We Finally Know Why Meowth Is The Only Pokémon Who Can Talk
More under this adIf you follow the adventures of Pokémon, you will no doubt have noticed that Team Rocket's famous sidekick Meowth is one of the only creatures with the ability of speech in the series. Unfortunately for him, the acquisition of this faculty hides a sad secret that we will explain here.
The answer to our question is in the episode ‘Hollywood Here We Come!’ from the first season of the Pokemon cartoon. In this episode, Meowth looks back on his childhood and in particular on an episode that affected him deeply: his first love. Unfortunately for him, Meowzie, his ‘crush,’ is not interested in him and is only interested in the humans who take care of her.
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To get her to like him, Meowth decides to learn how to speak and walk like a human. However this is not enough and ignoring the efforts made by her suitor, Meowzie finds this simply to be monstrous and refuses his advances once again... So it is with a broken heart that Meowth leaves his native village in order to make his fortune, before meeting Team Rocket…
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