm not ready to, you
know, commit myself to any kind of cult, let alone a spinner
rack called So I I'm. I'm not.
I Plus, I like this lab coat
that I I like the character it gets.
From from each lesson, can I wear a professor?
Well, I've told you, once you've earned your lab coat, then you
can wear a lab coat. But you can't.
And it's got a big spinner rack on.
It. You'll never earn it, Loser.
Wow. OK, we don't know about that.
They go on to say, if you see Professor Palm, I sent a report
about why Alola isn't as great as the Pokedex entry as he
writes says it is. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
I haven't heard from Professor Palm recently but if if I do see
him I'll I'll I'll pass it on And the Gangaramel says if you
ever see Team Rocket Grunt Ryan here is some spinner rack jerky
because I know he likes slowpoke tail but I think he would like
it. And Mr. Curtis, feel free to
have some. So yeah, I haven't seen him
since before the war. The what?
The WAR. I haven't seen Team Rocket
Grunt, Ryan since before the WAR, The Team Rocket War.
No, the crusade war that Mister Curtis just started with this
guy, OK? There's a lot of people you
haven't seen since that war. I know it, 'cause it just
started. Yeah, 'cause it did just like a
couple minutes ago. It just started.
That's a good. Point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you want some?
You want some spinner rack, Cherokee Mr. Curtis?
I mean, sure, I'll try some. OK, You're gonna you're gonna
eat a part of the cult that you're part of.
You're gonna eat the pokey. Why are you acting like it's in
front of you? He gave it to Ryan, not Mr.
Curtis. No, he said.
He gave us the spinner actor. Apparently Corbin was not
listening. That was not.
Right pain. If you ever see Team Rocket
grunt Ryan, there is some spinner rack jerky because I
know he likes slowpoke tail, but I think he would like it.
And Mr. Curtis, feel free to have some.
Well, that doesn't mean that he has it right in front.
It is right in front of you. Yeah, it's right here.
I have OK all. Right.
It's on your eyes. I mean, these are inferior.
He's spinner at Colts spare axe. So I'm just gonna.
I'm just gonna consume their flesh to gain their power.
Yes, exactly. And to make their make me
stronger than their spinner axe that is a already defined.
Unless he poisoned them, yeah. Well, we'll, we'll have to see.
We'll have to put me in the hands of the night, Mother.
Do you think that's that spinner act to you would try to poison a
potential additional member of their cult?
I don't know. That's right.
He knew he would say no, so he poisoned it anyway.
Wow, that's what I would have done.
They are playing. They are 4 moves ahead of us.
Four moves. Well, just remind me never to
join your spinner. Act Colt.
They've they've won this game of chess and they've moved.
They've moved on to the second game of chess anyways, the the
ginger male finishes with and I don't really know what else to
say, so bye. Bye.
Very, very nice. Thank you.
Yeah.
And like you could have just ended it with that.
You could have just ended it with bye.
But yeah. So thank you so much, spinner
act to you, Mr. Curtis. We think, what are we thinking
here? Are we thinking Gold Star?
Yeah, I mean, you know, I have to, I have to love another lover
of the spinner act. Can't.
Can't give him discredit for that.
His his heart's in the right place even though his execution
is a little off. So I I will definitely give him
a Gold Star. And I I do like that that
sculpture that they sent you, Corbin, it's it's very pretty
and. OK, you know what I mean.
We can. Put it in the, put it, put it on
the on a shelf, maybe here in the classroom.
What do you think, professor? There's a sculpture.
I know what you're talking about.
Oh, do you mean the dead spinner act that he sent?
Yeah, I don't know why he called it a sculpture.
Yeah, I mean a sculpture of a of a dead spinner actor.
It's a dead sculpture of what was once a live spinner rack.
Well, it's, I mean it's obviously it's made out of
webbing, can't you, can't you see here?
Well, I thought spinner racks cover themselves in webs when
they die. No, no, it's just.
It's just maybe that's oh, maybe that's so it.
OK, all right. So it's a webbing sculpture of a
dead spinner rack. Because that's what makes more
sense when they die, right? It's not a corpse.
It's a weapon sculpture. Gotcha.
All right. Well, thank you, Spinarak, to
you for the wonderful Gmail. Let's move on to the next one.
It comes to us from A Dorian. So they say, Dear Mr. Jacob, now
listen. Well, hold on now.
I'm Sass right there. Listen, I am a professor I
guess, and you know you are taking my class, so let's have
the correct and horrific. Yeah, you better get your verbs
and words straight. Burbs.
Yeah, sure. Titles.
