#31 - You Can’t Leave Your Hat On (Primeape Goes Bananas) - Pika Pals Podcast: Pokémon Nostalgia

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And now, join Pokémon Trainer Jed for a non-stop,
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Welcome to the Pika Pals podcast.
I'm your host Pokémon Trainer Jed and I thank you for tuning
in today on the show. I am continuing with my Pokémon
Indigo League rewatch along and we're going to be looking at the
episode Prime Ape Goes Bananas. Hold on to your hats, folks.
Also coming up later on in the episode, we are playing Who's

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That Pokémon? And I'm going to be telling you
all about the Pokémon gold plated cards from the Burger
King kids meals in 1999, as wellas a fun news story talking
about just that. So stay tuned.
As always, I'd like to just say thank you to everyone who is
supporting my Peek of Pals podcast, whether this is the

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Does anyone know how it works? Anyway, thank you very much.

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I really appreciate every singleone of you.
Let's get to today's show. The adventure continues as I am
still hot on the trail of my Pokémon Indigo League.

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Rewatch along and this episode was called Primate Goes Bananas.
The Japanese title was Don't getangry.
OK Zebra and it's the 25th episode of the Pokémon animated
series. It first aired in Japan on
September the 16th 1997 and in the United states on October the

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9th 1998. I just got done re watching this
episode and it was a fun one to go back and watch.
This one really is kind of a side quest of all side quests
when it comes to the Pokémon indigo league.
Nothing major happens in terms of Ash going against a gym
leader. We start the episode off and we
see Ash checking in with Professor Oak via the poker

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phone letting him know that he now has four Pokémon badges.
Ash proud of himself but Professor Oak is quick to shut
him down because he says well that's great Ash, but all the
other Pallet Town Pokémon trainers have 5 badges.
Ash just couldn't do right for trying.
Professor Oak suggests that Ash maybe try and catch some more

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Pokémon and that'll put him in step with the other Pallet Town
trainers and make him a better Pokémon trainer overall.
I think he also lets Ash know atthis stage that Gary has caught
something like 30 Pokémon. God knows how he's caught that
many Pokémon already. I mean, fair play to you Gary.
Props to Gary, but they might bejust multiple Weedle.

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Who knows? Just maybe he's just got a whole
bunch of piggy. We don't know if they're
individual Pokémon. Anyway, after Professor Oak
let's Ash down ever so gently, we get to see Ash, Misty, and
Brock continuing on their adventure.
And in fact, Brock is dishing out the goods because he has

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Jelly doughnuts. Brock giving out some Jelly
doughnuts gives 1 to Ash, tries to cheer them up.
I mean, a Jelly doughnut would cheer me up.
So thanks, Brock. I appreciate a Jelly doughnut
right now. If anyone would like to send one
in, go ahead. Actually, I'm thinking I might,
after I've recorded this, I might go and get a Jelly
doughnut. Yeah, I'm going to do that.
And, well, you don't need to know that.

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But, well, Ash is about to enjoyhis own Jelly doughnut when he
spots a monkey. Not a monkey person, not a
monkey or a monkey doughnut. He spots a monkey Pokémon, whaps
out his Pokedex, checks who it is, and is actually interested
in Brock's Jelly doughnuts. So Brock gives Jelly doughnut to

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Mankey. Didn't even check if monkeys can
eat Jelly doughnuts. Could have been like chocolate
to dogs. Brock should have checked, but
maybe he does know he's a Pokémon breeder.
Anyway, I'm I'm focusing too much on the Jelly doughnuts
here. Mankey is enjoying his Jelly
doughnut when Ash takes this opportunity to try and catch
Mankey. You pick your opportunities,

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don't you Ash? Because just as Ash throws a
poker ball, Manky throws a Jellydoughnut in return, which is a
really fun scene. It's.
A doughnut A. Doughnut Pokémon looks.
To me, like you got it pretty angry.

