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.
Oh, Professor, thank you so much.
There's no place I'd rather be. I felt like.
Here in the in the classroom with you, professor.
It feels like sarcasm feels. Like, are you okay Mr. Curse?
You don't have the. Same no, no, no.
Boom. That you normally do.
Something no I I I I have nothing but excitement and and
and happiness for this lesson today.
You look like you're falling. Asleep a little bit, buddy.
Did you have a late night? What's What's going on?
Listen, listen. Are you?
I'm. Just were you staring at the sun
again? Were you learning the secrets of
the future and the past? No, no, no, no.
OK. I'm sorry, Professor.
I'm sorry. OK.
It's just I haven't been sleeping well.
We've been gone from break for so long that, you know, I just
it it it throws me out of my routine.
And I'm not, you know, I'm not getting my daily dose of of
Professor Jacob like I should be getting.
You saw me every again. I have to.
So yes, this Mr. Curtis does bring up a good point.
Welcome back everybody from. Welcome back Spring Break the.
GCLCBOTSCLC is spring break Mr. Curtis.
I have to make sure you you understand that was a break for
the students, not for US staff. Right now he he, yeah, we
talked. We talked.
Both of us were here every day. Every day, yeah.
So. So I don't know what you're
talking about. But you weren't teaching class.
No. But you weren't teaching class.
You. Weren't doing OK, Corbin, as
long as I felt like I was teaching class.
Oh, I bet. I bet.
See, I was out having fun. I wasn't bogged down by a bunch
of. Admins, let me just let me just
say, also joining us here in the classroom is our young trainer
training, Corbin. Corbin, what fun.
Who are you moving on Spring break?
Let's hear it. Let's hear it.
Oh man, I actually, you know what?
I did. I went jet skiing.
I did. That was you.
I did we. So we we took a, we took a trip.
It was only for a couple days. It wasn't the whole spring
break. It was just for a few days of
the three-week time with your. Family.
It was just me and Gordon. So, Gordon I.
Didn't realize you guys were that close friends.
We we've got a little closer, so we went up to we went up to
Olivine City for a little bit and we went jet skiing for a
couple of days went to the beach.
That was a lot of fun. And then we also went up to the
the farm up above the city and kind of stayed there for.
The oh, the farm that floats ominously above the city.
OK, No, no, no. The one that's north of the
city, that was the the beautiful Mill Tank Farm.
That was a lot of fun there. We hung out there for.
A little north of Olivine. Right north of Olivine City.
So that was a lot of fun. We had some great fun there.
Then on our way back we kind of basically we we started further
away in Olivine and we kind of worked our way back.
And then we went to a critique city and we saw, like, you know,
the the dancing girls and the ones were, you know, obviously
allowed to see about 21. Whoa, I was going to say.
Yeah, you are not old enough to. Get I'm not old enough.
I'm not old enough, you know, to see the adults dancing girls.
But I saw. I saw the other ones that were
just, you know, had their Pretty Little kimonos and stuff.
That was cool. And we we did kind of like a
whole history lesson on the burn tower and the the bell tower and
all that stuff. So we we kind of went through
there. We had a tour guide and all that
stuff. What'd you learn?
I learned that apparently somebody, the tour guide, told
us that ho wo the legendary Pokémon apparently resurrects
other Pokémon. That's bananas.
Wasn't aware of that that. Seems kind of like it's going
against Archaeus's plan. I mean, I don't know.
You're trying to say ho is an abomination cause some would say
it's sacrilegious here in the Joda region.
You better watch your. Mouth, I ain't.
Listen, I'm not saying that. I'm just.
I'm yeah, I never said you. Better watch your mouth.
You better watch your mouth, abomination.
Because it spits sacred fire. It just doesn't.
Seem like it's something that you know.
You know a regular Pokémon would.
I guess it is a legendary. Poker.
What is a Legendary Pokémon? By the way, Sacred Fire is going
to be the name of my first EP. Whoa, that's.
A. That's a dope name.
OK, You know. You know what, Professor?
You're you're right. You're right.
Hold on. Let me just get a quick little
refresh here. Oh, why?
Why am I right? What?
What did I say that made me
right in That it makes Curtis take a drink of water?
I'm sorry, I just have to reset myself.
I'm excited. He's back on.
That I'm. So happy to be here, Professor
Inglia. All he needs is 1 sip.
What's? In there?
Syrup with ice? No.
What's the syrup though? Yeah, it's just good syrup you
gotta find. We've talked about this.
You gotta find the trees in the woods that the most spinner axe
build their webs in and you know you know that's the the purest
tree and we've talked about the pure from.
There, yeah, we've listened. And he told me every single day
during spring break. Oh God, man, you should have
been jet skiing and visiting historical monuments with me and
Gordon. You have had a lot more fun.
Did you at least talk to your dad?
What? Who, what?
Yeah, I'm sure, Don. I'm sure Donnie J would have
left. Years ago, I OK, no, my, I mean
I I I I called them on my Rotom phone a couple times.
But you pay for this trip, isn't it?
I want to know. Who paid for it?
And I bet you. I bet you did.
Johnny. Did.
Johnny Jay. Yeah, with the second job.
Donny Jay has been saving up, OK?
He's been saving up. All right.
School, like I said, Saffron City Learning Center back home
and Saffron. They employed him.
He's he's working under Perry the Side duck as a as his
assistant he gets a nice gets a nice salary actually I think his
he's assistant but I think his salary is actually better than
Perry's. I think he, my mom told me he
used the, he used the that, that's what he said.
That's what my mom told me that like, oh, he's a dad, so he
needs the money. Oh yeah, wait, wait, I didn't
say he's, I said how did he do that?
Did you hear that? That was like that was like some
kind of sub subconscious slip there.
No, I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
I'm telling you, no, he's not my dad.
But that's what my mom said happened, She told me on the
phone, Yeah, he's got a better salary than Perry because he
used the argument that he's a father and I'm like, mom, he's
not my dad. He left.
You know this, he said. I can't hear you.
The phone is breaking up, so I don't really know what to make
of any of that other than we had a good time.
And yes, Donnie J may have sent some money for the for the
spring break. Trip.
So what? A good dad.
We still know my dad. Shut up.
OK, so we have a lot to talk about today.
I hate to cut you off short there, Corbin, You know,
reminiscing on your great spring break.
But I have a Dengar male here that I would like to read very
quickly if that's. All I want.
Yeah, sure. Sure.
OK, so this, this Gangaramel comes to us from Dorian.
They say dear. Yes, Dorian, they say dear.
Professor Jacob, Mr. Curtis, and Corbin.
And now this is wild. All of those names are spelled
correctly. Wow, that's a first.
This is amazing. Congratulations.
Dorian No, no, no. It's, it's it's QYRTUS.
No, it's not. It's not they.
They misspelled my name. That's not what it says on your
on your GCLCBOTSCLC badge. It says it's QYRTUS.
That's that's how you spell it. And now he just.
