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Gotta Pun ‘Em All: The Classics as Pokemon

Ashley Holstrom

Staff Writer

Ashley Holstrom helps make books at Sourcebooks. She lives near Chicago with her cat named after Hemingway and her bookshelves organized by color. Newsletter: Crooked Reads. Twitter: @alholstrom.

Pokemon Go is going wild, y’all. It’s a free smartphone app that dropped on July 6 and uses your GPS to show you the Pokemon that are always around you in the real world (Okay, not really. It’s just a game, people).

When you’re walking around, open the app and you’ll find a Charmander in your kitchen, or a Shellder in your bedroom, or a Jigglypuff in your office at work. Your favorite coffeeshops are turned into Pokestops, your grocery stores are turned into gyms. It’s taking over the world.

And you better believe we Poke-punned a bunch of classics for ya. Sure, there are the obvious ones — Harry Potter and the Pokeball, Pokemon Farm — but… Just, here. We gotta Catch-22 ’em all.

the great gyradosThe Great Gyrados

Of Rattata and Men

The Snorlax Also Rises

I Know Why the Caged Zubat Sings

The Bellsprout Jar

Little Wartortle

 

to kill a magikarpTo Kill a Magikarp

A Tale of Two Pidgeys

Invisible Mankey

The Poliwag and the Pauper

Jane Eevee

Madam Butterfree

 

pride and pikachuPride and Pikachu

The Hitmonchan of Notre Dame

Ekans Frome

Their Eyes Were Watching Geodude

Song of Squirtle

The Importance of Being Electrode

 

the catcher in the rhydonThe Catcher in the Rhydon

Uncle Tom’s Clefairy

The Dratini Code

The Legend of Sleepy Haunter

The Vulpix Suicides

Heart of Drowzee

 

romeo and jynxRomeo and Jynx

Great Exeggutors

Doctor Farfetch’d

Crime and Ponyta

Gone with the Weedle

One Flew Over the Charizard’s Nest

 

weezing heightsWeezing Heights

The Perks of Being a Wigglytuff

Abra in Wonderland

Native Sandshrew

A Tree Grows in Bulbasaur

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Mime

 

Editor’s note: We didn’t draw the Pokemon on these book covers. Also, they 100 percent were not meant to look artsy. Just funny. Don’t judge us.