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Sweet Baby James

AG147

EP421

マネネ登場！休息の館！
Enter Manene! Mansion of Rest!

First broadcast

Japan	October 13, 2005
United States	September 9, 2006

English themes

Opening	Battle Frontier
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	バトルフロンティア
Ending	ポケモンかぞえうた

Credits

No additional credits are available at this time.
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
Storyboard	浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Assistant director	浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
Animation director	玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa

Sweet Baby James (Japanese: マネネ登場！休息の館！ Enter Manene! Mansion of Rest!) is the 147th episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 421st episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 13, 2005 and in the United States on September 9, 2006.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

On the way to the Battle Arena, May's Munchlax falls ill, even refusing to eat. An old woman and man approach the group, and Ash and his friends are surprised to see the old man has a Mime Jr.. The woman says that Munchlax has a fever and needs help.

Meanwhile, James's Chimecho is also sick. James goes to look for a Pokémon Center, but all he sees is a castle. However, this happens to be one of his family's vacation homes. He runs there with Jessie and Meowth in tow. He calls for the old couple, and they are very happy to see him. He explains that his Chimecho is sick, and the old woman takes it in her arms.

The couple looks back to see Jessie and Meowth, and they assume that Jessie is James's wife, and they congratulate him. James is shocked that they would think this, and he imagines what it would be like to be married to Jessie - doing chores while she orders him around. He freaks out and tells the couple that she is his assistant and Meowth is his manager. Jessie and Meowth take offense to this, and James explains to them that he doesn't want the couple to know he is in Team Rocket because he thinks they would be disappointed in him. He tells them how he loved to come to the vacation home after being ordered to study and behave "properly" at home. He was allowed to act as he pleased at the vacation home, and he loved how the old couple took care of sick Pokémon.

Later, Chimecho is put on a bed in a large room. Everyone is gathered around the bed, and then Mime Jr. comes over to James and he introduces himself to it. Jessie says that it's very cute. James worries that his parents are around, but the woman tells him they're traveling the world, much to his relief.

Suddenly, Ash's group walks in, and James is very surprised to see them. He runs outside to talk to them, and they assume that he is there to steal Pokémon from "the nice old couple." He tells them the real situation, and tells them that he and Jessie and Meowth won't do anything bad there as long as they don't tell the old couple that he is in Team Rocket.

Later, Munchlax is put on a bed next to Chimecho. Suddenly, everyone realizes that Jessie and Meowth are missing, so James runs around the house in a panic to find them, with Mime Jr. following. He finally finds them eating from the refrigerator, their faces stuffed with food. He yells at them, and the rest of the group shows up, so he tries to come up with an excuse to make it seem like nothing is wrong.

Later, everyone walks around the home's giant greenhouse and looks at all the Pokémon living there. Jessie and Meowth split off and see an Oddish. Jessie stuffs it in the back of her shirt, but James knows that something is up. Oddish's leaves poke out of Jessie's shirt, so James pulls it out and lets it go.

At night, Mime Jr. walks in the giant room and sees James sitting over Chimecho, who is sleeping. It starts to run over, but May walks in the room from another door. James tells her that Munchlax will be okay, and that she shouldn't worry about it. She tells Munchlax goodnight, and then leaves. Mime Jr. then approaches James, and he asks if it came to keep him company. The answer is affirmative, and he tells Mime Jr. that it is very kind.

Meanwhile, Jessie and Meowth sneak through the house, planning to go back to the greenhouse to steal Pokémon. First, though, they sneak into the giant room, where James and Mime Jr. are sleeping. They take Mime Jr. and Munchlax, then head off and steal the Pokémon in the greenhouse. Ash wakes up and sees a light in the greenhouse. Then James wakes up and sees that Mime Jr. and Munchlax are gone, then sees the light in the greenhouse.

Everyone finds Jessie and Meowth, who start to do their motto, with James doing his parts. Suddenly, he realizes what he is doing and tries to take the Pokémon back from them. The bag of Pokémon breaks open, and all the Pokémon run out, Mime Jr. running to James. Jessie sends out Seviper and Ash sends out Phanpy to battle. James helps Ash by sending out Cacnea, and when Cacnea is about to attack Ash as usual, James tells it to attack Seviper, and it complies. It attacks, and it and Phanpy send Jessie, Meowth, and Seviper flying up into the air.

The old couple appears, and ask where Jessie and Meowth went. Suddenly, they fall through the ceiling next to the couple and act like nothing happened.

The next morning, Ash's group sets off, May thanking the couple for the treatment Munchlax got. The woman wishes Ash luck at the Battle Arena.

Meanwhile, Jessie and Meowth wait in the balloon, saying James is late. He is still in the room with Chimecho, who is still sick. It wakes up, and the couple and Mime Jr. enter. The couple tells him Chimecho is still sick. James says he loves Chimecho, and remembers when they met and all the good times they had together. He realizes that he can't take it with him. Chimecho smiles at him and nods, letting him know it is okay to go. James starts crying while looking at the smiling yet sad Chimecho.

James wipes away his tears and gets Chimecho's Poké Ball out of his pocket to give to the couple, but a couple of empty balls fall on the floor. Mime Jr. runs over and presses the capture mechanism on one, going inside the ball. James asks why Mime Jr. wants to go with him, and the couple tells him that Mime Jr. likes him and thinks he's a nice person. Chimecho smiles again.

Team Rocket's balloon flies off, and the couple watch it go, revealing that James eventually told them he was in Team Rocket. They say that even though he is in the evil organization, they know he is still a kind person, and they hope that he does well in life. James looks back to the house, and sees through the window that Chimecho is sitting up, smiling at him. Tears streaming down his face, he waves goodbye to it, and the balloon flies off into the horizon.

Major events

May and Max learn that James comes from a rich family.
James leaves Chimecho at his old cottage to continue recovering from its fever.
James obtains a Mime Jr..

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

Mime Jr. (James's)

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Trivia

James had 23 private tutors as a boy, as well as piano and violin lessons.
James's parents are traveling the world.
Smile plays in the scene where James is forced to leave his Chimecho behind with the old couple in order to recover.
Only in this episode, the voice of Ash's Phanpy is provided by stock audio from previous episodes.
This is the third time that someone has left a Pokémon behind and then obtained a new one in the same episode. The other two times were A Poached Ego, and Who's Flying Now?. Coincidentally, all three of these involved James.
James' Nanny tells James that she heard he got engaged and thinks that Jessie is his wife-to-be. This is a reference to the episode Holy Matrimony!
The dub title is a reference to the James Taylor song, Sweet Baby James.

Errors

Dub edits

Instead of Smile being used in the scene where James leaves Chimecho, the dub uses a new vocal song.
Instead of calling Chimecho by its species name like he usually does, James refers to his Pokémon as "Chime."

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	模仿小丑登场休养的公馆
Chinese	Mandarin	魔尼尼登場！休息之館！
Finnish		Kiltti Pikku-James
European French		L'enfant qui est en nous
German		Der Mann, den sie Klein-James nannten
Italian		Il piccolo James
Portuguese	Brazil	O Pequeno James
Portuguese	Portugal	O Pequeno James
Spanish	Latin America	El dulce bebé James
Spanish	Spain	Dulce Jaimito