Hello there, and welcome to the world of Pokémon.
My name is Preser Jacob, and thank you so much for attending
this lecture on Pokémon Biology up guys.
The Christmas spirit is in the air.
I swear it can smell, smell those chestnuts roasting and the
eggnog is a flowing. Joining me here in the classroom
today is of course, my wonderful teaching assistant, Mr. Curtis.
Mr. Curtis, what you doing? You seem to be what you doing
over there. I'm back.
I'm putting up the tree.
The tree. There the tree.
That's right. Oh, be careful, Mr. Curtis.
It's a very tall tree. This is a very spherical room.
It's a disaster waiting to. Happen.
Yeah, don't worry. Oh goodness, that's right.
Yeah, it's kind of pointing off to an angle over there.
Yeah, well, but don't worry about me.
Just go ahead and get. You.
I never do. I never do.
Also joining me in the classroom today is our young trainer in
training, Corbin. Corbin, how are you?
You feeling? Feeling the Christmas spirit.
I'm doing good. I'm feeling in the Christmas
spirit. Merry Christmas, everybody.
I did exchange gifts with Gordon today.
He got me a new bicycle, which I thought was really, really nice.
Wow. Yeah, I did.
So that was that was really cool.
It is pink. Not my favorite color, but yeah,
that's all. Right.
It matches your hair though really well.
Well, I mean, not really. My hair is kind of more dark.
People, sorry, I didn't mean to. I just dropped a box of
ornaments. Oh God, I was so loud.
Too so sorry but I got him a bunch of.
Picking them up, Mr. Curtis, it's so annoying.
I got him a 90 sided Rubik's Cube that he solved in probably
about 30 seconds. I hear that the 90 sided ones
are actually easier. If you want to give him a hard
one, give him let's just a just a regular 6 sided 1 and then but
it only has like four blocks on each side.
Well, maybe after class I'll run go and go.
Yeah, go run and go grab that. Yeah, Merry Christmas,
everybody. I know everybody is eager to
listen to this lesson on Christmas Day and they're not
visiting family. At all.
Yeah, well, I mean, I assume that they're listening to it as
they're driving back home from family.
Right. And having to deal with all the
struggles of seeing family. Yeah.
And yeah, like, hey. Or I'm assuming, you know, they,
they're at their Christmas celebration, whatever it may be,
and they've decided that they're just done listening to their
uncle talk about whatever dumb stuff their uncle is talking
about. And they're like, you know what
dumb uncles have? You know what?
I have a class I need to attend and they just go into a quiet
room, put on some headphones and just, you know, just attend,
attend the lesson. So thank you for all you
students out there who are doing that right now.
And if you aren't, you know what?
That's fine too. That's fine.
The Christmas spirit is is flowing.
Corbin. Yes.
Do you now? We talked about this last time.
I think you know what Pokémon we're learning about this week?
It has. It's a very, very important part
of the Jotoian Christmas tea. Can you tell us a little bit
about that? So today we I know that we are
learning about quill fish. Yes, correct.
Water tight Pokémon. So as I understand it, as
Gordon, who is a resident here in the Joto region, my roommate
Gordon the Cadabra, he has told me that it is, it is commonplace
in a lot of households in the Joto region that they put a
quill fish on top, top of your Christmas tree.
Now, keeping a quill fish up there for the entirety of the
Christmas season is not always good because like, you know, you
know, it needs to be in water. Wait, wait.
They join being up. There they put a real quill fish
up. There on the day of Christmas, I
mean you could put you could put like a deceased one or like a
paper machine 1 like. A paper machine or like a
plastic? Supposed to represent good luck
and good fortune in the new year to come.
If you put a real quill fish up on the tree and then, you know,
you say what you're thankful for and then the the quill fish just
kind of stays up there and hangs out.
Another thing about what we're thankful for, didn't we just do
that for for things? Very thankful here in the Jyoto
region. We're very ligars giving day.
Well, you know what? That's this is what we're about
here in Jyoto. We're all about giving thanks.
They're a lot more grateful here than than Kanto.
I'm gonna stay here and be a bull calling the cup cup toast,
and so I'm gonna go ahead and join in on their traditions.
Speaking of, I've I'm done with the ornaments and here, here we
go. I I got to pull out the.
Top, are you doing it? Are you putting the?
Are you putting the ornamental quilfish on top?
Is that wait? Is that a real quilfish?
Yeah. Wait, where'd you get that?
It's in. It's in this tank over here.
See. I brought it in.
Oh nice. OK.
Yeah, swimming around in there. I see you affixed a a little
holster thing on the bottom of it so it can attach to the the
Christmas tree safely and without puncturing the quilfish.
It's just a little quiz sweep boy, aren't you?
Yes. OK.
All right, what did you name him?
Mr. Curtis. Is he yours?
This. No, it's not mine.
Actually it's the one of the I borrowed them from the Rigsby's,
the rigs, the. Rigby's The Rigby's What did the
Rigby's name it? Is of course.
They're wonderful, cool fish, Noel.
Is. Wow, we see they, they're such
good, good Jochowians. They, they know, they know the,
the, they know the classic traditions.
They know, they know that many, many years ago, 11 fateful
Christmas Eve, Santa Claus fell into the ocean and it was a it
was a wonderful quill fish that was able to guide him back to
the shore and back on his his journey.
Oh yeah, yeah. That's that's why they like that
story. That's why they do and.
That's, you know, I asked the Rigsby's.
I was like. Hey, Mr. Curtis, if you're
gonna, if you're gonna do go on a long explanation here, just do
it next to the microphone would be great.
