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(Japanese: '''サラバ!さすらいのロケット団!''' ''Farewell! The Wandering {{tt|Rocket Gang|Team Rocket}}!'') is the 95th episode of ''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]'', and the 1,180th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It first aired in Japan on January 28, 2022<!-- and is scheduled to air in the United States on *day*-->.
(Japanese: '''サラバ!さすらいのロケット団!''' ''Farewell! The Wandering {{tt|Rocket-dan|Team Rocket}}!'') is the 95th episode of ''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]'', and the 1,180th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It first aired in Japan on January 28, 2022<!-- and is scheduled to air in the United States on *day*-->.
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==Plot==
==Plot==
[[Jessie]] and [[Jessie's Wobbuffet|Wobbuffet]] wander a desert, lost. Jessie laments over having a cruel fate.
[[Jessie]] and {{TP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}} are wandering through a desert in a sandstorm, wondering if their current predicament is cruel fate, before collapsing in the sand and bidding farewell to [[James]] and {{MTR}}.


The story then goes back to a week earlier. The [[Team Rocket trio]] are working at a toothpaste factory and discuss whether or not they should quit Team Rocket so that they don't have to take low-paying part-time jobs to fund their Team Rocket expenses. After they clock out, [[Ash]] and [[Goh]] walk by. [[Meowth (Team Rocket)|Meowth]] catches [[Ash's Pikachu|Pikachu]] in a net and Team Rocket battle Ash and Goh. The [[Pelipper (Team Rocket)|Team Rocket Pelipper]] that makes deliveries to the trio, provide them with random Pokémon from Team Rocket Headquarters, a [[Slakoth]] and a [[Slaking]]. Their Pokémon-on-loan lay there and do nothing, so the trio is defeated. They blast off with Pelipper.
A week earlier, {{TRT}} is shown working at a part-time job in a factory in [[Vermilion City]] to get fundings for their operations. When their shift ends and they go outside, they spot [[Ash's Pikachu]], along with {{Ash}} and [[Goh]]. They quickly seize Pikachu in a net and call down the [[Rocket Prize Master]]. However, the lazy {{p|Slakoth}} and {{p|Slaking}} they get do nothing when commanded to use {{m|Slack Off}}, before returning to their [[Poké Ball]]s, allowing Ash and Goh to easily blast the trio off with {{AP|Lucario}} and {{TP|Goh|Cinderace}} and save Pikachu. After landing, the Rocket trio decides to blame the lousy Pokémon they got from the Prize Master for their failure and focus their attention on {{OBP|Pelipper|Team Rocket}}. Translated by Meowth, Pelipper says the vending machine comes up to luck and flies off. The trio decides to pursue Pelipper so they can give the one responsible for the Rocket Prize Master a piece of their mind. While chasing it, they notice a {{p|Swablu}} sitting on their balloon. Since Swablu are said to bring happiness, they attempt to grab it, only for Swablu to dodge them and burst their balloon with {{m|Dragon Breath}}, sending them blasting off yet again.


The trio dread what [[Matori]] is going to say to them the next time they check in with her. They ask Pelipper to loan them better Pokémon. Pelipper, through Meowth's translation, says that it's just the luck of the draw and that everyone has lucky days and unlucky days. Pelipper then flies away. The trio follow it so that it will lead them to the nearest Team Rocket Headquarters, where they can pick out some Pokémon.
While floating in the middle of the sea, Team Rocket sees Pelipper swimming nearby and chases it, only for a {{p|Wailord}} to appear and swallow both them and Pelipper. Inside Wailord, they find an old rusty ship and a {{p|Chatot}}, which, according to Meowth, has been trapped here ever since Wailord swallowed the ship. Not wanting to stay trapped as long as the ship has, the trio decides to use the Rocket Prize Master to escape. Pelipper, however, is stubborn and refuses to hand the vending machine over, using {{m|Hydro Pump}} on the trio when they try to force its bill open. Regardless, this attack does cause Wailord to squirt the trio, Pelipper, and Chatot out of its blowhole in the middle of a frozen sea. At first, the trio waves Pelipper goodbye and thank it for saving them, before remembering that they were chasing it, and resume the chase, only to run into an angry {{p|Mamoswine}}. By dangling Meowth before its face, Team Rocket continues their chase of Pelipper on Mamoswine's back.


