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| Season | Pokémon: Johto League Champions (Season 4) · Ecruteak City & the Fog Badge arc (EP181–EP183) |
| Episode | Season 4, episode 25 · English episode 182 · Japanese episode 184 · Bulbapedia code EP182 |
| English title | From Ghost to Ghost |
| Japanese title | エンジュジム! ゴーストバトル!! Enju Jimu! Gōsuto Batoru!! — “Enju Gym! Ghost Battle!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 25 January 2001 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 10 November 2001 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | OK! – Rica Matsumoto · Boku no Best Friend e (To My Best Friend) – Hiromi Iwasaki |
| English opening | Born to Be a Winner – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Ditto (US) · Gastly (Japan) |
| Previous episode | A Ghost of a Chance (EP181) |
| Next episode | Trouble’s Brewing (EP183) |
Plot episodeFog BadgeNoctowl learns Confusion
From Ghost to Ghost is the 25th episode of Pokémon: Johto League Champions, the fourth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 182nd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 184, Bulbapedia code EP182). It first aired in Japan on 25 January 2001 and in the United States on 10 November 2001. It falls within the season’s Ecruteak City & the Fog Badge stretch (EP181–EP183).
Synopsis
Ash defeats Morty’s Ghost types to win the Fog Badge, with Noctowl learning Confusion mid-battle. Nurse Joy suggests Noctowl’s Foresight could be his secret weapon, and at the Ecruteak Gym Morty pauses a lesson on Confuse Ray for his students to accept the challenge. Gastly opens by dodging Noctowl’s Hypnosis, and although Foresight keeps it visible, Lick knocks Noctowl out of the air and Ash recalls it. Pikachu lands Quick Attack but falls to Night Shade; Cyndaquil then runs straight up Gastly’s tongue to Tackle it out.
Haunter’s Mean Look snuffs out Cyndaquil’s flames and traps it in the fight. Swift hurts, Smokescreen covers, but Haunter grabs and licks Cyndaquil into defeat. Noctowl returns, duelling Hypnosis attacks cancel out and Confuse Ray lands, yet a confused Noctowl still Tackles through Night Shade; its horns glow and it learns Confusion, which beats Haunter. Against Gengar, Confusion redirects Shadow Ball, then rattles the building to reveal the invisible Ghost so that Foresight can lock on; a Tackle sends Gengar into the ceiling and down for the count. Morty concedes that Ash may truly have seen Ho-Oh and hands over the Badge.
Team Rocket, following James’s beeping Itemfinder into the Gym’s treasure store, are instead chased through a Gastly illusion of a banquet table that tries to eat them.
Major Events
- Fog Badge
- Noctowl learns Confusion
- Cyndaquil reveals Quick Attack and Swift
- Banned in South Korea
Trivia
- The English title plays on "from coast to coast".
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Gastly in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Ditto in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- A split-screen shot of Ash and Morty is skipped.
- Confuse Ray is misnamed “Confusion Ray”.
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