Oh, OK. All right, hold on.
Let. Me, I know you're over there
working away in toilet. I'll walk up.
I'll walk up here next to the microphone.
OK. Yeah.
So I asked the Rigsby's. I was like, you know, are you
gonna put, are you gonna put Noel up on the tree?
And they were like, they just kind of looked at me, like,
really funny. And I was like, right.
I was like, oh, well, if if you're not going to use Noel,
then, you know, I'll take Noel into class.
And they just laughed at me and they said, oh, you're so funny.
Are you? Go ahead and do that.
Put put Noel our live our live quill fish up on the tree.
Uh huh. Yeah.
Well, it. Almost kind of sounds like they
don't believe you're going to do that.
So, so yeah. So I took Noel and I, I brought
Noel into class here today and I'm going to go put Noel up on
the tree. So, all right, everybody ready?
Oh, that sounds fun. Hey, can I do the honors?
I mean, you did all the other ornaments.
Is there any way that I could? Do Huh.
OK, all right. Fine you.
That's that's the best. Idea.
Let me see an honor. To him already.
OK, there, I'm going. To grab it and then I'm going to
put it right on top of the. And he's wow, right down.
There we go. OK, you know what?
I'm gonna, I'm gonna take Noel back from you here real quick,
Corbin. I see on Corbin I I told you I
didn't think this is a good nobody listens to me.
Corbin, you OK, buddy? What?
Hold on. Let me just, let me just put
Noel up there. Corbin's fine.
Just.
I mean, honestly, this is the best.
This is the best Christmas anybody could ask for.
It's just a shut up. Beautiful.
All right. Oh wow.
Oh, OK. Sorry I was busy looking at
Corbin. Yeah, man, it is beautiful.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
Let me get Corbin real quick. Come on, Colburn.
Corbin, come on. OK, God, it's time.
Time for class. No sleeping on the Could I do?
It did. I put it up there.
Yeah, you did, buddy. Yeah.
Yeah, you say. I'm so proud of.
You no well, you look so great out there Oh, why do I feel all
fuzzy? I.
Can't. I don't know.
I didn't. I didn't have any trouble with
the cool fish, I mean. Yeah, it's weird.
I'm just gonna sit right on the floor for a little bit.
That's nice. I can't really stand up very
well. So Speaking of traditions,
obviously a Quilfish Christmas is a common thing here in the
Johto region. Now another tradition that
happens at the GCLC bot SCLC. It is a Christmas talent show
and I have been tasked. Huh.
I've been tasked to put it together this year.
Well, Corbin, why are you saying huh, you're the so I will say I
didn't do a good job. I should.
I should, I should start off by saying that I didn't do a good
job. Only one person signed up and it
is Corbin. I was acting surprised for the
audience. Huh.
OK. Thank you.
We'll take that again. There's a there's a talent show
today. What?
Uh huh. What?
OK, yes. I can't wait for somebody to see
to see all the awesome talented people that will be
participating today. Yeah, well, there's only one I,
I. Have to win it then I.
Kind of dropped the ball. They don't have to, Corey.
Maybe. They could really suck.
You could really suck, I suppose.
I don't think I'll be sucking. I think I'll be, that's right,
doing a lot of great work today. All right, well, we'll be
looking forward to that. We're gonna have that after the
lesson at the end and yeah, this, this is the this thing
that the GCLC VOT SCLC does every single year.
So if we're still here next year, then maybe we'll do it
again. Hey, we'll see what happens.
Maybe I'll be better. Yeah, the listen, the
headmistress is very disappointed in me.
They are not happy. She is not happy with how I
handled this, No. No, no.
Talent show. Hey, Corbin, I don't think we
you, you, you passed out on the floor there for a little bit.
What's up? Can you describe Noel to the
students at home? Sure.
Yeah, so Noel is the quill fish that looks like a tiny little
ball with a little bit of spikes coming out of it.
And that's I guess what pricked me and poisoned me or whatever.
Yeah. And then so.
Smart Corbin. And I am smart.
It has a tiny little flipper which is cool and it looks like
it has a little alien on its flipper.
It looks like an alien like design on its flipper.
It's. Yeah, it kind of does, doesn't
it? On the side, yeah, it's like
green. It's kind of like this greenish
color, but the outline of it is more like a teal.
And it's kind of like it's almost like a Pokeball with
spikes. The top half of the quilt fish
is it same kind of tealish color.
And the bottom half is the green color.
That's like the same color as the alien.
And then it has these these cute little pink lips.
Looks like it kind of has gotten some lip work done.
And then that's basically it. It's a tiny little bean baby, a
little ornament looking a little quill fish.
He's very cute. It does, I never noticed that.
The tail does look a lot like an El Elgium Elgium.
It does an elgium elgium whatever.
How you? Pronounce it how I pronounce it.
It kind of does. It looks very alien in nature A
little bit. OK.
Thank you, Corbin. Who's.
You're so welcome. I think, you know, I think we're
ready to learn about cool fish today.
So I'm gonna go ahead and start reading some of these Poke X
entries if that's cool with everybody.
Sure. I'm down, I'm down.
I'm Quill with it. Cool.
Oh yeah, that's. Quill with you that's.
That's Quill with me. That's Quill with me.
Yeah. That's that's a very common
expression this time of year in in judgement it is.
I just say guys really quill in it today.
Yeah, just keep it Quill guys. Equivalent with my homies.
