04x16 - Wobbu-Palooza

[bunniefuu]

male narrator:
As we join our friends today,

they're finishing up a break

and just about
to set out once more

on the road to Ecruteak City.

- Ah.

Well, is everybody
ready to get going again?

- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

- Pika, Pika!

- Hey.

Isn't this yours, Brock?

- Wobbuffet!

- A Wobbuffet.

- Maybe Team Rocket's
somewhere nearby.

- Wobbuffet!
- Wobbuffet!

- Wobbuffet!
- Wobbuffet!

- They're everywhere!

- [singing]
Pokémon, Pokémon, Pokémon

- Let's do it.

I wanna be the very best

Like no one ever was

Ever was, ever was

To catch them is my real test

To train them is my cause

My whole life has led to this

Time to test my skills

I know I just can't miss

Gonna show the world

Born to be a winner

- Johto

- Born to be a champion

Born to be a winner

Born to be the very best

- Pokémon
- Johto

- Born to be a winner

Pokémon

- I wonder
what's going on here.

- Pika, Pika.

- Just take a look up ahead.

- Wobbuffet!
- Wobbuffet!

- There's Wobbuffet
everywhere.

- I've never seen so many
of one Pokémon in one place.

all:
Wobbuffet!

- Hi, guys, and welcome
to Wobbuffet Village.

- Hi.

- It's called
Wobbuffet Village

'cause everyone in town
has a Wobbuffet.

- Everybody has a Wobbuffet?

- Uh-huh.

- Why would they all
want a Wobbuffet?

- There's just something
about them you can't not love.

Just looking at a Wobbuffet
makes you feel warm and happy.

- Wobbuffet!

- Pika.

- I see what you mean.

- Togepi!

- Hey, guys, look at his shirt.

- Everybody wears these
at the Wobbuffet Festival.

all:
Huh?

- A Wobbuffet Festival?

all:
Wobbuffet!

- We have this festival
every year

to celebrate our Wobbuffet.

- It looks like
a lot of fun.

- It sure does.

- Pika, Pika!

- [moaning]

[stomach growling]
I can't go on.

[all groan]

- What I wouldn't do
right now

for a cold cut platter.

- Yes, or a hot buffet.

- Wobbuffet!

- Why are you always
interrupting?

I've seen a lot of Pokémon,

but when it comes
to being annoying,

there's no one like you.

all:
Wobbuffet!

- Hello there!

That's a wonderful-looking
Wobbuffet you folks have.

- Yes, well, I admit we do

quite a bit of wondering
about it.

- It's so inspiring to know
that visitors like you

visit year after year
with their Wobbuffet.

all:
Huh?

- Come on.
My house is just down the road.

all:
Huh?

- I don't get it.

Why would everyone in town
want a Wobbuffet?

- What could they
possibly be thinking?

- Not much, I guess.

- I hope you all
have a good appetite.

I imagine you're in a hurry

to get
to the Wobbuffet Festival,

but maybe you could stay
a few minutes

and have a little snack.

all:
Ah!

- We're just delighted
to be with people

who love the same thing we do.

- That special Pokémon.

- Wobbuffet!

all:
Mmm!

- Mmm, mmm.

- Mmm, mmm, mmm.

- Mmm, mmm.

- Eat up, sweetie.

- Wobb!

- Isn't this nice?

- Wobbuffet!

- Aren't we lucky to have
a rare and valuable Pokémon

like Wobbuffet around?

- That's not what
you usually say, Jessie.

- Lulu, I was wondering,

will there be lots of food
at the Wobbuffet Festival too?

- Yes, and lots of Wobbuffet.

And just so we'll be able
to tell you apart

from all the other Wobbuffet
at the festival,

I'm going to put this on you.

[all snickering]

- I think you look
simply adorable, Wobbuffet.

[all laughing]

- It suits you perfectly,
Wobbuffet.

- It's definitely you.

- It's Wob-buh-utiful.

- See, Wobbuffet,
your friends like it too.

- Wobbu!

