Pikachu's eyes did not flash in that Pokemon episode, it was the background flashing vary fast between pink and blue when Pikachu hid the missiles with a Thunderbolt. I have seen the episode.
As far as I know no one died, but way too many were hospitalizes because of the episode. I also saw the seizures casing scene long before I saw the episode. The episode also has two names in English depending on how it was translated. It can be "Computer Warrior Porygon" or "Electric Soldier Porygon" (the 2ed was the name used in the episode I watch)
The Swedish voice for Arthur's theme song is Linus Wahlgren, who I guess isn't internationally known. But you can take a listen: ua-cam.com/video/heOYbSj8Iow/v-deo.html
I've seen the Pokemon seizure episode. It wasn't Pikachu's eyes flashing (especially considering the fact that there isn't much color in his eyes to flash...). Pikachu blew up a computer 'vaccine' which caused a series of really bright red-and-blue lights to flash for a good 2-5 seconds. It was considerably less demonic than the scene you described, lol. ^^"
I can second this. The irony from that is that Porygon, the pokemon of the day, was banned from ever appearing in the anime again, in any of his evolutionary forms, despite Pikachu being the cause of the problem.
Hoshimaru57 Just goes to show that people are stupid and attack anything but not what they like even if what they like is the provoking element - like how on the show "Cheaters" the significant other will go after the cheated with and not the cheater when the cheated with may not even know about the cheated on's existence.
That photo of Steve from Blues Clues is actually Joe from Blues Clues. Steve Burns also left the show because he started balding. He also released a couple of Indie albums, and they're not bad!
I remember EVERY kid ever having those Food Transformers from McDonald's back in the day. When did restaurants start offering toys as prizes in kids' meals?
That ending question made me think, "Why hasn't mental_floss done an episode about ice cream? There's got to be all kinds of interesting facts about that."
I thought that, in the Pokémon episode, Pikachu uses thunderbolt on Porygon or someone else, I'm not sure, and so the colors of red and blue flash rapidly on the screen.
I actually read otherwise, and read that Pikachu used thunderbolt to blow up missiles that would have otherwise wreaked havoc, however the explosion of the missiles flashed red and blue.
Pokemon's "Electric Soldier Porygon" incident was also greatly dramatized. After only a handful of epileptic children reacted, news stations sent out warnings and a bunch of parents freaked out. An effect similar to the Placebo Effect caused parents to assume that children with mild headaches etc were also affected. Amazing what mob mentality can do can't it?
The Pokemon one was wrong. It was not Pikachu's eye's flashing red. In fact Pikachu's eye's never flashed at all. It was instead just a colorful flashing of lights that was so bright and intense that caused seizures.
***** Nah, porygon were in the episode, but they weren't the cause of the flashing. The cause of the flashing was pikachu using his electricity to make two missiles I believe i was? To explode.
***** Totodilefrog is correct. They used an animation technique called Paka Paka to create a bright flash that took up most of the frame for several seconds. everything2.com/title/Paka+paka
the whole pokemon "electric soldier porygon" episode flashed white red and blue very rapidly, that is enough to cause certain light produced epilepsy attacks, and the cherry on top of the pie is the explosion, which made that same effect full screen.
03: _"It's Schoolhouse Rocky! A chip of the block of your favorite school house: Schoolhouse Rock!"_ ...And I haven't heard that in at least 20 years. (Some beautiful station used to play reruns in the 90's, but I first got to watch it as a kid in the 80's... Ahh, I hope kids today are getting to see it, too.. )
Yeah, sometimes they get their "facts" wrong. I mean, in this case it's moderately understandable because the episode was banned after airing and has basically almost never seen the light of day, but.. yeah. And it was the whole screen flashing red, blue and purple, so fast as to make it impossible to really see without slowing it down. If it was just pika's eyes I doubt it would've been as much of an issue.
MythrilZenith I'm sure someone just plucked it from whatever source they had and rolled with it because you can find it pretty easily by looking up "Pokemon banned episodes", but I think they should at least put an annotation correcting themselves.
I think it was a mistake because The Simpsons had a parody in which a TV show had a robot whose eyes flashed, giving Bart a seizure. But yes, it was the background, not Pikachu.
