Episode Guide #033 - #040

The Kangaskhan Kid
The Bridge Bike Gang
Ditto’s Mysterious Mansion
Holiday Hi-Jynx
Snow Way Out!
Pikachu’s Goodbye
The Battling Eevee Brothers
Wake Up Snorlax!

The Kangaskhan Kid

Pokémon seen:  

Pikachu, Mankey, Venomoth, Victreebel, Vileplume, Bellsprout, Tangela, Weedle, 
Kangaskhan, Meowth, Venonat, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander

Story:  

The group think they’re in the Safari Zone, but are actually in a Pokémon 
preserve.  
Team Rocket aim to snatch the rare Kangaskhan, but are beaten.  
Shortly after, two people arrive and inquire about a boy that Ash and the 
others saw during the battle.  
The child’s name is Tommy (or Tommo as he is currently known), and he lives 
with a herd of Kangaskhan.  
Tommy/Tommo was lost in the preserve 5 years ago, and the good guys agree to 
help the parents find their son.  
He’s soon found, but doesn’t remember his real parents until his dad whacks 
him on the head with his cane, he starts to remember, but hurries off to save 
the Kangaskhan from Team Rocket again.  
Ash and Tommo confront the robot Kangaskhan and together they beat it back, 
but even in flames, Team Rocket keep on going and threaten everyone.  
But Tommy’s parents drive their helicopter straight into the robot and destroy 
it, but seemingly destroy themselves with it.  
Tommy cries out for them, but they survive, and decide that if Tommy doesn’t 
want to leave the Kangaskhan, then they’ll live with them too so that they can 
be a family.  

My favourite Quote:  

(Tommo is staring at Misty)  
Misty:  “What’s the matter?”  
Tommo:  “You people or Pokémon?”  
Misty (getting angry and clubbing Tommo over the head with her fist):  “Eh?! 
I’m a person ya creep!”  

Things I’d like to point out:  

Lies, lies, lies! Both from the narrator and the Pokémon crew.  
Ash and Co have not yet reached the Safari Zone, but another Pokémon reserve; 
they finally reach the Safari Zone in another missing episode (“The Legend of 
Dratini”) which originally followed this one.  
The fact that it’s missing can’t be covered up, as the significance of the 
episode is referred to in “Showdown at the Po-ké Corrall”.  
But I can sum up what I’ve heard for you:  Ash and Co go to the Safari Zone, 
Ash catches a Tauros, but every time he throws a Safari Ball at another 
Pokémon, a Tauros runs by and is caught, presumably to be together as a herd.  
Team Rocket aim to steal Dratini, but first they must force the warden to 
reveal its location by means of torture.  
In a later incident, Ash ends up diving into a lake to retrieve the bombs that 
Team Rocket threw in to blow Dratini out, Dratini evolves into Dragonair, 
saves Ash from drowning, and Team Rocket are defeated by their own 
explosives.  
The reason why this episode didn’t make it is because there were too many 
realistic guns (being used by Team Rocket to threaten the warden (and vice 
versa, but with Ash on the receiving end as well), which wouldn’t be teaching 
kids the right thing.  
As a result, many people were deprived of seeing a Dratini in action for many 
many months.  

I think Jenny is exaggerating just a bit, that the Kangaskhan never stop 
charging when they’re surprised, they have to stop somehow to eat and do other 
necessities.  

It’s sort of a first and a last for Team Rocket to bring Pokéballs, they 
should bring them more often, it’s one thing to trap a Pokémon, but if they 
caught it in a Pokéball, it might work for them, and not try to escape them.  

Tommo is obviously based on Tarzan, but when did he learn to swing around 
trees, that’s a monkey trait (or an Aipom trait in the Pokémon world), a 
Kangaskhan wouldn’t be able to do that because they’re clearly too heavy.  
Also, Tarzan lived in the jungle, while this similar character was raised in a 
preserve.  

