Pokémon Fashion Flash – Pokémon Season 1, Episode 28

Plot episodeBrock gets VulpixNew ending: Meowth’s Song

Pokémon Fashion Flash is the 28th episode of Pokémon: Indigo League, the first season of the Pokémon anime, and the 28th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 28, Bulbapedia code EP028). It first aired in Japan on 7 October 1997 and in the United States on 14 October 1998. It falls within the season’s Fuchsia, the Safari Zone & the Pokémon Shock stretch (EP28–EP38).

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Synopsis

After arriving in Scissor Street, Ash and Misty are a bit bemused as to why they’re there, Brock is looking for something but doesn’t answer – Misty realises that Scissor Street is also known as Breeder Street, and it’s revealed that Brock wanted to come here to see the latest Breeder stuff!

Not long after arriving they encounter a Pokemon beauty salon called “Salon Roque”, a name which sounds a little too familiar to them all. Misty is about to join the queue as Brock finally finds the place he’s been looking for, it’s a comparatively non descript storefront with no queue outside.

Inside they find a really cute looking Pokemon called Vulpix, Misty takes it upon herself to pet it and is promptly annihilated by a flame attack. Brock asks Suzie the Salon owner if he can become her student and explains to Ash that Suzie has been awarded the trophy for breeding excellence for three consecutive years at the World Pokemon Breeders contest, amongst other accolades.

It seems that “Salon Roque” is taking a lot of custom away from Suzie’s salon, with Roque being about tacky looking fashions and Suzie’s place being about natural stuff and inner Beauty. Suzie starts to doubt her own methods, and Brock and Ash convince her to keep going, coming up with an idea to help promote Suzie’s salon – she begins to give lectures on Pokemon care and with the right promotion quickly gets all her customers back from “Salon Roque”. Salon Roque’s management soon discover that their massive queues have gone and only one customer remains; Misty and her Psyduck. Meowth inadvertantly reveals that the owners of Salon Roque are Team Rocket, who hold Misty hostage threatening to paint her face like Frankenstein, Psyduck is nowhere to be seen and had actually gone back to Suzie’s to tell Ash/Brock about the situation who promptly come running.

Meowth reveals that the whole Salon idea was just a plan to scam money out of trainers with ridiculous PokéFashion’s and if any rare Pokemon come in they were just going to steal them. Ash and Brock proceed to battle Team Rocket but lose, Suzie and her Vulpix step in and defeat Meowth, Ekans and Koffing convincingly, Team Rocket blast off again. The massive group of trainers who had been watching the whole time realised how shallow they’d been, Suzies belief in what she does is restored and she decides she needs to travel and find out more about Pokemon breeding; Vulpix takes a liking to Brock and Suzie asks Brock to take care of her as his own Pokemon.

With a new friend, a new Pokemon, and a quick laugh at Misty’s very fashionable makeup our heroes say Goodbye to Suzie, and Team Rocket are run out of town by their angry former customers!

Major Events

• — Brock receives Vulpix from Suzie
• Salon Roquet
• First motto variation
• New ED ニャースのうた
• JP airing followed by the *Fall Special* clip show. Debuts: Suzie
• Nidoran♂, Vulpix, Venonat, Voltorb.

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Nidoran♂#0032 · EP028
• Vulpix#0037 · EP028
• Venonat#0048 · EP028
• Voltorb#0100 · EP028

Captures and evolutions

• Vulpix#0037 · Brock · from Suzie

Trivia

• The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Kanto storyline.

Changes in the English Dub

• 22 paint edits removing Japanese text
• Code names removed
• Dub ending: the Kanto Pokérap (Wednesday segment)
• New Japanese ending: Nyarth no Uta (Meowth’s Song)

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