Sorry, sorry, Dorian, Mr. Curse is still learning his letters.
So you spelled it right, because he doesn't know which which
letters are which yet. So Dorian goes on to say, I hope
you're doing well. I apologize in advance for bad
spelling, grammar, and pronunciation.
Listen, hey the the pronunciation's on me.
I'm If there's bad pronunciation, it's my fault.
Yeah, that's his fault. He's the one pronouncing it.
No, it's it's my fault. It's my fault.
I'm sorry. I'm the one reading it.
I'm doing it for pronouncing. Yeah, he's right.
It's Chris's fault. Anyways, I apologize in advance
for my bad spelling, grammar, and pronunciation.
My Rotom Zella had gotten a minor virus, and I had, and I
had been resorting to using my Porygon Kiyoshi.
My porygon has been untrusting of me and terrified of my
printer ever since. The porygon lesson?
I don't know. I mean, I don't know.
I don't want to be terrified of the printer.
Well, the printer could be your friend.
You'll have to look look at it that way.
So you just want to print out your porygon?
Listen, if you if you want to understand what Dorian's talking
about here, go back and listen to the Porygon lesson.
Right, exactly Flashback. Yeah, here and here it is,
right? In fact, put the whole just your
horse. Is going to put it in right
here, right now. Thank you, Porsche.
No. I don't feel like editing that.
Go listen to the Porygon lesson. And while I'm doing this PSA,
please go check out our Patreon. The content there is better than
these subpower lessons. Boom roasted.
However, this is not the problem I wish to discuss, is what
Dorian says Mr. Curtis. OK, now Curtis is spelled wrong
here. Let me see.
But still not QY. Honestly, Dorian, I respect
that. I respect you saying I don't
really know how this is spelled, so I'm going to don't care.
So I'm right half of the time. Right there.
You go see, Dorian's isn't a gambler, all right?
Gambling for the week. Yeah, Mr. Curtis, I have a
problem I need you to help me with.
Hordes of Baneri have been invading the homes of mine and
Kata and kicking them out. So sad.
That's so sad to hear a tragedy. Honestly, what should I do to
help my poor and cata colony? I need to hurry because it's
almost molting season and then Nancata need a safe place to
molt. I hope.
I hope I get the solution soon. Best of luck.
Soon. Oh my gosh, I, I, I'm.
I'm so sorry to hear. That it is a time a time
sensitive answer here. Well, your e-mail came in a
while ago, Dorian, so hopefully don't.
Tell him that. Don't tell him that.
I mean, it was just in yesterday.
Ninkeda, you know they they're they're such an investment to
see what one of the things I love about Spinarak is, is I can
get through multiple generations of breeding cycles in a short
period of time. But Ninkeda will grow
underground. They can be underground for
years and years before they emerge And for for you to lose a
whole generation if you're ninkated A veneer like that,
that's just such a such a shame that's that's I think.
You've I think you've given the solution.
What? Really, Professor?
An underground colony. An underground.
Oh, OK. I hate that.
I mean, but they they do live already live underground.
But what do you think? Like maybe?
Further further. Underground.
Further underground, bigger underground into bigger caves.
Go into a cave. A big cave.
That's good. That's right.
Well, like Rocky Grounds, though, it'd be hard to dig
under there. Yeah, yeah, you know what You
know you just need AI. Tell you what Dorian, keep an
eye out. I will send you a shipment of of
spinner rack silk that you that you can use to patch the holes
into your ninkeda holes. Burrows that they live in and
they can't. Get out.
Well, to to keep the Baneri out until they have a chance to, you
know, you know, get out and grow and and and mature enough that
they're, you know, independent from the holes.
You know, it's like a like a sticky.
Shack, you're You're the bug expert.
You're the bug expert here. Yep, that's what I call them.
Yep, that's that's what. That's my solution.
All right. Well, Dorian, I don't know what
we expected, but of course the answer is spinarak silk.
I don't know why we. Spinarak silk is different.
Anyways, Dorian finishes their Gengar mail by saying by they
sign it. A great big enthusiast.
Thank you. Thank you.
Yes. Woohoo.
Thank you. Thank you, Dorian, for that
wonderful Gengar mail. Mr. Curtis, do you think you
want to give a Gold Star here? Yes, yeah, In fact, in fact,
I'll have to give Dorian 2 gold stars.
Whoa, yes, yes, I I have to support my fellow bug type
breeder, an enthusiast. Sounds like favoritism if you
ask. Me.
Oh, very much so very much. So unabashedly.
Yes. Yeah.
Nope. Nope.
Dorian is now, now my favorite. Wow.
And if the rest of you, if the rest of you want to climb up the
Mr. Curtis totem pole, then I look forward to hearing.
About you don't watch how that sounds.
You're calling you're colonies of of bug type Pokémon.
Please stop telling my students to do.
That please don't. Hey, hey, hey, Mr. Curtis, we
got to say this now. This is the first and the last
time in this class you will ask the students to climb you.
They're going to climb my totem. Pole like a totem pole.
Like a totem pole. The rest of that?
103 lessons the last. Time climb, climb my totem.
Pole. That sounds worse.
That sounds worse either way. Yeah, the one that's the one
that's outside the GCLCGCLC. Oh, you built that's?
Not what it's called, That's not.
I don't know what that building is, because that's not.
I don't know what the building is either, but I assume you
meant this one. The GCLCBOTSCLCJR.
No, it's the BLT Saffron City Learning Center.
Oh, I think he's. I think the Jr. is the joto
region. See the smoke, like, coming out
of his ear. He was trying to think of the
letters. All right.
So once again, thank you for the Gengar males.
We need to get into the lesson proper here.
Does anybody know who we're talking about this week?
It is a poker, but that's the only hint I'm giving you.
Decision. Why is it a?
How big is the Pokémon? I literally just said I'm only
giving you one hit and it is that it's a.
The hint is that it's Pokémon, it is not decision.
Why? But it's small.
Maybe. Is it a bug type?
Is it water type? Maybe.
Is it piplup? It's not Pimp Club, It's not
Pimp Club. It's is it?
Is it? Is it?
Is it butter free? It's not butter free.
A Pokémon that we have already talked about, believe it or not.
It is a Pokémon we've already talked about.
No, I I said. It's not Butter Free, bitch.
And Butter Free is a Pokémon that we've already talked about
not. And I'm not giving you any hints
there. It's a it's a it's a blip bug.
It's bar scooter. It's a it's a blip bug.
No, none. None of those.
All right. This is a fun game.
I like this. I like Sun Skirt.
It's no. Do you say Sun Skirt?
Sun skirt, right? Is that?
Sir Skit.
Sir Skit, that's what I meant to say there.
You go. Is it genesect?
No, that's not a water type Mr. Curtis.
What did he say it? Was a bug type watertight.
He said it was a bug. Type it's.
Palkia, isn't it? I didn't say.
I didn't say it was a bug type. Oh, I thought you said it was a
bug type. Is it?
