Banned Pokemon TV Episodes
#7
"The Ice Cave!" (Episode 252)
"The Ice Cave!" (こおりのどうくつ! Kōri no Dōkutsu!?) would have been part of Pokémon: Master Quest (season 5), but was skipped over by 4Kids Entertainment and therefore never shown outside of Asia. It was the first widespread ban of a Pokémon episode in four years. This episode, much like episode 39 "Holiday Hi-Jynx" (though that episode was only removed from rotation in one country), was also banned because of the appearance of the controversial Pokémon Jynx. Some people believed Jynx was a racial stereotype of Africans because of its big pink lips and pure black skin, or that it looked like a blackface actress. Jynx was later re-edited and given purple skin instead in later episodes.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_episodes_removed_from_rotation |