Yeah, titles. Professor Jacob, please continue
with these amazing classes. I have listened to every single
one so far and believe that if the school ever stops giving you
funding, you could start producing those T-shirts as a
fundraiser. And I know for a fact I'd buy at
least 15 to 20 or something. I'm.
Going to hold you to that, Dorian.
We're going to hold. This is a binding contract.
If we do a merch store and you don't buy yourself because I'll
see the receipt. Seats.
I'm going to steal them from the office.
And I see that there are not 20, there's anything less than 15
shirts purchased by you. Call the police.
That's. Right.
I'm revoking your. I'm revoking your license to
class. That's right, you don't have to
take it all over again from the beginning.
That's right. Anyways, they continue on with.
Also, if you're not going to give Corbin Zinc, at least let
it be out for the classes. As a class pet, I believe that
it would very much boost his morale and make him pay even
more attention to class, knowing that Zinc is standing there
counting on him. Here, here.
I mean, I don't know if I believe that.
I feel like he would just be more distracted.
You know what would be a better classroom pet?
No, that would. Motivate, motivate people even
more. I'd never come back.
Decidui. Is it decidui?
I get to guess decidui now. Well, no, just going to say
myself and I. By two spinner acts.
Oh, well, it rhymes so. They could.
They could sit. They could sit here in.
They could sit here in the class and you know, one can sit on my
desk, one can sit on Corbin's desk.
We could. We'll pet them absentmindingly
and bring pleasure. And who gets I?
Well, you know, I, I I get I you know I and I.
Have a very close relationship and it's very it's very deep and
and you know I. But not myself.
Myself. You're just not feeling it.
Yeah. Some, yeah, that's that's.
You're just not feeling myself. Myself, I mean I'm good with I'm
very close to myself as well but myself is more comfortable with
strangers eyes a little bit more shy.
So myself can go over and sit with Corbin and you know provide
him a little bit of positive encouragement right.
And and why? You know why I why I kicks it
with me, but who's on 1st? So Dorian goes on to say.
Another reason why I don't believe that Zinc should be in a
Pokeball is that I don't really think any Pokémon should be
trapped and confined into a small space, especially if it's
one of those cheap Pokeballs. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
It was billions of dollars. I went into the Pokémon Research
Society. OK Also, a lot of people, a lot
of people died to make this Pokeball science happen.
All right, so respect them. Yeah, let's show some respect.
And I think we all. And I agree.
I agree. I've seen other people comment
and say that Corbin, that's me should have Zinc and Zinc should
be back. I got people in my corner,
they're Rootin and Tootin for me and I think that's a great idea.
I think Zinc would all would be awesome to have.
Again the 1st Pokémon that has has been in my house.
That's not a Mr. Mime for a long time.
Wow. He doesn't need see.
He's starting to not recognize Mr. Mom is a Pokémon.
He's starting to recognize him as his father, as.
He should. No, no, no, no.
OK. No, no, no, father.
So Zinc is very, very happy back in the Canto region.
Of course they are with Mr. Curtis's uncle, I believe.
Yes up up region up above north of Cerulean city in in his his
farm up there so so zinc is very happy.
Kicking it with my uncle Stud eradicate.
That's right. Yeah, Dougie or something.
I can't remember. Dougie.
But yeah, so I'm gonna we're gonna leave Zinc where he's
happiest and, you know, see if we can keep Corbin's focus as
best as possible. What's up exactly?
So, Dorian says in conclusion. Keep making these amazing
classes and I'm up for the T-shirt idea.
And at the very least, let zinc be a class pet if.
You're not if you're not going to give them to him now, because
as you may know, their lifespan goes by in a ZAP.
Nice. Yeah, Zinc might already be
dead. You don't even know.
Don't say that. Don't say that we know just.
Say that. All right.
Great. Thank you so much, Dorian, for
the Gengar mail. Curtis.
Gold Star. Gold Star.
Yeah, I have to give him a Gold
Star. The mention of zinc alone?
No, no. Purple Heart, some would say.
He did plead his case pretty well.
Now I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a lot of, you
know, discussing of how great spinner acts are.
Or Mr. Curtis, I'm worried that you're really starting to push a
lot of the emails that we get from students to be towards
spinner act related things. And, you know, I feel like
students should be encouraged to send anything they want.
Right now you're skewing it so that everybody just talks about
spinner racks because you want to get on your good side because
for some reason people like you. So of of course, professor.
That's why I'm still giving this individual here a a Gold Star.
Great job. Great.
So, yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for all of the
wonderful Gengar males. Don't.
And don't forget by the way, if there's a Pokémon that's coming
up that you that you really enjoy, I really want to talk
about Feel free to send us a an essay and we will read it for
the specific Pokémon. That's right.
