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'''Unfair Weather Friends''' (Japanese: '''お天気研究所のポワルン!''' ''Powalen of the Weather Research Center'') is episode 83 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on July 1, 2004 and in USA on June 18, 2005.  
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* {{BMGf|8237|Dub review thread on BMGf}} }}
'''Unfair-Weather Friends''' (Japanese: '''お天気研究所のポワルン!''' ''{{tt|Powalen|Castform}} of the Weather Institute!'') is the 83rd episode of ''[[Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire]]'', and the 357th episode of the [[Pokémon animated series]]. It first aired in Japan on July 1, 2004, and in the United States on June 18, 2005.  
 
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= Synopsis =
<!-- Detailed synopsis goes here. -->
Thanks to [[Archaic]] for the summary.


Ash and company are seen walking down a road.  A sunny day turns to rain, then to thunder, and finally snow. The explanation?  Castform, the Weather Pokémon. Castform begins to lead the group to safety when the weather turns sunny again.  Castform's form changes with the weather.
==Blurb==
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<i>Ash and the gang are headed to Fortree City when it starts raining and then snowing. They run for shelter and meet a Castform who leads them onward. The gang is greeted by two scientists from the nearby Weather Institute, Bart and Millie. Brock feels absolutely nothing for the attractive Millie, which puzzles him.


They find a couple of researchers at an institute.  Brock, as usual, goes into his pretty-girl-trance at the sight of the female scientist (who happens to have a Ditto), but something's wrong.  Brock can't quite explain it, but he doesn't feel as gaga for this lady as he does for other ladies.  Meanwhile, Team Rocket are snowed in, and appear to be enjoying themselves. Or at least Meowth is; Jessie and James blame the crazy weather patterns on Ash and company.
Millie is showing the kids around the Weather Institute when a Team Aqua helicopter suddenly appears, and they restrain all the other scientists (plus Team Rocket). Team Aqua is looking for information on the Legendary Pokémon, Groudon and Kyogre. Bart gives his access card to Castform, who flees in search of Millie.


The researchers show Ash and the others their weather control machine.  Team Rocket later find the machine and immediately make ill-fated plans to use it for nefarious ends. Team Aqua arrive on the scene soon afterwards, and in full force.  Of course, they also want the machine.  Team Rocket are clearly upset by the presence of Team Aqua and perform most of their motto before being clamped in restraints.
Inside the institute, Ash, Millie and friends reunite with Castform, fight off Team Aqua, and use the access card to get into the computer. Millie transfers all the data onto a disk and deletes the copy on the hard drive.


The researchers and Team Rocket are held captive together shortly.  Oddly enough, the female scientist claims to have never heard of Team Rocket; perhaps this is because they're in Houen, and TR is Kanto-based. Jessie and James suck in their stomachs and the restraints loosen. Team Aqua begins powering up the weather control machine, but it appears as though they simply wanted data from the machine and not the machine itself.  The data they're interested in relates to a local legendary Pokémon.
Outside, Team Aqua uses the weather machine to create a bolt of lightning that sends Team Rocket blasting off. Millie gives Team Aqua the access card. A Team Aqua technician finds the files missing, and Millie reveals that she is in fact, a he—Brodie, the Man of a Thousand Faces, a member of Team Magma! He escapes with the disk.


Ditto runs off with the Pass Card for the data.  Ash and company, watching all the action from the outside, vow to protect the machine from Team Aqua and Team RocketThe Pass Card is intercepted by Ash and the others.  Everyone but Ash and Pikachu flees, and Pikachu knocks out the Team Aqua grunts with a couple of lightning bolts.
Team Aqua leavesBart is feeling betrayed, but then the real Millie shows up—and Bart puts her to work transferring all their paper files on the Legendary Pokémon back into the computer.</i>
The plan is apparently to delete all the data from the main computer, which is now under guard by Team Aqua.


