A Chip Off The Old Brock
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Score: 4/10
Ash and Brock are getting some training in of Grovyle versus Mudkip. Wow, uh, way to be fair, there, Ash. You're already the only professional battler in the group and you're using Grovyle against Mudkip? Well, Mudkip agrees with me about the unfairness of this and evens the scales by evolving into Marshtomp. Reinvigorated, Brock orders a mud shot, but the attack goes wild and hits a woman’s Flaaffy. She introduces herself as Mariah and takes everyone to a drug store run by her grandmother Katie (possibly the least appropriate name for an old lady ever), and a potion quickly heals it. Katie has an apprentice, McKully, who wants to be a great medicine… guy, but who kind of sucks.
Team Rocket attempts to steal the medicine by attacking McKully, and since Marshtomp is the most recently evolved pokemon, it's the one who gets to stop Team Rocket.
At night, McKully attempts to reproduce a complicated medicine Katie can create easily that heals electric pokemon, and fails completely. He tells the heroes that he thinks he'll never match Katie, but Katie comes in and tells him that only lacks confidence, when in fact he lacks experience. I mean, confidence is great and all, but I could into a laboratory and declare myself to be the best geologist ever and it won’t actually mean anything. I mean, Katie is like sixty years old, and McKully looks like he's sixteen.
In any case, Team Rocket attacks and steals the medicine again, and McKully helpfully tells us that "I remember those guys!" Yes, good, good, you have a functioning short term memory. I especially love how as Team Rocket steals all of this medicine, Ash's biggest concern is that James has a new pokemon in Mime Jr., as if this is a huge, game-deciding factor.
Marshtomp attempts to stop Team Rocket, but Team Rocket is prepared this time and reflects the mud shot back at Pikachu and Marreep. They're now injured and need some of the medicine, but while Mariah and McKully get to it, it's all been destroyed. McKully and Mariah find two of the necessary three ingredients to heal electric pokemon and attempt to mix it anyway.
It works, of course, and Pikachu and Marreep defeat Team Rocket. Why did the medicine work despite only having two of the ingredients? Because of McKully's "complete confidence." Wow. Wow. Imagine if they pulled that on House.
“House, we can’t diagnose him without an MRI machine, but all of the machines in the hospital are broken! We can’t move him to another hospital because he’s too weak, and it’ll take too long to set up a new MRI machine. What should we do?”
“He’s got a brain tumor.”
“How do you know?”
“I know because I’m House.”
“Good enough for me!”
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Started: July 6, 2005