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+ | |image = Season1 ep26 ss2.jpg |
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+ | |ja_air = September 23, 1997 |
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+ | |us_air = October 12, 1998 |
+ | |ko_title = {{Ruby|에리카와 쿠사이하나}} |
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+ | |pt-br_air = June 11, 1999 |
+ | |pt-br_title = Perfume de Pokémon! |
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+ | |series = Pocket Monsters (1997 series), Pokémon the Series: The Beginning |
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− | |songs = Pokémon Theme Song (Gotta Catch 'Em All) |
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+ | |subtitle = Pocket Monsters (season) |
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+ | |season = Season 1, Pokémon: Indigo League |
+ | |ja_opening = Aim to Be a Pokémon Master |
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+ | |ja_ending = One Hundred Fifty-One |
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+ | |en_opening = Pokémon Theme |
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− | |major = [[Ash]] battles [[Erika]] but the battle was disrupted by [[Team Rocket]], [[Ash's Charizard|Ash's Charmander]] is revealed to know Skull Bash, Ash receives the Rainbow Badge from Erika as thanks for saving her Gloom}} |
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+ | |local = [[Celadon City]], [[Celadon City Gym]], [[Celadon Department Store]] |
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− | '''Pokémon Scent-sation!'''(Japanese: エリカとクサイハナ ''Erika and Gloom'') is the 26th episode of the [[Pokémon Anime|Pokémon anime]] and of [[Season 1: Pokémon: Indigo League|Pokémon: Indigo League]]. |
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+ | |major = Ash and co. arrive to Celadon City. [[Ash Ketchum|Ash]] and co. meet [[Erika (anime)|Erika]], the Celadon Gym Leader. [[Ash's Charizard|Ash's Charmander]] knows Skull Bash. Ash receives the Rainbow Badge. |
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+ | |animation = 志村隆行 (Takayuki Shimura) |
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− | [[Ash]], [[Misty (anime)|Misty]], and [[Brock (anime)|Brock]] have reached [[Celadon City]] at last. Everyone except Ash notices a sweet smell in the air. Brock runs off and Ash follows him to a perfume shop with some girls inside. Ash tells Brock he is wasting time and that they should leave but Ash can't find Misty or [[Ash's Pikachu|Pikachu]]. Brock points to inside the store and Ash sees Misty and Pikachu inside. Misty asks the manager how much a bottle of perfume would cost and Ash says that perfume is a waste of money. Everyone in the store, including his friends, give Ash an angry look and they kick him out of the store.[[File:Ash_gets_kicked_out_of_Celedon_perfume_shop.png|thumb|302px|Ash kicked out of Celedon's perfume shop]] Ash gets to the [[Celadon City Gym]], but the trainers at the front of the gym won't let him in. They know he hates perfume and since the perfume comes from the gym, they refuse to let him in. They take a stamp and stamp a red X on his forehead and tell him he is banned from the gym. |
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+ | |director = 井硲清高 (Kiyotaka Itani) |
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+ | |screenplay = 園田英樹 (Hideki Sonoda) |
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+ | |storyboard = 井硲清高 (Kiyotaka Itani) |
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+ | {{Nihongo|Pokémon Scent-sation!|エリカとクサイハナ|Erika and Gloom}} is the 26th episode of {{Media|anime|PM|PM('97)|PM}} of {{Media|anime|PM|PM('97)}}, [[Season 1]] of {{Media|anime|PS}}, and {{Media|anime|PS|TB|IL}} of {{Media|anime|PS|TB}}. |
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− | Meanwhile, [[Team Rocket]] sets up a ladder so they can sneak into the gym and steal the perfume formula. They explore the forest inside the gym and [[Jessie]] runs into a [[Erika's Gloom|Gloom]]. [[James]] waves his hand in front of the Gloom's face, waking it up. James sends out [[James' Koffing|Koffing]] and tells it to use [[Poison Gas]]. But the attack doesn't work on Gloom and it relealses its purid smell, knocking Team Rocket out. [[Team Rocket's Meowth|Meowth]] isn't hurt by it because he doesn't have a nose, but the [[trainers]] in the gym whack him with a hammer. The trainers stamp red X's on their heads, take them outside, and tie them to a tree. |