Bob the Builder being number 1 was one of the greatest moments of my childhood! The Teletubbies song "Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" also became number 1 in the UK :)
The pokemon is wrong. It wasn't the eyes of pikachu. It was his thunderbolt to the porygon's missile that made the screen rapidly flash red, blue and purple.
I refused to leave for kindergarten before watching my morning episodes of Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow. LeVar Burton and Big Bird will always have a part of my heart.
I recognized that it was on the style of South Park as a kid. Arthur's segment is in the drawing in the style of Dr. Katz, and Muffy's had a reference to Beavis and Butthead
You also could have mentioned that from 1991 to 1995 George Carlin (stand up comic known for his adult humor and crude language) was one of the narrators of the US version of the kids show "Thomas the tank engine".
WRONG!!!!! Fred Silverman, who was an executive at CBS in the late '60s, was the one who named Scooby Do for that cartoon, not a member of Hanna-Barbera's creative team.
I did know that Bill Nye the Science Guy got his start on Almost Live here in Seattle. I grew up watching it with my dad, when it was airing, in the 80s & 90s. Love that show!
One thing that confused me about Bob the Builder is that occasionally they would show an episode with different voices (as in the British voices instead of the Americans).
If we're going down this line.. i'm implying that you, as a "complaining viewer", influence the decision process of the people involved cos it "confuses" you.. and why thats so important confuses me.. surly we should be exposing our younger generation to more and more diverse accents so that when they meet some one with a truly confusing accent (say deep darkest scott) they are better equipped to deal with the situation and not be to deeply ingrained to think that the "Local" accent is the only one they can understand
Twitchi For a child old enough to understand what he is watching, I believe hearing voices in you own language, or in this case accent, would be more appealing. An accent from London is not confusing for a child raised in the southern states, it's just easier to get local viewers if the language is local. Secondly, he was complaining that the show was switching between American and British accents - he was not complaining about it actually being in a different accent. And for your last argument, everyone can get confused by a very deep accent.
Twitchi I don't think he was saying that the accents themselves confused him, rather that he was confused by the fact that the characters' voices changed.
In Electric Soldier Porygon, Pikachu uses a move (Thunderbolt). After using said move, the screen began flashing lights and colors, which caused kids to have seizures. All of this was blamed on poor Porygon, and it didn't have a major anime appearance ever again. And that plush is an Eevee, which is indeed a Pokemon.
Not to be a prude, but the missile was shot AT them, when Pikachu jumped up and attacked it with electricity to try and destroy it before it got to them, resulting in the epileptic inducing flashes of red and blue.
Hi Mental Floss My "mind blowing question" this week is: If the 1812 overture is about Napoleon's invasion of Russia, why do we play it in Fourth of July fireworks displays?
I thought it was a Porygon attack that does flashes that causes seizures, not Pikachu. I've seen the episode so I thought it'd be the full screen flashing.... could be wrong though
I'm so happy to learn about the RR app! I've always said that when I have babies I'm just going to find all the awesome kids shows from when I was little and PBS was one of 5 channels we got instead of being annoyed by whatever is on disney channel these days.
Fin H The facts are generally American because those are the facts that they have access to. They don't know about UK-only shows or shows that only air in South Korea because they don't live there.
That picture wasn't of Steve Burns... that was Joe! BLASPHEMY! Steve is full of win, Joe is just... no. No. Yes, I have very strong feels about this. I was a 90s kid, okay? And then after I grew up Steve started making for-reals music for adults and he got even more awesome. Donovan/"Joe" will never be as great.
And man, I remember how damaging to the brand it was when the Electric Soldier Porygon episode of Pokémon aired in Japan and had all those horrible effects on kids. From what I understand the situation was blown WAY out of proportion, and it wasn't a full-on epidemic, but there were enough incidents that, obviously, it became a major problem and news story. Porygon actually never got to appear in the show after that because it had caused THAT much of a stigma in the eyes of Japanese society... even though it was actually Pikachu that caused the flashing. /facepalm/ But, y'know, they couldn't ban Pikachu from the rest of the series, it's sort of one of the main characters and the most well-known mascot for the entire franchise. Oh hey, I just made the 1,337th comment on this video! I feel like such an u83r 1337 h4x0r right now. :P
Damn straight! Steve also gets extra points for becoming an awesome musician after leaving the show. :P AND points for his last episode... his little monologue at the end saying so long and thanks for all the -fish- help makes me tear up, no joke.
