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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · The Whirl Islands & the Whirl Cup arc (EP210–EP218) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 4 · English episode 213 · Japanese episode 215 · Bulbapedia code EP213 |
| English title | A Corsola Caper! |
| Japanese title | サニーゴでアミーゴ! おうがんとうのたいけつ!! Sanīgo de Amīgo! Ō Gantō no Taiketsu!! — “Sunnygo the Amigo! Showdown on Yellow Rock Isle!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 30 August 2001 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 5 October 2002 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Mezase Pokémon Master (Whiteberry version) – Whiteberry · Maemuki Rocket-dan! (Face Forward Team Rocket!) – Team Rocket |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Electabuzz (US) · Corsola (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Takin’ It on the Chinchou (EP212) |
| Next episode | Mantine Overboard! (EP214) |
Plot episodeMisty catches Corsola
A Corsola Caper! is the 4th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 213th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 215, Bulbapedia code EP213). It first aired in Japan on 30 August 2001 and in the United States on 5 October 2002. It falls within the season’s The Whirl Islands & the Whirl Cup stretch (EP210–EP218).
Synopsis
Ash and company arrive at Yellow Rock Isle a visit a local shop displaying art created from shed corsola horns. Misty has now become determined to catch a corsola. Going to a beach they spot a house that has somehow drifted out to sea with a little girl and a corsola on board. Saving the girl and the house, they are told how the chinchou is a wild pokémon who appeared at their doorstep. They explain that the father is a corsola horn artist and their house is built on a corsola nest, which is a convenient way of obtaining the horns. When the wild corsola showed up it played too rough with the other corsola, so the other corsola left the nest. Without the corsola to maintain the nest, the infrastructure deteriorated and the house broke loose from the moorings and drifted out to sea. Misty is very impressed with the wild corsola’s energy and wants to capture it for her own.
Ash and company help search for and round up the wayward corsola only to have Team Rocket attempt to steal the entire group. With the aid of the wild corsola, Ash and Misty foil Team Rocket and return the corsola to their home. She then has a clear shot at catching the wild corsola, and begins to battle it. Finding out that it has a strong move set, makes her even more determined to catch it. She has polywrath use a series of attacks without allowing corsola a chance to use Recover. This wears corsola down enough for Misty to use a lure ball and finally catch her corsola. Ash and company can now resume their journey to the next stop toward the World Cup on Red Rock Isle.
Major Events
- Misty catches Corsola (Lure Ball)
Captures and evolutions
Corsola#0222 · Misty · Lure Ball
Trivia
- The English title plays on a caper (a comic crime story).
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Corsola in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Electabuzz in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
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