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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · The road to Blackthorn arc (EP239–EP250) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 36 · English episode 245 · Japanese episode 247 · Bulbapedia code EP245 |
| English title | Will the Real Oak Please Stand Up? |
| Japanese title | にせオーキド!? ポケモンせんりゅうたいけつ!! Nise Ōkido!? Pokemon Senryū Taiketsu!! — “Fake Okido!? Pokémon Senryu Confrontation!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 25 April 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 27 September 2002 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Corsola (US) · Farfetch’d (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Enlighten Up! (EP244) |
| Next episode | Wish Upon a Star Shape (EP246) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeJames as Professor OakAired early in the US
Will the Real Oak Please Stand Up? is the 36th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 245th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 247, Bulbapedia code EP245). It first aired in Japan on 25 April 2002 and in the United States on 27 September 2002. It falls within the season’s The road to Blackthorn stretch (EP239–EP250).
Premiered out of story order as part of Kids’ WB’s weekday premiere week, on Friday 27 September 2002 — a week after the season opener and months ahead of the episodes around it.
Synopsis
Prof Oak is scheduled to make a public appearance in Maroon Town which just happens to be the next stop on the way to Blackthorn City for Ash and company. Team Rocket happens to be in Maroon Town and notice the posters for the show tomorrow. They also notice that there will be a buffet after the show for the celebrities. So they dress up as Oak, Mary and a producer to fool the host Nurse Joy into feeding them. James, disguised as Oak, bluffs his way through a question and answer session with the local children.
When the real Prof Oak shows up there is a lot of confusion. Ash and company can vouch for him, but there is no proof in that either. So a challenge is made to have a show down on stage and whoever is the real Oak wins. The knowledge contest ends up as a poetry contest as a tie breaker, and Oak wins. Team Rocket start to get away with the after show brunch, but the food is recovered and Oak sends a pidgey to send Team Rocket off (in an intact balloon this time). The professor’s reputation is restored and the children have all kinds of questions for him.
Major Events
- Oak catches a Pidgey
- Dub cut (restored 2016)
- Re-aired 2003-04-26
Trivia
- The English title plays on the game show "To Tell the Truth".
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Johto story.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Farfetch’d in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Corsola in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- EP245 confrontation with the real DJ Mary cut on broadcast and the 2004 DVD (restored on Pokémon TV/Prime Video and the 2016 DVD)
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.