At least we'll do our best. If we get too many for for one
specific Pokémon, we'll have to. I think we we'll have to limit
it to two potentially, but just make sure you give enough
warning ahead of time, enough leeway.
So I, I I get these lessons, plans, lessons, lesson plans
done at least three weeks in advance.
So definitely do it before then. All right.
Well. With with that taken care of, I
think it's time to talk about the Pokémon of the week.
Does anybody know who that is seasonal?
Well, I mean, of course it's. Got a guess, but wrong and bad
guess. And also wrong, Mr. Curtis.
It's not Caesar. It's Larvitar, right?
It's a cool one. It is a cool one.
It is, I guess I mean. All, I think.
I think all Pokémon. I said Larvitar, it's.
It's not. Haircross.
No, it's not a bug type.
It's not a bug type. It's it's a normal type.
Oh yeah. Oh, is it munchlax?
No, I'm glad you know that Munchlax is a normal type,
though. We have a little ways to go
before we talk about Munchlax, which is kind of weird
considering we already talked about its evolved form.
Doesn't make any sense. Which is Norlax.
But you know, that's just how the National Pokedex is set up.
This. Is one more guest from each of
you. Zangoose.
No Mr. Curtis. Normal type grokey.
I was going to say people will lose their mind if you get it
right. It's not, you say, croaky.
He said Croaky, That's not a Pokémon dummy.
He I think he mixed froaky and croaky.
Yes, yes. So it's not a combination of two
Pokémon. That would be insane.
That would be. But as the as the Pokedex
entries become less and less, we might have to start doing some
crazy stuff. So thanks for the idea Mr.
Curtis. Thank you.
No, we are learning about CENTREP today.
Who? Centrit which?
One's that one. Well, it's also known as the
Scout Pokémon Sentry. Yes, I remember.
No, the Scout one, yeah. OK, no, Corbin still doesn't
know. So I'm guessing you haven't seen
a Centrit then Corbin? This is amazing.
Normally, you at least know of the Pokémon that we're talking
about. It doesn't ring a bell.
You'll have to throw this thing out.
We'll have to look at this thing.
Yeah, sure. OK, well here is centre it.
Oh, OK, yeah, I see them on the way to class all the time.
Yeah, you just never thought to ask what their name was.
You never listened to them saying their name.
No, they usually just grunt. I I I don't see this whole time.
This whole time. Yeah.
I thought this was just a really weird looking Rattata.
Oh, this was a a ratatat. Yeah.
Potato. I thought it was a really weird
looking potato. I thought it was a variant here
in the joto region, but. This is the whole.
Pokémon of in and of itself. OK.
Well, well then, but it's not
the same color of a Bratay and a longer tail.
Yeah, I. Don't think this looks anything
like a ratatat. Well, could have fooled me when
I was running around and scampering in the grass.
OK. But OK, so OK, it has a tail.
Sure. It's got.
I mean it's got. It doesn't use.
It's not on its four legs, right?
It's it's it's bipedal. Well, kind of.
It looks like it's Unipedal. Well, right now it's not
standing on any of its legs. Right now, it's just standing on
its big old tail. Yes, OK, You know what?
That's a good point. Corbin, describe this Pokémon,
please. It is long.
It looks like a slinky with a balloon at the top.
It's got these long brown ears with pink inside.
It's got kind of a round body with a big old cream like little
circle thing on its belly and it has didn't really have much of
hands, nothing in the way of arms.
They're more just giant little nubs and tiny little, giant,
little giant, little nubs. I said what I said well, they're
the nubs are little. The arm part is giant.
So it's very easy to just follow.
I don't know what you're talking about.
And it's got really small little baby feet now, but it doesn't
look, it's using its feet. They're not very muscular.
They're borderline disabled with the feet.
So what? They have this big old tail.
Chunky grippers here, I mean. Those are not grippers.
Those are floppers. They don't.
They don't give a rip. They flop.
Excuse me, Sentry, Let me just get a little, little, little
seat. You see this if I give it a
little squeeze. What are you doing?
Please stop squeezing its foot. Those are all.
That's all muscle right there. I don't, OK?
Well, you see, that's a problem because you also need bone.
I guess you're right. Professor Well, so it's
basically propping itself on its big old striped tail.
Fluffy tail. All right, let's get one thing
straight. It can use its feet.
It's not restricted to staying on its tail.
The reason it's using its tail right now is because it's a
little bit nervous. It's in a new place and true to
its name. It's scouting out the area.
It's getting a little bit more height by sitting up on its tail
and scanning the area. Yes, the Scott Pokémon, so let's
say. You can see it's looking around
all right, so that was a pretty good description.
I would keep my eyes on Corbin too, if I was in a new room with
him, OK? Well, did I get a Gold Star?
