Early plans for the Pokemon anime involved Pikachu speaking human language, confirmed by producers and voice actors. Pikachu's ability to speak was later scrapped to maintain charm and focus on ...

Of these forty, six of them had already been casually reported to elicit VME — including C3PO, the Fruit of the Loom logo, Curious George, the Monopoly Man, Pikachu, and the Volkswagen logo.