A Tent Situation

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**A Tent Situation** is the 35th episode of *Liam's Adventures of Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands*.

## Plot

Ash and his friends arrive at Pallet Town, where he and Misty are surprised to see Brock waiting for them in Ash's house. When they ask why he left Professor Ivy, Brock abruptly falls to the ground shivering, and Misty believes she dumped him. Delia arrives home, and explains that she and Mimey found him a week ago, lying on the ground in a grassland, and took him home. Since then, Brock has been helping around the house, with Brock fighting over the chores with Mimey. Later, whilst discussing over dinner, Tracey insists on seeing Professor Oak. Ash is reminded of the GS Ball and then shows his mother his Winner's Trophy, which she suggests she could use as a dumbbell.

Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Tracey, and Brock travel to Professor Oak's Laboratory, with Team Rocket watching from a distance. Ash is welcomed to the house by Muk, who is crushing Oak under his weight. Tracey ignores the situation and asks to show Oak his sketches. Ash hands Oak the GS Ball and he puts it away to examine it later. Oak then shows them around the Laboratory, and Ash sends his Tauros out to rejoin the herd before encountering his other Pokémon, Snorlax and Kingler. Over some cups of tea, Oak begins to review Tracey's sketches. As Tracey nervously awaits Oak's approval, he is interrupted by Meowth activating a circus net that engulfs the Laboratory. Meanwhile, Jigglypuff appears and tries to go through the net, though it cannot.

Team Rocket performs their motto while doing a circus act. Just as Ash is about to call out Bulbasaur, he notices Muk's insistence and sends it out instead. Jessie sends out Lickitung, but Muk ignores Lickitung and goes on to smother Jessie. James sends out Victreebel, which Muk hugs as well. James tries his luck with Razor Leaf, but it fails, and Muk deflects the leaves. Victreebel begins to swallow Muk, but soon spits it out in disgust. Lickitung slobbers all over Muk with its tongue, but it does nothing.

James commands Victreebel to use Sleep Powder on Muk, which works, much to Ash's surprise. Ash is about to call out Squirtle and Bulbasaur, but Team Rocket then throws rings around him and the others, which immobilize them. A Super Sucker then proceeds to suck all of the lab's Poké Balls and Tracey's sketchbooks. Meowth asks again why Brock came back, though he doesn't give an answer. The last Ball sucked in is the GS Ball, but then, a rip in the tent appears, caused by a Trainer's Nidoqueen. Team Rocket's tent and Jigglypuff are sent flying into the distance. The Meowth Balloon falls to the ground, releasing every Poké Ball inside. The Trainer turns out to be Gary, and his Nidoqueen attacks Lickitung by grabbing its tongue and swinging it into Team Rocket. Nidoqueen then sends Victreebel flying into Team Rocket with a Mega Punch. Jessie throws Meowth into the battle; he tries using Scratch, but his claws break from Nidoqueen's armored body. Gary tells his Nidoqueen to use Strength, hurling Team Rocket into the air and sending them blasting off again.

Gary has Nidoqueen use its horn to free everyone. He then greets his grandfather, and everyone except for Ash admires his well-trained Nidoqueen. Ash tries to brag about his Orange League Winner's Trophy; Gary congratulates him but notes that it didn't help him defeat Team Rocket. Soon enough, Ash and Gary prepare for a battle to prove who has become the better Trainer over the past months.

## Major events

* Ash and his friends arrive in Pallet Town.
* Brock is revealed to have left Professor Ivy and returned to Pallet Town.
* Brock returns and meets Tracey for the first time.
* Ash delivers the GS Ball to Professor Oak.
* Ash returns Tauros to its herd at Professor Oak's Laboratory.
* Miki, Dora, Lilo and Stitch meet Brock for the first time.
* James' Victreebel is revealed to know Double-Edge\*.
* Mio's Leavanny is revealed to know X-Scissor, and learns Leaf Blade.
* Dora's Grotle evolves into Torterra.
* Gary returns and is revealed to have obtained a Nidoqueen.
* Miki, Stitch, Dora, Lilo and Tracey meet Gary for the first time.
* Ash challenges Gary to a battle, and he accepts.

## Characters

### Humans

* Ash Ketchum
* Misty
* Tracey Sketchit
* Brock
* Miki Sunshine
* Light Music Club
	+ Yui Hirasawa
	+ Ritsu Tainaka
	+ Mio Akiyama
	+ Tsumugi Kotobuki
	+ Azusa Nakano
* Sawako Yamanaka
* Nodoka Manabe
* Green Leaf Girls
	+ Sumire Saito
	+ Nao Okuda
* Lilo Pelekai
* Dora Marquez
* Agent Ben Rockefeller
* Liam Hammerfield
* Jessie
* James
* Delia Ketchum
* Professor Oak
* Gary
* Professor Ivy (flashback)
* Professor Ivy's assistants (flashback)

### Pokémon

* Pikachu (Ash's)
* Meowth (Team Rocket)
* Togepi (Misty's)
* Leavanny (Mio's; Nana)
* Grotle (Dora's; Arbol; evolves)
* Torterra (Dora's; Arbol; newly evolved)
* Blipbug (Lilo's)
* Butterfree (Lilo's)
* Beedrill (Lilo's)
* Scatterbug (Lilo's)
* Wurmple (Lilo's; ×2)
* Kingler (Ash's)
* Muk (Ash's)
* Tauros (Ash's; ×30)
* Snorlax (Ash's)
* Onix (Brock's; flashback)
* Geodude (Brock's; flashback)
* Zubat (Brock's; flashback)
* Vulpix (Brock's; flashback)
* Lickitung (Jessie's)
* Victreebel (James's)
* Nidoqueen (Gary's)
* Mr. Mime (Delia's; Mimey)
* Jigglypuff (anime)
* Butterfree (Orange Archipelago Variant; flashback)
* Nidorina
* Nidorino (×2)
* Vileplume (×2)
* Dodrio (×3)
* Rhyhorn (×2)

## Trivia

* The number of times Professor Ivy gets mentioned was 6, but later was 13. Whenever Brock hears that name, he goes into a curled up depressed state.
* This episode's English dub title is a reference to the phrase "*a tense situation*".
* This episode was partially adapted into the book Go West, Young Ash
* During the Team Rocket motto, the trio is seen dressed in clown suits which scares Lilo who has a fear of clowns. This is a possible reference to episode of Lilo and Stitch: The Series, "Spooky".
* Miki recalls that she and Tracey have met Professor Oak on Shamouti Island during the events of Pokémon the Movie 2000: The Power of One.
* Miki also reveals that she has seen Gary Oak's Pokémon League preliminary matches on TV

## Transcript

*Main article: A Tent Situation/Transcript*