As I suspected, Tommo insulted Misty’s girl parts in the Japanese version, 
this is why she hit him so hard in response (see “My favourite Quote” of this 
episode for the English dubbing).  

This is game related too, if all Kangaskhans are female, then how do they have 
babies, unless they are bred with other Pokémon?  

It’s a good thing that Tommy’s parents survived, seeing as Team Rocket did 
also.  
It would change the bad guys too much if they actually killed someone with 
their actions.  
Oh, and Tommy cried so much, he should have dehydrated, but that’s Japanese 
cartoons for you.  

Who’s That Pokémon?:  

Kangaskhan

Cameos in Pokémon Journey:  

None, but in the missing episode “The Legend of Dratini”, the warden is said 
to appear, presumably Mr Slowpoke, who in Pokémon Journey, currently serves as 
a warden in the Safari Zone, and is one of Tetsubo’s great uncles (Chapter 
39).  

The Bridge Bike Gang

Pokémon seen:  

Pikachu, Meowth, Golem, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Cloyster, Psyduck, Shellder

Story:  

The group arrive in a town, and need to cross a large bridge to get to Sunny 
Town, but only people with bikes can cross it at the present time, Misty of 
course nags at Ash about destroying hers.  
At the Pokémon Centre, luck strikes, as Nurse Joy needs medicine delivered to 
Sunny Town on the other side of the bridge, and bikes are available.  
They are stopped by a bike gang who want a Pokémon Battle, which is 
interrupted by Team Rocket, who, because of their past in the gang, gain full 
support from their old friends.  
The police cause the gang to withdraw, but Jessie, James and Meowth come after 
the guys again in the middle of a storm.  
Ash and the others make a leap of faith across an opening bridge, and with 
help from Team Rocket’s heads (literally), they get across in time to save the 
sick Pokémon.  
The bike gang makes Ash and Co their new heroes, and escort them to the 
Pokémon Centre to heal the sick Pokémon.  

My favourite Quote:  

Chopper:  “You ain’t gonna cross this bridge without a proper introduction.”  
The Bicycle Gang:  “That’s right!”  
Ash (stepping forward):  “Uh, hello!”  
Misty (stepping forward):  “It’s a pleasure.”  
Brock (stepping forward and grasping Chopper’s hand):  “Very nice to meet 
you.”  
All three (on their bikes in the background, ready to leave):  “See you again 
sometime!”  

Things I’d like to point out:  

The final wrongful act of the narrator, he says that the group have fond 
memories of the Safari Zone in their minds, only, we, the English speaking 
viewers never got to see it!  
They tried too hard to hide the true Safari Zone episode (“The Legend of 
Dratini”), and ended up making it obvious that they had something to hide.  

I believe this is the first time Misty pulls Brock’s ear to get him away from 
a girl, although it could easily have been because she wanted to leave more 
than thinking it better to remove Brock from a female as she increasingly does 
so throughout the series.  

The bicycle song is used for the first and only time throughout the series, 
taken straight from the game and redone, it’s nice that a great deal of game 
music have been made into good quality songs for the series (which includes 
the main theme and battle songs among others).  

Bulbasaur’s Vine Whip should have worked on Golem, but if it had a level 
advantage, then it’s forgiven, but why oh why did Ash use Charmander rather 
than Squirtle, the only reason it won was because the red hot Golem burnt the 
gang members.  

Ash or Misty kind of bent the rules, Ash and Chopper agreed to a Pokémon 
Battle, and so, Chopper should have had a second Pokémon to use, if it was a 
team battle, then Ash and Misty are still in the wrong; using three Pokémon 
against the gang’s two.  

Misty was asking for humiliation, the Scratch attack not working might have 
been unforeseen, but why did Misty think Tail Whip would have been any 
different than what happened in the Fuchsia Gym (“The Ninja Poké-Showdown”), 
her Psyduck simply can’t perform an effective Tail Whip.  

