A RIVAL BATTLE FOR CLUB CHAMP!
"I guess Pikachu and Snivy were okay, but your other pokemon are a complete joke, and so’s their trainer."
Score: 5/10
The heroes stop in Luxuria Town to enter its Battle Club, and who should be here but Trip? Don George arrives, and we learn that the Don Georges basically have the exact same gimmick as Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, except that they're all forty year-old men instead of attractive young women. Huh, I… can’t think of a joke for that.
Trip doesn't want to battle Ash because Pikachu lost to a brand new Snivy, and Ash only has five pokemon and one badge. He also makes a comment about groundless confidence that in the wake of continuity with earlier seasons makes no sense. Still, Cilan and Iris persuade Trip to battle Ash anyway.
Tranquill versus Oshawott. Tranquill defeats Oshawott in twenty-six seconds (I timed it). Well, take heart, Oshawott, that is a bit better than Torkoal did against Darkrai… although when I have to compare you to Torkoal to make you sound good, I… I just don’t know. Ash sends out Tepig, and Trip criticizes Ash's "straightforward" choices. What does that even mean. Tranquill uses double team, and I love how every time double team is ever used in this show, every single time, the other pokemon freaks out and gasps or something. Tranquill then uses work up and just one-shots Tepig.
Ash sends out Pikachu, which is what he should have done to begin with, and after a lot of effort, Pikachu does succeed in taking Trip’s pokemon down. Trip sends out his Servine, and Ash, disbelieving, mutters "That's Servine... it's gotta be!" Thus, Ash sends out Pidovnohedoesn't he keeps in Pikachu, and Pikachu is deservedly beaten without landing a single hit. Ash insists that a match is never over until it's over, and sends out Snivy. After about a minute of letting Snivy get its ass kicked, Ash eventually remembers it can use attract, and has it knock out the lovestruck Servine.
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Started: July 6, 2005