Original subtitles

[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC]

[SINGING] -I want to be the very best

Like no one ever was

To catch them is my real test

To train them is my cause

I will travel across the land

Searching far and wide

Each Pokémon to understand

The power that's inside

Pokémon, gotta catch 'em all

It's you and me

[CRASH!]

I know it's my destiny

Pokémon

Oh, you're my best friend

In a world we must defend

Pokémon, gotta catch 'em all

A heart so true

Our courage will pull us through

You teach me and I'll teach you

Pokémon

Gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all

Pokémon

Gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all

Pokémon

NARRATOR: Ash and his friends are in for a surprise

at this small-town Pokémon center.

-Is your name Ash? -Yeah.

I have a message for you.

-For me? -Pika pika?

-Greetings, Ash. It's Professor Oak.

Give me a call when you get a chance!

It's from Professor Oak.

I guess it's been awhile since you talked him, Ash.

Why don't you give him a buzz?

Okay, let's see.

Professor. I hope he's around.

Hi, Professor Oak. It's Ash!

Hello there, Ash!

I suppose my message finally found its way to you!

-Yeah. -How is everyone?

Say...

Pikachu sure is looking well.

Pikachu!

I'm fine too.

I'm glad to hear it!

Well, they say no news is good news,

but I do wish you'd let me know

how things are going now and then.

-I know. We've been kind of busy.

-Muk. Muk. Muk. -Come on. Cut that out!

-[LAUGHS] My Muk seems to be doing okay.

Taking care of it hasn't been so easy!

Will you behave?

I hope the next Pokémon you send

will be easier to manage!

I hope so too, Professor,

but I haven't caught any new ones.

That's right.

Well make sure the next ones

aren't so mucky!

[GROANS]

I almost forgot.

Have you heard about the new Pokédex upgrade?

-Pokédex upgrade? No, I haven't!

Well, now you can get details

on all the latest Pokémon discoveries.

-Wow! How can I get it?

Just put your Pokédex into that slot,

and I'll do it.

Once upgraded, your Pokédex will have an updated database

and even a new voice!

All right!

I'm putting it in right now!

-Okay. It's all done.

Gee, thanks!

Okay, no time to lose.

Go capture more Pokémon and collect some new badges too!

Professor...

we're on our way right now!

Where to next?

We could head to Cinnabar Island

and the Cinnabar Gym.

-The Cinnabar Gym. -Pika.

Hey, Brock, when do you think that egg's gonna hatch?

Who knows?

Hey, look what I found.

[BOTH GASP]

Are you sure it's all right to just take that?

Maybe I should have given this Pokémon egg to Joy.

-No way! -Huh?

I'll raise this one for you.

And I've been keeping it close to me every night

so it'll stay nice and warm.

What?

You mean you sleep with that egg?

It's the only way it'll hatch.

What else can I do?

[GROANS]

So, Brock, what kind of Pokémon's

gonna hatch out of that thing anyway?

To tell you the truth, Ash, I don't know.

You mean it might even turn out to be a Tentacruel?

It could be, Misty.

[SIGHS]

I'd just love a Tentacruel!

Oh!

But it could it even be an Aerodactyl?

That's a possibility too.

[SCREAMS]

Maybe it won't be.

I'd like it to be a golem!

Oh, imagine if it were a lovely Lapras.

I can't wait to see what kind of Pokémon hatches,

no matter what it is.

Did you hear that?

They're hatchin' a new Pokémon!

I think he said a Dragonair.

No, no; he said an Aerodactyl!

Whatever it is,

we gotta get our hands on that egg.

This could be the chance we been waitin' for!

Imagine when the boss hears we've captured a Pokémon!

-He'll be shocked. -Don't forget;

we haven't even succeeded in capturing

that one little Pikachu from those kids!

We have a proud tradition of failure to uphold!

Then you fail!

And we'll win!

-What? Hey? Hey, what's up? Hey-hey, let me in!

Oh, come on! I can break tradition!

-So how far to Cinnabar Island? -Hmm.

It looks pretty far.

ALL: Huh?

Hello, everybody!

-Good day! [GIGGLES]

BOTH: Kick and kick and kick and kick!

I don't believe my eyes!

