Line #35 Recap/PokemonS1E47AChanseyOperation


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2	[[caption-width-right:200:There there, a little superglue will fix you right up.]]
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5	->''We’re bad, not insensitive!''
6	-->-- '''James'''
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8	!!Japanese Title: ''Lucky's Clinical Records''
9	!!!Original Airdate: June 4, 1998
10	!!!US Airdate: March 6, 1999
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12	[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one where...]] Ash and Co. are liable to be sued for malpractice.
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14	Pikachu is climbing an apple tree while Ash takes a snooze. Unexpectedly, he swallows an apple whole and starts to choke. There is no Pokecenter close enough so Ash runs to the local hospital with Misty and Brock. While he is there a huge accident causes the nearest Pokecenter to overflow with new patients, so many are sent to the hospital for treatment.
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16	The doctor is reluctant to work on Pokémon and insists that Ash and company help him. When Team Rocket shows up with their injured Pokémon he recruits them as well. Unfortunately the doctor is dosed with a sedative and Ash, Misty, Brock, Jesse, and James are forced to treat the remaining Pokémon without him. This give Team Rocket a chance to hatch a scheme to steal the newly treated Pokémon, but they are thwarted when their Pokémon, Weezing and Arbok, refuse to attack the Chanseys that helped them recover from their injuries.
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18	!!This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
19	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why Arbok and Weezing disobey Jessie and James' order to fight the Chansey who treated them.
20	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chansey slaps Meowth silly for angrily throwing a Venonat that she was trying to give him to replace his missing charm.
21	* BitCharacter: The local Nurse Joy has a bit part in this episode, only showing up to inform the doctor about the accident and then peacing out completely.
22	* CarnivoreConfusion: Jessie mentions pepperoni when Proctor asks her if she wants to go out for pizza later.
23	* TheCameo: There's a transition between scenes that shows Porygon.
24	* TheCasanova: Doctor Proctor is a lazy, callous physician who would rather flirt with Nurse Joy than lift a finger while off duty--indeed, Proctor flirts with every female character in this episode.
25	* CrisisPointHospital: Ash and his friends arrive to a town's local hospital (for humans) which is quickly filled to the point of almost collapsing because of a massive disaster that leaves hundreds of Pokemon injured, forcing the Pokecenter (which suffers a similar problem off-screen) to send Pokemon there. Ash, his friends, the hospital's Chansey and the only doctor on staff have to deal with healing injuries, preventing the hospital's power from going out, and fighting off Team Rocket when they try to steal all of the patients.
26	* DamnYouMuscleMemory: After Ash weakens Dodrio with Squirtle and Pikachu, he takes out a Poké Ball about to catch it, but then remembers he's in a hospital helping the Dodrio.
27	* DeadlyDoctor: Proctor presents himself as this during his BigDamnHeroes moment by opening his labcoat and showing off all his syringes, scissors, and scalpels.
28	-->'''Dr. Proctor''': You see, Miss Team Rocket, before you start playing rough, you better take a look at ''my'' ammunition!
29	* DrJerk: Proctor. He's lazy, cynical and a womanizer, but he's a skilled and competent doctor.
30	-->'''Brock''': [[HypocriticalHumor I don't like this guy]]. [[SelfDeprecation He sounds like me]].\
31	'''Misty''': That is disturbing.
32	* EpunymousTitle: Chansey is the name of the featured Pokemon, but also a term for high-risk.
33	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Arbok and Weezing go beyond their usual PunchClockVillain philosophy, refusing to help Team Rocket steal from the hospital that had treated them.
34	* {{Expy}}: Dr. Proctor is one for Creator/GeorgeClooney, as his character Dr. Doug Ross from ''Series/{{ER}}''.
35	* EyeCatch: The featured ''Who's That Pokémon'' this episode is Arbok.
36	* IdiotBall: Despite being one of the more levelheaded characters, Pikachu let [[TrademarkFavoriteFood his love of apples]] override his common sense and attempted to eat one whole, resulting in him choking.
37	* InstantSedation: Proctor gets injected with his own sedative and is asleep in less than a minute.
38	* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Team Rocket decides to exploit the hospital is full of weakened Pokemon to steal them all and bring them to their boss.
39	* LostInTranslation: When Meowth is asking for his charm, there is a gag where Chansey [[MondegreenGag mishears him]] and gives him several things that sound like what he is saying. In the Japanese version, it is fairly straight forward, he wants his koban (his forehead charm) and Chansey brings him gohan (rice), goban (a game of ''TabletopGame/{{Go}})'', kōban (a police substation), and Kongpang (Venonat). The English version keeps some of the word play (I'll pay any price = Chansey brings rice; find my charm, please = Chansey brings the police), but some of the items Chansey brings have no explanation, like the Venonat.
40	* MagicalDefibrillator: Proctor uses a defibrillator to recharge Pikachu before extracting the apple he's choking on.
41	* NoodleIncident: Team Rocket was apparently driving the truck full of Pokémon that ended up getting injured, but it is never explained what happened to cause the accident or how they got ahold of all those Pokemon.
42	* OpenHeartDentistry: The doctor at the hospital (for humans) "treats" injuries with superglue. He does try to explain that he is a human doctor and has no business treating Pokémon, but everybody seems to believe this is just an excuse for being lazy.
43	* {{Pun}}: Doctor Proctor looks at a Dodrio with its necks tied in a knot and says, "That's a knotty problem, isn't it?"
44	* TooDumbToLive: As noted above, Pikachu trying to swallow an entire apple.
45	* TheToothHurts: One of the gang's patients is a Raticate with a mouthful of broken teeth.
46	* UngratefulBastard: Despite Doctor Proctor, Ash, Misty and Brock treating their Pokémon's injuries, Team Rocket still takes the first opportunity to betray them and try to steal the Pokémon again. Thankfully, Arbok and Weezing don't feel the same.
47	* WorstAid:
48	** Ash thinks the best way to get an apple out of Pikachu's throat is to hold it upside-down and shake it. He clearly makes things worse.
49	** Reaching down anyone's throat--much less that of an animal--to dislodge something it is choking on is a bad idea for a long list of reasons. Pikachu, of course, adds risk of electrocution to that list.

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