74: The Fourth Round Rumble
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This defeat makes Ash nervous that he too may lose his fourth battle. Brock tells him not to give up, and so he does not.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket are trying selling things to get money. They seem to be good at it as they sell out of official Pokémon League badges. Jesse and James once again discover their talent for legitimate enterprise and Meowth once again pulls them away from the straight and narrow (James could never go straight anyway). James waters his Victribell which proceeds to eat his head.
Meowth is up to his usual tricks and they are not official. He is in fact making them out of bottle caps.
They decide to try a distraction with some fake Pikachu being taken away by their balloon. A couple of Officer Jennies spot the balloon and Growlithe takes it down. Jessie and James were going to use the distraction to allow them to steal all the spectators Pokémon with a vacuum. The Jennies notice their vacuum and ticket it. Team Rocket run for cover and disguise themselves as snack salesmen and start selling hot-dogs and ice-cream.
Ash enters his last arena before he can battle in the Indigo arena. His opponent Jeanette starts with a Beedrill. Ash fights the Beedrill with his Bulbasaur. After a few close calls, Bulbasaur leech seeds it to victory.
And half way through Ash's battle his mother and Professor Oak turned up to watch. Maybe they thought there was time for a quickee before going to watch their son battle.
Next, Bulbasaur battles Scyther. Again it is close, but Bulbasaur wins again. Then, Jeanette brings out a Bellsprout. Ash believes it is going to be an easy win, but surprisingly to everyone Bulbasaur gets whipped in a bad way by Jeanette's Bellsprout (that's not a typo!) and Pikachu gets into an awesome battle with it, almost beating Metapod versus Metapod for best Poke-battle ever before being knocked out.
Ash surprises everyone (except his Daddy, Professor Oak) by making a clever tactical move and pulling out Muk, who easily absorbs Bellsprout's attacks and gives him the victory.
Ash has won his fourth match, and it is on to the central Indigo arena.
After the match, Jessie and James found they had a successful day, and sold many hot-dogs and ice-cream. They are quite pleased with their ability to sell.
Muk kind of mauls Misty at the end of this episode, a treat usually reserved for Professor Oak, but this sexual harassment is all in good fun, and they all share a laugh.
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 "Meowth is making
fake badges out of bottlecaps." "Well at least
dese fakes are authentic."
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