By the way…if I get any of the storylines a little muddled or whatever, sorry. I haven’t watched half these episodes in ages and most of this is from memory. Just email me (free_tree@moose-mail.com) if I made a mistake and I’ll fix it (hopefully). Also, if you have any other fave episodes that have been missed, then feel free to send them with a summary to me or Eevee (dovesista@btopenworld.com) and we’ll put them up and give credit. As it is...here we go!
Ep #2:Pokemon Emergency
This is Team Rocket’s first episode! Although they are really evil here, I mean in a frightening way…and James sounds scarily like Tracey… Oh well, thumbs up for their first appearance though.
Eps #15 and #16: Battle Aboard the St. Anne and Pokemon Shipwreck (They’re linked episodes.)
Possibly the first proper rocketshippy episode/s! I think we all know what happens… Team Rocket are going for a scam, inviting all the pokemon trainers they can find on a “sea cruise”, on which they plan to swipe all the pokemon they can get their hands on. Jess and Jim disguise themselves as teenage schoolgirls (YAY! James makes the “COOOOOOLEST girl”… I think this is the first time we see him cross dressing…although I’m not sure as I haven’t watched the first series in ages) and give their tickets away to the twerps because they “like, have to go out with (their) boyfriends”! Like, totally… Anyway, they go on the ship…blah blah blah…loads of annoying twerpiness… and is this also the first appearance of the Magikarp dude? Anyway… the weather starts getting rough, the ship starts to sink…the twerps and Team Rocket get caught aboard while everyone else escapes on the lifeboats. TR and the twerps are forced to make a truce so they can all try and escape. At one point they have to cross a blazing inferno on Bulbasaur’s vines, and James tells Jessie and Meowth to go ahead without him. But, in true rocketshippy style, Jessie refuses to let him, and tells him they’ll cross together. James then begs her not to leave him, and she promises that she never will. Aaaarrrrrrr…now ain’t that sweet? Anyway…blah blah blah… after a long hard slog and much deliberation, they finally all escape and survive…the end…
Ep #19: The Ghost of Maiden’s Peak
This is a pretty entertaining episode. The twerps and therefore Team Rocket are at Maiden’s Peak where they hear the story of the statue of the maiden on the cliff. Her ghost is said to haunt the town, or something like that, as she waits for her lost lover. Anyway…apparently she targets young men, putting some kind of thrally love spell thingy on them and then dragging them to the depths below. Well, guess who her targets for this episode are…James and Brock! In fact I think this is the episode where strange James and Brock shippers (known as Brocketshippers…quite clever actually) get their evidence from… okay, people, you think I’m strange? What are you thinking? Anyhoo… James is very definitely not dying to well…die. But Brock for some strange reason seems quite happy about his impending doom. There are many failed attempts to deflect the spell, including magic stickers…well actually I think they work on Brock (they have some kind of power…), but Jessie and Meowth are cheap and get the freebies, which of course don’t work. The ghost insists on taking James and nearly drags him off the edge of the cliff, but good old Jess shoots him with a bazooka! (Oh yeah, that was great…so very entertaining) To which James has that really cute and happy look, and says: “You really do care!”. Arrrrrr! So very rocketshippy! But then Jessie has to go and ruin it by acting all tough and babbling on about the maiden being a sad whiner and there being plenty more fish in the sea. (Yeah, whatever you say, Jess. As long as you believe that, which you so clearly don’t, Miss “Best Friends” with James.) In the end however, the ghost turns out to be a ghastly playing a huge practical joke. There’s a battle with the twerp, with lot’s of full body hugging going on in the background (Plenty more fish, huh, Jess?) and then it’s the end.
Ep #34: The Bridge Bike Gang
We get a look into the past of Jess and Jim here. This is where we find out about the bike gang, and their history as “Chainer Jess” and “Trainer Jim”. They get a great first appearance, riding in on unicycles! Oh yeah! Al though unfortunately they’re humiliated by the stupid twerps at the end…oh well, Team Rocket still rule.
Ep #43: Attack of the Prehistoric Pokemon
In this episode, the twerp and Team Rocket get trapped underground. Can’t exactly remember the story, but this is an episode for obsessive non-platonicness (if that wasn’t a word before, it is now). Practically the whole way through the episode Jessie and James have their arms round each other. If you look at some of the screen caps from this episode, you can most certainly see where the inverted commas around “best friends” come from.
Ep #45: Holy Matrimony
The ULTIMATE rocketshippy episode. This is where we learn about James’ past, as the son of a psycho loaded Southern dude and dudette… in fact they’re not good enough for the phrase dude and dudette… but seeing as what I would like to call them is probably not suitable, it will have to do. Team Rocket are passing through a forest, when they see a reward poster (for a LOT of money) to bring back a little boy that looks mysteriously like James. Thinking they can cash in, and that James, seeing as apparently his parents are dead can inherit his inheritance, Jessie and Meowth drag James along to his parents’ estate, in “invisible” suits, where he is reintroduced to his “dead” (note inverted commas) parents. However, there’s a surprise in store: they’re not dead! Gosh, I didn’t see that one coming (sarcasm, there), and the only reason they wanted him back was so they could get him to marry his fiancé (the evil bitch monster of death), Jessiebelle. Somehow the twerps are there as well (I think they were lost and looking for directions or something…can’t remember), butting in as usual. Everyone’s in the room to see Jessiebelle’s face revealed, a face that looks uncannily like Jessie’s! Shock horror on legs in a red wig…with a whip! It’s uh-oh time…Meowth and Jessie are not as invisible as they thought themselves to be and are forced to escape, the twerps are thrown out, leaving James to Jessiebelle, her whip, and her torture chamber. Say, wasn’t this supposed to be a kids’ programme? Anyhoo… meanwhile, Jessie and the twerps release Growly (James’ pet Growlithe) and try and get him out, but to no avail. Thinking James is happier with his money and estate than with them, Jessie and Meowth leave. And so it ends.
…Or so you thought…
Prepare for the ultimate scene of rocketshippyness.
Jessie and Meowth are walking sadly away from the estate. Thinking they’ve lost James for good they start to think maybe all that money was just too much for him to give up. But…
“Prepared for trouble?” come James’ dulcet tones as he comes riding above them in the balloon. Jessie’s face lights up (as would mine if he came riding towards me).
“James?” I think she says this in Bond girl style (you know they say it all love struck and weird to James Bond?), personally, which just further adds to the shippyness. “Make it double!” she cries and runs up to the balloon as it swoops down and he pulls her in by the hand.
They start yammering on about their “freedom” (and we all know what that means, don’t we, folks?) and then they join hands and gaze into each other eyes, as they ride off into the sunset. Arrrrrrrr…
Of course Meowth screaming that they forgot about him does kind of kill the mood, but still…the only thing more we could ask for (on kids’ tv, that is) is an actual kiss. Which, hint hint, pokemon creators, would be good.
That’s all we’ve got for now folks, but there’s more where that came from, don’t you worry! We’ll be updating soon.
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