ENGLISH NAME	JAPANESE NAME	POKEMOPOLIS NAME	DODGINESS RATING	ANIMATION	STORY	TEAM ROCKET	MORAL LEARNT
665: Here Comes the Trubbish Squad!	671: Yabukuron Sentai to Himitsukichi!?	Octopus in a Garbage Bag			Ash pretends to be a diplomat so he can play in a treefort	Replaced by a crocodile with sunglasses?	Old people and little kids stink!

Today finds the twerps paused on the road to Nacrene City, Cilan showing Iris something on some gadget of some kind that I'll probably be yelled at for not knowing the name of. They hear a noise and look ahead to see a line of small children riding trikes, their leader's trike with a trailer attached and a..... thing.... sitting in back happily waving its horrid tentacles about with a leering moon smile on its happily retarded face. Two women run after them, unable to keep up with the incredibly slow and lumbering line of cycles peddled by the fat undeveloped legs of children barely out of the toddler years. Spotting the twerps, the leader orders "mudbombs" to the ready, and they pitch them at the twerps, hitting Cilan and Ash in the face while Iris dexterously leaps up above them and balances precariously on a fencepost. The kids’ cycle by laughing in victory, hauling the aborted totoro-looking foetus monster thing behind them, catching up Ash's hat in a tentacle as they roll on down the road. Look out anybody ahead of them, because....



Iris jumps back down; demanding to know what was up with the kids, Axew angrily yelling after them. The two women arrive where the twerps are and beg apologies, explaining the kids are from their kindergarten, and then instead of GOING AFTER THE KIDS IN THEIR CARE AND HAULING THEIR ASSES BACK they take the twerps back to the kindergarten instead to check out the Pokémon eggs in their care. In what is hopefully further foreshadowing of things to come, the Sunglasses Sandile from A Sandile Gusher of Change! pops its head out of the ground in front of the kindergarten, takes a look about and then pops back down into the ground.

The older woman in the cowboy hat is called Karena, and the younger woman - her granddaughter - is Daniela. The twerps - Ash looking naked without his hat - introduce themselves, and Daniela apologises again. It seems the kids found a Trubbish recently at a junkyard at the edge of town and.... oh my God, Trubbish is a fucking rubbish bag. Seriously, the Pokédex actually straight up says the fucking thing is the result of an accidental combination of toxic waste and a trash bag. Cilan tries to make the best of this fucking monstrosity by saying it is unique, while Daniela admits that she wasn't exactly as accommodating when the kids hauled the fucking horrible thing to the kindergarten.

It raved its horribly gaping maw at her and she refused to let it stay at the kindergarten, telling the kids that Trubbish loves garbage and she can't have garbage in the classroom. They promise to clean up after it and she refuses, insisting they dump it back in the junkyard! Oddly they didn't take kindly to horribly cold-hearted decision and refused to do so, and an alarmed Trubbish burped garbage odour all over the place. As everybody reeled from the stink, Daniela blames Trubbish and the kids insisted it didn't stink, while Daniela had had enough and hauled the horrible thing back to the junkyard herself. After dumped it, she told it to "understand" and then walked away, but the next day as Karena explains, the discovered the junkyard had been brought to the kindergarten and converted into a super fucking awesome secret base/tree fort!

Ash is, quite understandably, very impressed! Iris sighs that he isn't supposed to be impressed by something like this. Being boringly adult, she notes that the pile of junk could collapse at any time, and Cilan agrees. They offer to help out in tidying up the place, at which point the Knights of Trubbish appear!



Hahahaha look at the fat kid!

They insist no grown-ups allowed, and Iris and Cilan figure that they're just playing games like kids do, while Ash.... seems really fucking pleased by the Trubbish Squad's actions! He asks for the chance to talk to them, he remembers games like this being fun and maybe he can convince them. He and Pikachu start clambering up, and the leader - who is wearing Ash's hat - orders an assault on the intruder. Trubbish blasts a fart bomb at Ash and Pikachu, choking them up, and then the rest of the squad pitch mudbombs, one of which hits Ash in the face. The fat kid starts up a fan attached to a rope that pulls tight on an attached support strut that pulls down the pile of rubbish Ash is standing on, causing him to slide down a ramp and land ass first inside a tire before he is menaced with a cardboard sword.

