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Dr. Royston: Came in through the grill.
Dr. Kelly: But, Adam, that's impossible. Whatever it was that did all this certainly wasn't small enough to come through there.
Dr. Royston: Well, how small is ten thousand gallons of oil?
Inspector McGill: What do you mean?
Dr. Royston: About ten thousand gallons of oil would take up a pretty large area, wouldn't it?
Inspector McGill: Ay.
Dr. Royston: And yet ten thousand gallons of oil COULD come through the holes in that grill, couldn't it?
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Appears in filthy areas. Thrives by sucking up polluted sludge that is pumped out of factories.
— Pokédex description of Grimer, Pokémon Red and Blue
Made of hardened sludge. It smells too putrid to touch. Even weeds won't grow in its path.
— Pokédex description of Grimer, Pokémon Yellow
Sludge that was transformed when exposed to X-rays from the moon. Loves sludge, industrial waste and other refuse.
— Pokédex description of Grimer, Pokémon Stadium
As it moves, it loses bits of its body from which new Grimer emerge. This worsens the stench around it.
— Pokédex description of Grimer, Pokémon Gold
Wherever Grimer has passed, so many germs are left behind that no plants will ever grow again.
— Pokédex description of Grimer, Pokémon Silver
When two of these Pokémon's bodies are combined together, new poisons are created.
— Pokédex description of Grimer, Pokémon Crystal
