SS006: Of Meowth and Pokémon (Part 1)

is a special episode. In the dub, it is the 20th episode of Pokémon Chronicles.
== Blurb ==
In the middle of a busy city, the Pichu Bros. are summoning their friends—Smoochum, Wooper, Magby, and Teddiursa—to play. Meowth is in town, too: it's taking a vacation from Team Rocket and dreaming of building a monument to itself. It sets out with a picnic basket to look for place to build its statue, but trips over Smoochum along the way. Smoochum has its own basket of accessories, and it accidentally walks away with Meowth's basket instead. When Meowth chases Smoochum to get its picnic basket back, Smoochum runs to the alley where all its friends are, and everyone plays keep away with the basket. Meowth finally grabs the basket, but then it steps on a sleeping Houndour and ends up running for its life. Its basket rolls into Teddiursa's path, and Teddiursa eats everything before Meowth can get the basket back.
The next day, Meowth decides to get a job so it can afford to build its monument. It gets a job delivering pizza, them promises to treat the other Pokémon if they deliver the pizza for it! However, Smoochum runs afoul of the local Squirtle gang, and crashes into Wooper. Teddiursa is squashed by a Snorlax. The Pichu Bros. run into the grumpy Houndour, and all of them collide with Magby. In short, all the pizza is ruined, and Meowth is fired!
Meowth then gets a job as janitor for a rooftop garden. The Pokémon try to make things up to Meowth by helping it clean, but the Pichu Bros. almost knock a statue off its pedestal in the process. That starts a chain reaction that causes the entire statue to collapse, knocking over all the pillars and statues in the garden. Poor Meowth is fired again! But as Meowth sits in the park, the Pokémon cheer it up by bringing the only thing they have left: a bowl of acorns. The acorns may taste terrible, but being admired by the other Pokémon feels great. It's a moment Meowth would like to last!
==Episode plot==
Meowth came to a town, where there are many buildings and skyscrapers and Pokémon live inside. Two Pichu wake up and run off, while a Smoochum is taking care of her look. Along with the bathing Wooper, a Teddiursa (who collects food) and Magby, all these Pokémon are called by Azumarill. Azumarill goes to feed them with acorns, but Teddiursa trips over, causing others to fall onto Azumarill. Azumarill drops the basket with the acorns, which fall down a hill and are crushed by a car. Meowth, however, rests in an apartment and wakes up, having a vacation. Meowth looks at the city and plans on making a giant statue of himself. Meowth starts practicing his personality of a maid and a gentleman before going off to the city. As Meowth walks, Teddiursa searches for food and smells something.
Meowth stops and finds a spot for his statue, but the Teddiursa appears and sniffs his basket. Meowth yells at Teddiursa, who walks away. As Meowth was glad about his lunch inside the basket, a Smoochum bumps into Meowth by accident. Meowth picks up the basket, ordering Smoochum to be more careful where it walks. Smoochum walks away, while Meowth finds some cosmetics in his basket. Meowth realizes when Smoochum bumped into him, they swapped the baskets and runs after Smoochum. Smoochum starts running away and Meowth bumps into a wall by accident. Meowth reaches Smoochum, who joined its friends. Pichu takes Smoochum's basket and tries to run off, but Meowth catches up to him. Pichu gives the basket to Magby, but Meowth is persistent to take back his basket. Magby gives the other Pichu the basket, who runs off, but trips over a stone. Meowth intimidates Pichu, whose basket is blown away by Wooper's Water Gun.
Meowth is shocked and drops Smoochum's basket with the cosmetics, while Meowth goes over the fence and finds his basket. Meowth walks away, but steps onto a sleeping Houndour, who wakes up and becomes mad. Meowth tries to run away from Houndour and drops his own basket, which lands onto Teddiursa, who sees the food inside. The Pokémon watch Meowth, who has been beaten up badly. Teddiursa returns to Meowth, showing it ate all the food from the basket. Meowth is sad and displeased, so falls onto the floor, wishing for a nap.
==Trivia==
*The title is a reference to the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men.
*Meowth reads the title.
==Gallery==
Category:Pokémon Chronicles episodes
Category:Episodes focusing on Meowth
Category:Episodes written by Junki Takegami
Category:Episodes storyboarded by Hazuki Tsuji
Category:Episodes directed by Saburō Hashimoto
Category:Episodes animated by Akira Watanabe