#march of the exeggutor squad

[missmaymaple]

ONE SCENE FROM EVERY EPISODE OF POKEMON

EP043: The March of the Exeggutor Squad

[stella-so-sly93]

"Well, no, not especially."

I really love Misty's honesty here when being asked if she's a kind person, being quick to admit that she's not really that kind. Misty was so savage in the earlier seasons in the best way. The delivery of this line cracked me up so much too. RIP Rachael Lillis.

This is from The March of the Exeggutor Squad (season 1, episode 43).

[writing-through-the-snow]

Watching all of the episodes in pokemon after a lot time (like a year) so I've forgotten most of the episodes. And I've completely forgotten how wild of a ride I have when watching The March of the Exeggutor Squad.

Like I always start it thinking Melvin is sweet, and I want to see the trio help him. He's pathetic but I want to see him succeed.

And then he accidently hypnotizes ash and ends up kidnapping him to force ash to battle for him.

I get such whiplash every time simply from Melvin going from "a little pathetic but he has the spirit" to "purposefully keeping ash hypnotized because he doesn't want to have to go battle exeggutor himself, of which he was only catching so he could hypnotize the world into watching his magic show"

Wild episode 10/10

[pokemonworlddatabase]

Exeggutor's heads think independently and don't appear interested in one another, so it makes a lot of noise as each head speaks its mind. They still appear to get along, though, for they never squabble amongst themselves. If all the heads want to go in a different direction, its body is unable to move. They are able to communicate telepathically as well and sometimes use it to come to a joint decision. It uses psychic powers to fight, and since all three heads are capable its power is tripled. If one of these heads grows too large, it falls off and groups together with others to become an Exeggcute. In the Pokémon the Series episode The March of the Exeggutor Squad, Exeggutor also has been seen in groups of its own kind, meaning that it is not a solitary Pokémon. Exeggutor has been referred to as "The Walking Tropical Rainforest" or "The Walking Jungle". It can be sluggish during cloudy days due to the lack of sunlight. Being the result of an evolution via Evolution stone, Exeggutor is rarely found in the wild, though they can be found in��forests and jungles.

[pokemonanime-polls]

Pokemon Anime Tournament: Week 10 Results

Episodes Remaining:

The Beginning: 99 Gold and Silver: 116 Ruby and Sapphire: 170 Diamond and Pearl: 165 Black & White: 104 XY: 94 Sun & Moon: 104 Journeys: 114 Horizons: 45 Individual Results (under tab)

314. EP208 Fight for the Light! | BW074 Battling the Leaf Thieves! 315. EP263 Address Unown! | DP102 Shield with a Twist! 316. SM004 First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-Style! | DP088 Camping It Up! 317. JN113 Chasing to the Finish! | EP096 Meowth Rules! 318. JN072 Everybody’s Doing the Underground Shuffle! | JN091 The Spectral Express! 319. XY053 A Race for Home! | JN028 Sobbing Sobble! 320. SM024 Alolan Open House! | EP130 A Bout With Sprout 321. EP024 Haunter versus Kadabra | AG184 Strategy Tomorrow – Comedy Tonight! 322. EP083 Poke Ball Peril | SM122 Spying for the Big Guy! 323. EP010 Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village | BW123 Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures! 324. JN002 Legend? Go! Friends? Go! | EP244 Enlighten Up! 325. EP110 The Stun Spore Detour | HZ033 Roar of the Black Rayquaza 326. DP006 Different Strokes For Different Blokes! | EP260 A Crowning Achievement 327. EP003 Ash Catches a Pokemon | EP143 Going Apricorn! 328. DP110 Steeling Peace of Mind! | AG009 Taming of the Shroomish 329. XY015 An Appetite for Battle! | DP152 The Battle Finale of Legend! 330. EP043 The March of the Exeggutor Squad | BW105 Lost at the League! 331. SM099 We Know Where You’re Going, Eevee! | EP118 The Double Trouble Header 332. XY022 Going for the Gold! | JN012 Flash of the Titans! 333. AG046 Candid Camerupt! | DP025 Oh Do You Know The Poffin Plan! 334. EP238 Nice Pryce, Baby! | SM085 The Long Vault Home! 335. SM082 All They Want To Do is Dance Dance! | XY095 Love Strikes! Eevee, Yikes! 336. EP206 The Joy of Water Pokemon | HS17 Those Darn Electabuzz! 337. SM044 A Dream Encounter! | EP175 The Trouble with Snubbull 338. AG162 Spontaneous Combusken! | DP150 Unlocking the Red Chain of Events! 339. Holiday Hi-Jynx | JN021 Caring for a Mystery! 340. AG176 The Ole’ Berate and Switch! | SM006 A Shocking Grocery Run! 341. HS05 The Blue Badge of Courage | EP232 Just Waiting On a Friend 342. AG001 Get the Show on the Road! | XY104 A Windswept Encounter! 343. HZ056Liko VS Rika! Beyond the Battle | XY135 Rocking Kalos Defenses! 344. XY108 A Watershed Moment! | EP174 Imitation Confrontation 345. SM138 Final Rivals! | SM041 Mounting an Electrifying Charge! 346. XY016 A Jolting Switcheroo! | BW037 A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition! 347. AG103 A Cacturne for the Worse | EP192 The Wayward Wobbuffet 348. DP170 An Elite Coverup! | DP177 A Grand Fight for Winning!