In number 3, it stated that Bob Dorough made the School House Rock series, but he also sang and scripted some of the episodes specifically. Because, he was a Jazz artist and still to this day is performing in his 90s. He is my Great Uncle and I see him daily.
Coolway99 why yellow? Blue and red make purple. And in lights, green and red make yellow(mixing colours is different with lights than with paints, the primary colours are a little different)
Sorry, but #4 isnt accurate. While there were large cases of headaches and such from that episode, only a handful of kids had seizures. Also it wasn't pikachu's eyes, it was the entire screen except pikachu, who struck missiles with his electricity to cause the bright and rapid flashing of red and blue
Actually it was over 800 Japanese kids that were hospitalized, apparently. Which is why that episode has never, ever been aired again. Anywhere. But the part about it being Pikachu's eyes is indeed wrong, it was due to Pikachu firing off a Thunderbolt at a missile shot at Ash and co. by Team Rocket. It also put the show on a 4 month hiatus and almost got it cancelled, with Nintendo at the center of it all.
I used to watch "Almost Live!" when it aired nationwide... Also, I knew that the people who had the rights WANTED to edit the infamous seizure episode of P-Mon and air it, but it never happened. Too bad, because there's a "Star Wars" reference in it.
Wrong! Twenty minutes into the episode, there is a scene in which Pikachu stops vaccine missiles with its Thunderbolt attack, resulting in a huge explosion that flashes red and blue lights.
That WAS NOT Steve Burns, but rather that was Donovan Patton who played "Joe." Joe replaced Steve when Steve left for college on "Blue's Clues" and as a result became the single worst thing to ever happen to a children's show.
Not only was that Arthur episode you mentioned parodying South Park, but they also parodied Dexter's Lab and Dr. Katz. And in all seriousness, there are very few things that they DIDN'T parody.
I love Wishbone! I read all the books as a child and watched the TV show. My personal favorite was "Musketeer!" I also watched "Reading Rainbow" all the time, and "Between the Lions." Just now realizing how much of a literary nerd I was and am.
I'm so unashamed to admit I was one of those moms who got through the endlessness of Blue's Clues by admiring Steve. Joe was ... not the same ... but fortunately my kids had pretty much outgrown the show by then.
...and of course now my kids are teenagers and I started watching Vlogbrothers and Crash Course videos over their shoulders ... wait. Do I see a pattern here?
I read the fault in our stars like a year ago and I've been subscribed to this channel for like six months and I never caught on. I was just watching teens react and when he said you wrote the book I was like, "isn't that the guy from mental floss?!" My mind has been blown.
Having seen that episode of Pokemon (Electric Soldier Porygon), everyone gets what exactly happened in that scene wrong. What happens is Ash and Co are riding a giant Porygon after destroying the computer virus (it's a long story, see Tron for the basic premise), when an anti-virus program attacks them (looking like a giant syringe missile). Pikachu defends by zapping the missiles, which causes them to explode and and background to flash red and blue brightly for several seconds as the gang escapes. And yet Porygon has been banned from appearing in the anime ever since despite not having done anything wrong. I guess they just couldn't ban their money making little mouse buddy. BTW: Mark is right, that's Eevee. I won't go into the details of it or we'd be here all night.
happyfacefries That's Sir Geek to you! I wasn't valedictorian of my high school, prom king, and the most avid member of my college anime club for nothing, and I've been playing Pokemon since it was a thing.
+Hoshimaru57 If you knew anything you would know being prom king out anything if that sort makes you nowhere near a nerd and not being valedictorian didn't mean you're not smart. So really, you're just an idiot.
The picture you show for Steve Burns aka Steve is actually Donovan Patton aka Joe on Blue's Clues.
THANK YOU. So glad I'm not the only one who caught it! Okay, phew, now I don't have to post my own comment about it. :P
Brittani Larkin no problem. My nephews grew up watching blue's Clues and now my daughters are.
Okay, good. I thought that image was wrong. I have Steve's album Songs for Dust Mites, and on the sleeve pictures, he looked nothing like that.
