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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · To Mauville: the Dynamo Badge arc (AG037–AG040) |
| Episode | Season 6, episode 40 · English episode 313 · Japanese episode 316 · Bulbapedia code AG040 |
| English title | Watt’s with Wattson? |
| Japanese title | キンセツジム！テッセンの電撃バトル！！ Kinsetsu Jimu! Tessen no Dengeki Batoru!! — “Kinsetsu Gym! Tessen’s Electric Shock Battle!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 28 August 2003 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 4 September 2004 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Aya Matsui |
| 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? | Meditite (US) |
| Previous episode | A Poké-BLOCK Party! (AG039) |
Plot episodeDynamo BadgeSeason finale
Watt’s with Wattson? is the 40th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 313th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 316, Bulbapedia code AG040). It first aired in Japan on 28 August 2003 and in the United States on 4 September 2004. It falls within the season’s To Mauville: the Dynamo Badge stretch (EP37–EP40).
Shown as the second half of the season-ending double bill on 4 September 2004; Advanced Challenge began the following Saturday, 11 September 2004. It was the last English episode with a Who’s That Pokémon? segment until Black & White.
Synopsis
Pushing open the Mauville Gym door drops the group onto a roller-coaster platform that carries them to a giant robot Raikou, whose head Pikachu’s Iron Tail blows off. The delighted Gym Leader Wattson and his assistant Watt accept Ash’s challenge, while Team Rocket discover New Mauville, an abandoned power station full of Voltorb and Magnemite, and plan to capture them for Giovanni.
In a three-on-three match Pikachu knocks out Magnemite, Voltorb and Magneton with one hit each, overpowering Magneton’s Zap Cannon with Thunder. Then Pikachu falls ill, and Nurse Joy finds he was overcharged by the robot — explaining the lopsided win. A deflated Wattson wanders to the power plant and befriends a wild Electrike just as Team Rocket seal the station’s Pokémon in an electricity-proof machine.
A second robot Raikou runs amok until Seviper’s Poison Tail wrecks it and the caged Pokémon break free; Pikachu downs Seviper and Cacnea with Quick Attack, Electrike paralyses Dustox with Thunder Wave, and Thunderbolt blasts the trio off. Ash confesses why he won so easily and tries to return the Dynamo Badge, but Wattson insists he earned it, takes Electrike as his new partner and asks for a rematch some day.
Major Events
- Dynamo Badge. An overcharged Pikachu sweeps Wattson’s three Pokémon
- Ash offers the badge back but Wattson insists he keep it
- Wattson catches Electrike
- Dustox’s Whirlwind
- Season finale
- Last dub Who’s That Pokémon? until BW001
- Wattson, Watt and Electrike debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Electrike#0309 · AG040
Captures and evolutions
- Electrike#0309 · Wattson
Trivia
- The English title plays on "what’s with…?" (listed as What’s With Wattson? on Pokémon.com and iTunes).
- The screenplay is by Aya Matsui.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- 1 + 2 + 2 seconds of trims
- The dub implies Wattson repaired the wrecked robot Raikou (in Japanese robot #02 is destroyed in the Gym and #01 fights Team Rocket)
- “Raikou” mispronounced throughout
- The robot Raikou keeps its Japanese voice
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