11x28 - The Thief that Keeps On Thieving!

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Pokémon". Aired: April 1, 1997 – present.*
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Japanese anime follows Ash a young trainer of fictional creatures called Pokémon.
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11x28 - The Thief that Keeps On Thieving!

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DAWN: It isn't just a dream!

DAWN: My second ribbon!

BROCK: It's real and it's great!

DAWN: Thanks!

ASH: Yeah, and now it's my turn!

Won't be long then it's badge number four!

PIKACHU: [ENCOURAGING]

YANMA: [APPEARING]

BROCK: It's a Yanma!

YANMA: [TAKING OFF]

POKEDEX: Yanma. The Clear Wing Pokémon.

Its eyes can see a full three hundred sixty degrees

around without moving its head.

YANMA: [TAKING OFF]

ASH: Guess Yanma likes landing on people's heads.

DAWN: I'd say so!

YANMA: [HURRIEDLY LEAVING]

TYLER: Excuse me.!

TYLER: I was wondering.

You haven't seen a Yanma have you?

DAWN: Matter of fact, yeah!

ASH: It just took off over the lake!

TYLER: Thanks!

ASH: Let's go too!

PIKACHU, DAWN, BROCK: Okay!

NARRATOR: Continuing their trek to the Pastoria Gym

where Ash's fourth Gym badge challenge beckons,

our Heroes have come across an energetic young man

searching for an energetic Yanma!

On a road, far from home,

you don't have to feel alone.

Brave and strong,

together we will be.

It's our destiny!

We will be heroes,

We can change the world if we try!

I go where you go,

Forever friends, you and I!

We will be heroes!

Battle Dimension Pokémon!

[ASH READS ON-SCREEN TEXT]

TYLER: I finally found you!

TYLER: Okay Pippy, go!

PIPPY: [EXCITED]

TYLER: Use Peck Pippy!

PIPPY: [EXCITED] [PAINED]

ASH: Whoa, I think he's trying to catch that Yanma!

DAWN: And he's got a Piplup named Pippy too!

PIPLUP: [EXCITED]

YANMA: [ATTACKING]

PIPPY: [CRASHING]

TYLER: Oh man!

ASH: You've got to dodge quicker!

TYLER: Hey! Pippy are you okay? PIPPY: [CONFIDENT]

TYLER: Okay then let's use Pound!

PIPPY: [POUND MOVE][MISSING]

YANMA: [ATTACKING] PIPPY: [HOWLING][CRASHING]

YANMA: [FLEEING] TYLER: No way!

TYLER: Another try, and another miss!

PIPPY: [SAD]

PIPPY: [APOLOGETIC]

TYLER: It's okay! It wasn't your fault.

PIPPY: [SAD]

ASH: Cool!

ASH: So you chose Piplup as your first Pokémon?

TYLER: That's right!

I decided I was gonna start out my journey with a Water type!

DAWN: Piplup was my first Pokémon too! Pippy?

PIPPY, PIPLUP: [CURIOUS]

DAWN: Nice to meet you!

PIPPY: [PLEASED]

DAWN: My name is Dawn!

ASH: Hi! I'm Ash!

TYLER: My name's Tyler!

BROCK: A pleasure, Tyler. My name's Brock!

DAWN: That tiara looks great on you!

PIPLUP: [HAPPY]

TYLER: It's a gift from my mother for our journey!

ASH: How long have you been on your journey anyway?

TYLER: Uh. It's been a week!

BROCK: Sounds to me like your journey has just begun!

TYLER: See, right up front I decided that

I was gonna catch the very first Pokémon I ever managed to touch.

TYLER: .and that was the Yanma you saw!

TYLER: I've been chasing that Yanma for three whole days now

but it always seems to get away from me.

ASH: Three days?

DAWN: Wow your first catch!

DAWN: I remember how long it took me

to finally catch Buneary!

ASH: That was my Caterpie!

ASH: Back in Viridian Forest!

ASH: I sure was happy, right Pikachu?

ASH: Tyler, how about if we help you out

with catching your very first Pokémon?

TYLER: Wow, thank you!

STARAVIA: [ALERTING]

ASH: Staravia spotted Yanma!

TYLER: All right!

TYLER: All right Pippy Bubble go!

PIPPY: [BUBBLE MOVE]

YANMA: [DODGING]

TYLER: Now, use Peck!

PIPPY, YANMA: [PECK MOVE]

TYLER: Yes!

ASH: That's it Tyler keep it up!

TYLER: Okay! Now Pippy use Pound!