You must be old af, I grew up on Blue's Clues and I'm going through a mid-life crisis.
Didn't blues guy top himself? So sad, here's a drink no matter yo
Pikachu's eyes did not flash in that Pokemon episode, it was the background flashing vary fast between pink and blue when Pikachu hid the missiles with a Thunderbolt.
I have seen the episode.
You mean you survived the episode.
As far as I know no one died, but way too many were hospitalizes because of the episode. I also saw the seizures casing scene long before I saw the episode.
The episode also has two names in English depending on how it was translated. It can be "Computer Warrior Porygon" or "Electric Soldier Porygon" (the 2ed was the name used in the episode I watch)
Eevee is not the most well know Pokemon. But it is cute (most likely how it got to the shelf)
He is right no one died but hundreds were hospitalized.
@@generalzeta7000 hospitalized not hospitalizes
Well this was like a flash back to my childhood. I'd forgotten about a lot of these T.V. shows
The man who sang Arthur's theme song is Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley's oldest son.
no way! now that you mention it i can hear it
That’s awesome!
The Swedish voice for Arthur's theme song is Linus Wahlgren, who I guess isn't internationally known. But you can take a listen:
ua-cam.com/video/heOYbSj8Iow/v-deo.html
I've seen the Pokemon seizure episode. It wasn't Pikachu's eyes flashing (especially considering the fact that there isn't much color in his eyes to flash...). Pikachu blew up a computer 'vaccine' which caused a series of really bright red-and-blue lights to flash for a good 2-5 seconds. It was considerably less demonic than the scene you described, lol. ^^"
I can second this.
The irony from that is that Porygon, the pokemon of the day, was banned from ever appearing in the anime again, in any of his evolutionary forms, despite Pikachu being the cause of the problem.
Hoshimaru57
Just goes to show that people are stupid and attack anything but not what they like even if what they like is the provoking element - like how on the show "Cheaters" the significant other will go after the cheated with and not the cheater when the cheated with may not even know about the cheated on's existence.
I flipped out when I didn't see Steve when I heard the words"Steve from Blues Clues"
Yeah, I know. That was Joe. Not Steve
ah snap !lol
That is Donovan Patten.
Yes! I was wondering where was STEVE 😁
That photo of Steve from Blues Clues is actually Joe from Blues Clues. Steve Burns also left the show because he started balding. He also released a couple of Indie albums, and they're not bad!
I remember EVERY kid ever having those Food Transformers from McDonald's back in the day. When did restaurants start offering toys as prizes in kids' meals?
That ending question made me think, "Why hasn't mental_floss done an episode about ice cream? There's got to be all kinds of interesting facts about that."
I love how that's a picture of Joe and not Steve.
Did I watch this 8 years ago? Yes. Am I re-watching all the John Green episodes? Yes.
I thought that, in the Pokémon episode, Pikachu uses thunderbolt on Porygon or someone else, I'm not sure, and so the colors of red and blue flash rapidly on the screen.
I've seen the episode and YES that is what happened, I have no idea where John got what he said from...
Well, as Mr. Green said "It's not my area of expertise".
I actually read otherwise, and read that Pikachu used thunderbolt to blow up missiles that would have otherwise wreaked havoc, however the explosion of the missiles flashed red and blue.
Pokemon's "Electric Soldier Porygon" incident was also greatly dramatized. After only a handful of epileptic children reacted, news stations sent out warnings and a bunch of parents freaked out. An effect similar to the Placebo Effect caused parents to assume that children with mild headaches etc were also affected. Amazing what mob mentality can do can't it?
Yeah! Why does this guy think Pikachu's EYES flashed?!
0:35 Uhhh.... pretty sure that's Joe from Blue's Clues.... not Steve...
really, there is an annotation saying they are wrong
Came down here to say that.
the pokemon episode wasn't pikachu's eyes flashing, but it was the background flashing red and blue very quickly.
3:41 "I never said I wanted to meet Lavar in person! I just wanted a picture! You can't disappoint a picture!"
The Pokemon one was wrong. It was not Pikachu's eye's flashing red. In fact Pikachu's eye's never flashed at all. It was instead just a colorful flashing of lights that was so bright and intense that caused seizures.
