ENGLISH NAME	JAPANESE NAME	POKEMOPOLIS NAME	DODGINESS RATING	ANIMATION	STORY	TEAM ROCKET	MORAL LEARNT
578: Stealing The Conversation!	583: Wairudo Junsa to Aibo Perappu!	Dirty Jenny			The twerps meet a COMPETENT Officer Jenny!	Bowled over	The Chief will ALWAYS ride the ass of a loose cannon who plays by their own rules but gets the job done!

Today's episode begins with Dawn gushing over having won her fourth ribbon, so much so that she ends up walking in a different direction to Ash and Brock who have to call her back. She's excited because she's only one ribbon away from entry to the Grand Festival, and Ash is excited because he's two badges away from entry to the Sinnoh League. But as they happily talk about achieving their goals in life while Brock walks along between them like a third wheel, a very familiar trio show up to "interview Dawn for television", and of course it turns out to be Team Rocket (Jesse knows Dawn's name!), interrupting the flow of the conversation. Of course they're really interested in stealing Pikachu, but their arrival means they're also....



The smoke clears and Team Rocket are taking off in their Happy Buddha Face Meowth Balloon, delivering their motto and being acrobatic at the same time!

"Listen, did I hear the twerp get it right?"
"As certain as day follows night!"
"On the wind!"
"Past the stars!"
"And keepin' it light!" beams Meowth. "Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace!"
"Dashing hope, putting fear in its place."
"A rose by any other name's just as sweet."
"When everything's worse, our work is complete."
"Jesse!"
"And James!"
"Wif Meowth, dat's a name!"
"Putting the do-gooders in their place."
"We're Team Rocket!"
"In your face!" they finish together.

Ash demands they give Pikachu back but he's still struggling with that whole "create reality through use of words" trick and they just laugh at him. So Dawn has to step up to the plate and knock Pikachu clear with Bubble which allows Pikachu to send Team Rocket blasting off again.... but leaves Pikachu plummeting towards death. Ash rushes to try and catch it but he isn't even close and this is it, this is the end of Pokémon, with the death of Pikachu the franchise will surely die and..... wait! What's this!?! My God, it's something we never ever, EVER thought we'd see!



It's Officer Jenny being useful and proactive!

She zooms by Ash on her motorcycle, leaping out of the air, catching Pikachu and flipping around to land crotch first on her still travelling bike, skidding it to a halt and looking dramatically up into the air through her sunglasses and declaring that "they" got away "again"!

She went to Action University, Des Moines!

Ash arrives and is reunited with Pikachu and Jenny asks Ash if he is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, and when he agrees she says he is under arrest!

UNDER ARREST!?!

She tells him to calm down as he has a heart attack, saying she misspoke and she actually needs his assistance so she is bringing him in. She then grimly tells them in her best Clint Eastwood voice that she's no ordinary Jenny, she's a WILD Jenny (and useful). Her Chatot helpfully chimes in that she's a mild Jenny and she corrects it, at which point Brock rushes up to proclaim with lust in his pants that he's her wild Brock and he means to make her wildest dreams come true. Unfortunately for him, her wildest dreams appear to be a Croagunk preparing to rape him only to be stopped when a Chatot pecks a hole in the top of his head!

Dawn checks out the mis-quoting Chatot while Brock recovers and asks Jenny why she is taking Ash into custody. She explains she was recently transferred from Kanto to investigate Team Rocket's presence in Sinnoh, and since Ash seems to encounter them frequently she'd like his help. W-wait.... people have actually taken note of Ash's constant meetings with Ash? And the person to take a proactive step in regards to this was... an Officer Jenny!?! He tells her that Team Rocket are always trying to steal his lucky cha- his Pikachu and she hauls it up and begins crudely inspecting its orifices, saying it's nothing remarkable... until it shocks her and she gives it back to Ash. He says he'd be happy to help and she tells them that all she really needs is for them to stand around like bowling pins and do nothing, so they head off to the park and do exactly that! Just.... stand there, doing nothing!

