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Installment Title
Intro/Set-up/Explanation 5
How it all Begins: From Pallet to Pewter, and Rockets Beyond 1
Adversity, Friendship, Getting Lost Between Them: Birth of Running Motifs/Gags 1
Shipwreck, Heartbreak, and Nightmare Fuel: How We Made It Through Saffron 2
Halfway Through Let's Take It Slow: Short Time Through Celadon 3
The Plot Stops Here: Trapped in Safari
Growing Up Sucks: Charmeleon to Togepi 1
Can We Just Get to Cinnabar Already? 2
All Right! I Saved The Worl----- Amnesia Dust, Time to Win the League
I Will Be The Very Best, Someday, I Promise! Kanto Saga=Over 1
Hey Ash, This New Guy Seems Kind of... Sketchy
Not another theory about Ash's dad!!! (OI is boring) 2
Ash Ketchum's Greatest Achievment (Orange Islands=over) 1
A Whole New World, A Brand New Journey, A Real Slow Start 3
Filler Hell (A Play in Three Acts): Ichi
Filler Hell (A Play in Three Acts): Deux 1
Filler Hell (A Play in Three Acts): Finalé
FH Epilogue: Whirl Islands, Back on the Steely Road, Last of the Old Guard
Wrapping Up the Plot, Filling Out the Team, Lancing Past Mahogany
Prelude to the End: Blackthorn, AltoMare, Mt. Silver
Sweet Victory, Fair Loss, and a New Horizon (Johto Saga=Over) 1
New Girl, Old Mentor, and a Side Order of Annoying Brat
Deja vu: Pewter and Cianwood... now in Hoenn
May Takes the Stage! Max Ruins a Movie.
Halfway Through Hoenn: Return to Petalburg 2
Swellow: The Evolution, The Rise, The Broken Crashed Fall
Ash and May: A Shared Journey Doubles Defeat (Hoenn Saga=Over) 2
Familiar Places, Worn out Faces, New Quest, Same old Show 2
The Frontier Keeps on Rolling By
The Lonely Peaks of Near Victory or Does Every Shonen Protagonist Have a Prerequisite Dark Side?
Victory at Last: No Time to Celebrate or Say Goodbye, I've Got to Keep on Moving (Frontier=Over) 1
Insert Really Obvious Pun Related to the Start of a New Region and Dawn's Name Here 3
Jubilife to Orebourgh: Early Losses All Around 2
The Plot Thickens: Nefarious Dealings in Eternia
Of Cool New Champions, Awesome Old Rivals, and Scary New Villians
Breaking Dawn, Hello Miss Stepford (or) Paul: A Treastie on Going Too Far 1
Lull in the Story on the Way to Veilstone 1
Dawn Gets Better, May Returns, Galactic looms Over Veilstone 1
Jessie Bugs Up, Ash Fangs In, and Dawn Pigs Out (and other Pokéteam puns) 3
Hearthome to Canalave: Getting on the Really Long Home Stretch 1
Making Similiar Enemies, Indistinguishable New Achievments, and the Same Old Mistakes 3
Snowpoint: An Arc So Good It Doesn't Need a Better Title 2
Arceus... Are You There? It's Me Ash Ketchum. 1
Galactic Climatic, Gliscor Redacted, and Penquin+Monkey Eratic 1
Sun Sets on Second: The Grand Festival
Steps Towards The End: Black Foxes, Sunny Redux, and a Shuckle to Boot 1
Failure May Be the Only Option, But If You Never Give Up, You Can't Really Lose (Sinnoh=Over) 2
The Reset Button Was Never Pushed So Damn Hard 2
Um... The New Pokémon Are Cool? Everything Else... Not So Much
Bianca and Burgundy Should Have Replaced The Two Wastes of Space 2
Missed Opportunities, Mindless Drudgery, and Minute Cameos 2
The Best "Best Wishes" Has to Offer, I Wish It Were Not True 2
The Pinnacle of Gym Stupidity, and A Movie(s) That's Better Than Its Region 1
Quality Settles Upon Driftveil+Mistralton: Interest Level Peaking at Adequate/Mediocre 5
Almost Done Rounding Out the Team and Region: Not Soon Enough 1
Everytime We Take A Storied Step Forward We Land in Another P(L)ot Hole 3
Pokemon Best Wishes: How It Should Have Ended (Before It Even Began)
What is Lucario? A Miserable Little Pile of Bullshit!!! 2
Hey Look! Team Plasma.... aaaannnnddd They're Gone.
My Best Wish? Just Let Ash Succeed At His Dream Eventually! Please? (Unova=Over)
Vive La Kalos! Le Jour de Gloire est Arrivé! 4
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