I thought it was a porygon. Am I wrong?
***** Nah, porygon were in the episode, but they weren't the cause of the flashing. The cause of the flashing was pikachu using his electricity to make two missiles I believe i was? To explode.
***** Totodilefrog is correct. They used an animation technique called Paka Paka to create a bright flash that took up most of the frame for several seconds. everything2.com/title/Paka+paka
Bill Nye is still telling bad jokes posing as a respectable scientist 🤣
So obviously the first thing to do after watching this video is look up the Bob the Builder song.
When you talked about Steve from Blue's Clues you used a picture of Joe.
Never liked Joe
No one did I do give them credit for handling switch right but theu cast the wrong guy.
Miss Amanda's world Your grammar sucks major wee wee.
They added an annotation. :)
Tobi3440 (Blue Phoenix) Imposter!!
the whole pokemon "electric soldier porygon" episode flashed white red and blue very rapidly, that is enough to cause certain light produced epilepsy attacks, and the cherry on top of the pie is the explosion, which made that same effect full screen.
Steve Burns actually did a story with this story-slam organization called The Moth. It's available in their archives - y'all should check it.
I used to DJ at kids parties and Bob The Builder's version of Mambo No.5 was on the playlist at most of them.
1:46 "Mark says that this is a Pokémon. Not my area of expertise." Eevee! Yay!
I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT BOB THE BUILDER. I AM WATCHING IT RIGHT THIS SECOND.
03: _"It's Schoolhouse Rocky! A chip of the block of your favorite school house: Schoolhouse Rock!"_
...And I haven't heard that in at least 20 years. (Some beautiful station used to play reruns in the 90's, but I first got to watch it as a kid in the 80's... Ahh, I hope kids today are getting to see it, too.. )
Thanks for watching menopause.
I'm not the only one!
I JUST made that comment on another video!!!!8D
Did you know that the dude who played Moseby from Suite Life of Zack and Cody was tried for manslaughter?
That really happened?
I'm pretty sure.
Ib my god....o-o
Ib That was 14 years before the first episode of Suite Life.
Still! XD
Don't run in my halls!!
This was nice :)
You're damn straight it hit number 1 in the UK charts, what a god damn masterpiece.
In the Pokemon episode it was not Pikachu's eyes that flash, it was his thunderbolt that hit a missle and flashed blue and red extremely fast
Yeah, sometimes they get their "facts" wrong. I mean, in this case it's moderately understandable because the episode was banned after airing and has basically almost never seen the light of day, but.. yeah.
And it was the whole screen flashing red, blue and purple, so fast as to make it impossible to really see without slowing it down. If it was just pika's eyes I doubt it would've been as much of an issue.
MythrilZenith I'm sure someone just plucked it from whatever source they had and rolled with it because you can find it pretty easily by looking up "Pokemon banned episodes", but I think they should at least put an annotation correcting themselves.
I think it was a mistake because The Simpsons had a parody in which a TV show had a robot whose eyes flashed, giving Bart a seizure. But yes, it was the background, not Pikachu.
Bob the Builder being number 1 was one of the greatest moments of my childhood! The Teletubbies song "Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" also became number 1 in the UK :)
Mental Floss What was the first serialized television show? And when did it air?
"Steve, from Blue's Clues!"
*shows Joe*
BOOO!!
Yes!!!
Crazyprsn my highschool teacher told us she dated him in college and that they were still friends
I remember that episode of Arthur! God, that was my favourite show.
I loved that episode so much.
This may be my favorite episode to date. You mentioned so many great kids' shows!
It's an Eevee! Eevee's one of the most popular pokemon :3
My entire childhood just flashed before my eyes...... Thanks John!!!!
The pokemon is wrong. It wasn't the eyes of pikachu. It was his thunderbolt to the porygon's missile that made the screen rapidly flash red, blue and purple.
Wishbone, Reading Rainbow, and Magic School Bus were my JAM growing up! I wish there were more shows like them
John also pronounced it "BernSTEIN" bears, which is how everyone remembers. Stupid matrix glitches! Google it...
I REMEMBER THE BOB THE BUILDER THING, IT WAS MY FAVOURITE SONG
1:50 EEVEE!!! It's one of the only Pokemon I can recognize and name, since it's one of the cutest :P
I refused to leave for kindergarten before watching my morning episodes of Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow. LeVar Burton and Big Bird will always have a part of my heart.
