Episode 3 Write-Up!

Hey there, FireGold fanatics!  FINALLY...the write-up for Episode 3 is here!  Sorry it took longer than it should have, but here it is and let's not waste any more time!

Since Arch Canine was out this episode due to some evil food, Draftmaster decided to take the role as substitute narrator.  The reason he read the introduction so fast was because he only had 10 seconds to read it all before it officially began with Gold's opening line.  I was a little lazy and didn't want to rearrange everything just for the intro, so DM read it as fast as he could and I thought it was awesome once he finally read it through without messing up too much.  And because some of the voices sounded a little too much like DM's narration voice, I decided to raise the pitch a bit to make it stand out and to provide an extra joke.  Since it was nighttime out in this episode, there was a lot of Hoothoot in the grass so we made a little joke with different Hoothoots chanting and one even talking.  Just like in the game, Gold battles youngsters Joey and Mikey.  How did Joey's Rattata heal up fast, exactly...?  Come on, Joey, you got some 'splaining to do!  Well, being the immature little brat that he is, he refuses and his Rattata gets pwned by Cyndaquil's back flame.  Gold then fights Mikey and Cyndaquil learns Smokescreen after pwning Mikey's Pidgey.  The smoke makes his Rattata easy picking for Cyndaquil's back flame, giving Gold the victory and giving Rattata potentially fatal third degree burns.  Gold then went to the Dark Cave and used Cyndaquil's flame as a flashlight to easily navigate inside it.   I came up with this because in the Pokemon cartoon, Ash used Charmander's tail flame to navigate through a cave in the Squirtle Squad episode so I thought it'd make sense.  After finding out Geodude's are hardly affected by fire attacks, Gold flees and finally reaches Purple City!  Had Gold call Violet City "Purple City" because it's his trademark to misinterpret city names whenever he reaches a new one.  Since Elm told Gold not to heal Pokemon anywhere but in his lab, Gold had to go back to New Bark AGAIN.  We felt this was the perfect opportunity to bring up the gag that Red Squirtle did where the vikings stole all of Elm's root beer so we did it.  Before their fans get mad at us for using that idea from them, the Red Squirtle Squad was fine with us doing it.  The running without running shoes thing was influenced by Red Squirtle's funny cave music sequence.  The music we used in that sequence is the music you hear in the boss battle of Killer Instinct 2, Gargos's theme.  We came up with this because we felt there should be a way Gold could go back to Violet without interacting with everyone and everything for too long.  SCREW THE RUNNING SHOES, GOLD HAS- uh... well, you can finish that sentence in the comments.  Once Gold got back to Violet, I had him go into the Academy because there was a lot of things going on in there that we could make fun of.  After Fat Guy made the obligatory but somewhat logical advertisement for Pokemon Black and White, Gold enters the Sprout Tower and tries that trick where he tries to avoid the first battle with the circle-spinning Sage that I know we ALL did playing this game back in the day.  That's where we set the obligatory cliffhanger and show you some more bloopers.  DM doing the AHHNOLD impersonation never gets old for me, it cracks me up every time.

And, yeah!  That's pretty much the write-up!  Sorry it wasn't the best summary of it or our thought process making it, I'll try to do better on the Episode 4 write-up.  Until then, enjoy Episode 3 and expect it to be up on YouTube within the next few days and expect Episode 4 very soon!  See you all again for the next write-up!

-PAPAYA