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| Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit!
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エモンガ、ロケット団に入る！
Emonga Joins Rocket-dan!
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First broadcast
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September 5, 2013
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| United States
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November 16, 2013
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Kato
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| Screenplay
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大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
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| Storyboard
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| Assistant director
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| Animation director
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案浦達哉 Tatsuya Annoura
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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Team Rocket's Shocking Recruit! (Japanese: エモンガ、ロケット団に入る！ Emonga Joins Rocket-dan!) is the 139th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 796th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 5, 2013 and in the United States on November 16, 2013.
Plot
Waiting for the Decolore cruise ship to sail after the evening, Alexa is once again temporary leaving Ash and his friends telling them her camera had stopped working, and she can't make photos no more. So without further ado, Alexa and her Helioptile headed south to find someone to fix her camera, and continue making new photos. Meanwhile, back to our heroes, Ash, Iris and Cilan are spending a while in a meadow, having a relaxing picnic, whlie ealeasing all of their Pokémon to be gorged. At this time, Oshawott ate his meal, and then he jupmed to eat Pignite's meal. And suddenly, Pignite notices that his bowl is empty because Oshwott ate his meal, Pignite becomes very angry and punched him very hard, and then Oshawott knocked Emolga along with her food. She was very angry on Oshawott and used Discharge on him for spilling her food. During such, Iris has a little misunderstanding with her Emolga, making the latter really upset and storm off.
As she glides through the air, Emolga loses her balance and falls to where Team Rocket are. Jessie and James's Pokémon try to engage in a battle with her, but Emolga easily defeats them with one Attract move. After what seems to be an overwhelming victory, Jessie convinces James and Meowth so they invite her to join their side. Emolga, not thinking that anything is up, joins forces with the trio.
Major events
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Exploud
Trivia
Woobat's nose colors are swapped after getting hit by Attract
Emolga's ears colors are swapped
- Pikachu demonstrates his mimicking abilities by imitating Axew.
- The time between this episode's Japanese version's airing and its dubbed version's airing is only 72 days, breaking the record of the shortest gap between the airing of the Japanese version and the regular dubbed version of an episode, previously set by Celebrating the Hero's Comet! only two episodes earlier.
- This episode shares similarities with A Scare to Remember!:
- Cilan narrates the preview for the next episode.
Errors
- When Woobat and Yamask are hit by Attract, the pink and black colors of Woobat's nose are swapped.
- During Emolga and Snivy's argument, the white and yellow colors of Emolga's ears are swapped.
Dub edits
In other languages
