ENGLISH NAME	JAPANESE NAME	POKEMOPOLIS NAME	DODGINESS RATING	ANIMATION	STORY	TEAM ROCKET	MORAL LEARNT
547: Hungry For The Good Life!	552: Urayama-sanchi no Daigui Urimuu!	Guinea Pig Snorlax!			Dawn befriends a guinea pig with a bottomless stomach.	Spent One Trillion Dollars on their latest ship.	Old men who live alone in the forest are great people to spend the night with

With Ash's successful challenge against Crasher Wake over, the twerps are heading back to Hearthome City through stormy weather. As the weather gets worse, they hear rustling in the bushes and turn to see... a Cleffa! You’d think this would be today’s “Pokémon of the Day”, but it’s not to be! Rather, today’s Pokémon is one that is....



Dawn thinks Cleffa's description sounds romantic, while Brock feels romantic in the pants when a pretty young lady comes running out of the bushes to grab up Cleffa. She introduces herself to the twerps as Monica; she's not Cleffa's trainer, but the housekeeper for its trainer - Mister Backlot.

(snicker)

Backlot owns a nearby mansion, the tower of which can be seen in the distance. As the twerps introduce themselves, Brock leaps through the air to pledge his undying horniness - only for a menacingly chuckling Croagunk to bring him back to reality. The storm finally comes into full force, rain coming down on them, and Monica tells them to come back to the mansion with her. Once there, Mister Backlot seems an affable type, not at all upset that the hired help just invited a bunch of dripping wet kids back to his deserted mansion out in the middle of nowhere.

Unless he's THAT type of eccentric wealthy elderly white man.

Monica wheels out a trolley of food and out leap a series of pathetic attempts to cash in on Pikachu's popularity - Azumarill and Igglybuff's and Pichus. Mr. Backlot and Monica explain that he has a trophy garden where Pokémon trainers, watchers, etc can play together while Mr. Backlot certainly doesn't watch them from his secret study with his pants down.... goodness me no, he's just being altruistic!

Having already freeloaded from the wealthy man, the twerps decide to go whole hog and call out all of their Pokémon to gobble the food belonging to Backlot's own Pokémon. For some reason all of the twerps' Pokémon decide to pose first, all but Croagunk that just looks appropriately condescending about the whole situation.



They start gobbling up the food that isn't theirs, and then a Swinub bounces across the carpet with delight on its fat little face and starts gobbling down all the food! As it finishes gorging, it looks about eagerly for more, while behind it the twerps' Pokémon are furious - how dare this Pokémon that lives in this mansion eat the food that was put out specifically for it before they decided to steal it!?!

Pikachu holds them up though, and Monica brings over a heaping pile of food for Swinub and it begins chowing down. Mr. Backlot tells them that it's not actually his but a wild Swinub that visits a lot because it likes the garden and particularly the food. Swinub finishes eating and then flops over on its side, fat belly pressing against the floor as it sighs in delight and falls asleep, snoring softly as Dawn squeals over how cute it is.

As the twerps accept Mr. Backlot's rather creepy suggestion that they spend the night (followed by disturbing laughter), outside in the bushes Team Rocket are watching and plotting. There are tons of "cutey-pie Pokeymon!" inside that Meowth thinks they should steal, though Jesse thinks they should leave Swinub behind. James rather long-windedly agrees and Jesse, completely failing to follow his alliteration, figures he's probably agreeing with her anyway.

Back inside, the twerps have apparently just finished a very nice meal and are now drinking tea while Mr. Backlot roars with creepy laughter and his arm jerks about with his hand hidden away under the table where we can't see what he's doing with his lap.

Eek.

Dawn asks if she can use the kitchen and once there she begins making Poffins for her Pokémon. Monica brings her some berries while Brock lusts for her cherry, and Ash brags about his desire to enter the Sinnoh League. Dawn tells Monica she means to become a top Coordinator, and shortly after they've finished making the Poffins. Before Piplup can try even one, however, Swinub scoots eagerly into the kitchen, bounces up onto the bench and begins chowing down, right in front of a horrified Piplup!

Dawn hauls the Poffins away and Swinub looks horrified and dismayed, it's HUNGRRRRYYY! Ash offers some of his burnt crap to Swinub but it's not THAT hungry, and when Ash eats one in an attempt to prove it, he collapses in horror. Dawn realises that Swinub likes her food so gives it the tray to eat! Piplup is horrified but Dawn promises she'll make a ton more.

The next morning, all of the Pokémon play in the trophy garden, everyone having the usual generic good time.... except for Croagunk. It holds no stock in cliché, preferring to stare at its own bizarre reflection while the Pika-clones try to figure out why it doesn't pretend to think they're great and encourage children to buy their merchandise!



Mr. Backlot says he wishes he could be a Pokémon and laughs creepily again, and then Dawn hauls in a basket full of Poffins. All of the Pokémon gather around to eat, but then Swinub spots the food and leaps into the air above a horrified Piplup, crashing down and unhinging its jaw to devour the bowl whole. As the other Pokémon scream in horror, Dawn shouts out at it to hold up and brings out a HUGE bowl of Poffins and tells it she prepared this bowl four times the size of the other one JUST for it, while the other dozen or more Pokémon have to share the small one.

Dawn yawns and tells Brock that her oil is all dried up, and as a million paedophiles clutch at their hearts and crotches simultaneously, a giant hole in the ground opens up beneath the Pokémon, and all of the Pokémon fall inside.

Moments later, a giant floating mechanical craft comes flying out of the hole, Team Rocket emerging from the device that must have cost them MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, performing their motto.

