Pokémon Meme Review (August 2023) 

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“There was water in that and my leg is wet” gives the same energy as my “disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined”

Meme Reviews are equally so funny and so chill.

You briefly mentioned your dad thought a fire penguin would be cool, and the mere mention of your dad immediately melted my heart given your prior video about finding your lost pokemon.

In case anyone doesn’t know, the guy that got the Pokemon back tattoo is an Australian tennis player, Nick Kyrgios, if you want to see more of it

Grunty Boi spinning away got me dying man.

Fun fact about Drifloon. It does try to kidnap children, but it is unable to do so because it is not strong enough and it usually ends up being taken away by the child

I would love to see a full roster of all the Team Sky members with all these OC applicants! The team is becoming a larger happy family

23:17 I absolutely love that they make Gliscor look mildly creepy.

Mikey feeling jealous of his own personas is hilarious. We need to add him in more fanart.

I love how Grunty boi is constantly summoned by the slide show whenever he’s mentioned, I like to imagine that he waits to pop up until he hears his name as if he has a stage cue or something

15:55 "Memes aren't supposed to live this long." Bowsette still lives.

Fun fact, somebody actually took a survey... and every single Pokemon had at least one person view that Pokemon as their favorite...

Fun Fact: Apparently there's a Hawaiian myth that dragons disguise themselves as palm trees. Hence Alolan Exeggutor.

Heads up about the parrot meme; the issue Minecraft caused was that they used chocolate chip cookies as the item fed to them to make them breed, but chocolate is outright poisonous to parrots. This got pointed out to Mojang, and (partially for accuracy, mostly to avoid setting a bad example for the kids playing) they changed the item used for breeding parrots to seeds, as well as making it so that feeding parrots the cookies anyways would give them a lethal stack of the Poisoned status.

I love that there's always a Grunty Boi meme to segue into the sponser segment

11:45 To evolve do 351 spins at 2 hp while holding [Insert rare item here] outside the third gym on a sunny tuesday morning with 2 legendaries and 3 mythicals on your team (and the pokemon to evolve), all of these must be level 92 and be at full health.

"Castform would kill at least one lion!" is my new favorite Mikey quote

Fun fact: It wasn't just one bad hypno that took some kid. Its Moon dex entry mentions how it carries off anyone who has good dreams. I believe the Ultra Sun dex entry means it's not as much of a threat in /Alola/ because komala are around and perpetually sleeping, and thus make for better targets than humans who it would have to expend energy to make sleep.

I like how Mikey used the term "Serpentine" when mentioning what Palossand looks like under the sand, like if he was referencing "LEGO Ninjago"

I literally love Unfezant!! I love sassy Pokemon that Ash uses - so Snivy and Unfezant are for sure on the list lol

The azurill changing gender happened to me during Pokémon B2W2 and everyone I told about it didn’t believe me and I looked it up online and never saw any information about it. I thought I was going crazy and forced myself to believe that it wasn’t real and I’ve never forgotten it since. This meme review has saved 12 y/o me.

The Alolan Exeggutor typing is actually absolutely genius. It's a Dragon Tree, which is a type of plant.

13:44 The only reason mikey didnt do the ingame trade for machop id because he didnt want to seperated with his beloved

As soon as I saw Lokix it quickly rose up to be among my all time favorite pokémon

I love that Mikey accepts the wedding invitation with zero hesitation. Or at least one would assume that way.

I always hated the "four horsemen of why are these dragon type" because a google search would tell you literally every single one lmao For those that don't know alolan exeggutor is based off dracaena palm trees, which are called dragon trees :) (Also turtonator is a reptile lol literally any reptile is up for dragon typing)

Guys it is with great displeasure to announce that Mikey said Arceus instead of Arkoos at 12:01

6:00 Which we need more of ❤😭

I love how goofy John is, so that you forget that he's actually really good at battling, and afaik wiped the floor with WolfeyVGC(albeit in single battles)

I want everyone to take a moment to realize that garchomp can't learn dragon dance....but barboach can.