Ash is the last person Jessie should call a nerd, nerds are known to study 
hard and Ash barely studies at all, even with the interesting subject of 
Pokémon.  

According to James in a later episode, he flunked out of Pokémon Tech and then 
joined the bicycle gang, but what made him and Jessie leave to join Team 
Rocket if they were so admired here?  

Ash makes a reckless move when he jumps across the bridge, if he had time for 
a Pokémon Battle, then surely he had one minute to take the safer option and 
wait for the bridge to lower, they’d be fish food if it wasn’t for Team 
Rocket, who don’t need concern since they always bounce back.  
A small point but this is the first time the final battle music from the game 
is played.  

The bike section wasn’t planned too well, to have a bridge but no shelter for 
cyclists would provoke people into trying what Ash did, there’s not even a 
warning light or a gate, so I wouldn’t be surprised if people repeated Team 
Rocket’s situation.  
And if I’m not mistaken, they not only fell into the water, but were hit by 
the passing ship.  

The gang sure aren’t too loyal, when Jessie and James took a fall; they were 
cheering Ash and his friends for making it across.  

When Brock is slapped by Tyra, Chopper’s red hair turns totally black; did the 
rain wash off his hair dye or something?  

Who’s That Pokémon?:  

Cloyster

Cameos in Pokémon Journey:  

Chopper, Tyra and their Pokémon appear in Chapter 28, where they compete 
against Rush’s motorbike gang, Tetsubo and his friends manage to side the two 
together.  

Ditto’s Mysterious Mansion

Pokémon seen:  

Pikachu, Ditto, Bulbasaur, Machoke, Electrode, Voltorb, Meowth, Weezing, 
Dratini, Pidgeotto, Zubat

Story:  

The group dash into a mansion to avoid a storm, and meet Duplica, master of 
impersonations, and her Ditto, who can transform into any Pokémon, but hers 
can’t change its face.  
Ash underestimates Ditto’s true strength, especially when it becomes clear 
that Ditto can use all the attacks that Ash’s Bulbasaur can.  
Duplica tells of her hobby of performing to passers-by, and how they don’t 
like an imperfect transformation.  
Jessie and James steal Ditto, and plan to change it into Dratini to present to 
the Boss.  
When it imitates Meowth, Team Rocket scares it into transforming perfectly, 
and Ash and the others defeat Team Rocket soon after, by using another ability 
of Ditto’s, the ability to transform into objects.  
Ash and the others depart from Duplica’s, and Ash ponders Ditto’s 
possibilities, and about getting his own Ditto someday.  

My favourite Quote:  

Ash (referring to the Team Rocket motto, having recited it with his friends 
and Duplica):  “Now I know why they like saying all that dumb stuff so much; 
it’s fun!”  

Things I’d like to point out:  

Ash’s gloves disappear on the way to the Imite House but reappear as they 
enter.  
Another drawing error unless Ash didn’t want his gloves to get wet.  

It’s pretty obvious that Duplica is based on the Copycat who lives in Saffron 
City from the Pokémon games.  

Duplica has most probably never met Ash before, so how did she get the exact 
jacket so quickly, and to raise more questions, how did Duplica get that cap? 
Did she send away millions of postcards to win it like Ash did (as told 
in “Primeape Goes Bananas”)? There are only meant to be 100 of them in the 
world.  
Funny how Duplica has the clothes but not one black spiky wig considering she 
has wigs to imitate everyone else.  

Duplica can be forgiven for not knowing that Transform isn’t actually 
exclusive to Ditto, as the rare legendary Pokémon Mew can also learn it.  

When Duplica shows off her imitations, the voice of Jenny is a dub from a 
previous episode; however I’m pretty sure the Joy voice and the Duplica voice 
are one in the same so imitating the nurse isn’t too hard a stretch.  

