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. It's a little bit, it's a little
bit empty today. It's kind of weird, but
nevertheless joining me here. It's so peaceful.
Yes, my my wonderful teaching assistant, Mr. Curtis.
Mr. Curtis, how are you doing today?
Oh, I'm so good. It's just so quiet and calm and
peaceful. Except for the rain that's just
absolutely pouring down outside. Well, yeah, but like, you know,
rain's really relaxing. The that is true.
The the the sporadic Thunder is not great for my nerves, but,
you know, hard. The The rain is good.
Rough for the recording device, too.
I mean, it's just, that's right, nearly constant.
You know, normally you get so fed up with all the mud that
gets tracked in. Oh, but it's but I've got the
classroom so clean I've been working.
So hard guys, so. Sorry.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry, guys. There was Stormage.
I fell off my phone. You were missing somebody, no?
No, no, no. Don't come over here.
Stay by the door. No, it's OK.
Stay by the door. Let.
Me, just let me just. Rinse this.
I'm sorry, no. I'm sorry.
Oh, Corbin, I just, I just spent all this time cleaning the.
Classroom, you're fine. So covered that small tornado
that just walked into the room. That's our young trainer in
training, Corbin. Corbin, how are you doing?
Hey, what's going on, guys? I notice you're late today.
I know that's a tardy. Fell off my bike, the storm hit
I wise I was on the way here, fell off the bike.
It was a whole mess. I'm so sorry.
And now the mess. Is all over the classroom.
I'm alright. Let me take it off.
At least let me get let me get my boot out.
Oh, that's a lot of water. Oh my.
God, just take off your shoe and drop and just pour all the water
that was in there on the floor. I'm sorry.
Yeah, I did. I'm sorry.
That's exactly alright.
Let me let me take a mother boot here.
Hold on. It's stuck.
Oh, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What the? What is that?
It's covered a good What is it? OK, whoa, OK, Don't touch it.
Don't. Touch it.
What is that? What?
Is that what is that? Don't touch it.
I'm not really. If I put it over here, maybe
it'll kind of leave me alone. So if I just reach down and I
slowly pick it up, don't pick. It up.
No, no. No, no, no.
Give it to me. I'll take it, thank you very
much. No, no, I'll peel it.
I'm like, get, get, get it over here.
OK? I'm going to tear this thing off
and I'm going to have to put it in the bucket.
OK, so that for all the students who are extremely confused right
now, Corbin, I guess stepped on a whooper on the way over here
it. It lodged under my boot.
Something happened. Yeah, look, look, you stay, hey,
you stay in the bucket right there.
Did. You It is interesting that
Mister Curry just picked it up without any problem.
Well, I mean, listen, I tried to touch it and it stung me.
I don't know what that was about.
Mr. Curtis, did you have the same sensation?
No, no, I don't know. What do you mean it stung you?
Does it have teeth? I I didn't think they have
stingers. No, I I just touched.
I didn't. No, I don't think the little bit
me. I just grabbed it by the the
haunches and tried to move it out of the way of the whatever
but. Let's let's all let's all calm
down. Let's take a a breath here.
Take a breather. It's Mr. Curtis.
Put it into his mud bucket, I guess.
Is that what you're calling it? Your mud bucket.
My mop bucket over here. OK, mop bucket.
Sure, I like mud bucket better, but whatever.
I mean, I'll call it a mud bucket if that's what you want.
I mean, it is a mop bucket full of mud at this point.
Thanks to somebody over here. So you might as well call it a
mud bucket. Well, Whooper is resting quietly
in the mud bucket for now. It's actually the perfect
habitat for that whooper. So we will talk about Whooper
here in a second because you know, I'm just going to skip the
formalities. We are learning about Whooper
today. But before we do that, I have a
couple of Gengar males that here that I would like to read.
Most of them are, well this one at least is Whooper centric.
So it comes to us from a student named Potato.
That's a real name, huh? Thank you, potato.
I mean, it's, it's their nom de plume, if you will.
They are just give a name eh? I don't know.
It's the the name that they've given us.
That's the name that I'm using. OK, they say hi, I'm Potato from
the Paldean region, but I'm in Kitakami to catch Whooper.
I own two different Whooper. One is from Paldea named Burger
and one from Kitakami named Derp.
Yes. Nothing.
I just like that name. I mean, Derp is a solid name for
a whooper. You're not Rose Whoop.
They are pretty derpy. Yeah, all of them.
Whooper is one of my favorite Pokémon next to Mioskarada
Paldean. Whooper is a is poison ground
type, so it is weak to water, ice, ground and psychic type.
But normal Whooper is a water ground type, so it is weak to
grass type. Is that right?
Yeah, it's only weak to grass type, but man boy is it weak to
grass like this. Sorry, this isn't in the Gengar
male. This is this is me.
Yeah, this is for commentary. This is Professor Jacob
commentating. OK, gotcha.
Yeah. Anyways, the Gengar male
continues with. But some whooper can absorb
water. It's cool.
I mean, I can also absorb water like when I drink it.
But wow, you know you don't. You don't put that in and then
Professor Jacob e-mail, do you? No, I'll put it, I put it in
your biography. Thank you.
You, you, you absorb water so efficiently.
It is like, like, like the opposite of a Merrell.
Basically, that's what you. Are that's the nicest thing
anybody's ever said to me, Mr. Curtis?
Dang, out here roasting all the Merrells.
Huh, so potatoes Gengar meal ends with I enjoy listening to
your lessons. Thank you.
No, thank you, Potato. And you know, Potato is such a
wonderful student. They've actually sent us another
Gengar mail and this one is very quick and very short.
So I'm going to give it a quick read and they once again say hi,
I'm Potato and I have made some art for you.
Hi, Picture one is of Gore. Here.
I have the picture here. So here, you guys.
Oh nice. Thank you so much, Oh my.