Cryogognal actually used to be my favourite Pokémon and he is still up there!

8:54 they forgot to add litwick he/she’s a candle that takes children souls as their own or litwick is a trapped child soul either one I forgot

I feel the need to point out that the reason the Drowzee meme persists is because of your reactions to them. We feed on your suffering. It’s like Dad Jokes. The more you groan, the stronger they get.

8:19 Lockstin explained this pretty well a few times but the TDLR is that 1) Alolan Exegguter resembles Draconis Plants and 2) In Hawaii mythology there are these dragon/lizard/gecko creatures called Mo’o (hence the Kommo-O’s name, tho aside from that they aren’t that similar. They’re most similar to Salazzle, actually) that could shapeshift into whatever, and some shaftshifted into trees

10:30 that milotic is a spy.

8:20 Alolan Exeggutor is Dragon-Type because it is heavily inspired by dracaena palm trees, otherwise known as dragon trees. Hope this helps.

Mikey had very real fear in his eyes during the Dragon Dance clip. 😂

A.Exeggutor being Dragon type is in no way obvious, but if you know it is pretty cool. In Hawaii there is a mythological creature called the Mo'o (pronounced Moe-Oh) and they are magical shapeshifting lizard spirits. And in pokemon, anything magic reptile is dragon type. XD But the reason Exeggutor in particular is dragon type, is because one of the Mo'o's favorite disguises is a palm tree. Additional fact, Salandit and Salazale are also based on the Mo'o since another disguise of the mo'o is a beautiful woman who bewitches men with her pheromones. Also, despite having Mo'o in their name, the Kammo'o line isn't actually based on the Mo'o.

Everything was laid out so clearly. Thank you for your hard work and for this video

6:18 I used Vaporeon in my Pokemon Blue playthrough since it countered my Venusaur's weakness to Fire.

The story with the Minecraft parrots is when they were originally added they were tamed by feeding them cookies but the developers learned that chocolate is deadly to birds so to avoid anyone feeding their real birds chocolate chip cookies they changed the taming item to seeds

Mikey’s Iroh impression improving as the video goes along is a top tier character arc.

Bro predicted paradox cobalion

Currently listening to this entire meme series at work, it is making them go faster, thanks Mikey!

Eggexutor is based off of Mo-o which are Hawaiian dragons who commonly disguise themselves as trees

Eelektross was unironically my favourite Pokemon from Gen 5. I was fascinated by 'no-weakness' Pokemon like Sableye and Spiritomb, so a non Ghost/Dark no-weakness Pokemon was super-interesting. Technically, the Eelektross line is the only remaining no-weakness Pokemon. The only way to hit them super-effectively is to eliminate their Ability or to hit them with Thousand Arrows.

With the mention of team sky (Braviary scream in the back ground) I've basically figure out my team for it. This team was made with my character, hawk Avery, going from a grunt to a Admin: Bagon (Final evo Salamence nicknamed Icarus), halucha (Nicknamed Mysterio), Oricorio Sensu style (Nicknamed Geisha) Charmander (Finale evo Charizard nicknamed Blair) Archen (Finale Evo Archeops nicknamed Roc) Zubat (Finale Evo Crobat nicknamed Yuma) Way I thought about it was basically my guy starts as a Grunt and makes his way up the ranks to become a admin styled after pilots/the air force.

Celebi is an onion fairy Grass/Fairy feels appropriate. Melloetta is a pop star thing? Give her the Normal/Fairy Type AND the Fighting/Fairy Type (for her Aria AND Pirouette Formes) Blissey is a healer, the whole line could be Fairy-Type, but then Pokémon is just solidifying Fairy as the "Girly" and "Pink" Type. Normal/Fairy for Blissey, the rest of the line stays Pure Normal-Type. Bellossom doesn't need another Type. But if it got one, Fairy could work. Especially if Meganium got Grass/Psychic and it would shut up the idiots.