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+ | <section begin="Synopsis"/>''The party arrives in Celadon City, a perfectly pleasant town full of large department stores, condominiums, and fancy arcades. Brock and Misty are mesmerized, listening to a pretty young girl in a miniskirt, selling perfume. Appalled by the price of the perfume, Ash is kicked out of the department store, and heads for the Pokémon gym alone, but he is denied entrance to the Celadon Gym. The perfume that Ash criticized in the department store is produced in this gym. Brock and Misty enter the gym and befriend those who inhabit it, but Ash must go to some outrageous lengths in order to even set foot in the gym let alone prove himself worthy of battle against its Master.''<section end="Synopsis"/><ref>{{Cite|url = https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/seasons/1/episode-25-pokemon-scent-sation/|entry = Pokémon Scent-sation! {{!}} Pokémon TV (pokemon.com)|title = The Official Pokémon Website {{!}} Pokemon.com|access-date = {{MDY|1|21|2024}}}}</ref> |
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− | Ash finds them tied up in the tree. James asks Ash if he can untie them, but Jessie says not to ask him. She makes fun of Ash because he was rejected from the gym. Jessie says she will help him get inside the gym, but only if he unties them. Ash is a bit aprehensive about helping Team Rocket, but he needs to get into the gym, so he accepts their offer. He unties them and Team Rocket takes him to a department store and they put a blonde wig and a dress on him so he can sneak into the gym. They also tell him to speak in a high pitched voice. Jessie and James disguise themselves so they can pretend to be Ash's parents. They decide to enroll him at Pokémon training classes at the gym under the name Ashley. When they get to the gym, Ash notices that the girl registering him is the same one who kicked him out of the perfume shop. Ash decides not to say anything so he doesn't blow the disguise. Team Rocket runs off to find the secret perfume formula and Ash unknowingly distracts the trainers. Meowth pulls out a bomb (or blaster ball as they call it) and asks James what their plan is. Jessie tells him to plant the bomb. |
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+ | Finally arriving in in Celadon City, a sweet scent permeates the air, capturing Brock entirely, drawing him to a perfume store. Ash, chasing after, tries to drag him along. However, when he can't find Misty and Pikachu, it is revealed that they're inside the shop, hoping to purchase some. Ash believes this is a waste of time and money, telling Misty to forget about it. This draws the ire of everyone in the store, including his friends. This has some unintended effects, as Ash is then banned from the Celadon City Pokémon Gym for his talk about the perfume at the store, which was actually produced there at the Gym. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is sneaking into the gym to steal the perfume secret formula. This results in them getting knocked out by the stench of a Gloom. They then also are removed from the Gym and banned, being made an example of by being tied up and hung from a tree. However, Ash stumbles upon them, and Team Rocket convinces him to help them down. And in exchange, they promise to help him into the Gym. Team Rocket makes good on their deal and disguises him as a girl. Despite everything, the disguise works. Team Rocket goes off to steal the secret formula after enrolling Ash in the Gym's classes. As Ash travels through the gym, he finds the leader, Erika, with other Trainers, including Misty and Brock. Erika tells them a story about how she met Gloom when she was younger, and how it inspired her to become a Grass-Type trainer. However, as they speak, Pikachu recognizes Ash and goes up to cuddle with Ash. Ash tries to shoo him away, but an angry Pikachu shocks Ash, causing his disguise to fail. He drops the act and challenges Erika to a duel. They have a 3 vs. 3 battle, with Ash starting out with Bulbasaur, then using Charmander, and finally Pikachu after the two make up for earlier when Pikachu took Erika's side after Ash insulted her perfume. As this happens, Team Rocket appears, having taken the secret formula. However, as they plan to use a bomb, Meowth realizes that it is still attached to him, and they're sent blasting off. This causes a fire, and while Ash and Misty are using their Water-Type Pokémon to put the fire out, Erika realizes that her Gloom is missing. She goes to run in, but is stopped when Ash does so instead. He finds the Gloom and holds his breath to avoid smelling in its' stench when it releases it to repulse him out of self-defense. As he runs with it, his breath fails him and he breathes in, realizing there is no stench now as Gloom feels safe in his arms, now knowing Ash is a friend because he saves it from the fire. After rescuing the Pokémon, Erika offers him a Rainbow Badge for his hard work. He apologizes for letting Team Rocket in, and feels bad that they stole the secret formula. Erika brushes it off and tells him that all they stole was a single ingredient, Gloom's Smell. Elsewhere, Team Rocket discover this the hard way after opening the vial and sniffing it, passing out soon after. |
