Pokemon: Why Can Meowth Talk?
Pokemon fans remember Meowth as the wily and irreplacable member of Team Rocket, alongside Jesse and James. Meowth was always a part of Team Rocket's schemes and ploys to capture Pikachu. However, unlike Pikachu, Meowth seems to be the only Pokemon that is able to talk. This begs the questions of how and why this is possible.
In episode 72 of Pokemon: Indigo League, Ash Ketchum and the gang were invited to the movie premiere of «Pokemon In Love» in Hollywood. On the flip side of things, Jesse and James of Team Rocket are also attending the premiere — by crashing it without an invitation, of course. While the two are fantasizing about the glamour of Hollywood, Meowth nervously interjects by saying «Hollywood, a place I'd like to forget». We are then taken on a flashback to Meowth as a young Pokemon.
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Meowth compares his childhood to that of a cheap chocolate bar: bittersweet. The young Meowth's first memories was being orphaned, hungry, friendless, and homeless; just a baby Pokemon alone in a newspaper-lined basket. One day out of hunger, he tried to climb into a basket of baseballs in the park that belonged to a nearby group of children and their coach, and tried to eat the balls.
As a punishment, the coach bound him with rope and hoisted him up a tree. After crying himself to sleep, the same park was holding a movie night showing a new Hollywood movie called «That Darn Meowth!». In the film, a Pokemon that looked just like Meowth was depicted as eating delicious food such as ice cream and fried chicken. Meowth, still tied up in the tree, watched this in awe and gained a newfound motivation to break free from his binds to «Go west to
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