But it's water. Tarantula.
Nope. It's Samurai, right?
Okay. All right, this the the fun of
this game has dropped dramatically.
I'll just tell you, we're learning about Meryl today.
Now Meryl is the Aqua Mouse. Pokémon.
What's a mouse? It's well, okay I believe.
Isn't Isn't Pikachu the mouse Pokémon?
I don't know. We're learning about Pikachu
today. Well, no, but you asked what a
mouse was, so I'm freaking telling you.
Hey, you settled down. Hey.
It's a water Pikachu. OK, gosh, what's wrong with you
carbon? It's anything that's shaped like
an orb with little numb. Pikachu is Pikachu, so just
think of Meryl as blue. Pikachu maybe?
Maybe a Pika Blue if you will. A Pika Blue.
I like that, Professor. Do you?
Thank you. So I'm guessing from that, has
anybody, Corbin, have you seen a Merrill before?
Yeah, I've seen Merrill. I I saw, I actually saw one guy
who was playing on the beach with this Merrill when we were.
When Gordon and I were in Olive City, there was one guy who was
playing with it. When I say playing with it, I
don't mean he was playing a game with the Merrill.
He was playing a game with his friends.
The Merrill was the ball, the Merrill was the volleyball.
But the Merrill seemed to enjoy it was not abusive in any way
so. No man, it's abusing Pokémon
like that in any way. Just kind of makes me sad.
I couldn't fathom doing anything that might harm a Pokémon.
Hey Professor, how's Rocket doing?
Rocket's great. What do you?
Yeah. Rocket is love and life.
Do you not see, Do you not see Rockets light up in the sky?
How do you think I found my way home after my trip?
My my excursions? I followed the rocket star.
Wow. That's right, rocket.
Rocket is. That's how I found my way home.
You didn't use a map or anything.
Or you're going to be off the grid a little bit.
We wanted to be off the grid. We did.
Wow, Okay, That's and keep the price of the trip down I like.
That, But we did glamp. We did glamp.
That was fun. Okay.
Well, that's Okay I guess. So I guess that's still you
staying off the grid. Not really camping though in my
opinion. I mean, it's glamping.
It's glamorous camping. That's.
What? I know what?
Listen, I know what? Clamping is He knows what
clamping is. OK, don't even question the oh,
you glamper. No, but I know what it is.
I have an understanding of words.
Clamper's a Pokémon, right? Sounds like one no Plant Pearl.
That's it. I thought you were thinking of
Lampet. Oh, that's one too.
Yeah, sure. Let's let's name all the Pokémon
that sound like glamping. I'd rather not.
Instead, I'd rather show you what a Meryl looks like.
Oh. That's fine.
I'm down to see one. Yep.
Here we go. Yeah.
Oh, what's up? Little thing, you're you're
you're a little cutie, aren't you?
That little bouncing baby blue ball.
What the sweetie? Not, not quite a see, if you
poke it here, it's it's not quite hard like a carapace.
Oh, it does. It doesn't need to be.
It's it's cute and it's squishy. And it's Mary.
Oh, it's. Cute, but it it would be cuter
if it had a hard shell. And A and A and a green outside.
Now it wasn't so squeaky when I poked it like this.
I know it's kind of cute. I like the way it sounds when
you when you touch its belly. That's.
Good because literally when you squeeze, it doesn't make a like
a like a squeaky noise. It does.
Look at you. You're so married.
You can stop squeezing it. And I'm sorry I put it down.
And you got the Rizz and your Mary.
We combined those together. What do we get?
Marissa and. That's a good.
Name. That's a good name.
Marissa. Marissa.
No. Marissa.
No, not Marissa. Marissa.
But but Marissa is her nickname because she's got Riz.
Can we call, can we call her Marisa like Merrill, but.
Mary, of course, Professor, whatever you want to call her.
No, it's Marissa. It's Marissa Slash.
When it's time to party, it's Marissa.
That's Marissa.
Listen, Marissa knows what she's about.
Look at her. She's bouncing little baby blue
ball of of goodness and beauty. That is honestly how I aspire to
be. I wish I was that happy on a
daily basis. I mean, how do we know if
Marissa is really happy? How do we know such that's
something that Marissa's? Marissa's too concerned here
about everybody else's well-being.
You know, nobody ever asks Marissa how she's doing.
Marissa. How are you doing?
Marissa, how are you doing? Let's.
All take a moment and listen to. Let's all listen to Marissa.
Go ahead, Marissa. Tell us, actually don't speak
Merrill, so I have. No idea What, Marissa.
No idea. I only speak Sidak in a little
bit of in a little bit of Cadabra.
That that was, that was very insightful, Marissa.
Thank you. That was, you know, that's such
a great way to think about it. What did Marissa say?
What'd she say? They said that you know it's not
about the the destination, but the journey that you go along
the way and Marissa's doing, doing their best to to make the
best out of their journey and to improve upon the journey
everyone else. OK, Marissa is looking at Mr.
Curtis. Confused, Right.
This is not at. All and and Marissa just wants
all of us to know that you know they're there for us in you know
every step of their each individual journey that that all
the students want to take. So thank you and have a good
day. She's shaking her head now.
Yeah, this. That's a beautiful sentiment,
Mr. Curtis. That is not.
At all, that is, not that are. You sure?
OK. All right.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
Well, listen, we've had Marissa out for a while here, but I
don't think we've actually fully described what a Merrill looks.
Like, Oh my God, I already said it.
Tiny little blue ball. It looks similar to Peak
Pikachu, but it's even smaller. It's a blue ball.
I would say that Meryl looks similar to Pikachu.
A little bit, some some in the face, but it's it's got these
little round ears with a little like you know, kind of reddish
scarlet inside, no neck to be found.
The body's just a ball and it's got little nubbing arms and
legs. That's it.
No hands, the feet are just nubs as well.
And then other than that, it's, you know, it's mostly blue.
It's got a cream colored tummy and then other than that, it's
got a long black squiggly tail. It kind of looks like a wire.
It's like a black wire. Then at the end of it, just a
little blue ball, a little smaller one than it's about
body. It's basically 2 blue balls
connected to each other. That's that's Meryl and we love
it and it's beautiful. You're beautiful, Marissa.
Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
Listen, it doesn't. You don't need a neck.
Listen, I've said this before. I'll say it again.
Necks are for cowards. T-shirt.
Necks. Well, necks are for cowards.
I guess, I guess if that's the case, I got to get rid of my
neck then. You never had one necklace.
Yeah, listen, I'm fine with being a coward.
Honestly, Could you imagine somebody wearing a shirt that
says necks are for cowards and Oh my.
Gosh, I know. Go to our merch store right now
at wwopokemons.com/merch slash. Give me some slash.
Now that's not a real website. Believe it or not, we don't even
have a website. We.
Don't even have a website? We don't have a merch story yet.
But stay tuned to the end of the lesson to hear about our Patreon
Yeah, yeah, just add some air horns there.
