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* BondVillainStupidity: Team Rocket didn't bring any of their own Pokémon, apparently believing they could force the passengers into surrender via intimidation alone. Even worse, Giovanni prepared all the grunts with suction devices intending for them to use those to steal all the Poke' Balls, yet some grunts didn't get the memo (or perhaps don't know how to operate the weapons), so [[TooDumbToLive they go around asking for trainers to hand over their Poke' Balls and "don't make us take them."]] Cue CurbStompBattle with them on the receiving side.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Team Rocket didn't bring any of their own Pokémon, apparently believing they could force the passengers into surrender via intimidation alone. Even worse, Giovanni prepared all the grunts with suction devices intending for them to use those to steal all the Poke' Poké Balls, yet some grunts didn't get the memo (or perhaps don't know how to operate the weapons), so [[TooDumbToLive they go around asking for trainers to hand over their Poke' Poké Balls and "don't make us take them."]] Cue CurbStompBattle with them on the receiving side.
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** Apparently, the Team Rocket grunts figured that the trainers wouldn't fight back when they attempted to steal their Pokemon. [[UnderestimatingBadassery They were wrong big time]].
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** Apparently, the Team Rocket grunts figured that the trainers wouldn't fight back when they attempted to steal their Pokemon.Pokémon. [[UnderestimatingBadassery They were wrong big time]].
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** Before the trainers started fighting back, the Rockets did manage to suck in a few Pokeballs via their vacuum packs. It's unknown if their trainers managed to get them back or if they remained in the grunts possession when they blasted off.
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** Before the trainers started fighting back, the Rockets did manage to suck in a few Pokeballs Poké Balls via their vacuum packs. It's unknown if their trainers managed to get them back or if they remained in the grunts grunts' possession when they blasted off.
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Drop The Hammer is now a disambiguation page.
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* DropTheHammer: After James' line at the top, Jessie hits him with a sledgehammer.
-->'''Jessie:''' Stop acting like an ignoramus!
-->'''Jessie:''' Stop acting like an ignoramus!
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* AdaptationalNameChange: The S.S. Anne from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' becomes the St. Anne here.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: AdaptationNameChange: The S.S. Anne from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' becomes the St. Anne here.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: The S.S. Anne from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' becomes the St. Anne here.
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* SmurfettePrinciple: There is a single female among the Rocket Grunts (aside from Jessie).
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** Before the trainers started fighting back, the Rockets did manage to suck in a few Pokeballs via their vacuum packs. It's unknown if their trainers managed to get them back or if they remained in the grunts possession when they blasted off.
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[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where...]] We see other Team Rocket grunts besides Jessie and James.
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-->'''Jessie:''' Stop acting like an ignoramus.
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-->'''Jessie:''' Stop acting like an ignoramus.ignoramus!
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* BondVillainStupidity: Team Rocket didn't bring any of their own Pokémon, apparently believing they could force the passengers into surrender via intimidation alone. Cue CurbStompBattle with them on the receiving side.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Team Rocket didn't bring any of their own Pokémon, apparently believing they could force the passengers into surrender via intimidation alone. Even worse, Giovanni prepared all the grunts with suction devices intending for them to use those to steal all the Poke' Balls, yet some grunts didn't get the memo (or perhaps don't know how to operate the weapons), so [[TooDumbToLive they go around asking for trainers to hand over their Poke' Balls and "don't make us take them."]] Cue CurbStompBattle with them on the receiving side.
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** Apparently, Team Rocket figured that the trainers wouldn't fight back when they attempted to steal their Pokemon. [[UnderestimatingBadassery They were wrong big time]].
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** Apparently, the Team Rocket grunts figured that the trainers wouldn't fight back when they attempted to steal their Pokemon. [[UnderestimatingBadassery They were wrong big time]].
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* VillainDecay: In full swing for Team Rocket by this episode, especially James. Jessie calls him out on staying in character as a ganguro after giving Ash and his friends tickets aboard the ''St. Anne''. Later, he uses his salary advance and Jessie's to buy a worthless Magikarp from a con salesman.
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* VillainDecay: In full swing for the Team Rocket trio by this episode, especially James. Jessie calls him out on staying in character as a ganguro after giving Ash and his friends tickets aboard the ''St. Anne''. Later, he uses his salary advance and Jessie's to buy a worthless Magikarp from a con salesman.