Goodness. Picture one is of Gordon the
Cadabra that dresses like a Mr. Rhyme.
Oh yeah, that's really. Oh, that's OK, OK.
Look at that. Yeah.
So again, that that's that is Corbin's roommate, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gordon is my roommate.
Yeah, we're we're friends too. Definitely OK.
Or at least I Yeah, yeah, we're friends.
So Gordon is my roommate. Who?
Who is the cadabra who dresses as a Mr. Rhyme?
Don't ask why. Yeah, like, don't you know, just
let, let him be. That's just what you want to let
him. Yeah, picture 2.
There's a second picture here is.
Here you go guys. Here's the other picture.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
I.
Don't like that? Sorry, flashback.
Picture 2 is of Corbin stuck in a psychic bubble by MU 2.
I don't like that. Yeah, you can kind of see Corbin
in there. I.
Don't like that That's scary. That's I'm giving PTSD
professor. OK, calm down, Corbin, calm
down. It's.
OK, it's OK. I would.
I would come over there and give you a hug, except for you're
covered in mud and grossness. Oh yeah.
Wow. You know, you you must be really
gross if Mr. Curtis is calling you gross.
OK, Sorry. How does that feel, Corbin?
OK, I'm not that gross. OK, I stripped a lot of it off.
I'm good. I.
Mean that's not what the tracks of the floor of my pristine
classroom said, OK. This is a wonderful standoff we
have going here if I can just finish the Gengar mail.
That I I will allow it. Potato finishes this Gengar mail
by saying have a good rest of your day.
You know what I think? I will thank you so much Potato
for this wonderful work. Portia I'm sure will have the
wherewithal to add this to our social media accounts so other
students can see these wonderful drawings you've done for us.
Mr. Curtis, what do you think? What do you think, Gold Star?
I will definitely give them a Gold Star.
Thank you so much. I mean, the the artwork,
especially of Gordon. Very, very good.
All right, I will. I will have to have to give him
a copy as well just so he can see this little self.
Portrait. You don't know Gordon.
I was. Going to say, do you talk to
Gordon? Yeah, no, you're not friends
with Gordon I. Am I'll I'll be a copy OK,
that's fine you can you can do too I.
Don't know my friends. I do get regular I mean, he's
your, he's your, he's your roommate.
He is, but doesn't. He's your friend.
No, but he. Gives us he doesn't mean.
He doesn't mean that he is your friend.
Well, we are. I think we're trying to get
this. Well, we are very good friends.
OK. He looks really sad, Corbin.
He looks really sad that he said that, Gordon.
Isn't that you said that Gordon's not his friend.
Well, I'm, I think, I think Mr. Curtis really thought that
Gordon was his friend. Mr. Curtis, I mean, maybe he is.
I don't, I, we haven't talked about you that much.
So I mean you can be your friend I guess if you if you want
maybe. Maybe.
I mean, I really, I just use Gordon to keep tabs on you.
That's right, he's my man. You use.
I just use Gordon. You just use my friend.
Gordon's Gordon's my man on the inside.
I don't like that I'm not talking to him when I get.
Back I kind of keep I got to keep tabs on you, make sure
you're behaving. Professor, I got to go have a
confrontation with Gordon. I can I go right now real quick.
Oh damn thing, it'd be nice to have a class without Corbin for
once. Yeah.
So do you remember how peaceful it was before he came?
In I can listen to the recording.
If that's cool, I can leave, that's fine.
OK, well, hold on, hold on. How about you sit back down?
OK. And you describe the whooper
that's in the mud. But oh wait, did we already give
Potato a Gold Star? Yes, yeah, I gave.
Yes, you did. OK.
Well then I just want to say one more thank you, Potato, for the
Gengar mail. And also if you any other
students out there want to send the Gengar mail, you can do so
by sending it to wwopokemon@gmail.com.
Anyways, Corbin, can you describe that?
Whooper, I can. Now that this little fella here
has wiped off some of his mud, I can see more clearly that his
whole body is actually blue. He does kind of have like a
little mushroom shaped body, a very big head, small little
agony, no arms to be found on this little guy.
But he does have not needed, not needed.
And then he's got a big old kind of floppy flat tail.
And yeah, again, he is a light baby blue.
He's got 3 little dark blue stripes on his belly and then
he's got these weird looking little tentacle things coming
out the side of his head. I don't know what those are.
They look like little spikes or little airplanes on the side,
crashing into his bulbous head. Well, yeah, so, yeah, I mean
good description, Corbin, maybe, maybe in the in the Pokedex
entries, we'll we'll learn what those little antenna ear gill
things do on the side. Yeah.
That's not to say I'm pretty sure they're gills, but but
hopefully the Pokedex will clarify.
Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure it will.
There's no way that it would just exclude such an important
part of Whooper's anatomy, right?
Right. Yeah, right.
Exactly right. We'll find out what those are.
Willy. That's right.
That's Willy Willie. Yeah, he.
Just like a Willy Willy. Willy.
Willy, tell us what those things
on the side of his head are. Right, Willy?
We'll find out. I.
Don't know. Are you calling this whooper?
Willy Corbin is that. His name is Willy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Willy, Willy, Willy.
Yep. Willy the Whooper.
Willy the whooper, it just rolls off the tongue so efficiently.
Well, Willy better stay in his bucket.
If he knows his good for him. He's fine.
That's what I'm. Saying I Willy, hope he stays in
the bucket. I think he Willy, Willy do
thank. You I'd be Willy mad if he if he
got out of the bucket. Guys, let's keep it Wheel.
He's not going to get out of the bucket all right.
That wasn't even a joke with Willy.
Sorry, I just like the will to do.
It I really wish that you had committed to this line of jokes,
Corbin. Will I am starting to get mad
that we're not reading Pokedex entries?
Sorry. I really hope that the professor
starts soon. Willie.