In the flashback, when Ditto transforms into Voltorb, its mouth appears on the 
white lower area, then changes to the upper red area when you next see it, 
then the white again.  

Technically, James’s claims that they Team Rocket haven’t been able to capture 
Dratini are true, but it happened in one of the missing episodes, but on the 
other hand, Team Rocket haven’t captured any Pokémon, or least, not long 
enough to give to the Boss.  

When Team Rocket act out how they figure the Boss will react to the capture of 
Dratini, Meowth acts out his fantasy of replacing Persian, also, Jessie in the 
role of the Boss somehow makes her voice low and echoed like he does, which 
probably means they have never heard the Boss’s true voice as revealed from 
“The Battle Of The Badge” onwards.  

Since when did Dittos develop such a long tongue, it had transformed into a 
book, so the only explanation is that Jessie’s first love had a tongue that 
big, but it’s very unlikely.  

It’s strange that Ditto was able to speak humantalk, just because it changed 
into Team Rocket’s Meowth, it has been said that Meowth used all his 
experience points to learn how to talk, so the series has every right to do 
this as a Ditto’s abilities are equal to the Pokémon’s that its imitating, 
however, it should have indicated it was Duplica’s Ditto.  
But Ditto only speaks this the one time, and the fact that it can transform 
into objects makes the possibilities for this Pokémon’s use endless, although 
I can imagine some evil uses of having a Pokémon with the potential of Ditto.  
I can’t go against the object transformation idea, as I have explored Ditto’s 
possibilities a little in Chapter 30.  

Ash must be really bad at those games where you hide a ball under one of three 
cups, when Ditto transformed into Pikachu, it remained on the right side, and 
didn’t move at all, yet, Ash couldn’t tell one Pikachu from another.  

Following this episode originally was another one that never made it out of 
Japan, the episode is called “Electric Soldier Porygon”, and in it, the group 
enter a Pokémon transport system with the help of Porygon to stop Team 
Rocket’s meddling, but Joy hires someone to fix the system which puts everyone 
in cyberspace in danger.  
The reason this one didn’t get out of the country was because the flashing 
lights from Pikachu’s electricity and explosions from missiles gave some kids 
epileptic fits; a pretty valid reason.  
Simpsons made reference to this event with a spoof Japanese show involving 
robots with flashing eyes.  
This means we’ll probably never see Porygon in the series or even Porygon 2, 
but at least you get to hear Porygon’s voice in the Who’s that Pokémon section 
of “A Way Off Day Off”.  

Who’s That Pokémon?:  

Ditto

Cameos in Pokémon Journey:  

Duplica and Ditto appear in Chapter 30, where history apparently begins to 
repeat itself.  
She takes on the form of Tetsubo Capture but knew what he looked like from the 
Cerulean Water Theatre play he was in.  

Holiday Hi-Jynx

Pokémon seen:  

Meowth, Jynx, Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle, Staryu, Starmie, Goldeen, 
Psyduck, Lapras, Weezing

Story:  

The story begins with Team Rocket aiming to kidnap Santa Claus, because Jessie 
had a horrible experience when ‘Santa Claus’, or put correctly, a Jynx, stole 
her doll from her.  
Meanwhile, Ash and friends spot a Jynx and battle it, but it can’t be caught, 
because it belongs to Santa Claus, this Jynx got lost when the ice it was on 
broke away when she was cleaning Santa’s boot, so the good guys decide to 
escort Jynx back to the North Pole.  
When the going gets tough, Lapras appears to guide them, but Team Rocket 
appears and snatches Jynx, but later discover the real Santa Claus.  
Still, they trap Santa and attempt to steal all the presents (like every 
villain does in these holiday specials), and Jessie explains to Santa about 
why she’s doing this.  
The Jynx scans her mind and brings back her doll, as it turns out, she took 
the doll to be fixed by Santa in his sleigh on the same Christmas Eve it was 
taken, but they couldn’t return to Jessie because she stopped believing in 
him.  
Still, she and Team Rocket try to escape, but Santa’s Jynx use Psywave to 
bring back the sub and return the presents, oh, and blow up the sub too.  
Santa is able to deliver the presents, and Team Rocket is given the gift of a 
good night’s sleep, thanks to Jynx.  

