"Take that back! You're much weirder than we are!"
"Afraid not! When you look up 'weird,' your picture's in the dictionary!"
"If you're weird enough to be seen as weird by weirdos like us, you're weird!"
Score: 3/10
A meteorite crashes to the Earth, and almost immediately, the Pokemon Mystery Club (the Skully and Mulder pastiche from way long ago) show up. They blow up the meteorite, and out comes a Lunatone. They attack it, but it gets the better of them and erases their recent memory before leaving to go to a nearby village.
Cut to the next afternoon. The heroes arrive in the town, but no one is around. They eventually locate the Nurse Joy, who has red eyes and speaks like "HELLO. WHAT. IS. IT. YOU. WANT?" and of course the heroes think this is completely normal. Only Brock suspects something is amiss, and only because this Nurse Joy doesn't conform the parameters all Nurse Joys do, which he keeps track of in his Nurse Joy book.
I would love to see an Officer Jenny's opinion of his Officer Jenny book. "You keep tabs on my entire family? Freaking weirdo." Brock is certain that something is wrong, but everyone decides to ignore it because dinner is much more important. They run into the Pokemon Mystery Club people, who mention the meteorite and leave. The heroes then speculate on whether extraterrestrial pokemon are possible even though they recently met not one but two Deoxys that were explicitly from space.
The mention of a space pokemon is enough to make them investigate Nurse Joy's strange behavior further, so they return to the pokemon center. Team Rocket also breaks into the center for unrelated reasons, and all of them run into Lunatone. It uses hypnosis on Jessie to communicate with everyone and tell them leave even though in past episodes, hypnosis did not work that way. Team Rocket attacks it and it falls to the ground. Meowth translates that it needs moonlight to be alright, and after Team Rocket attacks again, Ash blasts them off and decides to take it outside.
Nurse Joy reveals a problem: the town they're in is surrounded by high mountains, so you can't see the moon. It's a full moon tonight, so this is the best opportunity to help Lunatone. There's only one place in town, a hill, that's high enough to see the moon on. Really. Okay.
They dress a cart full of sheets and stuff over the Lunatone, and when the PMC confronts them, they claim to be going to a moon party, so the PMC lets them through. No, really. This happens. They reach the hill without trouble, but the PMC attacks the heroes in a tank, and defeat Pikachu and Mudkip before Beautifly stops them. Well that's improbable.
The full moon rises, and the PMC attacks again, but the reinvigorated Lunatone defeats them easily and the episode ends as pointlessly as it began.
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Started: July 6, 2005