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5 Pokemon Episodes BANNED From America

Posted By: Brendan on 09.15.10

There are hundreds of episodes of the Pokemon cartoon, and although almost all of the episodes have made their way onto American televisions, a tiny few have been banned. These are the episodes that have been pulled from circulation, or that never even aired...

The Legend of Dratini

There’s no official reason why 4Kids Entertainment, the American distributor of Pokemon, banned this episode, but it probably has to do with several scenes where guns are pointed in people’s faces.

For a show about a 10-year-old who travels around the wilderness fighting dragons, psychic poultry, and monsters with swords for arms, guns are just TOO VIOLENT. Also, there’s an interrogation scene where Meowth puts on a Hitler mustache. That can’t help anything.

Holiday Hi-Jynx

In this holiday episode about Team Rocket trying to get revenge on Santa Claus (seriously), Ash and friends encounter Jynx, a lost Pokemon that belongs to Santa. Besides the weird fact that Santa owns Pokemon, this episode was criticized because Jynx looks like one of the old racist cartoons from the 30’s.

"Holiday Hi-Jynx" aired only once, and the controversy caused Nintendo to change Jynx’s skin color to purple.

Much less racist.

Battle of the Quaking Island! Barboach VS Whiscash!!

Ash and friends are traveling to Jojo island, but they are caught in an earthquake caused by Whiscash. Doesn’t sound too controversial, right? Well, the episode was supposed to be broadcast in November of 2004 in Japan, but less than two weeks before its scheduled airtime, Japan was rocked by an earthquake. The episode was deemed too similar to the tragedy, and was pulled from rotation, never to return.

Beauty and the Beach

In this episode, all the female characters enter a beauty contest. James also puts on some kind body suit with inflatable breasts, and enters as well, because that’s a stupid plan and that’s what Team Rocket does. James then taunts Misty with the line, “Maybe when you're older, you'll have a chest like this!” It’s seriously creepy.

I guess a grown man in a boob-suit taunting a young girl about her cup size is totally cool in Japan, but they thought it may be bit much for American audiences. A version of this episode aired twice in the US, but James in a bikini was removed. Good call.

The Ice Cave!

4Kids Entertainment decided to skip this episode, probably because of Jynx still looked racist. Although the early Jynx controversy led Nintendo to change Jynx’s color in the games, that memo had not yet been passed onto the people working on the cartoon (they later started drawing Jynx purple). Supposedly, Brock coming down with symptoms similar to SARS was also a reason to ban the episode, but I blame Jynx.

Electric Soldier Porygon

While the other banned Pokémon episodes may offend you, this one could actually send you to the hospital. When “Computer Soldier Porygon” first aired in Japan it contained a sequence where Pikachu fends off some missiles with his Thunderbolt attack. An electric rodent fighting missiles just wasn’t cool enough for the animators, so they added an intense strobe effect to liven things up. I’m sure the audience appreciated it, as long as weren’t having epileptic seizures.

That’s right, the strobe sequence was so intense, it hurt people’s brains. Hundreds of Japanese children were rushed to hospitals, and thousands more reported feeling dizziness and headaches. Some people even had temporary blindness. A later study determined 5-10% of people watching that episode felt sick. The episode was pulled forever, Pokemon was off the air for months, and the story made headlines around the world. The incident was later referenced on both Southpark episode "Chinpokomon" and The Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo."

The world’s most dangerous TV show was Pokemon. Who knew?

Do you think these episodes should be released? Let us know in the comments!

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Tags: banned, japan, pokemon, rejected, television

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RarityRuls97

6 weeks ago

AHH!!! James from pokemon has BOOBS?!

RarityRuls97

6 weeks ago

AHH!!! James from pokemon has BOOBS?!

iamawesomest

13 weeks ago

1.There are 6 episodes on the post
2.that james one is messed up, exclamation point!
3.look up demotivational star wars. it's funny everywhere

SailorMoonie

15 weeks ago

Sailor moon had more episodes banned from canada and the rest of the world even a season..but i watched it anyways.SHES NOT NAKED GOD. Lol

Kindy21

20 weeks ago

Fuck yeah I have every game movie and episode and I'm bored as fuck I finished 19 pokedex and been running out of things to do. I've seen every smosh family guy clevland show American dad Allen Gregory super news Simpson yo mama Shane and friends and a hole load of shit

HiiamIsabel

20 weeks ago

any of these episode would get me watching Pokemon again!