Oh, you could sell merch on Patreon, though.
I don't. We haven't set that up yet, but
maybe one day. Maybe.
Who knows?
I mean, listen, look, we still have crazy debt from when that
Kangas Khan destroyed the classroom.
And that's. I know.
Still paying for that. Still paying for that?
OK, I'm going to go ahead and put Marissa back into the
pokeball so Mr. Kurz will stop squeak making her speak.
Goodbye, Marissa. Bye, Marissa.
OK, all right, let's start reading these Pokedex entries
unless anybody has anything they would like to do or say or
anything. I mean, I've been working on a
new rap, if you guys want to hear it.
Professor Corman Corman, you can't tell me that.
Don't tell me that. No, I don't have to.
I have to report it. No, I haven't been doing the
rapping, I. Have been reporting it.
I can write it. I've been writing lyrics.
That's. You have rap paraphernalia.
No, that's it's just lyrics. It's just lyrics.
Lyrics I'm not sitting there. I'm not the ingredients to
making a. Rap.
No, the listen, listen. It's just the lyrics.
I'm not sitting there in, you know, public rapping to people
with flow and cadence like I do. It's just the lyrics.
Like you do. Like you do.
Great, You.
Now I have to go talk to the headmistress.
And I hate talking to the headmistress.
She just stares at me all the time.
I bet like I used to do. It's like it's like she feels
like like she already knows what I'm saying, so there's no point
in me saying it, but she's not going to stop me from saying it.
No, it's just she knows I didn't actually rap that.
I'm just writing lyrics. There's no point even telling
her. I didn't do anything wrong.
Listen, let's continue. We'll talk.
We'll talk after class. We'll talk.
No, we don't need to. We don't need to talk.
About anything, all right. Starting off in the Joto region,
the first entry here says the tip of its tail, which contains
oil that is lighter than water, lets it swim without drowning.
Woohoo. I mean, it could.
Still that Mister Curtis you. Can just be floating by its
butt. I think, yeah, yeah, go on.
Well, but but. The world wants to hear what you
have to say, Mr. Curtis. But the ball on on the tail is
so much farther away like it could, just like the rest of the
body could could like sink deeper into.
The Have you tried this? Is this just the whole trend
with water? Pokémon First the Squirtle, now
Meryl? Is that you're going to try
that? Look at this Pro already has
ideas. Already has ideas how to drown.
This thing because the ball, the ball could float at the surface
but the the body and the mouth and everything could be lower
below I mean. Right.
I'm sure you'll find it. Like what do you think?
Could tie an anchor to it or something?
You freak. I mean, I'm just, I'm just
saying like, you know. Poke a hole in its tail so it
sinks. No, no, no, That's not what I'm
saying. No.
All right. I'm.
Listening, I just wanna say. I just wanna say, this Pokedex
entry doesn't say its tail makes it undrownable, right?
It's not the wording here, it's I can understand you thinking
that it makes it so like it's impossible to drown.
But it let me just read it again.
The tip of its tail, which contains oil that is lighter
than water, let's it swim without drowning.
So like it uses its tail to keep it from drowning pretty much.
So it's not saying that you know it can't be drowned.
Like I'm sure if you know somebody were to apply force in
the correct spot Mr. Curtis, then it could.
All right, now that's enough. Just stop drinking ideas.
I'm just saying it's an inferior poke.
It's an inferior Pokémon. When swimming, you can stay
close to the surface by by its tail.
That's acting as a buoy. It Spinner Axe don't have this
problem. That's all I'm saying.
What? I'm just, I'm just saying that
you don't have to worry about spinner Axe having a tail.
Does the tail help or not? Because they don't have tails,
so. They just drown.
They just drown as they should. They just drown in any kind of.
No, they use their. Rotten.
Silky silk to zip line themselves right out or build a
raft. All right, this next entry here
in the Joto region says the end of its tail serves as a buoy
that keeps it from drowning even in a vicious current.
Because the current listen that that that tail's going to keep
floating regardless of how vicious the current is.
And it could be brought down by it.
And the next entry says the fur on its body naturally repels
water. It can stay dry even when it
plays in the water. All right, all right, Meryl,
make up your mind. Do you want to be in the water
or do you not want to be in the water?
Because it kind of sounds like all of your, you know, you know,
traits makes it so that you don't have to deal with water.
That's right. You can make the the water comes
right off and you, you know, the ball floats.
Yeah, exactly. Pick a lane, yeah.
In your mind, what's the opposite of a water type?
Because that's kind of what it feels like, a.
GRASS type. Yeah, you think the opposite of
water is grass. And I was thinking fire, but you
know, I mean, I guess grass works grass.
Yeah, OK. Well, yeah, listen, you heard it
here first. Merrill is a grass, is a grass
type. I think we can all agree.
No, no, I'm just OK. What I mean, like what kind of
water type Pokémon can't get wet doesn't make any sense.
I I don't know. I haven't learned about them all
yet. Well, I'm just a boy.
The answer is Merrill. Merrill, OK.
All right. So I know that one.
Yeah, write that down. It might might be on the test
later, OK. To what?
There's a test today. Don't hate me.
What can you really. I'm sick.
Gonna put oh wait, I'm sick I'm sick I'm.
Sick. No.
No, it's not. We're generally not having a
test right now, Mr. Curtis, forever.
I mean, you can pull all that stuff away.
It's like you don't have to take.
No, it's you're you're a teaching assistant.
He does take dictations every day, though.
OK, well let me keep going. The next entry comes to us from
the hohen region. It says Merrill's oil filled
tail acts much like a life preserver if you see it.
If you see just its tail bobbing on the water's surface, it is a
sure indication that this Pokémon is diving beneath the
water to feed on aquatic plants. It's like those plants it hate.
It hates water. It cannot stand water.
Does not like. Doesn't like that stuff.
But it likes the plants that are a product of the water, so it
ain't all bad, right? The next entry says.
When fishing for food at the edge of a fast running stream,
Merrill wraps its tail around the trunk of a tree.
This Pokémon's tail is flexible and configured to stretch.
Yeah, I think that tracks. I mean, the way it looked like,
I said. It was kind of like squiggly and
zigzaggy. Like it's not like a straight
tail. And it looked like it had like
a, you know, a a bounciness and a flexibility to it that could
be very fun to play with. So but is also easy to like,
easy to fold and make into a compact size it needs.
Right, it can. It can use that same to hide or.
Something, yeah, I was going to say if it needs to hide from a
predator, that. Hide underneath some rocks.
It can easily pull that tail in and kind of like shrink up.
It's kind of like when you get a new electronic, if you get like
a new charger and they're usually like bound together by
that little plastic, like little twisty thing and then.
You twist tie. Yeah.
Then you little twist ties, then you unwind it and the cord kind
of has like this like fold thing.
It looks like a bunch of the letter M or something.
It's kind of like that it does that, it does that thing.
