If you were a Pokémon Professor, what would be your field of research, and where would you set up your lab? And most importantly: how much would you pay your interns?

Without a doubt, my field would be the history of Pokémon training.  Pokémon Professors tend to be portrayed as specialists in the hard sciences, with the lab coats and such, but I think there’s room for some more tweed-wearing humanities (Pokémonities?) people in there.  As for location… well, there are a lot of places I could potentially set up shop, but I think on balance I’d want to be in Johto; it’s one of the quieter, less densely populated regions, which tends to bode well for archaeological research.  It’s also the only region we’ve seen to which apricorns are endemic, and the only one where they are still used to make Pokéballs, which has always made me suspect that Pokéballs were invented in Johto – kind of an important development.

Interns don’t get paid!  Jeez, do I look like I’m made of grant money!?  Seriously, though, if I were offered a position with “intern” in the title, I wouldn’t necessarily expect any money at all; often you’re just in it for the work experience.  And I would exploit them for all they were worth!