Cliff-note summary of this episode:
-Trainers find a Cleffa
-Cleffa leads them to pretty girl
-Brock falls for pretty girl
-Trainers get stuck in rain
-Wild Mr. Backlot appeared!
-Trainers go in and see all the cute
likely-poached Pokemon
-Swinub pulls a Wurmple
-Swinub rejects Ash for Dawn; Swinub's future owner confirmed in fans' minds everywhere
-Team Rocket uses Dig and gets all of the Pokemon as well as one of the trainers
-"Lower the force field."
-All of the Pokemon stand there like imbeciles as Dawn and Swinub plummet to their likely demise
-Dawn and Swinub manage to survive a several-hundred-foot drop
-Dawn uses Fake Tears! It's super effective! Swinub uses Odor Sleuth!
-Swinub finds Team Rocket and frees the Pokemon with one attack
-Out of all the other Pokemon already ready for battle, only one or two join in. Do the writers
want to make the other Pokemon look incompetent in this episode or what?
-TR blasts off yet again thanks to the magical exploding Thunderbolt
-Dawn captures Swinub through an unspoken promise of food
So, to review, Team Rocket managed to catch all of the heroes' Pokemon as well as Dawn, then got beat by a Swinub that Dawn in turn caught. In other words, Team Rocket > Dawn > Swinub > Team Rocket. Or, by terms of association, Team Rocket > Team Rocket. POKEMON LOGIC RULES. XD