#twerps

[bandcampsnoop]

3/1/25.

Dumb Things are a Brisbane, Australia band who call their music "hangover pop". I found out about them due to an alert from James Southey (guitar), who is also in Soft Covers, a band I was listening to incessantly in late 2023.

"Time Again" is Dumb Things' LP from 2019, but they have a new album, Self Help, coming out in about a month. It continues in the same vein as this album. I automatically think of Go Get Mum ("Moving Day" is still one of my favorites), but I'll turn it over to the band themselves for the rest of the RIYL. They describe themselves as, "Another chapter in the long lineage of not just Queensland forebears like The Go-Betweens and The Apartments but also the next wave of Aussie bands who also mined that same fertile ground for inspiration like Dick Diver, Twerps and The Ocean Party."

"Time Again" was released by Coolin' By Sounds (also based in Brisbane). The last time this label was mentioned was for The Gametes in 2019.

[airandangels]

The restored Jabba scene in A New Hope is so egregiously unnecessary. Most of Jabba’s dialogue is verbatim what Greedo said in the cantina (and it didn’t have to be! they could have done anything with the subtitles as long as it bore some relation to Han’s lines!), he is flagrantly the wrong size (because George Lucas hadn’t decided he was a big toad-slug alien and at this stage he was played by a human man of about average height and Harrison Ford is making eye contact accordingly), there is the sheer insanity of Han carelessly stepping on his tail - there are precisely two redeeming features, I get to see Boba for a few seconds, and Han refers to the bounty hunters as twerps.

[in-correctteamrocketquotes]

Team Rocket, standing with their backs turned: We've been expecting you, twerps.

Ash, honestly impressed: How did you do that without turning around?

Team Rocket: ... To be perfectly honest, the first couple of people we did that to were not you.

[rocketsrockin]

[laurenpiplupfluff2]

The other day I realized James from Team Rocket and Bucky have the same first name so this happened

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[brainyxbat]

(Team Rocket are high on Shuckle juice)

Jessie: Don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy, guys?

James: Warm, and very fuzzy.

Cassidy/Venus: Yeah.~

Butch: Warm as a Charmander, fuzzy as an Eevee.

Meowth: I feel warm too.

Butch: That’s nice, Meowth. 

Butch: Huh?

Meowth: 😍 Especially when I think of you.

Butch: What’s wrong with your eyes, Meowth? They’re-

Meowth: They’re filled with love for you, Buzzy.

Butch: 😬❗❗❗

Meowth: I just wanna be near you!

Butch: Please don’t come any closer!

-

Butch: Hey, knock it off! *Meowth pounces on him, and licks his face* I may be a sucker, but I’m no lollipop! Stop it this instant!

Jessie: *feels a tongue on her hand* Huh? Don’t bother me while I’m warm and fuzzy, Meowth.

Meowth: I’m savin’ all my love for Buzzy-Wuzzy.

Butch: IT’S BUTCHIE-WUTCHIE!

Jessie: *sees a Shuckle with heart eyes on her hand, and shakes her arm* Get off me!

Cassidy: Uh, guys?

*they all look around, and find a whole group of lovestruck Shuckle*

Venus: Wha-wha-wha? WHAT’S HAPPENING?!?!

(The twerps see Team Rocket trying to run away from the horde, now bombarded by the lovey-dovey Pokemon)

Ash: Team Rocket!

Pikachu: Pika!

Butch: Why won’t you get off me?!

Meowth: I gotta admit, I don’t understand it myself, Butchie-kins, my brain wants me to let go, but my gut tells me to keep hangin’ on!

Butch: *the Shuckle on his left hip pulls his shirt up from under his pants with its teeth; he screams with wide eyes and anime tears when it licks his belly button, and slumps down on the ground, face-down, with his butt in the air* I think we finally have been licked.

-

Meowth: *snaps out of his trance* Huh? Wow, I just woke up from a nightmare.

Cassidy: *holding a lovestruck Pikachu, as Meowth hops down to the ground* Oh, good; you’re back to your old, clueless self. So we can take Pikachu, and go.

Ash: You’re not going anywhere!

Butch: *holding the shiny Shuckle* Really? We have Pikachu and the Shuckle; how’re you going to stop us? *Shiny Shuckle sticks its head under his still-loosened shirt; he screams again when it licks his belly button, and he throws it in the air*

Ash: We gotta save that Shuckle!

Old Man Shuckle: Use your Vine Whip, Spoopy!

*Spoopy the Bellsprout saves the Shuckle, to Team Rocket’s dismay*

James: Now what’ll we do?

Venus: So what if we don’t have the Shuckle anymore? We still have their Pikachu, and it’s in love with Cassidy.

James: I forgot that!

Meowth: Yeah!

Ash: I think Pikachu’s feelings might’ve changed.

TR: Huh?

Pikachu: *looks up at Cassidy, angry and ready to attack*

Cassidy: Don’t... tell me Pikachu’s... back to normal.

Ash: I’m afraid so. Kiss ‘em goodbye, Pikachu!

*Pikachu strikes all 6 with Thunderbolt, sending them blasting off*

Jessie: Here we go again!

Venus: No Shuckle!

Butch: And no Shuckle Juice!

TR: Thank goodness!

🌟

[strawberry-squidkid]

Brock has always been ny favorite pokemom character. I love the way he has so much pride and love for his pokemon and how he always makes sure his pokemon and his friends are fed and healthy. He always caries around medicine for his pokemon and always knows what to do. Having to raise himself and his 9 younger siblings while his parents where doing God knows what. He has the most caring bone in his body. The reason he is always so quick to fall for nurse joy or officer Jenny, or other female characters is because he is trying to find a good mother figure to bring back to his siblings. And don't get me started about how good his pokemon are. In DP he has a crogunk which is so fucking cool. He is always so smug, he knows when Brock needs to knock off the heart eyes, and also can poison jab the gang while stuck in ice and break it,,, HELLO?? Crogunk is a king. Also, crogunk water loaf...

And happiny, omg happiny. She is a beast. Strength like no other, constantly coming in clutch. She is the protector and the boss of this joint. I cant think of a single negative things about smoll swoll happiny.

I could go on for hours about my love for him and his pokemon but my fingers get tired haha,, 🤍

[smilingperformer]

Everyone knows I love Sun & Moon over the Moon (cough), but if there’s anything I wish it had as an episode plot, it’s Twerps and Rockets working together. There wasn’t any clear one ;V;

Journeys is now delivering on that front, ah, Rockets & Twerps team-up episodes have always been some of my absolute favourite episodes. The Beheeyem & Litwick episodes in Best Wishes, Calamanero episodes in XY, countless episodes in DP... man. They’re enemies but also real good allies when chosen to. Also, ofc, a lot of movies have them team up and most of the time the ones with team-ups end up being my favourites lol Cough Lucario and Spell of the Unown cough.