The Safari Zone Episode

What are your thoughts on the Safari Zone episode that never aired in the U.S.? It didn't air cuz in it the warden pointed a gun at Ash's head. I simply think they could have edited that out so there wasn't so much confusion, cuz Ash caught 30 Tauros in that episode.

i think it wasn't aired because of excessive use of guns in that episode, 4kids couldn't dub them all out otherwise it would've ended up to short and the episode would've been boring, a similar case happened in yugioh once after a guy called bandit keith lost so he decided to jump onto the area the tourney host was on and pointed a gun at him. 4kids shown that episode in english because of the one gun used and it was easy to dub out

Not make it shorter maybe replace it with a baseball bat.

then it wouldn't make sense, poachers with baseball bats, isn't a nice gimmick

the american sensors found threatening people with guns offensive, and there are a few other reasons why this episode was banned outside japan

Still they could have done something, maybe make a new episode and say there was a delay. Or maybe make it so that Ash never caught a Tauros.

if ash never caught a tauros then all the episodes that tauros was used would be invalid, i thought they'd just edit out the guns, or tone down the threats, (turns out 4kids were too lazy to dub anything out that week lol)

But when that episode aired in Japan they hadn't though of Tauro's future yet so they could've easily removed it.

Infernhawk wrote:

Not make it shorter maybe replace it with a baseball bat.

I was just gonna say the same thing.

In the book Hoot, they used a gun to threaten an animal. But when they made it movie, they used a baseball bat.

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^Right. Thanks...Feel stupid now, lol.

I never noticed that with Hoot because I had never read the book.

i've never even heard of that book/movie

Maybe cuz it only aire din the U.S.

ah another thing that's in the US

i watched the episode in jappaneese

I did too Snivy.

but i bet you didn't stop watching after the intro. like i did

I finished the entire episode. The one I saw was subbed.

i want to see that episode now, despite the guns lol

Look for a subbed version so you know what they are saying.