- As soon as
you're finished eating,

I'll take you down and show you
the Festival Symbol.

all:
The Festival Symbol?

- It's gigantical.

- Yes, the people in this town
are all very proud of it.

- The people in this town
must all be crazy.

- What did you say, Jess?

- Uh, she was saying how crazy
the town is for Wobbuffet.

- Wobbuffet!

- Well, they're all ready
for the big Wobbuffet Festival.

But they won't be ready for us.

- All right, it's party time.

Hitmonlee!

- Hitmonlee!

- Machoke!

- Ma!

- Primeape!

- Primeape!

- Okay, let's do it.

- Hitmonlee!
- Primeape!

- I never knew Wobbuffet
were fun.

- Wobbuffet!

- Pika! Pika, Pika!
- Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu!

[laughter]

- Did you hear?

Someone just attacked
Annie's Wobbuffet.

- Attacked her--

- [crying]

- What's wrong?

What happened
to your Wobbuffet, Annie?

- We were playing by the river

when they came
and hurt my Wobbuffet.

- Wobbuffet.

- This is terrible.

- Who could've done this?

- Only somebody
who doesn't have a heart.

- Hey!

There's been another
Wobbuffet attack here!

all:
Huh?

- They caught us
completely by surprise.

The three of them
came out of nowhere,

and before I could stop them,
they did this to my Wobbuffet.

- Wobbuffet.

- Don't worry, Wobby.
Just take it easy.

- There were three of them.

- It must be.

- Okay, this is where they keep
all the food

for the festival
locked up.

- I feel guilty stealing food

from the all the people
who've fed us so well.

- All we're doing
is cutting out the middleman.

all:
Ah!

- Food.

- And it's ours for the taking.

- Let's take.
Let's take.

- Over here.

all:
Huh?

- The twerps.

- Look, there's somebody

sneaking around
the festival storehouse.

- Team Rocket.

- How low can you go?

- As low as we can.

- Wobbuffet!

- When I heard
it was a group of three

attacking the Wobbuffet,
I knew it must be you.

- Them?

- How could you three
do such a thing,

especially when the townspeople

are right in the middle
of the Wobbuffet Festival?

- Hold it one minute.

We haven't attacked
anybody's Wobbuffet.

- That's right,
and the townspeople

have gone out of their way
to befriend us.

- Yeah, but they're gonna
de-friend us

when they find out we tried to--

- What's wrong?
What's going on here, Jessie?

- Oh, thank goodness.

- These kids here
are accusing us

of attacking
other people's Wobbuffet.

- Huh?

- That's right.

These three are always causing
some kind of trouble.

- Do you have any proof?

all:
Uh...

- Well, no.

- Of course you don't,

because Jessie and James
and Meowth are very nice.

They wouldn't attack
a Wobbuffet.

They have their own Wobbuffet.

I know you're innocent,

and if you need a place to stay
during the Wobbuffet Festival,

you're more than welcome
to stay at my place.

all:
Thank you, Lulu.

- See, we told you.

- Not guilty.

all:
Uh...

- Another Wobbuffet
was just attacked.

all:
Huh?

- It was my cousin's Wobbuffet.

It happened
in the middle of the park.

- Oh.
- Hurry.

- I still don't trust you three,
but I guess that proves

you're not the ones
attacking the Wobbuffet.

- Of course we aren't.

- You accused us
without any evidence,

and we demand
an apology from you.

- Say you're sorry.

- We made a mistake.

- Sorry it happened.

- Come on.
- Let's go.

- Good luck finding
the real criminals.

- Now that they're gone,
we can get back to business.

- And stealing
is our business.

- Wobbuffet!

- Wobbu!

- Wobbuffet, are you okay?
Please say something.

- Wobbu.

- Togepi!

[laughter]

- I bet you didn't know

Wobbuffet could fly like that,
did you?

- That's not funny.

- So you're the three

who've been attacking
all the Wobbuffet here.

- That's right, Sherlock.

You got a problem with it?

- You bet we do.