Yeah. Cory, why did you name it
Willie, Please. I like the name.
It just came to me like a fever dream.
It was like Willie Whooper. Willie the whooper.
It just came to me. Sounds so good.
I love it. And you know, what kind of noise
do you think a whooper makes with someone around Willie?
Perfect. It's not what it makes.
In fact, I think it makes this exact noise.
OK, OK, OK, OK. Yeah, it was weird.
Do you speak whooper, Professor? What was that?
No, I just, I can just make. It's always.
It's been a talent of mine to be able to make a whooper noise.
See, he'll let me do it again. Wow, that's impressive.
I didn't know you could do that. Wow.
Yeah, Professor, a man of many talents.
I'll have to put that down in your book.
My book. Yeah, your biography that I'm.
Writing. OK, OK.
That could be like a full chapter, right?
I don't think maybe a sentence. So this the name doesn't come
from a Patreon donor or anything.
Gorvin. No.
OK. All right.
We've caught up. No, we've caught up.
Dang, ma'am, the well's really drying up, huh?
All right professor, I'm done with this joke line.
Please give me the non jokes. Wow, a student.
A student eager to learn. I don't even care that it's my
teaching assistant. That's true.
All right, so let's start off reading these Pokedex entries,
starting with the Johto region. The first entry says this
Pokémon lives in cold water. It will leave the water to
search for food when it gets cold outside, right.
Hoopers like to be cold. Don't forget it's I mean, it's,
I wouldn't expect it, but you know, I guess they have like a
flame that burns inside that constantly needs to be cooled
down. I mean, T-shirt, right?
A flame that needs to be cooled down.
Yeah. And then it's just like a yeah.
A whooper. I think it's pretty metal,
honestly. And yeah, really black kind of
metal font too. Yeah, but it's like a whooper
making like the standard whooper face, like the.
Just happiest. Could be, yeah.
Not a thought behind those eyes. I love it.
I'm I'll afford to that. The next entry says when it
walks around on the ground, it coats its body with a slimy,
poisonous film. Now which motion picture are
they coating themselves with? Like what is this Bleach movie?
Give us an example, Corbin. Wait, hold on.
Wait. What?
What do you Corbin? What do you mean?
I have a slimy, poisonous film. Like Planet of the Prime Apes.
Maybe like that I mean. That was a slimy film, right?
There was a lot of slime in that movie.
Yeah, that's true. OK, no.
So film as in a thin coating? Not like an actual motion.
Picture not like OK wow I I did not get that for the longest
time. OK.
I was thinking like, are we talking like rattata tui or
something like I don't know. Or Lord of the Earths of Rings.
Yeah, it could be any. That's why I thought you were.
Trying to say that's my favorite movie.
Yeah, my my favorite. I thought you were definitely
going to say something like mucks R Us.
But you know, that's, that's cool.
That's that's a toy. That's a toy chain.
Yeah, the toy chain store. Yeah, they have toy chains
there. No, no.
No, no, it's a toy store. It's a chain of toy.
Stores but they're but it's oh OK but it's AI.
Guess that's why people looked at me weird when I stopped to
stare and and watch what I thought was the movie going on.
But I guess it was me just looking at the people in mux R
Us. You thought that was a movie?
I. Have to re evaluate my life
choices I guess. I'm sorry professor, please go
back to class. Maybe you need to reconsider
what you think. What do you think a movie is?
Yeah, we'll want to talk about that after class, Curtis.
OK, so the next entry says a mucous membrane covers its body,
AKA a film. A film touching it barehanded
will cause a shooting pain. So yeah, that's why I told you
not to touch it. Right.
And that's where the shooting pain came from.
OK, that makes sense. Yeah.
So if you'd listen to me then. You wouldn't get the.
Shooting pain. Sorry, sorry.
Now, Mr. Curtis did not feel a shooting pain.
No. No.
What's up with that? Yeah.
What is up with that? Maybe.
Maybe you when you touched it you like, I don't know, scraped
all the slime off? No, no, the my hands are are
hardened and resistant from decades and years of spinnerac
bites and venom. There's very little in the in
the poison venom category. They can provide me any shock
these days. That's metal.
That's mental, Mr. Curtis. Yeah, if you look at his hands,
they're like 99% calluses. That's the here, right here.
You can hear. When he like flexes them, you
can hear his hands. Oh, I know, I know.
Stop there you. Can hear that pretty.
Gross. Yeah, Yeah.
OK, so next the come next entries come to us from the
Hoenn region. First one, and I believe the
only one here says Whooper usually lives in water.
However, it occasionally comes out onto land in search of food.
On land, it coats its body with a gooey, toxic film.
And we're not talking about the amazing do fighter, no.
No, it's not a movie. Again, I love that movie.
I love the amazing Do Fighter, but we're not.
It's not a film. OK.
Just just making sure. Yeah, I mean, if you have any
other ones you want to guess that I'm here for.
It No, no, no, no. I think I'm sorry.
I Jack confused for a second. I didn't realize this was the
exact same like filming. OK got it.
I forget how repetitive the entries are.
What do you mean is it's covered in the motion picture Goldeneye?
No, no, professor. Now you're just making fun.
Wow. I.
I didn't. I legitimately thought OK, never
mind, moving on. I what I thought we were doing a
fun thing. We were naming movies that we
know of. That's.
What I'm just saying this is you all.
You all have a much more. Maybe we should do a movie
review series. We should do that instead of
talking about Pokémon. You know, well that's
interesting cuz cuz that cuz I haven't seen any of these
movies. You guys are way more cultured
than I am. Yeah.
Do you have any other like chain stores that you want to talk
about, Mr. Curtis? No, no, no.
That you thought were movies. No, no, no.
OK, well then I'm gonna keep reading Poker Centuries because
despite what Corbin says, this is my passion.
I love reading Poker X Centuries and I would never.