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Now what are we supposed to do? Although manky is usually calm,
but it does have a bad temper. Once Manky begins to thrash,
stopping it is impossible. What does it mean by thrash?
In the original Japanese release, the Jelly doughnuts

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actually rice balls, so it makesmore sense.
The shot here when you rewatch it that you see a poker ball
being thrown at a rice ball and Ash ends up actually catching a
rice ball. Ball of rice.
This is the Rice Ball Pokémon could have taken it to the

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Pokémon Center, shown Nurse Joy.Sure she would have been
impressed, but because he interrupted, Manky starts to
become angry. And I would too.
I mean, fair enough, Ash, there was no need for that really.
And after enraging Manky, it doesn't take long for him to
become angry, chasing down Ash and the gang, and he actually

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ends up getting into like a hugebrawl with Ash, which ends with
them stealing Ash's Pokémon hat.Yes, the Pokémon hat.
We get to see Team Rocket high drinks in this episode too.
They're keeping an eye on Ash and the gang from afar because
they can see that Manky means business.

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Ash does try to get his hat backat one point, and we actually
see a montage of where the hat came from.
It's an official Pokémon League hat and the commercial plays for
the Pokémon League hat within the episode.
The music for the commercial is the same music that I use for

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the Pokémon sponsors on the PikaPals Podcast.
It all makes sense. It all makes sense.
But the behind the scenes of thePika Pals podcast, you wouldn't
believe. Eventually Team Rocket tried to
use this distraction as an opportunity to catch Pikachu,
and because Manky gets in their way, James just straight up

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kicks him and this would cause Manky to evolve into primate,
which is, well, that's like Manky on steroids, but I don't
advocate in being on steroids. Actually I don't know if he is.
Should probably retract that statement anyway.
Prime Abe is now on the scene. He's even more angry, but he has
still got Ash's hat. But Team Rocket, look out

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because you are in for a beating.
Prime Abe takes out his frustration on Team Rocket.
At one point he actually throws Jesse like a lone dart and she
just goes head first into a rock.
Great scene. If you haven't seen it, go back
and check it out. Team Rocket tried to take out
Prime Ape, but end up on the losing side.
He knocks him out like Mike Tyson and so Pikachu uses this

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as an opportunity to try and retrieve Ash's hat.
That doesn't go to plan either. We end up in a wild chase.
Ash chasing after Prime Ape, Team Rocket chasing after Ash,
Pikachu chasing after Team Rocket, Brock chasing after
Jelly Doughnuts. Misty was there too.
She's chasing after someone, andin the end, Ash is able to use
his Charmander to the rescue, who roasts Prime Ape at this

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stage, weakening him enough to be caught inside the poker ball.
Congratulations Ash, you have officially caught yourself a
Prime Ape. Oh yeah, and amongst all of
this, Pikachu was able to retrieve Ash's hat.
So the journey will continue with Ash's hat.
It would have been a bit of a different show if we got up to

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this episode. And then just from this point
forward, Prime Ape was wearing Ash's hat.
But congratulations to Ash, he has caught himself a very angry
primate and that would be the end of this episode.
Lot to take in. Go back and watch it.
It's a lot of fun this episode it's just complete Pokémon
nonsense. You can.

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Get another hat, Ash. It's not the hat, it's the
principal. Hold it.
You're just going to get beat upagain.
It's mine. What's so great about that hat?
I can't replace that hat. I want it at the official
Pokémon League Expo. Don't you know how tough it is
to get one of those hats? An official Expo hat.

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Tell you Pokémon League fans down, you have a chance to win
one of 100 limited edition Pokémon League official hat If
you wear it all, it's washable and it's official.
Don't miss it. Your chance to win the official
hat of the official Expo of the Official Pokémon League.
OK, let's dive into some episodetrivia.
This episode's English dub titleis a reference to the 1980

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comedy adventure film Herbie Goes Bananas, one of my older
brother's favorite movies. That This is also the first
episode where Team Rocket referred to Ash as the twerp in
the English dub. This episode reveals how Ash
obtained his hat and also that Misty had entered the very same

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contest. So they could have been an
alternate poker universe where Misty is wearing the official
Pokémon League hat. I have the same hat, although I
didn't need to send in thousandsof postcards like Ash.
Despite Charmander learning the move Rage in this episode, he

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never uses that move again. One and done for Charmander and
the Rage Attack parts of this episode were reanimated and used
for flashback material for the Fires of Red Hot Reunion.
Both Manky and James's magic carp in Pokémon Shipwreck

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evolved after James kicked them and thus made them angry.
So you could maybe evolve your Pokémon the old fashioned way by
levelling them up. You could maybe evolve your
Pokémon with an evolution stone.Heck, if you're on the Game Boy,
you could even evolve your Pokémon with a linking cable.