Brock points out Jenny and Chatot observing them from a pathetically obvious hiding place behind the tree. Dawn begins to suspect that maybe just possibly it could be that Jenny is considering the thought of proposing the concept of perhaps using them as bait, but Ash quickly dismisses this as a silly idea because he's an idiot, and Brock agrees because all the blood has rushed to his crotch.

As they stand around, the Chief of Police and another officer drive by and spot the twerps and rush over, identifying Ash and asking him why he's just standing around. Suddenly Jenny shows up declaring that she's pleased to meet Ash for the first time, shaking the poor dim boy's hand and shushing him as he tries to strain out some words. The Chief of Police believes that Jenny is attempting to lure the twerps into "one of her investigations" and when she insists this isn't the case, Chatot lets the cat out of the bag by revealing "the girl and boys they're decoys!". The Chief's reaction is.... unsettling to say the least.

[b]Goddammit McClusky, the Mayor's had me down in his office chewing my ass you're a loose cannon who plays by his own rules but gets the job done you're off the case MCCCCCCCLUSSSSKYYYYY![/b]

Jenny tries to shove him away telling him all of his adorable assistants are waiting for him back at base but he comes roaring back. He blasts out that ever since she transferred to Sinnoh she's been nothing but trouble for him and if she causes one more problem for him he'll.... he'll..... he'll make her write "I'm sorry" 1000 times!

Ahhh right, so Jenny's a loose cannon and the Chief of Police is completely fucking insane. Good to know!

The Chief and his driver head away and Jenny pops earbuds out of her ears and happily offers to take the kids to lunch. Brock and Ash are eager to go while Dawn remains the only one who seems to have picked up that something is a little off about all of this. As they settle in for "sandwiches" she mutters away to herself, Jenny mistaking her misgivings to fear of Team Rocket rather than Jenny herself.

Just then an alarm sounds and Jenny immediately thinks it is Team Rocket, only to see masked thieves burst out of a store across the street. She tells the twerps to remain where they are, rushes tits-first into the camera, hauls out a.... bowling glove!?! and then proceeds to roll a bowling ball at top speed down the street and DIRECTLY INTO THE BACK OF ONE OF THE THIEVES SHATTERING HIS BACK AND PARALYZING HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!

Holy shit she IS Dirty Harry!

The other crim keeps running but Jenny sends another ball after him and trips him, and the third thief lifts him up and tries to run. But Chatot uses Feather Dance to put the two to sleep while the third amazingly repairs his spinal column and rushes around the corner.... but Jenny sends a hook shot around the corner and brings him down again. She turns the corner and tells the amazingly still standing criminal to give it up like his friends, but hilariously he decides that she had already used all three balls (she can use them more than once, you know) and then declares one of the greatest lines in the history of the show.

"You don't have any balls left!"

Beautiful!

Jenny delivers another Clint Eastwood line, bluffing him by asking him a line that equates to "do ya feel lucky, punk? Well.... do ya?" and it turns out HE is the one without balls as he gives in and she pulls out of the bag.... handcuffs! She places him under arrest and the twerps and a crowd of excited onlookers applaud her before the media mob her and she poses despite "not liking being the centre of attention". As the twerps watch on, a net swoops down from above and almost scores Pikachu, and they look up to see Team Rocket.... and Jenny is delighted!

Team Rocket continue to swoop their nets down wildly as Jenny ponders that they seem to have a "different air" about them to the Team Rocket groups she battled in Kanto and then dives in the way of the nets, but it’s too late, Team Rocket have captured...... Chatot!

She prepares to go after them but trips over a rock, and as she suffers from the classic early/mid movie "those bastards killed my partner time to go into revenge mode!" angst of all action heroes, Brock enjoys a view he's only ever dreamed about.