Switch. I love it when you do that too.
And despite what I said in the Jump Bluff lesson, I love
teaching. I would never cancel this class.
You would never rather do a class where we review movies.
That wouldn't be a class then, would it?
Corbin it. Would be a class.
We could talk about the movies as a class all.
Right, only if they're the wonderful movies that take place
in here in the JoJo region. Well, we can do ones filmed in
Holland or Seno as well it. Doesn't happen.
Yeah, specifically Unova. The Unovans can just kill
movies. Yeah, they're not very good at
it. They don't really know what
they're doing. No, I mean they do it well.
Sorry, I was using the young hip vernacular of kill.
I would say that they don't. No, they're good.
They have their own studios out. That's where most of the movies
are filmed. As in Unova.
Yeah, but they're not good. They're just rehashed, reused.
Sometimes, but can we have another pop star argument here
on this lesson? We will.
We will continue moving on. Please.
All right, so let's move on to the Sino region.
The first entry here says it lives in cold water, half
burying itself in mud at the bottom to sleep.
It's a little. Mud blanket.
It pulls a mud blanket over. It's I could see, I could see
that being, you know, very relaxing way to sleep.
I'm I'm for that. Yeah, you should try it.
Yeah, you should. Just just submerge us.
Just get to the bottom of a of a lake.
Yeah. Please.
Yeah, just just sleep with the fishes.
Mr. If If that's what you command, Professor, I will do
so. I'm not commanding it, the next
entry says. When the temperature cools in
the evening, they emerge from water to seek food along the
shore. Slurp, slurp.
All right, I gotta I gotta ask, what do we think?
What do we think? A whoopers chomping on here.
What do we think? It's just.
A couple cutie. Flies.
Yeah, some smaller cutie flies, some smaller bug types.
Maybe like a, like a, maybe a Metapod.
I'm just about to say a Metapod,
a Caterpie. You know, something like that.
So you think it's carnivorous is what you're saying?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it will suck out a
Metapod. Well, I think it's omnivorous.
I think it eats pokey berries too.
OK, well you weren't saying any plants, you're just saying bugs
mostly. Well.
I could see that too. I could see some grass.
Yeah, just to really get those cutie flies down, really help
digest them, right. Exactly because they're they're
fighters. They are.
They'll fight, they'll put up a fight.
Yeah, they'll they'll try to climb out of your throat.
Who? Who do you see that from?
Experience, Professor. Yeah, you never just plucked a
cutie fly out of the air and just.
Can't say that I had it now that doesn't.
That's not something. Else, as it flies by, just go.
Wow, you, you haven't done one of those, Corbin, even I've done
that. No, I don't do the.
I don't do the fly by cutie fly sucking.
Oh, you've never done a fly by? I've never done a cutie fly fly
by. Cutie fly, fly by.
You've never done a cutie fly fly by.
The delicious you should try it. They have like, they have like
flavor coating their little dust is like just, oh, just
delicious. Oh gosh, feels wrong.
I'll bring you some. I'll bring you some next time we
have classical. No.
OK, the next entry says when walking on land, it covers its
body with a poisonous film that keeps its skin from dehydrating.
Do we think that like the film is like, its main purpose is to
keep it from dehydrating or, and and that like the poisonous part
of it is just kind of like a it's like a happenstance or do
you think it developed the poison?
Well, here's what I think. I think it developed the poison
this thing later because you know, what if, what if some
predators preyed on it before and yeah, they, they would go up
to it or attack it and they, it would like whenever, like
another Pokémon would attack it because it's a very vulnerable
small Pokémon. Some of that, that film would
come off right. So it started to develop a
poisonous tactic. So it would, it would make them
sick or taste really, really bad or whatever so that they
wouldn't try to lick it or touch it or anything like that.
So they repel that way they're not losing any of their cutting.
So it's kind of like a secondary thing that comes later.
OK, that makes sense. All right.
OK. But it is for like, it is like
intentional. Yeah, I feel like it developed
it later. Yeah, intentionally.
That's my thought. OK, that's my essay.
Hey, hey, that, I mean, it wasn't an essay question, but
great, great job, Corbin. Yes, maybe.
Star for me. Hey, I was going to say, do we
think Morgan gets a Gold Star for that?
He is kind of going above and beyond.
I don't know going above. And beyond and over.
Do you think so? Professor.
I listen. I can't say I can't.
I have no, I have no, no say over the Gold Star distribution.
He's got none. You know what we can give him
one. He's still he's that, that that
should zero him out now because he's been in the negative for so
long. So.
I honestly can't remember. I can't remember the Gold Star
standing of. Hey, but at least you're not on
a deficit anymore, Corbin. Yeah, congratulations.
Yeah, so more and more dissertations like that, Corbin,
and maybe you'll be in the green.
I can't wait. OK, so that does it for the
entries in the Sino region. There's nothing new in the Unova
region and nothing new in the Callos region.
Alola didn't even write anything.
Did not include. Lazy.
Pooper in their pokedex. I decided Whooper is not a
Pokémon. No, get out of here.
Let's see here. Nothing new in the Gala region
either. It's a shame.
However, we do have a new entry here in the Paldea region.
A transparent mucous membrane covers its body.
Touching it barehanded will cause a tingling numbness.
OK that's a lot interesting cuz wasn't it like a jolt of pain
before now just. Tingling.
Yeah. Which is it?
Is it pain or is it also tingling?
Numbness. Like numbness is the absence of
feeling, but tingling. It was, it was pain at first and
then followed by a numbness afterwards.
So it was like I felt, I felt, I felt a lot of pain and then I
didn't feel anything at all. What about, you know, maybe just
the the whoopers in in Paldea are just they just don't got the
sauce. They got the coding, but they
didn't get venom. You know they didn't get
poisonous like like the. Yeah, they their sauce has a has
a different formula that's. Right.
Yeah, it's it. They didn't follow the recipe.