Ditto then copies Castform and lures the Aqua guards away. Ash links up with Ditto (disguised as Castform) and runs away. Team Aqua have apparently copied all the data to a disk and deleted it from the computer. While running out of the room, the Team Aqua guards run into Ash and Ditto (Castform). Ash is embarrassed that he never noticed a thing. After a quick fight inside, Ash and Ditto run outside to challenge the remaining TA members.  
==Plot==
{{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} continue towards [[Fortree City]]. The sunny day quickly turns to a torrential rainstorm and finally snow. After peculiar Pokémon floats in, Ash checks it out on his [[Pokédex]] and learns that it is a {{p|Castform}}, the {{pkmn|category|Weather Pokémon}}. As Castform begins to lead the group to safety, the weather turns sunny again and Castform's [[form]] changes with the weather. Castform leads them to its {{pkmn|Trainer}}, [[Bart]], a researcher at the [[Weather Institute]], and Bart's trainee, [[Millie]], who has a {{p|Ditto}}. {{an|Brock}}, enters into his pretty-girl-trance at the sight of Millie, but unexpectedly he stops his flirting and can't quite explain it. Meanwhile, {{TRT}} is snowed in, and appear to be enjoying themselves. Or at least {{MTR}} is; [[Jessie]] and [[James]] blame the crazy weather patterns on Ash and his friends.


The weather control machine is brought out and a lightning bolt strikes Team Rocket instead of Ash and company. A demonstration of power, apparently. Fearing for the others, Milly (the female scientist) hands over the Pass Card.  Unbeknownst to the TA members, the data doesn't exist!  Then Milly jumps to the top of the machine. Everyone looks at her, surprised. And we learn that Milly isn't really a woman after all. He's really Bannai, the leader of Team Magma.  This explains Brock's lack of a reaction to Bannai's disguised form earlier.  
Bart escorts the group to the Weather Institute, and explains that their giant satellite dish was responsible for the changing weather condition. At her boss's request, Millie takes the group on a guided tour of the facility. Team Rocket later spot the satellite and immediately make ill-fated plans to use it for nefarious ends. [[Team Aqua]] fly onto the scene soon afterwards, and in full force, also after the Weather Institute’s technology. [[Shelly]] and her grunts capture the researchers and Rocket trio, clamped in metal restraints. The trio escape their restraints by sucking in their stomachs, though their blabbering annoys Shelly. Team Aqua begins powering up the weather control machine, summoning a lightning storm. Bart quickly realizes Team Aqua interest in the [[Legendary Pokémon]] data, so he hands the data Pass Card to Castform and orders it to go to Millie. Castform ducks into a ventilation shaft with Team Aqua in pursuit. Ash, his friends, and Millie are watching action outside on security cameras. As Ash sprints into action, Millie points out that all the air ducts lead to the room they are currently in and correctly predicts that Castform will come to them, but two Team Aqua grunts soon arrive and spot Castform. Everyone but Ash and {{AP|Pikachu}} flees, and Pikachu knocks out the grunts with a {{m|Thunderbolt}}.


May gets involved in the battle, but her Combusken doesn't have enough power to battle Bannai's Ditto. He escapes with the data and, for a change, the bad guys win this round. The real Milly then arrives on the scene, all ready for her first day at the institute. Brock does his patented pretty-girl-trance. As it turns out, the data isn't completely lost. It's in hardcopy but it will take a long time to re-enter.
Millie suggests that they delete the data from the main computer, but it's being guarded by Team Aqua. Millie's Ditto {{m|Transform}}s into Castform and lures the Aqua guards away. Millie copies the data onto a disc and erases the master file. Meanwhile, Ash finds Ditto, who is still disguised as Castform, and carries it back to his friends and Millie, inadvertently leading the guards back to them. Ash calls out his {{AP|Torkoal}} to provide a smokescreen. The group exit the Institute only to run into Team Aqua and their leader. Shelly has the weather control machine brought online and threatens the captured scientists with a lightning storm unless Millie turns over the key card. Team Rocket are blasted off by a lightning bolt. Bart, unaware that Millie has deleted the data, begs her not to give in, though Millie hands it over. Ash and friends grin as Team Aqua soon discovers that the data has been destroyed. Then Millie taunts Shelly with the data disc and jumps to the top of the machine. Everyone looks at her, surprised as "Millie" is revealed to be [[Brodie]], a male member of [[Team Magma]] known for being a master of disguise. This explains Brock's lack of a reaction earlier.  