Wow, man. If I could live inside your mind
for one day, Corbin, I think. You wouldn't survive it.
Yeah, I don't think I'd survive. It's not for the week I'd be.
I'd be scratching at the at the like the exit, trying to get out
thankfully. You'd be like this is this.
You'd be like this is what this kind of power looks like, this
kind of mental capacity. And he's only 10.
I'm out. This brain is so smooth I can't
get any friction. Exactly.
That's what you that's what you want, right?
I mean, it's so it's so there's so many like folds and stuff in
it that it's like you think it's smooth, but it's not.
Right, it's very misleading. So at first I come across as
stupid, but I actually am the smartest person in the room.
I'm sorry, Mr. Curse. Did you have something you
wanted to say about Merrill? I did, but I've actually have
already forgotten. What it was man, we'll never
know. That sucks.
Did it have something to do with its flexible tail that's
configured to stretch? That's what it was what does.
It have to do with how smart I am.
I was going to say it would probably make a good slinky,
but. Oh, he just pulled a slinky out
of his backpack like this, didn't he?
Sounds like sounds like Mr. Curtis wanted to show him all of
his cool slinky tricks. OK, he's not actually doing
anything. He's just making music with his
mouth. He's.
Not just kind of back and forth between my hands like this, see?
Look at that. There it is.
Isn't that a cool trick? That's all you can do, huh?
That's all you can do with it. Hey, that's pretty cool.
You're a one trick ponytail, huh?
You get some, you get some stairs and it's all over.
It's all over. I don't tell him.
Just curious. Put that away.
Come on, I'm sorry. I'm so.
Sorry, I have a class I'll. Put a bag in my bag.
I'll put a bag in my bag. And unruly.
OK, the next entry says that we're still in the Homeland
region by the way. Yeah, we are.
It's body is covered with water repellent fur.
Because of the fur, it can swim through water at high speed
without being slowed by the water's resistance.
It's just going. It's like a torpedo.
It's like a fat little torpedo just flying through the water.
I really wish I'd brought my Gold Duck from the SCLC so I
could compare to see which one's faster, because I don't know if
you guys remember, but Gold Duck is supposedly the fastest.
One is the fastest, right? I mean, you had a prize.
Gold Duck that you would race all water types against to
prove. Yeah, Well, no, no, no, not not
all, not all water types. Just the ones that matter.
Just the ones that Mister Curtis hasn't drowned.
That's preposterous, I. Would I mean honest?
I guess that would kind of have to be a requirement.
Yes, they would have to be alive.
But this, the ones where it mentions in the Pokedex how fast
they are. Right?
Right. And like, there's only really
one entry here that kind of talks about how quickly Meryl
can swim. So I don't know.
I don't, I don't know. I don't think it's supposed
specifically a very fast Pokémon, right?
But you know, I'll see if I can listen.
I'll see if I can talk to Perry, see if he can get him, get him
to send over that gold duck. He might be able to, might be
able to pull. Some strings if he if he can
figure out which which pokey ball it's in in the storeroom of
of the old classroom. Remember that.
Remember we had a a bunch of pokey balls in the in the old
classroom. Those were the days.
Yeah. Where do you store all your
poker balls now for class Professor?
Well, so they're actually kind of just just on the floor.
Behind your oh, they really are. Well, no, not behind.
So remember, you're looking at it.
So I guess you can sometimes forget this is a perfectly
spherical everything I put on the floor kind just rolls and
like kind of like groups up at the at the bottom of the sphere,
right. I'm seeing all kind of down
there. Yeah.
OK, don't step on them. I I mean, I put a rug over it.
Oh, I was wondering why. I was wondering why there was
always a bubbly looking rug in the middle.
I didn't realize there was a bunch of poker balls underneath
it. Yeah, it's all it's all pretty.
Slippery too, I you know, I, I I'd take them to my uncle's, you
know breeding farm up region. So I'd you know.
Every. Every time, huh?
That's a long way to go. It's all wins.
Even even like before. Wait, even the ones I haven't
talked about yet? No, no, no.
After you talk to them. So it's like, you know, we're
slowly reducing the size of that pile, I mean.
We're getting, yeah, and soon that that carpet is going to be
a very nice. It's going to be very nice and
flat and then we'll have to leave to go to Holland.
Well, well, you don't think you think we're going to get kicked
out of the GCLCVOTSCLC? No, I don't think that.
But like, are we gonna learn about hoeing, Pokémon and Joto?
Remember Corbin? I didn't.
None of us wanted to leave the SCLC.
They forced us to leave. Yeah, no, I'm put, I'm put, I'm
put down roots here. I gotta get my house moved.
You're going to move your house. How you going to move your whole
house, the one that's back in the woods?
Oh, it's not that. It's not that hard to move.
It's just built on top of a big mass of spinner rack hives like,
you know, we. Just oh, sweet Lord.
That doesn't sound like a very strong foundation that doesn't.
Just pick it all up and move it right over here.
That's not. How about you just burn it down
and just build a new one with actual, you know, excuse?
Me. I didn't fart.
Burn down my house. Burn down the house and spin a
wrap. Professor, are you listening to
this man saying burn down my house?
Why did he say I didn't fart? He said, excuse me, he said.
Excuse him, not you. Yeah.
You're right, that didn't make sense.
That make any sense? Okay.
Point is, did fart point? Is It would be kind of late if
you learn about Pokémon and joto.
That's all I'm saying. But listen.
I don't know what the let me get come over here.
Let me get a little. No, you, Mr. Curtis.
Disgusting. So.
Weird, Yeah, yeah, Professor, he farted.
You vile creature. Get out.
Disgusting. Yeah, you got to, you got to cut
back on those beans, Corbin. You stoked to a whole new load.
This is disgusting. I'm too old for this.
I should probably stop it. I should probably.
I know they're good for your heart, but they're good for your
heart. But that's not great for when
you're in class, so please. 10 years old don't need to stoop to
your maturity. OK, all right, let's stop this
weird talk that we're that we're on right now.
I don't know how this happened. Let's move on to the Cinema
Pokedex entries. OK?
The first entry here says using its tail as a float, it dives
underwater. It likes eating plants that grow
on river bottoms. And then I'm just going to keep
going on here. These all of these are pretty
short. These are all from the center
region. The tip of its tail is filled
with oil that is lighter than water, so it acts as a float.
And the oil filled end of its tail floats on water.
It keeps Meryl, Meryl from drowning.
Even in a strong current, there's a lot of worry of Meryl
drowning. Yeah, because it's not really a
water type Pokémon. It's really a grassroots, it's a
farce. It hates the water, does not
like to swim in it. All right, so I actually have an
entry here from the Unova region.
Nice. It's nothing crazy new.
I mean like it's again, they're pretty lazy over there in the
Unova region. It says it like it's so similar.
I'm just like double checking that to make sure it's.
I haven't actually read it. The oil filled tail functions as
a buoy, so it's fine even in rivers with strong currents.