Nope. No.
No Gold Star for that. You sure?
Yeah, No, Corbin doesn't. Corbin is 3 gold stars in the
negative at the. Moment that's that is true.
He hasn't paid back his his Gold Star debt.
Well, I'm keeping the the few that I have earned.
You have, right? Oh, OK Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You've earned what? How many?
Two is that? Is that I think we're getting
reports back that you've earned a couple.
I think I've earned 2. I know I earned 1 during the
Cypher Lesson. All right.
So that means that he's in debt? Only one.
OK. Well, I'll work up to it, but
he's still in debt one. OK.
All right. Yeah, he'll get there.
OK, do we have a name for this centric Corbin?
You've been on fire recently with naming these.
People, it just honestly, the centric speaks to me.
It just, it just looks like a Jesse.
There's no other way around it. There's no pun, there's no joke.
There's nothing here about it. It just looks like a Jesse.
And that also happens to be one of our Patreon supporters.
So I mean, it's just it makes perfect sense.
All right. All right.
So Jesse, how do you feel about that name?
See. OK.
It's starting to ease off on its tail.
It's kind of like sitting down a little bit.
I think it's getting comfortable.
There we go. Well then, now is a perfect time
to put it right back into the pokeball and.
Continue with this lesson. Bye next time, Jesse.
Bye, Jesse. All right, it is time to read
some Pokedex entries and guys, there's not a lot here, so.
Yeah, I noticed that when Jesse was out.
No. Of Pokedex entries.
Well, yeah, there's not a lot to say about it.
Wow, don't say that about. There's a lot to say about every
poke. Jessie is cute, like Boo Corbin.
I'm just saying. Listen, normal type or
historically not that exciting. Let's be real.
I I don't think that's true. I think normal type Pokémon have
a lot of potential variety to bring to the table.
Look look like what, professor? What do you mean?
Like what lot of lot of variety in the normal types to bring to
the. Exactly.
Think about Evie.
So many different and Ditto so many different ways that can go.
Mm hmm. And like, let's not like
overlook the variety of different moves that that normal
type Pokémon can learn. Corbin's being very quiet, I
think. Oh, excuse.
Me, sorry, just think about zinc, sorry.
Great. You see, he's even distracted by
zinc when he's not even in the classroom.
That's right. We could never bring zinc back
to the class just for the season.
There would be. We'd get nothing done.
All right, That's right. So the first Poke X entry, of
course, comes to us from the Jyoto region.
It says a very cautious Pokémon. It raises itself up, using its
tail to get a better view of its surroundings.
Scouting, you're going. To raise yourself up, no.
Nobody's gonna do it for you. Sometimes you gotta raise
yourself up. That's.
Right. That's right.
That's what I've been telling myself in the every morning when
I wake up. Gotta raise yourself right,
Corbin? That's right.
I don't have a parent here. It's just me.
Mom's at home, so I gotta raise myself.
Professor's really like our classroom dad.
And I am your and I am your legal guardian.
That doesn't make you my Papa, though.
No, I could. I could never replace No.
We could never replace Mr. Mime. No, I don't.
Moving on, the next century says it stands on its tail so it can
see a long way. If it spots an enemy, it cries
loudly to warn its kind. Like that.
What's on earth? I'm sorry.
My ears phased out a little bit. I didn't.
Can I can I get a second take on
that please? I said I would rather not,
actually. All right, do it one more time.
So the centrist basically sit there going like that.
Yeah, exactly. So OK, So what does this tell
you about how centrists live? Well, you know, definitely
mindful of their surroundings, always keeping a sharp eye out.
And you know that's that's very good, dude, you want to be
intentional. You don't want to just be a
caterpie on a Bush. You don't want to be in a
centric on the. Metapod on a tree.
Right. Or a kakuna on a different tree.
They sound like me. They like to cry a lot.
Well, that's true. You are a little whiny, baby
boy. Yeah, thank you Okay, but that
wasn't what I was trying to get at here.
So if it spots an enemy, it cries loudly to warn its kind.
Warn the other so. Do they live separately?
Do they live and group isolate? They are a communal, totally
isolationist species. All right, Well, you're wrong,
Mr. Curtis. Yeah, they're communal gold.
Star. Yes, they live in groups.
That was just a joke. Gold Star.
Wow, it was so funny. I didn't get it.
That's how you know it's a. Funny Gold Star for me, please.
Thank you. Attempted to give him a gold
start, Mr. Curtis. See, He got it right and you got
it wrong. So you can supersede him.
I mean is, is it? Well, hold on, we just given out
gold stars for right answers all the time now.
I can't. That can't be right.
You're just giving them out for stupid reasons.