The episode closes with another scene of Team Rocket freezing in the snow.
Shelly orders her {{p|Crawdaunt}} to attack, though Brodie has Ditto quickly transform into a Crawdaunt. {{an|May}} gets involved in the {{pkmn|battle}}, but {{TP|May|Combusken}} is quickly taken out by a {{m|Crabhammer}} from Ditto. Brodie uses a jet pack and promptly escapes with the data and, for a change, the bad guys win this round. Shelly declares that she looks forward to defeating Team Magma next time before she and her grunts pull out. Afterwards, Bart is saddened that the Institute's data has been stolen and that "Millie" wasn't such a model employee afterall. The real Millie arrives on the scene, all ready for her first day. Brock does his patented flirting, though [[Max]] pulls him away. Bart quickly puts Millie to work, showing her to a chaotic study, where he asks her to manually re-enter all of the stolen data into system. Millie gladly accepts the large data entry task.


= Major events =
==Major events==
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== Debuts ==
* {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} encounter [[Brodie]] of [[Team Magma]].
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===Debuts===
====Humans====
* [[Brodie]]
 
====Pokémon debuts====
* {{p|Castform}}
* {{p|Castform}}


= Characters =
==Characters==
== Humans ==
===Humans===
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* {{Ash}}
== Pokémon ==
* {{an|May}}
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* {{an|Brock}}
= Trivia =
* [[Max]]
There is a new ending sequence with this episode.  
* [[Jessie]]
== Errors ==
* [[James]]
== Dub edits ==
* [[Bart]]
* [[Millie]]
* [[Brodie]]
* [[Shelly]]
* {{tc|Team Aqua Grunt}}s
 
===Pokémon===
[[File:PTC AG083.png|thumb|200px|Pokémon Trainer's Choice]]
[[Pokémon Trainer's Choice]]: {{p|Koffing}}
 
* {{p|Pikachu}} ({{OP|Ash|Pikachu}})
* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Wobbuffet}} ({{OP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}})
* {{p|Torkoal}} ({{OP|Ash|Torkoal}})
* {{p|Combusken}} ({{OP|May|Combusken}})
* {{p|Ditto}} ([[Brodie]]'s)
* {{p|Castform}} ([[Bart]]'s; debut)
* {{p|Crawdaunt}} ({{tc|Team Aqua Grunt}}s'; multiple)
* {{p|Kyogre}} (fantasy)
* {{p|Groudon}} (fantasy)
 
==Trivia==
* [[Full of Summer!!]] replaces [[Smile]] as the [[List of Japanese ending themes|Japanese ending theme]].
* This episode, much like ''[[AG033|Now That's Flower Power!]]'' and ''[[AG069|Love, Petalburg Style!]]'', was named similarly to [[EP137|a Johto episode]] in the English, {{pmin|Latin America}}n, and {{pmin|Spain|Spanish}} dubs.
** This episode's title is based on the phrase "fair weather friends", which is also the basis for the similarly named Johto episode.
* This episode's title is formatted as '''Unfair Weather Friends''' on [[Pokémon.com]], without the hyphen.
* This is the first time more than one transformation of two different kinds of Pokémon are seen: {{p|Castform}} transforming into its other forms, and {{p|Ditto}} transforming into a Castform and a {{p|Crawdaunt}}.
* The [[Hoenn]] [[Pokédex]] is referred to as "Dextette" for the first time, in reference to its female voice as a counterpart to "Dexter".


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===Errors===
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[[File:AG083 error.png|thumb|200px|The Castform error]]
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* Right before the disguised [[Brodie]] commands Ditto to {{m|transform}}, {{p|Castform}}'s lower body is the wrong shape.
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* When Millie goes to transfer the data, there is a blue dot on her forehead.
prevtitle=AG082: A Shroomish Skirmish |
* When Team Rocket is complaining to [[Team Aqua]] about being captured, {{TP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}} is missing.
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===Dub edits===
series=Advanced Generation |
====[[Pokémon Trainer's Choice]]====
episodelist=List of Advanced Generation episodes }}
* Question: Trainers, which one of these Pokémon [[evolution|evolves]] into {{p|Weezing}}?
* Choices: {{p|Cascoon}}, {{p|Koffing}}, {{p|Muk}}
* Answer: OK, Trainers! If you chose Koffing, you were right!
 