- Why don't you
leave them alone?

- They deserve it.

They're weaklings.

- We'll see who's weak.

- Pikachu.

- Who's that Pokémon?

It's Sneasel.

[laughter]

- Now I remember
who these punks are.

all:
Huh?

- You mean
you've seen them before?

- The three of them came here
looking for trouble

about a year ago.

They were raising
Fighting Pokémon.

But instead of training them,

they had them attack
the village

to build up their strength.

They damaged a few houses.

In the end, they wound up
at Lulu's place.

That was their mistake.

They thought they were tough,

but they underestimated
Lulu's Wobbuffet.

Their Pokémon attacked,

but Lulu had her Wobbuffet
use Counter and Mirror Coat.

The tough guys' Pokémon
didn't stand a chance.

all:
We won't forget this.

- We never forget.

That's why we're back.

- You beat us once,
but you won't do it again.

It's payback time.

- So that's the reason
they came back, to get revenge.

- I better go find Lulu
and Officer Jenny.

- We've been training hard,
and we're a lot stronger now

than we were
last time we were here.

- Just ask your wimpy Wobbuffet.

- They'll tell you
exactly how strong we are.

- Okay, you've proved
your point.

Now get lost.

- We're not going anywhere

till we whip every single
Wobbuffet in this crummy town.

- Yeah, and the score won't
be settled till we're done.

- With all this food,

we can have our own private
Team Rocket Festival.

- Yeah.
- Wobbu, Wobbu.

- They're
at the Festival Symbol.

Hurry.

- I never thought we'd see them
back in town.

- And there couldn't be
a worse time

than during
the Wobbuffet Festival.

- Wobbu, Wobbu, Wobbu.

- Wonder what's going on.

- So who's next?

Who wants to try their luck?

- If you want to prove
how tough you are,

have a battle with me
and Pikachu first.

- Pika.

both:
With you?

- Now, why would we want
to waste our time

with a pipsqueak like you?

- What, are you afraid?

- We're ready to show you

just how brave you three
really aren't.

Let's battle.
- Right now.

- No, they can't battle.

- A three-on-three battle
sounds great.

Hitmonlee.

- Machoke.
- Primeape.

- Primeape!
- Hitmonlee!

- Choke!

- Chikorita, I choose you.

- Chiko!

- I choose you, Poliwhirl.

- Poliwhirl!

- I choose Golbat.

- Hitmonlee, Rolling Kick.

- Hitmonlee!

- Quick, Chikorita,
use your Vine Whip attack.

- Chiko.

- Stop!
- Huh?

- Lee!

- Nobody's battling anybody.

- You can't have
a Pokémon battle with them.

- But they're the ones

who've been attacking
everybody's Wobbuffet.

- I figured you'd show up
sooner or later.

- We'll battle you too, lady.

But this time,
you and that Wobbuffet of yours

are gonna get run out of town.

- Nobody's battling.
- What do you mean?

- I mean I'm not allowed
to have a Pokémon battle.

- All Pokémon battles
are strictly prohibited

during the Wobbuffet Festival
here.

- Huh?
- Pika?

- Wobbuffet never attack first.

So to honor that spirit,
the founders of the festival

forbid Pokémon battles
in the village during this time.

That's the tradition,
and nobody's going to break it.

- Wobbuffet!

- I didn't know that.

- That explains how those
bullies and their Pokémon

could beat
all the Wobbuffet.

- You'll have to save
your Pokémon battles

until after the festival.

- We will
if that's the rule.

- You know the rules.
Now get going.

- You heard
what Officer Jenny said.

Now leave our village alone.

- We came to whip
all your Wobbuffet,

and that's what we're gonna do.

- You can't order us around
like kids.

- We'll leave this dump
when we're good and ready.

- But if we can't whip
the real Wobbuffet,

we'll work
on whipping this one.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

[all gasp]
- They wouldn't dare.

- Go, Hitmonlee.
- Go, Machoke.

- Go, Primeape.