Like gold drastically inflate the Gold Star market.
And we can't do that. That's right.
Gold stars are for Gold Star performances.
I mean, you know. Yeah, and you know, getting an
answer right is just, you know, the expected performance,
Corbin. So you gotta go above and
beyond, OK? All right.
The next entry says when acting as lookout, it warns others of
danger by screeching and hitting the ground with its tail.
That's funny to picture dump. Dump the ground.
Yeah, it is hilarious to think of a distressed centric, very,
very funny Corbin. I was just screaming and
slamming its face on the ground. Now it's tail, it's tail.
That was me when I first moved here.
I was in a new area and I was scared and I screamed and
slammed my face in the ground. That was when I met my roommate.
That was the first impression I made of him.
What's your roommate's name again?
Gordon. Gordon And they're a human
right. They are human, Yes, Gordon.
Is sure about that? Are you sure it's not another
Mr. Mime? Nope, I'm sure Gordon is
definitely human. It'd be pretty funny if it was a
Mr. Mime. It's not funny.
It's not your dad. Your dad wearing some glasses.
He couldn't leave you alone. He's got like a hat on, a hat on
and. No, Gordon is a human.
No, he is very much a human. Can you describe Gordon to us?
So Gordon has dyed blue, really curly hair.
Very stout. Very, very stout, but not
jiggly. But his belly is hard, you know,
And talk to me about those grippers.
He's got, he's got a, he's got some, he's got some pretty big
hands, bigger than mine. Some would say he's got pretty
big hands, but weirdly small feet.
So I mean, yeah, it just looks like he.
Would you say about like 4-4? 4 feet tall, 4 foot 3 inches.
I mean, he's maybe 4 feet tall, 3 inches tall, like 4 foot 3,
something like that. I I mean, tell me about those
cheeks. Are they rosy?
He's really, well, they're not rosy, but actually I forgot to
mention, he does have a little bit of a mustache.
It's not very well like you know, developed, but he has a.
Mustache he's drawn on. A little bit.
And it's weird. I think he has a problem with
walking because his feet aren't very big, but he's really
rotund. He has a cane and it's like a
little weird blue cane. And I'm like, OK, I'm not really
sure why you're using that. OK, right.
This is interesting. Yeah, but his dark, bluish hair
is like, like, it's borderline purple.
Like, it's like almost purple. But yeah, he's cool, yeah.
Doesn't he introduce himself as Gordon Rime?
And I was like, OK, sure. And he's like, you can just call
me Mr. Rime. And I said is.
He is he into tap dancing. Yeah, did I tell you that
already? OK, we can't get distracted with
this. We need to talk about about
century. Oh no, no, You guys are not
understanding me. He's not he's not a Mr. Rime.
He's a guy that looks just like a Mr. Rime.
Are you sure? OK.
All right, I'm a guy that looks just like a Pokémon professor.
Whoa, that's weird. No, no, he's actually.
Yeah, human. He just, he's a huge fan of Mr.
Rhymes. He got his legal last name
changed to Rhyme. So yeah, no, I'm sorry, there
was a confusion there. My bad.
OK. All right.
Well. Sure, we believe you.
Moving on. The next Pokedex entry comes to
us from the Helen region, It says.
When Centrex sleeps, it does so while another stands guard.
The centre wakes the others at the first sign of danger.
When this Pokémon becomes separated from its pack, it
becomes incapable of sleep due to fear.
Oh. Yeah, that's pretty rough.
So the in fact they have to live in a pack or else they'll, you
know, die of exhaustion I suppose, since they can't go to
sleep. So you still holding to that
belief that it's individual Mr. Curtis?
Yeah, Mr. Curtis, idiot. No, I was.
That was just a joke. That was just a joke.
So funny. It was kind of funny.
Thank you, but fresh. Funny how bad it was.
All right. So that does it for the Helen
region, only one Pokedex entry there.
Moving on to the Sino region, it says it has a very nervous
nature. It stands up high on its tail,
so it can scan wide areas. All right.
I mean, I think this is all things that we kind of knew
already. Like that's that's the thing.
I think I said this before, But Sino, they really just they have
very short entries and they just like.
Reconfirm things we've already heard so.
Come on, so now, I guess. That, but they always got
something new. Speaking of having something
new, you, Nova. It.
Does not have anything. You got to be excited for a
second. Yeah, I'm sorry.
That was a bit of a leading segue there.
They also have the exact same thing as SUNO.
As always, Callos just copies other regions as well.
Alola has nothing. Galar has nothing.
Paldea. It actually does have a couple
of entries, so let's I know right this is some of this is
very rare that we get Pokedex entries from Paldaea and these
are like unique too. So they say this Pokémon is
extremely cautious. It's supple tail is well muscled
and firm to the touch. Pretty.
