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[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where...]] Pokémon does ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.

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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Following the defeat of Team Rocket, Emily and Ralph now understand how much their Nidoran care for each other, but both are reluctant to release them. Tracy points out they don't have to; since they literally live next to each other, they can build a little house in between for Tony and Maria.



* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Following the defeat of Team Rocket, Emily and Ralph now understand how much their Nidoran care for each other, but both are reluctant to release them.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The chef comments that Ralph and Emily somehow ended up catching the same Pokemon every time.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The chef comments that Ralph and Emily somehow ended up catching the same Pokemon Pokémon every time.

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Doing an Incredibly Lame Pun cleanup of all things Pokemon related.


'''Meowth:''' That has a familiar ''[[IncrediblyLamePun ring]]!''

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'''Meowth:''' That has a familiar ''[[IncrediblyLamePun ''[[{{Pun}} ring]]!''



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* IncrediblyLamePunKickTheDog: Emily dumps a bucket of water on Tony the male Nidoran for trying to flirt with Maria, her female Nidoran.
-->'''Emily''': This oughta cool you off, Romeo!

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* ShoutOut: The male Nidoran is named "Tony", and the female Nidoran is named "Maria". ''Film/{{West Side Story|1961}}'', anyone?

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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The male Nidoran is named "Tony", and the female Nidoran is named "Maria". ''Film/{{West Side Story|1961}}'', anyone?
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* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Tony and Maria live next door to each other. When Ralph and Emily decide to let them be together, Tracy suggests building them a little house between their trainers' houses.

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* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Tony and Maria live next door to each other. When Ralph and Emily decide to let them be together, Tracy Tracey suggests building them a little house between their trainers' houses.

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* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Tony and Maria live next door to each other. When Ralph and Emily decide to let them be together, Misty suggests building them a little house between their trainers' houses.

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* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Tony and Maria live next door to each other. When Ralph and Emily decide to let them be together, Misty Tracy suggests building them a little house between their trainers' houses.houses.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: As Team Rocket finds out, even though Tony and Maria are in love, [[UndyingLoyalty they couldn't run away from Ralph and Emily]].



* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: While searching for Maria, Pikachu spots some delicious-looking fruit and pretends to keep calling for her while sliding his way towards a snack.

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* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: While searching for Maria, Pikachu spots a tree with some delicious-looking fruit and pretends to keep calling for her while sliding his way towards a snack.

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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Downplayed. As Tony is trying to woo Maria, Emily dumps a bucket of water on him. Ralph on the other hand never makes any sort of attempt to harm Maria.



* ForgedMessage: Misty sends Ralph and Emily love letters and gifts that seem to be from each other. Naturally, it doesn't work.

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* ForgedMessage: Misty sends Ralph and Emily love letters and gifts that seem to be from each other. Naturally, it doesn't work. The gifts in particular backfire horribly since she sent Emily flowers and Ralph a model airplane. Turns out Emily is allergic to the flowers Misty sent and Ralph barfs on airplanes.


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* IdiotHoudini: Misty faces no consequences for the fake love letters she wrote to Emily and Ralph aside from Ash questioning it.
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* ShoutOut: The male Nidoran is named "Tony", and the female Nidoran is named "Maria". ''Film/WestSideStory'', anyone?

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* ShoutOut: The male Nidoran is named "Tony", and the female Nidoran is named "Maria". ''Film/WestSideStory'', ''Film/{{West Side Story|1961}}'', anyone?
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Following the defeat of Team Rocket, Emily and Ralph know understand much their Nidoran care for each other, but both are reluctant to release them.

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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Following the defeat of Team Rocket, Emily and Ralph know now understand how much their Nidoran care for each other, but both are reluctant to release them.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Misty rightfully calls out Emily and Ralph ''twice'' for stubbornly focusing on their fighting when they knew how much their Nidoran loved each other.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Misty rightfully calls out Emily and Ralph ''twice'' for stubbornly focusing on their fighting when they knew how much their Nidoran loved each other.
* WouldHitAGirl: Ralph and Emily hate each other so much that they physically attack each
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* GotMeDoingIt: While Ash is calling for Marina, Ralph is calling for Tony. After a couple of back and forths, Ash inadvertently calls for Tony.

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* GotMeDoingIt: While Ash is calling for Marina, Maria, Ralph is calling for Tony. After a couple of back and forths, Ash inadvertently calls for Tony.
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'''Ash:''' [[HypocriticalHumor I'm not a big baby! Am I, Pikachu?]]

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'''Ash:''' [[HypocriticalHumor [[IResembleThatRemark I'm not a big baby! Am I, Pikachu?]]
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* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Tony and Maria live next door to each other. When Ralph and Emily decide to let them be together, Misty suggests building them a little house between their trainers' houses.

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The "Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu" trope should not be used for cases where one opponent is simply much bigger than the other.


* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The Nidoran are depicted as ''a lot smaller'' than Arbok, but work together to beat it.



* ScareChord: The DeathGlare that Mistyand Ash give Tracey as part of SheIsNotMyGirlfriend comes with one of these.

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* ScareChord: The DeathGlare that Mistyand Misty and Ash give Tracey as part of SheIsNotMyGirlfriend comes with one of these.
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** ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: The title is a shoutout to ''West Side Story'''s inspiration, ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. There's even a balcony scene, after which Emily derisively calls Tony "Romeo" while driving him off. Team Rocket also lampshades the narrator's TitleDrop of ''Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell''.

