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* DubInducedPlotHole: In the dub, Meowth still calls Ash and co. "twerps" here and in the next few episodes. In the original Japanese he doesn't call them that, [[spoiler: as he didn't want to blow his cover]].
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title doesn't just refer to the situation with Scrafty, [[spoiler: but to Meowth's "crafty tactics" in manipulating Ash and the others into thinking he was fired]].
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* SpoilerTitle: The title sounds like "Meowth's crafty tactics" [[spoiler: which hints that his claim to have been fired from Team Rocket was false]].
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* HeelFaceTurn: Meowth appears to do this after Cilan nurses him back to health. [[spoiler:It'll be revealed in a later episode to be a HeelFaceMole situation]].

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* HeelFaceTurn: Meowth appears to do this after Cilan nurses him back to health. health, leaving Team Rocket and joining up with Ash's crew. [[spoiler:It'll be revealed in a later episode to be a HeelFaceMole FakeDefector situation]].
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* DeathOrGloryAttack: Scrafty's weakness is missing the Hi Jump Kick attack.[[note]][[ContinuityNod In the games]], Hi Jump Kick (renamed High Jump Kick beginning in Generation VI) deals an enormous amount of damage to the user if it misses. Starting in Generation V, that damage is equal to ''half the user's HP''. If it's already weakened, it could faint on the spot.[[/note]] Sure enough, Tepig dodges, and it doesn't take much from there. Scraggy learns the move from Scrafty, and uses it later to beat the Mandibuzz that stole Scrafty's cave.

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* DeathOrGloryAttack: Scrafty's weakness is missing the Hi Jump Kick attack.[[note]][[ContinuityNod [[note]] In the games]], games, Hi Jump Kick (renamed High Jump Kick beginning in Generation VI) deals an enormous amount of damage to the user if it misses. Starting in Generation V, that damage is equal to ''half the user's HP''. If it's already weakened, it could faint on the spot.[[/note]] Sure enough, Tepig dodges, and it doesn't take much from there. Scraggy learns the move from Scrafty, and uses it later to beat the Mandibuzz that stole Scrafty's cave.
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* DeathOrGloryAttack: Scrafty's weakness is missing the Hi Jump Kick attack.[[note]][[ContinuityNod In the games]], Hi Jump Kick deals an enormous amount of damage to the user if it misses. Starting in Generation V, that damage is equal to ''half the user's HP''. If it's already weakened, it could faint on the spot.[[/note]] Sure enough, Tepig dodges, and it doesn't take much from there. Scraggy learns the move from Scrafty, and uses it later to beat the Mandibuzz that stole Scrafty's cave.

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* DeathOrGloryAttack: Scrafty's weakness is missing the Hi Jump Kick attack.[[note]][[ContinuityNod In the games]], Hi Jump Kick (renamed High Jump Kick beginning in Generation VI) deals an enormous amount of damage to the user if it misses. Starting in Generation V, that damage is equal to ''half the user's HP''. If it's already weakened, it could faint on the spot.[[/note]] Sure enough, Tepig dodges, and it doesn't take much from there. Scraggy learns the move from Scrafty, and uses it later to beat the Mandibuzz that stole Scrafty's cave.

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