Yeah, just OK, Cool. It's like it this sounds like
the person who wrote this Pokedex entry.
Like, right before they wrote it, somebody walked up to them
and was like, hey, like, is this gonna like, am I OK to go to the
go hang out at the river with this, with this Merrill?
And they're like, it's fine. And they're like, I don't know
if it's gonna be fine. I don't know.
They're like it's fine, even in rivers of strong currents.
I don't see, like you know, the Pokedex entries for for a
tentacool talking about how, oh, it's fine in the water and you
know it doesn't have to worry about floating.
Or like there are no other water Pokémon where I'm like, man, I
don't know if this Pokémon is going to be fine in the water.
Hey, you know. Don't worry about Goldine.
Don't worry about Goldine in the water.
It's like it's like it's definitely not going to drown.
It's. Like.
It didn't. It didn't.
That's. A good point it.
Didn't even occur to me to ask that question, but.
Even like Magikarp, the one where all of the professors were
like, yeah, this is the most useless Pokémon.
Not a single one of them was like.
Don't let it near water the. Last thing was like, you might
have to worry about it. Drowning like Magic Carp is a
better water Pokémon than Meryl is.
I'm just going to go ahead. And say it.
Wow, that's some fighting words. So put it out there.
Put hey, put that on a T-shirt. Magic Carp is a better water
type Pokémon than. A very that's that's that's a
very that's a very partisan issue there.
You're going to piss off a lot of people with that.
Yeah, I don't think it's really is a partisan issue.
I think it's, you know, pretty strong in One Direction.
I don't know. I think.
I think there's a lot of Meryl purists and there's a lot of
Magic carp defenders, yeah. I don't think there's any Magic
Carp defenders. Listen, just don't think so.
The Pokedex injuries. I don't.
Think You don't think so? All right, well, I'm going to
start a new club of kids that live by the water, that fight
crime called the Magic Carp Defenders, and you're going to
feel really stupid. Wow, that you know what?
I I can't wait to see that Corbin.
Yep. And if that doesn't work, maybe
I'll just do a swim team and we'll just call it the same
thing. Every time I talk to you I feel
a little bit more stupid, so I guess you know.
Well, that's because I just have such great ideas.
I'm so much smarter. Sure, that's it.
All right, let's move on to the Gallo, the gala region.
Ignoring Talos and Alola, they didn't want to say anything new
or exciting about Meryl. Galar, however, says this
Pokémon uses its round tail as a float.
The ball of Meryl's tail is filled with nutrients that have
been turned into an oil. Yeah, so, so that so it's tail
like the little like the little black part of his tail must have
like, I, I don't know, like tubes connections.
Yeah, it's gotta have tubes in that tail.
Yeah, gotta have tubes. One tube.
Be careful when you're like folding up a Merrill's tail.
There's some. There's important things in.
There, why don't you let the Merrill do the folding?
They know what they can handle. Unless you're going to.
Slinky it like this. Oh, he's got it back.
I told you to put the slinky away.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry. I'll put it.
Away. Wow.
You got to find more tricks than just passing it from each hand
to hand. And back and forth between my
two hands. It looks cool for about 3 1/2
seconds, then after that I'm like, all right, I've seen it.
And every time he does it, it's like he's like expecting us to
be like. Whoa.
Things should not move in that
way. I feel that way for a second.
Then I'm like, Mr. Curtis, come on, something else please.
To back flip with it. All right, I only I have I have
one more pokedex in here. Hurry up, we're waiting on
let's. Go, I'm reading on you.
Even after Meryl swims in a cold sea, its water repellent fur
dries almost as soon as Meryl leaves the water.
That's why this Pokémon is never cold.
Wow. Never quick, quick to drown.
Never cold, never cold. Well, I mean not quick to drown.
Will take some effort to drown. Will take some effort to drown.
Never cold, but don't worry, the tail will kind of help it to
not. Yeah, Listen, I don't know about
you guys, but I bet. I bet I could make a Merrill
cold. Why do you guys want to do
everything it doesn't want to do?
Well, you guys want to drown it, you.
Can't drown. It doesn't.
Want to be cold? You guys want to make it cold.
You want to ice it out? You want to drown it?
I. Just think it's a miss, a
mistype or a mistake in this entry.
I think hide. Your Merrells, everyone.
Professor, I'm taking notes. Please share how how would you
make this Merrell cold? I don't know.
Put it in a freezer. What the heck?
Man, OK. That could make it cold.
All I'm trying to say is I don't think water repellent fur is
enough to make something never get cold.
That's all I'm saying. Maybe maybe it's why it never
gets cold from swimming in cold seawater.
Sure, OK, that's fine. But like, if you shoot it with
an ice beam, it's going to be cold.
Somewhat. That's true.
I mean, it's going to hurt it, but it may not be cold, it might
just the initial beam might. Hurt.
It might hurt its feelings. Yeah, without cold.
I don't think it's going to be too cold, though.
I mean, the Pokedex entry is never wrong, right?
So it's not going to be that cold.
Or maybe maybe it's trying to say it's never cold, like in a
in a figurative sense, like it never gives you the cold
shoulder. Yeah, It's never like leave me
alone, I'm going through it it. Always has a warm demeanor,
Maybe is what it's saying, and that's because of its water
repellent fur. Yes, Mr. Cruz, I say.
Wait, hold on, Mr. Cruz has his hand raised.
Yeah, yeah. No, I I think that it's.
Very polite of you, Mr. Curtis. I know, I know.
I I, I don't hardly ever bring this up in class.
But you know, I I think that may maybe maybe the positive
personality is a byproduct of why it's a water type, because
it was just so polite that it just didn't want to correct the
professors and say, hey, actually I'm not a water type.
I'm just a. Grass type.
Actually, I'm a grass type. Please don't put me in the water
all the time. Okay all right.
I work really hard to keep my my fur waterproof and and out of
you know keep it from getting wet.
So please just keep keep me out of the.
Oh, OK, you put me back in the. Water.
And then it was like, I guess while I'm in here, I'll eat some
of the. The grass down here.
Some of the some of the plants that grow on this, on the sea,
on the river bottom here, oh, this is the best thing I've ever
eaten. Oh.
This is delight. Oh, I have to live in this now.
This is love. This is life.
This is. Purity.
I can't stop eating this. This water grass.
Dang it. I guess I'm a water Pokémon.
Man, this water life ain't so bad.
But don't, don't worry. This tale will keep me from from
thinking. Don't worry.
They oh, they weren't worried. They weren't worried even a
little bit. And that was our display called
Merrill Merrill. Merrill, I see you guys are
working on your talent show skills.
Well, yeah, that's what it was. We were all role-playing as
American. Oh my God, stop it.
It's not fun anymore. You've ruined.
The ball that that's slinky one more time.
I'm throwing it out the window. I'm.
So sorry, Professor, It's. Just I will throw it out the
gosh Dern window. I'm so sorry.
Let me just.
I'll put it away now. The Dang nab window.