All right, the first Pokedex century comes to us from the
JoJo region and it says to fire its poison spikes, it must
inflate its body by drinking over 2.6 gallons of water all at
once. That's a lot over 2.6 gallons of
water. We don't know so far.
We don't know what the maximum amount of water is, so.
Right, right. Right.
We just know that if it wants to fire off its poison spikes, it
has to have 2.6 gallons of. Water over 2.6.
That's that, yeah. So 2.61 is the minimum amount of
water it needs. To do it.
Gotcha. The small spikes covering its
body developed from scales. They inject a toxin that causes,
you guessed it, fainting. Oh, painting.
You painted Corbin. Helped.
I wish I'd read this. We had we almost had to take you
to a Pokémon Center. Yeah, well, you could take me to
Roslyn. Oh, is she working today or?
Actually, she is off today. Oh no.
Wait, Roslyn the Rosalia, the school nurse is off today?
But we have to be here. Does that make sense?
Doesn't seem like a a good practice, doesn't it?
Doesn't mean, listen, she put in her, she put in her vacation
time. I don't know what you want,
Corbin. I should have put in mine.
That's all I'm saying. You don't get.
Roslyn never allowed to take a vacation?
Is that what you're trying to say?
Yeah, come on, She can't spend the holidays with her family.
God, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Holidays with mine. I wouldn't force anybody to not
be able to spend their holidays with their family, Corbin.
You're doing it right now with me.
Now your family told me they didn't want you there on
Christmas. That's mean and that's not.
It's true they're. They're making up lies.
They're celebrating your sister right now, and you know, you
know how you 2. Get fine.
You know how you 2. Get, listen, listen.
We got to keep it separate. That was a great.
Don't forget Corbin, you are, you are going home for for you
know, Christmas holiday after this lesson.
I know after this lesson I got my bus ticket ready to go, I'm
gonna be skirting on back to Saffron City and got a whole
month at home. Oh my God, I can't wait.
I'm so excited. OK, so let's see here, OK, the
next entry says. When faced with a larger
opponent, it swallows as much water as it can to match the
opponent's size. OK, what if it's like a what if
it's a copper Raja? Well, it's a well Lord, that's a
more reasonable thing. It would run into in the in the.
Water like I don't, I don't, I think it can achieve those
sizes. I just think that it tries.
It swallows as much water as it can to try to reach that size
and. Then it pops.
I do wonder if there is like cuz there has to be a limit, right?
It can't just there's gotta be like there's no way it can be
the size of of a whale Lord. Do you think like if it
overextends itself, it just like it's like starts to like RIP or
something. What?
Yeah, maybe that's a scary thought.
Yeah, it sounds painful. I mean, it seems like something
that you would have to watch out for with your quill fish if
you're if you're a quill fish trainer.
Yeah, is that for sure? Definitely not something we'd
want on a quill fish Christmas. Oh God, no, no, we keep you
having that. Yeah, what is it?
Wait, what? Are we celebrating Mr. Curtis?
It's a quill fish, Chris Christmas.
You said it so well. A quill fish.
A quill fish Christmas. That's right.
Yeah.
All right. Moving on to the Hoenn region,
the 1st century says Quill fish sucks in water.
Inflating itself. This Pokémon uses the pressure
of the water it's swallowed to shoot Toxic Quills all at once
from all over its body. It finds swimming somewhat
challenging, right? So it's like bullets.
It's just like, yeah, fires it right out.
Yeah. But like, if you look at it, if
you look at Noel up there, really the only thing that they
got to move around is, is her tail, right?
Yeah. Yeah, so not really great at
swimming, which is why, which is why the that story about the
quill fish helping Santa is so, you know, heart, you know, it's
moving. It's so it's, it's such a good
story because because. It's not even good at swimming,
but it went, it fought through it anyway, just to just to save
Christmas. And like all of the other, you
know, water type Pokémon in in the sea were all made made fun
of coilfish. They wouldn't let them join in
on any of their water Pokémon games.
They just make fun of it behind their back and then then boom
all of a sudden all of a sudden Santa crash lands and everybody
runs away scared except for quill fish the.
Quill fish that didn't run away. Yeah, and it brought Santa Santa
to the shore when all the other Pokémon wouldn't.
It's a beautiful story. It's so beautiful.
Thinking about it, somebody should animate it so.
Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't go that far actually.
They have animated at Corbin. So you haven't seen the Quill
Fish Christmas Special? I had you mean the claymation
the original 1. Yeah, I did stop motion.
I did see that last week, last weekend, Gordon did show that to
me now. I thought it was really.
Hard. It is a very classic film to.
Watch there is a remake they're working on next year.
Not a huge fan of the cast? No, who's in it?
See what happens. Yeah, who's in it?
Dwayne the Brock Johnson is going to be, He's going to be
leading. He's going to be playing Santa.
Not a huge fan of his work. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I don't really know who that is.
I don't really follow any of that kind of stuff.
That's OK, now I did one of my favorite ones is a nightmare
before Quilfish missed. Yeah, I haven't seen that one
yet. Sounds really good.
Maybe I'll watch that tonight. Yeah, absolutely.
It's definitely a tradition for me to watch it.
OK. My favorite, my favorite is is
pins. What's up?
Pins. Pins Yeah, it's a it's a
animated film. It's very good about this, you
know, Quo Fish trainer who is very like entitled and, you
know, is trying to serve as a postman and they get they get,
you know, sent by their dad up to this like really northern
town where, you know, so, so that they can learn to be a
responsible daily bird postman. OK, wait, what about their quill
fish though? Well, they bring their Quofish
with them because they're up on an island, a northern island.
