Every BANNED Pokémon Episode EXPLAINED in Detail

685 children were taken to hospital by one Pokémon episode in December 1997 — and it isn't even the rarest banned episode on this list. Eleven were pulled from broadcast, and you'll know all eleven by the end. Going in order of how deep they were buried, worst last: James's swimsuit episode banned twice, the Safari warden who held a gun to Ash and the 30 Tauros that vanished, the Jynx recolor, the Passimian face-paint episode, the giant Tentacruel pulled after 9/11, the Barboach episode killed by a real earthquake, and Electric Soldier Porygon — the seizure episode that blamed the wrong Pokémon in its own title. It was Pikachu. And two Team Plasma episodes were finished, scored, scheduled — then locked in a Tokyo office where nobody on Earth has ever watched them. Pokémon lost media, in the games' and the show's own record. ▶ New Pokémon lore breakdowns every Tuesday and Friday. Subscribe. 🎬 Next: "The Pokémon Game Freak DELETED." 0:00 The Mystery of the Banned Episodes 1:43 Weapons and Racial Caricatures 3:57 Tragedy Beyond the Studio Walls 6:32 The Episodes Nobody Has Ever Seen #pokemon #pokemonlore #bannedepisodes #porygon #lostmedia