My favourite Quote:  

Jessie:  “Better not cry, Santa Claus is coming... with us!”  

Things I’d like to point out:  

This episode was originally shown out of sync with the storyline as was the 
following episode “Snow Way Out!” since Togepi isn’t around yet and Charmander 
has yet to evolve at all.  

The room that Team Rocket starts the episode in looks exactly like the room in 
Jessie’s flashback; even the bed and white dresser look identical.  
But as seen in the following episode (“Snow Way Out!”), this isn’t Jessie’s 
home, the mansion is only used for this festive episode and I don’t think 
Jessie could have afforded to live in this house anyway, young or old since 
Jessie was poor as a child (check “Snow Way Out!” for one reference), and Team 
Rocket don’t have the money to live in a house (as seen in many episodes).  
The only reason I can think Jessie/Team Rocket could afford to live here is 
because it’s built on the edge of a cliff and could collapse at any time.  
I shouldn’t be making excuses for them, the dark mansion is only used to give 
Jessie a home with a chimney so the Jynx could come down it, and perhaps to 
pretend that Jessie was rich and spoilt since it’d be harsh for Santa to steal 
off such a poor and underprivileged girl.  

The title is read by Jessie for the first time.  

The title is an obvious pun of “No Way Out!”  

Jessie’s suspicion of Santa Claus being a Jynx is ridiculous, Meowth refers to 
Santa Claus as a ‘he’ but Jynx is clearly female.  

Surely now is not the time to let Psyduck out of its ball to sit there and be 
useless, isn’t letting it stand on the raft just ensuring that the Water 
Pokémon would tire out quickly?  

This Lapras is the only one of its kind that uses telepathy to talk back to 
humans in their language, pretty much only to fill in a character space for 
this festive episode.  

This is a general comment about Christmas specials, not just Pokémon, why do 
people claim that Christmas will be ruined if some bad guy steals all the 
presents from Santa, or prevents him from delivering them.  
Children do tend to get gifts from their parents, friends and family; if Santa 
couldn’t deliver presents, it wouldn’t mean the end of Christmas, nor a bad 
one.  

When the Jynx came to Jessie’s house ten years ago, it noticed her doll was 
broken and took it to be fixed, but why didn’t it just drop off Jessie’s 
presents?  
And why did she take the doll without leaving any indication that she had and 
that the doll would be returned.  
Had Jessie not deliberately been up that night she’d have thought her doll was 
lost and that she’d been a naughty girl not to have gotten any presents.  
Either way it’s just not proper conduct for a helper of Santa.  
And since when did Santa have the right to fix presents? I know the rules are 
bent by replacing elves with Jynx and reindeer with Ponyta (Stantler later 
on), but Santa shouldn’t be able to bend the rules like he did.  
On the other hand, he does have a lot of travelling to do, so perhaps it 
helped Santa pass the time.  

Santa claims he couldn’t return the doll to Jessie because she stopped 
believing in him, but that’s not how it is, Jessie believed two things, that 
Santa Claus was a Jynx, and that he was a thief, but she still believed he 
existed, are the rules of Santa Claus that particular that you can’t believe 
that Santa Claus is something that he’s not?  

There are some errors when Team Rocket attempt to escape; firstly the Gyarados 
submarine goes in reverse... slowly, hardly the correct way to escape with the 
world’s Christmas presents.  
Secondly, Lapras’s Ice Beam hits the side of the sub and encases it in a shell 
of ice, but the inside is full of frozen ice as well, last is the fact that 
when Jessie summons Weezing, it actually listens to her when she’s not its 
master.  