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Or you could use James's technique, give him a good old
kick, and see if that'll do the job.
Now, I found this interesting. The riding on the poker ball
during the advertisement for Ash's hat is actually spelled
Pokémon League. POCKEMONLEAG.

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Sounds like I'm doing a spellingbee now.
That misspelling of Pokémon as Pokémon is likely due to the
fact that at the time of this episode's production all the way
back in 1997, remember there wasno concrete plan for Pokémon's
appearance to be international, and thus there was no standard

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romanization to write Pokémon inEnglish.
So Pokémon League was the best we got at the time.
Also, I always like to look at some dub edits and changes made
from the original Japanese release of this episode, so

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let's see what we've got. It says here that in the
original version, the kanji for Kotobuki is shown in the
background of Professor Oakes Senryu, but this is edited out
in the English dub. Also, Brock's rice balls are
referred to as Jelly doughnuts for the first time in this

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episode. The controversial, infamous,
maybe famous but ever known Jelly doughnuts being dubbed
over rice balls. Now, digging a little bit
further into the history of the rice balls, I actually found

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that a pun was lost when the English dub referred to them as
Jelly doughnuts. Because every time throughout
the series where Brock would make his famous rice balls, the
parallel is that it's a rice ball and a Pokémon ball.
And that doesn't quite work witha doughnut.

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It's not exactly a doughnut ball, although you can get
doughnut balls. I have seen them.
You know, you can get just the the middle of ring doughnuts.
Nothing goes to waste in the doughnut industry.
And Speaking of doughnuts, another dubhead, Brock, tells
how much he loved Jelly doughnuts, but that was
originally him stating that the round ones were filled with

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pickled plums and the triangularones contained freshly picked
kelp. A triangular doughnut?
I don't think I've ever seen oneof those.
But if we know, maybe Brock can exactly be trusted when it comes
to doughnuts. Because it is.
It is a rice ball, if we're if we're being honest.
Also, when the narrator asks Ashif he can catch up with his

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rival in the dub, the original had him remembering Professor
Roke's words about catching morePokémon.
Another change in the dubbed episode, Ash exaggerates about
sending in about 1,000,000 postcards to receive the Pokémon
hat, where originally he says hesent in 1000 postcards.

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Brock's response to this was poor Ash.
Losing an official hat is like losing your best friend.
Originally, Brock said that boysdon't really care about silly
things like their hats. I don't know about that, Brock.
I have a lot of hats and I do care about them quite a lot.
Glap app has changed now that I'm reading it.

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Another dub edit. While Manky is beating up Ash in
the dub he says he is not OK well who would be?
Ash is just there getting pounded on by by Manky.
But in the original version he'sactually ordering Pikachu to
help him, which explains why Pikachu is so hesitant to

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interfere. I mean, Pikachu, he saw that
that was a losing battle. Ash was getting pummelled and
Pikachu was like, I don't reallythink I can do much to be
honest, Ash. It's just kind of, you know, you
may as well just take the beating at this stage.
The final dub edit at the end ofthis episode when Team Rocket

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gets surrounded by a group of angry primate.
They originally say their traditional Team Rocket blast
off catch phrase, but this is replaced with a reference to
doughnuts in the dub. More Doughnuts.
This episode's more about doughnuts than it is about
Mankey. There's also an error listed

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here that says Mankey is seen without Ash's hat on its head
when it begins to evolve. However, after it's evolved into
Primate, Ash's hat is suddenly back on his head again.
So I'm not quite sure if that isan error or maybe, you know,
hats can't exactly evolve with Pokémon.

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Or maybe they can. Maybe it would have evolved into
a different type of hat. It was a, it was a cap hat to
begin with, like a baseball cap.Maybe it would have evolved into
a top hat. It would have been, it would
have been interesting. It evolved along with Manky in
the primate. Primate evolved and he suddenly
got on a top hat. Ash is like, what the heck have
you done to my hat? Be more angry about that.