[oldpokemonscreenshots]

Taken from Episode 43: The March of the Exeggutor Squad

First aired in the United States on October 30th, 1998

Channel: UPN

Note: This was the last episode to air in syndication in the US. After a four-month break, the show hopped over to the Kids’ WB block starting with the next episode.

[theangrypokemaniac]

...

Bloody hell, Jessie.

[dailykasumi]

EP043 The March of the Exeggutor Squad

[tobiasdrake]

Episode 43 - The Great Exeggutor Squad March!

Wow, this might just be the worst episode I've seen yet.

Ash meets an aspiring magician named Maggy/Melvin and his partner Exeggcute. Melvin gets fired from his show because he sucks, but Ash tries to pep him up and get him back in the game. In the process, both Ash and Melvin learn about Exeggcute's Psychic abilities when Exeggcute hypnotizes Ash.

What luck! Melvin immediately enslaves Ash and makes him perform free labor. And yes, watching a grown man enslave a ten-year-old boy through mind control is extremely horrifying as an adult in ways that my brain could not have comprehended when I was Ash's age.

(How he managed to get Ash away from Brock and Misty goes unexplained. We cut to commercials, and when we come back, Ash is pulling a cart with Melvin riding along while Misty and Brock desperately try to find them. Even though Misty and Brock were standing right there with Melvin trying to figure out what's happening before the break.)

Melvin uses Ash to capture a bunch of Exeggutors in the nearby forest. The show just sort of breezes past it, with Ash pitting Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur against these Grass Types and all three proving mutually effective.

Once he's caught dozens of Exeggutors, Melvin moves to the next stage of his plan: Using the captured Exeggutors to enslave the entire town and force everyone to watch his magic show.

(The show also breezes past the fact that he's only allowed to keep six of the Exeggutors; The PC transfer system should have taken the others away.)

Team Rocket tries to steal the Exeggutors, but then Exeggcute provokes its own evolution without even using a Leaf Stone, then Hypnotizes them into submission. James even calls bullshit on the lack of a Leaf Stone, but his complaints fall on deaf ears. For some reason, the rules simply don't apply to Melvin.

But karma gets the better of Melvin when all of his new Exeggutors accidentally hypnotize themselves into forgetting he owns them and stampede off towards the town, which they trample over and demolish.

The Exeggutors come back for another round, at which point Ash tries to fend them off with his three Starters. However, his attacks barely prove effective against these Pokemon, despite the fact that these same Starters were one-shotting these same Exeggutors five minutes ago.

Now that Ash is no longer hypnotized, the Type Chart suddenly works properly. Only Charmander's Flamethrower can deal enough damage to drive off the Exeggutors. But there's just too many of them, and eventually Charmander runs out of PP.

Fortunately, Misty gives Melvin a pep talk and convinces him to use his subpart stage magic to defeat all of the Exeggutors and save the day! Hooray for Melvin! Hooray for the child enslaver who wanted to dominate an entire town and then inadvertently wound up wiping said town off the map! What a hero!

And in all the excitement, Charmander evolves into Charmeleon. What a momentous occasion that I wish could have happened in a better episode.

[theangrypokemaniac]

Party dudes!

[keeperofoverlookhotel]

Don’t know her name, she is credited as Melvin's assistant in EP043  The March of the Exeggutor Squad

[raionmimi]

Randomly wanted to doodle the magician’s assistant in the The March Of The Exeggutor Squad episode. I think tights would make her look even cuter

[pokemonanime-polls]

The March of the Exeggutor Squad vs Lost at the League!

Episode Information:

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP043

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/BW105

[dbseamz]

If you wanna watch Indigo League in the intended chronological order:

If you’ve been watching the first season of the Pokémon anime, you might have noticed a few continuity errors: Ash’s Charizard has been a Charizard for several episodes until you reach “Snow Way Out!” and then bam, it’s a Charmander again. Not until “Princess vs Princess” does Jessie catch the Lickitung she complained about nearly losing back in E49 “So Near, yet So Farfetch’d!” These aren’t exactly mistakes--just evidence that the episodes are out of order.

Through copious use of Bulbapedia and some counting, I figured out the order in which the episodes were supposed to air, had external issues not interfered. A bit of probably rather poorly summarized history below the cut, but first the actual reason I made this post.