That makes sense if they're up
on their up on their tail all the time.
I mean, yeah, they got to be using it all the time, so it's
going to be muscular. Yeah, I I I imagine, you know,
because it's. Kind of like an endurance thing,
right? Like, I mean, I don't know how
long sentret sleep. I mean, why would that be
included in the Pokedexes? But I mean, I I imagine at
least, you know, maybe 4 hours, maybe just a couple of hours,
they have to, like be on their tail looking around.
So yeah, it would have to be firm and muscular.
Yeah. So.
And I imagine you wouldn't want to get hit by it.
So those those tail whips, maybe not just for lowering defense.
All right, that's right to shattering your defenses AM.
I right? And by defensive your bones.
All right, The next entry from the Paldea region says if it
encounters a foe, it will stand up on its tail, making itself
look bigger than usual to intimidate them.
So that's another use for the tail.
So not only for lookout, but also for scanning or for
intimidation. And I think, I think it's arms
also really help in making it look bigger, you know, 'cause
like, you know, I. Don't know.
It looks to me like it wants to hug.
Well, to us, oh, hug ability hug, hug.
This is very thanks for bringing this up.
Corin Where are we on the Hug Ability scale here?
Three to 14, right? Yeah, I believe it's three to 14
or 4 to 13. I can never remember Magmar to
spinner rack just as A-frame of. Reference.
I'll say maybe 10. OK.
All right. It's fluffy.
It's soft. It's very kind.
I can wrap my arms around it, but the the, the bottom part,
the the the the, the bad part is that it cannot wrap its arms
around me, which is half of a hug.
So you know that's the problem. Yes, wrapping its arms around
you is half a hug. As somebody who hasn't gotten
enough arms around him and usually is the one putting his
arms around others, it gets a little lonely sometimes.
So I need somebody to hug me back.
That's fair, Mr. Curtis. Where are you?
I'll give it a nine you know I I I don't think you're you know in
in necessarily any any danger by going to hug eccentric you know
they're they seem pretty pretty fluffy and you know generally
non aggressive you know more you know avoiding things and
confronting them. So I think and you know, and
those big droopy arms, you know, they they, I bet you they would
be be good for wrapping you up in a big old hug.
But they don't have the hard external carapace that really
gives you the grip to hold on and really give a good hug.
So because it's lacking and the external carapace of a bug type,
I can't give it a bug at 10. It's done up in my mouth now, so
I can't, I can't give it above a 10.
Sorry, hold on. I'm getting a report from
Corbin. Yep.
Mm hmm. Coming in.
Last reflux? Yep, he has.
He has thrown up in his mouth. I have disgusting.
That's our word from Corbin. Just keep it, keep it in there,
keep it in there. That's all right.
Swallow it. Be a man.
Swallow it. OK, OK, I'm gonna give it a 12
mm. Hmm.
OK, 12, because I agree, it can't really hug you back that
well. But also like, I mean, it's kind
of like the perfect size for you to wrap your arms around and
it's tail could get, you know, a little bit of, you know, hugging
in it. Because remember, it's a.
Muscular tail? Yeah.
OK, so it's a 12 I think. I think this is a very.
I'll, I'll buy the 12 that's fair.
I didn't think about that 12, but then if you.
OK. Yeah, 12, yeah, 12.
OK I for in to to to give in a little bit to to the peer
pressure in the room. I will bump it up to A10 but no
more than a 10. Pressure.
Not, not without a, not without a carapace.
I'm sorry you can't have above a 10.
Yeah that's fair to you I guess for your for your kind of
character I suppose. Anyways, as I was saying
beforehand, I think the the the width of their arms helps them
appear larger than they than they really are when they're
trying to do that intimidation tactic.
OK, all right, I just want to get that out there that does it
for the original Pokedex entry is there's nothing from the
professor mirror in on the in the lentil region.
So we're going to. What about Professor?
What about Professor Gandolfini? You mean Professor Neroli?
Yeah. Professor, Professor who?
Professor Stromboli. Stromboli.
Yes. Yeah.
OK. Yes.
Yes, no Professor Neroli who does the research.
There's nothing from Professor Neroli either.
And I I think I've been including Neroli in the unique
Pokedex entries because he doesn't seem to be tied to a
specific region. But yeah, there's nothing from
him from him either. But I do have a couple of unique
Pokedex entries here. The first one comes to us from
Ash's Pokedex. It says Centric the Scout
Pokémon Sentrit is able to to see great distances by rising up
on its tail. When it spots an enemy or any
kind of danger, it emits a loud shrill cry as a warning.