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Well, yeah, anyway, there you go, that's some trivia, dub
edits, and errors from this episode.
As always, big thank you to Bulbapedia and their amazing
Pokémon fan community. Let me know if you spotted
anything that I didn't mention. Drop me a message on social

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media and let me know what you think of the Rice Balls Jelly
doughnuts controversy. I've always been a fan of the
Jelly doughnuts. I don't mind that it was changed
so I'm Jelly doughnuts through and through.
Might get a T-shirt that says that on.
Maybe it can say Jelly doughnutsjust on on the front.
I'm sure people would get the reference anyway.

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That's some episode trivia. Prime apes not trying to steal
your hat. It's scared of us.
When it was a manky, you tried to capture it, then James kicked
it. I think it took your hat so it
could get a little attention because it's lonely all by
itself. Be careful.
Now everything's going to be fine.

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Give me a smile, buddy. Hey, clinic.
Knock it off. That hurts.
Let me go. Stop.
Stop. I think Brock needs a new
theory. Guess so.
OK, it's time for Dragonite's Mailbag, where I look at your

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Pokémon questions and fan theories, and I've got a new
song this week. Check this out.
Dragon Knight, Dragon Knight Dragon Knight with his mailbag
in flight, soaring through the morning just as day is dawning,

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delivering all the letters in his bag.
Dragon Knight, Dragon Knight, Dragon Knight with his mailbag
in flight, all the Pokémon singing as the sun is brightly
gleaming. He feels he's a really happy
guy. Everybody knows his orange

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wingspan. All his friends will wave as he
plans to greet them. Maybe you can never be sure.
There'll be a thud whoosh male right at your door.
Dragon Knight. Dragon Knight.

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Dragon Knight with his mailbag in flight.
All the Pokémon singing as the day is just beginning.
Dragon Knight's a really happy guy.
Dragon Knight's a really happy guy.
Or so there might be some emails.

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Dragon Knight's Mailbag. How about that brand new theme
song for Dragonite's mailbag segment?
And you thought that Taylor Swift's latest album was going
to be the biggest music news of the year?
Nah, come in for you, Taylor Swift.
Look at that. Dragonite's Mailbag, a cover of
Postman Pat. Well, Dragonite is here in the

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Pika Pals studio. Do you want to say hi,
Dragonite? No, he doesn't want to say
anything. Let's have a look in the mailbag
and see what letters we have this week.
What do you mean there's nothing?
There's nothing in there. There's nothing in the mailbag.
Have you checked at the very bottom?

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No. OK.
No, no letters this week. What about any emails?
Are there any emails this week? No, there's no emails either.
I just done AI just sung a wholesong.
I just sung a whole song about it.
Listen, what do you mean? It's not your fault if nobody
sends anything in, but remind them of the remind them of the

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address. Well, you can send in your
emails and questions across social media at pikapalspod, or
you can send me an e-mail at pikapalspod@gmail.com.
Tell them at the the the phone. OK, I'm going to tell them.

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I'm going to tell them about it.Also, if you look in the episode
description, you can now leave avoicemail on the Pika Pals
phone. So do that and maybe there'll be
something in Dragonite's mailbagin a future episode.
Why did you even come here, Dragonite?
If there's nothing in the mailbag, why did you even play

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the song Play. That's the end.
That's Dragonite's mailbag this week.
Dragon Knight, Dragon Knight, Dragon Knight with his mailbag
in flight, soaring through the morning just as day is dawning,

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delivering all the letters in his bag.
Wait a minute, wait, wait. Why am I singing the song?
The whole song again? There wasn't any mail in the
bag. I don't even know why you came
here. Dragonite didn't deliver any
mail. There's no messages on the
answer phone. Stop the song, stop it, stop the
song. It was a good song.

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It's embarrassing. That's why it's embarrassing.
I sung the whole song. There wasn't even any mail in
the back. Took me ages to write those
lyrics. I was up till 3:00 AM.
It was a good song. It's a good song.
That was Dragonite's mailbag. Had a new song this week.
I'll use it again in another episode.

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Doo Doo, but baby, take off yourclip.
Wait, wait, actually nervous. That's not appropriate, is it?
Welcome back to the Peek a Powers podcast.
Thank you for still listening. Who wants to play a game of
who's that Pokémon? I'm going to give you a Pokémon
clue and then you have to guess who it is.

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Don't worry, it's never usually that difficult.
This week's Pokémon, It lives for a fight from the moment it
wakes A heartbeat away from the chaos it makes.
Its fists are like Thunder, its eyes full of flame. 1 glare in
the world become part of its game.