The Jynx presumably all help out Santa in delivering presents, but none are 
seen on his sleigh when he takes off (and a Jynx Does go from the sleigh to 
Team Rocket’s place on two occasions throughout this episode).  
Also, Santa’s sleigh is way too small to carry the huge pile of presents seen 
earlier, but then again, the whole concept of flying reindeers carrying a 
world’s supply of presents and delivering them all in one night is ridiculous, 
still, I’m sure everyone has thought about that at one time or another.  
Let’s just hope that Pokémon doesn’t decide to do an Easter episode, or some 
other holiday special.  

How come Pikachu gets a present but not the other Pokémon?  

As seen next episode, Jessie as a young girl is completely different to the 
way she’s portrayed in this episode, the true storyline has Jessie as a poor 
girl who’s quite happy with what little she has (she ate meals made of snow 
after all), but in this episode, she’s a little brat who expected lots of 
presents from Santa.  
Although a poor girl might feel entitled to lots of presents, it’s pretty 
clear that Jessie’s character was altered for the sake of being the bitter 
villain who tries to steal Christmas.  

Who’s That Pokémon?:  

Pidgeotto

Cameos in Pokémon Journey:  

None.  

Snow Way Out!

Pokémon seen:  

Pikachu, Pidgeotto, Meowth, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Onix, Vulpix

Story:  

Ash leads his friends up a cold mountain to continue his quest, Team Rocket 
follows them but run into trouble of their own.  
Pikachu gets lost in a blizzard and Ash separates from the group to find it, 
and barely manages to save it.  
Ash takes refuge in a cave for the night, and ends up prioritising the 
Pokémon’s warmth over his own, but they refuse to stay in their Pokéballs and 
crowd around Ash for the night.  
In the morning, Ash is reunited with Misty and Brock, who luckily found an 
underground hot spring to stay in.  
The good guys find Team Rocket’s balloon, and use it to travel the rest of the 
journey through the cold terrain.  

My favourite Quote:  

Brock:  “If the sun’s up there about three o’ clock, according to my 
calculations, that means...”  
Ash and Misty:  “What, what does it mean?!”  
Brock:  “We’re lost.”  
(Ash and Misty fall in disbelief)  

Things I’d like to point out:  

This is where it’s revealed how poor Jessie was, to have to eat snow as a 
child proves that, but is snow a substantial meal? Probably not, so how did 
Jessie survive on such food?  
This is the only time we see Jessie’s mother, but her face isn’t revealed.  

Why did Pikachu take a fall, we clearly saw it grab Bulbasaur’s vine, as it 
fell, it should have held on tight.  

This, I believe, is the first of Pikachu’s many impressions; it does a very 
good impersonation of Brock this episode.  

Why does the igloo that Team Rocket take refuge in disappear a scene later? It 
can’t have been hot enough to melt it as Team Rocket was suffering to brace 
the cold, and there was no reason for them to leave it.  

Who’s That Pokémon?:  

Muk

Cameos in Pokémon Journey:  

None, but it’s safe to say that this is the same icy mountainous area that is 
close to Delft Town, where Tetsubo and Scott braced the cold to rescue the Gym 
Leader Lorelai in Chapter 31.  

Pikachu’s Goodbye

Pokémon seen:  

Pikachu, Meowth

Story:  

While the group takes a well deserved break, Pikachu discovers more of its 
kind, and struggles to be accepted by them.  
It saves a young Pikachu from going over a waterfall and is welcomed into the 
group.  
Ash contemplates leaving Pikachu with its own kind, and Team Rocket snatches 
all the Pikachu.  
As always, they are outsmarted and defeated, and Ash makes the decision to 
leave Pikachu behind.  
But Pikachu doesn’t want to stay, the other Pikachu cheer for Ash and Pikachu, 
and the two are reunited and leave together.  

My favourite Quote:  

Meowth:  “It’s a Pika-palooza!”  
Jessie:  “We’re at the ‘Pika’ our powers.”  
James:  “’Chu’ can say that again, Jess’.”  

