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| Season | Pokémon: Johto League Champions (Season 4) · Ecruteak City & the Fog Badge arc (EP181–EP183) |
| Episode | Season 4, episode 26 · English episode 183 · Japanese episode 185 · Bulbapedia code EP183 |
| English title | Trouble’s Brewing |
| Japanese title | イーブイ5しまい! おちゃかいでバトル!! Ībui Go-Shimai! Ochakai de Batoru!! — “The 5 Sisters of Eievui! Battle at the Tea Ceremony!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 1 February 2001 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 8 December 2001 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| 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? | Chikorita (US) · Eevee (Japan) |
| Previous episode | From Ghost to Ghost (EP182) |
| Next episode | All That Glitters! (EP184) |
Plot episodeKimono Sisters debut
Trouble’s Brewing is the 26th episode of Pokémon: Johto League Champions, the fourth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 183rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 185, Bulbapedia code EP183). It first aired in Japan on 1 February 2001 and in the United States on 8 December 2001. It falls within the season’s Ecruteak City & the Fog Badge stretch (EP181–EP183).
Synopsis
Misty befriends Sakura, the youngest of Ecruteak’s Kimono Sisters, who battle Ash’s group to decide whether she may travel with them. A lost Eevee leads the gang to the sisters’ tea house, where Brock is smitten by Satsuki, Sumomo, Tamao and Koume, and Sakura chafes at being treated as an afterthought, just as Misty was by her own sisters. Team Rocket wreck a tea ceremony, wolfing the cakes and dunking a guard in the kettle, then grab for the sisters’ Eevee evolutions; Arbok’s Headbutt and Wrap overpower Sakura’s Eevee, but Poliwhirl’s Bubble beats Weezing’s Smog and twin Water Guns wash the trio away.
Sakura asks to join the journey, and her sisters set a condition: win a best-of-three. Misty’s Poliwhirl trades Tackles with Sumomo’s Vaporeon and lands Double Slap, but a Quick Attack into the river and an Aurora Beam settle round one for the sisters.
Team Rocket return with cages, trapping Eevee after it loses to Victreebel; Staryu’s Tackles cage James and Arbok, Chikorita’s Vine Whip bundles Victreebel in with Jessie, and Umbreon’s Quick Attack frees Eevee before Water Gun blasts the lot away. Pikachu then levels the score, Thunder beating Satsuki’s Jolteon after Thunder Wave blocks Thunderbolt. Before the decider, Sakura chooses to stay and grow stronger first, and the gang set off for Olivine City.
Major Events
- The Kimono Sisters and Sakura debut
- Arbok reveals Headbutt
- First physical appearance of a Moon Ball
- The group sets out for Olivine City
- Banned in South Korea
- Last episode dubbed into Finnish until Master Quest
Trivia
- The English title plays on the saying "trouble’s brewing", in an episode about a tea ceremony.
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Eevee in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Chikorita in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- Jolteon’s Zap Cannon becomes Thunder Shock and Umbreon’s Quick Attack becomes Agility.
- Misty’s remark that Sakura shares her sister Daisy’s Japanese name is removed.
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