Is that is that a variant or something?
No, not there is. There is a variant, there is a
Paldean whooper, but we haven't talked about.
No kidding. Yeah.
So the next entry here from the Paldea region, again for our,
you know, your standard Jotoian whooper is when it walks around
on land, it coats its body with a slimy, poisonous film.
We've kind of already said that. Not a lot new here.
I do have one more regional entry.
It comes to us from the Lentil region from Professor Mirror.
Thank you. It says whooper is very timid
and tends to stick close to Quagsire.
That's what Uber evolves into. Yes, OK.
So just just keep that in mind, OK, for the end of this lesson.
OK, gotcha. Its body is also coated in a
poisonous goo. Whatever you do, don't touch it
or else your hand will really sting.
Real bad, trust me. Yeah, I don't know.
I didn't think I felt bad but OK.
Yeah, you didn't feel. Anything.
No, you didn't feel anything like.
That's the numbness. That's the numbness, yeah.
More like dumbness, am I right? Yeah, idiot.
High 5. Suck, hey?
OK, there is. Oh God, he's looks really sad
again. I don't care.
I care a little bit. I mean, no, it's fine.
It's fine. Professor and I just I'll, I'll
discuss it with Corbin after class.
It's fine. What's it?
OK, why? Are you poking your lip out?
No. No, he's pouting.
We're gonna we're gonna discuss this after class.
Corbin, you and I, we're gonna maybe have one of those Kumbai
circles we used to have. What was that?
Why are you saying it like that? Cracking your neck and pants.
What does that mean? Yeah.
Why are you, why are you punching your?
Why are you punching one fist into your open palm like that?
Oh yeah. What does that mean?
We're gonna have a great discussion.
I'm just getting. I'm just stretching.
So we can Why are you drawing a line through the middle of your
neck? We get I'm stretching so we can
sit down. Mr. Curtis, Yeah.
How many times have I asked you to stop pulling out your Cortana
to sharpen in the middle? I'm so sorry.
Let me put it back in my jacket here, Curtis.
I it feels like this is assault. I don't like this.
I've done anything to you at, I mean, yet at least, you know.
Yeah, Nothing here, Professor. Help.
Yeah. Professor help?
Yeah. You're right here.
I'll help by reading a unique Pokedex entry on whooper.
Just distracted that comes to us from Ash's Pokedex.
It says Whooper, the water fish Pokémon.
I mean that's, I don't know, water fish, Pokémon.
But it's not really much. It's a fish.
It really isn't. It doesn't swim and honestly it
spends a lot of time on land. Yeah, it doesn't like swim
around with its little fishy body like magic carp or remerade
or, you know, fetus or something like that.
That's three so. I'm talking to get a fourth.
Let's see, I would love a fourth person in this classroom.
I need somebody on my side. Oh you mean you mean a fourth
fish type Pokémon? Yeah.
Oh, Paul Palafin. OK, we'll take it.
We'll take it. OK, sorry.
Continuing to read Ash's Pokedex entry.
Though they prefer to live in cold water, these appealing
Pokémon forage for food on land. They are kept warm by a layer of
insulating body fluid. Whooper is the pre evolved form
of Quagsire or as Mr. Curtis says, Quackshire.
Quackshire. That's right, Quackshire.
OK, so that does it for the entries on Johtoian Whooper.
But as I mentioned before, there is a Paldean version of Whooper.
So these entries of course come to us from the Paldea region.
There is one unique Paldean Whooper Pokedex entry, and we'll
read that too. So the first one says after
losing a territorial struggle, Whooper began living on land.
The Poke. The Pokémon changed over time,
developing a poisonous film to protect its body.
Now. So yes, it did.
Mr. Curtis, you have your hand raised.
Please go on. How did I mean did it, did it
change much from like a regular whooper professor?
I mean, that sounds like a regular whooper to the T, you
know what I'm saying? What up with that?
So, OK, good question, Mr. Curtis.
So yeah, what Mr. Curtis is trying to get at is that all
whoopers, you know, have a poisonous, like, film over their
body. So the fact that it says the
Pokémon changed over time, developing a poisonous film to
protect its body is kind of like, wait, it didn't already
have that, but maybe maybe when it lost its territorial
struggle, struggle. We're going back to what Corbin
said. It hadn't developed this
poisonous film yet. So even though these two woopers
exist on completely different environments, they both evolved
to have a poisonous film protection system.
OK. Maybe, maybe, I guess we should
describe a Paldean Wooper. Well, I guess that's in contrast
to other like Jatonian woopers that are in Paldea that don't
have just have like the light tingly numbness as opposed to
pain, you know what I'm saying? Maybe I see, but it doesn't this
Pokedex entry and not to spoil it, but I don't think any of the
other pokedex entries kind of mention what what's Paldan
Woopers poisonous film does to the human body.
It's true. So it could be worse, It could
be better and we don't really know.
Corbin here. I have a drawing of a Paldan
Wooper. Here if you can take.
This. Let's go ahead and describe that
bad boy for. Me.
So it's very, very similar, but instead of being kind of a light
baby blue, the whole thing is brown.
And the stripes on its belly, it's not 3 little horizontal
stripes. Now they're kind of thicker,
shorter, a little girthier stripes on its belly, and then
it has one going perpendicular between all of them.
So it almost kind of looks like a little football and then the
little planes on it. Look like a little football.
The the planes on either side of its head, the little ear looking
things, those are those are now just like a greater and less
than sign from mathematics. So that's and that's pretty
much, that's a Paul, Dan Looper right there.
That's a good way to put it from.
The hit character from the mathematics universe.
That's right, my favorite. Less than the greatest.
And then yeah. Hey, good, good description,
Corbin. I mean, if Mr. Curtis is right
and those are it's gills on the side of its head, I guess, you
know, you could. Maybe they are since it spends
most of his time on land. They're losing their
functionality and that's why they look so different.