On their way to Headquarters, they discuss how freeing it is to be going on adventures, without having to think of work. A Wild [[Swablu]] appears and the trio get excited because Swablu are said to bring good luck. They try to catch it in nets, but it bursts their hot air balloon. They blast off with Pelipper.
Eventually, however, the trio loses Pelipper and slips off Mamoswine's back out of hunger near a snow-covered village. They try to make it for a house, but collapse one by one in the midst of a howling blizzard. When they wake up, they find themselves in front of a warm fireplace and next to a table filled with food, much to their pleasure. They eagerly dig in and thank the woman for bringing them more to eat, before suddenly recognizing said woman as none other than [[Cassidy]], their fellow [[Team Rocket]] member. Cassidy, however, makes it clear that, despite her once-elite status in the organization, she is not its member anymore, having gotten tired of its daily routines and realized that there is more to life than Team Rocket. While Cassidy tells them to rest, Jessie insists on them working hard to repay her saving them, which she smugly accepts.


Adrift at sea, they get swallowed by a [[Wailord]]. Pelipper attacks Wailord, and Wailord shoots them out through its blowhole. They end up on land, but Pelipper flies away. They ride a Wild [[Mamoswine]] until they find some log cabins in the woods. They pass out in front of a cabin, as a blizzard starts.
Team Rocket starts enjoying their life at Cassidy's café, helping to serve her customers and doing other helpful work. One day, when sitting outside to enjoy some food after a good day's work, however, they start thinking back to how they wound up here in the first place, until Pelipper flies by and makes them remember their chase. They prepare to resume it, but James seems reluctant, having gotten used to living with Cassidy. Jessie and Meowth, having seen how James has enjoyed his new life here, decide to let him stay while they resume their chase of Pelipper, tears pouring from Jessie's eyes as they run away.


They awake on couches inside the cabin. This café is owned by their former [[Rival]], [[Cassidy]]. She invites them to stay the night and gives them dinner. Grateful, they tell her that they intend to work there until the food is paid for. Over dinner, Cassidy explains that she left Team Rocket because the work wasn't fulfilling anymore and that now she apologizes to no one. She has also taken up woodworking as a side hustle.
Eventually, Jessie and Meowth wind up in a small town located next a seaside cliff, preventing them from going on any further. Hungry from all their running, they follow a delicious scent to a bakery, where they find not only a {{p|Meowth}} who's a spitting image of [[Meowzie]], [[EP070|Meowth's first love]], but also [[Butch]], Cassidy's now-former teammate from Team Rocket. He gives them some bread and prepares to explain why he's here, only for Jessie to cut him off and correctly guess that he, like Cassidy, has realized that Team Rocket isn't all there is to life and left the organization. Butch is angry at them for spoiling his big reveal, but agrees to let them repay his kindess with some work at the bakery. Once again, Jessie and Meowth end up forgetting their chase of Pelipper, only to be reminded of it when the {{pkmn|category|Water Bird Pokémon}} flies past the bakery. Having seen how happy Meowth is with Meowzie's lookalike, Jessie lets him stay behind. As Jessie runs away, Meowth gives her a parting gift in the form of a {{p|Wobbuffet}} balloon he had sowed himself. While pursuing Pelipper, Jessie finds the Swablu from before once again on the balloon, now having actually pecked a hole on it. She tries to grab it, only for it to once again use Dragon Breath to burst the balloon and send both her and Wobbuffet blasting off for the third time during their chase.


