It's an easy transition, really. Shorts to pants might be a little harder.

Fun fact: In the original Japanese games, Youngsters are called Shorts Boys. That explains why so many of them have a shorts obsession in their dialogue.

 Ever stop to think about how, no matter what time it is, every time you access a PC to get your Pokedex evaluated by Professor Oak, he answers right away?

It's almost like he just hovers in front of his computer at all hours waiting for trainers to email him.

Or like it's just a video game that I'm not supposed to think about as hard as I do.

 This guy's such a con artist, he's not even selling you an actual Magikarp. Just some weird yellow fish that probably doesn't do anything interesting.

In all honesty, the games make the whole buy-a-Magikarp thing out to be a big scam, but it's a great way to get a Gyarados early on, before you can get the Old Rod. So in actuality, it's a big strategic advantage pretending to be a scam pretending to be an advantage. Wrap your head around that.

 Again, the whole "taking in-game dialogue in an unexpected direction" thing.

Dude never specifically says what Team Rocket is in the news for, so I just came to logical conclusions.

 We're just having all sorts of fun at Museum of the Rockies's Virtual Fossil Fridays! Join us if you can--it's free and great for all ages! It is primarily aimed at kids, but I know I'm not the only adult in attendance. Hosts Ashley and MaggieJo are wonderful people, and overall it's just a chill paleo happy place to be on Friday mornings.

Last week, MaggieJo gave a great presentation on animals that are associated with Halloween (and why they are totally awesome and not spooky), and as she was talking about ravens, I just kept thinking it would be really cool if large theropods like tyrannosaurs had feathery "manes" like ravens do. Fossil skin impressions have shown they generally were not extensively feathered (with some exceptions like Yutyrannus, which lived in colder climates), but large theropods could still have had some feathers for display purposes.

Also, I fully support fluffy dinosaurs. Anybody who thinks things with feathers aren't scary has never dealt with an angry goose.

 When you live in a world where any inanimate object could potentially be a Pokémon, you probably start just seeing Pokémon everywhere.

 What are we on, like Route 3, and you finally realize this, Bug Catcher?

I just think it's kinda funny that this one says this, after previous Bug Catchers kept going on about wanting to find stronger Pokémon instead of training the ones they already have.

But also when you explain the joke, it stops being funny.