Ep 2. Aipom & Circumstance

Ash and friends find themselves in a village with a most unusual annual ritual: choosing a king who will rule for the next year! The candidates compete for possession of the crown, and whoever is holding on to it at sundown wins the royal title. Brock decides to compete to impress the ladies, but the continued shenanigans of Ash's Aipom cause the crown to become stuck to its head! The village elder, Zeus, rules that if Aipom still has the crown at sundown, it gets to be the king, so everyone pitches in to free it. Finally, a young villager named Hank, who's always dreamed of being king, comes up with an idea. He offers Aipom a Belue Berry, which is so sour that it makes not just Aipom's face but its whole head scrunch up--and the crown comes loose in Hank's hands, just as the sun sets!