101: Bound for Trouble
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Misty wants to know how the Pokemon on the Island got so big, and since Tracey knows a thing or too about being fatter than the average person, or he would do if he were fat which he ain't, he explains it's all the tempting food that almost fills the whole of being alone and unpopular.
Heading on down the road, Pikachu amuses itself by running on it's tip toes until they come across a basket of fruit in the road.
Ash, an innocent child despite his attempts at murder, delusions of grandeur and brief stint as a drug dealer, excitedly rushes towards the delicious looking fruit, but a snap from Misty brings instant obedience, as in all good relationships, and he rewinds to stand next to her again.
Misty, cynical and distrustful of the world in general, says it's all a bit too convenient, why would anyone leave fruit in the middle of the road?
"Maybe it was someone who doesn't like fruit?" Ash offers lamely.
"It seems like the sort of trick Team Rocket would play," adds Tracey, with his arms up behind his head in the cute Ash pose in a scene which Lex held on freeze-frame for five minutes for full enjoyment, who despite not knowing them as long as Ash and Misty has at least picked up on their m.o.
"Look, there's fruit on that tree over there," she says, deciding to be a natural child of The Earth this day.
She leads the two boys and one Pokemon over towards the bounty of nature's love and they instantly fall through the screen of grass and leaves covering the hole left there by Team Rocket.
An apple falls on Ash's head and he tries to eat it, but it's as hard as a rock, and speaking of rock.........ets, here they are!
"Prepare for trouble! You fell for our pit," laughs Jesse.
"Of all of our tricks, this is my favourite!" chuckles James, as the two leap out of the tree.
They finish their motto, running in an odd, Banana-Man-ish way through the stars before Meowth apparently arrives via a white hole (I guess this makes more sense considering the literal translation of the Japanese Rocket Gang motto).
James loves fruit! (and fruits, and he is one!) and Jesse explains how they used reverse psychology (or is that perverse?) by leaving the real food in the basket and the fake fruit on the tree.
Ash, emotionally crippled bastard that he is, blames Misty for this and the red-head loses it. She gnashes her teeth and yells almost incoherently at him, pausing for breath.
(She can't yell like she used to without getting exhausted, Togepi's life-sucking vampirism has taken too much out of her). The reason for her anger seems pretty clear, we mean, wouldn't you be pissed off if you left a Spanish Dancing, Leather Vest wearing, hair flipping, dancing loon of a Rudy behind for an emotionally crippled little boy too stupid to realise he's in love with you.
Ash, terrified of igniting the fury of Misty yet again, throws Pikachu out of the hole, commanding him to beat up on Team Rocket, who are ready this time, using shock absorbers places on their hands to deflect Pikachu's attack.
And Team Rocket win!
Yes, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, Pikachu is powerless to fight them, poison sting attacked by Arbok, smoke screen attacked by Weezing and then attached by a rope to Meowth so that the two Pokemon are stuck together.
They take off in the Meowth balloon, leaving Ash, Misty and Tracey behind. Landing, the anti-heroes begin to taunt poor little Pikachu.
"You two now are stuck together!" grins James, hugging himself with joy.
"From now on wherever Meowth goes, Pikachu goes!" laughs Jesse, mocking the electric rat.
"Like my shadow!" finishes Meowth with a cackle.
Which is when The Giant Pidgeot shows up, of course.
I mean, how predictable was that!
Meowth loses his shock protectors as he is grabbed, and in a panic demands that Pikachu use it's Thundershock. Pikachu does this, of course, zapping Meowth pretty powerfully.
"On the Pidgeot," coughs Meowth as Pikachu laughs, and then the two are falling as the shocked Pidgeot releases them.
Each Pokemon attempts to make the other break their fall, twisting and turning this way and that.
Pikachu wins!
Meowth lays beneath the rodent, groaning in pain before getting up and trying to go his separate way from Pikachu.... except they're locked together.
PIKA-PIKA! snaps Pikachu, wanting to be released, but Meowth can't help him, only Jesse has the key.
Back at the balloon, James is hoping to do things the lazy way and just let Meowth find his way back, but Jesse reminds him (and us!) that Meowth may be able to talk, but he's not actually that smart.
Jesse and James give a little nod to the camera, stand up and find themselves facing the horror of Team Toy Boy.
They're terrified and call quickly for a time-out, then explain that they don't have Pikachu.
What follows next is a disturbing pan across several dismembered Pikachu heads laughing maniacally (no joke, watch the episode!) and then James is standing with his arm above his head like a Rexona Commercial as Jesse talks with Ash and Misty and Tracey does a fairly good impression of Brock (doing his trademark 'Hmmmmm').
Then the athletic Jesse and James leap backwards into their balloon, laugh, and escape, confident in the knowledge that them lazy, Lapras riding kids can't compete with their fantastic bodies.
