Pokémon (1997–…): Season 21, Episode 29 - The Big Old Thug is An Island King? - full transcript

Ash is excited to arrive on Ula'ula Island.

[birds chirping]

[Jessie] You know, these days our work
is less than exciting.

[sighs] I’ll say so. We haven't procured
a Pokémon since I can’t remember when.

We’d better do something
to earn our keep and quick.

Or selling malasadas is going to end up
more than just a part-time gig.

Wobbuffet!

Then let's conjure up a course
for our next mission!

But before we do that, it’s snack time!

Bam!

Eureka! I spy a cream puff!

-You spy mine!
-Look out, stomach, here it comes!



-Mareanie!
-[groans]

What was that for?

[gibbers and munches]

-[both squeal]
-That was already spoken for!

The cool move Mareanie just used
is called Knock Off.

That means this poisonous piece of work
is now able to use a Dark-type move!

-[both squeal]
-[both] That’s newsworthy!

How proud can an evildoer be?

-[James wails]
-Mareanie!

[yelps and groans]

Since we have a Dark-type Z-Crystal
and a Pokémon who can use a Dark move...

All we need is a Z-Ring and being able
to use zippy Z-Moves will be our thing!

[both laugh]

[all] Super-Hyper Z-Moves! Splish-splash!



-A Z-bash!
-Flush with cash!

And no more taking out the trash!

Wobbuffet!

-[all] Huh?
-Sounds like headquarters!

[all grunt]

[Matori clears throat]

Hm! It appears your progress has come
to yet another complete standstill.

Your success rate is lower than low.
That’s saying something.

Please forgive us.

She sounds like chalk on a blackboard.

What can you do? Wear earplugs?

I can give her a big piece
of my fed-up mind!

-Huh?
-Could we wrap it up this century?

-Eeh!
-Shut your yap!

Unlike some losers around here,
we have work to do!

The process of perfecting a Z-Move
requires brain cells.

You need a Z-Ring.

[gasps] Oh, right.

I have reliable information that
someone may only obtain such a Z-Ring

from an official island kahuna.
What’s your plan to get one?

Good question.

-[Giovanni] Go to Ula'ula Island.
-Huh?

Nanu, the island kahuna,
and I go way back.

You may be able to get your Z-Ring
from him.

I look forward to hearing of your success.

[all] Good! We do, too!

♪ Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele ♪

♪ Tapu Bulu, Tapu Fini ♪

♪ We've been preparing, sharing ♪

♪ Training, studying A to Z ♪

♪ Bonding, battling, laughing ♪

♪ Getting crazy, you and me
Because it's coming soon ♪

♪ We will all meet our destiny
Under the Alolan moon ♪

♪ Pokémon! ♪

[narrator] And our favorite members

of Team Rocket make
their way to Ula'ula Island.

Success! That seems to be
the boss’s favorite word!

So he’ll be hearing that word a lot.

Because success is all we’ve got!

And when I finally hitch my wagon
to the boss’s lap,

that wagon’s going to stay hitched!

And we've even got a plan
to take care of Bewear!

[robot Meowth]
Current mission details decided.

-[robot Jessie] That is Meowth for you.
-Most impressive.

[robot Meowth] We will catch Pikachu.

That is Meowth for you.

Novel idea.

Wobbuffet!

[sighs]

[robot Meowth]
Current mission details decided.

[robot Jessie] That is Meowth for you.

Now, that should buy us plenty of time!

So landing our very own Z-Ring
should be job one!

[both] Fun!

[all] We’re grabbing our very own
Z-Ring and lassoing the moon!

[birds chirping]

-[Piko and Nene] Alola, dear Acerola!
-[Acerola] Alola!

What book will we read today?

I want to read The Greedy Rapooh, please?

Read it to us, please?

Once upon a time, in an island forest,
there lived a ghost

that nobody liked at all.
It was bad and loved scaring people.

It would steal anything
that caught its eye.

It was a very, very greedy ghost.

So greedy that the people of the island
started calling it Greedy Rapooh

and they were very afraid of it.

What do you think
Island Kahuna Nanu is going to be like?

