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[[File:Beach Beauty and Pokémon Costume Contest.png|thumb|250px|The setting for the competition]] | [[File:Beach Beauty and Pokémon Costume Contest.png|thumb|250px|The setting for the competition]] | ||
The '''Annual Beach Beauty and Pokémon Costume Contest''' (Japanese: '''日焼け美女とポケモンコンテスト''' ''Suntanned Beautiful Woman and Pokémon Contest'') is a contest held annually in [[Porta Vista]]. Each year thousands of people come to see it. In the dub, there is a $1,000 prize for the winner in each category | The '''Annual Beach Beauty and Pokémon Costume Contest''' (Japanese: '''日焼け美女とポケモンコンテスト''' ''Suntanned Beautiful Woman and Pokémon Contest'') is a contest held annually in [[Porta Vista]]. Each year thousands of people come to see it. In the dub, there is a $1,000 prize for the winner in each category, though the prize is not mentioned in the Japanese version. | ||
In ''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]'', {{an|Professor Oak}} suggested using the contest to help raise enough money for [[Moe]] to pay back his debt to [[Brutella]] before her deadline of the next day. | In ''[[EP018|Beauty and the Beach]]'', {{an|Professor Oak}} suggested using the contest to help raise enough money for [[Moe]] to pay back his debt to [[Brutella]] before her deadline of the next day. | ||
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==Competition== | ==Competition== | ||
Misty was the first competitor to walk on stage; while she was embarrassed and felt degraded, she did it because they needed the money. For her dressed up Pokémon, she had {{AP|Squirtle}} | Misty was the first competitor to walk on stage; while she was embarrassed and felt degraded, she did it because they needed the money. For her dressed up Pokémon, she had {{AP|Squirtle}} wearing a helmet with a satellite dish sit on top of a levitating {{TP|Misty|Starmie}}, to give the appearance of an alien on a flying saucer. | ||
The next competitors were {{TRT}}, calling themselves the Rocket Boosters; they dressed up {{TP|Jessie|Ekans}} and {{TP|James|Koffing}} together with a wig to look like an {{p|Omastar}}, but they were kicked off-stage by {{Gary}}. | The next competitors were {{TRT}}, calling themselves the Rocket Boosters; they dressed up {{TP|Jessie|Ekans}} and {{TP|James|Koffing}} together with a wig to look like an {{p|Omastar}}, but they were kicked off-stage by {{Gary}}. | ||
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Six of [[Gary's cheerleaders]] entered as the next competitors. Misty was afraid that their dramatic entrance would greatly overshadow her. | Six of [[Gary's cheerleaders]] entered as the next competitors. Misty was afraid that their dramatic entrance would greatly overshadow her. | ||
Before any further contestants could show off, Team Rocket crashed the event by driving their [[Team Rocket's mechas|Gyarados submarine]] through the crowd. Ash got on stage to alert the audience that it wasn't a real {{p|Gyarados}}; Team Rocket, angered by the fact that their plan had been foiled, launched a heat-seeking missile at Ash. Ash sent out {{AP|Charmander}} and {{AP|Pidgeotto}}, and had Pidgeotto carry Charmander so it could use {{m|Flamethrower}} on the missile, causing it to turn around and lock onto Team Rocket instead. Team Rocket fled, leading the missile to Brutella's | Before any further contestants could show off, Team Rocket crashed the event by driving their [[Team Rocket's mechas|Gyarados submarine]] through the crowd. Ash got on stage to alert the audience that it wasn't a real {{p|Gyarados}}; Team Rocket, angered by the fact that their plan had been foiled, launched a heat-seeking missile at Ash. Ash sent out {{AP|Charmander}} and {{AP|Pidgeotto}}, and had Pidgeotto carry Charmander so it could use {{m|Flamethrower}} on the missile, causing it to turn around and lock onto Team Rocket instead. Team Rocket fled, leading the missile to Brutella's restaurant. | ||
In the dub, Ash was awarded with a trophy engraved with his name and "First Place in Our Hearts", which he left with his mother. In the Japanese version, Delia was merely holding the trophy for the real winner. | In the dub, Ash was awarded with a trophy engraved with his name and "First Place in Our Hearts", which he left with his mother. In the Japanese version, Delia was merely holding the trophy for the real winner. | ||