GS037: Love, Totodile Style

"Love, Totodile Style"
Information
Series	Pocket Monsters, Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver
Subtitle	Pocket Monsters: Gold and Silver Arc
Season	Season 3, Pokémon: The Johto Journeys
№	155
Opening(s) and Ending(s)	Japanese Opening OK! Ending Exciting² Pokémon Relay (Hard Version) English Opening Pokémon Johto
Staff credits	脚本(きゃくほん) (Screenplay) 藤田伸三 (Shinzō Fujita) 絵(え)コンテ (Storyboard) 椎名ひさし (Hisashi Shiina) 助手(じょしゅ)監督(かんとく) (Assistant director(s)) 岩崎太郎 (Tarō Iwasaki) 作画(さくが)監督(かんとく) (Animation director(s)) はしもとかつみ (Katsumi Hashimoto)
In other countries
Japan	Title おどれワニノコ！あいのステップを！！ Airdate June 22, 2000
Japan	Title おどれワニノコ！あいのステップを！！ Airdate June 22, 2000
Anglosphere	Title Love, Totodile Style Airdate(s) May 26, 2001 Notes ^ a: Signifies that it only applies to the US, UK, CA, AU, NZ and SG
Anglosphere	Title Love, Totodile Style Airdate(s) May 26, 2001 Notes ^ a: Signifies that it only applies to the US, UK, CA, AU, NZ and SG
Details
Main	Ash, Misty, Brock
Recurring	Jessie, James
Minor	Trixie, Audience
Character(s) of the Day	Trixie
Pokémon	Ash's Pikachu, Team Rocket's Meowth, Misty's Togepi, Jessie's Wobbuffet, Ash's Bulbasaur, Ash's Totodile, Misty's Goldeen, Misty's Poliwhirl, Misty's Psyduck, Misty's Staryu, Jessie's Arbok, James' Weezing, Trixie's Azumarill, Trixie's Golduck, Trixie's Marill, Trixie's Pidgey (multiple), Trixie's Machoke, Magikarp, Quagsire
Badges or Classes
Major event(s)	Ash's Totodile is revealed to be male.

Love, Totodile Style (Japanese: おどれワニノコ！あいのステップを！！, Hepburn: Dance Totodile! Perform the Dance Step of Love!!) is the 37th episode of Pocket Monsters: Gold and Silver Arc of Pocket Monsters (1997 series), Season 3 of Pokémon the Series, and Pokémon: The Johto Journeys of Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver.

Synopsis

Ash's Totodile falls head over tail for a passing Azumarill, but is still unsuccessful in having its feelings requited when Team Rocket kidnap the Pokémon before Totodile's eyes.

Episode plot

The heroes come to a lake and Misty and Ash agree to Brock's idea of cooking beef stew. Misty sends her Pokémon to play, though Psyduck cannot swim, so Misty picks it up. Ash sends his new Totodile, who swims in the water. Seeing the Magikarp, he juggles them using Water Gun. Totodile enjoys its time and hears a Pokémon singing. It sees it and falls in love, coming to it, making a heart of Water Gun and trying to entertain it. Azumarill just uses Water Gun to cool it down. Totodile still follows it. As Brock cooks, Misty spots a Golduck and tries to catch it. Brock stops her and observe as Golduck searches for something. Suddenly, a woman comes and sees they have no luck finding it. Brock comes and offers his help to please her. The woman introduces herself as Trixie, making Brock happy for such a name. However, Misty ends his joy by pulling his ear.

Ash apologizes in Brock's name and asks what is she doing. Trixie tells she is searching for Azumarill, who appears before them and hides behind Trixie. Totodile appears and goes to Azumarill and trips over. Ash goes to it, but Totodile stands up and attempts to charm Azumarill, who is charmed by Golduck. The heroes come to Trixie's circus. Trixie admits it is fun, but their star, Azumarill, does not work much as it should. Azumarill was happy but it started going away after Golduck joined the circus. Brock passes by with a flashlight, trying to help out a bit. Totodile does so as well, placing a pool and Azumarill in it, filling it with water. Azumarill just responds by using Water Gun on it. Ash wonders why is Totodile so goofy, while Misty tells him he will understand when he is older. Brock supports Totodile not to give up on her.

Trixie has her show. Her trick is that her Marill jumps in a hat and Pidgey come out instead. The Pidgey come inside the hat and Marill appears once more. The heroes are impressed by her performance. The next act is Azumarill's, who uses Water Gun to juggle some balls in form of a heart, star and whirlpool. Totodile is amazed by her and comes, using Water Gun to help her out. People throw objects at Totodile, whose Water Gun levitates those objects. Azumarill gets angered and leaves the stage. Ash goes to Totodile, who stops using Water Gun. The objects fall on Ash and Pikachu, who manage to collect the items. Brock sees that he cannot allow Totodile like that and promises to teach it how to be successful in love like him, making Misty ask "You?". Team Rocket observed and plan to capture Azumarill and Pikachu for their own show. Later, Ash apologizes for wrecking the show, but Trixie tells the crowd loved the act. She knows Azumarill should feel that she has to share the spotlight. Misty asks if they saw Brock around, since he is nowhere to be found and must be with Totodile.