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− | The trainers work out with their Pokémon while [[Erika]] tells them a story. Ash comes into the room and he sees Misty, Brock and Pikachu with the other trainers. Ash discovers that Erika is the gym leader and the perfume manager that kicked him out of the shop. Brock indroduces Erika to Ash/Ashley. Misty asks Erika why Gloom doesn't emit the awful smell. Erika explains that if Gloom feels safe, it won't let off the smell. Erika remembers how she met Gloom when she was a little girl and she ran into a Grimer. Gloom came and rescued her by letting off the smell and scaring the Grimer away. When Erika finishes the story, Misty says that she wishes Ash could have heard the story. Ash speaks in his normal voice and Misty is confused. Pikachu figures out that Ashley is Ash and jumps on him and shocks him, destroying the disguise. Ash challenges Erika to a gym battle while Team Rocket breaks open the safe with the formula in it. |
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− | Erika accepts the challenge and sets up a three on three battle. Ash sends out [[Ash's Bulbasaur|Bulbasaur]] and Erika sends out [[Erika's Tangela|Tangela]]. Bulbasaur uses [[Vine Whip]], but Tangela uses [[Constrict]] and then [[Stun Spore]]. Ash recalls Bulbasaur and Erika offers to heal it with a [[Paralyz Heal]], but Ash refuses. He considers sending out [[Ash's Primeape|Primeape]], but knowing how wild it is, he sends out [[Ash's Charizard|Charmander]]. Erika sends out Victreebel and it uses [[Razor Leaf]]. Charmander uses [[Flamethrower]] and [[Skull Bash]] to knock out Victreebel. Erika sends out Gloom and it releases its smell. Charmander jumps into the air holding its nose before it faints. Pikachu steps forward to battle and Ash is sure Pikachu will win. |
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− | Team Rocket interrupts the battle and drops down onto the battle field. Meowth detonates a bomb, while he's still holding it, and everyone goes flying. Team Rocket escapes with the perfume formula, and the bomb creates a huge fire. Everyone runs out of the gym, Ash and Misty have [[Ash's Squirtle|Squirtle]], [[Misty's Starmie|Starmie]] and [[Misty's Staryu|Staryu]] try to put out the fire with [[Water Gun]]. Erika runs around like crazy because she can't find Gloom. Ash runs back into the gym and fights the flames to rescue Gloom. Ash finds Gloom, very scared. Ash steps towards it, but Gloom releases its smell. The ceiling about them starts to cave in and Ash holds his breath and picks up Gloom. Ash stops holding his breath because he's about to pass out and he notices Gloom stopped releasing its smell. Ash remembers from Erika's story that Gloom won't release its smell if it feels safe. |
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+ | *[[Tangela]] [[Erika's Tangela (anime)|(Erika's)]] |
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+ | :''"I never should have listened to Team Rocket."'' - Ash (angry at himself) |
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==Trivia== |
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− | *When Team Rocket was attacked by Gloom, Meowth broke the |
+ | *When Team Rocket was attacked by Gloom, Meowth broke the fourth wall by saying that the artist designed him without a nose. |
+ | *This episode was banned in South Korea, due to Team Rocket's use of bombs, and possibly due to featuring Japanese culture. |
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+ | *Though in the games Erika was the fourth Gym Leader to be challenged, in the anime she is the fifth. In addition, the Rainbow Badge Ash earned is the fifth he got, though in the games it is the fourth. |
+ | *In the scene after Team Rocket open the bottle, the place we're they hiding resemble [https://doraemon.fandom.com/wiki/Open_Lot Open Lot] from Doraemon series. |
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− | *The Rainbow Badge Ash earned is the fifth he got, tough in the games it is the fourth. |
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− | *If you look closely while the Celadon Gym trainers are banning Ash, Team Rocket can be seen stealing a ladder and running away with it in the background. |
