HERE COMES THE TRUBBISH SQUAD!
"Right."
"Of course."
"Indeed."
Score: 3/10
The heroes are walking along when several kids and a Trubbish ride up and attack them by throwing balls of mud. Also, they steal Ash's hat. Two women run up, Daniela and her grandmother the daycare lady, and explain they're from Daniela’s kindergarten class.
See, the kids found a Trubbish in a junkyard one day (why they were at a junkyard I do not know, unless it was the worst field trip ever) and brought it back. Daniela wouldn't let the kids keep Trubbish because it stank up the school too much, so when they refused to give it up, she dragged it back to the garbage dump and left it there. The next day, the kids just dragged all of the trash from the junkyard and set up a fort to hide in with Trubbish. Yes, apparently five five year-olds brought half a junkyard to a school. Including sofas, refrigerators, and other extremely heavy things. The kids refuse to let any adults to come into their fort, so Ash offers to help and go talk to the kids. By the way, yes, the kids do comment on the rarity of Pikachu, but this is offset by a rare legitimately funny moment where Pikachu acts cute and Trubbish tries to act cute by doing exactly the same thing as Pikachu. After a brief cameo by Sunglasses Sandile, the kids convince Ash that they should be able to keep Trubbish because… they want to, I guess.
Daniela, annoyed at Ash betraying her, sends out her ultimate pokemon: Deerling. During the Deerling/Pikachu battle, the former gets stuck under a mound of junk that's threatening to collapse. Part of it does collapse, and Daniela saves a kid by throwing herself in the way of some of the junk. Fortunately, Trubbish eventually decides to just destroy the junk or blast it away, saving everyone. Seeing that the kids and Ash desperately want to keep Trubbish, Daniela finally relents and allows it to stay. Her grandmother, satisfied, tells Daniela that if a Trubbish likes humans, it won't release its smelly breath, and everyone angrily asks her why she didn't tell them that before and save them a filler episode. Her response? "You have to go your own way." Jesus Christ, **** you, lady. As an attempt to keep this episode from being completely filler, she gives Ash a pokemon egg but refuses to say what’s inside, because the writers felt that we haven’t had the “character receives a mystery pokemon egg” plot enough yet. You know what, I hope that’s a Farfetch’d, just so you’ll be stuck with a completely useless pokemon, Ash.
In a subplot, Team Rocket is given a replica of a "certain rock” by another agent and told to wait for more orders. Man, super exciting stuff, here, people.
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Started: July 6, 2005