60: Battle of the Badge
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Gary's battle with Giovanni is quite easy, winning against Giovanni's Kingler and Rhydon with his Nidoking and Arcanine. Then, Giovanni decides to bring out a new Pokémon. Gary is defenseless against it, as it brings chaos to the whole gym.
Meanwhile, Ash in carelessness flings Togepi into the air, as it lands with Team Rocket. While Jessie and James struggle to capture it, they eventually present it to Giovanni only to find Giovanni only wants rare and powerful Pokémon, he asks what it does and they hum and haw before finally claiming that it'll make a great paperweight.
When the kids enter the gym they find the gym in a wreck, and see Gary and his cheerleaders on the ground Brock runs to the girls and Ash to Gary, holding him lovingly in his arms.
Extremely Palletshippy!
Gary is terrified, as he describes this new Pokémon as truly evil. Ash goes in to compete to be totally surprised to find the gym masters are Jessie and James, as Giovanni had to leave for an emergency.
The battle is intense, as the trainer is electrically shocked as their Pokémon get hurt. The shocks bring Ash to his knees just as he sends out Pidgeotto, who beats Jessie's Pokémon, shocking her. Meowth has a control panel to blow up the opponents' side of the playing field, but Gary bursts in to stop him.
The match finishes and Ash wins. Jessie is completely fried. Then, Togepi decides to play with the explosion controller, and accidentally sends Jessie and James flying. Gary's cheerleaders do a cheer for Ash.
Then, the group continue along. Realizing that Ash doesn't know where the Pokémon League is, they decide to head back to Pallet Town to ask Professor Oak and visit home.
Highlight of the episode is when Jesse is falling off the buidling while trying to retrieve Togepi, and James and Meowth run down getting there before her. And she still crashes into the pavement.
This episode ties in with the "Mewtwo Strikes Back" movie when we see Gary challenge Giovanni who brings out an armored Mewtwo.
The kids also comment how they would like to get a look at the pokemon Gary was talking about. They do, but they don't realise.
James may be on the outer periphery of puberty, as his voice cracks as he says Ash will never earn his EARTH badge.
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 "If I cried like that
evertime Ash lost a battle I'd be water-logged!"
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