More Pokémon Honest Trailers continue to be released, thanks to the growing membership of the Association of Shunned Helpers and their growing (or sort of forced) partnership with the guys of Screen Junkies.

The extent of their influence even reaches Pewter City, where Brock's siblings catch the glance of the first three Honest Trailers.

"Hey Brock, you should see this!" young Forrest tells his older brother while he is sweeping the gym's floors.

"What is it?" Brock replies. He then follows his brother, who leads him to his laptop.

"You would not believe what we just saw. Some video actually called out your name," Forrest explains.

"Really? What could it be?" Brock asks. "Probably some dedication video. Or an interview. Or a documentary about Pokémon medicine where I got credited."

"Nope, it's something different," Forrest confirms.

With that, he clicks the play button for the Honest Trailer for Pokémon Advanced.


The video starts off with flashing of screenshots of video requests and the obligatory title card.

And with that, the epic voice guy kicks off his spiel, "After the original series touch on our childhood nostalgia, along with the games, trading cards and non-stop merchandise, the saga of the anime continues in the most efficient way possible: recycling the same old formula." With this point, he takes a stab on the redundancy of their video formula, "Yep, much like the previous Honest Trailers, we're doing the same old formula, but advanced. Pokémon Advanced."

He then goes along with the script, along with accompanying clips, "After journeying the sprawling region of Kanto, stopping by at the pointless detour in the Orange Islands, and trekking the sort of exciting of Johto, step in to the region of Hoenn, where it is essentially the real world equivalent of Brazil, with the dense forests, the rich culture, the tourist sites and the most outrageous fans." Then, a clip is flashed, showing the parallels of fans from Brazil and fans from Hoenn.

"Journey once again with…" However, the narrator suddenly stops and makes a side-comment, "…let me guess…it's Ash and Pikachu again, right?" After being notified of his claim, the epic voice reacts vehemently. "...Ughhh…"

"Watch as this inseparable pair test their friendship as Pikachu goes through severe upon entering a brand new region, and Ash must rescue him, train him, test his skills, practice a new move and subject him to a series of gym battles and championships." When the epic voice guy claims those testaments, the video shows a series of split screen scene where one screen shows sequences from the original series while the other shows the Advanced series, just to remark how redundant the formula gets. "And still, he hasn't evolved. Yep, it doesn't sound familiar, does it?"

Despite that remark, the epic voice narrator proceeds with the rest of his spiel on introducing the other characters: "But Ash is not alone. Along with him is a brand new crew of fresh faces, plus the incomparable Brock, because Brock is awesome."

"There's May, the Pokémon trainer who hates Pokémon…but who also loves Pokémon eventually, or specifically the cuter ones." Cue May's Pokémon roster.

"There's Max, the walking Pokémon encyclopedia and the answer to Brock's flirting habits." Cue a clip of Max pinching Brock's ear whenever the latter approaches a girl.

"Together, they will again help Ash become a Pokémon Master, which he still cannot help gushing about, and go through the same-old, same-old adventures that we get used to…"

However, the narrator gives a defense to those claims: "But at least we have May on her subplot to become a Pokémon coordinator, which is kind of the equivalent of a contestant for Project Runway"

Even with that absurd claim, the narrator keeps defending that Advanced is not as bad as he seems, "Or maybe encountering all kinds of Pokémon is fun right? With the legendary ones to the…lamer ones…"

But he gets his hopes high when he has to mention the legitimate threats, "…but perhaps stopping enemies like Team Magma, the criminal syndicate who wants create new land to create a new empire; and Team Aqua, who wants to submerge the world to create a new empire…"

Just with that statement, the narrator gives up, "No, we're not going to reuse the Lex Luthor jokes we did for the games, because we won't sink in the same level of redundancy as this anime does." But he forgets one more thing: "Oh, and there's Team Rocket too, who are just there to get blasted off."

"Thrill at the real 'advancement' of the series, as 4Kids Entertainment announced not to renew their contract to release the anime to the world market, and The Pokémon Company got the rights to the dubbed versions, starting with the Battle Frontier, which only made the characters sound hokey and the dialogue kind of forced." After that, a clip compilation comparing the 4Kids dub and the TPCI dubs are shown, which makes the narrator reconsider his preference. "Can we get 4Kids back?"

But he still continues, "So, strap in for the adventures of the once glorious anime, as it takes inspiration from the less inspired Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and Emerald games. But don't worry about going through the same old formula that kids would ignore and fans would not want to admit, because we still get the awesome Pokémon battles and the one Pokémon to outdo all Pokémon from all generations."

And at the anticipation of his voice, the epic voice guy reveals the Pokémon he is talking about: "Mudkip. You heard me right? There, I said it! I. Like. Mudkip. Now, shut your faces and go to starring!"

With that, he kicks off what is arguably the best part of every Honest Trailer:

"Starring:

· Ashton Catcher (Ash)

· Ling-Ling (Pikachu)

· Donald Glover (Brock)

· May This Be Love (May)

· The Pagemaster (Max)

· Sergeant Keroro (Treecko)

· Chick Magnet (Torchic)

· "I Wanna Be Famous" (Mudkip)

· Professor Dewey Finn (Professor Birch)

· Rita Repulsa (Jessie)

· Kevin James (James)

· Sanrio (Meowth)

· A Life Buoy (Wobbuffet)

· One Pieces (Team Aqua)

· Assassins Creeds (Team Magma)

· The One That Got Away (Misty)

· Norman Reedus (Norman)

· Halle Berry (Winona)

· Kurama (Drew)

· What a Human Cacturne Would Look Like (Harley)

· And Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (All Hoenn Legendary Pokémon)"

Just like that, he also reveals the honest title: "Pokémon: Advanced Degeneration"

But before the video ends, the epic voice guy has to side-comment, "Okay, the new series kind of sucks but we can all agree that the Hoenn Pokérap is kind of awesome. Right?" Cue playing the official video for the Hoenn Pokérap.


When the video ends, Brock is just left astounded as to what he just saw.

"Brock, are you okay?" Forrest asks.

However, Brock never answers. Only after a few moments of silence that Brock is able to react. "I think I need a day off." And with that, the famed Pewter City gym leader walks to his room and shuts the door to contemplate on the video that he just saw. In reality, Brock ponders repeatedly of how he is referenced. "Well, to be fair, I like the Donald Glover joke, whoever he is," he utters.

Afterwards, he thinks of calling a close acquaintance from the past.