To Kill A Delibird - A Pokemon Rewatch & Analysis Podcast

Happy New Year! Wow, “To Kill A Delibird” keeps landing on a holiday. Will this trend continue next week? We have no way of knowing. It’s a mystery. Ash and the gang are also dealing with a mystery in the first episode we recap this week: Ep. 104 “The Mystery Menace”. We also get into Ep. 105 “Misty Meets Her Match”. We start the TKAD episode with some pokemon anime character new years resolution...

Happy holidays! This week on To Kill A Delibird, we have sort of a Christmas episode, but also totally not. The holiday part is right at the beginning and in true TKAD fashion, it gets weird. The rest of the episode continues in the Orange Island adventures with Graham and Kellan recapping Ep. 102, “Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon?” and Ep. 103, “Get Along, Little Pokémon”. Ep. 102 gives us the easies...

Its milestone week on To Kill A Delibird as we recap, review, revisit and reassess Ep. 100, “A Way Off Day Off” and Ep. 101, “The Mandarin Island Miss Match”! First we get into a bit of Graham's that is sure to make everyone uncomfortable. Reminder that we are an explicit podcast. Ep. 100 is a big deal numerically and the exact opposite categorically, subjectively, objectively, chronologically...

What's happening, fellow Meowth worshipping cult members? Are you missing something in your life? We have the answer for you. What if I told you that there was a podcast recapping the Pokemon anime and this week they are discussing an episode where Meowth gets worshipped by a cult? I imagine your life would be changed. Well get ready to be transfigured, because this week on To Kill A Delibird,...

Can’t stop, won’t stop! Once you grab a piece of fruit, continue until you get the boot! This week on To Kill A Delibird we are covering Ep. 96, “Snack Attack” and Ep. 97, “A Shipful of Shivers”. We start the episode with a discussion on bachelor life home upkeep followed by a deep analysis on the optimal haunting techniques. The episode reviews heat up quickly though, do not worry! The first epis...

Calling all buff kayaking federally-funded mobile healthcare professionals! We have the “To Kill A Delibird” episode for you! This week on TKAD we relive Ep. 94, “The Joy of Pokémon”, and Ep. 95, “Navel Maneuvers” of the Pokemon anime Orange: Islands edition. In the opening segment, Kellan catches us up with the new Hunger Games movie, and Graham speculates wildly about video games he hasn't p...

Friends and family, we are gathered here today to say goodbye to our favourite animated duck, Psyduck. It is with great sorrow that we look back on the life of Psyduck and have a ton of fun with this week’s episodes! This week on To Kill A Delibird we relive, revisit, reinterpret and review Ep. 91, “Shell Shock!”, Ep. 92, “Stage Fight!”, and Ep. 93, “Bye Bye Psyduck”. “Shell Shock!” features an is...

Do you have life goals? If you don't, would you like to steal someone else's life goals? This week on To Kill A Delibird, we have a little something for everyone. Ash and the gang’s adventure continues in Ep. 89, “The Crystal Onix” and Ep. 90, “In The Pink”. “The Crystal Onix” is all about searching for your goals and your inspiration, or if you are Team Rocket, it's all about stealing other peopl...

Got any cheese? Welcome to To Kill A Delibird, the top Pokemon Cheese Speculation Satire Podcast! You will understand what that means if you listen to this week’s episode. This week, in addition to cheese humour, we are reliving and reviewing Ep. 87, “Fit To Be Tide”, and Ep. 88, “Pikachu Re-Volts”. “Fit To Be Tide” features the first Orange Island gym battle. If you have ever thought about surfin...

Do you like Pokemon? Would you like to train Pokemon? Well you can't, but would you like to look at Pokemon? This week on To Kill A Delibird, we meet Tracey Sketchit, a "Pokemon Watcher", who travels the Orange Islands with a measuring tape and a sketchpad, as we review and recap Ep. 85, "Pokeball Peril" and Ep. 86, "The Lost Lapras". Off the bat, Graham has a philosophical meltdown thinking about...

Orange you glad I didn't say Kanto? This is it folks, we've done it! After the back breaking work that is watching anime every week for almost a year, we deserve a vacation. Don't you agree? Well conveniently the next arc of the Pokemon anime takes us to the tropical Orange Islands! Of course, this arc starts with us having to actually get to the Orange Islands. This week on To Kill A...

Hello friends! It's the final week of the Indigo League episodes and we get to explore Graham's favourite Shonen trope: the power of friendship. To finish up the season we are reviewing Ep. 80, "A Friend In Deed", Ep. 81, "Friend and Foe Alike", and Ep. 82, "Friends to the End". These episodes feature an alternative Ash from the shadow dimension named Ritchie...

