This episode was hilarious!
All of Brock's lines in this episode were brillaint! "What do you know? You're just a kid!" This episode was even funnier than last weeks about Claydol.
Not only that, the battles were very well done in this episode. Torkoal Vs. Lombre at the beginning, and even Team Rocket actually put up a decent fight this time. I also liked it that Ash was commanding one of Brock's Pokemon without a problem. Really nice animation during some of the battles.
We haven't had a love episode in awhile either, so it was nice to have one of these again. Brock + Corphish = gold. Brock was really desperate to get Samantha. Anyone else notice that during the romance scenes the camera kept shifting to Ash and May? I usually don't talk about this stuff here, but I found it amusing that May said, "Spoken like a man." and then, "And he still acts like a man." followed by Ash's, "I do?". If they are heading in that direction, I'm glad it's more subtle and not as cliche as Ash/Misty.
This episode also gets bonus points for Lombre evolving. Ludicolo has the same voice as the one from the 6th movie.
Anyway a really great episode with a mix of comedy, romance, and great action scenes. Another reason why AG is just the best.