GORDON LIGHTFOOT | Culture
BACK IN MY DAY
35 year old father of two, Oliver Barnes almost spat his coffee this morning, after finding out that ‘Pokemon’, one of his childhood favourites, has been ‘degraded and cheapened to an alarming degree’.
The operations analyst from Hamilton noticed that his 5 year old Matthew had lately been showing interest in the popular cartoon franchise. Mr Barnes said he was pleasantly surprised to find out that the show was still going.
“My first thought was ‘Awesome! Something that Matthew and I can bond over’. I’ll be able to share the knowledge I’ve had stored away in the back of my mind for all these years.
“But when I did a quick google search, I found out that there are over a thousand Pokemon now! What was wrong with just having 150? That’s enough isn’t it? Far out, I switched off when they introduced the bloody “Johto League” and the first wave of a hundred new weird pokemon no one ever asked for,” he explained dismissively as if he had a bad taste in his mouth.
Barnes went on to describe the absolute travesty of Pokemon inflation in 2025.
“This is possibly overthinking things, but your heart has to go out to poor old Ash Ketchem. Starts out his career thinking he’ll be a Pokemon master by catching 150 different pokemon. Now he’s looking at 1000 plus??
“I’ll tell you what this is. It’s lazy writing. Surely they could have come up with some new plot points without farting out 800 new characters?
“It’s a bloody disgrace.”
More to come.
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