Over time, the Team Rocket trio help out at the café. It seems that they have become friends with Cassidy, now that they're no longer Rivals. Then, one day, they spot Pelipper outside. Since Pelipper can guide them out of the woods, Jessie, Meowth, and Wobbuffet are ready to leave before working off their full tab. James wants to stay and work it off, now that they're friends with Cassidy. Jessie and Meowth imply that if he's sweet on Cassidy, he has their blessing. James says that they're misunderstanding things. In a hurry to find Pelipper, who is now out of sight, Jessie and Meowth tell him that if staying to do honest work would make him happy, then they won't stand in his way. James is moved. Jessie, who was just putting on a brave face, abruptly runs away, crying. Meowth and Wobbuffet follow her.
Back at the desert from the start of the episode, Jessie and Wobbuffet collapse from exhaustion and bid farewell to their teammates. Jessie dreams of James and Meowth waking him by slapping her, only for her to wake up and find out it was actually a {{p|Sandshrew}} scratching her face. She wakes up Wobbuffet as well, but before they can continue looking for Pelipper, they end up falling into a sand pit, with a {{p|Trapinch}} opening its jaws for them at the bottom. Just as Jessie is about to accept her fate, James, Meowth, and Pelipper suddenly appear at the edge of the pit. They explain that James had been tossed out by Cassidy after his {{TP|James|Morpeko}} ate all of the café's food, while Meowth had found out that Meowzie's lookalike was hanging out with a local {{p|Persian}}, and they had both ended up reuniting and chasing Pelipper together. Jessie tells them to save her, but both James and Meowth end up slipping into the sand pit as well. Meowth tells Pelipper to save them, but it refuses, having no room in its bill for both the Rocket Prize Master and them. However, when it sees the trio helplessly sliding down the pit, it finally lets go of its stubbornness and drops the vending machine onto Trapinch so it can scoop up the Team Rocket trio and save them.


Jessie and Meowth end up at a nearby bakery owned by their former Rival, [[Butch]], who has left Team Rocket. Butch makes them lunch and they offer to work off the tab. It seems that they have become friends with Butch. Meowth develops a crush on Butch's Meowth, who reminds him of his first love. Over time, Jessie and Meowth spot Pelipper. Jessie tells Meowth that if he wants to stay and court Butch's Meowth, he has her blessing. She then runs away, crying.
As Pelipper flies away, Team Rocket waves it goodbye, having finally understood that the vending machine, like life, is up to chance: sometimes you get good pulls, other times you get bad ones, and sometimes what seem like good pulls might turn out to be bad ones. When they start to wonder how to get out of the desert, Ash and Goh suddenly appear near them. Seeing a way back home, Jessie tells Ash to ask them what they're up to, giving the Rocket trio a segue into their {{motto}}, fully embracing their life in Team Rocket once again and welcoming Pikachu's usual {{m|Thunderbolt}} with open arms, blasting off for one more time for the week. Ash and Goh are left confused by the villainous trio's smiles, while said trio happily crashes back into their part-time job factory in Vermilion City.
 
Jessie and Wobbuffet follow Pelipper in a hot air balloon, until Swablu returns and bursts their balloon. Jessie, Wobbuffet, and Pelipper blast off.
 
Jessie and Wobbuffet roam the desert and pass out. When they wake up, they get attacked by a Wild [[Trapinch]]. Jessie laments over life dealing her a bad hand when other people have it good. As luck would have it, James, Meowth, and Pelipper show up to help. James tells Jessie that he must be lucky, since he's found her. He explains that he was working off their tab but got fired. Meowth says that Butch's Meowth was in love with a [[Persian]], so he skipped town, and that he and James chased Pelipper until it lead them to her. Pelipper attacks Trapinch and saves them.
 
The trio wave goodbye to Pelipper, who has deliveries to make. James reminds Jessie that everyone has good luck and bad luck. Jessie says that what can seem like an unlucky day can turn out to be a lucky day.
 
Ash and Goh, who are sand surfing, show up. The trio challenge them to a battle. Ash blasts them off before they can attack. The trio gets up and cheer because they're back to going on adventures with each other.
 
