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I was reading an article on pokemon the other day..and i found that there is a couple of banned episodes....beening my curious self...i had to find these missing episodes.
Episode 18
Beauty and the Beach" premiered in America on June 24, 2000, but was banned shortly after.
In this episode, the female characters all enter a beauty contest. Team Rocket also enters, with James donning an inflatable suit with huge, exaggerated breasts. As one scene of the episode was about James showing off his artificial cleavage for humorous effect, this scene had to be deleted for English-language release. Even given the edits, the episode was only shown once more after its premiere before being taken out of the normal rotation.
Episode 19
"Tentacool and Tentacruel" premiered in America on October 1, 1998, and ran normally for three years. However, following the September 11 attacks, it was taken out of the rotation because a key scene involves a giant Tentacruel demolishing towers with its tentacles, a scene which is also shown as a clip in first season opening title sequence. Another possible reason for its banning was because of Nastina's use of large guns. Even though it was banned on Kids WB, it continued to air on Cartoon Network. It ended its Cartoon Network run after Hurricane Katrina because the episode featured a city flooded underwater. It still airs occasionally in Australia on a normal TV network, but they shuffle the different shows and season around so often that most people don't even know what order the episodes are in. This episode can be found on VHS. More recently it has begun airing again, but very, very rarely.
Episode 23
"The Tower of Terror" premiered in America on October 7, 1998, and ran normally for three years. Following the September 11th attacks, however, it was briefly taken out of rotation because of the episode's title rather than its content. More recently it has begun airing again, but very, very rarely. This episode was named after a Disney ride of the same name. It is located at Disney MGM Studios on Sunset Boulevard.
Episode 38(The imfamous seizure episode)
Electric Soldier Porygon" was aired in Japan on December 16, 1997, around 18:30 Japanese time, and became infamous for causing a number of epileptic seizures in young viewers.
About 20 minutes into the episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" there was a scene in which Pikachu stops some rockets with his lightning attack, resulting in a huge explosion that flashed red and blue lights. Although there were similar parts in the episode with red and blue flashes, this scene was extremely intense, with blinks at a rate of about 12 Hz for approximately 4 seconds in almost full screen, and then for 2 seconds outright fullscreen. At this point, viewers started to complain of blurred vision, headaches, dizziness and nausea, actual cases of the motif of harmful sensation. A few people even had seizures, blindness, convulsions and lost consciousness. Japan's Fire Defense Agency reported that a total of 685 children (310 boys, 375 girls) were taken to hospitals by ambulances. Although many children recovered during the ambulance trip, more than 150 of them were admitted to hospitals. Only two people stayed in the hospital for over 2 weeks.
Scientists believe that the flashing lights triggered "photosensitive seizures" in which visual stimuli such as flashing lights can cause altered consciousness. Although scientists know that approximately 1 in 4000 people (0.5 - 0.8% of children between 4-14 years old) are susceptible to these types of seizures, the number of people affected by this Pokmon episode was unprecedented.
A Pokmon website, Pokmon Press Battle, made the following observation: "(...) photo induced epileptic attacks can be caused by exhaustion, stress, and sitting too close to the television. All of the above are facts in most Japanese schoolchildren's lives, who live under constant academic and social pressure in small homes. Experts have speculated that the children were intensely focused and involved with the show, figuratively 'glued to the set' when the scene went off like a bomb in their faces." After the airing of "Electric Soldier Porygon", Pokmon went into a four month hiatus.
Episode 35
The Legend of Dratini" was the first to be banned after going through the dubbing process. At several points in this episode, guns are pointed at people threateningly, and warning shots are fired. And when Team Rocket was holding the Safari Zone guy hostage he wasn't cooperating and James said that he was pissing him off. Also, Meowth shows up in a scene dressed with a Hitler-like mustache. Due to the sensitivity of the American public to guns in children's shows (particularly the image of a child being threatened with a gun), this episode was never aired for American circulation.
The removal of this episode leads to continuity problems, as Ash captured 30 Tauros in this episode. The Tauros appear in later episodes, only one of which very briefly mentions where they came from.
Christmas Episode
"Holiday Hi-Jynx" aired on North American television several times. There is controversy because of Jynx's original appearance. Her dark skin, exaggerated lips, and light hair, supposedly inspired by Yama-uba, are strikingly similar to performers in blackface, and the racially-charged image drew a great deal of criticism. The episode was pulled from rotation after Carole Boston Weatherford published an article in Black World Today about Jynx's appearance.
Jynx was later redesigned and now has purple skin, but Jynx's cameo appearances are still often edited out of episodes, and occasionally episodes featuring Jynx aren't aired at all.
It is not, however, banned in the UK. The episode often airs on Toonami UK.
At one time, this episode could be found on video cassette in the US. Because VHS has fallen out of favor in America, however, it is highly unlikely to find a cassette around.
It was shown once on American television
Anyhow.
You can download some of the banned episodes here.
