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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · Ecruteak, the Egg & the Lake of Rage arc (EP226–EP236) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 21 · English episode 230 · Japanese episode 232 · Bulbapedia code EP230 |
| English title | Hatching a Plan |
| Japanese title | タマゴ、かえる Tamago, Kaeru — “Egg, Hatch” |
| First aired (Japan) | 27 December 2001 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 18 January 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Junki Takegami |
| 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? | Seadra (US) · Phanpy (Japan) |
| Previous episode | An EGG-sighting Adventure! (EP229) |
| Next episode | Dues and Don’ts (EP231) |
Plot episodePhanpy hatches
Hatching a Plan is the 21st episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 230th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 232, Bulbapedia code EP230). It first aired in Japan on 27 December 2001 and in the United States on 18 January 2003. It falls within the season’s Ecruteak, the Egg & the Lake of Rage stretch (EP226–EP236).
Synopsis
The unknown egg is about to hatch, and Team Rocket is as interested in what might be inside the egg as anyone. It turns out to be a phanpy. Unfortunately, Phanpy doesn’t know about getting into a pokéball. It thinks it’s a game. Then Team Rocket grabs it just as Pikachu uses Thunderbolt on them. The electricity also shocks Phanpy causing it to be afraid of Ash and Pikachu and run away blindly. Eventually the shock wears off and it comes across Team Rocket again. But after being betrayed by Team Rocket and working with Pikachu to escape them, it learns who its real friends are.
Major Events
- Egg hatches into Ash’s Phanpy (Phanpy TV debut)
- First Rock move by an Ash Pokémon
Pokémon making their anime debut
Phanpy#0231 · EP230
Captures and evolutions
- Phanpy#0231 · Ash · hatched from the race Egg
Trivia
- The English title plays on “hatching a plan”.
- The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Phanpy in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Seadra in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- Commercial-break placement
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.