456: Strategy Tomorrow - Comedy Tonight
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460: Perappu to Pokémon Manzai!
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Well, so much for the rematch with Brandon, today's episode is going to be about a funny bird instead. Yep, it's going to be....
The Chatot flies along as the girl calls for it to come back. It lands on a tree stump, getting grabbed by Ash who hands it back to the girl, who introduces herself as Ada. The twerps introduce themselves and May checks out Chatot with Dexter, the little bird replying back what is said about it. Ada agrees that Chatot's mimicry can be fun, but it can also be a little annoying. Chatot mimics that, which implies that it is Ada who is the annoying one, and they go into a little comedy routine of misunderstanding and miscommunication, which is what all good comedy and Three's Company have in common.
The twerps laugh, and Ada seems pleased, declaring that she actually hopes to enter her and Chatot into the Pokémon Grand Prix as a stand-up comedy act. Ash declares that this is EXACTLY the same as him wanting to be a Pokémon Master... and having compliment the little girl, in true twerp freeloading fashion, they ask for a free show. Ada is more than happy to give it away for free though (she'll make some young man very happy in a few years), and goes into a little rehearsed routine with Chatot, which at first just repeats back what she said then actually starts delivering memorised lines, calling her Audrey instead of Ada.... then they do a rap.
The twerps clap and tell her she is good, because if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all apparently, and thus no one tells her she is the Carrot-top of the Pokémon comedy world. Ada thanks them, telling them that what she really wants to do is take her show on the road and fine-tune the act. But whenever she reaches the crossroads to leave her little section of the world, she calls out Chatot and it flies away, and she doesn't find it till it is too late to leave.
Team Rocket watch from a cliff (there is always a cliff for them to watch from) and marvel over the wonderment of a talking Pokémon! Meowth in particular is impressed at the idea, the talking Pokémon enthusiastic about something as unheard of as a talking Pokémon, so Meowth - the Pokémon - talks about it, treating us to another Patented Crazy Meowth Giovanni Fantasy.
We see Giovanni waking up in polka dot pyjamas with polka dot wallpaper, waking up to the call of Chatot. It repeats what Giovanni says, and Meowth explains that no one likes being quoted as much as Giovanni. Meowth then happily tells them that Giovanni loves banal banter at the breakfast table (he's dreamed of joining him at the breakfast table for sooooo many years!). Giovanni moves on to rip his Rocket Grunts a new one, and with Chatot repeating every insult he screams at them, Giovanni is in seventh heaven and decides to give Jesse, James and Meowth lots of money.
Meanwhile the twerps are walking with Ada, who has promised to make them lunch at her place. Suddenly a blue haired man and red haired woman appear dressed in suits and sunglasses carrying sacks. May stares at them, wondering why these strangers are talking to them (she talks to strangers EVERY GODDAMN DAY!) and asks if they've met before.
"PREPARE FOR TROUBLE WE'VE MET All RIGHT!" cries Jesse, only for James to grab her by the mouth, shushing her.
"Don't worry, she's in therapy!" James assures them, and then tells them they're selling fun bags.
"It's for my parole, you see!" grins Jesse, desperately trying her best to help.
They show off the "sacks, which laugh when clicked, creeping out the twerps as they show them male and female versions. Ada is eager to take them, saying she can use them for those "odd" times when she doesn't get a laugh doing her routine. Happily Jesse and James shove the bags into her hands, then run away laughing having not taken any money at all. Ada clicks the bags to hear the laughs, Chatot mimicking what he hears, and then the bags explode with white smoke and the laughing Chatot gets pulled away by a mechanical arm, and in pops Jesse's boobs!
Having tossed off their clothes, Jesse and James try and do their motto but Meowth is having none of it. He recalls the mechanical arm and shoves Chatot into a cage, and they take off in their balloon. Chatot mimics Jesse, then James, then Meowth, then Mime Jr, then Wobbuffet! All to Jesse's delight. The twerps chase below, Ash sending out Swellow which flies after and uses Aerial Ace to rock the basket, knocking Chatot's cage free and letting the bird escape. The funbags in the basket all start laughing and Jesse kicks them angrily. Ash calls out Aipom, which uses Swift to send Team Rocket blasting off again, the funbags falling laughing to the ground below.
Ada asks Chatot if it is okay but it just repeats what she says, until she picks it up and it starts saying weird gibberish. She tells them it has done this before, and returns to her place with the twerps (apparently seven year old girls can be home-owners in the Pokémon World) and they have lunch, Ada explaining that lately Chatot has been saying more and more gibberish.
Suddenly it pops out of its Pokeball and flies along the river, proclaiming it hates shots but it is time to take its temperature..... huh wha? Max thinks the gibberish might be "clues" (well no shit, Sherlock), and they go over the odd things that Chatot says.
"Lights out."
"Check your temperature."
"I hate shots."
Hmmm, wonder if it has anything to do with that hospital within five minutes as the Chatot flies to Ada's house? Nah, that's impossible!