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+ | *The purple-haired assistant is voiced by [[Veronica Taylor]] at the start of the episode, but changes to [[Rachael Lillis]] during the gym battle (this applies only to English version). |
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+ | *When Erika finishes telling the story about Omanyte, a miniature Victreebel is seen next to Gloom and Tangela in the respect that it is only slightly taller than the two of them. |
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+ | *The pigtail-haired assistant was last seen capturing Pokémon in the burning gym. After that, she disappeared for unknown reasons. |
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+ | TB026 1.jpg {{!}} Misty and Pikachu try out the perfume |
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+ | TB026 2.jpg {{!}} Ash's behavior insulted the shopkeepers |
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+ | TB026 3.jpg {{!}} Ash got kicked out |
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+ | TB026 4.jpg {{!}} Gloom releases the smell |
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+ | TB026 5.jpg {{!}} Jessie and Meowth scold James |
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+ | TB026 6.jpg {{!}} Team Rocket disguised Ash |
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+ | TB026 7.jpg {{!}} "Ashley and her parents" |
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+ | TB026 8.jpg {{!}} Ash is exposed |
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+ | TB026 9.jpg {{!}} Team Rocket found the "perfume" |
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+ | TB026 10.jpg {{!}} Tangela battles Bulbasaur |
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+ | TB026 11.jpg {{!}} Weepinbell uses Razor Leaf |
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+ | TB026 12.jpg {{!}} Charmander is affected by the smell |
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+ | TB026 13.jpg {{!}} Meowth triggers the bomb |
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+ | TB026 14.jpg {{!}} The Gym on fire |
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+ | TB026 15.jpg {{!}} Starmie, Staryu and Squirtle douse the fire |
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+ | TB026 16.jpg {{!}} Ash does not like the smell |
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+ | TB026 17.jpg {{!}} Erika gives Ash the badge |
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+ | TB026 18.jpg {{!}} Team Rocket discover what they have stolen |
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− | Watch this and other episodes: [http://www.pokemon-download.net/pocket-monsters/indigo-league/pokemon-episode-26-pokemon-scent-sation/ Pokémon Episode 26: Pokémon Scent-sation!] |
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Latest revision as of 22:51, 18 February 2024
Pokémon Scent-sation! (Japanese: エリカとクサイハナ, Hepburn: Erika and Gloom) is the 26th episode of Pocket Monsters of Pocket Monsters (1997 series), Season 1 of Pokémon the Series, and Pokémon: Indigo League of Pokémon the Series: The Beginning.
Synopsis
The party arrives in Celadon City, a perfectly pleasant town full of large department stores, condominiums, and fancy arcades. Brock and Misty are mesmerized, listening to a pretty young girl in a miniskirt, selling perfume. Appalled by the price of the perfume, Ash is kicked out of the department store, and heads for the Pokémon gym alone, but he is denied entrance to the Celadon Gym. The perfume that Ash criticized in the department store is produced in this gym. Brock and Misty enter the gym and befriend those who inhabit it, but Ash must go to some outrageous lengths in order to even set foot in the gym let alone prove himself worthy of battle against its Master.[1]
Episode plot
Finally arriving in in Celadon City, a sweet scent permeates the air, capturing Brock entirely, drawing him to a perfume store. Ash, chasing after, tries to drag him along. However, when he can't find Misty and Pikachu, it is revealed that they're inside the shop, hoping to purchase some. Ash believes this is a waste of time and money, telling Misty to forget about it. This draws the ire of everyone in the store, including his friends. This has some unintended effects, as Ash is then banned from the Celadon City Pokémon Gym for his talk about the perfume at the store, which was actually produced there at the Gym. