I never got the pikachu ketchup connection, even back when I

>>27543181
I think they were trying to make him seem more like a living animal-Pokemon-thing instead of just a lifeless mascot with a generic optimistic personality.

>>27543266
but why ketchup, why not obsess with other things, like panties?

>>27543181
Ketchup sounds similar to Ash's last name and Pikachu backwards.

Pun with the English name Ash Ketchup

>>27543292
This, it's so obvious. Ash even picks ketchup as his fake name in the anime.

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name one better brand

>>27543344
But what about in Japan?
His name is sure as hell not Satoshi Keichapu

>>27543339
you do realize his original name is Satoshi so this pun doesnt make sense to non westerners

>>27543366
i hate to say it but it's the best
>tried several other off brand ketchups
>heintz is still the best by far

What the fuck. It's not a pun, stop trying to read all kinds of lol so clever shit into this.

Back in the first season, there was an episode where they were eating in a restaurant, I'm pretty sure it was the Yaz and Kaz gym episode, and Pikachu tried ketchup and really liked it. It cried when the ketchup bottle broke.

It was adorable, and Pikachu's love for ketchup has been referenced ever since.

>>27543284

because unlike vp pikachu is not a filthy degenerate

>>27543544

>forever ever since
>only 3 times

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>>27543181
There's an episode in the original anime where they get Ketchup on them? (I think it was for some type of disguise???) Anyways Pikachu ended up really like the shit when he licked it,

>>27543719
Episode 42.

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>>27543366

Felix

>>27543366
I can't

>>27543652
It's been used n marketin many times. Del Monte did a Pokemon campaign some years back based around this tidbit too.

>>27543366
Biedronka. Madero. Poland.

>>27544057
tylko tomatini

>>27543284
He's not Oolong

>>27543391
Just Satoshi

Wasn't it just a plot thing to move the conflict along in that one Electabuzz vs Sycther episode? I don't remember if it was a thing before that episode, and I always assumed it was just a callback to that episode that just became something of a running gag that occasionally shows up.

>>27544383
Yeah. It's just something fans really latched on to, so the anime occasionally brings it up.

>>27543366
I will never understand the attachment every single autistic person on this world has with heinz ketchup

>>27543366
Digim- oh sorry :^)

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Is this the only time it got brought up again before XY?

>>27544453
heinz tastes great

>>27544812
I'm pretty sure they only bring it up every 100 episodes or so, even then its rare or just a small thing Pikachu does in the background.

>>27544057
Tylko pudliszki kurwy

>>27543397
Who gives a shit about non-westerners though?

>>27543181
Pikatchup

>>27545485
The people that actually write the episodes that include this "pun" on something they don't even know exists?

>>27543391

Ke-cha-pu (Ketchup) -> switch around kanji symbols -> pu-ke-cha -> Pikachu

>>27544057
Molonay tubilderborst