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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · Back to Olivine: the Mineral Badge arc (EP223–EP225) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 16 · English episode 225 · Japanese episode 227 · Bulbapedia code EP225 |
| English title | Bulbasaur… the Ambassador! |
| Japanese title | さよならフシギダネ! オーキドていのぼうけん Sayonara Fushigidane! Ōkido-tei no Bōken — “Farewell, Fushigidane! Adventure at Dr. Okido’s” |
| First aired (Japan) | 22 November 2001 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 23 September 2002 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| 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? | Arbok (US) · Bulbasaur (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Nerves of Steelix! (EP224) |
| Next episode | Espeon, Not Included (EP226) |
Plot episodeBulbasaur stays at Oak’s labAired early in the US
Bulbasaur… the Ambassador! is the 16th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 225th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 227, Bulbapedia code EP225). It first aired in Japan on 22 November 2001 and in the United States on 23 September 2002. It falls within the season’s Back to Olivine: the Mineral Badge stretch (EP223–EP225).
Premiered out of story order as part of Kids’ WB’s weekday premiere week, on Monday 23 September 2002 — a week after the season opener and months ahead of the episodes around it.
Synopsis
Ash and company, and Team Rocket are on their way to Ecruteak City, but the real story centers on Bulbasaur helping to handle territorial disputes among the pokémon living in the gardens of Oak’s research facilities. For the most part, Bulbasaur is able to solve the problem, but disputes keep breaking out requiring Bulbasaur to stay indefinitely.
Major Events
- Bulbasaur left at Oak’s lab, learns Dig
- Jumpluff debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Jumpluff#0189 · EP225
Trivia
- The English title plays on an ambassador.
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Bulbasaur in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Arbok in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.