Ash calls out Staravia to search for Chatot, while Jenny makes quiet vows of revenge and then heads away with the twerps. She tells them of her first encounter with Chatot when she tried to shatter the back of a fleeing 1980's Miami Vice villain, and was assisted by Chatot which used Feather Dance to knock him out. From then on they worked as a team, using a combination of brutal backbreaking police violence and Feather Dance to take down a number of criminals.

Meanwhile at Team Rocket's hideout in a shed in the forest, they've just discovered that Pikachu looks like a Chatot! And talks like a Chatot! And Meowth realizes that Chatot is the perfect gift for Giovanni who can use it as the equivalent of those computer nerds in the early 80s who wrote programs to make computers tell them they were cool!

Staravia spots the balloon and returns to the twerps and Jenny, leading them to the shed where they can hear James and Jesse arguing furiously with the mimicking Chatot which is screwing up its mimicking of what they say, telling James he is lame and that Jesse is messy. Outside Jenny explains her plan - she's gonna wreck up the joint! The twerps insist on helping though and she agrees surprisingly easily, and they prepare to make their move as inside Chatot calls Team Rocket alternatively Team Socket, Team Bucket, and Team Rickits!

And that's when a bowling ball smashes through the fucking door and the action hero makes her action hero entrance!



Badass!

The twerps leap through the window but they all neglected to take into account one particular flaw in their plan.... the door behind Team Rocket! Jesse scoops up Chatot into a net and they rush through the door, followed by the twerps who find themselves in an empty room with no windows or roof.... or floor!

They tumble down to the bottom and follow the tunnel out into the forest where they encounter - of course - a giant mechanical bowling pin..... because.... it's always getting knocked down and she uses a bowling ball instead of a gun so they make a bowling pin that.... can't get knocked down!

Oh yeah, and it has missile tits.

Mechanical hands come out and open the R on its "chest" that sends missiles firing out and exploding around the twerps. Jenny grabs Dawn out of midair before smacking the top of the pin with her bowling ball, causing the pin to topple but not fall.... so Pikachu tries Iron Tail.... and then Piplup tries Whirlpool.... and the pin grows mechanical legs (with sneakers!) and STILL won't go down! So Jenny uses another bowling ball and takes out the leg, and the pin crashes over after all!

Inside the bowling pin, Meowth gets so upset with Chatot that he.... pushes a button and lets it out of its cage..... which was.... stupid. Really stupid!

Trying to escape the pecking, Jesse hits a switch that opens the cockpit window and allows Chatot to fly free and return to Jenny's arm. Team Rocket seem to be angrier that Chatot is mimicking her correctly than anything else, and close up the cockpit and right the bowling pin. Jenny tells them that one last bowling ball strike will take them down..... but Meowth has been counting, they know she doesn't have a bowling ball left!

And she tells them (the equivalent of) "Go ahead, make my day!"

They charge her and she stands up, her bowling bag empty, and Team Rocket are delighted that they called her bluff..... and she tells them to learn WHERE to look and bowls.... Chatot!

As it flies towards the bowling pin she tells it to use Steel Wing and it slices through the machine in several places, and the Scorpio Killer realizes that Dirty Harry had a bullet left in his Magnum .44 after all! And thus the episode climaxes as all action movies must climax, with a massive and mostly unexplained explosion!



As they're blasted off, Jesse and James question Meowth on if he REALLY cares about the plight of bowling pins. He admits he could give two shits, and they shrug it off as everything being back to normal. On the ground, Jenny realizes that technically speaking Team Rocket "got away" and the Chief will be PISSED when he finds out. But then she admits to the twerps that she's just been transferred to the Whirl Islands (presumably they had enough of her in Sinnoh), but she's sure that wherever she goes, she'll encounter Team Rocket.

Just not OUR Team Rocket.

And so, with the action packed events of the day behind them, the twerps wave their goodbyes and head away from that most unique of all God's creatures....

A competent Officer Jenny.

BEST QUOTES

Criminal:"You don't have any balls left!" "Ha! We happen to thrive on dumb!"

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