How stupid are Ash, Misty, Brock and the others?

[geldonyetich]

Since time of drama immortal, there's been a plot device that the viewers need to be informed what's going on while the characters in the story should not know, even if this necessitates something that should be painfully obvious if you were in that situation.

It's called a suspension of disbelief [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspention_of_disbelief].

So don't let it bother you that Ash & Friends apparently are painfully ignorant to Team Rocket's disguises. You're just supposed to imagine that that the disguises did their job.

On an unrelated note, I'm surprised how many people read the "Ash is really in a coma" article and actually took a gross reinterpretation as something worth sniffling over. It's not that hard to creatively reinterpret anything like that.

 

[icekiller453]

... its a cartoon targeting 9-12 year old males... that exists only to get them to buy toys and half-assed video/card games.

.....I'm 12..... and I stopped watching that show when I was 7...... -_- The games... when I was 10.

 

[Thaius]

Um it's a cartoon dude.

No excuse. Cartoons can be just as mature and intelligent as live action. Watch Death Note.

Anyway, yeah, they can be pretty stupid sometimes. But it is a kid's show. They almost always have stupid characters. Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the few exceptions (after Book 1, at least).

 

[Mookie_Magnus]

I stopped watching the show because of it. The Special Manga, however, is downright amazing. It's like how you would expect Team Rocket to actually act, murderous, and actual criminals. Also, Ash doesn't exist.

 

[fletch_talon]

I recall the bad guys in Scooby Doo being pretty stupid.

*Wolfman turns corner to find Shaggy and Scooby dressed as beauty therapists, Wolfman sits down and enjoys his free haircut/mani/pedi until they jam his head in the big electric hair dryer thing and run away.*

 

[kawaiiamethist]

I enjoyed the show till they did Johto, then I stopped watching. I mainly watched for Team Rocket, as for the Pokegang, they weren't so bad, especially resident hornbag, Brock.

 

[Chaos-Spider]

At this point the only way to prove they have some form of intellect is to use a flying pokemon to get everywhere instead of walking.

What? and miss out on the months of filer episodes used to distract the viewer from the fact that the show actually has a plot and that it is no closer to any sort of resolution than it was at the end of season 1.

Why would the 4kids executives do such a thing.

The pokemon raps at the end of the show during the jhoto arc were funny, so you were missing out.

 

[Sewblon]

How come these people don't realize that all of Team Rockets problems could be solved by just gunning everyone down? lol

They don't even need to do that, the Pokegang are kids so all Team Rocket really need to do is place them in burlap sacks and bludgeon them with rocks until they surrender.

 

[S.R.S.]

EVERY eppisode this happens. You should be use to it by now. The youtubepoops are hilarious.

 

[Pegghead]

How DARE you insult Ash!

But in all seriousness it's not them who are the idiots, it's their parents. Seriously, what kind of twisted mother lets her ten year old kid skip school to go around the country betting on cock-fighting and be chased by a gang of pedophiles (The tournaments and team rocket in retrospect)?

 

[Straz]

It is a terrible show, with a terrible plot with absolutely NO (Human at least) character development or meaningful plot ark.
They hardly EVER utilise their pokémon's capabilities in ANY practical situations.
Ridiculous.

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

i still don't get why they don't have guns. i mean "haha we're gonna steal pikachu!" "no you're not" "oh really?" BANG BANG BANG. can you see how that i effective?

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

How DARE you insult Ash!

But in all seriousness it's not them who are the idiots, it's their parents. Seriously, what kind of twisted mother lets her ten year old kid skip school to go around the country betting on cock-fighting and be chased by a gang of pedophiles (The tournaments and team rocket in retrospect)?

but that's what my mother let's me do all the.... wait a minute!

 

[SonicKoala]

It's Pokemon, don't be hating. The episodes would be boring as hell (the ones featuring Team Rocket in disguise, anyway) if Ash, Misty, and Brock recognized them right away. It's a cartoon for kids, and it's awesome, regardless of little things like this.... so quiet, you.

 

[ace_of_something]

I really asked myself this when i saw this one episode of Pokemon. In the episode, Jesse, James and Meowth are dressed up as researchers...or something, ALL the have on is a different set of clothes and a hat, that's IT, nothing covering their faces or anything. So of course like every episode, the gang are too stupid to realize that the "researchers" are really Team Rocket, have you ever seen anything as stupid in the show?

I had too look this up as pokemons were after my time I can say this.

Pretty much everyone except the spikey haired guy has the same exact face (like most japanese cartoons) so disguising one with a hat seems a pretty reasonable option.

 

[Straitjacketeering]

Did you know in this other cartoon called Ed Edd and Eddy MERE CHILDREN are able to devour jawbreakers bigger then their heads, Ruins the whole experiance of the CHILDRENS CARTOON so I know how you feel.

/sarcasm

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Did you know in this other cartoon called Ed Edd and Eddy MERE CHILDREN are able to devour jawbreakers bigger then their heads, Ruins the whole experiance of the CHILDRENS CARTOON so I know how you feel.

/sarcasm

XP, yes I realise its a childrens cartoon, but I'm not the only one to think this when it comes to stupid things

 

[PhantomCritic]

How come these people don't realize that all of Team Rockets problems could be solved by just gunning everyone down? lol

Because it's a children's cartoon so there is none of that gunnin' down that we all love. I hate 4kids some times...

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Brock can't see things...Misty is constantly on her period, hence that yelling, screaming and belittling of Ash and Ash? Well lets just say he's been too busy trying to be like the almighty Mr.Campbell to do anything else