The games continue! To Kill A Delibird and fans get to enjoy more of the Pokemon league contest of champions for the Kanto region through Pokemon Indigo League Ep. 78, “Fire and Ice” and Ep. 79, “The Fourth Round Rumble”. We start this episode with the dumbest thing Graham has ever written: 100 Pokemon video game title ideas. You are warned; It is dumb. Then we see a large anime fire dog create a...

The games have begun! We have finally entered the Pokemon League arc at the end of the Kanto episodes. This week on To Kill A Delibird we are covering Ep. 76, "All Fired Up!" And Ep. 77, "Round One - Begin!". We start the show with an exploration of the real life Olympic Games (that has that renowned TKAD level of research and authenticity). Then we go into episode 76 which sets the atmosphere for...

All this training is hard work! We are one step close to starting the Pokemon Indigo League here on To Kill A Delibird. We are reviewing Ep. 74, “The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis” and Ep. 75, “Bad to the Bone” this week. These episodes feature giant Pokemon disaster rampages, ancient artefacts of unknown purpose, a Pokemon whose dead mother’s skull has fused to its head, and Ash showing off his c...

Meow. Do you like cats? You better. This week is cat week on To Kill A Delibird. Cat week is kind of like shark week but not as wet. And cuter. We are back deep into the Pokemon Indigo League Anime reviewing Ep. 72, “Go West Young Meowth” and Ep. 73, “To Master the Onixpected!”. Graham’s wife Shauna joins to give a cat enthusiasts viewpoint on “Go West Young Meowth”, which Graham, Shauna, and Kell...

Breaking news! Reports have come out that Hyper Potions sold all over Kanto are being recalled. The bad batch of Hyper Potions is making Pokemon everywhere dance the Macarena uncontrollably! Many have been hospitalised. In Pewter City a dancing Onix took out a laundromat. This week on To Kill A Delibird, we’ve got the scoop on more scams, grifts and shoddy production incidents shaking the Pokemon...

Ready? Fight! This week on To Kill A Delibird we continue discussing Pokemon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back! Our part 2 discussion covers the latter half of the movie and a seriously sleep deprived Kellan. The Mewtwo mystery reaches a boiling point and war has broken out. On the elusive “New Island”, the greatest Pokemon trainer in the world is revealed to also be the world’s greatest Pokem...

Life. One of the great mysteries. Where did we come from? What is our purpose? Why does Donald Duck put a towel around his waist when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn’t normally use pants? When Mike Wazowski closes and opens his eye, is he blinking or winking? This week on TKAD we dive into the neural clone soup of existentialism and start discussing Pokemon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strik...

Surfs up dude! This week on To Kill A Delibird, we combine America's favourite pastimes: divulging into sensationalist media coverage, debating the mysteries of evolution, and surfing! First off we do a special segment where we look at newspaper articles during the height of Pokemania. Then we ride the waves of banter into the episodes and discuss Ep. 68 “The Evolution Solution” and Ep. 69 (ni...

This weeks To Kill A Delibird episode is 100% Mimed. We use a brand new technology that translates hand movements into sounds. Creating this episode was an arm workout, let us tell you! This week we are joined by special guest Curtis, of the JustPlainUniverse Youtube Channel. Check him out, he has a ton of cool videos, including an interview with Jason Paige, voice of the original Pokemon Theme So...

The truth is out there. Pokemon are among us. Two brave individuals named Graham and Kellan are all that stand between humanity and imminent destruction. This one simple trick will bring peace to the galaxy! Want to find out what it is? Check out To Kill A Delibird, the premier Pokemon anime analysis comedy podcast, where this week we review Ep. 64, "Clefairy Tales" and Ep. 65, "The Battle of the...

This week on To Kill A Delibird we go from wet and wild to svelte and mild, splashing into Pokemon anime episodes 62, "Beach Blank-Out Blastoise" and 63, "The Misty Mermaid". This pair of water themed filler episodes has the gang taking some relatively pointless diversions from their goals and unlocking fast travel. The first episode features Blastoise and washing machine accidents, while the seco...

This week on To Kill A Delibird, the Reading Rainbow of Pokemon rewatch podcasts, Team Rocket finds themselves between a rock and a hot place, something all of us can relate to this summer. I'm just referring to how the summer is really hot though and not implying that being inside a volcano is common. Team Rocket finds themselves in a volcano through the events of Pokemon anime episodes Ep. 6...

There comes a time in every person’s life where they have to overcome an incredible challenge. These challenges come in all shapes and sizes. For some, these challenges come in school. For others, in a professional capacity. Some of us have struggles in our personal lives. Ash meets his biggest challenge this week on “To Kill A Delibird”. Welcome back to TKAD where we discuss Ep. 58, “The Ultimate...