During the next scene, Tracey's belly curves out disturbingly from under his shirt, showing just how far ol' Chubby has let himself go. He calls out his Marrill and asks it to use it's stupid ears to find a giant Pidgeot.
Again Tim's eyes begin playing tricks on him. This episode is more than important for Tracey fans as the Watchers nice red shorts were VERY VERY tight (pointers from Ash, perhaps?) causing the boy to show a little more leg than usual. Extremely satisfying.
They do find the next, way on top of a giant rock pinnacle, which Action Hero Ash quickly begins scaling.
"Ash, maybe it's too dangerous!" cries Misty, concerned for her man.
"Maybe it is, but I gotta find Pikachu no matter what!" returns Ash.
Whattaguy!
Meanwhile, Pikachu and Meowth are going off at each other, and each hold their own until Pikachu starts up it's Thundershock attack and girly-girl Meowth craps himself and begs off.
They start walking along the way Pikachu wanted, and when Meowth tentatively suggests that they follow his suggestions, Pikachu responds with a simple crackle of electricity that let's Meowth know the truth.
He's Pikachu's bitch now!
And Pikachu is a bitch!!
Okay, that maybe a bit extreme, let's just say that Meowth is now forced to do everything Pikachu says because he fears the reprisals of not doing so.
But still scheming, the cunning cat knows that if it can trick Pikachu into thinking they're friends he can get it to Giovanni and his Boss will love him again.
He attempts to convince Pikachu of this, but Jean Luc Pikachu ain't no jive ass fool, bruther! and Meowth gets more toasted than a Cypress Hill Concert.
Meanwhile, Ash is standing on top of the rock pinnacle and yelling at a giant, pissed off Pidgeot.
That boy must have cajones the size of watermelon!
Either that or the brain the size of a peanut.
Knocked on his ass, he falls head over heels down the side of the cliff and lands at Misty and Tracey's feet. Struggling to his feet, Ash bravely proclaims he's going to find Pikachu and starts walking.
"Wow!" gapes Tracey, who has never had a strong relationship with anything but an ice-cream cone.
Misty explains that Pikachu was Ash's first Pokemon, and that she'd do the same for Togepi.
Damn that insidious monster! It's gotten it's hooks into Misty but good!
Pikachu and Meowth are walking up a hill, and from the sounds of things they have plungers on their feet?
Pikachu is extremely happy, apparently it can smell Pokemon, but is this a good thing? Your experiences with Pokemon on this Island has been pretty negative so far, Pikachu.
"I don't smell anything," mutters Meowth, then starts in shock as it remembers, "WAAAH! I just remembered, I don't have a nose!"
Along comes that Pokemon Pikachu mentioned.... A Giant RHYDON!
Pikachu wisely tries to run away at this point, but is pulled back by the rope as Meowth stands in total shock. His legs are more useless than a sadist in a Monastery, but luckily Pikachu manages to pull him away.
Clear of Rhydon for the moment, they both try to run but go in separate directions, get tangled up, run in opposite (but still separate) directions than before and finally get blasted off by the angry Rhydon.
"This ain't over!" groans Meowth, then he and Pikachu get up and start running as The Rhydon (who is angry for no reason whatsoever, by the way!) continues the chase.
As they run, Meowth falls behind, and when Pikachu gets to the edge of the cliff the cat is too knackered to notice.
Smashing into the rodents back, the two Pokemon are sent flying over the side.
And that Rhydon just follows them right over the side!
THAT'S IT! THAT'S TAKING THINGS TOO FAR!
PIKACHU IS MAD AS HELL, AND IT'S NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!
Standing tall, Pikachu blasts that Rhydon with hit after hit of electric shock and The Rhydon falters, drops it's head.... and then shakes it off and is ready to fight again.
"It's skin don't conduct electricity!" cries Meowth, resigned to their fate after day after day of being blasted off again.
But Pikachu is made of sterner stuff, and tells Meowth to get the Rhydon's mouth open so that Pikachu can finish it off.
Meowth does what it does best, a tickle attack, and Rhydon opens it mouth to laugh.
ZAP!
That's one fried Rhydon, and the tag team of Meowth and Pikachu are victorious!
Meanwhile, Marrill has tracked Pikachu to the very rock where it tracked Rhydon earlier.
They follow the tracks back to the cliff where Meowth knocked Pikachu over and wonder what happen, could Pikachu survive a tackle attack from a giant Rhydon?
But Action Hero Ash has no time for this, he leaps over the side and slides down, not even trying to impress Misty now, he just wants his Pikachu back.
Up in The Meowth Balloon, Jesse fakes a yawn and slides her hand down to cup one of James' buttocks, just like a High School Quarterback with a nervous Librarian at Make-Out Point.
And just like that nervous Librarian, James just stiffens in slight shock, but keeps a totally stock, bored face to show that he isn't interested.
Poor James, too polite to tell Jesse to stop it, too gay to just go along with it.
