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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced Challenge (Season 7) · Littleroot to Rubello: Oak, Bulbasaur & the R1 Contest arc (AG071–AG078) |
| Episode | Season 7, episode 31 · English episode 344 · Japanese episode 347 · Bulbapedia code AG071 |
| English title | A Six Pack Attack! |
| Japanese title | オーキド博士とオダマキ博士！秘密基地の戦い！！ Ōkido-hakase to Odamaki-hakase! Himitsukichi no Tatakai!! — “Dr. Okido and Dr. Odamaki! Secret Base Battle!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 8 April 2004 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 26 March 2005 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Challenger!! – Rica Matsumoto · Smile (second version) – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | This Dream – David Rolfe |
| Pokémon Trainer’s Choice | Which Pokémon is best against Slowking? — Jolteon |
| Previous episode | Balance of Power (AG070) |
| Next episode | The Bicker the Better (AG072) |
Plot episodeProfessor Oak visits Hoenn
A Six Pack Attack! is the 31st episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge, the seventh season of the Pokémon anime, and the 344th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 347, Bulbapedia code AG071). It first aired in Japan on 8 April 2004 and in the United States on 26 March 2005. It falls within the season’s Littleroot to Rubello: Oak, Bulbasaur & the R1 Contest stretch (EP71–EP78).
Synopsis
Admiring his five Badges, Ash learns from Brock that the next Gym is in Fortree City and wants to set off at once, but May and Max remind him that they promised to visit Professor Birch first. Birch arrives in typical style by driving his SUV off a nearby cliff, and explains that he is heading to the port to collect Professor Oak, who is visiting Hoenn. Ash and Brock ride along while May and Max wait at the lab in Littleroot Town, Max thrilled at the prospect of meeting his idol. On the mountain road, Birch swerves to avoid a wagon pulled by a Camerupt, never realising that Oak is dozing in the back of it under a cowboy hat. Oak reaches the lab first and reveals himself to Max, who immediately asks him to autograph his collection of celebrity photos.
Oak sends out his Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle to meet Birch’s Treecko, Torchic and Mudkip. Max gets on the wrong side of the Kanto trio by poking Bulbasaur’s bulb and teasing the others, earning a Tackle, an Ember and a Water Gun, but Oak still entrusts him with looking after all six for the day, and Bulbasaur offers May a friendly vine. Watching from the bushes, Team Rocket decide that the six first partners would make an ideal present for Giovanni. A Skiploom-shaped mecha swoops in and nets them all, and Oak, May and Max give chase to a cave behind a waterfall, Team Rocket’s new secret base. There the three fall into a pit trap, a vacuum sucks away their Poké Balls and a metal gate seals them in, while at the docks Birch discovers that Oak is missing.
Max covers the villains’ surveillance camera with one of his photos so the captives can climb out, and following Oak’s advice the starters break their cage with Ember, Water Gun, Tackle and Pound. Oak has a Zubat confuse Team Rocket with Supersonic and Bulbasaur retrieves the Poké Balls with Vine Whip. Trapped again, the group escape through a tunnel dug by a Dugtrio that leads to a sleeping Gyarados, whose Hydro Pump catches the bickering villains. Meanwhile, Birch’s Poochyena leads Birch, Ash and Brock to the base, and Lombre, Mudkip, Pikachu and the starters combine to break through the steel door. When Team Rocket burst out in the Skiploom mecha for one last attempt, everyone attacks together and Pikachu’s Thunder sends the trio flying in the shape of an R. The next morning the group leave Littleroot by ferry, waving goodbye to the two professors.
Major Events
- Ash learns the next Gym is in Fortree City
- Professor Oak visits Professor Birch and meets May and Max
- The six first partners are rescued from Team Rocket’s waterfall base
- The group leave Littleroot Town by ferry
Trivia
- The English title plays on "six-pack", for the six first partners.
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Wine glasses redrawn (Team Rocket still act drunk)
- The Poké Ball emblem on Ash’s Badge case redrawn
- Meowth adds “I’ll drink ta dat!”
- Poochyena’s Japanese voice kept
- Pokémon Trainer’s Choice (dub only, in place of Who’s That Pokémon?): which Pokémon is best against Slowking? Answer: Jolteon
- Ready Go! used as background music in Japan
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