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| Season | Pokémon: Johto League Champions (Season 4) · Westward with Todd: Snowtop Mountain & Articuno arc (EP184–EP191) |
| Episode | Season 4, episode 27 · English episode 184 · Japanese episode 186 · Bulbapedia code EP184 |
| English title | All That Glitters! |
| Japanese title | ヤミカラス! うばわれたバッジ!! Yamikarasu! Ubawareta Bajji!! — “Yamikarasu! The Stolen Badges!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 8 February 2001 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 15 December 2001 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| 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? | Bellossom (US) · Murkrow (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Trouble’s Brewing (EP183) |
| Next episode | The Light Fantastic (EP185) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeMurkrow TV debut
All That Glitters! is the 27th episode of Pokémon: Johto League Champions, the fourth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 184th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 186, Bulbapedia code EP184). It first aired in Japan on 8 February 2001 and in the United States on 15 December 2001. It falls within the season’s Westward with Todd: Snowtop Mountain & Articuno stretch (EP184–EP191).
Synopsis
Three mischievous Murkrow steal Ash’s Gym Badges and lead the gang on a chase through the forest. While Ash polishes his four Badges, the Murkrow distract everyone with a song and dance and snatch them. Noctowl knocks them off their perch but is beaten by a triple Double Team, Golbat locates them with Supersonic and is knocked out too, and Pikachu’s Thunder Shock finally drops the birds, just as Team Rocket’s claw grabs Pikachu.
The Murkrow hitch a ride in the trio’s balloon, fail to pinch Jessie’s earring, Meowth’s charm or James’s buckle, and pop it instead; they do take James’s beloved bottle caps, making him as determined as Ash. James’s net bazooka hauls up a boulder instead and the trio are flung away. Ash scales the cliff with Bulbasaur’s Vine Whip and grabs his Fog Badge, only to be knocked back down for cheering too loudly; Togepi then blows a plan to distract the birds with shiny things.
Noctowl plays dead and swipes the Badge, but Team Rocket’s Mega Murkrow Mark 5 mecha vacuums up the shiny objects and seizes Pikachu. Noctowl and the Murkrow scatter to confuse it until its legs short-circuit and the birds retrieve Pikachu, whose Thunderbolt from Noctowl’s back blasts the trio off. Ash gets his Badges back and thanks his feathered rivals.
Major Events
- Murkrow main-series debut
- Ash’s badges are stolen
- First use of music from The Power of One
Pokémon making their anime debut
Murkrow#0198 · EP184
Trivia
- The English title plays on the proverb "all that glitters is not gold".
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- 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 Murkrow in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Bellossom in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- The first episode to use music from The Power of One, replaced in the dub.
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