ENGLISH NAME	JAPANESE NAME	POKEMOPOLIS NAME	DODGINESS RATING	ANIMATION	STORY	TEAM ROCKET	MORAL LEARNT
568: Get Your Rotom Running!	573: Yokan to Rotomu!	Gateau Ass Outta There!			The twerps steal gateau and fight appliances	Waxing lyrical about gateau	A store being empty doesn't mean you can take what you want from it

Well Gentle Dodgers, a week after the end of Season 11, it's the start of Season 12! Hoorah!

The episode opens with the twerps in the Pokémon Centre trying to talk with Professor Oak, while Grotle attempts to rape Ash and Swinub tries to rape Dawn. As the shaggy teenage mammoth-guinea pig humps roughly against Dawn from behind, she gleefully listens to Oak perform a poem, then eat some "gateau" before telling the twerps they should try some themselves - gateau from the chateau! Yes gateau is made in the chateau in Canalave City, so if they go to the chateau they can get gateau... from the chateau! Where the gateau is made!

The gateau in question looks like tofu.

Listening in (with HUGE ears!) are Team Rocket, who are delighted to hear that the twerps are going to lead them to some food.... but they're also likely to eat it all before Team Rocket get there! So this time, Team Rocket's plan isn't so much stealing Pokémon as it is eating a bunch of food!

Aim low, wallow in success!

Hey NEW BEGINNING! TEAM GALACTIC AND BARRY AND THE TWERPS AND A DUDE IN A CAP AND TEAM ROCKET FUCK YES AND SOME CONTEST BATTLES AND PIKACHU BLASTING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING AND ASH CELEBRATING AND.... oh that bit with all the Pokémon shouting out their names is kinda sad. But it's a new season and a new opening, so it's time to....



Team Rocket move on ahead, out of their disguises and back into their Team Rocket uniforms. They arrive at the old Chateau well ahead of the twerps and enter well tended gardens, but the chateau appears to be closed and deserted. Meowth lets himself in with a claw and for some reason the criminal poachers mention "not trying this at home" before rushing into the empty chateau (which would surely be empty of gateau too!), the lighting fixtures buzzing strangely. Meanwhile, the twerps are approaching the gateau, only to learn from a very enthusiastic workman that the chateau is closed due to a recent powercut.... oh yeah and also GHOSTS BWAHAHAHAHA!

Hahaha, what a jerk!

He wanders away laughing that it is "just a silly ol' rumour", while inside the chateau, Team Rocket have realised that the Chateau has no food. James spots a candy bar in one shelf and hides it inside a stove so the others won't see it; shortly after Jesse finds chocolate and puts it in a fridge; and Meowth finds a cookie and slips it into the same stove as James'.... and all three times, the object the food was placed into morphs into a bizarre Pokémon that eats the food before taking the shape back on again. Team Rocket then melodramatically try and leave together in order to separate and return for their food, angrily fighting amongst themselves as they try and get back into the room. Finally they give up all pretence and burst in, checking their hiding spots and finding their food is gone.... and of course they confront each other when they discover each hid food from the other. They accuse each other of stealing their food, at which point the real culprit shows up... the fridge!

Well.... that's different.

It opens its "doors" and blasts ice at them so they take off in fright thinking the fridge is haunted, only to be confronted by the stove, so they leap into an air duct and struggle and squeeze their way through, resulting in our season's first requisite Gratuitous Ass Shot.

Jesse is furious to find they've been locked into a basement by a "fridge with an attitude", and the door is locked and their personal skeleton key Meowth is knocked out!

Outside, the twerps figure they've come all this way for nothing, when mysteriously the door opens and they peek in. Pikachu spots something moving inside and rushes in, followed by the twerps who tell it that it can't just rush in like this. It tries to explain, doing an impersonation of the Pokémon it saw that isn't all that helpful.

They spot what looks like a microwave stove on the floor and Pikachu tries to get inside of it in order to teach any small children at home that putting your head into a microwave is cool. As the twerps and Piplup are distracted by what seems to be a generator, Pikachu opens the door of the microwave and puts its head inside, at which point the stove turns back into the Pokémon and Pikachu thunderbolts it right inside the mouth!

The generator suddenly kicks into gear and restores the power, waking up Meowth downstairs who instantly spots shelves of gateau behind Jesse and James!