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** ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: The title is a shoutout to ''West Side Story'''s inspiration, ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. There's even a balcony scene, after which Emily derisively calls Tony "Romeo" while driving him off. Team Rocket also lampshades the narrator's TitleDrop of reference to ''Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell''.
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** ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: The title is a shoutout to ''West Side Story'''s inspiration, ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. There's even a balcony scene, after which Emily derisively calls Tony "Romeo" while driving him off.

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** ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: The title is a shoutout to ''West Side Story'''s inspiration, ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. There's even a balcony scene, after which Emily derisively calls Tony "Romeo" while driving him off. Team Rocket also lampshades the narrator's TitleDrop of ''Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell''.

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* DisguisedInDrag: James as a female bride, along with Jessie as his groom, when they start their plan to kidnap both Nidorans.



* ScareChord: The DeathGlare that Misty and Ash give Tracey as part of SheIsNotMyGirlfriend comes with one of these.

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* RhymesOnADime: When James and Jessie appear to our heroes, Ralph and Emily disguised as a bride and groom, respectively, they say this...
-->'''James:''' ''(in [[LarynxDissonance cheesy falsetto]])'' On this most sunny wedding day...\\
'''Jessie:''' There's a funny trick we'd like to play.\\
'''James:''' Our matrimony...\\
'''Jessie''' and '''James:''' ...is a total phony! ''(they swipe both Nidoran)'' Now we'll take these Pokémon away!
* ScareChord: The DeathGlare that Misty and Mistyand Ash give Tracey as part of SheIsNotMyGirlfriend comes with one of these.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The chef comments that Ralph and Emily somehow ended up catching the same Pokemon every time.
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* GotMeDoingIt: While Ash is calling for Marina, Ralph is calling for Tony. After a couple of back and forths, Ash inadvertently calls for Tony.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Misty rightfully calls out Emily and Ralph ''twice'' for stubbornly focusing on their fighting when they how much their Nidoran loved each other.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Misty rightfully calls out Emily and Ralph ''twice'' for stubbornly focusing on their fighting when they they knew how much their Nidoran loved each other.
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* PleaseDon'tLeaveMe: Following the defeat of Team Rocket, Emily and Ralph know understand much their Nidoran care for each other, but both are reluctant to release them.

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* PleaseDon'tLeaveMe: PleaseDontLeaveMe: Following the defeat of Team Rocket, Emily and Ralph know understand much their Nidoran care for each other, but both are reluctant to release them.
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* PleaseDon'tLeaveMe: Following the defeat of Team Rocket, Emily and Ralph know understand much their Nidoran care for each other, but both are reluctant to release them.



* TimeForPlanB: When the Nidoran refuse to go along with Team Rocket's {{Elopement}} plan, they just resort to kidnapping them.

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* TimeForPlanB: When the Nidoran refuse to go along with Team Rocket's {{Elopement}} plan, they just resort to kidnapping them.them.
*TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Misty rightfully calls out Emily and Ralph ''twice'' for stubbornly focusing on their fighting when they how much their Nidoran loved each other.
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* OnlySaneMan: For once, Ash gets to play this role. He tries to tell Misty that the fight between Ralph and Emily is none of their business and makes it clear that her schemes to get them together are flat-out crazy (if not borderline illegal).

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* OnlySaneMan: For once, Ash gets to play this role. He tries to tell Misty that the fight between Ralph and Emily is none of their business and makes it clear that her schemes to get them together are flat-out crazy (if not borderline illegal).illegal: "But couldn't you get arrested for mail fraud?").

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* NeverMyFault: Misty claims that Ralph and Emily were responsible for Team Rocket taking their Nidoran, forgetting that the only reason the two were fighting, let alone their Nidoran were in the same place, was because of her forged love letters.



* StarCrossedLovers: The Nidoran's trainers don't like each other at first. One fight with Team Rocket, and they can at least put their differences aside on behalf of their smitten Pokémon.

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* StarCrossedLovers: The Nidoran's trainers don't like each other at first. One fight with Team Rocket, and they can at least put their differences aside on behalf of their smitten Pokémon.Pokémon.
* TimeForPlanB: When the Nidoran refuse to go along with Team Rocket's {{Elopement}} plan, they just resort to kidnapping them.

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the episode, when the Narrator comments that "All's well that ends well", Team Rocket, who somehow got stuck in ringing church bells, respond.
-->'''Jessie:''' Did he say that all's well that ends well?!\\
'''James:''' I think so!\\
'''Meowth:''' That has a familiar ''[[IncrediblyLamePun ring]]!''



* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the episode, when the Narrator comments that "All's well that ends well", Team Rocket, who somehow got stuck in ringing church bells, respond.
-->'''Jessie:''' Did he say that all's well that ends well?!\\
'''James:''' I think so!\\
'''Meowth:''' That has a familiar ''[[IncrediblyLamePun ring]]!''
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* ActingUnnatural: Pikachu acts very conspicuous when he edges his way to the fruit tree while pretending to look for Maria.


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* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the episode, when the Narrator comments that "All's well that ends well", Team Rocket, who somehow got stuck in ringing church bells, respond.
-->'''Jessie:''' Did he say that all's well that ends well?!\\
'''James:''' I think so!\\
'''Meowth:''' That has a familiar ''[[IncrediblyLamePun ring]]!''

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