The ending narration says that one can never know their luck; they have to see how it plays out.


==Major events==
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* [[Butch]] and [[Cassidy]] reappear and are revealed to have left [[Team Rocket]].
* [[Butch]] and [[Cassidy]] reappear and are revealed to have left [[Team Rocket]].
*  Butch and Cassidy are shown to both own eateries that are near one another.
* Butch, Cassidy, Jessie, James, and Meowth become friends.
* Butch is revealed to own a {{p|Meowth}}.
* Butch is revealed to own a {{p|Meowth}}.
* The [[Team Rocket trio]] temporarily splits up, but later reunites.
* The [[Team Rocket trio]] temporarily splits up, but later reunites.
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* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Wobbuffet}} ({{OP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}})
* {{p|Wobbuffet}} ({{OP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}})
* {{p|Cinderace}} ({{OP|Goh|Cinderace}})
* {{p|Dragonite}} ({{OP|Ash|Dragonite}})
* {{p|Dragonite}} ({{OP|Ash|Dragonite}})
* {{p|Lucario}} ({{OP|Ash|Lucario}})
* {{p|Lucario}} ({{OP|Ash|Lucario}})
* {{p|Cinderace}} ({{OP|Goh|Cinderace}})
* {{p|Beedrill}} ({{OP|Goh|Beedrill}})
* {{p|Beedrill}} ({{OP|Goh|Beedrill}})
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* This episode premiered the same day [[Pokémon Legends: Arceus]] was released.
* This episode premiered the same day [[Pokémon Legends: Arceus]] was released.
* This episode marks the first appearance of [[Butch]] and [[Cassidy]] in the {{pkmn|anime}} since ''[[DP065|Sleight of Sand!]]'', 649 episodes earlier.
* This episode marks the first appearance of [[Butch]] and [[Cassidy]] in the {{pkmn|anime}} since ''[[DP065|Sleight of Sand!]]'', 649 episodes earlier.
* The wooden carvings in Cassidy's cafe are based on the Pokémon she used during the course of the anime, excluding [[HS18|Tentacruel]] and [[AG177|Charizard]].
* The wooden carvings in Cassidy's café are based on some of the Pokémon she used during the course of the anime.
* Team Rocket as a whole blasts off three times in this episode, while [[Jessie]] and {{TP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}} blast off four times.
* Team Rocket as a whole blasts off three times in this episode, while [[Jessie]] and {{TP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}} blast off four times.
* This is one of the rare times where Team Rocket has willingly wanted to be blasted off.
* This is one of the rare times where Team Rocket has willingly wanted to be blasted off.
* [[Meowth's Ballad]] and [[Team Rocket's Team Song]] are used as insert songs in this episode.
* [[Meowth's Ballad]] and [[Team Rocket's Team Song]] are used as insert songs in this episode.
** This episode also marks the first time in ''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]'' that a theme song from a past series is used as an insert song in an episode.
** This episode also marks the first time in ''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]'' that a theme song from a past series is used as an insert song in an episode.
* Team Rocket getting swallowed by a {{p|Wailord}} and finding a ship inside is a reference to the 1940 Disney film, {{wp|Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio}}.
* Team Rocket getting swallowed by a {{p|Wailord}} and finding a ship inside could be a reference to the story of ''{{wp|The Adventures of Pinocchio|Pinocchio}}''.
* This is one of the few episodes after ''[[Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl]]'' to feature a {{wp|cold open}}ing.
* {{an|Sophocles}}, {{Ash}}, [[Goh]], an {{p|Ampharos}}, and {{AP|Pikachu}} narrate the preview for the [[JN096|next episode]].
* {{an|Sophocles}}, {{Ash}}, [[Goh]], an {{p|Ampharos}}, and {{AP|Pikachu}} narrate the preview for the [[JN096|next episode]].