I hope he gives away Z-Rings
like candy.

Hey, don’t sweat the small stuff.
Check this out! Ta-da!

That looks a lot like a bag of our latest
concoction, the mixed-berry malasada!

One yummy taste of these and that island
kahuna will be island putty in our paws!

-Look at you with the brainy ideas!
-Wobbuffet! Wobbuffet!

Now, to locate that man of wealth
and taste!

There! It's our first clue!

But it’s a police station!!

Mop your brow. We’ll be wearing disguises.

[James grunts]

[Jessie] Excuse me!
We want to ask y'all a question!

[Jessie] Huh?

-Huh?
-[meowing]

It looks like an Alolan Meowth reunion!

Well, I don't like it. That mob
wouldn’t lift a paw to give us a hand.

Meow!

-Nuh-uh.
-[all caterwaul]

[caterwauling]

[all gasp and groan]

-See? What did I tell you?
-They certainly don't waste time.

All right, what's all the racket about?

Them thieves just stole
our finger-licking malasadas!

[munching and meowing]

Guess your luck just ran out, hayseeds.

This is classified as a bona fide
Meowth hangout.

-They were for the island kahuna.
-I reckon it’s time for Plan B.

-You want to see the island kahuna?
-[all] Huh?

[James] Yes, sir!
On orders from our big boss man!

We were told those two were friends!

Really? Sorry. Impossible.

Huh? Why is that?

The kahuna of Ula'ula Island left
on a training journey

to brush up on his kahuna skills.

Hey! That’s some coincidence.

He won't be back for ten days,
or maybe even a month, or even longer.

-It could wind up being a whole year
-[all] What? That’s forever!

[Jessie] What's this training journey
about anyway?

He's supposed to be big and strong.
He’s a kahuna!

[Meowth] Save your steam heat.

That’s right, go home.
That looks like big trouble

and I don’t feel like dealing with it.

[Acerola] The island kahuna locked
the Greedy Rapooh away

and the island was peaceful once again.

The end.

Island kahunas are just so cool!
I love that story!

I don't like it so much.
I hate ghosts that are bad and scary.

And the place where the Greedy Rapooh
is locked up. It’s scary, too.

Don’t be scared! Why not try
thinking of it as a fairy tale?

Hey, that’s a great idea!
Say, let’s go look for it right now!

So, what’s our Plan B?

No island kahuna adds up to no Z-Ring.

[James groans]
I really wanted to try a Z-Move.

A Dark-type Z-Move would sure float
my boat!

Well, I won’t go back empty-handed!
I'll get me a Z-Ring by hook or by crook!

-Huh?
-You don’t know your own strength!

[all scream]

-[all groan and grunt]
-Wobbuffet!

Acerola, look!

-It came out of there!
-[Acerola gasp]

-The Greedy Rapooh?
-[cackling]

It’s not just a fairy tale?

-[all] Huh?
-Will you give us a breathing break?

You gave us quite a start!

-Gengar!
-[all laugh]

Gengar!

-You can't steal what we won!
-That’s our Dark-type Z-Crystal!

-Unfair and square!
-Give it up! Which means give it back!

-We need to get out of here!
-Right!

-Gengar!
-[all gasp]

[cackles] Gengar!

[both scream]

-Stop that! You're scaring the children!
-Geng? [grunts]

If you keep being mean,
then nobody will like you at all!

[cackles]

-Now what? [screams]
-[Gengar cackles]

[both] No, Acerola!

[Mimikins gibbers]

Looks like that Mimikyu can fly.

A Flying-type Mimikyu?

[groans] Save all the pondering
for another time!

-Let's go!
-[both] Yo!

Now what? That awful thing
took Acerola away with it.

Let's go and tell the kahuna
what happened!

[Team Rocket] Who’s that Pokémon?

[Team Rocket] It’s Gengar!

Gengar! Gengar! [laughs]

Geng! Geng! Geng! [chuckles]

Put me down!

-I can't just fly away with you!
-Geng?

-Drampa.
-Gengar!

[cackles]

-Oh! Those belong to Drampa, you know?
-[cackles] Geng!