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Best not to stare or on your shoulder the blame.
Wonder who that could be? Well that leaves me with just
one question. Who's that Pokémon?

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It's Prime Ape. The Japanese name is Okazura,
which I'm not even sure if that was pronounced correctly, so
apologies to anyone listening. In Japan Prime Apes national
Pokedex number is 57 and it's classified as a fighting type
Pokémon. It evolves from Manky starting

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at level 28 and evolves into a Nile Ape when levelled up using
the Rage Fist 20 times. Here's some fun facts about
Prime Ape. Prime Ape is a bipedal simian
Pokémon with a round body covered in light beige shaggy

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fur. There is usually a throbbing
vein on the left side of its forehead and it has triangular
ears with pink insides, narrow eyes with tiny pupils, and a
pink snout like nose. It's arms and legs are brown and
have metal shackles on the wrists and ankles.

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This could be due to method training with weights.
Prime Ape's hands have no visible fingers, instead
resembling mittens or boxing gloves, and the feet have two
toes. Oh, that's cute, isn't it?
Prime Ape with a little pair of mittens on Prime Ape is easily
angered. Even the slightest glance of eye

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contact will make it furious. And when it becomes engaged, I'm
not sure if Prime Ape's ever gotengaged.
Might done. I think that maybe the
relationship no more. Sorry.
Let me start again. When primate becomes enraged,

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its blood circulation is boosted.
This makes its muscles stronger,but at the cost of some of its
intelligence. Primate also possesses the
ability to convert its anger into energy to attack its
opponents. Primate has sturdy vessels in
its brain that keep it healthy despite its constant anger.

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Did you know it will chase anyone who upsets it and will
not stop until it has caught up with its target?
Even if it's awoken from sleep, it will groggily chase whoever
woke it. Some researchers have a theory
that Primate is angry even when inside the poker ball.
Well, they go because I always wondered what Pokémon were like

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inside the Poker ball. But Prime Ape in particular,
he's furious about being trappedin there.
Here's something that I found pretty shocking.
Did you know that in some cases,Prime Ape has been known to die
as a result of its rage, Though it is also said to look peaceful
in death, potentially due to itsrage transcending and leaving

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its physical form to become something new.
Well, that's pretty heavy. In the Pokémon series episode
Showdown at the Poker Corral, itis shown to have a fondness for
bananas. Did you know that primate can
often be found on mountains and that it competes with Ursaring
when it comes to searching for berries?

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As mentioned in Pokémon Sleep, it is very rare to find a
primate sleeping without Rage, and Primate and its evolved form
Annihilate are the only known Pokémon capable of learning the
move Rage Fist. Here's some more prime ape
trivia. According to Pocket Monsters,

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the animation Primate is actually the reason why poker
balls were developed. This affirmation, however, has
been contradicted several times.The most notable instance of
this is in Pokémon Legends, where Primate is unobtainable
and pokeballs with the same function and shape, albeit made
of seemingly different materials, are actually seen in

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early points of Pokémon history.Did you know that primates
categorized as a pig monkey Pokémon and that it's pig like
nose may be inspired by the Southern pigtailed McCall and
that it also shares a similar color scheme and shaggy fur with
this particular primate? However, given its habitat and
overall personality, many think that primate has much more in

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common with baboons and snub nosed monkeys.
As an example, many of Primate'sPokedex entries say that meeting
its glare angers it, which is a common trait in many primate
species that understand eye contact as a threat.
So never look a monkey in the eye and never look a primate in
the eye. And that's all the facts you

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could ever want to know about primate.
So it's the whole game. It's your fault we ended up in
here. Where's Primate?
Well, why don't you just see foryourself?

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OK, as we wind down on this week's episode, I've got a new
segment called Merch of the Moment Name TBC.
Not sure if that'll be the name of it forever, I don't know, it
might change, but it's looking back at a piece of Pokémon
merchandise. And today's is the Pokémon
Burger King Gold Plated Trading cards from 1999.

