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| Season | Pokémon: Black & White (Season 14) · Rocks, fossils, fish & film arc (BW034–BW038) |
| Episode | Season 14, episode 36 · English episode 689 · Japanese episode 694 · Bulbapedia code BW036 |
| English title | Archeops In The Modern World! |
| Japanese title | 化石復活！古代怪鳥アーケオス！！ Kaseki Fukkatsu! Kodai Kaichō Ākeosu!! — “Fossil Revival! Ancient Mysterious Bird Archeos!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 16 June 2011 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 8 October 2011 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Besuto Uisshu! (Best Wishes!) – Rica Matsumoto · Pokémon Ieru kana? BW (Can You Name All the Pokémon? BW) – Takeshi Tsuruno |
| English opening | Black and White – Erin Bowman & Joe Philips |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Archen (US) |
| Previous episode | Where Did You Go, Audino? (BW035) |
| Next episode | A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition! (BW037) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeArchen evolves into Archeops
Archeops In The Modern World! is the 36th episode of Pokémon: Black & White, the fourteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 689th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 694, Bulbapedia code BW036). It first aired in Japan on 16 June 2011 and in the United States on 8 October 2011. It falls within the season’s Rocks, fossils, fish & film stretch (EP34–EP38).
Synopsis
Professor Juniper and Fennel bring an ancient Archen back to life from a fossil, and the group help the confused Pokémon learn to fly. Juniper’s Plume Fossil, sent by Lenora, is restored using Musharna’s Dream Mist and Fennel’s machine, but the frightened Archen attacks everyone with Peck and falls asleep, while Team Rocket eavesdrop and Dr. Zager orders them to steal the data.
Archen wakes, smashes a window with Dragon Breath and escapes outside, refusing all food. Ash’s Tranquill tries to teach it to fly, Emolga’s failed Attract reveals that it is female, and its cries make sprouting seeds grow into a huge tree that bursts through the lab. Archen eats its fruit and evolves into Archeops, finally taking to the air.
Team Rocket attack, setting the tree ablaze with Night Shade, and Roggenrola and Oshawott help fight the fire. Archeops breaks out of an electric net with Dragon Breath and calls a flock of its kind, which it joins. Zager tells the trio that, although they lost Archeops, they have all the data they need.
Major Events
- Archen evolves into Archeops. Juniper and Fennel revive Archen from a Plume Fossil
- It joins a flock of its kind
- Team Rocket obtain the restoration data
- TV debuts of Archen and Archeops
Pokémon making their anime debut
Archen#0566 · BW036
Archeops#0567 · BW036
Captures and evolutions
- Archen → Archeops#0567 · wild · revived from a Plume Fossil
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Unova story.
Changes in the English Dub
- Archen becomes the “ancestor of all Flying types” that “cannot fly”
- Juniper says “Emonga”
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