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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver arc (EP256–EP264) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 49 · English episode 258 · Japanese episode 261 · Bulbapedia code EP259 |
| English title | Entei at Your Own Risk |
| Japanese title | エンテイとおんせんのなかまたち! Entei to Onsen no Nakama-tachi! — “Entei and Friends of the Hot Spring!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 1 August 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 16 August 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Tyrogue (US) · Entei (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Hatch Me If You Can (EP258) |
| Next episode | A Crowning Achievement (EP260) |
Plot episodePineco evolves into ForretressEnteiMisdreavus debut
Entei at Your Own Risk is the 49th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 258th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 261, Bulbapedia code EP259). It first aired in Japan on 1 August 2002 and in the United States on 16 August 2003. It falls within the season’s New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver stretch (EP256–EP264).
Synopsis
Ash and company happen on some hot springs and a trainer named Nelson who is trying to capture an entei. He has a secret weapon to insure the entei doesn’t escape; a misdreavus with Mean Look. Team Rocket has followed them and tries a couple of schemes to catch first, all of Ash’s pokémon, then all the wild pokémon in the hot springs. During the second attempt Brock’s pineco evolves into Forretress, and the entei appears to end Team Rocket’s trap. Nelson then makes an attempt to catch the entei.
Major Events
- Brock’s Pineco → Forretress
- Misdreavus debut
- Entei TV debut
- Goldeen’s last main-series appearance
Pokémon making their anime debut
Misdreavus#0200 · EP259
Forretress#0205 · EP259
Entei#0244 · EP259
Captures and evolutions
- Pineco → Forretress#0205 · Brock
Trivia
- The English title plays on “enter at your own risk”.
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Johto storyline.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Entei in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Tyrogue in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Changes in the English Dub
- Fruit milk → “fruit smoothies” EP259)
- Is the first episode with Spell of the Unown music (replaced in the dub)
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.