okay
why a Donphan devotion episode
whyyyy?
It wouldn't even bother me except that Donphan has had multiple spotlight episodes, was the third GSC pokemon revealed in the anime (Ho-Oh and Togepi predate it), and Ash owns a Phanpy. It's just really weird that of all things, they chose Donphan.
Mean with Envy
"Time to teach you a lesson or two! Make it three, just because I'm so furious!"
Score: 5/10
May has finally reached Pacifidlog Town (which is an island instead of a group of houses on logs), and practices with her pokemon for the contest. She meets another coordinator, Joshua, and his ridiculously jealous girlfriend, Erika, who for some reason looks exactly like Haruhi.
I would call it an intentional reference but this episode predates the Haruhi anime by years. Joshua and Erika are both entering the contest.
Team Rocket attacks, so Joshua has his Houndoom help May fight them, which makes Erika even more jealous. After they defeat them, they go to register. Jessie decides to register Meowth because he can "understand human speech" even though all pokemon can understand human speech, just most can't speak it, and she's trained her Dustox specifically for contest purposes.
The contest begins,
And Jessie has Meowth use fury swipes to make an ice sculpture instead of having Meowth speak, which was the entire reason she picked him.
After round one (May, Joshua, and Erika all do well), in the locker room,
We learn that the four named entrants all made it to round two. Wow, I didn't see that one coming. May will be fighting Joshua in the second round, and Jessie will be fighting Erika.
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Started: July 6, 2005