==In other languages==
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|zh_cmn={{tt|天氣研究所的漂浮泡泡!|The Castform of the Weather Research Facility!}}
|da={{tt|Urimeligt dårligt vejr|Extremely bad weather}}{{tt|*|The word urimeligt literally means unfairly, but extremely is a better translation in this context}}
|nl={{tt|Mooi weer stelen|Stealing Nice Weather}}
|de={{tt|Der Mann mit den 1000 Gesichtern|The man with the 1000 faces}}
|fi={{tt|Sääsota|The weather war}}
|fr_eu={{tt|L'art de faire la pluie et le beau temps|The art to making rain and good weather}}
|he=משחקי מזג האויר {{tt|miskhakei mezeg avir|Weather Games}}
|it={{tt|La macchina del meteo|The weather machine}}
|pt_br={{tt|A Máquina que Controla o Tempo|The Machine that Controls the Time}}
|pt_eu={{tt|Tempo de Poucos Amigos|Very Unfriendly Weather}} {{tt|*|The Portuguese expression 'com cara de poucos amigos' means 'being very unfriendly'. Also, 'Tempo' in Portuguese can mean both 'Time' and 'Weather', however the English title mentions 'Weather', hence the name of the episode.}}
|ru={{tt|Плохие парни, плохая погода|Bad boys, bad weather}}
|es_la={{tt|¡Amigos del injusto clima!|Unfair weather friends!}}
|es_eu={{tt|Amigos del mal tiempo|Bad weather friends}}
|sv={{tt|Väderleken!|Weather conditions!}}
|ko={{tt|날씨 연구소의 캐스퐁!|Weather Institute's Castform!}}
|hi=मौसम बदलने वाली मशीन {{tt|''Mausam badalne wali Machine''|Weather changing Machine}} {{tt|*|Hungama dub}}
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Unfair-Weather Friends
AG083.png
AG083   EP357
お天気研究所のポワルン!
Powalen of the Weather Institute!
First broadcast
Japan July 1, 2004
United States June 18, 2005
English themes
Opening This Dream
Ending
Japanese themes
Opening チャレンジャー!!
Ending いっぱいサマー!!
Credits
Animation Team Ota
Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami
Storyboard 秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Assistant director 秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Animation director 宍戸久美子 Kumiko Shishido
Additional credits

Unfair-Weather Friends (Japanese: お天気研究所のポワルン! Powalen of the Weather Institute!) is the 83rd episode of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire, and the 357th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on July 1, 2004, and in the United States on June 18, 2005.

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Blurb

Ash and the gang are headed to Fortree City when it starts raining and then snowing. They run for shelter and meet a Castform who leads them onward. The gang is greeted by two scientists from the nearby Weather Institute, Bart and Millie. Brock feels absolutely nothing for the attractive Millie, which puzzles him.

Millie is showing the kids around the Weather Institute when a Team Aqua helicopter suddenly appears, and they restrain all the other scientists (plus Team Rocket). Team Aqua is looking for information on the Legendary Pokémon, Groudon and Kyogre. Bart gives his access card to Castform, who flees in search of Millie.

Inside the institute, Ash, Millie and friends reunite with Castform, fight off Team Aqua, and use the access card to get into the computer. Millie transfers all the data onto a disk and deletes the copy on the hard drive.

Outside, Team Aqua uses the weather machine to create a bolt of lightning that sends Team Rocket blasting off. Millie gives Team Aqua the access card. A Team Aqua technician finds the files missing, and Millie reveals that she is in fact, a he—Brodie, the Man of a Thousand Faces, a member of Team Magma! He escapes with the disk.

Team Aqua leaves. Bart is feeling betrayed, but then the real Millie shows up—and Bart puts her to work transferring all their paper files on the Legendary Pokémon back into the computer.

