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For those who are curious, notice that Kids WB are skipping through to the Munchlax episode and the introduction of Ash's Hoenn League rival, dubbed Morrison, next week.
Dogasu has mused this on his website:
Two interesting things are that 1) 4Kids doesn't seem to be dubbing the clip show episode, and 2) Kids' WB! is skipping three episodes. No one seems to care about the first bit of news because "it's a clip show, and nobody likes those," but the second one is getting everyone all bent out of shape. The three episodes ("Date Expectations," "Mean with Envy," and "Pacifidlog Jam") have already aired in the U.K., but they're being skipped over in the U.S., presumably because they feature Rougela. [in the English version, Jynx] The pokemon had been a cause of controversy before, so the animators have recolored the pokemon to make it less offensive. Yet the episodes are being skipped anyway. Of course, a few fans on the Internet are basically having kittens over this, cursing Kids' WB! for "banning" these episodes and "ruining all of Hoenn." They're also cursing that "crazy [rhymes with witch]," Carol B. Weatherford for writing that article over six years ago that brought about the whole controversy in the first place. People are pissed.
The episodes will air eventually because Kids' WB! isn't going to pay for episodes it has no intention of airing when the show is getting the kind of ratings that Pok?mon is.. The way I see it, though, it's just business as usual with Kids' WB! They've certainly premiered episodes out of order before, including non-filler episodes, and this is really no different. "But this is just like skipping one of Ash's gym battles!" "Skipping these episodes ruins continuity!" "They can't air them after the Grand Festival because then it'll make no sense!" None of that matters because this is Kids' WB! we're talking about. They paid for the episodes, and they have the right to air them whenever the hell they want, regardless of whether or not it screws up the storyline. People were wrong about "Love at First Flight" being banned, and they're wrong about these episodes being banned as well.
Cleaned that up a bit but anyway, yep, we've established that if the episode doesn't have a dub title, then they're more or less not going to be dubbed, and since they aired in the UK, the English version exists, it's just a matter of waiting for a few months. My guess: they'll be summer episodes to tide you over since they are blazing through to get to the Hoenn League that much faster. Kids WB is...always something amusing or interesting to watch, that's for sure.
What say you?
Dogasu has mused this on his website:
Two interesting things are that 1) 4Kids doesn't seem to be dubbing the clip show episode, and 2) Kids' WB! is skipping three episodes. No one seems to care about the first bit of news because "it's a clip show, and nobody likes those," but the second one is getting everyone all bent out of shape. The three episodes ("Date Expectations," "Mean with Envy," and "Pacifidlog Jam") have already aired in the U.K., but they're being skipped over in the U.S., presumably because they feature Rougela. [in the English version, Jynx] The pokemon had been a cause of controversy before, so the animators have recolored the pokemon to make it less offensive. Yet the episodes are being skipped anyway. Of course, a few fans on the Internet are basically having kittens over this, cursing Kids' WB! for "banning" these episodes and "ruining all of Hoenn." They're also cursing that "crazy [rhymes with witch]," Carol B. Weatherford for writing that article over six years ago that brought about the whole controversy in the first place. People are pissed.
The episodes will air eventually because Kids' WB! isn't going to pay for episodes it has no intention of airing when the show is getting the kind of ratings that Pok?mon is.. The way I see it, though, it's just business as usual with Kids' WB! They've certainly premiered episodes out of order before, including non-filler episodes, and this is really no different. "But this is just like skipping one of Ash's gym battles!" "Skipping these episodes ruins continuity!" "They can't air them after the Grand Festival because then it'll make no sense!" None of that matters because this is Kids' WB! we're talking about. They paid for the episodes, and they have the right to air them whenever the hell they want, regardless of whether or not it screws up the storyline. People were wrong about "Love at First Flight" being banned, and they're wrong about these episodes being banned as well.
Cleaned that up a bit but anyway, yep, we've established that if the episode doesn't have a dub title, then they're more or less not going to be dubbed, and since they aired in the UK, the English version exists, it's just a matter of waiting for a few months. My guess: they'll be summer episodes to tide you over since they are blazing through to get to the Hoenn League that much faster. Kids WB is...always something amusing or interesting to watch, that's for sure.
What say you?