Definitely one of the most different looking parts of the.
Paladin, they don't have as many branches, less surface area,
less room for osmosis. That's.
I mean, that makes sense. That tracks professor.
I could see it. Yeah, OK.
The second Paladin Whooper entry says it's dangerous for Whooper
to travel alone. They line up in groups of three
or four and help each other as they walk around the wetlands.
But I mean, like, what's what's, what's attacking them?
What's eating them? What?
What wants to munch down on a whooper so bad that it's willing
to risk, you know, ingesting poison?
Probably a rye horn. I feel like a rye horn could
take it. Now interesting.
Maybe anything that's like steel, steel type could
probably, you know, not be affected at all.
Yeah, OK. That doesn't for the regional
entries. The unique entry here comes to
us from Leko's Rotom phone. Thank you Leco for this entry.
On Whooper. It says Whooper Paldean form the
poison fish Pokémon. Again, still not really a fish.
No, yeah. Not a fish.
Nope, not. A fish, a poison and ground
type. After losing their territory,
Whooper began living in muddy fields.
They are covered in a poisonous film that protects them from
drying out. Again.
We don't know the effects of the poison, we just know that it
keeps Whooper, you know, nice and moist.
How Whoopers deserve to be. Right.
OK. So that does it on all of the
entries on Whooper and Paldean Whooper.
Right. Before we move on to my favorite
part of the class, I do have an essay here to read on.
Whoop. OK, good.
Nice. OK, cool.
OK, so this comes to us from Weston, They say, Hi, my name is
Weston, I am 13 years old. I have been listening to your
class for quite some time now, but I still started late around
the Typhlosion lesson. Good.
Yes, yeah, Hissui and Typhlosion is my favorite Pokémon, but
since I was late to this class, I couldn't send in an essay for
Typhlosion. So instead I wrote an essay on
Whooper my second. Hey, very good.
Hey. Yes, Mr. Curtis, Spinarak is my
third favorite. Oh, Pokémon are the best, and
their finite evolutions are awesome.
Or, as Professor Jacob would say, Pokémon with Bug as their
egg group are awesome. Wow, they're Weston's really,
really pandering here. And as Corbin would say, they're
busting on God for real, for real Look.
At no, he would. You would never say that.
You've never said that before. Well, well, I'm not around you
guys. I do.
OK. And what great times those are,
yeah. What?
Anyway, here's the essay. Whooper is a water and ground
type Pokémon. It has blue skin, external
gills, and a flat tail. It eventually evolves into the
Pokémon Quagsire. For some reason, Wooper always
looks like it has its mouth open in surprise.
It is known that Wooper isn't very smart and always looking
around at its. Surroundings.
Oh dude. Well.
You can't say that. You can't say look at.
I'd like to see you, Willy say that.
Willy. Yeah.
I'd like to see you say that directly to Willy.
Yeah. Exactly.
I would Willy like you to say that.
Say that. Say that to the Willy.
Way to his. Way he's a beautiful boy, you
won't hurt his feelings like that.
Yeah, look, look how happy he is.
Look at him, he's just living it up in the mud bucket over there.
Weston's Gengar male goes on to say while walking around on
land, it coats its body in a slimy, toxic film that keeps the
skin from dehydrating and insulates against the cold.
The film causes a shooting pain if touched bare handed.
Whooper is very timid and always stays close to Quagsire.
Arbach is a natural predator of Whooper.
Sorry Corbin, but it's true. Rest in peace is little piggy.
Oh. It's OK.
Corbin Wooper does have a Paldean form, which is which,
opposed to its normal water ground typing, is now a poison
ground type. Paldean Wooper does not evolve
into Quagsire, it evolves into Claude.
Sire, that's a good point. Yeah.
Good point. OK.
Yeah, it'll be a little while before we cover Claude, Sire.
Yes, the sire of Claude's. PS Corbin shouldn't have to redo
the entire course because he failed one or 20 pop quizzes.
Well, respectfully Wesson. It's my class, so I get to
decide whether or not Corbin has to retake.
Class, thanks for fighting for me Wesson.
Appreciate it. Maybe if you were the class
president, maybe we could get some traction.
That's right, Terry, help me out.
PPS Corbin should get a fue Coco as a starter.
I have one I. Love that idea.
Fue Coco is you know, top, probably top five favorite fire
type. What a great Pokémon.
I'll take it this evening. Thank you so much, can't wait
for. It I have one and it's already
evolved into Skeleterge. Plus, it's a great startup
Pokémon because it's easy to train and adorable.
Oh man, I'll take one or two if you got them.
Unfortunately, Corbin, you do have to pass the course.
I said this 1000 times at this point it feels like but you do
have to finish the. Course, but we've only had 194
lessons. Not and yet, and yet Corbin,
I've said it 1000 times. So.
So you think you would know by now.
Anyways, thank you so much, Weston, for this very, very good
essay on Wooper. You will of course, be getting
extra credit. I've marked it down here in my
grade book. Mr. Curtis, I will leave a Gold
Star. As ours, of course.
In fact, not just any Gold Star. The Gold Star I gave Corbin
earlier today. That's right, somebody likes
Spinner. Axe.
What? No.
Oh no. Please.
I had it for like 15 minutes. Wow, that's that's rough.
Buddy, it is rough. No, sorry, sorry.
You, you don't. God, you don't deserve this Gold
Star like our friend here who sent us this essay.
Well, there you go, Weston. Enjoy Corbin's Gold Star.
Enjoy. Yeah, you and I have some
talking to talk after class Corbin about your work
performance I. Get it with you we're.
Gonna talk some talking. I don't wanna out.
OK, so if you wanna send us an essay, you can again send it to
wwopokemon@gmail.com. A reminder, send them in early
and because we're only reading one essay going forward and it's
first come first serve, so the earlier the better.