"Ahh well," mutters Jesse, really starting to get tired now and forgetting her attempts to seduce/rape her gay friend, "They couldn't have gone very far on Meowth's brain power."
Meanwhile, Meowth and Pikachu are really, really hungry, which is when they spy an apple and grow huge, wobbly eyes!
Their friendship forgotten, they struggle and fight their way towards the apple, Meowth leaping through the air and almost.... almost!
reaching it before being pulled back by the wire attaching him to Pikachu, pulled on by the electric rodent itself.
Devious little rat!
Pikachu uses a tiny thundershock to knock the apple down and gets ready to eat it as Meowth starts to cry, acknowledging that he's been outsmarted.
Feeling guilty, Pikachu splits the apple and gives the Scratch Cat half.
Meowth is taken aback, and tells Pikachu that no one has ever been nice to him.
WHAT? NEVER? WHAT?
Jesse and James are always nice to you, Meowth, apart from the beatings, abuse, kicking and punching, biting and groin tears, you couldn't ask for nicer friends.
Meowth wonders to himself if maybe it's Ash's fault that Pikachu has been beating on him all this time. On his own, Pikachu seems pretty nice.
This is accompanied by a video montage of pain and agony ditched out by the electric rodent on Meowth and his two friends, which is really quite touching.
"Maybe you should leave the twerp and join Team Rocket?" Meowth suggests to Pikachu, which is about the coolest suggestion ever, we mean, can you image Pikachu in a Team Rocket uniform!
But Pikachu isn't answering because.....
AWWWW!
CUTENESS ALERT! CUTENESS ALERT! It feel asleep on Meowth's lap!
They lay sleeping together, and awaken the next morning relaxed and refreshed.... until first Pidgeot returns and then Rhydon!
Both of them! Come on, man, it's too much!
What is this? A Jerry Bruckheimer movie? Where's Bruce Willis?
Here comes Pidgeot! Here comes Rhydon!
Pidgeot! Rhydon! Pidgeot! Rhydon! Pidgeot Rhydon! Pidgeot Rhydon! PidgeotRhydon! PidgeotRhydon! ACTION HERO ASH AND MEOWTH BALLOON!
"SNORLAX! GETTO DAZE!" roars Ash (forgive me) and Snorlax, in a move Tracey would be proud of, uses it's fatty power to meet Rhydon, hold him fast and then mega-punch his stone ass off the Island!
"Arbok! GETTO DAZE!" exclaims Jesse, her Arbok launching out and using it's poison sting attack against Pidegot before taking a good sized bite out of the bird!
"JESSE! JAMES!" cries Meowth happily, pulling Pikachu along behind him as he rushes towards him. But he soon stops when they tell him they were looking for Pikachu and he just happened to be there as well.
Mean ol' Jesse, just pissed because she failed to arouse James once again.
Pikachu pulls Meowth behind him this time, and leaps into Ash's arms, who hugs Pikachu with the love that Meowth wanted from Jesse and James.
And then Pikachu is being pulled back as James tugs on Meowth and Jesse cheerleads.
Ash, pretty much pissed off after close to 2 days without sleep, pulls out a pokeball and throws it right at James, knocking him down and letting loose Bulbasaur. Pikachu proceeds to knock out Arbok and then James, recovering, calls out Victreebell.
Which promptly attempts to eat Arbok.
Bulbasaur, who had been pretty much doing nothing until this point, uses it's vinewhip, clobbering Jesse and James with their own Pokemon and letting loose the key from Jesse's hand.
Leaping into their Meowth balloon, Meowth joins them and, totally ignoring any character development from earlier in the episode, pulls out what looks to be one big fragging cannon.
Misty, deciding to get in on the action, calls out Stary.... oh, Psyduck.
"Oh well, if you're out, use Confusion!" she demands of Psyduck, who certainly looks confused, if nothing else!
Togepi, sensing it's own imminent destruction in the building power of Team Rocket's cannon, uses some of the life energy it has stolen from Misty and blows up The Meowth Balloon.
Ash and Pikachu hug then, glad to be together again and also thankful that the Translators haven't tacked on Together Forever like they usually do.
Cutting to Team Rocket, the three lie broken and beaten after facing the vicious, unfeeling might of Togepi.
"I'm simply famished," whines Jesse.
"Not me," groans James in return,"I'm just hungry."
Meowth spots an apple and leaps for it, but before he can James kicks him squaw in the mouth before Jesse brings one foot down on James' head, knocking him into the ground.
"We all have to share this apple!" snaps Jesse, then laughs, "I'll go first!"
As she hogs out on the fruit, Meowth pulls his face from the tree and mutters,"Maybe it would have been better if they hadn't found me."
At this point the apple core smacks him on the face.
"I'm starting to miss Pikachu!"
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"They couldn't have
gone very far on Meowth's brain power."
"I'm starting to
miss
Pikachu!"
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