PIPPY: [POUND MOVE]

YANMA: [PAINED]

DAWN: Looks like Tyler's getting the hang of it!

ASH: Sure does!

PIPLUP: [WARNING] YANMA: [QUICK att*ck MOVE]

BROCK: That's Yanma's Quick att*ck!

ASH: Tyler intercept it!

TYLER: Right! Use Peck one more time!

PIPPY: [PECK MOVE]

YANMA: [WEAKENED][CRASHING]

ASH: Now Tyler! The Poké Ball!

BROCK: And make it a good throw!

TYLER: All right! Go!

ASH: Oh no!

JESSIE: Is that the sound of negativity I hear?

JAMES: Bummer bantering rings loud and clear.

JESSIE: On the wind!

JAMES: Past the stars!

MEOWTH: In your ear!

JESSIE: Bringing chaos at a break-neck pace!

JAMES: Dashing all hope putting fear in its place!

JESSIE: A rose by any other name's just as sweet!

JAMES: When everything's worse our work is complete!

-JESSIE: It's Jessie! JAMES: And it's James!

MEOWTH: Meowth! That's a name!

JESSIE: Putting the do-gooders in their place!

JAMES: Team Rocket!

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: In your face!

DAWN: Team Rocket!

JESSIE: Time to throw the game. underhand!

TYLER: What?

JESSIE: Love when Twerps do all the work.

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: Then we get to play!

TYLER: And I was just about to make my first catch.

DAWN, BROCK, PIPLUP, PIPPY: [CONCERNED]

ASH: Tyler!

PIPLUP: [EXPLAINING]

DAWN: No luck huh?

ASH: Team Rocket's gotta be around here!

BROCK: Well, the problem is there are lots of lakes

and ponds around here

and they could all be connected underwater.

ASH: I can't believe what Team Rocket did!

Stealing someone's first caught Pokémon!

TYLER: And after trying and trying to catch Yanma

for the past three days.

ASH: Hey, don't do that!

ASH: You can't quit after one defeat!

ASH: Your journey's just started!

Believe me, you're gonna have to deal

with lots harder stuff than this!

DAWN: Don't worry! You stick with it

and I'm sure you and your Pippy are gonna be just fine!

BROCK: Yeah this is certainly no time for you to give up!

It's true once a Pokémon's captured that's that.

So now's the perfect time to set your sights on a new Pokémon!

TYLER: Yeah!

DAWN, BROCK, TYLER, PIPPY: [SURPRISED]

ASH: Another Yanma! YANMA: [APPEARING]

TYLER, ASH, DAWN, BROCK, PIPPY: [SHOCKED]

DAWN: Hey, why not go and catch that one?

TYLER: GREAT!

DAWN: Tyler wait up!

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: That's what we call

a dishonest day's work!

JAMES: Poaching pre-weakened Pokémon conserves energy!

JESSIE: Doing our part to make the world a bit greener!

MEOWTH: And, the sooner we pass it onto the Boss,

the sooner we stop taking a loss!

MEOWTH: Over the river

and through the woods the Boss's house we go.

JESSIE: Ah! It's here! Team Rocket's Delibird!

JAMES: Ahoy Delibird!

MEOWTH: Point that beak down here!

JESSIE, JAMES: Cleared for landing!

JESSIE: Easy does it!

JESSIE: No pressure but,

you lose this, you lose everything!

DELIBIRD: [NERVOUS]

DELIBIRD: [HURRYING]

MEOWTH: Give it to the Boss with my compliments!

JAMES: And my compliments too!

JESSIE: If you know what's good for you!

MEOWTH: All of our past get-rich-quick schemes

and we finally come up with a plotz-proof-plan!

JAMES: Throw enough spaghetti against the wall

and something's bound to stick!

And nothing is stickier than success!

JESSIE: By using repetitive motion to b*at the odds.

We're becoming the Sinnoh slickers we were destined to be.

STARAVIA: [ANNOUNCING]

ASH: You lost track of Yanma didn't you? It is getting dark.

DAWN: Maybe we should just call it a day for now,

don't you think?

TYLER: This is the first time I ever camped out!

ASH: And wait'll you get a taste of the way Brock cooks!

DAWN: There's nothing like traveling

with a good friend who's a great chef!

PIKACHU: [AGREEING]

TYLER: I see!

TYLER: Awesome!

DAWN: I told you!

PIPLUP : [ENCOURAGING]

PIPPY: [SAMPLING]

ASH: These're the Gym badges I've gotten

in the Sinnoh region so far.

