58: The Misty Mermaid Time
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Her sisters get an idea to generate publicity for the gym by having an underwater ballet. To everyone's surprise, they picked Misty to be the star of the show.
Upon spying a billboard with a beautiful mermaid on it, Brock goes all goofy again while Ash comments that with slightly different hair the mermaid would look like Misty.
This makes her blush and laugh a little, but when it is revealed that it IS Misty, neither Brock nor Ash seem overly concerned about the desire each expressed.
They begin the show. Misty swims around a little with the Pokémon as they tell the story. She swims into a hidden area for a desperately needed breath of air, and goes back to the audience. Then, it's time for everyone in mermaid land to go to sleep. The large shell closes on Misty, and gives her the chance to take out a breathing device while no one is looking.
Team Rocket tie up the two sisters who were to play the villains, and replace them on stage. Jessie dressed as a male dancer, and James in a ballerina costume.
The monstrosity of this episode is James' deeper-than-normal voice he puts on and the total out-of-character speeches he slurs out.
The American translators probably asked for that because he shows an intrest in becoming a ballerina explaining that he "took a bit of modern dance when I was a lad.".
The translators, desperate not to show kids any other possible form of sexual orientation in case they grow up enlightened, throw a totally out of character and out of context line into James' mouth, making his voice deeper than usual and causing fans around the world to fall into epileptic seizures.
When Team Rocket make their entrance in the ballet gear, James has taken the tutu and Jesse in the slightly more masculine gear.
The horrible line from James "Next time we steal men's clothes" is so out of character it's sickening. The expression and action which accompanied the line did not mesh.
Even though the gym is run by all females, from past observations, James has fit easily into womens clothes before. He had the choice, he could have been the male ballet dancer wearing the figure hugging costume of Jesse's, but no, he choose ballerina.
And he was happy.
They try to steal all the Pokémon, and are defeated by Ash and Pikachu as usual. The crowd believes that the entire attack was staged and applaud the show.
The show was successful in generating publicity for the gym, and everyone is lining up to buy tickets to their next shows. Misty leaves Horsea and Starmie with her sisters, and the group continue onward to Viridian City.
And what was Misty doing "giving" her Starmie to her sisters. We can see why she gave Horsea to them, she never used it, but Starmie was one of her strongest pokémon (Psyduck being the first, when he gets himself together).
No wonder these guys aren't going to be the best pokémon trainers if they keep "giving" away their pokémon.
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