OK, that's why we should. Review movies for a class guys,
that sounds fun. That's why it's called pins,
right? Right.
Well, yeah. So, you know, he discovers that
there, you know, there's these two feuding families and you
know that he discovers this, you know, Woodsman guy that's up in
the woods and and he gets he gets injured and falls off the
island and the cool fish shaves them and together they reunite
the two families and they start the meeting on Christmas.
That's, that seems like a bit of a, a jump in the story that we
kind of missed a little bit of the plot points there, but
that's fine. So that's that's pins.
Thank you. That's my favorite.
He just vowed that was. Weird.
Why did you say thank you as if you wrote it?
I mean, that's just what I heard of it.
I have not heard of it. Curtis very well may have
written it. Mr. Curtis, did you just?
Pitch us a movie idea May no. God.
May maybe, I don't know. You don't know.
It's a good movie, OK. All right.
I mean, sounds good. I'd watch it.
Yeah, exactly.
Good. So we start shooting next week.
Oh God. Oh wait, this is movie.
We are going to be. Working on it.
We are going to be working on it over the.
Brake I have I have suggest. I have got notes about the
title. I don't think it quite works.
No, OK, No. We'll take your professor.
We will take your your constructive input into
consideration. Corbin, I don't want to hear
anything from you. Oh.
OK, let's keep bringing these Pokedex entries.
Moving on to the Helen region. The first entry says Quill.
Fish sucks in water inflating itself.
Wait, no, sorry, hold on, I already read this.
You silly zan goose, you already read that?
I did. Don't worry, this won't make it
a all right. Moving on to the Sino region
Pokedex entries. The first one here says, or the
only one here says, it shoots the poison spines on its body in
all directions. It's round form makes it a poor
swimmer. I don't know, throw some fins on
the side there. I bet you'd have a great
swimmer. I bet.
I bet it's swim. No problem.
Yeah, but just attach little appendages to it.
Yeah, give it like a little propeller or something.
Get Propeller. Yeah, listen, I listen, I mean
like you got you got 10 accruals.
Those aren't, those aren't like shaped well for water dynamics
or Aqua dynamics wherever. Absolutely not.
But they can swim. Wait, can they swim?
I think they just drift around actually.
They kind of, well, the tentacools just kind of float
around, but the Tentacools and swimmers, the tentacools are
very aggressive swimmers. OK, we we get I haven't I still
have my gold duck right that I use that I'm I said that I would
use to right race any other water.
What's? His name again.
So I decided, you know, probably wouldn't bring him out to race
against race against Noel here. Right, good idea.
Let me tear it up. Yeah, yeah.
Because Noel is currently on top of the tree.
Hi up there. Noel, you doing OK?
Oh, she's she's spitting water out of her mouth.
That's cute. That's cute.
Noel, you look so good up top there.
So what did you name your Gold dog professor?
Goldie so the so that does it for the Synod of Pokedex
entries. There are no new you know about
Pokedex entries and nothing new in the Kalos region either.
Alola also surprisingly does not have any entries for this
Pokémon. What?
I know it's very surprising. Galar again?
Wow, nobody wants to talk about quill fish.
That's. It's only Johto that loves it.
Yeah, it's pretty wild. Yeah, nothing new from Galar.
Let's move on to the Paldea region.
There are some new entries here from the Paldea region.
The first one says be cautious. If this Pokémon starts sucking
in water, it will soon attack by scattering the toxic spikes that
grow all over its body. Yeah.
Yeah.
So I mean, it does seem like it is obvious, but it is good to
note if you see a quill fish sucking in water, like get out
of there. Like get behind something.
Aboard. Aboard Hide.
Yeah, run. Hide.
There's no. Swim because it won't be able to
chase you because it sucks at swimming.
So just swim away. Yeah.
All right, so the next entry here says experienced fishers
say they try to catch Quill Fish in the brief moment that these
Pokémon become defenseless just after launching Poisonous
Spikes. So you only got after they
launched their spikes? You only got a couple seconds.
Yeah. You got a little window there to
catch. Yeah, but it is, it is important
to note they are defenseless after that point.
So really the only thing they have to defend themselves are
these spikes and. That's it.
Yeah, So it it, it only shoots them out when it's, you know, a
really disastrous time. I guess if, if all else has
failed, if it wasn't able to swim or swim away, it really
does. I mean, I guess things this
isn't really eaten by a lot of other like predators because
like I mean it's just covered in poison spikes.
Oh yeah, it's gonna hurt, Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
So I I can understand why these Pokémon don't really need to
like get get out super fast or anything.
No, no, no. They're more of a come mess with
me if you dare. And see what happens.
But then the question follows, like, what do they eat?
Like, how do they do they? Are they like the herbivores
they eat? You know, plants, mostly.
They could eat like, yeah, they could like, suckle on some
plants under the water. Probably no Pokedex Century
talks about that though, so it's.
A shame. We'll talk about it in the essay
today, though. Much on some.
Algae. Some algae.
Might be a pop quiz Corbin. I don't.
Know. No.
Not for Christmas. No, no, no, no.
It's Christmas. No, no, no, no, no.
Don't. Say it for Christmas present,
I'm so happy. No.
All right, the next Pokedex century comes to us from the
Lentil region. It says quill fish swallows
gallons of seawater to inflate itself to intimidate enemies.
If it gets startled, it spits out all that water and sends
itself flying to who knows where.
So OK if you see a quill fish. It's a flying type.
If you no it's it's a water and poison.
If you see a quill fish sucking in water, you're about to get
stung a bunch. But what you can, you can either
hide or you can like scare it be like booty Boo.
