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Bad to the Bone

EP073   ガラガラのホネこんぼう Garagara's Bone Club

First broadcast Japan December 3, 1998 United States October 16, 1999

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター Ending タイプ・ワイルド

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa No additional credits are available at this time.

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 goes to Professor Oak to ask for advice about what to do about the Pokémon League as he has not done much training being sidetracked in the past. He tells Ash it is too late but to try his best anyway. They hit the road to Indigo Plateau to find a guy named Otoshi who challenges Ash. If Otoshi wins, he may take all of Ash’s badges. Ash uses Bulbasaur but Bulbasaur fainted. Later, Ash uses Pikachu and manage to defeat him. And he discover that Otoshi didn’t have any badges. They were stolen, by Team Rocket. Meanwhile, James and Meowth discover the badges they just stole had gone. Jessie had taken them, to go onto the Pokémon League alone. Otoshi’s Marowak gets frustrated, and walks away. Otoshi despairs, until they spot Team Rocket’s balloon. James and Meowth take off, but are stopped by Ash and the gang. They search the things of Team Rocket and did not find the badges. Later, James and Meowth are off to find Jessie. They find her in disguise and was about to steal another trainer's badges. But, James threw a bomb at her and it explodes. They recites the motto and the trainer ran off, knowing that they are Team Rocket. Soon, James and Meowth forgive her, and get back together. Otoshi battles them for the badges back, but almost loses until Marowak shows up to stop them. Marowak came back after remembering some of the better times with Otoshi. They get the badges back, and Otoshi and Ash go their separate ways towards the Pokémon League.

Major events

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Marowak

Characters

Humans

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

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 (implied to be Sabrina’s)
• Nidoran♂ (unnamed Trainer's)
• Chansey (unnamed Trainer's)
• Scyther (implied to be Koga's)
• 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.
• 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.
• After Jessie's Arbok defeated Otoshi's Doduo, she decides to catch his Doduo, however, captured Pokémon cannot be captured again. This may due to this factor, not happening in the early stage of Pokémon

Dub edits

In other languages

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

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