===Errors===
===Errors===
* When {{TP|Goh|Cinderace}} and {{TP|Ash|Lucario}} use {{m|Pyro Ball}} and {{m|Aura Sphere}}, respectively, {{p|Slaking}} is in front of Team Rocket despite returning to its [[Poké Ball]] in the previous scene.  
* When {{TP|Goh|Cinderace}} and {{AP|Lucario}} use {{m|Pyro Ball}} and {{m|Aura Sphere}}, respectively, {{p|Slaking}} is in front of Team Rocket, despite returning to its [[Poké Ball]] in the previous scene.  
* When {{p|Swablu}} uses {{m|Dragon Breath}} to blast off Team Rocket the second time, the Wobballoon and {{p|Pelipper}} are above the clouds. However, they were below the clouds in previous scenes.
* When {{p|Swablu}} uses {{m|Dragon Breath}} to blast off Team Rocket the second time, the Wobbuffet balloon and {{OBP|Pelipper|Team Rocket}} are above the clouds. However, they were below the clouds in the preceding shots.


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Revision as of 11:55, 12 May 2022

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JN094 : Suffering the Flings and Arrows!
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
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JN095   EP1180
サラバ!さすらいのロケット団!
Farewell! The Wandering Rocket-dan!
First broadcast
Japan January 28, 2022
United States
English themes
Opening
Ending
Japanese themes
Opening 1・2・3
Ending バツグンタイプ
Credits
Animation Team Kato
Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Animation directors 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane
志村泉 Izumi Shimura
No additional credits are available at this time.

(Japanese: サラバ!さすらいのロケット団! Farewell! The Wandering Rocket-dan!) is the 95th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,180th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 28, 2022.

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Plot

Jessie and Wobbuffet are wandering through a desert in a sandstorm, wondering if their current predicament is cruel fate, before collapsing in the sand and bidding farewell to James and Meowth.

A week earlier, Team Rocket is shown working at a part-time job in a factory in Vermilion City to get fundings for their operations. When their shift ends and they go outside, they spot Ash's Pikachu, along with Ash and Goh. They quickly seize Pikachu in a net and call down the Rocket Prize Master. However, the lazy Slakoth and Slaking they get do nothing when commanded to use Slack Off, before returning to their Poké Balls, allowing Ash and Goh to easily blast the trio off with Lucario and Cinderace and save Pikachu. After landing, the Rocket trio decides to blame the lousy Pokémon they got from the Prize Master for their failure and focus their attention on Pelipper. Translated by Meowth, Pelipper says the vending machine comes up to luck and flies off. The trio decides to pursue Pelipper so they can give the one responsible for the Rocket Prize Master a piece of their mind. While chasing it, they notice a Swablu sitting on their balloon. Since Swablu are said to bring happiness, they attempt to grab it, only for Swablu to dodge them and burst their balloon with Dragon Breath, sending them blasting off yet again.

While floating in the middle of the sea, Team Rocket sees Pelipper swimming nearby and chases it, only for a Wailord to appear and swallow both them and Pelipper. Inside Wailord, they find an old rusty ship and a Chatot, which, according to Meowth, has been trapped here ever since Wailord swallowed the ship. Not wanting to stay trapped as long as the ship has, the trio decides to use the Rocket Prize Master to escape. Pelipper, however, is stubborn and refuses to hand the vending machine over, using Hydro Pump on the trio when they try to force its bill open. Regardless, this attack does cause Wailord to squirt the trio, Pelipper, and Chatot out of its blowhole in the middle of a frozen sea. At first, the trio waves Pelipper goodbye and thank it for saving them, before remembering that they were chasing it, and resume the chase, only to run into an angry Mamoswine. By dangling Meowth before its face, Team Rocket continues their chase of Pelipper on Mamoswine's back.

