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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · Dewford Island I: Brawly, Steven & Corphish arc (AG019–AG024) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 24 · English episode 297 · Japanese episode 300 · Bulbapedia code AG024 |
| English title | A Corphish Out of Water |
| Japanese title | 走れサトシ！キバニアの川を越え！ Hashire Satoshi! Kibania no Kawa o Koe! — “Run Satoshi! Cross the Kibanha River!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 8 May 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 28 February 2004 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Polka O Dolka – Meowth (Inuko Inuyama) & the Nolsol Chorus Group |
| English opening | I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Beautifly (US) |
| Previous episode | Gone Corphishin’ (AG023) |
| Next episode | A Mudkip Mission (AG025) |
Plot episodeSilcoon & Cascoon evolve
A Corphish Out of Water is the 24th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 297th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 300, Bulbapedia code AG024). It first aired in Japan on 8 May 2003 and in the United States on 28 February 2004. It falls within the season’s Dewford Island I: Brawly, Steven & Corphish stretch (EP19–EP24).
Synopsis
During a Team Rocket Trio attack, both Jessie’s and May’s wurmples evolve. May’s wurmple becomes a silcoon, while Jessie’s becomes a cascoon. However, having incomplete knowledge about pokémon, Jessie assumes hers is a silcoon as well. James and Meowth notice the difference, but also know Jessie’s temper. Corphish becomes ill from the rope and floaters it ate earlier. Ash rushes it to a PokéCenter while the Team Rocket Trio use new traps to catch the “twerps” and their pokémon. Of course, they get caught in their own trap too and now everyone is in danger of drowning when the tide comes in.
Trivia: Ash only scanned May’s silcoon, because that was the only one he cared about. Granted, strategically, he should have wanted to know more about Jessie’s cascoon as well.
Favorite Comeback Max to May: Maybe you should be following Ash’s example, it couldn’t hurt. May’s Reply: You’re right, but I can think of something that will.
Major Events
- May’s Wurmple evolves into Silcoon and Jessie’s into Cascoon
- Corphish falls ill after swallowing a rope
- The 300th episode produced, counting the 1998 specials
- Team Rocket’s Alien Baltan motto parody
- Silcoon, Cascoon and Carvanha debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Silcoon#0266 · AG024
Cascoon#0268 · AG024
Carvanha#0318 · AG024
Captures and evolutions
- Wurmple → Silcoon#0266 · May
- Wurmple → Cascoon#0268 · Jessie
Trivia
- The English title plays on "a fish out of water".
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- A Carvanha biting the back of Ash’s head cut (Kids’ WB and the first two Region 1 releases only)
- Team Rocket’s echoing Alien Baltan (Ultraman) motto delivered normally
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