"Stop acting like you!"
Score: 5.5/10
The heroes finally reach the Indigo Plateau, and the Aipom from the last episode continues following Ash. It causes some trouble, so Drew and a woman Solidad show up and stop it, berating Ash because they assume it’s his pokemon. We learn that Solidad is a major coordinator, one of the best, even though May has somehow not heard of her, and really? Another one-episode-before-the-climax character to swoop in and win so none of the main characters or their rivals can grow up?
Drew leaves, and Solidad talks to May about him for a while, telling May that Drew has a crush on her because of their rivalry. Then the best thing ever happens. Ash tells her that Solidad is right, which implies that he has or had a crush on Gary.
Cut to the contest. We learn that there will be four judges: Mr. Contesta, Mr. Sukizo (Remarkable!), Nurse Joy, and Vivian, the Hoenn hostess. Lillian, her sister, is the Kanto hostess. Remember the difference, it could save your life. Lillian introduces the other hostess, Jessie disguised as "Jezediah." You would assume a major event like this would have scheduled its hosts months in advance and Jessie couldn't have become a hostess anywhere quickly enough, but whatever, okay.
This is merely the preliminary part. Of the two-hundred-seventy contestants, only sixty-four will advance. Today, it's just three random Nurse Joys judging each pokemon and thus deciding who even gets to compete at all. Good idea, leaving such a task to Nurse Joys.
Predictably, Drew Masquerain, May's Combusken, Solidad's Lapras, and Harley's-- Uh.
Can you imagine if someone did this in real life? Not only dressing up as a little girl, but a specific little girl? Can you imagine how hard Harley would get his ass kicked?
Solidad mentions that she actually knows Harley, and implies that she has a crush on him. To no one's surprise, the four named characters and sixty unnamed ones advance.
After the contest, May asks Harley why he dressed up as her, and he dodges the question. Literally no one else asks why he's doing this, it’s the weirdest thing. Cut to the next day at the real contest. Drew's Absol leads the contest, and it’s to be continuuuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeedddddddddddd
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Started: July 6, 2005