"Our pit-trap digging skills skillfully remain intact!"
"But adapting to the modern technology of today is a necessary fact!"
"On the wind!"
"The stars!"
"Dig it, jack!" screams Meowth.
"Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace!"
"Dashing hope, putting fear in its place."
"A trap dug any other way's just as sweet!"
"When earth is moved our work is complete!"
"It's Jesse!"
"And it's James!"
"Meowth, now dat's a name!"
"Putting the do-gooders in their place."
"Team Rocket!"
"We're in your face!" they finish together.

Inside a dome on the craft are the captured Pokémon, and then Monica shows how terrible her sense of proportion is by ignoring the captured Pokémon and giant floating mechanical contraption to tell Mr. Backlot that the entire mansion's food supply has been stolen!

James strikes "a famous dance pose" while Jesse just revels in being abusive to small children. Meowth punches a button and the craft floats higher, while Dawn and Ash suddenly remember they can fly and leap 30 feet into the air and catch onto the side. But Action Hero Ash fails as his position is taken from him by Dynamic Dawn, and he plummets back to the ground and shatters his spine, leaving Dawn alone and Ash crippled for life. She grabs onto the dome holding the Pokémon and is taken down inside the ship, where she finds a switch with Japanese writing on it for some strange reason. She pulls the lever and the dome disappears (seriously, this thing cost Team Rocket like 85 million dollars), and as the Pokémon celebrate, Swinub sniffs the air and then explodes into fire and smashes through the wall! Dawn chases after, discovering the reason for Swinub's burst of energy was sadly predictable.

"Some things never change," says Dawn as she watches it chowing down on the stolen food. Suddenly, Team Rocket open holes beneath her and Swinub (this thing cost them 123 million dollars!) and they plummet to their death! As Dawn falls screaming towards oblivion, she clutches Swinub to her, knowing that she can't possibly survive.

By an amazing stroke of luck, however, the animators are so overworked by trying to make her fall through the air seen from multiple angles with her skirt lifting up and STILL not show her ass, they simply don't have the energy to draw her dying and so she just kind of.... lands on a tree and then a bush and is apparently completely unharmed.

Bit of luck that!

Team Rocket fly drunkenly away VERY FAST but apparently that doesn't stop Dawn and Swinub from chasing, while Monica drives Mr. Backlot and the twerps in the direction that Backlot saw them go... despite his eyes being closed all the time! Dawn meanwhile is using Swinub's enhanced senses to lead her after the ship, or so she thinks.... until it leads her to a stash of food!

She insists that it find Team Rocket, and it nods and bounces off through the bushes as she excitedly follows it and it.... bounces against a tree to knock some apples loose! She sighs as it gobbles them down, then it brings over an apple for her balanced on its nose, and she gets a little acidy-freaky, seeing Piplup's smiling face in the apple. She starts to cry (and the animators recover enough to draw her with an actual mouth rather than an opening and closing hole in the side of her cheek!) and Swinub gets aggressive and has her follow it.... maybe it DOES understand after all?

Or maybe it just knows a really bitching ice-cream parlour?

Team Rocket have landed their ridiculously expensive, 345 million dollar flying machine and are chowing down on the gathered food, having apparently somehow recaptured all of the Pokémon that Dawn released from the force field dome. As they eat, Swinub appears burning with righteous fury and making chainsaw noises out its little piggy-nose. It slams against the machine and James goes flying through the air screaming about his balls, followed by Meowth, Jesse and a delighted Wobbuffet (I guess because they weren't its balls).

Swinub bounces in delight and starts eating the dropped food, though whether it was intending to help Dawn or just wanted the food remains unclear. Team rocket aren't scared of one little girl and a fat little guinea pig though, and send in Carnivine and Yanmega.... only for them to be frozen by Ice Shard and send crashing into Jesse, James and Meowth. Swinub bursts through the side of the half-billion dollar craft and all of the Pokémon run out (apparently they WEREN'T recaptured, just kind of hung out inside the machine rather than causing a fuss). Mr. Backlot, Monica, Ash and Brock arrive with the job all but done, and are reunited with their Pokémon after being beaten to the destination by a little girl and a fat hamster despite being in a car.



But Team Rocket aren't done yet! Once more Yanmega and Carnivine leap into the fray, but once more Swinub prevents them. Piplup and Pikachu join in and blast the two Pokémon back into Team Rocket and send them blasting off again without their 40 billion dollar flying machine. Dawn thanks Swinub, and it nods happily and then bounces over to the foodpile and buries its fat little face into the meal. Dawn watches it's chunky ass wiggling about and steps over, asking if it would like to come with them on its journey. It blushes and nods, and she takes out a Pokéball and presses it against its forehead, and captures Swinub! Just like that! She asks everybody to say hello to her new Swinub (but doesn't take it out of its Pokéball) and all of the Pokémon cheer... except for Croagunk which just STARES.

Back at the Mansion, Monica tells Dawn there is another Contest at a city just past Hearthome. Ash says thanks and says they should get going, and Swinub says goodbye from its place weighing down Dawn's right shoulder. Mr. Backlot says he'll be sad to see Swinub go and Dawn promises one day they'll come back, and Mr. Backlot gets a little creepily enthusiastic about it... followed by Brock getting a little creepily enthusiastic with Monica as he reaches for them titties.... and Croagunk punches him in the butt to shut him up, and with that the twerps head off, accompanied by a new Pokémon - a guinea pig Snorlax!

BEST QUOTES

"They're no match for Brock's poffins!"

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