I been watching this man since like 2017-2018,and i assure u whenever this man uploads,i just feel really happy,its a strange feeling because i have never experienced this with any other youtubers

"Gen 9 needs more time to cook" Do not underestimate my love for Tinkaton sir

I still remember Nemona silent screaming with delight and it’s pretty close to a uncanny valley feel

Considering X and Y are supposedly named after the X and Y axis of a graph/3D, I feel their remakes will be ZX and ZY, adding the Z-axis and also finally giving us Pokemon Z in SOME form. Also, about Celebi turning into a fairy-type, I already brought this up with Victini in the type-combination video, but I'm pretty sure the reason they didn't change the type of any mythical Pokemon is because they limited it to Pokemon that could be caught within X and Y, since players would most likely want to use these Pokemon that received such a major change. But that was obviously still at a time when they were still being very conservative with mythical Pokemon and keeping them for Event-only, ORAS was the first time we got a mythical that was catchable without DLC, and it obviously fit into the story of the Delta-Episode. Pretty sure Gen 7 didn't have that and the next time was only in SwShs DLC.

Hearing Mikey saying lemme cook is like an 80 year old Grampa saying “that’s lit”

Grunty Boi spinning away got me dying man. absolutely

The Papyrus spinning out of the screen was amazing! :D

You know it's a good day when mandjtv posts. And with a meme review

I absolutely love that grunty boi comes in when there is a meme about him😂

Im going to keep this brief because I don't really know how much longer I can go in this weird state of just sitting here thinking about what it was like to be a kid and not have the anxieties that I do today. I just wanted to say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for making videos. You have no idea how much I watched your videos growing up. Especially that Pokémon rap battle between Red and Ash, and your Pokémon Talk series. Even when moving in-between homes and we had no Wi-Fi. I'd be allowed like 1 hour of mobile data a week since we didn't have much on our plan. And I'd always wait for you to post a video. Seeing a new Pokémon Talk video was the highlight of my day and always got me excited and in a good mood. Now I'm 18, I'm about to finish highschool, and I'm going to have to go make something of myself. It's scary, but I know that I can't just run. Either way, sometimes (like right now), I really wish I could go back and spend just one more day as a kid watching videos from you, Dobbs, Aura Guardian, etc. Thank you for making 12 year old me so happy.

Whenever I see the intro, I always do the photosynthesis with Grass type Mikey LOL

Hearing Mikey saying "Hold on, let me cook" with such a distinct face makes me so happy.

Exeggutor is based off of native Hawaiian legends involved a type of mythic dragon of Hawaii. Basically, this dragon has the power to shapeshift, and one of it's favorite forms to take is that of trees so it can spy on people.

we NEED MORE Pokémon talk

It should be noted that in Asian Mythos, the dragon turtle is a thing.... And Dragalge is based on an animal called the sea dragon... Applin is based off of a Wyrm... And Executor is based on a dragon tree along with a coconut tree is a joke based on the legendary dragon "Coco"

Gotta love the worry on Mikeys face when he saw an animation including Cynthia 🤣🤣🤣🤣

12:43 Kinda weird that Zacian, Zamazenta are so low despite Eternatus being so high, and the legendary heroes defeated him twice. And Koraidon's Pokedex entry said he "split the land". Should be above a good chunk of the Max Pokemon

I like how mikey uses memes with grunty boi in to now transition to sponsored segments like grunty boi is drawn to his name

"sound is represented with normal type" Toxel and toxtricity: how hast thou forsaken me?

I love that you can tell Michael has just learned "Let him cook" Also Cryogonal 4 life It's an excellent hexagonal nightmare snowflake and no one will convince me otherwise

Mikey:Glalie is finally cute! Glalie: Emotional damage!😢

the minecraft parrot one was when they aded parrots, and you could feed them cookies, this led to people thinking you could feed cookies/ chocolate to their parrots/birds, witch is the equivalent of giving your yorkie 17 gallons of chocolate milk. when mojang found out , they immidiatley changed it to cookies poison them, and told everyone to not feed their birds chocolate.

OMG! During the grunty boi segment, there was a kurzgesagt calendar on the wall! I love kurzgesagt!