- Hitmonlee!
- Machoke!

Machoke!

- Primeape!

- Hitmonlee!

[all gasp]

- The Festival Symbol.

- Leave it alone!

- Knock it off!
- Pika!

- Hitmonlee.
- Machoke.

Machoke.
- Hitmonlee.

- I can't believe
the townspeople

ain't fighting back.

- It may be a festival rule,
but I think it's ridiculous.

- I can understand it, though.

- Huh?

- It just shows
how much the townspeople

love and respect
their Wobbuffet.

It must hurt you

to see the Festival Symbol
treated that way, Wobbuffet.

- Wobbuffet.

- And you must hate
seeing them other Wobbuffet

getting roughed up too,
don't you?

- Wobbuffet.

- Maybe we should do something
to stop them.

- Wobbuffet!

- Why should we get involved

with this silly little town
and their troubles?

This is their problem.
Let them solve it.

- But, Jessie, the people here
were so nice to us.

- Wobbuffet.

- Hey, maybe...

- Keep it up.
- Good work.

- Hitmonlee, Rolling Kick.

- Hitmonlee!

- We got to stop them.

Pikachu.

- Pika!

Pika.
- No!

Please, you can't destroy
the festival tradition.

- Well, we've got
to do something.

- We can't just stand by

and let them destroy
the Festival Symbol.

- We have to.

[expl*si*n]

[all gasp]

- What's happening?

- Prepare for trouble.
We're on the way.

- Make it double.
We'll save the day.

- To protect the world
from devastation...

- To unite all peoples
within our nation...

- To denounce the evils
of truth and love...

- To extend our reach
to the stars above.

- Jessie.

- James.

- Team Rocket,
blast off at the speed of light.

- Surrender now or prepare
to fight, fight, fight.

- Meowth, that's right.

- What kind of g*ng are you?

- We're the kind of g*ng

that chases gangs like you
straight out of town.

- So why don't you run along
before we have to get nasty?

- Oh, yeah?

- We're not going anywhere.

- Then we have a problem.

Because if you boys
don't beat it,

you're going to make
our Wobbuffet here very unhappy.

- Wobbuffet!

- You tell them, Jess.

- What are they gonna do?

- The people here
stood up for us,

so we're going
to stand up for them.

- Maybe if we beat you three
in a Pokémon battle,

you'll go away.

- Pokémon battles
are against the festival rules.

- Who cares about rules?

We don't.

- Some rules were made
to be broken, you know.

- And we're here
to break them.

- We don't care
about rules either.

- We'll battle you right now.

- Hitmonlee.

- Let's go, Machoke.

- Come on, Primeape.

- Hitmonlee!

- Arbok, I choose you.

- Charbok!

- I choose Victreebel.

- [shrieking]

- Let Meowth go.

- Hitmonlee, use Rolling Kick.

- Hitmonlee!

- Charbok!

- Arbok,
tackle that Hitmonlee.

- Charbok.

Char!

- Lee!

- Machoke, Karate Chop attack.

- Machoke!

- [shrieking]

- Victreebel,
Razor Leaf attack.

- I can't believe
what I'm seeing.

- They're being decent.

- Yeah.

- Pika.

- Arbok, try a Wrap attack.

- Charbok!

- Hi Jump Kick, Hitmonlee.

- Hitmonlee!

- Char!

Charbok.

- Machoke, Seismic Toss.

- Machoke!

Machoke!

Machoke!

Machoke!

- [shrieks]

- They're pretty tough.

- They certainly are.

- Heh, well, it looks like
we've finished off

all your Pokémon.

- I think
you're forgetting someone.

Wobbuffet, I choose you.

- Wobbuffet!

[laughter]

- Oh, I'm shaking now.

- I think Wobbuffet might look
a little more threatening

if we'd remove
that headband.

- Wobbuffet!

- This is perfect, boys.

Now we get a chance
to beat another Wobbuffet.

- It's like a present
all tied up in ribbon.

- Hitmonlee!
- Choke!