Things I’d like to point out:  

Misty says she’s never seen so many Pikachu in one place, but the amount of 
Pikachu in the Viridian Pokémon Centre must have been close to it if not 
more.  

When Team Rocket first saw Pikachu, they were not interested at all; it was 
Pikachu’s power that attracted them to chasing down Pikachu, what makes them 
think that the wild Pikachu will be worth anything to the Boss, unless he 
plans on selling them all to little kids?  

Misty congratulates Brock’s food and that local vegetables are the reason it’s 
so good.  
Um... they’re eating out of cans, so unless the labels state the vegetables 
come from this area or the group are recycling tin cans as plates, this is a 
stupid error.  

“... Pikachu Insulated Seizure Net.”  
Kind of a bad choice of words considering the missing episode “Electric 
Soldier Porygon” caused around 800 seizures in Japan not too many episodes 
back.  

With only Pikachus around and Meowth of Team Rocket in plain sight, this 
episode goes down as having the least different kinds of Pokémon seen.  

Who’s That Pokémon?:  

Pikachu

Cameos in Pokémon Journey:  

None.  

The Battling Eevee Brothers

Pokémon seen:  

Pikachu, Eevee, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, Cloyster, Vileplume, Starmie, 
Victreebel, Exeggutor, Raichu, Ninetales, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Meowth, 
Horsea, Psyduck, Weezing, Pidgeotto, Squirtle, Arbok

Story:  

As the good guys move forward, they discover an Eevee, tied up and abandoned; 
they take it back to its home in Stone Town, where a garden party is being 
held at a large mansion, where many people can evolve their Pokémon through 
Evolution Stones.  
They return Eevee to its trainer Mikey, who is angered by the fact that they 
brought it here.  
This is because his brothers want him to evolve Eevee today, and are pushing 
him to making a decision about which Pokémon to evolve it into.  
Misty comforts Mikey, and insists that he confront his brothers and tell them 
that he doesn’t want to evolve Eevee at all.  
Before he can, Team Rocket steal many Pokémon and escape, but thanks to 
Misty’s Horsea, everyone is able to track Team Rocket down and confront them.  
The brothers’ ‘Eons are defeated, but Mikey has his first battle, and Eevee 
finishes off Team Rocket in one go, thus, proving he doesn’t need to evolve 
his Eevee in order to win.  

My favourite Quote:  

Jessie:  “I guess we’ll just have to settle for little Eevee.”  
Misty:  “Forget it you old hag, we won’t let you do that!”  
Jessie:  “Wh, wh, what... did you just call me?!”  
(Jessie screams and breathes fire from her mouth in anger)  
Meowth:  “Wow, Jessie just evolved into a Flareon!”  

Things I’d like to point out:  

Mikey’s brothers must be real fans of their Pokémon to have their hairstyles 
look like them, and don’t tell me they were naturally born that way, their 
names must also have been changed to suit their Pokémon as they’re called 
Rainer, Pyro and the unnamed Jolteon trainer (it was dubbed Sparky in one 
version of the Pokémon comics but in Pokémon Journey, I’ve chosen the more 
appropriate Storm, seeing as the name Sparky is taken by a certain Pikachu).  
Mikey is the only brother with a realistic hairstyle and name, his hair is 
only a little like his Pokémon by coincidence.  

Ash and the others don’t want to evolve their Pokémon because it’ll change 
them, but a sensible trainer (for instance, Tetsubo) would bring up the point 
that evolving a Pokémon too soon erases their opportunity to learn certain 
attacks.  
Pokémon should be able to evolve at some point, but not until they’ve learned 
all their attacks and reached the point that they want to evolve.  