Oh OK, no, not like that. Oh, OK.
We're like, like that. Kind of.
A witch laughing, Yeah, yeah, like an old witch or a young
witch. It's not to be old.
Well, yeah. I mean, young wishes aren't
creepy, but I think it's more of something that the centrist ears
are attuned to. Right.
Probably a certain frequency, yeah, frequency that they can
hear very well. Like how Don is locked into the
frequency. That's my heart, Okay, moving on
from that. So the next entry comes to us
from goes Rotom Phone. It says Centrit, the Scout
Pokémon. A normal type Centrit can lift
itself up on its tail so it can see things far away.
All right, Yep, all right. And that does it for all of the
Pokedex entries on Centrit. That's it.
That's the end. That's it.
And I feel like there's so many things that were left
unmentioned, which is why for today's testing portion.
We're gonna do a pop quiz. Yeah, gonna even better than a
pop quiz Mr. Curtis. What we're gonna do?
A essay question. Well, you sure we can't do a pop
quiz? Yeah, I'm sure.
All right. So an essay question here.
I ask you something that that wasn't necessarily covered in
the Pokedex entries, but I want you guys to kind of use what
you've learned about the Pokémon and.
Try to, yeah, to to to to to cover it and and you know, just
come up with your best guess. There's no wrong answers here.
This is more about, you know, the process than it is about
being wrong or in or right. All right, so.
That's right, the essay question is Centre has very obvious ring
patterns on it's stomach and tail.
What are the purposes of these prominent patterns?
All right, so take your time, students write, write down, you
know the, the, the, the best thing you can you can come up
with. And you know, I just try to try
to include a little bit of what we've learned so far the best
you can. OK.
All right.
OK. All right, OK, Mr. Curtis
mumbling to himself and Corbin is staring off.
Oh yeah, Wall with. This Here we go, here we go.
Hey, pay attention. I'm doing it.
Eyes are unfocused.
He's. Doing it?
No, I'm running a little bit. No, I'm good.
I'm good. I'm back, Okay.
All right, Take your time, Okay. So it looks like everybody is
done with their essays. Who would like to go first?
I'd like to see, Hands raised. Okay.
Cursed. Do you wanna go first?
Today, nobody is raising their hands.
This cursed. Did you wanna go here?
Right here, right here. Too bad.
I wanna go, so I have to let Corbin go.
All right. Go for it, Corbin.
Yeah. Yeah.
If you wanna go, it's the curse. You gotta be quicker.
Yeah. Because I do, I put my hand up,
professor. So the I think so with centrit
and the ring patterns on a stomach and tail.
The purpose of of them is I think they are the stretchy and
muscly bits. I don't think the entire
centrit. Is just raw muscle.
I think the parts that are highlighted in that cream color,
that lighter color are the really very muscly slash
stretchy bits. It's a stretchy, stretchy kind
of muscle. Let me explain please.
OK. So number one, it helps kind of
extend the tail when searching and knowing.
And we know the tail is raw muscle, right?
So what that does is the stretchy muscle.
It makes it hard so that it can stand up for a long period of
time. But the stretchiness part allows
it to just increase. Like, it's not like if the tail
is like, you know, 2 feet long. It's not just sitting up two
feet. It's going to extend closer to
like maybe three or four feet or five feet because it's going to
stretch itself almost like a slinky a little bit.
It's kind of like a slinky, but it's segmented, you know, the
whole thing is not the stretching muscle.
It's just the white parts of it right now when the the ring is
to help stretch its body. So that when it gets bigger to
intimidate, we know that it does get bigger when it it's, you
know, it stands up when it's trying to appear bigger and more
imposing to intimidate. But on top of that, not only is
it taller because of its stretchy, muscular tail, it's
also stretching its body. It's not like inflating itself
like a Jigglypuff. It's simply stretching itself to
appear bigger, if that makes sense.
So it's like a big, like brown little kite, you know?
So having it be a mixture of stretchy muscle and non muscle
also helps. It kind of curl and bend a
little bit. If it was all just stretchy
muscle, I feel like it just wouldn't work.
Man, you got to have some soft bits in there so it can kind of
curl its tail, you know, kind of like joints in humans.
It's kind of like that you have the soft.
Parts that kind of bend around the muscle and it gives it some
softness, hardness, balance, which makes it really good for
cuddles and stuff because nobody wants to cuddle somebody who's
super muscular. Sorry to all the bodybuilders
out there, but you know, I'm sure a lot of them listen to
this. So it is muscle or it, or it's
the stuff surrounding the muscle.
Sorry, it kind of sounds like you changed in the middle.
What do you mean? Which is it?
What's the what's What are the rings?
Are they the muscles? The rings are the stretchy
muscle. OK, OK.