BOTH: And kick. [GIGGLE]

We kick up our legs

so you will buy our eggs!

What kind of Pokémon eggs are they?

Wait and find out when they hatch!

-Won't you buy some? Please! Please! Please!

We don't need any Pokémon eggs

'cause we already have one of our own.

Yeah.

-Ah! -Let me see it.

Show me! -Okay, okay.

Here. Like it?

Oh! It's pretty!

-Beautiful! -Lovely!

BOTH: One, two...

ALL: Agh!

Which one is ours?

They aren't egg sellers!

[BOTH LAUGH]

Prepare for trouble!

Make it double!

To protect the world from devastation!

To unite all peoples within our nation!

To denounce the evils of truth and love!

To extend our reach to the stars above!

-Jessie! -James!

-Is that it? BOTH: Huh?

Hmm. Let's see.

-Hey! You didn't let us finish!

Yeah, that's right!

And we didn't even get to the best part.

Is this it?

Huh?

Isn't this it?

Huh?

[BOTH GROAN]

-[LAUGHS] BOTH: Huh?

Is this what you're lookin' for?

-That's it! Meowth's got our egg!

-It was... -Your egg.

Let's beat it!

Come back, you thieves!

-Eh, we did it! -A great success!

It was because I made such a cute egg salesgirl.

Yeah, maybe.

So shall we cook it over easy?

Or maybe we can scramble it? Or I know!

We can make a little fried rice! -[YELLS]

You're not cookin' it cause I'm hatchin' it!

-But how will you do that? -Very simple.

I will warm it with my body.

Ahh... BOTH: Huh?

[MUNCHING]

Still holding that egg?

Of course I am.

If I put it down my beautiful egg,

it'll cool off, and it won't hatch!

BOTH: Hmm?

Now, my little eggy-weggy,

while you and I share a nice hot soak,

I'm gonna tell you a bath time story.

Hmm... Once upon a time...

Ah, you're boiling it!

I like mine soft boiled.

-Huh? Boiled?

I told you I'm gonna hatch it not eat it!

Good night, little egg.

Time for us to go sleepy!

I never realized Meowth could be so...

Revolting.

Hey!

Look, it's another one!

If we just follow these eggs,

they'll lead us all the way to Team Rocket!

Wow, they're pretty dumb, aren't they?

Leaving us a trail of broken eggs.

If they're so dumb,

how come they're the ones who have the egg?

I guess you have a point there.

[SIGHS]

-Pika! Pika! Pika!

ALL: Huh?

They must be in there!

Rise and shine, my little eggy-poo!

Meowth's gonna make you nice and shiny

'cause we got a lot of incubatin' to do.

-Here! -What's that?

Your scrambled eggs!

I told you to lay off the e-g-g-s!

How can you be so insensitive, you numbskull?

That's definitely the egg.

Right, now's our chance.

Go, Pidgeotto!

[SQUAWKS]

Go, Geodude!

Geodude!

Staryu, I choose you!

Psy-ay-ay!

No, not you!

[GRUNTS]

-What? -What's going on?

[SQUAWKS]

Huh?

Good work, Pidgeotto!

Hey, gimme back my egg!

That's funny.

And all along, I thought this was our egg.

Go get them and my egg!

Go, Arbok!

Weezing, go!

Weezing!

Arbok!

-[COUGHS] -Careful, Ash, the egg!

Arbok!

[GRUNTS]

Agh!

The egg!

Nyah! Nyah!

-Geodude! Tackle Attack!

[GRUNTS]

I got it!

I've got it!

Hey, Staryu!

Airborne Tackle! Now!

[LAUGHS]

Whoa!

-Got it! [GRUNTS]

-Got it! Ooh!

Yeah!

[LAUGHS]

-Can't see. Pidgeotto, Gust Attack!

Blow this gas away!

[SQUAWKING]

[SCREAMS]

[ALL GASPING]

-Quick, somebody catch it! The egg's gonna break!

[GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

[ALL GASPING]

I missed it!

Huh?

Pika!

Pikachu.

Pikachu!

[ALL SIGH]

You did it, Pikachu!

-Nice catch, Pikachu! -Kachu!

-Huh? -What's wrong, Ash?

It feels like there's somethin' moving inside!

