ENGLISH NAME	JAPANESE NAME	POKEMOPOLIS NAME	DODGINESS RATING	ANIMATION	STORY	TEAM ROCKET	MORAL LEARNT
619: Gotta Get A Gible!	625: Fukamaru! Getto da ze!	Shark Get			Ash and Barry compete for Gible's oblivious affections	Gone green, beaten black and blue	Gible has no idea what the fuck is going on. Neither does Barry.

Today finds the twerps making their way through the forest (as always), but as they walk vacuously ever onwards, behind them a MASSIVE rotund ninja Blastoise-robot shakes the very ground behind them (unnoticed by the twerps). It's Team Rocket, and they've built this hugely expensive and overly complicated themed-machine in order to kidnap a small fat yellow rat. Before they can, however, the ground is churned up in front of them and... out pops Gible!

Yes it's the little Gible from the last episode, and Team Rocket want it to get out of their way (why don't they just step over it?). They demand to know what the "squat little squirt" wants..... and it just stared gape-mouthed up at them with its crazy blank landshark eyes. Dots slowly progress across the screen before sweatdropping.... Team Rocket don't know what the crazy little oblivious jerk wants!



Meowth has had enough; he can't take the oblivious silence and the dead eyes of the gape-mouthed jerk that is Gible. He prepares to attack with the robot and.... Gible.... eats it.

It.... eats.... the robot.

Team Rocket fall blinking in their cockpit to the ground as they find their robot devoured from all around them. What's left explodes and sends them blasting off again, catching the attention of the twerps at last, while Meowth complains that Gible has ostentatious-itis. James suggests maybe THEY could learn from that how NOT to act in the future. Jesse is all for learning as long as she isn't the one being taught, and everyone is left with one overriding desire. They.....



The twerps arrive at a town (not Daybreak Town) where Ash wants to get something to eat and Dawn wants to find the Pokémon Centre. As Brock checks his Pokégear, Gible spots them and happily digs up from under them and pokes Ash in the ankle then hides. It does it again, alarming and confusing Ash who can't figure out who is poking him (and doesn't seem to notice the dug up dirt around his feet). Gible finally emerges from the ground and with joy overcoming its normally blank, gape-mouthed face it leaps through the air towards Ash and... takes a solid bite of his head!

Ash frantically pitches about for a few moments till his stupid brain forgets he is in pain. Brock and Dawn figure out it is the same Gible they met previously with Grandma Wilma. Ash asks it if is following them because it likes them, and it nods. So he asks if it would like to come along with them, and it nods. So he steps back and throws a Pokéball to capture it, and it..... eats the Pokéball!

Ash asks if it DOESN'T want to come with them, and it nods! A confused Ash points out that it just told him that it did and...... it nods! He demands it make up its mind so it... bites him on the head!

Just then Officer Jenny arrives on her motorbike and a delighted Brock actually makes a cooing noise as he leaps towards her to declare his undying love.... and Croagunk pounds him in the butt and drags him away. Luckily for Brock he appears to have become oddly used to all this anal rampage, and is back on his feet a few seconds later. Jenny demands to know if the Gible that Ash is holding in his hands belongs to Ash. Gible nods so she figures it is, but Ash insists that it really isn't his.... and Gible nods! Jenny points out it can't be yes AND no and Gible.... jumps up and bites her on the head!

Goddamn do I love Gible.

Ash hauls it away and it leaps into the ground and digs down, while Jenny grunts that Ash needs to take better care of his Pokémon. He explains he was trying to catch it when she arrived, and she takes them further into town to show them what the problem is.... the local square/park/playground including fountain and bench have all had bites taken out of them! Gible pops out of the ground again and Ash demands it tell the truth, did it take those bites? It nods so he tells it that it has to stop doing things like that, so it.... jumps up and tries to take a bite out of the bench!



Ash hauls it off and tells it that it is causing problems for people and it needs to stop doing this stuff. It listens carefully and then.... jumps up and takes a bite of his head!

He flails about as Dawn, Brock and Jenny watch on in horror, and then it leaps clear and digs down into the ground once more. Ash and Jenny try to chase, when a familiar voice screams out,"GET OUT OF THE WAY, ASH!" and....... Barry crashes his bicycle directly into Ash!