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A better pot hole exists.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: In the dub only, this episode was aired the day before the series began its official rotation, since it was thought the first episode was too slow-paced to serve as an introduction and lacked all the main characters. This means that anyone who happened to see this episode on the premier, and then start watching from the real first episode the next day, would be spoiled about Brock becoming a traveling companion, Misty doing the same rather than vanishing after Ash crashes her bike[[note]]This would be obvious to any watcher who understands [[LawOfConservationOfDetail proper]] [[ChekhovsGun writing technique]], but the target audience would be too young to necessarily [[TheUnTwist have this understanding]].[[/note]] that Team Rocket won’t give up chasing Pikachu, and the species of the first five Pokémon Ash catches.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: In the dub only, this episode was aired the day before the series began its official rotation, since it was thought the first episode was too slow-paced to serve as an introduction and lacked all the main characters. This means that anyone who happened to see this episode on the premier, and then start watching from the real first episode the next day, would be spoiled about Brock becoming a traveling companion, Misty doing the same rather than vanishing after Ash crashes her bike[[note]]This would be obvious [[CaptainObviousReveal obvious]] to any watcher who understands [[LawOfConservationOfDetail proper]] [[ChekhovsGun writing technique]], but the target audience would be too young to necessarily [[TheUnTwist have this understanding]].[[/note]] that Team Rocket won’t give up chasing Pikachu, and the species of the first five Pokémon Ash catches.
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* HowWeGotHere: The dub actually aired this episode first, with special dialogue that asks the viewers to stay tuned for the next fourteen episodes to find out how Ash and his friends got into this situation. Since this was a special broadcast not in the Japanese version (which started with “I Choose You!”) no later rerun did likewise.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: In the dub only, this episode was aired the day before the series began its official rotation, since it was thought the first episode was too slow-paced to serve as an introduction and lacked all the main characters. This means that anyone who happened to see this episode on the premier, and then start watching from the real first episode the next day, would be spoiled about Brock becoming a traveling companion, Misty doing the same rather than vanishing after Ash crashes her bike[[note]]This would be obvious to any watcher who understands [[LawOfConservationOfDetail proper]] [[ChekhovsGun writing technique]], but the target audience would be too young to necessarily [[TheUnTwist have this understanding]].[[/note]] that Team Rocket won’t give up chasing Pikachu, and the species of the first five Pokémon Ash catches.
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The Rocket Boss. When Team Rocket first contacts him, his appearance and voice are distorted in a shadowy, almost demonic fashion. Unlike Team Rocket, he is not PlayedForLaughs in this episode, save for making one small pun on [[IncrediblyLamePun purrfection]].
* VillainDecay: In full-swing for Team Rocket by this episode, especially James. Jessie calls him out on staying in character as a ganguro after giving Ash and his friends tickets aboard the ''St. Anne''. Later, he uses his salary advance and Jessie's to buy a worthless Magikarp from a con salesman.
* VillainDecay: In full-swing for Team Rocket by this episode, especially James. Jessie calls him out on staying in character as a ganguro after giving Ash and his friends tickets aboard the ''St. Anne''. Later, he uses his salary advance and Jessie's to buy a worthless Magikarp from a con salesman.
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The Rocket Boss. When Team Rocket first contacts him, his appearance and voice are distorted in a shadowy, almost demonic fashion. Unlike Team Rocket, he is not PlayedForLaughs in this episode, save for making one small pun {{Pun}} on [[IncrediblyLamePun purrfection]].
"purrfection".
* VillainDecay: Infull-swing full swing for Team Rocket by this episode, especially James. Jessie calls him out on staying in character as a ganguro after giving Ash and his friends tickets aboard the ''St. Anne''. Later, he uses his salary advance and Jessie's to buy a worthless Magikarp from a con salesman.
* VillainDecay: In
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Boss reveals that he had replaced Meowth with his evolved form Persian because he was growing tired of Team Rocket's constant failures. He promises to restore Meowth's position as top-cat if their latest scheme is successful.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Boss reveals that he had replaced Meowth with his evolved form Persian because he was growing tired of Team Rocket's constant failures. He promises to restore Meowth's position as top-cat top cat if their latest scheme is successful.
