I Feel Skitty! – Pokémon Season 7, Episode 7

Plot episodeMay catches Skitty

I Feel Skitty! is the 7th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge, the seventh season of the Pokémon anime, and the 320th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 323, Bulbapedia code AG047). It first aired in Japan on 16 October 2003 and in the United States on 23 October 2004. It falls within the season’s Across the desert: the Winstrates, Skitty, Zangoose & the other Max stretch (EP46–EP49).

Shown on 23 October 2004 as the first half of the season’s first double bill, with ZigZag Zangoose!.

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Synopsis

While taking a break from their walk to Fallarbor Town, May gets some practicing in before her contest. Beautifly is using Gust to blow a frisbee back to May so she can catch it. May ends up throwing it a little too far and she asks Torchic to grab it for her. Torchic ends up running down a steep hill and crashing into a rock. Before getting the frisbee, Torchic hears a Skitty meowing and runs towards it. Ash and the gang follow and decide to help the Skitty. They think that the Skitty is tired and Brock decides to take over in helping Skitty. He takes them to the Greenhouse, an Aromatherapy lab. They take Skitty inside and they get a mini-tour of the lab. There are bottles of smells and flowers all over the place. Eliza also thinks that the Skitty is just tired and makes a batch of healing fragrance. May asks if she can stay with Skitty to make sure it’s alright. Eliza then gives a full tour of the gardens.

Team Rocket then finds the Aromatherapy lab and Jessie and James mention how their Pokemon could really benefit from the smells. Instead, Meowth fantasizes about how Giovanni will wake up with the good smells and give Team Rocket various rewards. Ash and the gang check on Skitty. Skitty appears to be feeling fine and just wants to play around. Skitty sees Pikachu’s tail and starts chasing Pikachu around.

May sends Torchic out to try and catch the Skitty. Skitty uses Tackle on Torchic and Torchic counters with Quick Attack. The Skitty goes down and Team Rocket breaks in and does their mantra. Jessie gets Seviper out to use Haze. The lab is then covered in smoke and Team Rocket attempts to steal a bunch of various items. The Skitty finds Meowth and Meowth instantly falls in love with Skitty. Brock tackles James and some bottles of perfume break. Unleashing a mix of smells that are awful to people, but smell amazing to Pokemon. Team Rocket takes off with all kinds of merchandise. Brock chases after them and manages to take the bag that James had. Corphish attacks Seviper and James sends out Cacnea and uses Pin Missile on Corphish. While Corphish uses Harden, James gets distracted by the Weepinbell. Corphish uses Crabhammer on James and Cacnea. Ash’s Taillow uses Wing Attack to send Team Rocket blasting off again.

May runs outside and she says she can’t find Skitty. She wonders if Team Rocket didn’t grab Skitty. Turns out, Skitty was hiding in one of the bags that Team Rocket took. Skitty starts playing around and Jessie starts to try and catch it. Meowth starts imagining all the harm that could possibly befall Skitty if Jessie were to catch it. Meowth then suggests that Skitty be given to Giovanni and imagines all those rewards from earlier. Meowth then says he’s gonna take Skitty to get some water. He tries to scare Skitty off and ends up throwing a rock to get Skitty to run away.

Ash and the gang are trying to find Skitty and Taillow tells Ash that Taillow found Team Rocket’s balloon. Eliza gets her Oddish to use Sweet Scent to lure Skitty out. The scent attracts Meowth and Wobuffet. Skitty comes out of the bushes and May and Jessie fight over the Skitty. Jessie battles May with her Dustox and Beautifly respectively. Beautifly starts off with Gust. Dustox uses Tackle, and Beautifly dodges. Dustox then uses Psybeam and Beautifly dodges. Beautifly uses Tackle and follows up with Gust. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt and sends Team Rocket blasting off again.

May picks up Skitty and makes sure it’s okay. Skitty throws the Poke Ball to the ground and gets in willingly. Ash and the gang get back on their way to Fallarbor Town and Skitty let itself out, chases its tail for a bit, and goes to sleep.

Major Events

• Eliza’s aromatherapy Greenhouse
• May catches Skitty, which presses the Poké Ball button itself
• Torchic’s Quick Attack
• Max drags Brock away by the ear for the first time
• Skitty’s TV debut

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Skitty#0300 · AG047

Captures and evolutions

• Skitty#0300 · May · presses the Poké Ball button itself

Trivia

• The English title plays on "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story.
• The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.

Changes in the English Dub

• Arissa renamed Eliza
• A magazine becomes a TV infomercial
• Skitty’s Japanese voice kept
• Pokémon Trainer’s Choice (dub only, in place of Who’s That Pokémon?): which Pokémon is best against Silcoon? Answer: Weezing (later type changes made it a tie)

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