It's a muscle. I'm sorry, it's stretchy.
Are you falling asleep in class right now?
No. So OK, so why then?
Why? Why?
OK, so maybe they represent where the muscle is stretchy.
Condensed yes. Why the different coloration?
That's a good question. OK.
I'm glad we agree. Oh, just answer it.
Yeah. I'd like you to take a stab.
Corbin. I'd like you to defend your
thesis, your hypothesis. Come back to me later.
I'll think about it. OK.
All right. Well, I will come back to you
later. Don't think I won't While we're
waiting. Mr. Curtis, what have you
prepared for? Yes, Present, present.
Why? What do you think is the purpose
for the ring patterns on the Centrix?
Of course, of course. All right, well, standing
standing on your tail to look out has a pretty obvious
disadvantage. Say with me that is.
That is you. Are higher up to see your
enemies, but you're more likely to be seen?
Yes, that's correct. Thank you.
How would you?
How would I have known of something?
You seem to be following him pretty well.
I mean it's a pretty obvious disadvantage.
I mean, when you're up there, they can see you.
So in response to that, I think centroid has developed a lot of
their darker or darker swirly patterns to help break up the
outline of their bodies. That makes them less likely to
be seen by the predators of the distance now.
I know what you're saying. That being said, as soon as they
see an enemy, they scream and thump their tail to alert their
friends, which would counteract the point of trying to be sneaky
because that would just immediately give their position
away. Camouflage.
That the word I think you're looking for.
Yeah, well, it's, I mean, yeah, it's kind of like camouflage to
speak. But, but at that point, then the
white circle on the belly kicks in.
Because of course they do stand up to intimidate their foes
sometimes. And the white ring would of
course draw the attention to their big bellies and how big
they are. Like a sumo wrestler up high.
And not necessarily on the fact that they're sitting on a tail
or, you know, really skinny tiny tail going up.
But it's like, look at look at this big, big belly of mine.
So you have a big intimidating. Centric Come Fight me So, so
wait, do you think it's so sorry the ring on their stomach is to
make them look bigger? So the dark colors are to help
break up the patterns, but then the white ring is to draw their
attention to. To the big belly and draw
attention away from the fact that they're, you know, the
reason why they're so tall is because they're standing on
their tail, not because they're actually tall or, you know, any
other part of their body. So for partial camouflage and
for additional intimidation, or for, yeah, additional
intimidation, I think works. Yeah, I think that works,
Professor. Whatever you say.
OK, All right. Very good.
All right, back to Corbin. All right, well, what are we
thinking? What's what's up with a
different coloration? Why?
Why are they different colors? Well, if it were, if it were
simply. Like if it were simply
monochromatic, it was the same color.
It wouldn't have that same visual effect of looking bigger.
It is a, it is a more when you have stripes like that, you have
the different, like lighter stripes in the darker ones.
There's a visual indication that it it's getting bigger.
Like, like it's like if you're like a predator coming after it
and you see this thing physically getting bigger in
front of you that that that darker and lighter color scheme
is going to make it appear more to even the most, you know?
Infantile Pokémon, lame brain, dumb Pokémon are going to see,
oh, longer horizontal looks bigger.
You know what I mean? Like horizontal lines, they say
you make it looks, makes you look fat in fashion.
Well, it's kind of like that. It's getting bigger and those
horizontal lines across it will make it look even bigger.
It is a it's a visual thing, you know what I mean?
It's like so So they represent where the muscles are and they
make the Pokémon look bigger as. What you're saying they are
stretchy and they help make it look even bigger, right?
You know what? Fair.
Fair enough. I I will take this answer.
OK. So I'm going to give you guys
both full marks for this, I think.
I think this one's this these essay questions.
We don't do these very much anymore, but we should do them
more often. I I do.
Like this. I like the essay questions.
Definitely, definitely helps you think outside the box because a
lot of the stuff that we do kind of focuses on what we've
learned, whereas the essay question kind of like as you do
more of the role of a scientist, which is to think, which I know
is Corbin's favorite thing to do.
I love it. All right, well, that's going to
do it for today's lesson on centre.
Does anybody know who we're going to be talking about next
week? Well, of course that would be
decidui. Very good, wrong.
It's not Zangu, so it's not decidui.
And I'm just going to go ahead and say we are learning about
Furrit next week, which is the evolved form of centre.
OK. Thank you, Professor.
Yes, So got those rings and it's got like cute little whisker
things on it. So be looking forward to talking
about that. But yeah, before I go, I just
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That's right, because you do them once a month.
So there's there's a lot of content on there already.
All right. But that's going to do it for
today's lesson. So until next time class is
dismissed.