Ash just got his ass handed to him by a garbage bag, a fat kid, a $2 fan and a cardboard sword.

Iris calls out to Ash to ask what is going on, and he admits sheepishly that he is kinda... well.... trapped. By children. She insists he gets to work, and then the kids tell him the prisoner shall not talk and squirt him with water pistols. Somehow they get him up into the tree fort, where he sits happily impressed with the fort and asks if they did this all themselves. They did, with a lot of help from Trubbish, and the leader - Avery - yells at the little girl for being friendly with the prisoner. Being kids, this doesn't turn into a powerplay for sexual domination, but a desire to pet Pikachu since it's a cute Pokémon they haven't seen before. They gather around and pet it and tug on its cheeks as it nervously tries to not get overwhelmed. Ash insists that they're just here to talk is all, and Avery timidly asks if he can pet Pikachu too.... then grabs it by the tail and starts hauling as the other kids crowd in too close. Ash warns them they could get zapped if they keep this up and they all bounce back in alarm, and Pikachu leaps down and looks set to blast.... then opens up one eye slyly and grins. They all laugh, and Ash picks Pikachu up and explains that Pikachu has a great move called Thunderbolt.... which it proceeds to demonstrate on Ash!

Ash happily tells the kids that Pikachu is cute and strong, and then Trubbish waddles up and makes a.... ughh.... it makes what it thinks is a cute face and.... oh God.... gonna be sick. Ash blanches, then agrees that it is cute as well, and the kids gather around and agree happily, before Avery hands Ash his hat back.



WHO'S THAT POKEMON!?! IT'S.... oh, it's Trubbish. You know these things would probably work a lot better if you didn't just do the same Pokémon as is appearing in that week's episode....



At a train station, it's proving a slow news day as a televised news announcement reports the suspected theft of a bunch of junk AND a Trubbish from a junkyard. Team Rocket are sitting on a bench, not paying much attention to the news as another person settles down onto the bench behind them. They hold a brief conversation with the man about the mission and their schedule, then kicks back a heavy metal case with a replica of "a certain rock", the details of which will be revealed soon. He steps up to leave, noting that the Boss has been speaking highly of them of late, but again Team Rocket don't seem all that interested in news that would have made them do cartwheels in the past. Either they're maintaining remarkable poker faces or they've changed for the worse, but we'll just have to wait and see what is the case, because this interlude is over.

In the tree fort, Ash is asking the kids why they don't just settle things up with their teacher. He offers to go along with them when they say sorry, but this riles them up, they didn't do anything wrong (well other than this whole junkyard/fort thing) and their teacher is the one who should apologise! Ash figures out that they're upset that she took Trubbish back to the junkyard (he's only just NOW figured this out) but does note that he can kind of see her point since Trubbish is kinda stinky. One of the little girls admits this is true, but Avery insists it isn't and the girl - alarmed - quickly agrees that it's true, Trubbish does NOT stink! For its part, Trubbish is utterly delighted by this show of support, so delighted that it burps and everybody stands holding their breath in horror insisting that Trubbish doesn't stink, it doesn't stink..... and finally Ash can't take it any longer and screams out,"TRUBBISH STIIIINKS!"

He bursts out of the treefort followed by the choking children, but Avery continues to insist that Trubbish does NOT stink. Ash approaches Trubbish and points out that Avery is a great buddy, but then a rumbling gets their attention and they turn to see.... SUNGLASSES SANDILE! It's back, having popped up from under the junk to look happily about for whatever it is looking for. Avery considers it an intruder, while Ash struggles with memories of things that happened in less than the last couple of minutes. Sandile spots Pikachu and blasts up a burst of Stone Edge for some reason, apparently pissed off at Pikachu. The kids cheese it out of the way and then counter with Mudbombs, and a furious Sandile uses Stone Edge ON CHILDREN! Trubbish joins in with a geyser of Toxic Spikes, and when Sandile tries to approach it gets hit with a blast that leaves it exposed to an Iron Tail from Pikachu. Trubbish them blasts Sludge at Sandile as it falls through the air, sending it flying far, far into the distance and.... disappearing into a glint of light in the sky!