Don't you just set me up so good about my talent show?
Though no, none of these are set up for you.
It's not set up. I'm not setting you up.
Yeah, it's all like I'm saying. Volleyball.
That's saying something like, oh gosh, if only there was some way
Mr. Curtis could distract these these near dwells as I escaped.
You know what? I'm not going to pull it out.
But you know, you know what it you know what it would be.
It would be mediocre, slinky tricks.
It's awful. It'd be one solid trick that's
not very good. OK, so like I mentioned a little
while ago, there's not many Pokedex entries on Merrill and
we have read them all. There's no unique Pokedex
entries. There's no nothing from the
Lentil region, nothing from Professor Neroli.
So we are done reading Pokedex entries.
And before I move on to the testing portion, which I know
it's everybody's favorite, I do have an essay on Merrill that I
would like to read. OK.
All right. Thank you.
That's fine. This is not unsourced.
This is not uncredited. This comes to us from 1 Parker.
Parker. So it is source.
It is sourced and credited. That's what I said.
I know I I put in a double negative there.
As long as he gets credit for it.
All right. And we know the source.
Right, this is this is a pretty short essay, Parker says Hello.
You humans, AKA Professor Jacob and Corbin and Mr. Curtis?
Curtis or Curtis? This is 3 different spellings of
Curtis. Yep, one of them's right.
I'll. Tell you which.
And then they say in parentheses, even though you're
not all. Actually, not not all of them.
Not not all, not the no, no, the all three of them are wrong.
It's it's QYRTUS. Thank you very much.
He's still learning his letters. Yeah, so.
Yeah, and you're just going to let the even though you're not
at all human thing I. I mean, I I'm obviously human.
He's just joking around like, and it's just not Nope.
Yes. Nope.
Well, Parker goes on to say I, Sir Parker, have once again come
with an essay. But first I must thank you all
for reading my Pichu essay. So thanks all.
And also I must say that the mega Pokémon forms were first
discovered in Kalos. I don't know why there are no
entries for them though. Bring it up with the professor
in the Kalos region. Who's that?
It's not Juniper. Juniper's in the.
Sycamore isn't it? Sycamore.
That sounds right. I'm Sycamore.
I'm sick of Sycamore. Uh huh.
All right, Professor, Just give me, give me a couple.
Days bring it. Give me a couple days.
I'll get, I'll get, I'll get rid of them.
No, belay that order are. You sure I mean.
I stand down. OK, all right, I'm here.
OK, so Parker goes on to say. Sorry, Sir, Parker goes on to
say now for the essay. Merrill is a little blue ball
with another blue ball attached as a tail.
It has fur that repels water and can be found in grass, rivers,
beaches and lakes. Thanks, that's all.
Oh, and Mr. Curtis, Curtis or Curtis?
I'm in love with Galicopod I. Will give you that.
Galicopod's like the coolest bug Pokémon there is.
Yeah, as far as bug Pokémon Go Galicopod's.
Galicopod's one of my favorite, no?
Lie. It was pretty cool.
That's true. Was that was that the end of the
the letter from Parker? Yes, that's the end of the
essay. OK.
Well, thank you, Parker, for
that. And yes, Galicipod is very cool.
Melissa Bod is best boy. Well, I don't know if I would
consider. I don't know if I would consider
them best boy. Yeah, we know, Mr. Curtis.
We know that you don't think they're the best Pokémon.
Shut up. They're better.
Let's just say they're better water type than Merrill is, OK.
That's all I have to say about. That I mean, I agree with that.
The girl's cute though, but. Well, hold on, let's hold off
judgement until we learn about Callissa pod.
How about that? Yeah, in a couple of weeks.
Yeah. I mean, it's at least a couple
of weeks. Right around the corner, I
think. Yeah.
OK. Well, thank you so much, Parker.
Your essay was wonderful. You will, of course, be getting
extra credit. Woohoo, Mr. Curtis.
A Gold Star. Yeah, sure.
The Glisspot is a is a is a bug type.
That's not a Mr. Curtis, that is not a requirement.
Every, every. You know, stop, buddy.
You have to understand that, you know, knowing that the best boys
are the bug boys is the way to my heart and a Gold Star.
And so I just saw, I have to say there.
You know, I don't think it's just so cheap.
All they got to do is write about bug Pokémon.
They just get a Gold Star. So lame.
No creativity. Yeah, I don't think he ever
wrote he he just said I'm in love with Galicipod.
It doesn't mean that Galicipod he he never said Galicipod is
the best bug type Pokémon right there was it is.
You're the one that said best, boy, I'm pretty sure.
No, I think Corbin said Best boy.
Maybe it was Corbin. It was one of you.
But it wasn't. Parker Best boy.
Yeah. No.
OK, Corbin. Said Best.
But Parker didn't say that, so who knows?
Mr. Curtis? Maybe they could still think
that the spinner rack is the best.
Boy, I. I love the bug type Pokémon.
They love a bug type Pokémon. I mean, you know, I gotta give
them a Gold Star. That's just how it is.
All right, Gold Star earned. Thank you, Parker, so much for
that excellent essay. It was very well done.
If you virtual students out there would like to send us an
essay, please do so. We are limiting it to one essay
per Pokémon though, and I think we're doing a first come, first
serve style there. So get those essays in early.
The earlier, the more likely you are to get it.
Read on a lesson. OK.
Now guys, we learned a lot about Meryl today and I would like to
see if you were listening. Oh, of course.
I'm always listen, I I took dictations.
I mean like I do every time. Well, see, you know, writing
writing something down doesn't mean you're listening to it, Mr.
Cruz. And that's that's the truth.
That's the truth. So I'm going to test your
knowledge, and today I would like for you guys to write me a
poem on Mary. Yeah.
Now we're talking. I get to flex my.
Skills. You sure we don't get to take a
take a quiz, Professor. See, this is the same thing I
was doing I was talking about earlier writing.
I want to put away my. Spine I just can't beat the
wrapping put. Away my Pokedex and pull up my
Rotom laptops. Whining I can't.
It's so hard to. Figure out if you want some
cheese with your Mr. Curtis. So I thought, loser.
Okay. Well, no, Mr. Curtis, we cannot
do a quiz because I did not write a quiz.
We've talked about this before, so poem is very easy.
Just let your spirit move you. Just think about everything you
learned about Meryl and and write something that preferably
rhymes about it. So go ahead, take your time,
write something, write anything. And then we'll just meet back
here, I guess. Don't.
Hey, don't step on the the pokey balls in the rug, please.
Professor I've done. OK.
All right. Corbin is done.
Mr. Mr. Curtis are you you're really taking your time with?
Us. I'm done.
No, no, I'm done. I'm done.
I can't. You're.
Still writing? No, I'm That's fine if you need
more time. No, no, no.
Fine. OK, all right.
But we're just gonna listen. We're you're, we're gonna
remember when you read your poem and it's, I'm sure, great.
We're all gonna be thinking like he said he was done.
