"I don't think I've ever met a noodling tycoon in my life!"
Score: 7.5/10
Well. There's a sentence that will never be said ever again.
The heroes are walking through a forest on a clear, sunny day (remember one episode ago when it was cold and there was a blizzard?) when Team Rocket appears. Ash doesn't feel like fighting, so he just has Pikachu blast them off in one second. Admittedly funny. Jessie and Meowth are disturbed by how easily they were defeated, but James is still in a good mood, so they decide to beat the heroes to the next town. They find a noodle shop, and since they're broke, they decide to eat and run. Just as they attempt to escape, who should appear but the heroes, coming into the exact same noodle shop and inadvertently preventing their escape.
Because they were delayed, the chef calls Team Rocket into the kitchen. He turns out to not be angry with them; he's actually Christopher. Remember him? No. Good, because for a moment I was afraid I was supposed to already know who this was. Christopher was a student at the Team Rocket Training School (also known as the “Mafia for Tykes” school, I guess), and Jessie and James were always there to help him out despite his lameness. He quit Team Rocket for unrelated reasons and opened a noodle shop, and somehow Jessie and James failed to notice that he'd named the place "Jessie and James' Noodle Shop." He offers to let them eat as much as they want for no cost, and the trio is excited by the news.
Another chef fumbles and throws some noodles at Meowth, who reacts by cutting them up in midair. They fall into a conveniently placed bowl that wasn't there a second ago, and Christopher realizes Meowth has The Gift™ of noodle making. After seeing Meowth make one bowl of noodles, Christopher is interested in letting Meowth take over for him after he retires... Despite Christopher being like eighteen and Meowth being a pokemon, which means Meowth will no doubt die well before ah screw it.
Jessie and James don't want to let Meowth go, and despite his wanting to join the noodle shop, however, so Meowth stays with them. Later, Team Rocket attacks the heroes with a giant robot, and despite their proofing their giant robots against electricity as far back as the early part of season 1 (in fact, it was actually a plot point in the episodes they didn't electric-proof their robots), this robot is vulnerable to electricity and almost immediately explodes. Jessie and James criticize Meowth for the failure, so Meowth finally gets angry enough to quit Team Rocket entirely.
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Started: July 6, 2005