Upstairs, the twerps hear an automated message telling them that this part of the chateau allows visitors to make their own gateau, and rather than leave the empty chateau they have no business being inside, they decide to make use of the machinery.

Downstairs, Meowth tries to slash through the glass on the display case but succeeds only in hurting his claws. He mutters they should make a machine out of whatever the glass is, while Jesse insists he show "that old Meowth pluck" and try again.

The twerps have entered a room with ingredients and recipe, and so they decide to make illegal use of the chateau to STEAL gateau! They're as bad as Team Rocket! Brock offers to make the meal and Ash takes Chimchar outside to train with Pikachu for the Canalave Gym Battle while Dawn puts in practise for her next contest. Chimchar blasts Flamethrower at Pikachu who leaps side, and the flames hit the... lawnmower! And the lawnmower is pissed off!

Hysterically it chases them around the lawn and back up into the chateau, seemingly delighting in their fear. Inside, Ash peeks out the window and is surprised to see the lawnmower back to normal, while elsewhere inside Dawn has Buneary trying Dizzy Punch when a fan catches her attention - it's on but she doesn't even remember it being there. She turns it off to conserve energy and has Piplup try Bubblebeam, but the fan turns back on, turns up full force and then chases them out of the room! She rushes directly into Ash and tells him about the fan, but when they look back they see the fan just sitting turned off in the middle of the hall. Remembering what they were told by the workman, they rush to warn Brock but meet the lawnmower again which chases them, so they rush up the stairs to "safety" only to be attacked by... the washing machine!

This is fantastic!

Spotting a lift, they leap inside and slam the doors shut, going down a level where the find the fan was waiting for them. They rush into the kitchen and frantically tell Brock what happened, and he doesn't believe any of it, saying it is just their imagination and now is no time to leave as the gateau is now ready. He takes it out of the fridge which.... transforms! Brock looks back but it is just a fridge, and as he looks back and forth the Pokémon mocks the twerps by transforming back and forth. But Brock ain't no fool, he keeps looking back behind him and finally catches it in mid-transform, so they rush away in fright, now chased by the microwave oven which blasts fire at them.

Ash has had enough and orders a Thunderbolt, Dawn calls for Bubblebeam and finally they knock the Pokémon out of the microwave to reveal it is Rotom - the Plasma Pokémon, which commits pranks by "possessing" machinery!

It grabs control of the lawnmower again and chases them, then leaves the mower to take control of the washing machine when they go up the stairs, blasting them out the doors of the chateau with a burst of water.



Brock lands still holding the gateau, while the washing machine giggles and Ash figures he has no choice but to fight the Rotom. Dawn sends in Pachirisu to help, and they struggle against the water flow, overcome it, push past and the Rotom realises for the first time that it might have bitten off more than it can chew.

Rotom lies knocked out on top of the overturned washing machine, waking up as the twerps approach. Ash asks why it was trying to scare them and Piplup quacks angrily at it till Dawn realises that it was trying to play. Piplup taps it on the back and Rotom blasts it, then Dawn, then Ash and Brock! Not out of malice because it is just having a good time! It blasts them, leaps into the street light and disappears down the circuits, leaving behind a shocked (literally) set of twerps, who can't believe what a delightful little jerk it is!

Meanwhile down in the basement, Team Rocket are lying by the maddeningly close gateau having failed to get inside. Jesse moans that a magical incantation like "open sesame" would come in handy right now, and.... it does! The case opens (as does the locked door!) and with delight Team Rocket chow down on.... the wax models of the gateau for display purposes only!

Poor Team Rocket!

Outside, the twerps have left the chateau open and with all the power running without bothering to tell anyone. They try some of the gateau that Brock made with other people's equipment and stolen ingredients, and are amazed by the quality of their ill-gotten gains! They happily babble about it as Piplup scoffs down all the gateau on Dawn's plate. Dawn suggests they send some to Professor Oak which is going to cause an awful mess for the mailman, and Ash feeds Pikachu some and tells it to enjoy, because tomorrow it is straight back to training for that Gym Battle!

Welcome to Galactic Battles, Gentle Dodgers!

BEST QUOTES

"Stop sounding as dumb as you look!" "I look less dumb than you are!"

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