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| Season | Pokémon: Battle Frontier (Season 9) · New voices, new Symbols: the Arena & the Dome arc (AG146–AG153) |
| Episode | Season 9, episode 5 · English episode 422 · Japanese episode 426 · Bulbapedia code AG150 |
| English title | May’s Egg-Cellent Adventure |
| Japanese title | そだて屋さんとポケモンのタマゴ！ Sodateyasan to Pokemon no Tamago! — “Breeding House Practitioner and the Pokémon Egg!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 3 November 2005 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 23 September 2006 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Junki Takegami |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Battle Frontier – Akina Takaya · GLORY DAY ~Kagayaku Sono Hi~ (That Shining Day) – GARDEN |
| English opening | Battle Frontier – Jason Appleton |
| Previous episode | Wheel of Frontier (AG149) |
| Next episode | Weekend Warrior (AG151) |
Plot episodePikachu learns Volt TackleMay receives an Egg
May’s Egg-Cellent Adventure is the 5th episode of Pokémon: Battle Frontier, the ninth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 422nd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 426, Bulbapedia code AG150). It first aired in Japan on 3 November 2005 and in the United States on 23 September 2006. It falls within the season’s New voices, new Symbols: the Arena & the Dome stretch (EP146–EP153).
Synopsis
With the Guts Symbol won, the group head for the Battle Dome. May wanders off the path to look at a farm and is promptly zapped by two Voltorb that guard it against trespassers. Their owner’s daughter, Nicolette, runs up with a pitchfork but quickly recognises May from the Saffron Contest and invites everyone in. Her parents, Christopher and Jeannie, explain over tea that the family raise Pokémon Eggs and that Nicolette dreams of becoming a Coordinator but cannot bring herself to leave home. Nicolette challenges May to a practice battle, Vileplume against Munchlax. Petal Dance leaves Munchlax confused, Metronome produces a useless Splash, and Stun Spore and Bullet Seed pile on the pressure, but Munchlax shakes off the paralysis and lands a Focus Punch. On Max’s suggestion May then calls for Solar Beam, and even a glancing hit is enough to knock Vileplume out, leaving Nicolette deeply impressed.
The family show the group a storeroom lined with Eggs, some of them belonging to other Trainers, and one that is very close to hatching sits in an incubator. Christopher asks May to share her travel stories in the hope of encouraging his daughter. That night an electric flash from the Voltorb signals an intruder, and outside the group find a giant Egg with a note asking them to look after it, so they wheel it in. While patrolling later, May finds Nicolette polishing an Egg and listens as the girl admits she is afraid of failing; May reminds her that she herself started out as a beginner who did not even like Pokémon. The giant Egg, of course, is Team Rocket’s latest trick, with James hidden inside. Meowth switches it on, scoops the Eggs, including the glowing one, into a basket with mechanical arms, and knocks out the Voltorb.
As Team Rocket’s balloon hooks onto the mecha and lifts off, Ash wants Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, but Nicolette stops him for fear of harming the Eggs. On May’s advice she has Vileplume use Stun Spore and Petal Dance, sending the balloon into a wild spin until the basket shatters and the Eggs rain down. Everyone dives to catch them, and Munchlax bounces the glowing Egg off its belly into Jeannie’s arms. Bullet Seed snaps the mecha’s arms, a double Solar Beam from Munchlax and Vileplume destroys the balloon, and when the mecha tries to flee, Pikachu’s Quick Attack crackles with stored electricity and becomes Volt Tackle, blasting Team Rocket away. At sunrise the glowing Egg hatches into a Vulpix, and Nicolette decides it is time to begin her own journey. As a thank-you, Christopher and Jeannie give May an Egg of her own, promising it will be a wonderful surprise.
Major Events
- Pikachu learns Volt Tackle and May receives an Egg. Nicolette’s family egg farm
- Munchlax learns Focus Punch and uses Solar Beam for the first time
- A Vulpix hatches
- Nicolette decides to start her journey
- New Japanese ending GLORY DAY (third version)
- First Ruby and Sapphire episode with no Generation III Pokémon
Trivia
- The English title plays on "excellent".
- The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Kanto storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- James’s Japanese joke that their plan was foiled by an “Egg Move” (Volt Tackle) removed
- New Japanese ending: GLORY DAY, third version
- Music from Pokémon Heroes
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