In watching this I think about the puns 4Kids was notorious for and are now memorable.
And I miss them.
Like when Team Rocket is watching Ash and co. eat lunch at the beginning. In the original movie, Jessie whips out the frying pan and says she can cook something and Meowth quips back, “Thanks, but the last time you cooked it wiped out eight of my nine lives!”
I know there’s a huge debate between dub edits and staying true to a script, but 4Kids knew how to make Team Rocket bumbling and humorous and excelled at it because they were indeed bumbling but it made you like them and made the scenes memorable.
Given what they had to work with in the franchise’s then infancy, 4Kids did just fine with what they had. Their writers knew how to setup most jokes and puns and they’re still memorable, for better or worse.
