@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Y'ALL I WAS RIGHT, their membership expired and HR never reminded them to renew. They haven't actually been in Team Rocket for like the ENTIRETY OF JOHTO.

9/17/2018, 8:45:41 AM

Favs: 101

Retweets: 21

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Wut up I would watch an entire spin-off series about Wendy in HR

9/17/2018, 8:59:39 AM

Favs: 81

Retweets: 13

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Congratulations to Team Rocket for paying off their crushing debt only to be immediately buried by more crushing debt. They are truly the face of a generation.

9/18/2018, 12:37:35 AM

Favs: 114

Retweets: 30

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Season 6 Report: Our crime interns have gone to Hoenn to "launch a new branch" & hope to be "promoted to executive."

Putting aside the question of wtf even IS Team Rocket, the TRio's desire to climb the soulless corporate ladder so they can afford to eat is a damn MOOD, y'all.

10/7/2018, 10:19:40 PM

Favs: 94

Retweets: 15

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Me as a kid: There's no way Jessie & James are in their 20s! People have their shit together by then.

Me now: Wow ok these broke disasters drowning in debt picking up part-time gigs to supplement the meager pay from their crap job working for an evil boss are 1000% in their 20s.

10/17/2018, 3:31:13 PM

Favs: 823

Retweets: 410

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

AAAAGH the crime interns were THIS CLOSE to quitting Team Rocket & settling down in a nice farming village but then OF COURSE they didn't, so now I have to go lie down & make Tina Belcher moaning noises for a while

I JUST WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY SO BAD ;_;

11/27/2018, 11:48:54 PM

Favs: 68

Retweets: 6

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Good news everyone! We finally solved the mystery of why Giovanni hasn't fired Jessie and James yet!

11/28/2018, 3:54:42 PM

Favs: 495

Retweets: 287

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Welcome to the 10th season, where 10-year-old Dawn joins the cast and this line is now literally true.

3/1/2019, 1:35:44 PM

Favs: 68

Retweets: 13

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Flawless repartee

3/1/2019, 2:11:05 PM

Favs: 212

Retweets: 78

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

are the crime interns okay

3/5/2019, 7:59:16 PM

Favs: 64

Retweets: 12

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Season 11 Update: They're fine. They have BEST PAL POWERS 💪💫

3/8/2019, 10:09:54 AM

Favs: 30

Retweets: 4

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

...Y'all forgot to renew your membership cards again, didn't you

3/8/2019, 11:29:08 AM

Favs: 36

Retweets: 3

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

548 episodes.

It took Team Rocket FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT EPISODES to realize they could just... catch Pokemon in Pokeballs and send them to the boss that way.

Anyway congrats to my crime interns on their first successful(ish) criminal(ish) scheme. I'm very proud of you.

3/10/2019, 6:17:37 PM

Favs: 50

Retweets: 12

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Wow Team Rocket really does protect the world from devastation

3/13/2019, 6:58:32 PM

Favs: 50

Retweets: 11

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Pokemon's over here like "HEY KIDS are you TOTALLY STOKED to see who will win this TOURNAMENT?!" and meanwhile I'm the grown-ass adult in the corner going "Oh boy I can't wait to see if Team Rocket sells enough souvenirs to pay off their loans!"

4/5/2019, 5:05:42 PM

Favs: 63

Retweets: 13

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Team Rocket’s Sinnoh To-Do List:

✔️Open string of successful small businesses
✔️Renew our BFF vows
✔️Fly a literal rocket into literal space
✔️Help stop a doomsday cult
✔️Place in the Final Four of a Grand Festival
🔲Our actual jobs

...Hm.

Well.

Pobody's nerfect~

4/8/2019, 1:40:16 PM

Favs: 48

Retweets: 12

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

The next day, a very contrite Giovanni called the crime interns into his office.

“So I thought you chuckleheads were just comically incompetent but uh… yeah, you know what? That IS one hell of a Pikachu. My bad. Lemme get you that raise you asked for 12 seasons ago.”

4/30/2019, 9:29:17 PM

Favs: 36

Retweets: 9

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Extremely on-brand that the way the TRio finally earns the boss's approval is by *stopping* crime instead of doing it.

