Double Trouble

Double Trouble is a song from the English version of the Pokémon anime. Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Maddie Blaustein, and Ted Lewis take the lead vocals in the roles of Jessie, James, Meowth, and Giovanni respectively. The song was used in the Pikachu's Jukebox segment in Season 1 and Season 2. Along with many other songs from the segment, it was featured on the Pokémon 2.B.A. Master CD. A slightly different version debuted in Pokémon Live!.

Episodes

• Beauty and the Beach
• The Pi-Kahuna
• Bad to the Bone
• Friend and Foe Alike
• The Lost Lapras
• Shell Shock
• A Shipful of Shivers
• Get Along, Little Pokémon
• A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine!

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Butch
• Cassidy
• Giovanni

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Pikachu (Victor's, nicknamed Puka)

Lyrics

Original version

Giovanni:
This is the boss and I'm sick of waiting!
I want Pikachu! And this time don't screw it up!

Prepare for trouble,
Make it double,
Prepare for trouble,
Make it double.
James: We'll be the richest rogues of all time.
Jessie: Creators of a grand design.
James: I'll be the king.
Jessie: I'll be the queen.
Meowth: I'll be the joker... of crime.

Prepare for trouble
Make it double
Jessie: Prepare for trouble.
James: Make it double.
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation.
James: To unite all peoples within our nation.
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love.
James: To extend our reach to the stars above.
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!
Jessie: Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light.
James: Surrender now or prepare to fight.
Meowth: That's right!

Chorus:
Team Rocket's rockin,
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble,
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you,

Team Rocket's rockin,
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble,
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you,
Team Rocket: We're gonna capture Pikachu.

Prepare for trouble,
Make it double,
Jessie: Prepare for trouble
Prepare for trouble,
James: Make it double
Make it double,
James:
We're Team Rocket and we fight for what's wrong
For mayhem and madness and rare Pokémon.
Jessie: I'm so gorgeous
James: I'm always the man
Giovanni: You're just the players in my master plan

Chorus:
Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you

Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you
Team Rocket: We're gonna capture Pikachu

We're always gonna try it
No one can deny it
We can cause a riot in Sunday School
James: Ooh a riot!
We'll have you believing
Truth can be deceiving
Team Rocket: "Do unto others" is our Golden Rule

Jessie: This is our most ingenious plan ever, if i do say so myself.
James: Even we couldn't screw this one up Jessie.
Meowth: Would you two stop yappin', here they come!
Prepare for trouble

Chorus:
Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you

Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble
Gonna capture Pikachu

Team Rocket's rockin
Talkin' trouble, walkin' trouble
Double trouble, big trouble's gonna follow you

Team Rocket: Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!

Pokémon Live! version

Jessie and James:
Prepare for trouble
Make it double
Prepare for trouble
Make it double

James: To protect the world from devastation!
Jessie: To unite all peoples within our nation!
James: To denounce the evils of truth and law!
Jessie: To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!

Jessie and James:
Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Team Rockets Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble double trouble
Big troubles gonna follow you!

Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Team Rockets Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble double trouble
Big troubles gonna follow you!
We captured Pikachu!

Jessie: We're Team Rocket, and we fights for what's wrong.
James: For mayhem, for madness and for rare Pokémon
Jessie: I'm so gorgeous.
James: I'm always the man.
Delia: You're just the players in his "master plan".
Jessie and James: Jealous?

Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Team Rockets Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble double trouble
Big troubles gonna follow you!

Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Team Rockets Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble double trouble
Big troubles gonna follow you!
We captured Pikachu!

Team Rocket's rockin!

Reprise

Jessie: Head it!
Jessie and James:
Team Rockets Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble double trouble
Big troubles gonna follow you!

Team Rockets Rockin!
Talking trouble, walking trouble double trouble
Big troubles gonna follow you!
We're gonna capture Ashii too!

Credits

• Lead vocals: Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Adam Blaustein, Ted Lewis
• BG vocals: Curtis King, Sharon Bryant, Russell Velázquez, Louis Cortelezzi
• Guitars: Larry Saltzman, Bob Mayo
• Co-produced and arranged by Louis Cortelezzi

Trivia

• This song was used as Team Rocket's theme in the Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Puzzle League.
• This song was used as background music for A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine!.
• This song's title is commonly mistaken to be called "Team Rocket's Rockin'" or "Team Rocket's Rocket".
• Giovanni tells Team Rocket at the beginning of the CD version that he wants Pikachu, although in anime canon he may not even know about Pikachu. Jessie and James decide themselves in Pokémon Emergency! that Pikachu is powerful and that they want to capture it.

In other languages

• Czech: Dvojnásobný potíže (Tým Raket)
• Danish: Ballade I Din Gade
• French: Nous sommes de retour
• German: Gleich gibt es Ärger
• Hungarian: Készülj a harcra
• Italian: Doppio Guaio
• Norwegian: Kjempe Trøbbel
• Polish: Zespół R.
• Portuguese:
  • Brazilian Portuguese: Muitos Problemas (Equipe Rocket)
  • European Portuguese: Problemas A Dobrar (Team Rocket)
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: La Canción de Team-Rocket
  • Latin American Spanish: Equipo Rocket

This article is part of Project Music, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon song, CD and musician.