I hope someone special comes along.

-Gengar!
-Greedy Rapooh, don’t do this!

-[cackles]
-Quick, get away!

Huh?

-Gengar!
-[gasps]

Geng! [laughs]

Stop! Give me back my Nugget now!

I'm sorry!

-[cackles]
-Stop that!

-Hey!
-[cackles]

-[cackles]
-You’re awful! You wouldn’t dare do that!

Geng!

Gengar! Gengar! [laughs]

Why? You're so much trouble!

[Mimikins gibbers]

Mimikins, you followed us?

[Mimikins gibbers]

Gengar! Gengar!

[all groan and pant]

The trail went cold. [pants]

Our Z-Ring is riding on warming it
back up! I’ve only begun to fight!

-Old, but well put.
-Wob?

[all] Huh?

[James] Bingo! Up there!

Gengar!

[Mimikins gibbers]

[gasps] Mimikins!

[gibbers and grunts]

[gibbers and grunts]

[Mimikins gibbers]

That's dangerous! Get away!

-[Mimikins gibbers]
-Geng! Geng!

[Mimikins screams]

Mimi!

-Mimikins! [groans]
-Geng!

Gengar!

-[Acerola groans]
-Gengar! Geng!

[groans]

Geng! Geng!

[groans]

-Oh, thank goodness you're all right.
-[groans]

Huh?

-[gasps]
-[Mimikins gibbers]

-[Mimikins gibbers]
-Geng?

You are? I can’t believe
you’re concerned about me. [chuckles]

See? I'm fine. No problems at all!

[both laugh happily]

You’re quite different than in
the fairy tale. [chuckles]

[laughs] Geng? Geng?

Hey, Greedy Rapooh, I really need
to be getting back to my home now.

-I'm sure everyone's worried about me.
-Geng?

Gengar! Gengar! [groans]

Geng! Geng! Geng! Geng... Gengar!

Huh? What's all of this?

Gengar! Gengar! Gengar!

Now, Greedy Rapooh...

-[Jessie] Hey, what's up with them?
-[Meowth] I think Gengar likes that girl.

It said, "Stay and I'll give you
anything you want."

What? The nerve of that big brat!

-This will not do!
-Geng?

[grunts and gibbers]

You’ve collected a lot
of treasures, haven’t you?

-[gibbers] Geng!
-[all gasp]

Oh. Uh-uh. I can't take it...
because I can't go with you.

I mean, there’s no way
I can possibly give up my library

and stop reading to the kids.
After all, they’re my precious treasures.

Geng! [screams]

[screams and grunts]

No. Don’t do this.

Geng!

-Huh? [screams]
-[Mimikins gibbers]

-[squeals]
-[Mimikins gibbers]

-[screams and groans]
-[Mimikins gibbers]

Geng?

-All right! Straight shot, Mimikyu!
-Gengar!

A Mimikyu?

And the Dark-type Z-Crystal
is back in our hands!

Gengar!

[laughs] Just like I pictured it! You fell
flat on your face in front of your friend!

-Geng?
-She sees you as a flop. That hurts!

-The Duke of Dumbbell. [laughs]
-[all] Fare thee well!

Geng! [grunts]

-Huh?
-[Mimikins squeaks]

-[Nanu] Acerola!
-Huh?

-You okay?
-[gasps] Nanu!

-Geng!
-Incoming!

That's what happens when we don’t have
the element of surprise!

Hey, you really want to mess with these?
[screams and groans]

-It vanished!
-Or not.

Perhaps, just maybe.

[roars]

It’s Meowth's turn!

-I didn’t think he had it in him!
-[roars]

Mimikyu, use something!

[Mimikyu gibbers]

[roars]

[cackles]

-[grunts]
-No, Meowth, old chum!

-[cackles]
-Talk about shifting gears.

You will not have sacrificed in vain!

-Mimikyu, it’s payback--
-[grunts]

Egads! Jessie, too?

[grunts and growls]

So! I guess it's all up to me.

Come out, Mareanie!

-Mar!
-[groans]

Not me! Them!