And then and then it would, you know, cause it to shoot itself
away, Right, Right. I guess I could also use that as
a method of travel too, if it wasn't a coward.
Oh, hey, whoa, don't listen. Don't say that about.
It that was probably too, that's probably too aggressive.
I'm sorry. That's pretty targeted.
All right, so the next so that does it for the regional Pokedex
entries. There is one unique Pokedex
entry here. It comes to us from Ashes
Pokedex. It says Quill Fish, the balloon
Pokémon. The quills covering the entire
body have evolved from scales. A quill fish can cause its body
to swell in order to shoot its needles in all directions.
All right, love that. We know that already, Ash.
Intimidating and projectile. Intimidating and projectile.
T-shirt. T-shirt.
Yes, T-shirt. There we go.
OK, so that does it for all of the Jotoian quill fish, however.
All right, that's it. It's time to eat cookies and
drink eggnog. No, not yet.
There is actually a different regional form.
There is a Histuian quill fish. This is like an ancient form of.
Really. Yes.
So here. Here you go Corbin.
I have a picture for you if you. Pick Yeah.
Oh, OK, it's a little bit different.
It's well, it's, it's, it looks very, very similar, except
instead of it being teal and like a lightish green, it's more
of like a really dark, extremely darkish blue, almost purple.
And the bottom half is a cream color.
It's like a it's like an extremely dark purple, almost
black. And the bottom half is is cream
colored. Now the spikes on the top half,
they do have like a lighter, a purple tip on each of the
spikes. And now the alien design or
alien looking design on the tail is gone and now it just looks
like the number 9. Yeah, OK.
I don't know why. Cuz it's nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. Because it's because it's
working 9:00 to 5:00. Courtney, if you look on the
other side, there's a 5. I like the 9 to meet you, no?
There's not here I'll do a client.
To me. I'll do a couple more so we get
one that's good. OK, Because he's because because
that's what cloud he's resting on.
Cloud 9, yeah, Cloud 90, OK. Like it was a good one.
That's a good one too. I want to get one more joke in
there. Possible so Porsche has options
in post so she can. Pick which one.
No, no, Porsche better put all of these in there.
Because it rhymes with fine and that's what it is.
Professor, you're so clever. That one wasn't my best one.
I I I think the cloud was the best one.
All five of those puns were so great, and you better not cut
any of them out. Yeah, don't.
Yeah, don't cut out all five of them.
Yeah, Porsche, if there's if there's.
Listen, if you guys only heard four, they cut one out.
Yep, Yep. Yep.
OK, Where? Dear God, where was I?
Oh yes, Corey was describing it. OK.
Anything else you want to describe about it?
Comparing it to Noel, Does it look more or less grumpy?
It looks more grumpy. Also, it does have like a little
like a almost looks like it has like purple eyeshadow on it and
that's that's pretty much it though.
So like, what do you think? So what do you think is going to
be the main difference between these two?
Meaner. Meaner, Mr. Curtis.
Any guesses? One is spicy.
That's what I said basically. All right, Yeah, he's focused on
flavor. OK, let me go ahead and read
these and see if you guys were close at all.
So the first Pokedex entry on Hisui and Quilfish does come
from Hisui itself. It says Fishers detest this
troublesome Pokémon because it sprays poison from its spines,
getting it everywhere. A different form of Quill Fish
lives in other regions. OK, right.
So it's still poison type, right?
Yeah, it's still poison, but like so, So the Djotoian, the
cool fish that we know, it shoots its spines like that's
what it does. It shoots its spines and the
spines get stuck in you and then you faint.
But the Hisuian quill fish, it sprays poison from the spines,
so the spines don't actually leave its body.
It's like. So no shooting the spikes, but
more shooting the poison. Yes, exactly.
That's exactly. Oh, see that it is spicier.
That's what I thought. I, I don't know if that exactly
is how it works, but you know, I, I mean, I just, I'm not a,
I'm not a, I'm not a flavourologist.
I'm not a gourmand. Well, you should be.
I mean, I'm too busy, right in all these lesson plans, Corbin.
I don't have time to do anything else.
That's true. I mean, that's true.
Hey, we get a nice break here soon, so.
Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be great. It's great.
What are some other things you're gonna do on your break,
Corbin? I don't play video games at home
with Donnie J. Yeah.
What? Hey, what games are you?
Playing right now, you play games with Donnie J.
But we we do play some games a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do. So right now we've been playing
a little bit of this newer game. It's called Pong.
They have like these these two like little boards.
It's a it's a 2D game. But you have like these these
like boards that come up and there's like this little, like
little ball that goes back and forth between the two, you know,
between the two little bars. And it's you just bounce them
back and forth. And it's it's a lot of.
Fun. Yeah, I tell you, you're not
checking out that new one, that Archaeus of War.
Archaeus of War is good. It's a little bit too adult for
me, but right, I did ask my mom for it this year and we'll see
what happens. I'll, I'll see if I could do
that. Mr. Curtis, I heard, I heard you
were checking out Dark Absols 3. Yeah, I started it a little bit
and, but I, but I, I really need to commit some time to, to get
it done because, you know, it's, it's good training, it's a lot
of good reaction time. I'm like.
Right. Yeah, I heard.
It's not as good as Dark Cry Souls 3, but I mean, you know,
whatever. Whatever works.
Yeah, that one, that one's good too, Corbin and for sure.
And if I finish Dark AB Souls 3 then for I'll I'll go to on to
Dark Cry 3 Dark. Cry.