Plot

Ash and his friends continue towards Fortree City. The sunny day quickly turns to a torrential rainstorm and finally snow. After peculiar Pokémon floats in, Ash checks it out on his Pokédex and learns that it is a Castform, the Weather Pokémon. As Castform begins to lead the group to safety, the weather turns sunny again and Castform's form changes with the weather. Castform leads them to its Trainer, Bart, a researcher at the Weather Institute, and Bart's trainee, Millie, who has a Ditto. Brock, enters into his pretty-girl-trance at the sight of Millie, but unexpectedly he stops his flirting and can't quite explain it. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is snowed in, and appear to be enjoying themselves. Or at least Meowth is; Jessie and James blame the crazy weather patterns on Ash and his friends.

Bart escorts the group to the Weather Institute, and explains that their giant satellite dish was responsible for the changing weather condition. At her boss's request, Millie takes the group on a guided tour of the facility. Team Rocket later spot the satellite and immediately make ill-fated plans to use it for nefarious ends. Team Aqua fly onto the scene soon afterwards, and in full force, also after the Weather Institute’s technology. Shelly and her grunts capture the researchers and Rocket trio, clamped in metal restraints. The trio escape their restraints by sucking in their stomachs, though their blabbering annoys Shelly. Team Aqua begins powering up the weather control machine, summoning a lightning storm. Bart quickly realizes Team Aqua interest in the Legendary Pokémon data, so he hands the data Pass Card to Castform and orders it to go to Millie. Castform ducks into a ventilation shaft with Team Aqua in pursuit. Ash, his friends, and Millie are watching action outside on security cameras. As Ash sprints into action, Millie points out that all the air ducts lead to the room they are currently in and correctly predicts that Castform will come to them, but two Team Aqua grunts soon arrive and spot Castform. Everyone but Ash and Pikachu flees, and Pikachu knocks out the grunts with a Thunderbolt.

Millie suggests that they delete the data from the main computer, but it's being guarded by Team Aqua. Millie's Ditto Transforms into Castform and lures the Aqua guards away. Millie copies the data onto a disc and erases the master file. Meanwhile, Ash finds Ditto, who is still disguised as Castform, and carries it back to his friends and Millie, inadvertently leading the guards back to them. Ash calls out his Torkoal to provide a smokescreen. The group exit the Institute only to run into Team Aqua and their leader. Shelly has the weather control machine brought online and threatens the captured scientists with a lightning storm unless Millie turns over the key card. Team Rocket are blasted off by a lightning bolt. Bart, unaware that Millie has deleted the data, begs her not to give in, though Millie hands it over. Ash and friends grin as Team Aqua soon discovers that the data has been destroyed. Then Millie taunts Shelly with the data disc and jumps to the top of the machine. Everyone looks at her, surprised as "Millie" is revealed to be Brodie, a male member of Team Magma known for being a master of disguise. This explains Brock's lack of a reaction earlier.

Shelly orders her Crawdaunt to attack, though Brodie has Ditto quickly transform into a Crawdaunt. May gets involved in the battle, but Combusken is quickly taken out by a Crabhammer from Ditto. Brodie uses a jet pack and promptly escapes with the data and, for a change, the bad guys win this round. Shelly declares that she looks forward to defeating Team Magma next time before she and her grunts pull out. Afterwards, Bart is saddened that the Institute's data has been stolen and that "Millie" wasn't such a model employee afterall. The real Millie arrives on the scene, all ready for her first day. Brock does his patented flirting, though Max pulls him away. Bart quickly puts Millie to work, showing her to a chaotic study, where he asks her to manually re-enter all of the stolen data into system. Millie gladly accepts the large data entry task.

Major events

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

Humans

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer's Choice

Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Koffing

Trivia

Errors

The Castform error
  • Right before the disguised Brodie commands Ditto to transform, Castform's lower body is the wrong shape.
  • When Millie goes to transfer the data, there is a blue dot on her forehead.
  • When Team Rocket is complaining to Team Aqua about being captured, Wobbuffet is missing.

Dub edits

Pokémon Trainer's Choice

  • Question: Trainers, which one of these Pokémon evolves into Weezing?
  • Choices: Cascoon, Koffing, Muk
  • Answer: OK, Trainers! If you chose Koffing, you were right!

In other languages



AG082 : A Shroomish Skirmish
Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire
AG084 : Who's Flying Now?
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