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is sneaking into the gym to steal the perfume secret formula. This results in them getting knocked out by the stench of a Gloom. They then also are removed from the Gym and banned, being made an example of by being tied up and hung from a tree. However, Ash stumbles upon them, and Team Rocket convinces him to help them down. And in exchange, they promise to help him into the Gym. Team Rocket makes good on their deal and disguises him as a girl. Despite everything, the disguise works. Team Rocket goes off to steal the secret formula after enrolling Ash in the Gym's classes. As Ash travels through the gym, he finds the leader, Erika, with other Trainers, including Misty and Brock. Erika tells them a story about how she met Gloom when she was younger, and how it inspired her to become a Grass-Type trainer. However, as they speak, Pikachu recognizes Ash and goes up to cuddle with Ash. Ash tries to shoo him away, but an angry Pikachu shocks Ash, causing his disguise to fail. He drops the act and challenges Erika to a duel. They have a 3 vs. 3 battle, with Ash starting out with Bulbasaur, then using Charmander, and finally Pikachu after the two make up for earlier when Pikachu took Erika's side after Ash insulted her perfume. As this happens, Team Rocket appears, having taken the secret formula. However, as they plan to use a bomb, Meowth realizes that it is still attached to him, and they're sent blasting off. This causes a fire, and while Ash and Misty are using their Water-Type Pokémon to put the fire out, Erika realizes that her Gloom is missing. She goes to run in, but is stopped when Ash does so instead. He finds the Gloom and holds his breath to avoid smelling in its' stench when it releases it to repulse him out of self-defense. As he runs with it, his breath fails him and he breathes in, realizing there is no stench now as Gloom feels safe in his arms, now knowing Ash is a friend because he saves it from the fire. After rescuing the Pokémon, Erika offers him a Rainbow Badge for his hard work. He apologizes for letting Team Rocket in, and feels bad that they stole the secret formula. Erika brushes it off and tells him that all they stole was a single ingredient, Gloom's Smell. Elsewhere, Team Rocket discover this the hard way after opening the vial and sniffing it, passing out soon after.
Debuts
Character
Pokémon
Move
Item
Quotes
- "Augh! My nose is on fire!" - Meowth
- "Meowth, you don't have a nose." - Jessie
- "Huh? AHHH! My nose! The stink must've dissolved it off my face. Hm? Oh, I forgot, the cartoonist never gave me a nose." - Meowth
- "(Clears throat, while sounding like a girl) I'll show those meanies!" - Ash
- "Meowth! Where did you put that blast ball?!" - James
- "Near us so I wouldn't lose it." - Meowth
- "At least we managed to steal this, their secret perfume formula." - Jessie
- "But Team Rocket stole your perfume formula." - Ash
- "(giggles) No they didn't. The bottle they stole was one of our perfume's ingredients: Essence of Gloom." - Erika
- "Gym Rules, no thieves allowed." - Lead picnicker
- "I accept your challenge! It’s my duty under the league rules!" - Erika
- "I never should have listened to Team Rocket." - Ash (angry at himself)
Trivia
- When Team Rocket was attacked by Gloom, Meowth broke the fourth wall by saying that the artist designed him without a nose.
- This episode was banned in South Korea, due to Team Rocket's use of bombs, and possibly due to featuring Japanese culture.
- This is the first episode where Ash dresses up as a girl.
- Though in the games Erika was the fourth Gym Leader to be challenged, in the anime she is the fifth. In addition, the Rainbow Badge Ash earned is the fifth he got, though in the games it is the fourth.
- In the scene after Team Rocket open the bottle, the place we're they hiding resemble Open Lot from Doraemon series.
- "Who's that Pokémon?": Gloom (JA and EN)
Mistakes
- During the scene where the girls are trying to use hoses to put out the fire, in the upper right corner it looks like the people are missing the gym and watering the grass. They may be do this to avoid the fire from spreading to other buildings.
- The purple-haired assistant is voiced by Veronica Taylor at the start of the episode, but changes to Rachael Lillis during the gym battle (this applies only to English version).
- When Erika finishes telling the story about Omanyte, a miniature Victreebel is seen next to Gloom and Tangela in the respect that it is only slightly taller than the two of them.
- The pigtail-haired assistant was last seen capturing Pokémon in the burning gym. After that, she disappeared for unknown reasons.
Dub differences
- In the Japanese version Meowth doesn't break the fourth wall. Instead, he says that he never had a nose to begin with.
- The bombs are called "blaster balls".
Gallery
References
- ^ (n.d.) . "Pokémon Scent-sation! | Pokémon TV (pokemon.com)". From The Official Pokémon Website | Pokemon.com. Archived from the original on January 21, 2024.