TYLER: These are great! Ash, good for you!

DAWN: And take a look at the

Pokémon Contest ribbons I've won!

DAWN: Contest battles have their own unique style

and they're fun too!

TYLER: Sounds cool!

TYLER: I was planning on competing in Gym Battles.

TYLER: But Pokémon Contests sound great too!

ASH: Hey! Tyler how'd you like to meet my Pokémon now?

-DAWN: And mine too! -BROCK: Me three!

TYLER: Would I?

JESSIE: Yes sir I'd be tickled to serve as your

Sinnoh Region Chief. It's all so wonderfully sudden!

JAMES: When the Boss offers James seconds,

James always says yes!

MEOWTH: I know just what the Boss'll say next:

It's the least I can do to make Meowth

and friends stinking rich!

-GIOVANNI: Yes, what? -UNDERLING A: A package!

Special delivery that looks like it's from

a Jessie, James, and Meowth!

GIOVANNI: Jessie? And James? And Meowth?

UNDERLING A: Team Rocket operatives based in

the Sinnoh region I believe.

GIOVANNI: Here, my dear Persian.

GIOVANNI: Like that?

GIOVANNI: What is it?

UNDERLING B: It's a Poké Ball, Sir.

PERSIAN: [HAPPY]

SCANNER: Poké Ball contents: Yanma.

Its usable moves: Wing att*ck, Quick att*ck,

Sonicboom, and Ancient Power.

GIOVANNI: Our supply?

UNDERLING A: Sir, we recently acquired

a large number of Yanma.

PERSIAN: [HAPPY]

UNDERLING A: What shall we do, sir?

GIOVANNI: Let's see.

ASH: Tyler! Today that Yanma's gonna be yours!

TYLER: All right! PIPPY: [EXCITED]

BROCK: All done!

DAWN: What's done?

BROCK: What better way to attract that Yanma than

by mixing the kind of fruit it loves into some Pokémon Food?

TYLER: Wow, Brock! That's a great idea!

JAMES: I don't recall ever witnessing

such a magnificent morning!

MEOWTH: I'm gonna grin my whiskers off!

JESSIE: I could drink the air!

A perfect day to celebrate the satisfying feeling

of a job well done!

DELIBIRD: [ARRIVING]

MEOWTH: Delibird at eleven o'clock!

MEOWTH: Voila! Thanks!

JAMES: This appears to be from Team Rocket Headquarters!

MEOWTH: Maybe it's a thank-you gift from the Boss!

JESSIE: Riches here we come!

MEOWTH: I'll bet you dollars to donuts the Boss was so

yeah yeah'd over that Yanma we sent him

he sent us a power Pokémon in return!

JAMES: Hidden within this Poké Ball...

Lucario or Rampardos perhaps?!

JESSIE: The suspense!

JESSIE: I can wait no more. Out here on the double!

YANMA: [APPEARING]

YANMA: [LANDING]

JESSIE: Will you get your haunches out of my hair?

YANMA: [BUZZING]

MEOWTH: Again with that head thing.

JAMES: Either they all do that

or this is the Yanma we gifted the Boss with!

MEOWTH: Why would he spring for the return stamp?

MEOWTH: Of course! See, being such a benevolent Boss

he decided to give us a great gift for giving him a great gift

by sending us the same gift, get it?

JESSIE: Gobs of greedy business world Bosses

but our Boss is golden.

JAMES: Putting his Teammates' needs ahead of his own!

MEOWTH: The big guy can make you cry!

JESSIE: So! Since I'm the catcher in this Pokéball game

I think it should be mine!

JAMES: That sounds fair and fine.

JESSIE: But it somehow feels like the Boss

got the short end of the stick.

JAMES: In that case, I'll simply catch

an alternate Yanma earmarked exclusively

for the Boss's private stock!

MEOWTH: Cool! James you rock hard!

PIPPY, YANMA: [BATTLING]

ASH: Now, Tyler! Throw your Poké Ball quick!

TYLER: Right!

JESSIE: Hold it Twerps!

ASH: Come on not you guys!

JESSIE: That's denial! Yanma let's go!

YANMA: [APPEARING]

MEOWTH: When it comes to Yanma, life is much better in pairs!

ASH: Not even you guys would try that again!

DAWN: Tyler deserves to catch that Yanma

and that's what's gonna happen!

ASH: Chimchar! I choose you!

CHIMCHAR: [APPEARING]

JESSIE: Now Yanma, Wing att*ck!

