Review S12 EP30: Beating the Bustle and Hustle!

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It's Takeshi's Castle! Pokemon style!

Anyway I only got to watch half of the Episode....
 
Of course the show goes back to being cropped for a Rocket episode. -_- Granted, it wasn't the best Rocket episode, but it was still entertaining enough.

I love how Team Rocket was reffered to as a gang twice. :-D

I also love how the dub kept the line about them being romantics. I figured that would be changed to something lame.

And for you dub only viewers, you missed out on seeing the premire of the Team Rocket eye catch featuring Rocket-Dan Yo Eien Ni!

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- I find it weird that a BOY trainer has a Clefairy on him.
- Sinnoh Pokemon Hustle? She's implying that there are similar shows in other regions?
- As expected, James seems to know a lot about the most episodic plotlines.
- Jessie: "I love my BRILLIANT ideas!" =D
- The "text" on the "Pokemon Hustle" poster hasn't been removed.
- "Greenstation Town" is the town the group resides for this episode.
- Wavers? Why am I not surprised?
- Two "shady" characters.
- Team Rocket is surprised that the "twerps" wanted to enter this competition?
- Sinnoh Now? It seems EVERYONE is falling for this trick.
- "No comment."
- Rejected...
- "Refreshmnt room." Looks like a storage case to me...
- Wow, a balloon...
- Rhonda looks PISSED!
- As expected, Ash and Dawn get through (because they are important). Brock is not so lucky.
- The COTDs make it over the log without any effort.
- Disqualified.
- The five important characters make it to the third stage.
- Team Rocket breaks away at their disguise after everyone finds out that the PokeBalls are stolen.
- The disguised contestant reveals Officer Jenny.
- Both the villain COTDs are Azure (male) and Crimson (female).
- Brock simply can't control himself even in a bad situation. Since Croagunk is locked away, Pikachu and Piplup have to drag him away.
- Only the important characters make it past "Stage 3."
- Team Rocket wants both thieves to join their ranks, but are shot down.
- "Two-person treasury team?"
- Guess you shouldn't have put your PokeBall in the storage.
- Everyone got their PokeBalls back. - Team Rocket is effortlessly blasted off.
- Ash and Officer Jenny easily defeat the COTDs, whom are arrested afterwards.
- Three times in an episode? It's getting too old.
- How fitting for Dawn to pose in front of the camera like that.
- To Be Continued
 
This thing makes me think of the Pokethlon somewhat, but it's more like a Japanese game show. Jessie always does well in front of the camera. Ash has come a long way from being unable to tell his pokeballs from others. Pika got the ear-pulling gag. It's been so long since it was done, it's kinda nice to see it again.
 
I thought this episode was a good one. It reminded me of Ninja Warrior/Sasuke. It was also great to see a Growlithe again, Buizel and Meowth being used in battle, and the boom operator, which is exactly how a running gag should be done.

Except... This episode is exactly why Jessie, James and Meowth are such useless villains. They literally never ever win, even if they're up against people who are evil and going to lose anyway. There is no tension whatsoever when they're involved, defeating the entire purpose of their existence. We finally see Meowth get into a battle and what happens? He goes down in one blow.
 
Boron said:
- Sinnoh Pokemon Hustle? She's implying that there are similar shows in other regions?
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Sinnoh is crazy about personalizing all of their attractions.

Sceptile726 said:
Ash has come a long way from being unable to tell his pokeballs from others.
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Sure has. It gave me flash backs to that time with Ritchie and him trying to scramble to find his Pokeballs.

Sketch said:
The ratio was wrong AGAIN.
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Huh. So that's why it looked wonky. Bleh.

A nice little episode. It's fun to see a good cast effort.
 
Well aside from Buizel getting cheated out of a win.

It was an okay episode, though it was pretty funny when Brock got eliminated in the first stage, he didn't even seem to try. He just walked and fell. Poor Brock.
 
That was a fun, if not completely pointless episode. There were a lot of great little moments, like Piplup and Pikachu pulling Brock back, and TR considering themselves villains of the swashbuckling romance kind.

There was a lot of "text" in this episode which was good... I guess. 4Kids would've had their Paint Editors out in force for this one.

Azure sounded like Zero from Movie 11.
 
This was a fun Team Rocket episode. Not the best Rocket-centric episode, but still pretty enjoyable. Azure and Crimson should have joined Team Rocket, then maybe Giovanni would bail them out of prison.

Poor Brock didn't have any luck this episode. I found it a little odd that Brock would be the one to fall off the rolling log, but then, I suppose the challenge was more physical than intellectual, and it was funny to watch.
 
Snake Bandage said:
Azure and Crimson are INCREDIBLY dumb names. Were their parents hippies or something?
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I... assumed they were codenames...

Liked their designs. Maybe they should have been competitors of J's or something. XD

Holy wow, Pikachu earpulling Brock was epic. I've been waiting for that for over a decade. Also, he was surprisingly talkative in this episode. I mean, at the end of the ep he answered Ash's question with "Pika pika pika pika" instead of just "pika". Trying to tell us something there, Pikachu? o.o

Ah, liked the moment where Ash called Pikachu into battle by calling him "buddy". I mean, that's always been Ash's nickname for Pikachu, but it's definetly a change from the "Pikachu! I choose you!" and such.

I had assumed Happiny was just gonna scoop Brock up and ace all the stages for him. And that Brock was going to figure out Jenny's identity upon the moment of seeing her and be warned not to blow her cover. Guess not.

Really dissapointed that Meowth didn't get his chance to shine. D: This was the perfect opporunity to finally show him using Night Slash!

V Faction said:
Sure has. It gave me flash backs to that time with Ritchie and him trying to scramble to find his Pokeballs.
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I would have loved for there to be a moment where Ash points out that he in some way marks his Poké Balls... but nah, instead all the twerps' and TRio's Poké Balls all magically flew back to them. What was that?

Eh, fair episode, I guess. Felt a bit nostalgic, actually.
 
I'm sorry but this looked like a big filler episode to me then anything else. There was nothing that I really liked about this episode..at all. Also making Jessie use SonicBoom against Drowzee made me facepalm.
 
Yay, I managed to get up and catch it Sunday morning!!!

Anyway, this one was nice. The Pikachu ear pull was funny, but Brock did seem to get rejected alot durring this episode. Poor guy. Alot of crime in this episode too, but in usual pokemon fashion they all got theirs in the end.
 
Was it me, or did Ash do an impression of Tarzan as he swung on that rope?
 
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