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Study Help

[All comics in order here]

You know, fans give Professor Oak a lot of shit for thinking there were only 150ish pokemon, but you have to remember, they hadn't even discovered night time yet until he was well into his 70s.

not to read too deep into pokemon games (like i always do) but i really think people who make jokes about professor oak “sending a kid to fill the pokedex for him” are kinda missing the real point. oak’s an old guy and, as we know, was a pretty great trainer at one point. the pokedex has pre-written entries, and oak’s been giving pokedexes to kids for generations now (to red, to gold/crystal, to the LGPE kids) so its… pretty clear he’s not doing ACTUALLY doing it because he needs the pokedex filled. he’s had that covered for a long time. i think professor oak gives trainers a pokedex as a way to encourage them to meet and catch new pokemon - pokemon they might not have even considered catching because they’re “too weak/ugly/weird”. because - at it’s core - pokemon training is all about friendship and growing up and exploration, and friendships often come in places we would not expect them. and i think if anyone would know that best, and would want us to learn that, it’d be professor oak.

an old entry for a contest. oak’s lab 🥺

I realize it’s just because they’re trying to introduce the audience to the concept of Pokemon and everything but nothing will ever be funnier to me than prof oak being like “these are creatures called Pokemon, they live in all sorts of environments!” like imagine if you met a biology professor and they were like ‘I’ve been studying these intriguing creatures called “animals’

Pokemon Crossing??

WHOA, HOLD UP, WHAT?!

Yeah, Oak was the kid in the Celebi movie.

Meaning that he also probably had more pokemon available when Ash first started his journey, but he deliberately tricked Ash into accepting a rowdy and untamed pikachu because that was Ash’s partner back during their adventure together.

That means his verbal savagery toward Ash early on was friendship, which puts a whole different spin on it.

*Ash rushes in, dead last among the kids of Pallet Town*: Professor Oak! Is it too late for me to get a Pokémon?!

Samuel Oak, Anticipating this moment for decades and saving a very special Pikachu from the local breeding program for just this occasion and trying very hard not to laugh: Oh boy, we’ll see what we can do…

Oak when he first ran into one rude ass Pikachu knowing the Ketchum family is down the street.

Pokémon anime and Pokémon Yellow Version (1998) parallel.

YOU CANT JUST CALL ME OUT LIKE THAT, GRANDPA

Youngest Child Finally Stops Messing Around and Gets a Degree Like The Rest of Us

Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (1999)

I regret absolutely nothing.