there are so many fucking layers of obscurity to this joke i feel like i’ve learned another language just by looking at it
For those who don’t get it:
All four of these guys have a claim to be the “first Pokémon”. Rhydon was the first Pokémon ever designed. Bulbasaur is #1 in the original Pokedex. Mew is said to be the Pokémon from which every individual species of Pokémon evolved (in the classic Darwinian sense not the usual Pokémon use of “evolve”), and Arceus is basically said to be God that created the entire universe.