-Huh? -Pika...

[TREMBLING]

[ALL GASPING]

ALL: Who's that Pokémon?

It's Aerodactyl!

Aerodactyl!

It's starting to crack!

Yeah, it's about to hatch!

Pika!

-Hey! Oh, let me see!

[SQUEALS]

Ah!

It hatched! It hatched!

Oh, how cute!

Toge?

Oh, hello to you too!

Toge, toge, toge!

Oh, we're so lucky!

BROCK: We are! ASH: You're right!

If Pikachu hadn't caught it...

That precious little Pokémon might have...

[ALL GASPING]

We have a battle to finish!

I almost forgot!

Let's get 'em!

Pikachu, Thunderbolt Attack!

Pikachu!

[ALL SCREAMING]

-See ya! -Later!

Bye!

-[TREMBLING] My egg!

Where am I?

Hi!

[SQUEALS] Toge, toge, toge!

It's so cute!

It sure is, Misty.

But what kind of Pokémon is it?

Ah, good question.

Hey, now that Dexter's been upgraded,

he'll know the answer!

[electronic voice] Togepi: An egg Pokémon.

Specific information about this Pokémon

is still unavailable.

-So Togepi's your name. You even sound cute!

-Pika! -Toge, toge!

You think so too, don't you, Pikachu?

Pikachu!

Of course it's cute, all newborns are cute.

That's right!

[TRILLING]

[BABBLING]

[TRILLING]

So now which one of us gets to keep Togepi?

I think I should.

I'm the one who incubated the egg.

But I was the one who found it in the first place.

I just let you watch it for a while!

I mothered it!

-Well... -Huh?

I think I should keep Togepi

because it likes me best, right, Togepi?

[SQUEALING]

It's obvious.

Togepi has made the right choice.

-No fair! I found it, so it's mine!

Well, maybe you should have taken better care of it!

But you never took care of it!

-That's right! I took care of it!

Oh, yeah?

I took care of it more than all of ya put together!

ALL: Huh?

That's right.

You never saw how much Meowth cared for that egg.

They were together when they ate.

They were together when they slept.

They even bathed together.

It was touching!

Please, James.

Just hearing it brings tears to my eyes.

I never knew you were so sensitive.

Save your pity.

All I want from you is my Togepi!

BOTH: Uh-huh! Uh-huh!

Team Rocket's acting almost human.

All right!

The only way to decide this

is with a Pokémon battle!

-A Pokémon battle? -That's right.

We'll have a tournament,

and whoever wins gets to keep Togepi.

Are you in, or are you out?

[ALL WHISPERING]

Count me in!

So we'll have a six-way tournament.

-Right! -Wait a minute!

Huh?

These two have no right to participate!

-Hey! -What do you mean?

I hereby testify that neither of you

performed a single act to assist Togepi.

I can't believe you're being so selfish!

What about Team Rocket?

Then just the four of us will battle!

Sounds good to me.

Let's make it a sudden death battle

by using just one Pokémon each.

-Okay! -Let's do it!

-Fine with me! -Now, let's see...

Which Pokémon should I use?

I forgot!

I don't have any Pokémon to battle with!

Hey guys, could I borrow one of your Pokémon?

BOTH: Not a chance.

-Agh! What am I gonna do now?

Huh?

Oh, yeah, I forgot!

I AM a Pokémon!

I can battle for myself!

First up is Brock versus Meowth.

[GROWLS]

Go, Onyx!

Go, Meowth!

Agh!

[SCREAMS]

Meowth! Give 'em your Scratch attack!

Okay! Here goes!

Being your own trainer must be tough.

Must be.

Meowth!

Meowth isn't doing all that badly.

I didn't know Meowth was so spunky.

Your scratch attack can't do anything

against Onyx's hard stone body.

Onyx! Rock Throw, now!

[SCREAMING]

-What's wrong, Meowth? Hang in there!

But Meowth's Scratch and Bite attacks

aren't any good against that giant rock Pokémon!

[SQUEALING AND CHATTERING]

Pika! Pika! Pika!

I'll do it for Togepi!

Meowth refuses to lose!

Huh?

That's it!

Onyx is weak against water!

-What do you say, Meowth? Do you surrender?