Sandile is the new Team Rocket!?!

Everybody celebrates together, while over on the other side of the junkpile, Karena, Daniela and the twerps figure that Ash has just given up on his mission and taken to just playing with the other little kids. Daniela decides enough is enough and it’s time for her to stamp her authority down on them again, and they clamber up over the wall. She tells them they need to talk this over together, and Iris demands to know what Ash thinks he is doing, and he sheepishly admits things got a little away from him. Daniela demands to know how long they intend to keep this up, and they insist they're not giving up till she lets them keep Trubbish. She refuses, and when Ash actually tries to be diplomatic by pointing out that it is THEIR kindergarten class as well as hers, she snaps at him to stay out of it.

Well I'll be, an authority figure who doesn't take advice from a nomadic unemployed 10 year old!

She insists that her job is to protect the children, and that means she has no choice but to force Trubbish out, and calls out a Deerling to do the job! And Ash rushes forward with Pikachu and tells her that she'll have to get through him first!

"Good grief!" moans Cilan.

Ash lets it be known that he is now a member of the Trubbish Squad too, and the children cheer. Deerling looks absolutely devastated, probably recognising that Pikachu outlevels it by about 1000% - but Deerling proves to be fast enough to avoid a Thunderbolt (so faster than the speed of light), but its attempts to dodge see it run into the wall of garbage and unbalance it. Everything begins to shake and shimmy to fall apart, and Deerling is stuck braced in place so that the cabinet it ran into won't crash down on top of it. Karena yells at Daniela and Ash to forget the fight and clear out of there, but Avery refuses to leave Trubbish. Daniela insists, but then the garbage threatens to collapse on top of them and Daniela leaps into the way, bracing a falling box before it can crash onto Avery who in turn is trying to protect Trubbish.

Cilan, Iris and Karena are trying to get the kids up into the tree fort while the rest of the place is about to come down... and Trubbish steps up and blasts Sludge around the place, knocking the teetering piles away and saving them from death. Daniela is impressed, Trubbish saved them.

As the sun is setting (how long do these kids stay at kindergarten, anyway?), Daniela apologises to Avery for not being a good listener. Ash asks if she'll let them keep Trubbish now and since all of her concerns about Trubbish being a health risk and causing a large collection of garbage and putting the kids in danger all turned out to be entire accurate.... she agrees to let it stay! Everybody is delighted, at which point Karena points out that the friendlier people get with a Trubbish, the less its breath stinks.

.....you.... goddamn fucking BITCH why didn't you say anything earlier!?!

Even the twerps aren't going to stand for this, Iris and Cilan demanding to know why the fuck she didn't open up her old ass mouth and fart out some goddamn knowledge! She happily insists that people have to learn for themselves..... so what the fuck is the point of having an old person around for then!?! Jesus Christ.... those children could have fucking died for you to teach this particular life lesson! And yet, Daniela just laughs it all off as,"Oh Grandma!" like this wasn't a huge waste of time, energy and the ongoing viability of the kindergarten!

That night at Ash's insistence, the twerps cart all the garbage back to the junkyard alongside Trubbish. Iris and Cilan aren't too excited about this, for some reason hauling stinky garbage about for a bunch of ungrateful kids who attacked them the previous day isn't their idea of a good time.

The next day, the now cleaned up kindergarten has delighted Karena and Daniela. Karena gives Ash an egg as a way of saying thank you (is.... is that her egg to give?) and tells him he'll have to wait and see what type it is, she just wants him to promise to look after it well. They say their goodbyes to the horribly run Daycare, with Ash promising he will return one day to beat the shit out of Avery in a Pokémon fight, and head off with a new (stolen?) egg and clothes that probably stink like shit.

The moral? Old people and little kids stink!

BEST QUOTES

"It must like garbage!" "Yeah... but my hat's not garbage you know!"

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