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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · Ecruteak, the Egg & the Lake of Rage arc (EP226–EP236) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 23 · English episode 232 · Japanese episode 234 · Bulbapedia code EP232 |
| English title | Just Waiting On a Friend |
| Japanese title | きりのなかのキュウコン! Kiri no Naka no Kyūkon! — “The Kyukon in the Fog!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 17 January 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 26 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? | Sudowoodo (US) · Ninetales (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Dues and Don’ts (EP231) |
| Next episode | A Tyrogue Full of Trouble (EP233) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeAired early in the US
Just Waiting On a Friend is the 23rd episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 232nd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 234, Bulbapedia code EP232). It first aired in Japan on 17 January 2002 and in the United States on 26 September 2002. It falls within the season’s Ecruteak, the Egg & the Lake of Rage stretch (EP226–EP236).
Premiered out of story order as part of Kids’ WB’s weekday premiere week, on Thursday 26 September 2002 — a week after the season opener and months ahead of the episodes around it.
Synopsis
On there way to Mahogany Town, Ash and company come to a thick fog and are invited to stay at a castle by a beautiful, but strange, young woman with a ninetales. The ninetales seems to have taken a liking to Brock while the young woman seems to be the woman of his dreams. Ash and Misty try to solve the mystery of who the woman really is, and what spell has overcome Brock. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is caught up in their own fantasy. Eventually all is revealed as only an illusion created by a lonely ninetales.
Major Events
- Re-aired 2003-01-25
Trivia
- The English title plays on the Rolling Stones song "Waiting on a Friend".
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- 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 Ninetales in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Sudowoodo in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- Lokoko’s servants “disappeared” rather than died (EP232)
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