Take care and Talk later
Ciddy
I was reading an article on pokemon the other day..and i found that there is a couple of banned episodes....beening my curious self...i had to find these missing episodes.
Episode 18
Beauty and the Beach" premiered in America on June 24, 2000, but was banned shortly after.
In this episode, the female characters all enter a beauty contest. Team Rocket also enters, with James donning an inflatable suit with huge, exaggerated breasts. As one scene of the episode was about James showing off his artificial cleavage for humorous effect, this scene had to be deleted for English-language release. Even given the edits, the episode was only shown once more after its premiere before being taken out of the normal rotation.
Episode 19
"Tentacool and Tentacruel" premiered in America on October 1, 1998, and ran normally for three years. However, following the September 11 attacks, it was taken out of the rotation because a key scene involves a giant Tentacruel demolishing towers with its tentacles, a scene which is also shown as a clip in first season opening title sequence. Another possible reason for its banning was because of Nastina's use of large guns. Even though it was banned on Kids WB, it continued to air on Cartoon Network. It ended its Cartoon Network run after Hurricane Katrina because the episode featured a city flooded underwater. It still airs occasionally in Australia on a normal TV network, but they shuffle the different shows and season around so often that most people don't even know what order the episodes are in. This episode can be found on VHS. More recently it has begun airing again, but very, very rarely.
Episode 23
"The Tower of Terror" premiered in America on October 7, 1998, and ran normally for three years. Following the September 11th attacks, however, it was briefly taken out of rotation because of the episode's title rather than its content. More recently it has begun airing again, but very, very rarely. This episode was named after a Disney ride of the same name. It is located at Disney MGM Studios on Sunset Boulevard.
Episode 38(The imfamous seizure episode)
Electric Soldier Porygon" was aired in Japan on December 16, 1997, around 18:30 Japanese time, and became infamous for causing a number of epileptic seizures in young viewers.
About 20 minutes into the episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" there was a scene in which Pikachu stops some rockets with his lightning attack, resulting in a huge explosion that flashed red and blue lights. Although there were similar parts in the episode with red and blue flashes, this scene was extremely intense, with blinks at a rate of about 12 Hz for approximately 4 seconds in almost full screen, and then for 2 seconds outright fullscreen. At this point, viewers started to complain of blurred vision, headaches, dizziness and nausea, actual cases of the motif of harmful sensation. A few people even had seizures, blindness, convulsions and lost consciousness. Japan's Fire Defense Agency reported that a total of 685 children (310 boys, 375 girls) were taken to hospitals by ambulances. Although many children recovered during the ambulance trip, more than 150 of them were admitted to hospitals. Only two people stayed in the hospital for over 2 weeks.
Scientists believe that the flashing lights triggered "photosensitive seizures" in which visual stimuli such as flashing lights can cause altered consciousness. Although scientists know that approximately 1 in 4000 people (0.5 - 0.8% of children between 4-14 years old) are susceptible to these types of seizures, the number of people affected by this Pokmon episode was unprecedented.
A Pokmon website, Pokmon Press Battle, made the following observation: "(...) photo induced epileptic attacks can be caused by exhaustion, stress, and sitting too close to the television. All of the above are facts in most Japanese schoolchildren's lives, who live under constant academic and social pressure in small homes. Experts have speculated that the children were intensely focused and involved with the show, figuratively 'glued to the set' when the scene went off like a bomb in their faces." After the airing of "Electric Soldier Porygon", Pokmon went into a four month hiatus.
Episode 35
The Legend of Dratini" was the first to be banned after going through the dubbing process. At several points in this episode, guns are pointed at people threateningly, and warning shots are fired. And when Team Rocket was holding the Safari Zone guy hostage he wasn't cooperating and James said that he was pissing him off. Also, Meowth shows up in a scene dressed with a Hitler-like mustache. Due to the sensitivity of the American public to guns in children's shows (particularly the image of a child being threatened with a gun), this episode was never aired for American circulation.
The removal of this episode leads to continuity problems, as Ash captured 30 Tauros in this episode. The Tauros appear in later episodes, only one of which very briefly mentions where they came from.
Christmas Episode
"Holiday Hi-Jynx" aired on North American television several times. There is controversy because of Jynx's original appearance. Her dark skin, exaggerated lips, and light hair, supposedly inspired by Yama-uba, are strikingly similar to performers in blackface, and the racially-charged image drew a great deal of criticism. The episode was pulled from rotation after Carole Boston Weatherford published an article in Black World Today about Jynx's appearance.
Jynx was later redesigned and now has purple skin, but Jynx's cameo appearances are still often edited out of episodes, and occasionally episodes featuring Jynx aren't aired at all.
It is not, however, banned in the UK. The episode often airs on Toonami UK.
At one time, this episode could be found on video cassette in the US. Because VHS has fallen out of favor in America, however, it is highly unlikely to find a cassette around.
It was shown once on American television
Anyhow.
You can download some of the banned episodes here.
Take care and Talk later
Ciddy
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