Nevertheless they decide to go check it out, while at the hospital itself some small children are delighted to see Chatot back. A nurse walks in to check the girl's temperature, and Chatot repeats what she says as the twerps watch from the bushes (either they move very fast, or Chatot flies very slowly). The nurse spots them outside the window and quite rightly demands to know what strangers are doing hanging out in the bushes outside the hospital room of small, weak children? They head inside to explain, and the nurse and a Doctor tell them all about Chatot while the kids watch on.
It seems that Chatot showed up recently to eat fruit near the hospital (which is for children only and which apparently parents never visit), and the kids enjoyed listening to it mimic them. One of the sick girls - Corinna - then prepared cookies and coaxed Chatot inside her ward, where it entertained her and the others.
Well Ada thinks that is wonderful, and then proceeds to explain to the sick and possibly dying child that that she is planning on taking the only thing that keeps her from losing all hope away so that she can fulfil her dream of winning the Pokémon Grand Prix. Most of the other kids seem pleased to hear the only light in their dim, dark and short lives is going, but for some strange reason Corinna is strangely aggravated and runs off. The Nurse chases after her, while the Doctor suggests that Ada put on a show for the kids. Ash suggests they all get involved too because... I don't know, otherwise there would be no reason for them to be there and they'd just go to fight Brandon I guess.
Soon, all the kids are settled in to watch the show except for Corinna, and Max finds her in her room. He tells her she shouldn't miss out on the show, but she doesn't want to know about it. Which is a damn shame really, because she is missing....
After Brock finishes re-enacting his bizarre Mariachi Dance (complete with a completely incredulous Corphish scuttling about beside him not knowing what the fuck is going on), Ash comes out an orange polka dot bowtie, having Pikachu balance in a bowtie on a rolling Donphan. Corinna finally gets up to look through the window and see the show, just in time for some physical comedy as Pikachu falls flat on its face and make the kids laugh.
Max's contribution to the show is to feed Munchlax's fatass, and then Corinna takes part, throwing some food to the eating machine. May runs in with Eevee and has it use Shadowball with Squirtle's Ice-beam to create falling ice (we call it snow here in the Big City), and then Chatot and Ada pop in as the main event, Ada wearing a pink bowtie and a large top hat. This is her big chance and....
Oh God.
And it's not even a rap, it's just like, she says use a attack and it says the attack and she says okay and umm... then she kind of starts shaking her ass for the screen while Chatot says,"Shake that tail, baby!" and she's like 7 years old so what the fuck...
Luckily Team Rocket appear on the scene before the FBI can take more than a passing interest, tossing down fun bags and creating a white smoke camouflage.
"Making it double is how we get paid!"
"An evil as old as the galaxy!"
"Sent here to fulfil our destiny!"
"Wif Meowth dat's me!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jesse!"
"And James!"
"Meowth's da name!"
"Whenever there’s peace in the universe!"
"Team Rocket!"
"Is dere!"
"To make everything worse!" they finish together.
"WOBBBBBB-UFFET!"
"Mime Mime!"
They drop down in their Happy Buddha Face Meowth Balloon, saying their motto and jumping down to reveal cheesy colourful vaudeville style suits with big bowties. Why are they here? Not to steal Pokémon or do anything evil, but to steal the show! They're here to entertain the children! For free! But things goes horribly awry when James calls in Cacnea and it immediately tries to hug him, causing him to squeal,"There are children watching!"
The kids all laugh though, and Team Rocket goes with it, James spinning Cacnea on a parasol before it collapses, dizzy, and Jesse quips it is dizzy without being blond. Max criticises the terrible PUN-ishment, and Team Rocket HATE hecklers, so they decide to skip the act and go straight for the climax (a mindset that must make Jesse's fanboys VERY happy), grabbing Chatot. But Ash sends in Sceptile against Jesse's Dustox, and the kids are ecstatic, they're getting to see a real live Pokémon Battle!
James sends in Cacnea but it is still dizzy and immediately collapses, leaving Team Rocket exposed to Bullet Seed from Sceptile. Chatot is freed and pecks at Meowth, which mimics his cries of protest, causing Meowth to cry out,"I don't talk like dat!"
"Yes you do!" replies Chatot, obviously a memorised line from a routine with Ada.
Realising that things really aren't going their way, Team Rocket jump into the Happy Buddha Face Meowth balloon and try to make an escape, followed by the Dustox which has apparently been abandoned! Sceptile leaps after it and uses Leaf Blade, and surely this wasn't the real Dustox but like a bomb or something because the Leaf Blade sends Dustox spinning up into the balloon and then EXPLODES sending Team Rocket blasting off again!
The kids have loved the "show" and seem to see it as a fitting goodbye to Chatot. Even Corinna seems excited to see Chatot leaving, and as she gives Ada the cookies she made for Chatot. She gets over-excited as she tries to talk about wanting to see Chatot succeed so they can see it on TV all the time (good voice acting, seriously! She sounds just like an overexcited kid!) before getting stuck in a routine with Chatot that makes her laugh even more.
Or maybe not, but anyways, the twerps say their goodbyes to Ada at the crossroads and go their separate ways. Ada is off to bomb and become a drunken wreck working in terrible shitty motel bars, while Ash heads off once more for his rematch with Brandon.
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 "PREPARE FOR TROUBLE WE'VE MET All RIGHT!" "Don't worry, she's in therapy!""
"There are children watching!"
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