Brock tells Totodile since love is war, he needs ammunition to win it, giving it his food to impress Azumarill. Totodile takes the gift (with Brock telling it courage leads to victory) and tries to give it to Azumarill, who is not impressed and runs away. Brock sees it will be a long war. Suddenly, Azumarill gets captured, so Totodile goes to save her. Ash and Misty come, seeing Team Rocket in the balloon with the captured Azumarill. Pikachu jumps to use Thunderbolt, but Meowth captures him as well. James sends Weezing, who distracts the foes with Smokescreen. Totodile comes and catches Azumarill's ribbon. Team Rocket taunt Totodile, who gets enraged and swims in the lake to track Team Rocket. The heroes tell Trixie what happened and Brock blames himself for this. Misty states that Team Rocket are heading for the forest on the other side of the lake and Ash states to hurry or Pikachu and Azumarill will never be seen again.

Team Rocket try to get Azumarill to perform. Jessie whips to the ground, but Azumarill ignores her. James throws a ball at Azumarill to juggle, but Azumarill pushes it back on his face and uses Water Gun on Jessie. Jessie and James get angry, but Meowth and Wobbuffet stop them, as the Azumarill will bring show and money. Jessie and James back down, with Jessie calling Wobbuffet back. Totodile comes and sees Team Rocket's balloon. Azumarill has lunch, but she ignores it, making Jessie and James very angry. Azumarill continues to ignore them, so they strike, but get stopped by Totodile's Water Gun, knocking the table by that attack. Totodile goes to save Azumarill, but Meowth ties it up, making Team Rocket glad they have one more member for the show. The heroes search, but since it is getting late, they stop the search for tomorrow. During the night, Azumarill gets saddened, but Totodile cheers her up by dancing and giving her the ribbon she lost.

Next day, Trixie sends her Pidgey to scout, while Ash wishes he still had Charizard. Team Rocket places the Pokémon in their balloon. Though Team Rocket knows the show will not be realized, they are glad the boss would pay handsomely for the Pokémon they captured. The heroes see their balloon, so Pidgey uses Quick Attack, piercing their balloon, causing it to crash. Ash and Brock retrieve Pikachu and Totodile, wanting Azumarill back. Jessie and James send Arbok and Weezing, but they get pushed by Golduck's Water Gun. Ash sends Bulbasaur, whose Razor Leaf cuts the cages of Pikachu and Totodile. Totodile uses Water Gun, causing Team Rocket to fall down and Bulbasaur to get Azumarill back with Vine Whip. Pikachu's Thunderbolt sends them blasting off. With Razor Leaf, Bulbasaur frees Azumarill.

Azumarill runs, so Totodile goes to hug her. However, she passes, hugging Golduck instead, shocking the gang. Misty and Brock see Azumarill loves Golduck, not Totodile. Trixie sees why Azumarill behaved so strangely, while Brock comforts Totodile, telling it needs to continue to fight for love and be courageous. Before departing, Brock flirts with Trixie for a final time so Misty pulls his ear. Ash tells Totodile to come to him, but the heroes see Totodile falling in love with a Quagsire, so Brock tells Totodile to use everything he taught it. Totodile runs after Quagsire, so the heroes follow it.

Debuts

Character

Trixie

Pokémon

Azumarill

Quotes

"Sometimes my friend Brock goes goofy when he meets pretty girls like you." - Ash

"I see." - Trixie

"I'm not gonna let this Aqua Rabbit mess with my hair!" - Jessie

"And I am not going to let it mess with my mind!" - James

"If you mess with dis Azumarill, we won't have a show and we won't have money!" - Meowth

"Wobbu." - Wobbuffet

"You can't expect to win every single battle, but love's worth fighting for and if you're brave and courageous and never quit you can come out a winner, just like me." - Brock

"Trixie, it's time for us to part, but rest assured, that whenever you need me I will fly to your side the moment you call, even if you call Collect." - Brock

"Hang it up, Brock." - Misty

Trivia

• The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Furret.

Mistakes

• Ash's eyelids were colored wrong in one scene.
• Meowth says that Totodile uses his tail as a chew toy, yet Snubbull is the only one who has bitten his tail, while Totodile bites Jessie's hair.
• After Misty says, "Wow, Totodile is talented", Togepi's mouth and arms move but it doesn't speak.
• After the heroes get Pikachu and Totodile back from Team Rocket, and when they refuse to give back Azumarill, Meowth's tail is the same color as his body.

Gallery

Psyduck can't swim (despite being Water type)

Totodile juggles Magikarp via Water Gun

Totodile in love

Totodile makes a heart

Brock tries to impress Trixie

Azumarill, the non-working Pokémon

Totodile fills the pool

Brock supports Totodile

Totodile helps Azumarill

Ash and Pikachu got the objects

Totodile receives a present for Azumarill

Team Rocket captured Pikachu once again

James gets hit by a ball

Azumarill is offered a great lunch

Azumarill reveives her ribbon back

The heroes won the battle

Totodile is left out

Brock gives Totodile advice

Totodile meets another love interest--a Quagsire. Here we go again...