Mikey always find a way to put a smile on my face even when the days are dark he shows that there is friendship in every heart

8:04 Okay here we go Applin is based on the common depiction of a worm inside of an apple. It may also be a pun on the term wyrm, a serpentine dragon, which sounds similar to 'worm'. It is also based on the Lindwurm, a green, serpentine dragon that lives in moutains. Alolan Exeggutor is based on the Dracaena Palm trees, which are often called "Dragon Trees." Turtonator is based on the Mata Mata Turtle, an unusual turtle with a notably spiky shell and monstrous-looking head. and finally Dragalge is based on the Common Sea Dragon.

OK, someone seriously needs to make a compilation of Michael dying of laughter. His laugh is contagious.

Used to watch your channel in lockdown all the time. Forgot about you but it’s good to see your doing well

7:46 Funny yet amazing story, when playing Legends Arceus, I expected to not use Ursaluna in my team, but then I found a shiny Ursaring. I checked its stats because maybe I could use it for an upcoming battle, but then I saw it was Adamant nature. That Ursaring, which later became Ursaluna, was placed in my team that beat the game.

Meme Reviews are equally so funny and so chill. Always love when a new one comes out.

Mikey is a legend for having only a 45 second long intro.

I like how the intro song doesn’t rhyme and fit together but they’re like “ehh not a big deal” and they just mash it together to fit😂😂

Hey guys, did you know that in terms of human companionship, Flareon is objectively the most huggable Pokemon? While their maximum temperature is likely too much for most, they are capable of controlling it, so they can set themselves to the perfect temperature for you. Along with that, they have a lot of fluff, making them undeniably incredibly soft to touch. But that's not all, they have a very respectable special defense stat of 110, which means that they are likely very calm and resistant to emotional damage. Because of this, if you have a bad day, you can vent to it while hugging it, and it won't mind. It can make itself even more endearing with moves like Charm and Baby Doll Eyes, ensuring that you never have a prolonged bout of depression ever again.

I LOVE Cryogonal. I freaked out when I had an outbreak in a convenient location and caught a dream shiny 😍

For April fools day 2024, Mikey should do a playthrough of Yo-kai Watch.

Dude that Dr. Doof voice!! 👌🏻👌🏻one of the best impressions I’ve heard.

19:53 S/M are strangely the best 3D main series Pokémon game.

Every time I see Mikey made a new video I can’t help but smile I’ve been watching him since 2014 and he’s been my favorite RU-vidr ever since

I actually know why Alolan Exeggutor is dragon type! In Hawaiian mythology there is a creature called a mo’o which is a mystical, magical shapeshifter most often depicted as a giant lizard, a beautiful woman, and a tree! Specific mo’o even became revered as goddesses and have major cultural, religious and historical importance such as Kihawahine.

i like how the M&J vs PM7 cup theme uses my artwork of PM7 with the FROGS! i was not expecting to be in meme review this time... im proud

I do have to say that Tinkaton has entered my top 10 favorite pokémon and that Meowscarada became my favorite grass type.

5:14 the way he exits here is genius

Mikey saying let me cook has made my day

Omg grunty boy spun away like the spin tile 😂❤

2:00 " Hold on let me cook". Let this man cook at all costs 😂

6:06 That Dragopult is actually just being a good parent, Dreepys love being launched at enemies.

Luz Noceda's face is perfect for the shiny hunting example. All I'm hearing her call a Lucario a beach peach

another thing to consider with celebi being fairy is that celebi is associated with time, and time based moves outside of literally roar of time like future sight are psychic type

To be fair, Hau is a positive person, and sometimes you just need that positivity. No, sun and moon weren't my first Pokémon games, that would be White 2 (odd game to be my first, I know)

An explanation about the parrot meme. Originally you could feed parrots cookies, but after the community pointed out that cookies are made with cocoa beans they changed the feature to instantly poison and kill the parrot when feeding it a cookie. They also added a splash text saying "don't feed parrots chocolate."

"Ta Ta!" *Arrow tiles away*

When the meme with all the Regis came on I literally said “die”the exact same time as you I was laughing like crazy