To Kill A Delibird - A Pokemon Rewatch & Analysis Podcast

Put your hands up! You have the right to not laugh at anything we say, but please like, subscribe and comment! Anything we say is probably super dumb and that's all there is to it! This week on To Kill A Delibird, Graham and Kellan are back in filler territory discussing Ep. 56, "The Case of the K-9 Caper!" and Ep. 57, "Pokemon Paparazzi". The first episode teaches us that...

It's the season of festivals on TKAD and in real life. Feel free to listen to this episode even if it is not a public holiday where and when you read this description. The beauty of podcasts is that anyone anywhere can listen to anything whenever they want. Even if it is two grown men comparing cartoons to classic literature. Did you know that is what "To Kill A Delibird" is about? Well it is. I s...

The winter of our discontent has passed and signs of growth are upon us. New life is all around TKAD this week as we tackle Episode 52 “Who Gets to Keep Togepi?” and Episode 53 “Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden” from the Pokemon anime. New life becomes a new member of the gang whose appearance in the anime spurs a lengthy discussion from Kellan and Graham of the early days of pokemon generation revea...

The darkest of days is upon us. Absolute chaos incarnate has captured the soul of the podcast. Porgyon's ghost still haunts us and today Kellan has had enough! Welcome back to "To Kill A Delibird", where this week we discuss episode 50 "Holy Matrimony!" and episode 51 "So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd" of the original Pokemon Indigo League anime. We start keeping it...

What happens when you combine Indiana Jones and ER era George Clooney? This week on “To Kill A Delibird”, Graham and Kellan perform a scientific experiment to find out! We review Episode 46, “Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon” and Episode 47, “A Chansey Operation” of the original Pokemon anime. The first episode is like Jurassic Park but also is not like Jurassic Park at all. The second episode fe...

This week on TKAD we cover Pokemon anime episodes 44, “The Problem with Paras”, and 45, “The Song of Jigglypuff”. We start the episode with the usual top tier Kellan and Graham banter but after that, things get weird. We team up with an AI to create an instant classic piece of literature called “Pizza in Paris”. The Pokemon episodes themselves this week are pretty good too and one might ALSO consi...

This town ain't big enough for both of us… but this isn't a town, it's a podcast! Welcome to "To Kill a Delibird" Episode 21 where we discuss Pokemon Indigo League episodes 42, "Showdown at Dark City" and 43, "The March of the Exeggutor Squad". First we hear about Kellan's latest obsession with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Then we offer p...

Hello TKAD Nation! We officially made it to our second deca-versary. Is that something? We have a special guest joining us to review Ep. 40, "The Battling Eevee Brothers" and Ep. 41, "Wake Up Snorlax!". Graham's childhood friend Ryan joins the discussion to bring extra deep insights into the themes of the episodes and gush about how cool Snorlax is. These are super fun epis...

Ho ho ho-oh! It's Pokemon Christmas in May this week on To Kill A Delibird. Graham and Kellan are back at it to review, discuss, interpret, dissect, enjoy, rank, and give commentary on the Pokemon Indigo League anime special holiday episodes "Holiday Hi-Jynx" and "Snow Way Out". Kellan is especially excited this episode with the reveal of a brand new Pokemon: Santa Claus! S...

Years before YouTube apology videos there was Pokemon Indigo League anime episodes 38, "Electric Soldier Porygon" and 39 "Pikachu's Goodbye". This week on To Kill A Delibird we look first at the episode that caused a major incident in Japan due to photosensitive material and follow that review with a review of the episode that was most likely an apology for the former episode. It's a week of makin...

What do you get when you mix transformations with cycling? I guess probably "Arcee" from the Transformers franchise. You can google that if you are interested because it is unrelated. This week on To Kill A Delibird co-hosts Graham and Kellan discuss Ep 36, "The Bridge Bike Gang" and Ep 37, "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion". These are two weird episodes that are someho...

Yeehaw! It's a rootin' tootin' good time at To Kill A Delibird this week as we do a triple review through the weird and wacky safari zone themed episodes. That's Ep 33 "The Flame Pokémon-athon!", Ep 34 "The Kangaskhan Kid", and Ep 35 "The Legend of Dratini" (or as we like to call it "No English Title"). Listen to a couple of Canadians discuss some Japanese animator's take on the American wild west...

Welcome back to the “To Kill A Delibird” podcast where we relive the classic Pokemon episodes Ep 31 “Dig Those Diglett!” and Ep 32 “The Ninja Poké-Showdown”. We had to really dig deep this time to bring up interesting themes, but we discovered some gold! And silver! And crystal! (That joke is too easy). In the first episode, Ash and the gang meet the master of meltdowns, the red car from Sega’s Ou...