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Do you remember these? They were set of 6 collectible
gold plated Pokémon cards released by Burger King to
promote Pokémon. The first movie Each came inside
a Pokeball shaped plastic case and came with a display stand.
You can still find these if you look on eBay or vintage or I'm

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sure in a charity shop somewhereif you're lucky.
And it's great obviously to support charity.
So if you're able to find these,they really are a piece of
Pokémon history. They were released in late 1999
during the global Pokémon craze and each card featured a
character such as Pikachu, MU 2 or Charizard and there were

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others too, so see if you can find them.
Let me know who they were. What an amazing marketing idea
by Pokémon and Burger King. This was timed with the original
Pokémon movies release and I've actually done some research and
I've dugout an old news article talking about just this, the
Pokémon Burger King craze. Don't say I don't do my research

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here at the Peek Pals podcast. Check this out.
Burger King restaurants are no longer just the home of the
Whopper. Pokémon toys and cards are now
included in the kids meal. But Happy Hunting Shane and
Danny Smith didn't have much luck today.
So we called around different Burger Kings and they're all

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sold out. A Burger King restaurant in
Greece was replenishing its supply as another shipment of
the pocket monsters arrived latethis afternoon.
We just can't keep them on the shelves and they're just going
out the door faster than we everthought they'd go out.
Burger King took steps to spell out customer limitations.
Customers can't buy the toys andcards separately.

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They have to buy a kids meal andthe limit is 10 per person.
We had a few instances of peopleattempting to purchase entire
cases of the premiums and large quantities in the 40 and 50
range, and we really wanted to discourage that.
BK also wants to discourage people from buying meals for the
toys only. If you're going to come in and

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get the toy and the meal, I you know you should eat the meal.
Burger King says it's first priority is to sell fast food.
They are not in the business of Pokémon and this is strictly A
promotion for the kids and not for professional traders.
Mary McCombs, News Source, 13. If you're going to come in and

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get the toy in the meal, then you should eat the meal.
I love listening back to that news article and I hope you
enjoyed it. To what have we learned all
these years later? That was 1999 and now it's 26
years later and I'm pretty sure that any fast food restaurant
that has a Pokémon promotion with the kids meal, people still

(36:24):
go and frantically try and buy the meals and just get it for
the cards. Throw the food in the bin,
Pokémon. But anyway, the Pokémon Burger
King gold plated cards. They look like real gold and
they really were something unique at the time.

(36:46):
I'm not sure if you could take them into cash for gold and
convert them, but possibly, who knows.
Gold's very expensive, so maybe one of these Gold Pokémon cards
could be just as valuable. But although they did look like
gold, they were actually just gold plated metal.
But as a kid, you know, they felt legendary and even looking

(37:06):
back on them now, they still look really cool.
Burger King wanted to outdo McDonald's with toy promotion
and they hit the jackpot when they teamed up with Pokémon as
this partnership along with Pokémon and the Nintendo company
created one of the biggest fast food toy releases in history.

(37:29):
And over 50 million, that's right, 50 million of these
plastic poker balls were made togo with these Pokémon kids
meals. Remember that satisfying click
as you pulled open your poker ball?
I mean to begin with the most satisfying thing was getting a
kids meal from Burger King, but digging into the bag, pulling

(37:51):
out the toy, and then clicking open the poker ball to see which
Pokémon you got. Everyone either owned one of
these or desperately wanted one.Let me know if you ever had one
of the Pokémon Burger King gold plated trading cards, Many of
them still available today on popular auction sites.

(38:14):
And I'm going to have to see if I can track one of these down
because this is something I don't have in my Pokémon
collection. So I'm going to see if I can
grab one of these because it is peak 1999 Pokémon nostalgia, and
it's a defining piece of Pokémonpop culture, the Golden Age,

(38:35):
literally. Well, that about does it on this
week's episode of the Pika Powers Podcast.
And you know what that means? It's for the best.
I know who could have. Guessed.
That you and I. Somehow, some way, we have to

(39:03):
say goodbye. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo.
I know I've tortured you enough with my singing in this episode,
so if you're still listening at this stage, you are a real Peek
a pow. Thank you everyone for tuning
in. That's all for today's episode.
Thank you for hanging out Peek Apals coming up next time I will

(39:25):
be continuing on my adventures through the Indigo League and
stay tuned to the Peak of Poundspodcast as I have a new series
new sub series starting very soon.
I don't want to give anything away because I'd like it to be a
surprise. Think it's going to be a lot of
fun. All I am going to say is do your

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You can donate via the Piga PalsUnite link in the episode
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