The three brothers don’t seem to have access to Moon Stones, which evolve four 
kinds of Pokémon, what sort of evolution party doesn’t include all the stones, 
including rare ones?  
In the fanfic they’ve somehow come across them to account for all Pokémon 
since they try to evolve one of the main characters’ Clefairy among other 
Pokémon.  

Misty shouldn’t be allowed to have Psyduck, she punches it in the head because 
it simply wanted to eat a sandwich from the tray she offered Mikey (who only 
ate one).  

Misty refers to Pikachu’s battle in “Electric Shock Showdown” since it’s very 
significant with Pikachu being a stone-induced evolving Pokémon.  

Once again among the food are real life animals, funny how Pokémon are usually 
valued and the real animals are either prey for Pokémon, food for people or 
just plain forgotten about.  

It’s a little too coincidental that each member of Team Rocket wanted to 
evolve Eevee into an ‘Eon that is coloured similar to them, and as for using 
all three Stones at once, is that feasible?  

“Rage, Tackle attack”? A big no.  
Rage needs to take in some damage before it can power an attack to a higher 
strength, even when you include the new rules to Rage in the Gold and Silver 
games, Rage only enhances a Pokémon’s strength when it is hit.  
And what happened to the Take Down that Mikey previously initiated?  

In the photograph at the end, the Raichu’s white stomach has vanished; it’s 
now orange like the rest of its body, similar to Pikachu.  

Who’s That Pokémon?:  

Eevee

Cameos in Pokémon Journey:  

A very significant yes:  Storm, Rainer, Pyro and Mikey star in Chapter 32 with 
their Pokémon (now available to read in comic form).  

Wake Up Snorlax!

Pokémon seen:  

Pikachu, Meowth, Bulbasaur, Psyduck, Snorlax, Horsea, Arbok, Weezing, Pidgeotto

Story:  

Ash and Co meet an old hippy, who plays some music for them, but asks for food 
afterwards.  
They get to town, but there’s a severe lack of food due to the river being 
blocked up.  
The group investigate, and discover a huge Snorlax blocking the river flow, 
and try their hardest to move it, Team Rocket also tries, but to steal it, but 
Ash and the group willingly let them try, only, they fail.  
Both teams realise that the hippy’s Pokéflute can wake up Snorlax, and chase 
him down.  
Snorlax wakes up and eats the thorns that are now blocking the river, so that 
it can flow, and the town’s water and food is restored.  

My favourite Quote:  

(After Snorlax shows discomfort from being kissed by Meowth)  
Misty:  “It looks like it’s been poisoned.”  
Brock:  “How’d you look if you got kissed by Meowth?”  
Ash:  “I’d look for a new mouth.”  

Things I’d like to point out:  

The tune that the old hippy plays is the Pokéflute music used in the game.  

Ash can’t catch Snorlax while it sleeps, but in a later episode, it’s because 
Snorlax sleeps that Ash is able to catch it.  
I suppose it’s got to be a forced sleep rather than a voluntary one since the 
game sort of runs on this principle, as did I in Chapter 29.  

When Arbok is flung into Team Rocket, and they are swept into the tornado, 
Arbok vanishes, while Team Rocket spins around and around until the whirlwind 
disappears.  

I would think that Snorlax should be a little more particular about what it 
eats, in the future, some Snorlax chow down on fruit and other goods, why does 
this one settle for eating sharp thorns?  

Team Rocket complain about how Snorlax is asleep again, but when the old hippy 
says he’s going to wake up another Snorlax, Team Rocket completely lets it go, 
and try to catch the sleeping Snorlax.  
They have got to seize opportunities when they come their way.  

Who’s That Pokémon?:  

Snorlax

Cameos in Pokémon Journey:  

None, but Tetsubo is up against the same problem in Chapter 29:  A Snorlax 
blocking the path ahead, plus the old hippy is mentioned by Scott in his Gym 
logs, and in Chapter 29, since his song is recorded and played back to this 
Snorlax.  

Episodes #025 - #032
Episodes #041 - #048
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