Was everybody “a Kung-fu fighting”? HAH! This week on “To Kill A Delibird” we investigate that age old question by reviewing the Pokemon anime, episodes 29 “The Punchy Pokémon” and 30 “Sparks Fly for Magnemite”. Some were kung-fu fighting, some were wrestling, some were boxing, some were stealing identities, others were clogging water intakes, and one had electrical-influenza based stalking tenden...

Welcome to the Pokemon anime rewatch podcast, "To Kill a Delibird", once again and again and again and you are now getting very sleepy. Now that you are under my spell, rate our podcast 5 stars and set episodes to auto-download. Didn't work? Oh well. Hey, on an unrelated note this week we cover Pokemon anime episodes 27, "Hypno's Naptime" and 28, "Pokémon Fashion F...

You know when the Roadrunner from Looney Toons legs move so fast they become a circle and you see a streak of dust across the New Mexican desert? Ever wanted to bottle the feeling of watching that into a perfume, spray the perfume in a room full of animators and see what they produce? If you said yes, we have the episodes for you! TKAD nation covers two Pokemon anime Indigo League episodes this we...

Spooky, Scary! It’s a Pokemon bar mitzvah! This week your favourite Pokemon anime rewatch and analysis podcast “To Kill A Delibird” covers the occult and paranormal in episodes 22, “Abra and the Psychic Showdown”, 23 “The Tower of Terror”, and 24 “Haunter versus Kadabra”. Here is a synopsis: Ash Ketchum doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance against psychic terror lady and daughter of Chucky, Sabrina t...

It's the season of love on TKAD as we discuss the Pokemon anime episodes Episode 20, "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak" and Episode 21, "Bye, Bye, Butterfree". We are joined by special guest Nolan (Kellan's brother) to teach Kellan and Graham what true love means (and why Indiana Jones didn't affect the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark). The Pokemon episodes this week feature Gastly (a ghost), Butterfree...

To Kill A Delibird takes a dive into the deep end of Pokemon anime wackiness by covering the first banned episode! Episode 18, “Beauty and the Beach” was originally aired in NA with censoring and then considered banned for reruns. Ep 18 is discussed along with Episode 19, “Tentacool & Tentacruel”. Graham and Kellan go down several rabbit holes including, but not limited to: weird beachside foo...

It’s a nautical journey today on To Kill A Delibird! We join Ash Ketchum, Misty, Brock, and Team Rocket on a bougie boat bonanza in Ep 15 “Battle Aboard the St. Anne”, through a sinking storm-ridden setback in Ep 16 “Pokemon Shipwreck”, and finally surviving through a terrifying titan territory in Ep 17 “Island of the Giant Pokemon”. Graham and Kellan discuss how the pokemon anime deviates from th...

This week we are cliff diving into two classic Pokemon anime episodes: Episode 13, "Mystery at the Lighthouse", and Episode 14, "Electric Shock Showdown". We have a serious clash of interests in theis podcast episode that will be sure to entertain. It's reality TV and 90s sitcoms vs. Jojo memes here at TKAD  Subscribe to get every new episode of To Kill a Delibird in your subscription feed. &...

We're covering some of the most memorable Pokemon episodes ever as we see Ash get all 3 starter Pokemon from the original games. Bulbasaur is a ride or die ninja homie in "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village", Charmander is a Victorian era orphan in "Charmander: The Stray Pokemon", and Squirtle is a Bancho straight out of the 70s in "Here Comes the Squirtle Squad". Want to know what that means? Check...

Get aboard the first triple decker bus episode of TKAD where we take stops at Ep. 7 "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City", Ep. 8 "The Path to the Pokemon League", and Ep. 9 "The School of Hard Knocks". Much like real life bus stops, these episodes are full of inappropriate jokes and messy moral messages. Intrigued? Luckily this bus ride is free, so hop on a join the To Kill a Delibird ride!  ...

TKAD devolves into civil war this week as Pokemon expert Kellan flames media enthusiast Graham for not doing his job. They recap episode 5 "Showdown in Pewter City", and episode 6 "Clefairy and the Moon Stone" and these episodes are stuffed to the brim with mystery. Are Pokemon actually aliens? Are men with beards intrinsically sketchy? What's the deaal with cold spaghetti? Join the debate and dis...

Kellan and Graham are back folks, discussing Ash's adventures in Viridian Forest. Episode 3 "Ash Catches a Pokemon" and episode 4 "Challenge of the Samurai" are scored objectively using the PPPPOR (Plastic Ping-Pong Pitcher of Objective Rankings) system. The episodes discussed are action packed and so is this podcast episode! Ever wondered if statisticians exist in the Pokemon universe? Or if puns...