Oh God this is just getting better and better!

after lying with his legs twitching (and apparently switching positions along with the camera!) Barry leaps up and declares he is fining Ash for getting in his way. He starts a 10 second countdown, but Ash leaps up and gets into his face as well claiming it was his fault. The two amazingly stupid boys argue ferociously back and forth and Barry demands a Pokémon Battle, asking Ash how many badges he has now. Ash shouts he has 7 into Barry's face and Barry becomes incredibly smug, causing a moment of doubt for Ash as he asks Barry how many he has and Barry smugly informs him that he has...... six.

"Six is less than seven," Dawn mumbles, causing Barry to get into her face as he declares that it doesn't matter how many badges he has because he's way more talented than Ash. But as they get into each other’s faces again Brock forces them apart to try and calm them down. Dawn further calms things (as calm as the hyperactive Barry can get, anyway) by reminding Barry that the last time they met he said he was going to Sunyshore. It turns out he went to Eterna instead because they were giving out free bikes, and tried to challenge Fantina at her Gym only to discover she (he!?!) was once again out and about - but he did get to become number 1 in line to challenge her when she gets back!

Ash takes the chance to be smug over the fact he already has that badge, but Barry still insists that it is just a matter of time and now he has his bike and..... where is his bike!?!

Gible has eaten it!

It stands happily rubbing its tummy, burping with only the deflated rubber inner tyres left behind. Barry makes an AMAZING screeching noise in shock, watched by Team Rocket from the bushes. Meowth suddenly comes up with yet another wonderfully patented Crazy Meowth Giovanni Fantasy. In his bizarre little world, he imagines Giovanni having to deal with the tedious process of out-dated weaponry that needs to be recycled.... but there's so much of it that it tips over and crashes over him as he tries to run. But then Gible arrives on the scene and eats it all up for him, and he's so pleased that he gives Meowth and friends a ton of money! Well who are Jesse and James to dispute this utterly implausible concept!?! They're in the money!

Meanwhile Barry is demanding that Gible give him a brand new bike and Ash is trying to figure out if Gible actually understands a single thing he says. Barry tells Ash he needs to train his Pokémon better and the twerps make the mistake of mentioning it is still a wild Pokémon, so Barry declares that HE will capture it instead!

Ash shouts out to him to wait up a moment and you can see that it actually causes Barry physical pain to have to show even the slightest bit of patience. He actually hops up and down from foot to foot demanding to know why he has to wait, and Ash admits that he was hoping to catch Gible himself.

Barry rightfully points out that it is first come, first served and sends in Empoleon to try and drill right through Gible's body. It dodges though and comes after Empoleon with its own attack, but the proud Penguin dodges and hits a Steel Wing and then a Hydro-Cannon to send Gible blasting off! (not again).

Ash rushes after it in a panic followed by the twerps while Barry celebrates kicking the shit out of the mad little shark... until he remembers he was trying to capture it and despairs to himself, asking,"What is WROOOOOONG WITH ME!??!"



Empoleon would like to know, too!

Ash and Pikachu find Gible stuck in a tree jutting out of the side of a cliff. Ash climbs down after it but slips and falls, and a frightened Gible manages to just reach out and grab the back of his shirt with its mouth, struggling to hold him up in midair with just its mouth. He climbs back up and pulls it loose from the branch and thanks it for helping him.... and it bites his head!

Brock and Dawn arrive at the top of the cliff and call down, and Ash rides on Gible's back as it digs its way up the side of the cliff to the top. Ash thanks Gible for saving him and Dawn tells it that this kind of stuff happens when it doesn't listen.... and then a shiny metal claw grabs it up!

"You don't listen so well yourself!"
"So we showed up to put you on the shelf!"
"On the wind!"
"Past the stars!"
"Ya twerpish yeow!" screams Meowth, or something along those lines at least.
"Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace!"
"Dashing hope, putting fear in its place."
"You've ruined our robot, and now you must pay."
"We've turned things around and recycled our day."
"Jesse!"
"And James!"
"Meowth, dat's a name!"
"Beating do-gooders while going green."
"Because we're Team Rocket!"
says James, before they all finish off with something incomprehensible.

The Big Blastoise Ninja Robot has returned..... beefed up with metal that is "hard as nails" according to Meowth! Gible tries to bite free but can't, and the Robot blasts smoke at the twerps and then turns and legs it. The twerps chase after, Ash calling to Gible and falling flat on his face because he's a retard who can't put one foot in front of the other.

