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Training Wrecks
"Prepare for trouble, this is no pleasure cruise! Make it double, you gave me a bruise! To protect the world from getting fat! To unite all peoples or crush 'em flat! To run on the treadmill of truth and love! To shine with sweat like the stars above!"
Score: 2.5/10
The heroes reach Muscle Island, an island of bodybuilders who believe that by being strong yourself, your battling technique will improve. When the heroes ask questions like "how does improving my cycling speed improve my battling skill?", their answers are things like "you can keep up with your pokemon in battle," even though most battles are stationary for the trainers and superior perception would be more important. Despite this making no sense, the heroes decide to train for a bit, and we learn Max can't lift thirty pounds with both hands. Come on, I know he's seven, but I could have lifted thirty pounds at seven and I was a lazy, scrawny white kid who did nothing except play video games and fight with my sister.
The main bodybuilder, Rocky, challenges Ash to a double battle, and I have to admit, I expected like a Machoke or something, so his choice of Walrein and Quagsire caught me off guard. This is the only clever thing in the entire episode. Ash counters with Pikachu and Grovyle. During the battle, Rocky acts like a huge dick and keeps insulting Ash, but after Ash wins, the show still treats him as sympathetic for some reason.
At the end of the episode, an explosion during a battle between Team Rocket and Ash launches both parties in opposite directions, delaying them yet more from reaching Mossdeep City because if you don't like filler, this is not the show for you.
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Started: July 6, 2005