Meowth never says die!

The "Absolute Victory Drench with Water" attack!

[ONYX BELLOWS]

[ALL GASPING]

Fury Swipes attack!

[ONYX BELLOWS]

-Onyx! Are you okay?

Hey, throwing water is cheating!

I am merely a parent fighting for its child!

And I'm gonna win this tournament!

-Well, well... -Meowth won.

Next up is Ash and Misty.

Our first battle since Cerulean Gym!

This time I'm gonna beat ya!

Bulbasaur, I choose you!

Bulbasaur!

Ah, yes, just as I expected.

You chose Bulbasaur!

So I'll choose...

-Psy-ay! -[SCREAMS]

Quick! Get back in the ball!

You're not allowed to call your Pokémon back!

Ugh, he's right.

Okay, aim for Psyduck's head, Bulbasaur!

-Its head? Yeah, like I'm that dense!

Bulbasaur, go lick Psyduck on the head!

Bulbasaur!

No, Bulbasaur!

You'll never lick Psyduck if you lick it.

-Good! Now use the Tickle attack!

-Psy-ay-ay! Psy-ay-ay! Psy-ay-ay!

Psy-ay-ay! Psy-ay-ay! Psy-ay-ay!

-The battle's over. Ash and Bulbasaur win!

-All right, nice work! We did it! We did it!

-Oh, no! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

[SQUEALING] Toge, toge, toge!

The winner will get Togepi!

-All right! I choose Pikachu! -Pika!

In that case, I choose Meowth!

Ready!

Pi!

BOTH: Oh...

[GROWLS]

Oh...

little Togepi.

I can still remember when you were just an egg

and all we went through together.

For your sake, Togepi, I, Meowth, will win you back!

All right! Victory will be mine!

Use your Fury Swipes attack!

Right!

Pika... CHU!

I lost so fast, I'm a little shocked!

The winner!

We did it!

I knew Meowth would lose.

The heroes always get the breaks.

We did it!

Little Togepi...

I hope you'll be very happy with your new trainer.

Good-bye now.

Togepi, you're mine now!

Uh, what's wrong?

-Togepi, hey... It's no good.

I told you, but you didn't want to believe me.

Toge, toge!

Look, it doesn't want to go to anyone else but me now.

BOTH: Huh?

-[TRILLING] -Hey, what's goin' on here?

Togepi is imprinted with the image

of the first thing it sees after it hatches,

thinking this is its mother.

Yeah, that explains it!

When it hatched, Misty was the first thing it saw!

Toge, toge, toge!

I knew it!

Togepi likes me because it thinks I'm its mother!

Right, Togepi?

[SQUEALS] Toge, toge, toge, toge, toge!

I'll love you just like a mother would.

You'll help me take care of Togepi,

won't you, Pikachu?

Pikachu!

NARRATOR: Well, with Misty as its new trainer,

it seems like Togepi is the real winner,

don't you think?

[SQUEALING AND CHATTERING]

-Yeah! [LAUGHS]

-Don't go away. The Pokérap is next.

[SINGING] -Pokémon

[SINGING] -Pokémon

-Get those lips loose. It's time to Pokérap.

Come on. Sing 'em with me.

That's the game.

There's 150 Pokémon.

How many can you name?

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all

We're almost home!

-[SINGING] Gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all

-[SINGING] Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon

-That's all, folks! -Can you name all the Pokémon?

Just put today's song together with the other days of the week.

That's why you can't miss a show.

You got to catch 'em all!

[SINGING] -Catch 'em, catch 'em

Gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon

Catch 'em, catch 'em gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon

Catch 'em, catch 'em gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all, Pokémon

[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC]

[SINGING] -I want to be the very best

Like no one ever was

To catch them is my real test

To train them is my cause

I will travel across the land

Searching far and wide

Each Pokémon to understand

The power that's inside

Pokémon, gotta catch 'em all

It's you and me

[CRASH!]

I know it's my destiny

Pokémon

Oh, you're my best friend

In a world we must defend

Pokémon, gotta catch 'em all

A heart so true

Our courage will pull us through

You teach me and I'll teach you

Pokémon

Gotta catch 'em all

Gotta catch 'em all

Pokémon