5/7/2019, 5:21:38 PM

Favs: 34

Retweets: 3

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

“All right James keep it together I mean HAHA okay YES this is the first time an authority figure has ever praised you but IT’S FINE, see Jessie is FINE, you can be FINE, you are a GROWN-ASS ADULT, so just play it cool and whatever you do do NOT start crying in front of the b-”

5/11/2019, 2:33:52 PM

Favs: 35

Retweets: 7

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

As of Season 16, my favorite Rocketeers have had enough success that I'm pretty sure I can't call them "broke-ass crime interns" anymore, so... let's hear it for the broke-ass part-time junior crime developers*! 🎉

*Pay raise to reflect yearly cost-of-living adjustments only

5/11/2019, 2:53:53 PM

Favs: 33

Retweets: 3

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Some people live the gangster life. Team Rocket lives the gangster 9-to-5 with two weeks paid vacation and time off for federal holidays.

6/8/2019, 10:20:08 PM

Favs: 28

Retweets: 8

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Team Flare is in the house and our junior crime developers are positively EUPHORIC at the thought of wiping yet another evil organization off the map

6/17/2019, 1:34:30 PM

Favs: 23

Retweets: 2

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Realizing he somehow wound up with crime-fighting vigilantes on the payroll, Giovanni now just points the TRio in the general direction of rival bad guys and lets them clean out the competition.

6/20/2019, 2:33:29 PM

Favs: 24

Retweets: 3

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Hang on. HANG ON. See Previous Tweet below and HANG THE EFF ON.

Was… was this his plan from Day One? Slowly nudge the TRio into becoming the superheroes they were meant to be? GIOVANNI YOU ABSOLUTE MEGA-NERD, HAS THIS ALL BEEN AN ELABORATE LARP FOR YOU?

https://twitter.com/joseinextdoor/status/1067899609261985792

6/20/2019, 2:35:30 PM

Favs: 37

Retweets: 5

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

The Saga of the Crime Interns has slowly morphed into The Rise of the Part-Time Heroes and I am Extremely Here for this slow-burn character development.

6/21/2019, 3:13:58 PM

Favs: 30

Retweets: 5

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

AMAZE, the crime developers took full credit for their saving-the-world group project and grifted their way into another promotion. It took them almost 20 years but Team Rocket has finally, truly mastered the art of corporate success.

6/24/2019, 12:09:43 PM

Favs: 38

Retweets: 4

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

"What's our next mission, sir?"

"Well shit you already took out every terrorist cell and doomsday cult I had on my radar and God knows I can't expect you to do any actual criming, so like... take a vacation? catch some Pokemon? I dunno, you do you."

8/14/2019, 4:02:02 PM

Favs: 44

Retweets: 8

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Normal People, Laughing: Ha ha the silly bear adopted Team Rocket

Me, Sobbing: This is HEALTHIEST PARENTAL FIGURE any of them has EVER HAD

8/14/2019, 8:42:00 PM

Favs: 141

Retweets: 57

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

After defending the world from multiple evil geniuses and various attempted apocalypses, the Team Rocket trio face their most formidable foe yet:

Really.
Rude.
TEENAGERS.

8/21/2019, 8:38:54 PM

Favs: 64

Retweets: 20

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

I regret to inform you that “We missed our employee evaluation meeting because a big pink bear crossed the ocean and carried us back to her island den” does NOT go over well with upper management.

9/20/2019, 2:41:03 PM

Favs: 41

Retweets: 9

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Team Rocket just point-blank refused to do a crime.

They just point-blank refused A LOT OF MONEY to do a crime.

I’m… *sniffles*... I’m just so proud of them right now...!😭

9/20/2019, 4:43:06 PM

Favs: 70

Retweets: 14

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Team Rocket aren't poachers, they're just a really aggressive animal adoption agency!

10/15/2019, 1:46:31 PM

Favs: 34

Retweets: 6

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

UHHHHH so HERE’S A THING:

The Team Rocket trio just openly betrayed Giovanni’s second-in-command to protect Stufful, and then Bewear destroyed a bunch of very expensive-looking Rocket tech to rescue Meowth

So

Like

They're DEFINITELY fired after this, right?

