Snack Attack – Pokémon Season 2, Episode 14

Plot episodeAsh catches Snorlax

Snack Attack is the 14th episode of Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands, the second season of the Pokémon anime, and the 94th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 96, Bulbapedia code EP094). It first aired in Japan on 29 April 1999 and in the United States on 25 March 2000. It falls within the season’s Navel Gym & Snorlax stretch (EP93–EP94).

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Synopsis

Ash and friends are sailing with Lapras, when they happen upon a group of Islands which Tracey tells them are called the Grapefruit Islands, so they decide to stop by, they head to the island not knowing that Jigglypuff isn’t far behind. Once they arrive on the shore Ash starts picking a grapefruit but a rather angry woman turns up and attacks him with a stick thinking him to be a grapefruit thief, after the group explain they aren’t grapefruit thieves the woman, whose name is Ruby explains that a lot of their grapefruit have been getting stolen from her groves lately and explains what a massive amount of work goes into growing them.

Just then a guy runs up and shouts Ruby telling her that the thieves just struck again, Ruby goes running off with him and Ash and gang decide to go and help, they arrive at a scene to find the trees stripped bare, even of branches, and the thief has been located – its a Snorlax!

Ruby instructs the other workers to stop the Snorlax, but it just bats them away. Ruby realises that they are unable to stop Snorlax, so her and her team begin picking all of the grapefruit to try and get them to safety before Snorlax gets to them. They make a giant pile of Grapefruit but Snorlax rushes over, knocks Ash aside and starts eating them.

Ash tries to weaken Snorlax with a battle and attacks with Bulbasaur, Snorlax basically ignores and then bodyslams Bulbasaur before continuing its eating rampage, stripping the island bare! Misty and co console Ruby by telling her that at least it’s an Island so Snorlax won’t be able to get to the other six islands meaning their grapefruit will be safe, just then Snorlax proves that theory wrong when it starts to swim to the next island. Meanwhile Team Rocket are already on the next island cutting down some grapefruit for themselves, just as they think of the idea to start stealing grapefruit themselves Snorlax arrives and steals what Team Rocket had already stole! Ash and gang arrive and confront Team Rocket.

Ruby radio’s her HQ and tells all the islands to start picking grapefruit urgently before Snorlax arrives. Meanwhile Ash makes another attempt to capture Snorlax, this time with Squirtle who also ends up on the wrong end of a body slam. Misty too tries to stop Snorlax firstly with Staryu and then with Goldeen, the latter of which nearly gets eaten! Team Rocket turn up and too try to defeat Snorlax, with Arbok, Lickitung and Victreebel falling to Snorlax one by one. Ash then commands a thundershock attack but it only seems to invigorate Snorlax who then eats faster. The group then decide that they can’t defeat Snorlax in battle, so try other mean’s including massages, and a little bedtime story from Misty – none of it works.

Team Rocket show up again with Jessie dressed as Snorlax’s mother and try to sing Snorlax a lullaby, he doesn’t enjoy it and punches them away, sending them blasting off. Ash and co reach the processing plant and catch up to Ruby, there they find all the plant workers are asleep with familiar markings on their faces. Ash and co know that the best way to stop Snorlax is with the song of Jigglypuff, the same one that put all the workers to sleep, so they set up a stage and start cheering for Jigglypuff. Snorlax is charging toward the processing plants warehouses, and is in range of the song of Jigglypuff, as Snorlax becomes drowsy Pikachu uses it’s Thunder attack and weakens it, Ash throws his Pokéball and is able to capture Snorlax shortly before being put to sleep himself.

Later on when everyone wakes back up Ruby thanks our heroes for their help and hands Misty a big bag of Candy Grapefruit peels. One of Ruby’s workers comes over and shouts her to come and see something – all the places where Snorlax ate the grapefruit have got new trees growing!

So as the sun sets like a giant glowing grapefruit our heroes sail on to their next Orange Island adventure.

Major Events

• Ash catches Snorlax on the Seven Grapefruit Islands after Jigglypuff’s song and Pikachu’s Thunder
• Lickitung’s Wrap
• Japanese pomelos become grapefruit in the dub

Captures and evolutions

• Snorlax#0143 · Ash · after Jigglypuff’s song

Trivia

• The English title plays on a snack attack, for the orchard-raiding Snorlax.
• The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Orange Islands storyline.
• The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Snorlax in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Ivysaur in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.

Changes in the English Dub

• Pomelos become grapefruit; Nana renamed Ruby

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