YANMA: [WING att*ck MOVE]

ASH: Dodge it, Chimchar!

CHIMCHAR: [DODGING] YANMA: [EVADING]

ASH: Use Flamethrower!

CHIMCHAR: [FLAMETHROWER MOVE]

YANMA: [PAINED]

MEOWTH: What do you Twerps think you're doing

flaming our gorgeously gifted Yanma straight from the Boss?

JAMES: It's that sort of insensitivity

that needs to be repaid in spades!

JESSIE: You best get prepared to dig deep!

MEOWTH: Because I'm digging deep too!

MEOWTH: Now feast on my Fury Swipes!

JAMES: Carnivine! Action!

JAMES: One head-hugging Pokémon is enough. Use b*llet Seed!

CARNIVINE: [b*llet SEED MOVE]

JESSIE: All right Yanma, use Sonicboom!

YANMA: [SONICBOOM MOVE] CHIMCHAR: [SHOCKED]

ASH: Dodge it and use Flame Wheel!

CHIMCHAR: [DODGING]

CHIMCHAR: [FLAME WHEEL MOVE]

CHIMCHAR, CARNIVINE, YANMA: [YELLING]

JESSIE: Oh no! It's improper etiquette to grill a gift!

YANMA: [ATTACKING]

BROCK: Yanma's using Ancient Power!

CHIMCHAR: [SHOCKED] [PAINED] [ANGRY]

JESSIE: Uh. Excuse me?

MEOWTH: I think Yanma's starting to evolve!

YANMEGA: [APPEARING]

JAMES: Let's see. Why, that's a Yanmega!

JESSIE: Joy!

ASH: Yanmega?

POKEDEX: Yanmega. The Ogre Darner Pokémon.

When it flutters its wings,

it creates a shockwave that can cause

internal damage to its opponents.

JESSIE: Right! Yanmega let's try Sonicboom!

YANMEGA: [SONICBOOM MOVE]

CHIMCHAR: [YELLING]

ASH: Chimchar!

YANMEGA: [ATTACKING]

ASH, TYLER, DAWN, BROCK, CHIMCHAR, PIPLUP: [SHOUTING]

-JESSIE: Yes! -MEOWTH: Some smack down!

YANMA: [ESCAPING]

-JESSIE: Let's roll! -JAMES: Right!

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: In. Like. Flint!

ASH, BROCK, DAWN, TYLER, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [RECOVERING]

DAWN: So since when did Team Rocket get good?

BROCK: Who knew?

TYLER: Oh man. I goofed it up again!

JAMES: It looks like our Yanma two flew on the wing!

JESSIE: So now Yanmega's our thing!

JESSIE: I just had my hair done!

MEOWTH: Hey that's the Boss's gift you're dissing!

JAMES: Wait!

JAMES: In order for a Yanma to evolve into a Yanmega

it needs to know Ancient Power,

so when could Yanma have learned such?

MEOWTH: I know!

MEOWTH: I'll wager the Boss must of thrown in

teaching Yanma Ancient Power as a bonus for us being us!

JAMES, JESSIE: Wow!

Wow, to think he'd give those extra props for his peeps!

JAMES: No doubt we've ascended to his A list in a big way!

MEOWTH: I really feel the love coming from that man.

JESSIE: Like a wave.

JAMES: And we're his go-to g*ng!

JESSIE: Okay!

We'll utilize this magnificent Yanmega to manacle

a mass of head-hugging Yanma for our beloved Boss!

MEOWTH: Yeah, we're turning that wave of love

into a Tsunami and sending it back!

TYLER: It worked!

YANMA: [LANDING]

DAWN: Brock's special Yanma food's working like a charm!

ASH: All right Tyler, now!

TYLER: Okay! Let's go! PIPPY: [EXCITED]

TYLER: Pippy! Pound, now!

PIPPY: [POUND MOVE]

ASH: Yeah, that's the way!

ASH, BROCK, DAWN, PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SURPRISED]

TYLER: Uh oh!

MEOWTH: Hi!

JESSIE: Not to rain on your pathetic parade,

but that Yanma has the Boss's name on it!

Go be losers somewhere else!

ASH: Oh yeah? How're you gonna make us do that?

ASH: All right I've had enough! Buizel let's go!

BUIZEL: [APPEARING]

JESSIE: Yanmega! Treat those Twerps to your Ancient Power!

YANMEGA: [ANCIENT POWER MOVE]

JAMES, MEOWTH: Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

YANMEGA: [ANCIENT POWER MOVE]

ASH: Dodge it Buizel!

