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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver arc (EP256–EP264) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 47 · English episode 256 · Japanese episode 259 · Bulbapedia code EP257 |
| English title | Lapras of Luxury |
| Japanese title | ラプラスのうた! Rapurasu no Uta! — “Laplace’s Song!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 18 July 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 26 July 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Qwilfish (US) · Lapras (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Just Add Water (EP256) |
| Next episode | Hatch Me If You Can (EP258) |
Plot episodeLapras returns
Lapras of Luxury is the 47th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 256th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 259, Bulbapedia code EP257). It first aired in Japan on 18 July 2002 and in the United States on 26 July 2003. It falls within the season’s New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver stretch (EP256–EP264).
Synopsis
Ash and company stop in at a PokéCenter and call Prof Birch. He then asks Ash to stop by the Marine Pokémon Laboratory and pick up an egg and bring it to him. They stop off at the lab and meet Naomi. She is researching marine migration and communication. Specifically the travel songs of the lapras and how they relate to finding their way through the seas so precisely. As it turns out the herd that just arrives is the same heard from the Orange Islands that Ash and company had traveled with.
Team Rocket has happened along and captures the entire heard with a huge net and tows them off behind their new Gyarados sub. Naomi, Ash and company get into her mini-sub and follow. Ash’s lapras and Naomi are able to catch up to the heard and they use their singing to communicate and follow where Team Rocket’s submarine beached with the netted laprases. A brief scuffle occurs and Team Rocket is sent blasting off again.
Everyone returns to the lab to see the lapras heard off, and they witness the leader handing over the leadership of the heard to Ash’s lapras. Naomi then says her goodbyes as Ash and company, with the egg in their possession, leave for Prof Birch’s lab.
Major Events
- Ash reunites with Lapras (now herd leader)
- Egg for Elm
Trivia
- The English title plays on “lap of luxury”.
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Lapras in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Qwilfish in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- Team Rocket motto variations and dub-only fourth-wall jokes (“Meowth has been dropped from the rest of the season”, EP265). Move-name errors: Headbutt → “Skull Bash” (EP216–217), Take Down (EP220), Outrage → “Attack Rage” (EP253), Bind → “Wrap”, Scary Face → “Leer” (EP271), Ice Beam → “Cold Beam” (EP257). The announcer repeatedly calls Harrison “from Silver Town” instead of Littleroot (EP270, EP272).
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