All right, but that's going to do it for the Pokedex entries.
Nope, Nope, not yet on Uber. So now we have the testing.
Portion. No.
No pokey Dicks going to pull out my Rotom laptop.
Well, I don't listen as long as it's not an instructional.
Video. If you raise your hand.
If you raise your hand, I will. I will listen.
All right, But I won't listen. OK, there you go.
Yes, Corbin. Yes.
You have a question. I don't want to work with him.
He's annoying me extra today. If there's if there's anything,
as long as it's not instructional video, I will take
it please. I mean, well, good news.
Is it quiz? I mean, that wasn't, that wasn't
a question by the way. So learn to raise your hand
correctly. Can it not be an instructional
video? We are doing something a little
experimental today. Get a little bit freaky?
Double quiz. That's right, two quizzes.
Let's. No.
SO I, you know, I love the instructional videos.
I thought they were a lot of fun, but I think they could also
use a little bit more variety. So today we're just gonna do a
skit. A who?
A what? A skit.
I want you guys to act out a scene.
A skitty. We're doing a skitty.
No, not a skitty. Not a skitty.
A skit as in like a quick little, you know, a little
acting challenge. Like theater.
Like drama theater? Exactly.
We'll see how this goes. This is this is untested.
So we, this might be the last time that you guys ever hear
this, but you know what? We're willing to give it a shot.
I have a rubric for the. Skit, leave a poll.
We're gonna do a poll. If you like it or not, let's
know. Be honest.
Yeah, sure, let's leave it up to them.
Why not? Do a poll.
OK, so here's the rubric for the skit one.
The first two are always the same.
One, you must include information that we learned in
class, it's very important. And two, you must demonstrate an
understanding of the unique attributes and abilities of
Pokémon. Don't just state things and then
state them incorrectly. 3 presentation must be at a
minimum 3 minutes long. Because it's going to be a
little bit shorter than the instructional video.
It's probably a better amount of time anyways.
And then four, you must use two of the three props provided.
OK. All right.
I'm going to give you guys props here and I want you to use them.
All right, please pass them out. I'm ready to receive your props.
I have a prompt. I have a prompt here for your
skin. OK, OK all.
Right. OK, so here it is.
You two are whoopers who are going about their standard day,
OK, but on two separate occasions, one of you, and it
doesn't have to be the same one, it could be like you could
switch off, one of you forgets to do a normal Uber thing, OK?
And then the other will, you know, make fun of them or
correct them. OK.
That's your prompt. Try to keep it.
You know, it's like a little bit vague for you, so you can put in
a lot of your own flair in there.
OK, OK. All right, here are your three
options for props. OK, OK, OK, let's.
Help a cinder block. OK, all right, here's.
The cinder block. Thank you.
All right. Yeah.
All right, good. I'll put this over here.
The second one, let me just open my drawer here.
Here it is, a saw blade. Be very careful with this,
Corbin. I see you're reaching for it.
Very. Careful.
Very good for my discussion with Corbin later.
What? No, professor.
And then here, the third option is a bucket, yeah.
Oh, that's a different bucket than the one Willie's in the
back. OK, cool.
Yeah, no, that's that's I would never touch Mr. Curtis's mud
bucket. Right, Yeah, my, my muddy Bop
bucket is is off limits just because I would, I would not
like you to touch it, professor, because it'd get you all muddy
and that's not. I did hear you say bop bucket
and I'm not going to let it slide.
No, it's definitely. Not is that another movie?
Wait, or is that, or is that a, is that a store, Mr. Curtis that
that we don't know about Bob? No, no.
Is that? Where you buy your buckets?
That is my, that is my sloppy mouse coming to task.
No, he's becoming aware of it. Oh, right now he knows.
That's good. So do I have to use all those
props or just how many? Two.
Well, I mean you can use all of
them, but you have to use at least two of them.
OK, gotcha. Got it.
OK, I guess I'll work with this
dummy then. Oh wait, I have to do it with
him. Professor.
Yes, sorry. Yeah, You guys have to work
together. This is another group project.
By the way, professor, I just assumed, OK, that's OK, now I
have confirmation. That's disgusting.
I don't want to do this. OK.
All right, go ahead. Take your time.
Really think about it. We want this to work.
We want the debut of the skit to really hit home.
Yeah, and the highly anticipated Whooper lesson.
Yeah, everybody's. Hey people, love Whooper.
People love the whoops, right? Willie?
That's right. All right, all right.
Let me know when you guys are done.
Professor. We're ready, Professor.
Yeah, yes. OK all.
Right, all right, please let me. Forever on that.
That was a really mean time. I know, Professor.
I'm sorry. It's a new, it's a new, new task
that you have given us. I wanted perfection.
And Corbin, well, he eventually he brought it, okay, but it
wasn't, it wasn't there to begin with.
We had to run it back a couple times, but we got it now.
Yeah, we got it. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead.
I'm gonna turn off the lights and here I have this spotlight
back here that I'm gonna turn on.
Oh, no. OK.
And then when you're ready, I will pull back the curtain and
let you guys do your stuff. Just let me know.
And actually. You went all out, man.
I wish we I wish this is a video podcast.
I know, I know nobody can see it and how magnificent it looks of.
The video listen Series. You mean series?
Or something. Oh man, series.
Very cool nature of the classroom, really just adds to
it somehow. I don't know.
I can't. Picture it in my the light just
reflects, right? This is really cool, wish you
guys could see this or someone could draw it.
This is crazy. Whenever you want me to pull
this curtain and let you guys start, I mean.
Taking it in and letting people know how cool it is so they can
draw it. All right, sorry.
Here we go. Quite on set.
Quite on set, everyone.
Quite on set, professor. Give us a countdown.
Mr. Curtis will be reading the narration, by the way, before we
start. OK, here we go.
And 321 and. Pull the curtain there.
