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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · Petalburg Woods: Taillow, Treecko & a new Team Rocket arc (AG004–AG008) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 6 · English episode 279 · Japanese episode 282 · Bulbapedia code AG006 |
| English title | A Poached Ego! |
| Japanese title | ロケット団！みだれひっかきでサヨウナラ！！ Roketto-dan! Midare Hikkaki de Sayōnara!! — “Rocket-dan! A Fury Swipes Goodbye!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 26 December 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 29 November 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Soko ni Sora ga Aru Kara (Because the Sky Is There) – Toshiko Ezaki |
| English opening | I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Larvitar (US) |
| Previous episode | In the Knicker of Time! (AG005) |
| Next episode | Tree’s a Crowd (AG007) |
Plot episodeArbok & Weezing releasedJames catches Cacnea
A Poached Ego! is the 6th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 279th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 282, Bulbapedia code AG006). It first aired in Japan on 26 December 2002 and in the United States on 29 November 2003. It falls within the season’s Petalburg Woods: Taillow, Treecko & a new Team Rocket stretch (EP4–EP8).
Synopsis
Ash and company help the local Officer Jenny capture a poacher, but not until the Team Rocket Trio have Arbok and Weezing lead the ekans and koffings that he caught to safety. Meanwhile James gets Cacnea.
Major Events
- The poacher Rico
- Jessie releases Arbok and James releases Weezing to protect the wild Ekans and Koffing
- James catches Cacnea, his first on-screen catch
- Rico’s Pupitar evolves into Tyranitar
- May learns that every town’s Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny are relatives
- Cacnea debuts
Pokémon making their anime debut
Cacnea#0331 · AG006
Captures and evolutions
- Cacnea#0331 · James · his first on-screen catch
Pupitar → Tyranitar#0248 · Rico
Trivia
- The English title plays on a poached egg, and the poacher Rico.
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Rico’s gun (an FN P90) kept on screen, but all three cocking sounds muted
- 4-second and 3-second trims
- Team Rocket’s barely conscious last lines re-acted angrily
- The Tyranitar battle’s Power of One cue replaced with Mewtwo Strikes Back music, and its sound effects removed
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