BUIZEL: [DODGING]

ASH: Now Buizel use Aqua Jet!

BUIZEL: [AQUA JET MOVE]

YANMEGA: [PAINED]

MEOWTH: the Boss's gift will shrink!

ASH: Okay Buizel, Sonicboom!

BUIZEL: [SONICBOOM MOVE]

YANMEGA: [PAINED]

JESSIE: If Yanmega's not permanent press I'll sue!

ASH: You're not stopping Tyler again!

Now Pikachu! Use Thunderbolt!

PIKACHU: [THUNDERBOLT MOVE]

JESSIE: Say we could email a picture of Yanmega

to the Boss to show him how well it's evolved, you know!

MEOWTH: Yeah! That would kick up our already

first class credentials with him up another notch or three!

JAMES: Though we are presently blasting off.

JESSIE, JAMES: But when it's with Yanmega. It's a real blast!

ASH: They're not gonna be bothering us for a while.

Okay Tyler, you ready?

TYLER: Sure am!

TYLER: Let's go Pippy!

PIPPY: [EXCITED]

TYLER: All right Pippy. Bubble, quick!

PIPPY: [BUBBLE MOVE]

YANMA: [DODGING] [ATTACKING]

TYLER: Dodge, Pippy!

PIPPY: [DODGING] YANMA: [CIRCLING]

PIPPY: [RESOLUTE]

YANMA: [WAITING] PIPPY: [PURSUING]

DAWN: Look at that!

That's even faster than when Piplup's in the water!

TYLER: Pippy, use Peck!

PIPPY: [PECK MOVE]

YANMA: [PAINED]

BROCK: Wow, way to go!

YANMA: [ATTACKING]

TYLER: Now Pippy, dive!

PIPPY: [DIVE MOVE]

DAWN: Awesome!

TYLER: Quick Pippy Bubble let's go!

PIPPY: [BUBBLE MOVE]

YANMA: [STRUGGLING]

ASH: It's working! Great!

TYLER: All right! Pippy! Use Peck!

PIPPY: [PECK MOVE]

YANMA: [YELLING]

PIPPY: [CHARGING]

YANMA: [EXHAUSTED] PIPPY: [PLEASED]

ASH: Great! Now, throw your Poké Ball, quick!

TYLER: Right! Okay Poké Ball let's go!

ASH: We'll see.

DAWN: Come on. PIKACHU: [WAITING]

YANMA: [APPEARING]

PIPPY: [SHOCKED]

ASH: Tyler, one more time!

TYLER: Yeah! Now, Pippy use Peck once more!

PIPPY: [PECK MOVE]

YANMA: [PAINED] [STUNNED]

ASH: Throw it!

TYLER: Right! And this time's a keeper!

PIPPY: [CONCERNED]

ASH: You did it, Tyler!

TYLER: Yeah!

TYLER: I just caught. a Yanma!

PIPPY: [DELIGHTED]

TYLER: I did it! I did it! I did it! I did it! I did it!

ASH: Wow, your first catch!

BROCK: Congratulations, Tyler!

DAWN: Yeah, that was such a great battle!

TYLER: Pippy, you really gave it everything you've got!

PIPLUP: [CONGRATULATING]

PIPPY: [CELEBRATING]

TYLER: And, I'll take good care of Yanma for sure!

TYLER: I'm heading over to Lake Valor!

ASH: Hey, you take good care of yourself!

BROCK: Here's a little something for your trip!

TYLER: Wow, thanks Brock! That's so nice!

-BROCK: Sure. TYLER: Good luck

with your Gym battles Ash!

ASH: Hey thanks!

TYLER: And good luck winning your next Contest ribbon!

DAWN: Thank you!

ASH: I really think you should

find some buddies to travel around with. Know what I mean?

PIKACHU: [AGREEING]

TYLER: Yeah! And find someone

who can cook like Brock does too!

DAWN: That sounds like a plan!

TYLER: Okay. See you again sometime!

BROCK: Take care of yourself!

DAWN: Yeah, take care!

ASH: Wow, just think about all the new friends

and great Pokémon Tyler's got ahead of him.

-BROCK: You're right! -ASH: As for us.

Let's give it everything we've got!

DAWN: You bet!

PIKACHU: [AGREEING]

NARRATOR: And so,

having once been brand new Trainers themselves,

our heroes can continue happily on their own journey,

knowing they've made a measurable difference

in the life of a brand new friend!

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
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