I wanna see that Arthur skit now...
Click the link!
Callum Hening What link...?
I recognized that it was on the style of South Park as a kid. Arthur's segment is in the drawing in the style of Dr. Katz, and Muffy's had a reference to Beavis and Butthead
I feel like my entire childhood just flashed before my eyes.
I'm getting the most intense glee from nostalgia I've ever had.
You also could have mentioned that from 1991 to 1995 George Carlin (stand up comic known for his adult humor and crude language) was one of the narrators of the US version of the kids show "Thomas the tank engine".
School House Rock was so awesome. Now I'll have the adverb song stuck in my head for rest of the day.
#4 is wrong. Pikachu used thunderbolt on a couple of rockets and the explosion caused the whole screen to flash red and blue.
actually, he shot a thunderbolt at porygon and he blew up flashing red and blue really fast
tyler gaudet what pisses me off is they didn't even bother to edit the scene to have an actual explosion which would have saved the episode
ikr
WRONG!!!!! Fred Silverman, who was an executive at CBS in the late '60s, was the one who named Scooby Do for that cartoon, not a member of Hanna-Barbera's creative team.
In reference to #13, Rocko also worked at a phone sex hotline in an episode
Boom
Childhood destroyed
That whole show was thankfully during my teens...so that just made it and Ren and Stimpy so much better
I did know that Bill Nye the Science Guy got his start on Almost Live here in Seattle. I grew up watching it with my dad, when it was airing, in the 80s & 90s. Love that show!
One thing that confused me about Bob the Builder is that occasionally they would show an episode with different voices (as in the British voices instead of the Americans).
one thing that confuses me is that you need dubbing in your own accent to make a childs program more appealing to yourself
Are you implying that I, as an 8 year old, controlled the TV schedule for Nick Jr.?
If we're going down this line.. i'm implying that you, as a "complaining viewer", influence the decision process of the people involved cos it "confuses" you.. and why thats so important confuses me.. surly we should be exposing our younger generation to more and more diverse accents so that when they meet some one with a truly confusing accent (say deep darkest scott) they are better equipped to deal with the situation and not be to deeply ingrained to think that the "Local" accent is the only one they can understand
Twitchi For a child old enough to understand what he is watching, I believe hearing voices in you own language, or in this case accent, would be more appealing. An accent from London is not confusing for a child raised in the southern states, it's just easier to get local viewers if the language is local.
Secondly, he was complaining that the show was switching between American and British accents - he was not complaining about it actually being in a different accent.
And for your last argument, everyone can get confused by a very deep accent.
Twitchi
I don't think he was saying that the accents themselves confused him, rather that he was confused by the fact that the characters' voices changed.
Did anybody else notice the picture of Steve from Blue's Clues is actually Joe, Steve's "brother"?
In Electric Soldier Porygon, Pikachu uses a move (Thunderbolt). After using said move, the screen began flashing lights and colors, which caused kids to have seizures. All of this was blamed on poor Porygon, and it didn't have a major anime appearance ever again.
And that plush is an Eevee, which is indeed a Pokemon.
This is one of the most well produced and entertaining channels on the Tube. Love it.
That definitely isn't Steve from Blue's Clues.
Bob singing Mambo No 5 was my whole childhood. My older brother hated it, which of course made me want to listen to it more.
That is not steve at 0:40 that's joe, his sub-par replacement.
Does anyone else hear "Thanks for watching menopause" at the end of all of John's Mental Floss videos? Cannot unhear...
In "electric warrior, porygon", Pikachu shot a missle, which started to flash on the entire screen. It's eyes didn't flash.
That's true! Another fun fact: Porygon and its evolutions have never been seen in another episode of Pokemon since then except for cameo roles.
Not to be a prude, but the missile was shot AT them, when Pikachu jumped up and attacked it with electricity to try and destroy it before it got to them, resulting in the epileptic inducing flashes of red and blue.
Pikachu doesn't shoot missles..
Did anybody else notice that he had Wilson from castaway on the shelf at the end of the video?
