Japanese Title: Big Panic! Kimawari Contest!!
Original Airdate: February 17th, 2000
US Airdate: February 10th, 2001
The annual Sunflora contest is only a day away and yet our hero's new friend and Sunflora Trainer is unable to convince her star Pokémon to compete. Complicating things further, Team Rocket enters under pseudonyms, planning to win by whatever means are required.Tropes
- Breather Episode: After the heavy and emotional parting with Charizard in the last episode, this episode has a more lighthearted plot.
- Call-Back: The Snubbull from "Snubbull Snobbery" returns to bite Meowth's tail, which blows his cover and destroys his Sunflora disguise.
- Foreshadowing: After showing jealousy toward Pikachu in the past, Chikorita outright tackles him in the middle of a Thunderbolt. It ends up working out as it destroys Team Rocket's solar panels, but this attitude foreshadows the very next episode.
- Going to Give It More Energy: A variation. As Sunflora open up and their heads get bigger as they take in sunlight, Team Rocket attempts to use solar panels to make them grow so big they can't move, allowing them to steal them.
