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Not to be a Debbie Downer, but this page is phrased as if it's a foregone conclusion that there will be more Pokeraps even though there probably won't. All I can find on the Satan thing are fansites mocking the fundies, not any actual fundies complaining.
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(Not to be a Debbie Downer, but this page is phrased as if it's a foregone conclusion that there will be more Pokeraps even though there probably won't. All I can find on the Satan thing are fansites mocking the fundies, not any actual fundies complaining.) |
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The '''Pokérap''' is a series of songs that was made popular by the [[Pokémon anime]]. | The '''Pokérap''' is a series of songs that was made popular by the [[Pokémon anime]]. They are the English equivalent of the ''[[Can You Name All the Pokémon|Can You Name All the Pokémon?]]'' songs. | ||
The main purpose of the | The main purpose of the songs were to [[List of Pokémon|list all the known Pokémon]] of a specific generation. The [[Kanto Pokérap|original]] and [[Hoenn Pokérap]]s rhymed; the former had many Pokémon names that rhymed and the latter rhymed normal words together instead of Pokémon names. No rhymes were made in the [[Pokérap GS]], however. | ||
In the first two songs, the evolutionary families would be jumbled up, and sung in different lines or verses. In the Hoenn Pokérap, this rule was not followed; many evolutionary families were sung with two or three of their members back-to-back. | |||
There are | There are three Pokérap songs, one for each of the first three generations. Pokéraps have not been made from the [[Generation IV|fourth generation]] onward. | ||
==Current Pokéraps== | ==Current Pokéraps== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Some {{wp|Christian fundamentalism|Christian fundamentalists}} complained about the song, because they claimed that if one were to play backwards the Pokérap, "Gotta Catch 'em All!" can be heard as "I love {{wp|Satan}}". | *Some {{wp|Christian fundamentalism|Christian fundamentalists}} complained about the song{{fact}}, because they claimed that if one were to play backwards the Pokérap, "Gotta Catch 'em All!" can be heard as "I love {{wp|Satan}}". | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||