Hi Mental Floss
My "mind blowing question" this week is:
If the 1812 overture is about Napoleon's invasion of Russia, why do we play it in Fourth of July fireworks displays?
So many things about the shows I used to watch. Between Arthur and Rugrats, it was a really nice trip down memory lane.
I thought it was a Porygon attack that does flashes that causes seizures, not Pikachu. I've seen the episode so I thought it'd be the full screen flashing.... could be wrong though
Yes. Pikachu does the electric attack that causes Porygon to flip
it was also the flashing red/blue of the explosions that caused seizures.
I'm so happy to learn about the RR app! I've always said that when I have babies I'm just going to find all the awesome kids shows from when I was little and PBS was one of 5 channels we got instead of being annoyed by whatever is on disney channel these days.
I REMEMBER THAT ARTHUR EPISODE
Haha I have good memories of dancing around the living room with my friends to the Bob the Builder song.
LITTLE RICHARD?? SERIOUSLY?? whoa.
Ahhh I love children's shows. I could watch an Arthur marathon right now! I so clearly remember loving the bob the builder cover!
5:38 Alternate universe confirmed. Berenstain not Bernstein Mr. Green.
The Berenstain Bears are a fantastic lens by which to contemplate the inevitable demise of all humanity XD
I also love that Fox and Friends once talked about how Mr. Rogers was ruining the world by telling young children that they were special.
I really wish you guys would cater better to an international audience. Still a good series :)
Fin H The facts are generally American because those are the facts that they have access to. They don't know about UK-only shows or shows that only air in South Korea because they don't live there.
Love this stuff! Makes me want to start a trivia night and watch minds be blown.
When you mentioned Steve from blues clues you put up a picture of joe from blues clues who replaced Steve in the fourth season
How am I just now finding this channel?! Amazing♡
That picture wasn't of Steve Burns... that was Joe! BLASPHEMY! Steve is full of win, Joe is just... no. No. Yes, I have very strong feels about this. I was a 90s kid, okay? And then after I grew up Steve started making for-reals music for adults and he got even more awesome. Donovan/"Joe" will never be as great.
And man, I remember how damaging to the brand it was when the Electric Soldier Porygon episode of Pokémon aired in Japan and had all those horrible effects on kids. From what I understand the situation was blown WAY out of proportion, and it wasn't a full-on epidemic, but there were enough incidents that, obviously, it became a major problem and news story. Porygon actually never got to appear in the show after that because it had caused THAT much of a stigma in the eyes of Japanese society... even though it was actually Pikachu that caused the flashing. /facepalm/ But, y'know, they couldn't ban Pikachu from the rest of the series, it's sort of one of the main characters and the most well-known mascot for the entire franchise.
Oh hey, I just made the 1,337th comment on this video! I feel like such an u83r 1337 h4x0r right now. :P
Word. Steve is, was, and always shall be the man.
Damn straight! Steve also gets extra points for becoming an awesome musician after leaving the show. :P AND points for his last episode... his little monologue at the end saying so long and thanks for all the -fish- help makes me tear up, no joke.
With regurads to two, how exactly is that editorial misogynistic? I mean they're saying that women found Steve attractive, what's wrong with that?
You again? first you give an english lesson onm danger dolans show and now here? can you like stop being boring and annoying?
Marathoning Mental Floss videos at midnight!
next you should make a video about hoaxes people STILL believe
I remember that bob the builder cover! It was really popular in Australia too.
That Bob the builder song is basically our national anthem tbh
He should've mentioned it was for charity haha
In number 3, it stated that Bob Dorough made the School House Rock series, but he also sang and scripted some of the episodes specifically. Because, he was a Jazz artist and still to this day is performing in his 90s. He is my Great Uncle and I see him daily.
No, it's from alternating flashes of red and blue from pikachu's thunderbolt making an explosion. It made my eyes throw-up.
However, it did make it look yellow, right?
Coolway99 why yellow? Blue and red make purple. And in lights, green and red make yellow(mixing colours is different with lights than with paints, the primary colours are a little different)
so so soooo glad you've got a new series!! Its like cake but in education form!!