To watch Indigo League in chronological order (the order the makers of the show intended, and thus the order in which the plot will make the most sense): 

Follow the regular ordering until you finish “Ditto’s Mysterious Mansion!” (The dub will skip over E18 “Beauty and the Beach” and E35 “The Legend of Dratini”--these are hard but not impossible to find elsewhere, although the latter is only available in Japanese.)

This would be followed by E38, which you should skip if you’re at any risk of strobe-induced health issues. (It’s also really hard to find the footage and was never dubbed, so there’s that too). 

Look for “Holiday Hi-Jynx” (may be a bit hard to find--it was dubbed, but concerns over Jynx’s original black face, especially given the Jynx species’s portrayal in the episode as Santa’s helpers, meant it got removed from television. The Bulbapedia page for the episode lists where it is and isn’t available.) 

 “Snow Way Out”. In my DVD set, it was in the third (blue) case of discs, but I don’t remember which disc it was on. 

Follow the regular ordering from “Pikachu’s Goodbye” thru “Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon”. 

Following the planned once-a-week release schedule, the next Japanese episode release would have fallen directly on March 3--Girls’ Day. So skip to “Princess vs Princess”.

Watch the next four episodes--”A Chansey Operation” thru “Who Gets to Keep Togepi?” in order. 

“The Purr-Fect Hero” would come next.  Bulbapedia says it was planned for release on Children’s Day itself, which if they were releasing one ep per week would have come two days early. Not sure whether they would have aired an episode on a different day of the week or what, but it doesn’t matter because a) the schedule got screwed up, making the question moot, and b) there weren’t any date-specific episodes planned beyond that.

Watch “Bulbasaur’s Mysterious Garden” next, then keep going in order, skipping over any episode you’ve already encountered on this list.

If using Bulbapedia’s episode numbering system, chronological order goes like this:

1-38, [holiday special], 39-46, 52, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 51, 54-80.

There’s a reason for all of these crazy mixed-up dates. After the infamous incident in December 1997 where a red-and-cyan strobe effect in E38 (title translates roughly to “A.I. Warrior Porygon”) caused seziures in a lot of viewers, the anime was (understandably) yanked off the air for several months. Because of this, three upcoming episodes directly linked to specific real-world dates, namely the Christmas special “Holiday Hi-Jynx”, which is not on the DVDs due to concern over the original Jynx design, and the episodes “Princess vs Princess” and “The Purr-fect Hero”, which were intended to air on the Japanese holidays of Girls’ Day (March 3) and Childrens’ Day (May 5), respectively, were not aired on or even near to the dates intended. The latter two were released together in July 1998, while the Christmas special (along with its companion “Snow Way Out!”) was bumped to October of the same year. Episodes 39 and 40 aired together in April 1998 to celebrate the show’s return.

(Screenshot taken from the Bulbapedia page on E40 “The Battling Eevee Brothers”)

Those were the dates of the original Japanese releases. The English dub, which for the most part lagged behind the original by a bit more than a year, caught up a bit because of the hiatus--in October 1998 they skipped straight to E40 “The Battling Eevee Brothers” and kept going until E43 “The March of the Exeggutor Squad”, when they stopped for some unrelated reason--something to do with syndication and switching networks, I don’t know all the details. The English dub did release E39 “Pikachu’s Goodbye” in November of 1998, but besides that there were no new English-dub episodes until February 1999 when E44 “The Problem with Paras” aired on Kids’ WB, the first to do so. (”Princess vs Princess” and “The Purr-fect Hero” were pushed until September 1999--for some reason these were the first English-dub episodes to air since E57 “The Breeding Center Secret” early in May--while ”Holiday Hi-Jynx” and “Snow Way Out” weren’t released in English until December of the same year.)

[oldpokemonscreenshots]

It’s been one whole year since I started this blog! Thanks for your love of Pokémon from its earliest days on television, everyone!

Taken from Episode 43: The March of the Exeggutor Squad

First aired in the United States on October 30th, 1998

Channel: UPN

Note: This was the last episode to air in syndication in the US. After a four-month break, the show hopped over to the Kids’ WB block starting with the next episode.

[theangrypokemaniac]

Inside the mind of Jessie.

She thinks about this.

My thoughts:

What's going on here?

What's going on after?

Did she get the idea from Nastina?

Did she get them from Nastina?

What has she got against clothes? Okay, the slave boys are half-naked to demean them, but did she have to join in too?

Is that a bikini or bra and knickers? I think it makes a difference.

Are they speedos or briefs? Which is worse?

How did this episode not fall foul of the censor when everything Team Rocket do is absolute filth?

Why is she fantasising about dominating pretty, effeminate boys, most of whom have blue or purple hair? Who's is she really wanting to adore her?

Not long after, the dream is made flesh:

Who suggested that?

You dirty girl.