What You Seed is What You Get – Pokémon Season 7, Episode 1

Plot episodeSeason premiereTreecko learns Bullet Seed

What You Seed is What You Get is the 1st episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge, the seventh season of the Pokémon anime, and the 314th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 317, Bulbapedia code AG041). It first aired in Japan on 4 September 2003 and in the United States on 11 September 2004. It falls within the season’s Leaving Mauville: Bullet Seed, fireflies & a dream of flight stretch (EP41–EP43).

The season premiere on Kids’ WB, on 11 September 2004 — a week after the Advanced finale. It is the first English episode with the new opening This Dream and with Pokémon Trainer’s Choice in place of Who’s That Pokémon?.

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Synopsis

After Ash’s victory at the Mauville Gym, May and Ash argue over their next destination. Either they go to Fallarbor Town for May’s next contest, or Lavaridge Town, for Ash’s next Gym Battle. They decide to go to Fallarbor Town first.

Team Rocket stumbles upon a watermelon field and find a giant watermelon. To their surprise, it’s an Electrode that looks like the giant watermelon. Electrode then uses what looks like Rollout to send Team Rocket blasting off.

Some watermelons float down a stream where Ash and the gang are having a picnic. They chow down on the melons and Ash has Treecko practice Bullet Seed. While practicing, a random Slugma and Grovyle attack Ash and the gang. The Slugma and Grovyle are owned by Natasha, who also owns the farm that the melons came from. The melon painted Electrode is also owned by Natasha. The Electrode is used to catch people who are stealing the watermelons.

Natasha introduces herself after apologizing and she gives them a tour of her melon farm. Ash compliments Grovyle’s Bullet Seed and Natasha challenges him to a battle. Ash sends out Treecko and Corphish against Natasha’s Grovyle and Slugma.

Jessie and James come back and encounter the Electrode again. They fantasize about giving Giovanni the watermelons and them receiving a promotion. Back to the battle, Treecko and Corphish almost get knocked out by Natasha’s attacks. Treecko and Corphish land a hit on Slugma and Grovyle and they get ready for a Solarbeam and Flamethrower. Corphish counters with Bubblebeam and Corphish and Slugma knock each other out.

Electrode returns to Natasha and tells her about Team Rocket, and her and the gang run off to confront Team Rocket. They find them stealing the melons and start to fight Team Rocket. Ash tells Treecko to watch Grovyle use Bullet Seed. Treecko uses Bullet Seed to return the melons to the field and Pikachu blasts Team Rocket off again by using Thunderbolt.

Natasha and Ash return to their battle. Both Grovyle and Treecko, almost out of energy, use Bullet Seed on each other. Grovyle’s Bullet Seed is too strong and knocks out Treecko. Ash and Pikachu try to cheer Treecko up, and Treecko attacks Ash with Bullet Seed successfully.

Major Events

• Season premiere
• The group set course for the Fallarbor Contest before the Lavaridge Gym
• Ash loses a Double Battle to Natasha, the “Melon Master”
• Treecko learns Bullet Seed from watching Natasha’s Grovyle
• Grovyle debuts
• English opening This Dream and the Pokémon Trainer’s Choice segment begin

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Grovyle#0253 · AG041

Trivia

• The English title plays on "what you see is what you get".
• The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.

Changes in the English Dub

• Natchi renamed Natasha
• Pokémon Trainer’s Choice (dub only, in place of Who’s That Pokémon?): which Pokémon is best against Poliwrath? Answer: Taillow (the other choices were Combusken and Mudkip)
• English opening This Dream (David Rolfe) debuts; its Challenger!!-based footage spoils several evolutions and captures to come

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