Team Rocket see they're being chased but there's a ravine in the way, at least 100 foot across. Laughing, Team Rocket leap across the chasm in their robot and land safely on the other side, while Ash has Pikachu jump onto his shoulder before leaping a HUUUUUUUUGE 80-90 feet.... and then plummeting straight down towards his death.

The best thing is that there was a rope bridge very slightly to his right.

They actually land on the other side halfway down the chasm and Ash climbs up to the top (utterly ridiculous!) where.... Team Rocket just haul him up in their robot's other hand!

Haha! Of course!

Team Rocket are preparing to just pitch Ash away when he remembers that Gible is a Ground Type and unaffected by Electric Attacks, so he has Pikachu use Thunderbolt to blast the fuck out of the robot (and himself!). The hand holding him release them and allows Pikachu to use Iron Tail to shatter the arm holding Gible. It falls into Ash's hands and then bites him on the head, while Team Rocket prepare to just blast them all out of existence when the robot's tits explode!



Well... of course they do!

The robot explodes leaving the Team Rocket cockpit to collapse down, and Jesse and James explain that their recycled machine was REALLY recycled - in that they got the parts from a junkyard and used old coathangers instead of wiring.

Meowth is aghast. These are the people he has to work with.

They're blasted off again, of course, with Meowth asking them if they have any idea yet who suffers from Ostentatious-Itis. But they are, of course, utterly clueless.... and forever may they remain so.

Meanwhile, things are getting weird on the ground.



Yep.

Ash sets Gible down and asks it once again if it wants to come with him, and it nods so he throws out another Pokéball and Gible..... stands still and lets it hit him, send out a red beam of light and... captures Gible!

Ash got Gible! Fucking awesome!

Calling it out, he welcomes it to the family.... and then Barry comes charging in screaming and demands to know what is going on. HE told Ash that HE wanted to catch Gible! Gible responds by biting his head and Ash tries to haul it off, while Barry reminds us one again that he is wonderfully, completely, totally, 100% batshit fucking insane.



He tries desperately to fine Ash, and Brock and Dawn have to calm him down and explain that Gible was following Ash around. Surprised, Barry tells Ash that he should have mentioned it earlier.

Oh Barry, never change.

Anyway, Barry quickly changes emotional tone to happily competitive and asks for a battle, and before you know it, it is Gible vs. Empoleon! They open with Drill Peck vs. Rock Smash, and they crash head on into each other and.... Gible is knocked back by the stronger Empoleon. It tries Drill Peck again and Ash.... once again calls for Rock Smash. This time, Gible's attack is more concentrated and they come off even, but Empoleon hits a Steel Wing and goes for another.... but Gible dodges with Dig and comes up behind for.... another Rock Smash. Empoleon elbows it in the face with Steel Wing and goes for Hydro-Cannon so Gible digs into the ground, but the attack follows it and knocks it back up above ground.... so it starts building up energy for Draco-Meteor!

Ash shouts out to it not to use that attack without being commanded to first, while Piplup absolutely hilariously freaks the fuck out and cheeses it behind a tree. The Meteor goes up and comes back down as a single ball, Piplup sighing in relief as it sees the ball falling towards Empoleon instead... until Empoleon smacks it out of the sky and... straight into Piplup!

Haha!

Barry calls for a Hyper-Beam to finish, but as Empoleon draws in power, Gible appears to be doing the same as it strains and strains and Ash tries to get the mad little landshark to listen to him.... and out comes a Dragon Pulse! Empoleon dodges aside with a surprisingly agile leapfrog, and a tuckered out Gible falls onto its butt and takes a direct shot of Hyper-beam. Barry wins!

As he celebrates in happiness, Empoleon still looks less than impressed with its trainer.

Ash picks up Gible and tells it that it fought well but needs to listen to him in the future. It happily agrees (does it understand a thing he is saying?) then bites him on the head! Barry proudly proclaims that soon he will be the best trainer in the world (Empoleon seems to agree with this at least, joining in his victory pose).... until Dawn reminds him he still needs to beat Fantina in a Gym Battle to get his 7th Badge. He shouts that he is aware of this and proudly holds up his Number One Ticket..... and.... well, you can probably guess what happens Gentle Dodgers.



Looks like things are going to be interesting in the new season! See you then!

BEST QUOTES

"Poor Ash, you've only got 7, huh?" "How many do you have?" "Keep your shirt on.... six, see!" "What is WROOOOOONG with me!??!"

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