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Bad to the Bone (Japanese: ガラガラのホネこんぼう Garagara's Bone Club) is the 73rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 3, 1998 and in the United States on October 16, 1999.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and company offer to help a trainer heading for the Pokémon League retrieve his stolen gym badges from Jessie and James and Meowth.

Major events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Marowak

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Delia
• Professor Oak
• Otoshi

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Moltres

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Charmander (Ash's; flashback)
• Charizard (Ash's; flashback)
• Starmie (Misty's; flashback)
• Onix (Brock's; flashback)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Mr. Mime (Mimey)
• Marowak (Otoshi's)
• Doduo (Otoshi's)
• Raichu (Lt. Surge's; flashback)
• Weepinbell (Erika's; flashback)
• Kadabra (Sabrina's; flashback)
• Venonat (Aya's; flashback)
• Rhydon (Blaine's; flashback)
• Magmar (Blaine's; flashback)
• Kingler (Giovanni's; flashback)
• Rhydon (Giovanni's; flashback)
• Hitmonlee (unnamed Gym Leader’s)
• Nidoran♂ (unnamed Trainer's)
• Chansey (unnamed Trainer's)
• Scyther (unnamed Gym Leader)
• Flareon (unnamed Trainer's)

Trivia

• This episode's dub title is a reference to the George Thorogood song, Bad to the Bone.
• In Otoshi's memories, it is shown he fought a Scyther when he won the Soul Badge. Also, it is shown he fought a Hitmonlee when he won the Marsh Badge.
• The movie Mewtwo Strikes Back takes place before this episode and after the previous one.
• When Ash flashes back to his battles with the gym leaders, the scene where Bulbasaur defeats Venonat is shown. The Venonat was Aya's Venonat, and Ash won his Soul Badge by defeating Koga, the gym leader, when his Charmander beat Koga's Golbat.

Errors

• Pikachu knocks out Otoshi's Marowak with an Electric move, but Template:Type2s should be immune to it.
• Flashbacks show Otoshi earning a Volcano Badge, a Marsh Badge, a Soul Badge, and a Thunder Badge. However, when Team Rocket takes the badges from Otoshi, the Thunder Badge cannot be seen. The badges visible are a Boulder Badge, a Cascade Badge, a Marsh Badge, a Soul Badge, a Volcano Badge, and three unknown badges, two of them square and one of them green and triangle-shaped. Later, when Jessie shows the other trainer Otoshi's badges, the Thunder Badge is there but the Marsh Badge isn't. Also all the badges except for the Boulder Badge and the Thunder Badge are slightly distorted in this scene.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Finnish: Luita myöten paha
• French: Tombés sur un os
• German: Böse bis auf die Knochen
• Italian: Le Medaglie rubate
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Malo hasta los huesos!
• Iberian Spanish: Malo hasta la médula
• Brazilian Portuguese: Um Osso Duro de Roer

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