That's right. Like, I All right, this is
listen, I have to say, this is probably some of my best work.
Oh, I can't wait. I cannot wait.
I can't wait even a second. So I'm going to have Corbin
start. All right.
Sounds good. I call this one Meryl.
Here we go. What a name.
Of all the balls so small yet falls without its oily tail.
On a whim you swim, moving nubby limbs gliding through current
strong. You stop and drop below water's
top, feeding on plants below. I'm told the cold never takes
hold with water resistant fur. And that's it.
Wow. Wow.
That the the the misdirect at the ends with that.
That didn't rhyme, Right? It didn't rhyme.
I'm not losing my mind. No, every, every other, you
know. Line didn't rhyme.
Tail didn't rhyme with strong. Strong didn't rhyme with below.
Below didn't rhyme with fur. Felt like it's supposed to
rhyme, though. Nope.
Not to. I mean not keep you guessing.
I might always rhyme. It's a.
Few years years. Yeah.
Oh, they're so natural too. Listen, I'm just saying most of
Corbin's was. I was, if I was following the
pattern, but threw me off at the end.
Yours good Mr. Curtis. I'm never following.
I'm. Let's hear it.
No, it keeps you guessing. You never know what's going to.
Happen. He never knows.
Let's hear what it is today. It's like listening to somebody
fall down a set of stairs. Say.
Like a set of a set of poorly made stairs.
So they're all like different sizes.
Let's hear it. Let's hear it.
OK Well, actually, I did not do what I typically do with a with
a poem and rhyme. I made two I ikus, this time
around. Ikus.
I I said, I I guess I said, if I if you're going to do a haiku,
at least do two of them. That's right.
That's what I did. OK, now please let me just clear
my throat real quick. You already did this, no, you
already more. Syrup.
Oh God. You already drank syrup.
Please. All right, your tail lets you
float. Oil filled lighter than water,
personal buoy. OK.
Golf. That yeah, those are true.
That's true. That's true.
Golf. That all right.
Dives without drowning. Loves to eat those plants down
deep. Fur repels water.
Sure does. I've said it before, I'll say it
again. I don't understand haikus.
I don't know what I'm supposed to be feeling when a haiku is
being read. That's.
True. I don't.
Yeah, invokes nothing in me. So I'm going to go ahead, and
this is the first time I've ever done this.
You get no points, Mr. Curtis. Oh, got him.
Kill. Him.
You fail. You fail this participation
assignment. No.
I hate. I hate haikus.
I hate him. But you even said we could do
haikus, but we had to do 2. I did 2.
Fine. All right, fine.
You get the points. Full marks.
Full marks for everybody. Don't, don't forget, don't,
don't don't say I never did nothing for you.
That's true. No, Professor.
You've done so much for me. You do.
You continue to do so much for me.
Stop. Winking.
When you do that, it's. Not you're the one winking
Corbin. I no I have something.
In your eye, What's happening? Yeah, no, I have something in my
eye. He was winking at me. 1st I'm
good. I'm good.
I'm blinking. Just look across, it's all good.
Gross. OK.
Hey, great job today, guys. You know what?
No, I'm not talking to you. Virtual students.
Great job. You did really well.
Better than the people here in the classroom.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, I whispered that you didn't
hear it, but that's going. To do it let you down,
Professor. I'm just kidding.
You guys did great. That's going to do it.
For today's lesson on Meryl. Does anybody know who we're
talking about next week? It is a Pokémon.
Is it the evolve form of Meryl I'm?
Not giving you any more hints. Is it gallicipod?
It's not gallicipod. Is it decidui, professor?
Can it be gallicipod? No, it can't be gallicipod.
It also can't be decidui. It's not Pokia, right?
No, listen maybe maybe the maybe the poll for today on the on the
Spotify gone. Should be who we should learn
about, what the students decide. No, no, it could be.
Hey, do we do you guys find the part where I asked them if they
know what the Pokémon is? Do you or do you not find that
very boring? I screw it.
Let's just do the whole poll as Do you find this boring?
Do. You.
Remember. Oh, I mean, if you do and you're
still listening, I mean that's on you.
That's. On you.
You must be really bored. No.
They respect the game. I get.
I like, you know. Thanks.
Thanks for your support. Appreciate it.
We're hustling out here. Thanks.
And also, sorry, next week we are learning about Azumero,
which is the evolved. Form of.
Meryl. It has Meryl in the name as.
Meryl Yeah. Yeah.
But that's next week. If you have any questions for
me, the professor go ahead and send us a gang our mail at
wwopokemon@gmail.com. You can find that along with
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description is located. To the side, to the right, to
the back. Yeah, One hop this time.
Yeah. But yeah, one of the things
there is our Patreon. Hey, Mr. Curtis, do you want to
talk about our Patreon? You know, it's kind of your
fault that we have to have a Patreon.
I mean, yeah, no, no, it's no one's fault in particular.
OK, but. It's all yours.
There were some there listen no one's fault in particular Kangas
Khan incident. Go back and listen to that
lesson. But you know, basically Kangas
Khan destroyed the SCLC and we're raising some money to.
Recoup that it's baby or something.
I can't quite remember what happened.
Yeah. Did you kick a baby?
No, no, let's not. Hey, let's not change name.
Let's not point fingers, OK? It's no ones at fault in
particular, but anyway of course.
Pointing fingers that this occurs, right?
Now, if you would join our Patreon, there's a bunch of
different benefits for all of our patrons, but really the most
important one that everyone really signs up for is my
doodles that I do with every Pokémon during every class.
Listen everybody, he's getting better.
He's getting. He's.
Getting a little bit better, but.
He's made progress and I'm proud of him for.
That. A little bit, but you know, but
you know the everything. There's a couple of things you
can get on there. I mean, you can get AQ and A
some outbreaks outtakes. A couple outbreaks.
There's a outbreak out to our patron.
Maybe when you wear a mask, there's a couple of outbreaks in
there. There's a couple of brown
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You could get a brownie. Bakes watch, watch the nuzlock.
You could our playthrough at that.
You could, you know, you could, you could join our Discord.
You know, there's a couple. He doesn't sell the patriotic.
I was going to say he sold it so well.
I mean you could do this, but. Really.
What you really want is to see
my doodles. I mean that when it comes.
Down to it. When it comes down to.
It. That's what everybody wants to
be there and see. So thank you very much.
No, no, no. When it comes down to it,
there's just a lot of extra content content on the Patreon
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A lot of, a lot of the heavy lifting, a lot of the class work
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So get the most out of your time with us.
Also, check it out. Don't tell nobody that you heard
this from me, but you might get a Pokémon named after you if.
That's one of the perks. There's a lot of them.
You can check them out. It's in our description of every
lesson. Listen, I didn't.
I didn't tell you wasn't you didn't hear it from.
Me. I didn't, I heard you say.
It's on the record. All right, that's going to do it
for today's lesson. So until next time class is
dismissed.