Quote From: SunainThis episode had a lot of Lord of the Rings similarities, Team Rocket as the "Nazgûl" Ring Wraiths, Marley getting into the boat and going down stream like Boromir, ect. A lot of the music was actually from Movie 11 and the ending was quite similar.
The English dub almost completely removed all the original music in this episode which was unfortunate. They once again took out a rice cake reference.