![]() ![]() And Meowth ends up going through a bit of a quest to become more human, ending up staying on the attic of a mansion that was home to a class teaching posh language, and in-between trying to learn how to speak human language, Meowth ends up being sort of beaten up a lot more because his attempts to run on two legs got him caught more often than not. Coming from a place where he's a stray cat begging for scraps, strung up by random humans and eventually being taken in by a gang of Meowths led by a Persian, our Meowth ended up living as what's basically a stray cat in an analogue to a street gang.Īnd then, of course, Meowth found love, a lady Meowth named Meowzie owned by a snotty rich lady, who brushes off Meowth for being a mere street-cat who can't ever hope to compete to a human, who would provide for her. Meowth's backstory isn't all that deep, it's quite stereotypical by anime's standards and there's a sense of hilarious overdramatization throughout it (particularly when Meowth walks past his old haunts and whatnot), but you can't help but feel sorry for the poor kitty. And while the English dub does a pretty great job, this was one episode I ended up tracking down and watching in Japanese due to the pretty great performance by Meowth's seiyuu - with the standout moment being the awesome integration of Nyarth no Uta, one of the ending songs, into part of Meowth's little trip down memory lane. I dunno, the hardboiled detective/criminal genre or something, Meowth dons this trenchcoat as he begins to regale James, Jessie and the audience with his backstory. Turns out, though, as Team Rocket sort of tails along Team Ash as they are wont to do, we discover that Meowth actually comes from Hollywood, and as we get a fun parody of. The plot hook of this episode is that our heroes got called into Hollywood (the real Hollywood in the dub and Hollywood, Kanto in the original) to watch the movie that Spcfhielbunk made in episode 69 in a pretty neat little continuity nod, and that's quite literally all they do in this episode, just watch a movie off-screen with Ash's mom cosplaying Marilyn Monroe for a gag. "Go West, Young Meowth" just sidelines the entire good guy cast for a majority of the episode. I dunno.īut this is a pretty dang awesome episode. ![]() I guess I must've caught it in broadcasted form and it ended up sticking with me because, well, "Go West, Young Meowth" is such a memorable, unique episode? Or maybe it could be one of those 'special' episodes that got released in like episode collections or something. Now, episode 70, I did remember watching, and I'm not sure why, because back when I was a kid, I was missing a huge chunk of episodes from episode 64 to 73 from the VCD collection I had. ![]()
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