38: Dennou Senshi Porigon
--: Electric Soldier Porygon

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38: Dennou Senshi Porigon

--: Electric Soldier Porygon


Pokémopolis Episode Name -
Guh-guh-guh-guh-buh- buh-Epa-Epa-Lippytic-Fit!


Dodgyness Rating:
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Sounds cool

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Moral Learnt

Don't sit too close to the television


This is the legendary "seizure episode" that sent hundreds of Japanese kids to hospital. Since then it has been banned everywhere.
Porygon's eyes filled the screen and flashed at just the right frequency in one scene to cause seizures in hundreds of children (most of whom were sitting very, very close to the television at the time).
This episode is dodgy because it causes people to go into massive epileptic fits. We can't for the life of us understand why America won't play it?
Lex and Tim saw this episode whilst in Japan investigating evidence that Emperor Hirohito was a robot.
We did suffer the epileptic fits, which opened up the possibility of Pokémopolis, the only possible strategic gambit to be used against The Jupitereans (see Tim's Biography for more information, this is the biography of truth, Lex and Brandon's Bio's are simply covers to be used on The IRS).
Just several days ago Tim had a chance to see the epilepsy scene again after hacking into Brandon's scientific mainframe, unfortunately it did not cause the epileptic seizure this time, which was most disappointing.

THE PLOT: When Ash and friends start having problems with their pokéball systems they head over to the inventors mansion to investigate. It turns out that someone hacked into Dr. Akihabara's computer system, stole his prototype computer-graphic pokémon, Porygon, and blocked the pokéball transport network in the process.
Now it's up to our heroes to enter the computer world and set things straight. Fortunelty, Dr. Akihabara has a "production-model" Porygon that Ash and friends can use as a guide.
Once in the computer network, it becomes obvious that the hackers are obviously Team Rocket. Jesse and James attck with Weezing but Porygon morphs to deflect the attack.
Things get messy when Team Rocket uses the stolen Porygon prototype to counter Ash's Porygon - but the kids are able to use the distraction to remove the network barriers that Team Rocket has put up to disrupt the pokéball transport.
Meanwhile Dr. Akihabara is preparing a specialized anti-virus program back in the lab, which he unleashes against Team Rocket. Ash, Brock and Misty manages to pull Jesse and James to saftey, but the program completely wipes out the stolen Porygon.


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