You. Go exterior pod.
Tony is looking for food on land.
Hey, Billy, how are you? Tony, I'm good.
Nice to see you. I'm up here looking for food but
I'm so dry. What?
Well where's your poison coating dude?
You need that to stay wet. Oh, you're so right.
I need that ooey coding so right.
I must have crawled out of the wrong patch of mud this morning,
you know what I mean. I hear you.
Every whooper has been there homie.
Let me get you some mud, Billy. Searches through mud.
All right, there's a pile of mud under this cinder block here.
Can you help me move it? I got you.
Thank you so much. They moved the cinder block and
a mound of mud pours out. Let me dive into that sweep
mushy goodness Tony dies in. I don't know your skin, Your
skin still doesn't seem slimy enough.
What do you suggest this? Billy drop kicks Tony into the
pond. Billy dives in after.
Hey, what was that for? Listen, I got a better idea.
Also, it's too hot to come out. What were you born yesterday,
Tony? Laugh track.
OK, we have Porsche add that in. Don't worry.
Keep going. Thank you, Porsche.
That's great. Now swim to the bottom and coat
yourself in that mud. It should be way more efficient
at coating your body. They swim, but they are
intercepted by a bucket. They scream.
The bucket rises out and a fisherman is holding it.
Not again. How dare you my friend is dying
and needs mud stats. The fisherman tries to grab
Billy but flinches at the pain. Ha.
Ha, read a pokedex dork. Billy grabs Tony and they jump
from the bucket. They swim to the bottom and
plunge into the mud. Ah, yes, yes.
Yeah, now come on, let's get some grub, homie.
They fly from the bottom of the mud and Crest the top of the
water. Billy throws Tony on store.
Hey, stop that. You're so slow.
Yeah, but you're so slow. Tony takes a deep breath and
touches the slime on his body. Much better now I'm ready to
eat. Nancy that.
Was beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you everybody. Thank You Beautiful Mr. Curse
Bal balanced age thing. I.
Have these. I have a bouquet of roses here.
Oh, you should have that professor.
Oh, Professor. Beautiful.
And he's from Rosalia. Oh, thank you.
No, I did not pull them from our our nurse here in the
GCLCBOTSCLC. Roslyn.
Shout out to Roslyn for patching me.
Up, Roslyn mentioned. Oh my God.
Roslyn. OK.
So, so the time constraint, you
guys did it, you guys were almost exactly at 3 minutes, so.
Oh, man. OK, OK, good work.
So you guys stuck to the prompt very well.
I believe that the two things that I guess Mr. Curtis's what
Billy was it Billy, was that your character?
No, no. You were Tony, Billy.
I was Tony. OK, Tony.
Yeah, yeah. Tony forgot his coding on land.
That was the inciting action, yes.
Sure, it was the inciting action.
And then he also went out when it was hot instead of when it
was cold. He did a mistake, Yes.
Yeah, OK. Foreshadowing his his eventual
demise if Billy had not stepped in.
OK, so thank you so much for sticking to the plot here.
So, yeah, but you guys knew that you included that whoopers need
a poisonous coating and that it is a poisonous coating.
And if you touch it, it's things that poor fisherman who tried to
touch the the whooper. What a.
Yeah, he got messed up. It needs to be cold.
Yes, very good. And also that they like to be in
the cover themselves, in the mud on the bottom of the sea floor.
Yes, of course, very good. And I believe he used the cinder
block and the bucket. We did.
We used the bug. Couldn't couldn't squeeze in the
saw blade there. No, I don't play that for it.
It didn't make sense for later it.
Just didn't make sense narratively, you know?
You're right, you're right, and you really got to follow your
artistic vision, Corbin. There, there has to be a reason,
you know, for the story you're telling.
And the saw blade just did not fit.
You can't fit a square peg into a circle hole, my guy.
I. I mean, I just like I wouldn't
ask you to. OK, maybe, hey, maybe next time,
if there is a next time, we'll see.
We'll see what. Let us know.
Vote in the poll. Y'all, yeah, if there is next
time, maybe, maybe you could have me read the narration.
Possibly. We felt like it was an integral
to the story to have Mr. Curtis read it.
That's right, yeah. And and Corbin played the
fisherman, of course. Right.
It meant Nick there. Was you Corbin?
That was me. So maybe what we'll do is we'll
hire, we'll have a casting call and then maybe you can submit
and then we'll consider you for the role of narration.
I'll need to audition for it. You will need to audition.
Yeah, OK. But I have a professor.
Professor, I will. I will vote for you though.
No, no, Mr. Carson has to be fair and equitable.
It has to be unbiased. I mean, I do have a couple of,
you know, voice reels of me teaching this class.
There's there's a few audio clips of me talking.
That you can see one or two perhaps.
One or two, OK, but anyways, regardless, you guys are gonna
get full marks here. I think that was very, very
good. It was a lot of fun, enjoyable.
I mean, honestly, I I had a good time.
I wouldn't be upset if we if we did that again.
Sure, but. We'll yeah, we'll leave it up to
the students, but yes, that is going to do it for today's
lesson on Whooper. Excellent work everybody.
You know, I think I'm just going to go ahead and say we're
learning about Quagsire next week, not.
Quackshire Mr. Not not not Claude Claude shirt either.
No. Outsider is.
Claude Sire. No.
No, no, we will. Claude Sire is is very far away,
so we're not. It's going to be a long time
before we get to Claude Sire, but we're going to be learning
about Quagsire next week. So make sure everybody come to
class for that. It's very important, very
important lesson. Can't wait, but I think that's
going to do it for today's class.
If anybody has questions they would like to send to me, the
professor, you can do so, as I've said twice now already, so
I really shouldn't say it again, but I'm gonna you can send it to
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We're wrong. I'm kidding, I think.
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OK, I think that's going to do it for today's lesson.
So until next time class is dismissed.