Souls three yeah, Dark cry Souls 3 next.
So Oh yeah, for sure both of those great contenders and if
any, if if anyone wants to share any tips, feel free to send them
my. Way.
Thank you. That's right, Write in, write
Go. Ahead and write them down and
throw it directly into the trash can.
I don't want them. Roasted on Christmas.
Wow. Yeah, you're you're, you're a
roast ham on Christmas. Got them.
OK, let's keep moving here. There are some Pokedex entry is
from the Paldea region on Hisui and quill fish, so let's see
what they have to say. It lives just offshore in cold
parts of the world. Its poisonous spikes are thicker
and shorter than those of other regions.
Quill fish. Yeah, because, because, I mean,
I guess because other regions they aren't like the the the
reason that they're like longer, I guess they want to like embed
in the in, in the people more in the.
Skin. Yeah, but the historical fish
isn't worried about that. It's about.
It's more about just aiming those big spikes.
Yep. Yeah, and probably the fact that
they're thicker means that they can hold more poison.
I can get more poison for that or something.
That's right. The last entry that we have on
Hesui and Quillfish, it comes still in the Paltaya region.
It says it absorbs toxins from the food it eats.
I wonder what that is? Yummy.
The distinct purple spikes on its body are evidence of its
potent poison. Potent poison, that's.
What I'm saying man, it's obvious.
It's a telltale sign. Stay away from this little guy.
Yeah, yeah, it's definitely not made for you.
Hey. Hey, Noel.
How you doing up there? You doing good?
Kinda looks like she's gasping for air a little bit.
I'm a little bit worried about about Noel up there, Mr. Curtis.
No, no, she needs. To put her back in the yeah,
maybe put her back in the. Back in the tank.
You want Noel, you want to go back in the tank.
No, Nope, she's shaking her head.
No. She wants to stick it out.
No, man, that's a real. Trooper, that's a, that's the.
Holiday spirit right there. Gosh, she's so determined.
Look at the determined look on her face.
Oh I love it. Thank Noel.
I'm gonna give you 2 extra puffins for all your hard work
today. Oh, now she's she's so
determined. All right, I'll I'll rush to
these next parts. All right, so before we move on
to the testing portion, I have AI have an essay here that I
would like to read. OK, that's cool.
It comes to us from Bryce. It says, Dear Professor Jacob,
recently, I recently wrote this essay Research paper on Quilfish
and thought that you might want to read it for your class.
I will probably send you quite a few essays for JoJo.
I'm looking forward to that. So I will include a back story
for myself as a fellow professor in the JoJo region.
All right, OK. Also, feel free to crop the
essay or the whole thing, whatever.
It's whatever. It just it just I just graduated
to the rank of professor after being an assistant to the great
Professor Elm. Yeah, well known.
Well known in the professor community.
We know him. Yeah, I am the current
specialist on many Joe, Tony and Pokémon including Delie Bird.
Hence why I used one to send you this letter.
Oh, that's weird. It came to me by Gengar male.
I guess maybe you're maybe you're deli bird brought it to
like a fact, put it to a scanner and like scanned it in and then
just emailed it to me. That was weird.
Anyways, I enjoy your show. And then they crossed out show
and then wrote class. So very good.
Yes, good. You got it, You got it.
And I look forward to more of it.
Thanks, Professor. Vice president and vice
president. And Patron, can you tell that
I've been growing my list of titles from Bryce?
They were a vice president. I think he just made that up.
I think he I think he, I think he decided if he puts it in the
the way of the e-mail, then we'll then we'll make him one.
I. Do think he did say that he was
going to be vice president or something.
And I said, did we maybe at one point say like, oh, we've only
got 1? It does ring a bell.
Have we like, have we had any vice presidents?
Not, I don't think, officially. I don't think we have.
Yeah, I mean, oh, I'll keep dreaming.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, we can't.
We can't be expected to remember everything that happens in this
class. Oh, that's a lot of.
Work. Yeah, that's like work.
That's like actual work. We can't do that.
Yeah, and it's break time. OK, so here is the essay.
It says Quilt Fish is a green spheroid Pokémon that somewhat
resembles AC mine. Yeah, I can see that for sure.
With this description, it's difficult to see how this
Pokémon could come to be categorized as the Balloon
Pokémon, but more on that later. Quiltfish shares the category of
the Balloon Pokémon with the entire iggily buff evolutionary
line and, unsurprisingly, Drift Loom.
Yeah, that is true. There's a lot of Pokémon that
share categorizations. I think like half of the fire.
Type OK. Half of the fire type Pokémon
are known as the like Flame Pokémon.
There's a lot of flame Pokémon. Got really lazy with the
categorization there. There's quite a few seed
pokemons I think. Right?
Bird pokemons, Mouse pokemons. There's a ton of mouse pokemons.
Oh yeah, definitely. We love those mouse Pokémon.
OK, let me keep reading this. Love them.
Cool Fish is a water poison type Pokémon and is in the water 2
egg group. You're welcome professor.
Thank you. Thank you for the real that's
the real categorization. All right, That's based on
science. It launches spikes as its
primary form of attack. After it has launched its
spines, it is defenseless and this is often exploited by
fishers as to why it might be called the Balloon Pokémon.
Its primary method for launching spikes is to fill itself up with
up to 2.6 gallons of water. This may This makes it look
quite a bit like a balloon. One last thing that I'd like to
point out about Quill Fish is that its spines evolved from
scales. Seems kind of lazy to make it a
past. Wait.
