PJ047: Crowning the Chow Crusher!

is the 47th episode of , and of .
==Synopsis==
It’s the Pokémon Grand Eating Contest, and our heroes are hungry to compete! Ash and Dragonite, along with Goh and Skwovet, are up against several previous eating contest winners, including the world-renown Emperor Blaziken. And rounding out the contestants? Team Rocket and Morpeko, who’s hangrier than ever! One by one, contestants are eliminated until two remain: Skwovet and Morpeko. But after pushing Morpeko too far, Team Rocket blasts off again—which means Skwovet has to eat just one more plate of food to win! Although it seems Skwovet has already eaten its fill, it suddenly evolves into a Greedent, surpasses Morpeko’s food plate tally, and wins the contest!
==Episode plot==
In Vermilion City, Ash and Goh have entered a Pokémon eating contest with their friends, Professor Cerise, Chrysa, Chloe and Pikachu, cheering them on. The announcer tells everyone that the winner of the contest wins a free trip to Unova and is allowed to eat as many of their popular foods. A few days earlier, at Cerise Park, Ash and Goh are feeding their Pokémon then notices that Lucario and Cinderace are sleeping. Goh sees that his Skwovet wants more food and asks it if its appetite turned into a bottomless pit, to which Professor Cerise asks Goh if he wants to find out, which confuses him. 
Professor Cerise shows Ash and Goh the eating contest in Vermilion City as they decide to participate. However, Chrysa tells Ash and Goh that they're being naive because the eating contest attracts various participants, including a legend called Emperor Blaziken. Despite the competition, Goh and Ash are determined to win. In the present, Team Rocket have also entered the contest in disguise but they have James be the contestant while Jessie and Meowth provide the food for the participants.
The announcer tells everyone that round one is a berry eating for all, yet only ten participants will move on to the next round. Chrysa is excited to see Emperor Blaziken in person as Professor Cerise notices that she's a Pokémon eating contest fan. Chloe isn't too thrilled about the whole event, but Chrysa tells her that once she sees something new, she'll be hooked for life. While watching the first round, Chloe sees how some of the Pokémon are eating, and Professor Cerise tells his daughter that they put their talents to good use when eating, which impresses her. 
Noticing the eating pace of the smaller Pokémon, Chloe wonders why they are eating slower than the larger ones, to which Chrysa tells her that they're eating fast but are avoiding the seeds inside the Berries. Morpeko and Skwovet are eating a lot of berries within the small group of Pokémon. Seeing its belly getting full, Goh tells Skwovet to use Bullet Seed to get the seeds from the Berries out, which impresses Chrysa.
After round one concludes, Goh moves on to the next round while Ash does not, due to his Dragonite being a light eater, and he goes to join their friends in the audience to watch the rest of the contest. James moves on to the next round as well, due to Morpeko's ravenous appetite. While waiting for the next round, Goh encounters a contestant with a Muk, who tells Goh that everyone else but his Skwovet and James' Morpeko are champion eating contestants from other regions, and that he will never win. However, before the two can argue further, Jessie breaks Goh and the contestant up as she, along with Meowth, offers cookies to them. 
Seeing the contestant and his Muk leave without a cookie, Goh wonders about that as the other contestants and their Pokémon accept the cookies. Goh and James see their Pokémon eating cookies before dragging them away from it. However, little did everyone know, Team Rocket put something in the cookies that made the Pokémon fill up quickly and get sick, causing some of them to be withdrawn from the competition. Goh realized that the cookies caused the Pokémon to bloat up, as he notices his Skwovet was overweight, but it then shrunk back to normal size.
The announcer tells everyone that round two will be underway, but informs the audience that a few competitors left the competition, and Ash wonders what happened to them. Despite this, the announcer tells everyone the next round as the six remaining contestants will face off against the opponent who has the same color. Goh gets the contestant with the Muk as his opponent for the next round, to which Muk's Trainer taunts Goh. During the round, Goh picked the dish with sweet food because he realized that Muk doesn't like anything sweet, while James picked the dish with hot food because he knew his opponent wouldn't eat anything that's hot. Through their strategies, Goh and James make it to the final round of the contest. 
However, during the final round, Emperor Blaziken wouldn't eat its dish as the food resembles Torchic, Blaziken's starting form, and leaves with its Trainer, taking the Torchic-shaped food with it. However, Morpeko reverts to its Fully Belly Mode, then sends Team Rocket blasting off after they try forcing it to continue eating. Through Goh's encouragement and determination to win the contest, Skwovet keeps eating then evolves into Greedent and wins the competition for its Trainer. Ash, Chloe, Chrysa, and Professor Cerise are all happy that Goh won the eating contest. 
==Debuts==
===Pokémon===
*Greedent (Goh's)
==Trivia==
*"Who's That Pokémon?": Morpeko (Full Belly Mode)
*"After the story": 
*Near the end of the eating competition, the opening theme is used as an insert song.
*The episode's opening has been updated to include the following: Raihan, Bea, Ash's Dragonite, Ash's Gengar, Ash's Lucario, Ash's Farfetch'd, and Goh's Sobble.
*This episode marks the first appearance of a Bisharp since PJ002: Legend? Go! Friends? Go!, 45 episodes ago.
*This episode also marks the first time Freeze-Dry has been used since MS019: Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel, over five years earlier. Coincidentally, Glalie is the only Pokémon to have used the move in both cases; Levi's Mega Glalie in the movie and a Trainer's Glalie in this episode.
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==References==
Category:Episodes featuring Champions
Category:Episodes featuring a main character's Pokémon evolving