Eventually, however, the trio loses Pelipper and slips off Mamoswine's back out of hunger near a snow-covered village. They try to make it for a house, but collapse one by one in the midst of a howling blizzard. When they wake up, they find themselves in front of a warm fireplace and next to a table filled with food, much to their pleasure. They eagerly dig in and thank the woman for bringing them more to eat, before suddenly recognizing said woman as none other than Cassidy, their fellow Team Rocket member. Cassidy, however, makes it clear that, despite her once-elite status in the organization, she is not its member anymore, having gotten tired of its daily routines and realized that there is more to life than Team Rocket. While Cassidy tells them to rest, Jessie insists on them working hard to repay her saving them, which she smugly accepts.

Team Rocket starts enjoying their life at Cassidy's café, helping to serve her customers and doing other helpful work. One day, when sitting outside to enjoy some food after a good day's work, however, they start thinking back to how they wound up here in the first place, until Pelipper flies by and makes them remember their chase. They prepare to resume it, but James seems reluctant, having gotten used to living with Cassidy. Jessie and Meowth, having seen how James has enjoyed his new life here, decide to let him stay while they resume their chase of Pelipper, tears pouring from Jessie's eyes as they run away.

Eventually, Jessie and Meowth wind up in a small town located next a seaside cliff, preventing them from going on any further. Hungry from all their running, they follow a delicious scent to a bakery, where they find not only a Meowth who's a spitting image of Meowzie, Meowth's first love, but also Butch, Cassidy's now-former teammate from Team Rocket. He gives them some bread and prepares to explain why he's here, only for Jessie to cut him off and correctly guess that he, like Cassidy, has realized that Team Rocket isn't all there is to life and left the organization. Butch is angry at them for spoiling his big reveal, but agrees to let them repay his kindess with some work at the bakery. Once again, Jessie and Meowth end up forgetting their chase of Pelipper, only to be reminded of it when the Water Bird Pokémon flies past the bakery. Having seen how happy Meowth is with Meowzie's lookalike, Jessie lets him stay behind. As Jessie runs away, Meowth gives her a parting gift in the form of a Wobbuffet balloon he had sowed himself. While pursuing Pelipper, Jessie finds the Swablu from before once again on the balloon, now having actually pecked a hole on it. She tries to grab it, only for it to once again use Dragon Breath to burst the balloon and send both her and Wobbuffet blasting off for the third time during their chase.

Back at the desert from the start of the episode, Jessie and Wobbuffet collapse from exhaustion and bid farewell to their teammates. Jessie dreams of James and Meowth waking him by slapping her, only for her to wake up and find out it was actually a Sandshrew scratching her face. She wakes up Wobbuffet as well, but before they can continue looking for Pelipper, they end up falling into a sand pit, with a Trapinch opening its jaws for them at the bottom. Just as Jessie is about to accept her fate, James, Meowth, and Pelipper suddenly appear at the edge of the pit. They explain that James had been tossed out by Cassidy after his Morpeko ate all of the café's food, while Meowth had found out that Meowzie's lookalike was hanging out with a local Persian, and they had both ended up reuniting and chasing Pelipper together. Jessie tells them to save her, but both James and Meowth end up slipping into the sand pit as well. Meowth tells Pelipper to save them, but it refuses, having no room in its bill for both the Rocket Prize Master and them. However, when it sees the trio helplessly sliding down the pit, it finally lets go of its stubbornness and drops the vending machine onto Trapinch so it can scoop up the Team Rocket trio and save them.

As Pelipper flies away, Team Rocket waves it goodbye, having finally understood that the vending machine, like life, is up to chance: sometimes you get good pulls, other times you get bad ones, and sometimes what seem like good pulls might turn out to be bad ones. When they start to wonder how to get out of the desert, Ash and Goh suddenly appear near them. Seeing a way back home, Jessie tells Ash to ask them what they're up to, giving the Rocket trio a segue into their motto, fully embracing their life in Team Rocket once again and welcoming Pikachu's usual Thunderbolt with open arms, blasting off for one more time for the week. Ash and Goh are left confused by the villainous trio's smiles, while said trio happily crashes back into their part-time job factory in Vermilion City.

Major events

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Debuts

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Characters

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Pokémon

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