Claydol Big and Tall
"Dance like an eggplant!"
Score: 4/10
The heroes are traveling through "the Valley of Destruction," which is actually pretty nice, and see a huge pokeball on top of one of the mountains. They meet an old man, "Sigorni, the Sage of Azabi Island!", and just imagine if this happened in real life. If you met an old guy who introduced himself as "Charles, the Sage of Los Angeles County," tell me you wouldn't walk away as quickly as you could. He offers to tell the heroes the legend of the giant pokeball, which has been passed down for generations, even though when Professor Oak was a child they used old-fashioned metal-and-wood pokeballs and the pokeball is clearly a normal, modern pokeball, just enormous.
Centuries ago, in the Time of Destruction, a great and powerful Claydol "the size of twenty normal Claydol" (but it's clearly hundreds of times bigger than a regular Claydol, by the way) was sealed within the pokeball, but an "evil stranger" released the force. For seven days, it roamed at will, destroying everything on the island that it saw. A great sage appeared and summoned a second giant pokeball "from another dimension" to trap it and left it in a lake. Team Rocket overhears all of this and goes to the lake to free the pokemon because hey, why not? Claydol starts moving toward a nearby village, and the sage wonders if it'll attack the village. The heroes decide the only option is to use the remaining giant pokeball, but since it's too big to move, they need to draw Claydol to the mountain. By the way, I love how they have no problem with trapping a living being for a thousand years, they're completely cool with it. They never attempt to reason with it or anything, they just immediately try to trap it again.
Team Rocket offers to help, secretly planning to steal Claydol for themselves. After various failed attempts, the sage consults the ancient texts, which tell him that Claydol was created when a maiden used water on a regular clay doll, so they decide to dress up Jessie, May, Meowth, and Wobbuffet as maidens, completely missing an opportunity for James to crossdress. They dress each one up in a different fetish outfit (Jessie = ballerina, Meowth = cheerleader, May = nurse, Wobbuffet = maid). It knocks all of them away except Wobbuffet: the sage then realizes that the Claydol isn't fooled, it just has a thing for Wobbuffet (ew). Wobbuffet then distracts it for long enough for the rest of them to push the giant pokeball off of the mountaintop and catch it.
Team Rocket attempts to steal the pokeball with their balloon, but it's too heavy, and they only succeed in dragging it to the lake, rendering the events of this episode completely pointless.
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Started: July 6, 2005