- Use your Jump Kick attack,
Hitmonlee.

- Hitmonlee!

- Wobbuffet, use Counter.

- Lee!

Hitmonlee!

- Machoke, Seismic Toss.

- Machoke!

- Wobbuffet, Counter attack.

- Machoke!

Choke!

- Hurry, Primeape,
try a Fury Swipes attack.

- Primeape.

- Wobbuffet, Counter attack.

- Primeape.

[all laugh]
- All right.

- You're not as wobbly
as you look, are you?

- Wobbuffet!

- What are we gonna do?

- We can beat it
if we attack it together.

both:
Yeah.

- Hitmonlee!
- Choke!

- Hitmonlee, use Hi Jump Kick.

- Primeape, Fury Swipes attack.

- Machoke, use your Karate Chop.

- Lee!

- Primeape!
- Ma!

- Wobbuffet,
get ready to Counter.

- Wobbuffet!

- Ma!
- Hitmonlee!

- Choke!
- Hitmonlee!

- Ma!
- Hitmonlee!

Hitmonlee!

all:
Oh!

- Choke!
- Primeape!

Primeape!

- Well, looks like
the battle's over.

Will you be staying
for the festival, boys?

all:
Uh...

no way!

- It's good to see someone else
run away for a change.

- You're a winner, Wobbuffet.

- Wobbuffet!

- I knew you could do it.

Thank you all.
Our village is very grateful.

- But that still doesn't
excuse what you did.

- You're right.

We broke the festival rule
against battling.

- And rule breakers
should be dealt with swiftly.

- We must go.

- I wish only good things
for you and all your Wobbuffet.

- Thanks very much
for your warm hospitality.

- Best of luck
with the festival.

- Those guys turned out
to be pretty nice.

- They may have broken
the rules,

but they did it
for unselfish reasons.

all:
Wobbuffet!

- Maybe they're not
so bad after all.

- Is that even possible?

- Togepi!
- Pi?

- What's that?

- That's the food
for the festival.

- Ah.

- I knew they were
too good to be true.

- Stop, thieves!

- Wobbu, Wobbu!

- I can't believe those bumpkins
bought our hokey hero act.

- They did, Jessie.

- So long, suckers.

[laughter]

- Pika!
- Stop!

- Staryu, I choose you.

Burst that balloon
with a Tackle attack.

[all yelling]

How could steal food
from these people?

- They were nice to you.

- What do you expect
from Wobbuffet fans?

- No way we're giving
this food back.

- You're gonna have
to take it away.

- Arbok.

- Charbok!

- Weezing.

- Weezing!

- You can't stop us.

It's against the rules
to battle during the festival.

- We're not as dumb as we look.

- We beat you.

- Hmm.
Not quite.

all:
Huh?

- We're outside the village.

Battling's only forbidden
inside the village.

- Uh-oh.

- Wobbuffet!

- All right, Pikachu,
time for a Thunderbolt.

- Pikachu!

- Team Rocket's
blasting off again!

- Wobbuffet!

- We did it.

- Pika, Pika!

- Pokémon Johto.

Pokémon Johto.

- Thanks for all
your help, guys.

Why don't you stick around
for the fireworks tonight?

- We're going to have dancing

and a Wobbuffet chorus
and plenty of food.

Why don't you stay?

- Thanks,
sounds like a lot lot of fun.

- Let's celebrate.

- Togepi!

- Wobbuffet!

male narrator: And so,
thanks to some unexpected help

from Team Rocket,

the bad guys are gone,
and the party is on.

[fireworks booming]

- We lost food, friends,
and a festival.

We should have quit
while we were ahead.

- Don't remind me.

- We've still got
one thing, though.

- Wobbuffet!

- Let's do it.

[singing]
Born to be a winner

- Johto

- Born to be a champion

Born to be a winner

Born to be the very best

- Pokémon

- Born to be a winner

- Johto

- Born to be a champion

Born to be a winner

Born to be the very best

- Pokémon
- Johto

- Born to be a winner

Pokémon