The Lives of the Actors of Pokemon


Transcript from “The Early Morning Show” with Karol Mandon
Karol Mandon – Well, our next guest is the star of the hit TV show Pokemon, Ash Ketchum.
Ash Ketchum – Hi, Karol.  It’s great to be here.
Karol Mandon – So, Ash, how is the show doing?
Ash Ketchum – The show is great.  The show is more popular than ever.  I love it.  I mean Misty, 
Brock, Jess, Jim, Mike, and Jerry are great.
Karol Mandon – I’m sorry, I’m not sure I remember Mike and Jim.

Ash Ketchum – Oh, Mike is the voice actor who does Pikachu and Jim does Meowth.

Karol Mandon – Ah, I see.  So what’s coming up in the new season?
Ash Ketchum – Well, uh…let’s see…We’re going on another journey this season.  Johto I think 
it’s called.  The details are still being worked out.  Oh, yeah, and we’re going to be 
exploring Misty and me’s relationship.
Karol Mandon – Neat, neat…What are you doing now besides Pokemon and what do you hope 
to do?
Ash Ketchum – Well, I’m currently in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie as Xander so that’s 
pretty cool.  Uh, I’m in a couple of commercials, um Pringles and the GAP.  Also, 
Pokemon stuff endorsements.  My hopes are that I can work in a TV episode without any 
anamatronic mice (haha) and also I’d like to score a lead role in a movie someday so 
fingers crossed.
Karol Mandon – I hope that comes true.  Thank you for being here.  Our next guest is…

Inside the conference room of the Pokemon studio
“Are we ever going to get started here,” Ash said growing impatient.  Misty stepped into 
the room.
“Is it time to start yet?” she asked.  Brock shook his head.  Misty sighed.
“Anyone have a pack, I ran out,” she said.  James tossed her a pack of cigarettes.
“That’s a real bad habit.  You should really try to quit,” Brock said as Misty started to go 
back outside.  Misty looked over her shoulder at Brock.
“Funny that coming from you, Mr. Vodka,” she said before leaving.  Brock shook his 
head.  Jesse walked in.
“Sorry I’m late.  Traffic,” she said taking off her sunglasses.
“That’s all right, we haven’t started yet,” Mike said as he looked over the script for the 
umpteenth time.  Jesse nodded and took out a flask before taking a swig.
“Hey, you have an extra?” Brock asked Jesse.  Jesse took out another flask and tossed it 
to Brock.  Misty came back into the room.
“Mary’s coming,” she said before taking her seat.  Seconds later Mary, the executive 
producer, burst into the room.  She took off her sunglasses and flitted over to her chair.  Three 
identical secretaries closely followed her.
“Come on people you’re late.  Sit down, sit down.  So has anyone have any ideas for the 
script?  No?  Good” she said very fast.  She then lit up a cigarette.  Misty was about to do the 
same when Mary turned to her.  “Misty, you know I don’t like people smoking in here.  Wait, 
smoking.  That gives me a great idea for a new episode.  Misty is fishing and gets pulled 
downstream.  Then everyone has to go and find her.  That’s a great idea, write that down.”  Her 
three secretaries then wrote it down.  There was a knock on the door and a young girl with 
strawberry hair stepped inside.  Mary turned to her.
“Who are you and what do you want?  And why is it so important that you interrupt my 
board meeting?” Mary asked.  The girl seemed taken aback.
“I…I’m Kimberly.  You hired me to be on the show,” she said meekly.
“Hired you?  I never hired anyone named Kimberly,” Mary said.  One of the secretaries 
bent down.
“You did ma’am.  You hired her yesterday,” the secretary said before resuming his place.
“Oh, I guess I did.  What did you say your name was again?” Mary asked.
“Kimberly.”
“Kimberly?  What kind of a name is Kimberly?  OK, your name is now Joan.  Sit down 
Joan,” Mary said and returned to the rest of the assembled.  “Where was I?  Oh yes!  The ratings 
have been down so we’ve gotten some focus groups together and they all said the same thing.  
What was that again?” she asked her secretaries.
“That we need a new female character on the show, ma’am,” one said.
“Ah right, right.  So we’ll be holding auditions soon,” Mary said.
“Ma’am, we’ve already held the auditions,” a secretary said.
“What?  We did?  Why wasn’t I told about it! And who did we pick?” Mary exclaimed.
“We picked that Joan person who just came in.  And you did know, you picked her 
herself,” one of the secretaries told her.
“I did?  Whatever, well now that we’ve done the prereading the meeting is over and I’m 
late for a lunch date.  Good bye,” Mary said as she flitted back out of the room.  The three 
secretaries followed.
“I missed the prereading?” Kimberly asked Brock.
“No we never did it,” He answered her before he took another swig from the flask.
“She has a lunch date at 9:30 in the morning?” Kimberly asked him again.
“I highly doubt it.  She’s very…flaky.  Well see you in the morning everyone,” he said 
tossing the flask back to Jesse.  Everyone else also left.


Transcript of Advil commercial

Misty Waterflower – Being on a Pokemon journey can be really tough and I get headaches often.  
But when I get strong, pounding headaches, Tylenol just won’t cut it.  That’s why I reach 
for Advil every time.  Advil, the headache medicine.

Transcript of “The Night Show” with Jay Barbaro
 
Jay Barbaro – We have a very special next guest.  He is one of the stars on the hottest show on 
television involving large rodents.  Please welcome Brock Stone.
Brock Stone – Hello Jay.
Jay Barbaro – Hello.  So you actually deal with large rodents on the show.  What is it some kind 
of Crocodile Hunter type show or what?
Brock Stone – Have you ever seen the show?
Jay Barbaro – No, they actually give me these cards.  But the writers say that the show is pretty 
good.   Maybe I’ll get around to watching it a year and we can have you back.
Brock Stone – Yeah that might be interesting.  And no all the pokemon on the show are 
anamatronic.
Jay Barbaro – So you and the other cast members are afraid to work with real animals huh.  What 
a bunch of whimps you are.
Brock Stone – No it was just that real animals were bad actors and they wanted benefits so the 
executives replaced them.
Jay Barbaro – Well that’s Hollywood’s way of solving things, replace everything with 
technology.  So anyway, I hear that you had been kicked off the show last season.
Brock Stone – Actually, I quit the show to pursue a career in writing.  It was great except for the 
one problem of having no talent.  So instead of starving, I joined back up with the show 
this season.
Jay Barbaro – That actually happened to me once.  I decided to join an improv comedy routine.  
And where am I?  Reading questions off cards about things I never saw.  Thank you very 
much.  Brock Stone ladies and gentlemen.