10/29/2019, 1:36:45 PM

Favs: 31

Retweets: 5

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

[inhales deeply]
The TRio don't really care about crime they just want to be together but since they've never had a loving family before they don't know how to be partners w/o being Partners so they've kept up this grand facade for TWO DECADES AND oh dear I need to lie down again

10/29/2019, 2:09:48 PM

Favs: 51

Retweets: 8

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

TEAM ROCKET FORGOT THEY WERE VILLAINS, I

12/31/2019, 12:37:32 PM

Favs: 63

Retweets: 10

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

If I didn’t know the TRio was in the new series I would have been legit convinced they were going to quit Team Rocket and stay in Alola and I would have been SO HAPPY FOR THEM 😭

3/11/2020, 5:13:31 PM

Favs: 27

Retweets: 2

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

#LetTeamRocketBeHappy

3/11/2020, 5:16:46 PM

Favs: 42

Retweets: 10

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

From Villains to Gremlins: The Team Rocket Story

7/12/2020, 3:56:28 PM

Favs: 125

Retweets: 45

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

So Giovanni gave the TRio a Pokeball gacha machine, presumably so he can finally get back all the money they owe him, but joke's on you, Boss-man

7/12/2020, 4:16:48 PM

Favs: 27

Retweets: 1

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Side-by-side comparison of the “Ditto who struggles to transform” episodes from Pokemon Season 1 vs. Season 23 as further proof that Team Rocket are, in fact, the greatest slow-burn redemption arc of all time

11/18/2020, 5:23:43 PM

Favs: 142

Retweets: 36

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

If Giovanni doesn’t give the TRio another villainous organization to defeat soon, they’re coming for him next

10/14/2022, 2:33:08 PM

Favs: 12

Retweets: 0

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Years ago Pokemon established Giovanni is secretly a huge nerd who based TR's uniforms on an old tokusatsu series, and now we find out he’s secretly filming the TRio’s adventures & packaging them as a TV show?

None of us—NONE OF US—are as dedicated to our fandoms as Giovanni

12/23/2022, 11:28:34 AM

Favs: 19

Retweets: 2

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

It's Season 25 and the crime developers are still not being paid a living wage, just in case you were wondering if Team Rocket had a union or not

1/12/2023, 5:58:06 PM

Favs: 3

Retweets: 0

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Butch and Cassidy quitting the mob like

1/12/2023, 6:12:59 PM

Favs: 25

Retweets: 3

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

The next step in Team Rocket's character arc: attack and dethrone God

3/8/2023, 2:57:57 PM

Favs: 11

Retweets: 1

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Wow I can’t believe Team Rocket’s LinkedIn description of "come get your asses kicked by children and animals for a salary so low you’ll have to work part-time jobs to afford food" is not going over well with the younger generations

3/8/2023, 3:06:24 PM

Favs: 6

Retweets: 0

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

What slays me about this Rocket Radio Show adventure is that Giovanni finally tried to cater to the TRio's strengths by shifting them into a performance-based PR role—and they STILL blew off the assignment.

It’s almost like… they don’t actually care about crime or something…🤔

3/16/2023, 4:26:40 PM

Favs: 7

Retweets: 0

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

I really hope Team Rocket learned how to monetize PokeTube before they became internet personalities.

(Narrator Voice: They didn’t.)

9/5/2023, 10:52:51 AM

Favs: 0

Retweets: 0

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

Jessie and James are performing in tokusatsu stage plays, and thus the circle is complete

9/14/2023, 2:12:27 PM

Favs: 3

Retweets: 0

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

25 years later and Team Rocket is still the voice of a generation

9/14/2023, 2:15:27 PM

Favs: 9

Retweets: 3

@deescribe.bsky.social

@joseinextdoor

HEY GIOVANNI you commissioned a giant gold statue of yourself whose sole purpose is to deliver orders to your subordinates AND THEN IMMEDIATELY EXPLODE, maybe you should stop giving the TRio shit for spending their budget on robots and cosplay

9/26/2023, 2:39:53 PM

Favs: 3

Retweets: 0