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We all know pokemon has a lot of filler (although much less in the first two seasons, and the newer seasons than back in filler central aka Johto), and while some filler is very good...there's also those other fillers that we all tend to hate.

You know, those painfully bad filler episodes that have us ask, "How the hell did this episode get produced?" type of filler?

What are some of the absolute worst filler episodes you've seen? Do not post important eps in this thread, so no Gyms/Contests/captures/evos/tournaments/villains/etc, just pure fillers?

For me here's a few off the top of my head that were painfully bad episodes:

A Crowning Achievement (Slowking filler at end of Johto)
The Whistle Stop (Ledyba filler)
Foul Weather Friends (awful Hoppip filler)
Xatu the Future
The Kecleon Caper
Lights, Camerupt, Action (worst Hoenn filler)
The Evolutionary War (second worst Hoenn filler)
Hot springing a Leak (terrible Sinnoh ep about Leona/Swinub)

What are your most hated filler eps? I am tempted to put more eps from Johto on the list, but I'll save it for other people.
 
Yeah Scott, you hate Johto - we know
Why always discuss what we hate? I said somewhere we should open a thread for what we actually like about the show... I'll do that now...
There was not even one episode that I didn't like at all... and the whole "filler" thing is ridiculous anyway (if you enjoyed the episodes - great... it doesn't matter if it's "filler")
 
There is bad filler from every region. Johto only has a lot more of them than other regions.

Here's are some more non-Johto fillers that I thought were lousy:

"Caterpie's Big Dilemma" (terrible BF ep about Caterpie)
"Strategy Tomorrow - Comedy Tonight" (terrible Chatot ep everyone hates)
"Island Time" (lousy travel ep on Walimer)
"The Joy of Pokemon" (IMO, the worst Orange Island filler)
"The Joy of Water Pokemon (ep with a Joy that hated water Pokemon, blah episode)
 
That Paras filler back in Kanto. OMG. It was awful.

And the one about Yamikarasu which stole Satoshi's badges. I think it was the worst of all Johto fillers.
 
Scott85 said:
Lights, Camerupt, Action (worst Hoenn filler)
The Evolutionary War (second worst Hoenn filler)
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I actually want to reverse those two.

Becuase, let's be honest, Huntail and Gorebyss got a horrible debut. It was the exact same thing repeated at least twice. They go to point A, meet little brat, get water. Go to island B, meet little brat, get water. Not to mention they repeated images just with the two kids replacing it.
 
Maxim Gwanjangnim said:
That Paras filler back in Kanto. OMG. It was awful.
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Yeah, I remember that one...

Also, "The Path to Pokémon League" or whatever it name was, the episode with that abusive kid with his Sandshrew... that episode was just too boring and unnecessary to me.

But there are disappointing episodes throughout the series. To be fair, there's also an equal amount of nice surprises, and believe it or not, some of the Johto episodes (which I mentioned in the other thread) like "Air Time", "The Fortune Hunters", "Ignorance is Blissey" and many others might have been fillers, but I liked them.

But does "filler" refer to any episode which isn't based on an event in the games of sort, or does it refer to the episodes which just have the same used story we have seen several times before?

And the one about Yamikarasu which stole Satoshi's badges. I think it was the worst of all Johto fillers.
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I liked that one, mostly because of James and his bottlecaps.
 
L-Z said:
But does "filler" refer to any episode which isn't based on an event in the games of sort, or does it refer to the episodes which just have the same used story we have seen several times before?
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It's usually the first one. (Like most anime arcs. DBZ and Naruto for example). It could be either or, though in the case with Pokemon, it's often both. =)
 
Jnoo said:
It's usually the first one. (Like most anime arcs. DBZ and Naruto for example). It could be either or, though in the case with Pokemon, it's often both. =)
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Yeah, I was suspecting it was something like that. And in the case with Pokémon, there's many, but I'm not expecting that every episode of a series with almost 600 episodes is awesome. There's bound to be fillers.

The Whistle Stop (Ledyba filler)
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Wait, isn't that episode the one with the "infamous" backwards message?
 
I didn't mind The Problem with Paras.

I haven't seen all of Johto yet, so I'll spare it my judgment. But for Sinnoh, the worst would definitely have to be either the entire Combee arc, or the Chingling episode.
 
I remember hating Xatu the Future, so I have to agree with you on that one.

I hated too many Hoenn fillers to list here. That, and the fact that they were so repetitive I'm sure I'd get the names mixed up.
 
Here are a few more:

Both Plusle/Minun episodes (can't remember the names)
Plant it now, Diglett Later
Absol-lute disaster
The Apple Corp
The Light Fantastic
Unbearable
 
Scott85 said:
Unbearable
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Wow, it's so ridiculous to call that a bad episode
Who cares "filler" or not, that was a funny episode and it was really interesting choise to showcase Teddiursa this way
Scott, why won't you try to enjoy the episodes instead of thinking "oh no there's no Gym/Contest/capture/etc"?
I seriously liked all the episodes mentioned in this thread... I like all the episodes and I really can't get what is SO bad about them... so nothing advance the plot, oh no... not every single say in your life have huge effects on your development and future too...
 
Piplup said:
Wow, it's so ridiculous to call that a bad episode
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I liked how Teddiursa pretended to be cute so the gang didn't suspect it of eating their food, but that didn't help matters that most of the ep was a chore to sit through.

I love Teddiursa as a Pokemon, I just wish it got a much better debut episode.
 
I guess it's useless you'll try and convince me just as I'll probably won't be able to convince you... but it's too bad you can't bring yoursrlf to enjoy the show as much as you should... it's like you hate about half of the whole show with how much you hate Johto and fillers...
 
The worst filler episode of all time, in my opinion, is Xatu the Future. That was the first, and so far only episode of Pokémon that I wanted to turn off midway through because it was so incredibly boring. The only reason I didn't is because my three and four year old cousins were watching it with me. There have been bad fillers, but I don't think any have come close to this one.
 
Any of the "very special episodes" where Ash says goodbye to a Pokemon/learns an IMPORTANT LIFE LESSON.
 
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