Seems kind of lazy to make a past form of it have spikes and
just get angrier. Are you saying that it was lazy
that I don't know why I'm asking a question?
They can't respond? I don't.
Understand what that means. Yeah, I'm not quite sure I get
it either. Well.
I think it's like, well, they were just supposed to be.
I mean, I thought I thought an older version of it would be
then have scales then right Would have.
Scales. Would be then.
Have scales. I see.
Yeah, instead of other spikes,
right? Cuz isn't it say it was they
developed from scales? That's a good point.
Explain, Professor. That's even before the Hissurian
Quill faces when that the spikes were actually scales.
This is this is like the mid form before they became spike
spikes. Okay, I see.
So they just got longer over time.
Soon, listen, I'm sure we'll find Pokedex entries from even
more regions in the past, like further in the past.
And then we'll get a cool fish that's just the ball.
I can't wait. It would be cool if like.
A ball fish. Yeah, but yeah, well, it'll
still be the balloon Pokémon, right?
Let me, let me keep reading here.
Lastly, Quillfish has a Histuian regional variant, which was
actually just dug up over in Sino.
Yeah, I mean, we wrote this for the next centuries.
That's right. I was lucky, lucky enough to go
there on vacation to get a glimpse of it.
And while data is lacking, I still have a very good
description of it. It is very similar to Jotomian
Quillfish, but is half black instead of green with purple, or
half black instead of green with purple around its eyes.
Instead of having an I like pattern on its tail, it has a
shape resembling a lowercase Q. It's a nine.
Or a nine. I suppose it depends on what you
see. It trades its water type for
dark, however it stays in the water to egg group.
The Hesuian form of kilfish is rumored to evolve and do
something cool with massive spikes, but if you ask me, giant
spikes seems a bit like overkill.
Okay, So what are we learning about that evolution?
First of all. Next week fun, right?
Excellent fun. First, no, we will not be
learning about it next week. It'd be way out in the future
and I will say it is over. Quill is the name of the it's.
Very cool. So we're not learning about that
next class. No, not next class.
Thank you. OK.
Yeah. So that'll be in the future a
little bit. We'll get there, don't worry.
OK, But okay, that's gonna do it for the essay.
Thank you so much, Bryce. You will, of course, be getting
a bunch of extra credit for this is a very, very good essay.
Please send in more. I'm eager to see your views on
other Pokémon as well. If you, yes, other students at
home would like to send us an essay, you can send it to
wwwpokemon@gmail.com. Make sure if you do send it
pretty far in advance. You know, these lessons are
planned pretty early and we are getting more and more essays
submitted. So if you want to get yours
read, do it early. Mr. Curtis, do it.
Do we think, do we think we're going to give a Gold Star here?
Yes, I think we will. I mean, there's.
So sad about it, I know. There wasn't.
Well, I mean, it's kind of hard because they didn't talk about
spinner rack or how great. OK, you've given bold stars
people who haven't talked about spinner rack before.
Come on, don't be a bold calling, the cup cup toasted Mr.
Curtis. Oh, you're so you're you're,
you're so right. That is very bold calling the
cup cup toasted of me to, you know, set that double standard.
But no, I I will, I will relent. Yes, thank you for sending in a
letter today, a Gengar mail I guess like I came from a letter
from your deli bird. I mean, it was just read today
we got a long time ago. We, we appreciate it.
So thank you. Yes, Thank you so much, Bryce.
All right, let's keep moving on to the testing portion.
All right. No, I hope you guys are ready.
We got a big 1 today. For my pop quiz gonna.
So today, Chris, for the testing portion, I want you guys to say
what you like the most about Quill Fish.
Oh really? That's it.
No, no test. It's Chris.
It's it's a quill fish Christmas.
So. But can we can we do a can we do
a a like a pop quiz? Just no, shut up.
Because. Because he's quite.
No, because I did not write 1. Oh, OK, listen, listen.
Alright, I know, I know. Corbin is sad that he's not
spending Christmas with his family.
Oh, I'll be back. Soon so so he's I'm I'm gonna
say no, no assignment today, although I would like you to
tell me your favorite thing about quill fish.
I'm gonna say probably it's tail.
I think it's tail is very cute. OK, cute tail is what Corbin
says. Mr. Tails.
Cute tail. I like, I like that it can, that
it can, it can shoot its bikes. I think that's pretty cool.
I wonder how fast it grows them back.
Do you think it's like a 10 seconds 10?
Seconds. Well, it said a short time right
when it was talking about the fishermen taking advantage of
the short time, so. It says a brief moment that
these Pokémon become defenseless, but I kind of
assumed that that. I assumed that they didn't like,
shoot all of their spikes. They shoot like spikes all over
their body, but not all of them. I assumed that what it was doing
in that time was sucking water back in or something.
That's a good point. So I I didn't I I think it takes
a little bit longer for them to grow their spikes Outback.
Yeah, I could see that. Maybe, I don't know, I could be
wrong. It's not on the pokedex.
So I've said all I know about about cool.
Maybe we need to experiment some more with Noel get get her to
get her to shoot some spikes out.
Well, you know what? You know what, Curtis?
Maybe I Quill? What's your favorite thing,
Professor? Huh.
What's your favorite thing? Professor I like how grumpy it
looks. I just like, I just like, it's
like cute, a little bit of a grump all the time.
And you know what? I get you.
I get that. It resonates with me.
Understandable, it connects, right?
OK. Sweet our eggnog time cookies
so. OK, so we are gonna end the
lesson here. I'm gonna say a couple things
and then we're going to jump into a talent show portion.
