"Fire spin, water gun, bring 'em on twice! But will they work? ... No dice!"
Score: 4/10
Team Rocket comes across a restaurant celebrating its grand opening with free food in the middle of a forest (?!... again) where the cook is a Sneasel. Believe it or not, the waitress/owner, Rhonda, is actually surprised by a talking Meowth. This is like the fourth person who's been surprised by him in the entire show. Sneasel takes an instant dislike to Meowth, and they almost fight, but Jessie and James calm them down.
The heroes come across another restaurant where the cook is a Mr. Mime who uses its psychic powers to cook in front of the customers, owned by a waitress named Rhonda. As the audience, we see they're on opposite sides of the same building, but Team Rocket and the heroes don't.
Sneasel cooks up some food, and while Jessie and James love it, Meowth despises it. He quickly learns that Sneasel intentionally cooked good food for the humans and terrible food for him, and attacks.
Mr. Mime's food looks amazing and the performance is fun, but the actual taste is horrible and nearly chokes the heroes.
Meowth and Sneasel's fight spills into the other restaurant as they break a wall, and Rhoda and Rhonda (who are sisters) start arguing about taste versus appearance; Sneasel can actually cook, but it's kind of boring, while Mr. Mime is an expert showman, but can't cook for crap. They decide the only way to settle it is with a luxurious meal the next day. Everyone agrees to be a judge, and Meowth secretly plans to vote for Mr. Mime no matter what.
Rhonda asks Jessie and James for help in Sneasel's presentation because Jessie claims to be a top coordinator, while Rhoda asks Brock to give Mr. Mime cooking lessons.
The next day, Mr. Mime's performance is absolutely masterful, and Sneasel's performance is also pretty good. Before the contest ends, Team Rocket steals the pokemon and puts them in cages, rendering the entire "Meowth hates Sneasel" subplot a complete waste of time.
Fortunately, Rhoda has Mr. Mime use trick to steal Jessie's key and give her a ladle (which is actually clever), releasing the pokemon. Rhonda realizes that Rhoda is more together than her and decides to give the entire restaurant to her sister, but Rhoda decides they manage the restaurant together even though they have opposite styles. Mr. Mime and Sneasel learn to work together on their performance and cooking, and the restaurant becomes amazing.
Okay, for the next filler episode, I'm just going to write "filler" but stretch out the I.
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Started: July 6, 2005