Sorry, but #4 isnt accurate. While there were large cases of headaches and such from that episode, only a handful of kids had seizures. Also it wasn't pikachu's eyes, it was the entire screen except pikachu, who struck missiles with his electricity to cause the bright and rapid flashing of red and blue
Actually it was over 800 Japanese kids that were hospitalized, apparently. Which is why that episode has never, ever been aired again. Anywhere. But the part about it being Pikachu's eyes is indeed wrong, it was due to Pikachu firing off a Thunderbolt at a missile shot at Ash and co. by Team Rocket. It also put the show on a 4 month hiatus and almost got it cancelled, with Nintendo at the center of it all.
I used to watch "Almost Live!" when it aired nationwide...
Also, I knew that the people who had the rights WANTED to edit the infamous seizure episode of P-Mon and air it, but it never happened. Too bad, because there's a "Star Wars" reference in it.
Wrong! Twenty minutes into the episode, there is a scene in which Pikachu stops vaccine missiles with its Thunderbolt attack, resulting in a huge explosion that flashes red and blue lights.
John Greene thank you for making this book the fault within our stars it's amazing x)
That WAS NOT Steve Burns, but rather that was Donovan Patton who played "Joe." Joe replaced Steve when Steve left for college on "Blue's Clues" and as a result became the single worst thing to ever happen to a children's show.
I am intrigued by the dolls on top of the new salon fireplace!
It wasn't pikachu's eyes in particular that were seizure inducing.
You know the famous 'Misheard Lyrics' vids? Well, I can't get away from hearing this guy say, 'Thanks for watching menopause here on UA-cam.' :-)
Not only was that Arthur episode you mentioned parodying South Park, but they also parodied Dexter's Lab and Dr. Katz. And in all seriousness, there are very few things that they DIDN'T parody.
IKR. I'm 13 and *_LOVE_* that show. Don't judge me.
One does not simply judge someone for enjoying Arthur. Dude, I'm 19 and it's still one of my favorite shows. :)
James Justus Thank you. You are awesome. Have a beautiful day.
I'd rather see Arthur parody Dexter than Dexter's Lab.
I love Wishbone! I read all the books as a child and watched the TV show. My personal favorite was "Musketeer!" I also watched "Reading Rainbow" all the time, and "Between the Lions." Just now realizing how much of a literary nerd I was and am.
I'm so unashamed to admit I was one of those moms who got through the endlessness of Blue's Clues by admiring Steve. Joe was ... not the same ... but fortunately my kids had pretty much outgrown the show by then.
...and of course now my kids are teenagers and I started watching Vlogbrothers and Crash Course videos over their shoulders ... wait. Do I see a pattern here?
he showed a picture of Joe intead of Steve :/ Steve for life!!
I read the fault in our stars like a year ago and I've been subscribed to this channel for like six months and I never caught on. I was just watching teens react and when he said you wrote the book I was like, "isn't that the guy from mental floss?!" My mind has been blown.
Having seen that episode of Pokemon (Electric Soldier Porygon), everyone gets what exactly happened in that scene wrong. What happens is Ash and Co are riding a giant Porygon after destroying the computer virus (it's a long story, see Tron for the basic premise), when an anti-virus program attacks them (looking like a giant syringe missile). Pikachu defends by zapping the missiles, which causes them to explode and and background to flash red and blue brightly for several seconds as the gang escapes.
And yet Porygon has been banned from appearing in the anime ever since despite not having done anything wrong. I guess they just couldn't ban their money making little mouse buddy.
BTW: Mark is right, that's Eevee. I won't go into the details of it or we'd be here all night.
Neeeeeerrrrrrrrrd.
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That's Sir Geek to you!
I wasn't valedictorian of my high school, prom king, and the most avid member of my college anime club for nothing, and I've been playing Pokemon since it was a thing.
+Hoshimaru57 If you knew anything you would know being prom king out anything if that sort makes you nowhere near a nerd and not being valedictorian didn't mean you're not smart. So really, you're just an idiot.
Oh aren't you just a joy to be around?
I met Levar Burton at the Bronx Zoo in June 2012, and he was talking about the Reading Rainbow app. Both he and the app were epic.
why does my voice get higher or lower when i inhale helium or sulfur hexafluoride.
berenstein bears, MANDELA EFFECT
STUFFED EEVEE!!!!
Isn't today the birthday of the mental floss list show? Happy birthday!