Mareanie!

[Jessie growls]

Now, this is a puzzlement.

I can’t attack a colleague!
But this puppet parade must be stopped!

Reanie!

That's it! We’ll simply use Knock Off!

Dark-type moves
are super effective against Ghost types,

which might evict Gengar!

Mareanie, your move is going
to save Jessie!

-Mar!
-Use Knock Off!

-But make it a kinder, gentler one!
-Mareanie!

-[groans]
-Gengar!

-Oh, dear! Are you all right?
-Reanie!

[groans]
All right, who hit me with that truck?

It's like my back is made
of cracked knuckles. [groans]

[roars]

Gengar’s making the last time
it got really angry seem low key!

Well, what did you expect? You actually
got in quite a good counter punch.

Huh? It’s you again!

I know more about you now.
I thought you were just two-bit posers.

But it turns out you can actually
handle yourselves.

And, so, I wanted to see you finish
what you started!

[grunts]

What’s this? A Z-Ring?

Geng! [growls]

Now Mareanie can use a Dark-type Z-Move!

-It all depends on you.
-I’m on it!

Mareanie, off we go!

Mareanie!

-Three linked together in spirit!
-Time to show them the works.

Our Z-Move extravaganza!

Mareanie!

Ray! Ray! Ray!

Ray! Ray! Ray!

Ray! Ray! Ray! Ray!

Reanie! [screams]

[gasps] Gengar?

[grunts and groans]

Gengar!

[groans] Gengar!

So, this is the problem child Pokémon
that the island kahuna sealed up long ago.

As soon as you see a shiny object,

you won’t stop until
it’s in your hot little hands, low-life.

-I wonder if it's really that greedy.
-Geng!

Huh?

Gengar was willing to give me every
single treasure it had ever collected.

Maybe it’s just been lonely.
Maybe it wants attention.

Maybe it’s been looking to find
some good friends.

Gengar, you know what?
I’d like to be your friend.

-How about that?
-Gengar?

I’m not able to go with you,
but come with me and I'll keep you company

-whenever you want!
-Gengar!

[both laugh]

You were never greedy. You were lonely!

[chuckles] I wouldn’t expect any less.

What? You like that nonsense?

-[James and Meowth sob]
-Huh?

Friends through thick and thin!

-I love happy endings!
-[both wail]

What am I missing?

-Look, Greedy Rapooh.
-Geng?

If you do anything bad again,
I’ll seal you up and you will not get out!

Hear that? This island kahuna’s
really scary, so you'd better be good!

Gengar!

-Wait a sec!
-Island kahuna?

Wobbu!

Yeah! My good friend Nanu just happens
to be the island kahuna.

[all squeal and groan]

Nice while it lasted.

You lied to us through your teeth
after our Boss Giovanni recommended you!

Giovanni? So, does that mean
you’re Team Rocket?

You finally get something right!

The Boss told us you were the Z-Ring king!

I see. All right.
I guess I’ll let you keep the Z-Ring.

[all] Yeah? Cross your heart?

It’s a thank-you gift for helping out
Acerola.

-I've been looking after her forever.
-[chuckles]

You know, I’ve never seen
a flying Mimikyu before.

Mm-hm. That's because Mimikins is a ghost!

-[gibbers]
-Really?

It's because Mimikins is a ghost!
[chuckles]

-Wait. A ghost?
-[Mimikins gibbers]

It's a Mimikyu Z-Crystal.

That means it's especially for Mimikyu.

Mimikins wants to see you
and Mimikyu use a Z-Move.

[Mimikins gibbers]

-It's a Z-Crystal for Mimikyu!
-And a Z-Ring!

Put ‘em together and then get ready
for a wonderful thing!

[all] We’re up with a successful blast!

[narrator] And that's how Team Rocket
got their own Z-Ring

and a Z-Crystal for Mimikyu.

Meanwhile, on a ship heading
toward Ula'ula Island,

we find Ash, Pikachu
and all their friends.

Man, I can’t wait!

-It’s my third grand trial!
-Pika-Pika!

[narrator] ...as the journey continues!