Eric The Red

Pokemon Best Wishes! Team Rocket Live Caster Nostalgia Post

This is honestly one of my absolute favorite depictions of the TRio ever shown on TV, despite being on for a limited time and for always a quick amount of time too. Blending their Best Wishes character models with characterization closer resembling the original series or Sun & Moon and Journeys makes them the closest thing to the perfect medium mentioned here. It's the TRio we got in Episode N, BW123-BW124, BW129, the Capacia Island episodes, BW136-BW137, and BW141: locked in just enough that they give a shit about doing the job right, but not so much that they can't display their natural comical personality traits that we see from them when off the clock. And I love that this was going on at the exact same time they were doing Operation Tempest on the show since that arc depicted them in a really sinister, threatening and capable light - the more serious you have them taking themselves in their criminal work, the funnier it is to see them behave in this goofy, unprofessional way.