Retronauts Episode 268: Holiday Special 2019 - Pokemon Christmas Bash
Added 2019-12-20 16:02:02 +0000 UTCIt's time once again to head to the Retronauts cabin in Parts Unknown for yet another look at a video-game-adjacent Christmas thing! We've worked our way through quite a few video game cartoon Christmas specials over the past few years, so this time around we're going to switch gears and explore another medium entirely. The late '90s/early '00s Pokemon Boom brought us many cheap cash-ins, so of course it spawned one of the cheapest cash-ins of all time: a cheesy Christmas album! Is it truly the reason for the season? There's only one way to find out! On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert as they explore the magic and wonder of 2001's Pokemon Christmas Blast, and ponder over the supposed popularity of Stantler.
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James slidin’ up like he’s been in the R&B game for decades.
Cody C.
2019-12-27 23:09:11 +0000 UTCSurprisingly someone has the whole thing up on YouTube. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3jQvmcMDi0 Bonus Mark Hamill singing an extended version of “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”
El Pescado
2019-12-24 01:15:33 +0000 UTC"Yom Kippurin'" made me guffaw in the streets, who wrote this
Diamond Feit
2019-12-23 21:34:14 +0000 UTCThis is perfect pancake making background content! Thanks
Normallyretro
2019-12-23 16:38:54 +0000 UTC4Kids had been teasing TwerpShipping in non-canon since "Misty's Song" on 2.B.A Master! On the upside, Barbi Schiller put out a pretty cool cover single of that song in Germany: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Misty%27s_Song_(single) . I can't find a (public) source for the English version, but it still sounds pretty good in German: https://youtu.be/X_6rv_FkocI .
Drew Waranis
2019-12-23 15:19:24 +0000 UTCI'd be willing to bet the Kids WB promo department had a bigger budget/much more time for their own Pokemon Christmas songs.
Bob Mackey
2019-12-23 01:01:24 +0000 UTCI’ve never heard this album before, but I do remember Kids WB doing Pokémon Parody Christmas Songs for commercial bumpers one year and I’m surprised they weren’t a part of that medley part. I remember “Joy to Meowth”, “Hark the Jigglypuff Can Sing”, and “The First Pokemon”, which was a knockoff of The First Noel, being some of them and there was a LOT more effort put into those than this CD people had to pay for.
El Pescado
2019-12-22 23:10:01 +0000 UTCMackey, you diabolical... I'm always amazed at the weird/awful pulls Retronauts goes to for the holiday specials and I love it EVERY TIME. Eagerly going to shove this into my ear holes sometime next week when I need a break from family
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2019-12-20 18:38:02 +0000 UTC
