Of Meowth and Pokémon (Part 2) (Japanese: アルバイトはたいへんニャース！？, Hepburn: Meowth with a Part-Time Job!?) is a special episode. In the dub, it is the 21st episode of Pokémon Chronicles.
Blurb[]
In the middle of a busy city, the Pichu Bros. are summoning their friends—Smoochum, Wooper, Magby, and Teddiursa—to play. Meowth is in town, too: it's taking a vacation from Team Rocket and dreaming of building a monument to itself. It sets out with a picnic basket to look for place to build its statue, but trips over Smoochum along the way. Smoochum has its own basket of accessories, and it accidentally walks away with Meowth's basket instead. When Meowth chases Smoochum to get its picnic basket back, Smoochum runs to the alley where all its friends are, and everyone plays keep away with the basket. Meowth finally grabs the basket, but then it steps on a sleeping Houndour and ends up running for its life. Its basket rolls into Teddiursa's path, and Teddiursa eats everything before Meowth can get the basket back.
The next day, Meowth decides to get a job so it can afford to build its monument. It gets a job delivering pizza, them promises to treat the other Pokémon if they deliver the pizza for it! However, Smoochum runs afoul of the local Squirtle gang, and crashes into Wooper. Teddiursa is squashed by a Snorlax. The Pichu Bros. run into the grumpy Houndour, and all of them collide with Magby. In short, all the pizza is ruined, and Meowth is fired!
Meowth then gets a job as janitor for a rooftop garden. The Pokémon try to make things up to Meowth by helping it clean, but the Pichu Bros. almost knock a statue off its pedestal in the process. That starts a chain reaction that causes the entire statue to collapse, knocking over all the pillars and statues in the garden. Poor Meowth is fired again! But as Meowth sits in the park, the Pokémon cheer it up by bringing the only thing they have left: a bowl of acorns. The acorns may taste terrible, but being admired by the other Pokémon feels great. It's a moment Meowth would like to last![1]
Episode plot[]
The next day, Meowth plans on making his statue, but realizing he needs money for construction, Meowth goes to find a job. He finds a poster of a restaurant, requiring a delivery boy. Meowth takes the job and as soon he gets dressed, he gets new orders to deliver. Meowth has an idea and rounds up the Pokémon. Teddiursa tries to take one pizza, but Meowth scolds it, but promises if these Pokémon deliver the food, by the end of the day they will all get a large pizza. The Pokémon are glad, so Meowth gives them the papers, where they have to deliver the pizza to. The Pokémon run off, making Meowth glad, for he had nothing to do but relax.
Meowth thinks this is an easy plan. However, Smoochum comes to a dead end and is ambushed by Squirtle, who wear sunglasses. The Squirtle use Water Gun, causing Smoochum to be blown off. Wooper notices her and uses Water Gun to cushion Smoochum's fall, but Smoochum falls onto Wooper and the pizza they were carrying are now soaked. As Meowth thinks of himself as a successful businessman, Teddiursa opens the box and tries to eat a slice of pizza. However, the ground shakes, as a sleeping Snorlax appears close to Teddiursa. Snorlax changes his pose, causing Teddiursa to be crushed. Meowth wonders he may even go as far as the Hall of Fame for this business trick. The Pichu brothers notice a catapult, made of junk. Pichu comes onto it and jumps, bouncing off across the fence, though it lands right onto a Houndour. The Pichu runs off, along with his brother, away from Houndour. They bump into Magby and they all drop the pizza by accident, which hits Houndour and knocks it down. Magby becomes angry and uses Flamethrower, burning Houndour and chasing it away.
All the Pokémon return to Meowth, who is terrified to see none of the orders have reached their destination. Meowth reports back and is immediately fired. Knowing he has to look to his future, Meowth returns to his apartment. The next day, Meowth got hired as a janitor and starts cleaning a place. The Pokémon visit Meowth, who is not pleased, for he has to do this job alone to get the best results. However, the Pokémon start cleaning up, so Meowth relaxes a bit. The Pichu, however, notice a statue they could clean and climb up. Upon seeing them cleaning the statue, Meowth becomes terrified and orders them to descend down. One Pichu comes down, but the other stays up and the statue starts sliding. The ropes holding the statue are cut off, so Meowth holds onto the ropes. The other Pichu loses balance and is thrown off and uses Thunder Shock, which startles Teddiursa, who drops its broom. The broom lands onto Smoochum and Wooper, the latter using Water Gun, which soaks Magby. Magby is furious and uses Flamethrower, which burns off the rope Meowth is holding. The statue loses balance and falls onto a pillar, which creates a domino effect, causing pillar after pillar to fall.
The last pillar falls into a fountain, which destroys it, causing a flood and making a disaster. Sometime later, Meowth is fired from the job and thinks of taking a new job. Later, Meowth sees he is just too tired to start over and is visited by the Pokémon, who bring him acorns to eat. Meowth pretends to be pleased, since he hates eating acorns. Nevertheless, Meowth is pleased to see he gained these Pokémon's respect, even if he didn't manage to start building the statue.
Trivia[]
- The title is a reference to the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men.
- Meowth reads the title of the episode.
Mistakes[]
- When the pillars fall down, one of the Pichu had no cheeks nor nose.
Gallery[]
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- ^ (n.d.) . "Of Meowth and Pokémon (Part 2) | Pokémon TV (pokemon.com)". From The Official Pokémon Website | Pokemon.com. Archived from the original on February 2, 2024.