That's right. Listen, I know you all are all
excited and that's why you stayed here until the very end.
Let's go. All right, so before we get into
that, I do want to say if you want to contact me, the
professor, I guess I did already just say this, but you can send
a Gengar mail to wwlpokemon@gmail.com.
There are also a bunch of links in our link tree, which is in
our description. Corbin.
Yes. What's in there?
There's a lot of good stuff in
the link tree. So you have links to the MU Tube
channel, you have links to our Patreon, you have our Twitter,
you have our TikTok, you have our Discord, there's a link to
our e-mail in there, there's our Instagram, all of our social
media links. Again, in the description of
this lesson and in the description of like the whole
not show, but lesson series on Spotify gone flap or whatever
you're listening. It's in the description of every
single lesson. Hit that link tree and go follow
us on all of the social media and check us out on YouTube for
live streams and those live videos and Ding that bell baby,
come on dingo Bell 2500 subscribers on the tubes help us
out. Jeez.
Hey, what's yo Mr. Curtis? What's your favorite thing about
our Patreon? My doodles, of course.
Why do I even ask him? I know he's always just say
that. He's such a narcissist.
I do such a good I mean. OK, OK, quick question.
What's your second favorite thing on the Patreon?
And the Q and AI like the Q&A because professors, assistants
and above get to ask us questions and we get to answer.
Them cool questions, anything you want, doesn't matter how
personal. Wait, what's what's above?
A professor's assistant. Nothing yet, but we're going to
create a new tier. OK.
Yeah, in the new year, baby. In the new year, new year, new
tier, that's what I like. New year, new tier.
That's right there you. Go.
That's what Corbin says too, but he's normally talking about,
like, crying. Yeah, yeah.
OK. Before we jump into the talent
show, I do want to mention one last thing.
We are taking a Christmas break. Yes, you guys love when we take
breaks. I know you do.
Yes, and I should probably. Should we, should we guess what
Pokémon we're going to be learning about When we come back
from the break, which will be on February 5th, I believe, is when
we get back. Yes, month break.
February 5th is when we're coming back.
Who is it? Is it a?
Is it a bug type? It yes, it is a bug type.
What a well. How'd you know that, Corbin?
I don't know, I've been wanting to learn about scary for a
while. It's not scary.
No, it's not scary. Dang it.
Wait, wait, Mr. Curse, do you know?
Do you know who it is? Yeah, actually I do.
Give it to me. It's a Caesar scissors.
Honestly, scissors for as long. As I'm a client.
For as long as I've known Mr. Curtis, I've kind of expected a
that he was going to say decision Why?
But he did not. No, he really caught me off
guard. Yes, we're learning about Sizor
next week or not next week. Dang it.
Decision. We're learning about Sizer when
we come back from our break. Oh.
That's gonna be a good one to come back to.
I'm excited. Yeah, it should be a lot of fun.
All right, I think it is time to do our talent show.
All right, so I'll get up on stage here all.
Right. Clear all right if I get if the
audience keep quiet down, please quiet please hi welcome welcome
one and all I'm so you could all attend us attend this.
Turn the microphone on. Turn the microphone on.
OK, sorry. Here, here, let me go.
Yeah. Yeah.
Did we wait? Hold on.
We we have to get Roselli in here.
We have to get, we don't have time.
To press your. Pen.
It's already sorry. Listen if they want.
Listen. If they wanted to see it, they
should have bought a ticket and they should have come in on
time. But they didn't.
So we can record it. Yeah, we can record.
Yeah. Listen, everybody's going to
want to see this. That's right.
So actually, yeah. Hey, Mr. Curt, you have a, you
have a camera in your pocket, right?
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.
Go. Ahead and start recording it.
OK, All right, that sounds good. Let.
Me know when you're ready. OK, I'm ready to go.
All right. Hello, everybody.
Welcome to the annual talent show, the annual Christmas
talent show. We have the GCLC BOTSDLC or so
listen, I'm so excited. We only have one act tonight,
but it's going it's going to blow the roof off the place.
So please join me in the warm, warm welcome to our one and only
act, Corbin. Corbin, what are you going to
come on up here? What you going to do for?
What's going on, everybody? I am bringing back an old
persona of mine that I used to have.
Guys I am bringing. Back who is?
It. Who is it?
Yeah, I've had a hiatus, but guess what?
See, Money is back. Wait, we're going to hit it.
Let's do some rapping. Here we go.
See Money. Wait, hold on.
Let's get it. See what you can't see?
Money. It's Christmas time and we're
all filled with chestnuts roasted right here.
I got a nice fresh mistletoe. I'm hanging up a pond.
The stocking line mantle. Someone call my girl Dawn.
OK. I'm sorry.
I just thought it was crazy.
Oh. My gosh.
It was Christmas. I get out of the ground.
We're just getting dragged away by.
A Mr. Jenny. Jenny.
We had a hit out and you for a long time.
We knew Steve Money was going to pop up around here sometime
during the Christmas season. He always does like going that
doorway. Come.
On Corbin, you had this coming. You were told you were not.
Allowed. To do.
This wow. Kicking and screaming.
I caught it all on camera. Don't worry, I'll send it to
Donnie J. Wow.
Tragic. So I guess that means the winner
of the talent show this year is Mr. Curtis.
Mr. Curtis, here you go. Here.
Thank you. Great.
Footage I took so. Your talent was recording.
Corbin getting taken to jail. Wow, Corbin gang taken to jail
on Christmas. It truly is a Christmas miracle.
Well, I think that's going to do it for today's lesson.
So until next time class is dismissed.