EP073

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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 episode 73 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 3, 1998 and in the United States on October 16, 1999.

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

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

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

• Marowak

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Delia Ketchum
• 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)
• Hitmonlee (unnamed gym leader's)(most likely Sabrina's from the Marshbadge flashback)
• Nidoran♂ (unnamed trainer's)
• Chansey (unnamed trainer's)
• Scyther (unnamed gym leader's)(most likely Koga's from the Soulbadge flashback)
• Flareon (unnamed trainer's)

Trivia

• This episode appeared to make reference on the fact that high-leveled Pokémon won't obey you unless you've earned a certain number of badges in certain Pokémon games.
• 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 and it is shown he fought a Hitmonlee when he won the Marsh Badge. It is speculation that Koga owned the Scyther since he gives the Soul Badge to his opponent, and that he fought Master Hamm to earn the Marsh Badge. But that would be incorrect, since only Template:Sabrina could give the Marsh Badge, unless Master Hamm could sometime before Ash and friends met him in AG145 when passing through Saffron City, considering the Dojo was the previous Saffron Gym.

Errors

• Pikachu knocks out Otoshi's Marowak with an electric attack, but Ground-types should be immune to it.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Tombés sur un os
• Italian: Le Medaglie rubate
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Malo hasta los huesos!
• Spanish: Malo hasta la médula

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