shuffling Pokemon

20 weeks ago

I have to watch the episodes

pokefan1999

20 weeks ago

Hell yes release them!! Fuck the T.V. network!! Disney ruins everything marvle, naruto, exc.

thatonefatgirl

20 weeks ago

i dont care cause I live in Australia so..... yeah

BLOD

20 weeks ago

Seizures bad. I see no problem with the rest. Although the grown man teasing a little girl about her cup size dose sound like he may drive off in a big windowless van

piokachu

20 weeks ago

try realising them in smosh.com if you can

piokachu

20 weeks ago

yup america is so stupid im 12 and i play halo and mw3 which are mature 17+ games its so retarded

Ffantasy501

20 weeks ago

"The Legend of Dratini"

Other than that one, NO... I MEAN COME ON!! >_< 10-15 year olds, maybe even around 7-8 o_o they play a little game called CALL OF DUTY, and maybe Battlefield, but mainly CoD and Halo... Mature rated games, right meaning their parents got it for them...

RingoMcCartney

20 weeks ago

In today's world ot wouldn't even matter. Children have seen more shit that you think. They should totally air these

dualdbz

20 weeks ago

ROFL
james was so creepy with those huge boobs.

AkazukinCruz

21 weeks ago

"Electric Soldier Porygon"
After reading it, it makes me remember the Lavender Town Syndrome creepypasta...

ruark101

41 weeks ago

HELL YES BRING THEM TO AMERICA!!!

ruark101

41 weeks ago

HELL YES BRING THEM TO AMERICA!!! except take off that piece of crap pokemon DP that show sucks bring back pokemon gotta catch em all! bring it to cartoon network tho

ruark101

41 weeks ago

HELL YES BRING THEM TO AMERICA!!! except take off that piece of crap pokemon DP that show sucks bring back pokemon gotta catch em all! bring it to cartoon network tho

LilJustice

41 weeks ago

REALESE THE POKEMON EPISODE!! btw, my friend wants too know if its normal for the picture of james to give him a boner?

Cole:D

45 weeks ago

I saw the one where James had boobs, I feel happy now for seeing it the 2 times it aired

Geeni

46 weeks ago

The santa episode wasnt banned in england. Nostalgia. I miss Pokemon

Geeni

46 weeks ago

The santa episode wasnt banned in england. Nostalgia. I miss Pokemon

LongIslindian

47 weeks ago

@LingYao<3 i wish i could understand tagalog mi grandpa still needs to teach me -_- then i could watch that. it looks hilarious and TV14 at the same time :)

Matejkostoski

47 weeks ago

Yes

Matejkostoski

47 weeks ago

Yes

LingYao<3

50 weeks ago

Lol! I've already watched the boob one in tagalog!

scumbag77

52 weeks ago

i kinda wanna see the boob one lllllllloooooooollllllll!

scumbag77

52 weeks ago

i kinda wanna see the boob one lllllllloooooooollllllll!

scumbag77

52 weeks ago

i kinda wanna see the boob one lllllllloooooooollllllll!

iluvsmosh345

55 weeks ago

My friend is obsessed with pokemon, and I wonder what he would say. Pobably that the boob one is super creepy

ponchouii123

55 weeks ago

i personally LOVE pokemon. i would enjoy seeing just how "bad" these episodes are and how stupid those people were for cancelling all of them (except for the one with the strobe. that was just stupid

Helljumper JC01

56 weeks ago

they should air them

sheep-ish

58 weeks ago

i knew about all these, but not that jynx caused controversy twice.
i would love to see the beach episode, lol.
some of the other episodes just made stupid mistakes. causing epileptic seizure, and t

SuperElg

60 weeks ago

I've seen Holiday and Beauty episodes.. and I just realised that they changed Jynx' color .. i thought is was pretty, not racist?

ZombiexKitten

61 weeks ago

(this is nothing)

ZombiexKitten

61 weeks ago

Well, yeah as long a they have a warning like southpark and jackass do. I still don't understand why these are s bad. Japanese are hypochondriacs and with all the weird shows and game shows they have,

obiesmosh

62 weeks ago

yes especisly the sishure one that is cool

gokuroxas

64 weeks ago

i think they should because they have south park with all it's stupidity and family guy with some of the things they do so i don't see why they can't let american's get the same experience as japan...

thefuckingchosenone

66 weeks ago

i feel a little blind.... look it for one minute and you die!!!