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* OutOfOrder: When Pokémon premiered in the United States, this episode aired as a 'sneak peek' one day before the actual first episode, ''Pokémon - I Choose You!''. The only difference between the 'sneak peek' version and the regular version is that the preview version has a different opening and closing narration.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Boss reveals that he had replaced Meowth with his evolved form Persian because he was growing tired of Team Rocket's constant failures. He promises to restore Meowth's position as top-cat if their latest scheme is successful.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The Boss reveals that he had replaced Meowth with his evolved form Persian because he was growing tired of Team Rocket's constant failures. He promises to restore Meowth's position as top-cat if their latest scheme is successful.successful.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Apparently, Team Rocket figured that the trainers wouldn't fight back when they attempted to steal their Pokemon. [[UnderestimatingBadassery They were wrong big time]].
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** Apparently, Team Rocket figured that the trainers wouldn't fight back when they attempted to steal their Pokemon. [[UnderestimatingBadassery They were wrong big time]].
** Apparently, Team Rocket figured that the trainers wouldn't fight back when they attempted to steal their Pokemon. [[UnderestimatingBadassery They were wrong big time]].
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* BondVillainStupidity: Team Rocket didn't bring any of their own Pokémon, apparently believing they could force the passengers into surrender via intimidation alone. RealityEnsues.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Team Rocket didn't bring any of their own Pokémon, apparently believing they could force the passengers into surrender via intimidation alone. RealityEnsues.Cue CurbStompBattle with them on the receiving side.
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* ShoutOut: The captain of the ''St. Anne'' refers to her as being "Unsinkable", a claim made of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic''.
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* ShoutOut: The captain of the ''St. Anne'' refers to her as being "Unsinkable", a claim made of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic''. [[Film/Titanic1997 The 1997 film]] was also released in theaters months after the episode aired in Japan, and was still running when the sneak preview aired in the US.
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* ShoutOut: The captain of the ''St. Anne'' refers to her as being "Unsinkable"
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* ShoutOut: The captain of the ''St. Anne'' refers to her as being "Unsinkable""Unsinkable", a claim made of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic''.
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* RecycledAnimation: The shot of all the Pikachu gathering for battle is reused from "Pokémon Emergency".
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: When the ship begins to sink, the maritime traditions of women and children first and the captain going down with the ship are completely thrown out the window as the captain is the first to man the lifeboats and all the passengers cram into each lifeboat at once.
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* BigBadassBattleSequence: It's the first instance of many trainers battle each other at the same time. The trainers aboard the ''St. Anne'' repel Team Rocket's attack.
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* BadassBystander: A good chunk of the St. Anne's guests are this: when Team Rocket starts stealing Pokémon, they send out their own and help Ash, Brock, and Misty fight back.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: It's the first instance of many trainersbattle battling each other at the same time. The trainers aboard the ''St. Anne'' repel Team Rocket's attack.attack.
* BigEater: Ash, Brock, and Misty all go to town on the St. Anne's food. Notably, this is the first episode where Ash's BigEater tendencies really come into play.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: It's the first instance of many trainers
* BigEater: Ash, Brock, and Misty all go to town on the St. Anne's food. Notably, this is the first episode where Ash's BigEater tendencies really come into play.
* DivingKick: The Gentleman's Raticate is special due to being able to use the moderately powerful Jump Kick, a move that's usually impossible for Raticate to learn.
* NiceGuy: The Gentleman is a kind, honorable man, and doesn't need much persuading to give Ash his Butterfree back when it becomes clear that he misses him.
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* SouthernBelle: The Gentleman's girlfriend is this, complete with a posh Southern accent.
* SouthernGentleman: The Gentleman Ash trades with is characterized as this, being a well-spoken, classy individual with a Southern accent.
* SouthernGentleman: The Gentleman Ash trades with is characterized as this, being a well-spoken, classy individual with a Southern accent.
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** And then there's Ash trading Butterfree purely because he had been pressured by Raticate's owner against his better judgement. Especially egregious is him asking for Brock's opinion when the guy was clearly too focused on the man's lady friend to hear what he was saying.
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* FauxHorrific: When Jessie and Meowth are angry at James for buying the Magikarp, James tries to explain how valuable Magikarp is and that his Pokéball is even "solid gold," but Meowth is quick to point out that it's really just gold-plated and swipes at the ball, the claw marks revealing the standard red and white Pokéball colors under the plating, to which James dramatically screams.