Out of Their Elements! – Pokémon Season 25 Episode 8 (JN098)


Season	Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series (Season 25) · Ghost trains, Gigantamax & stories from the lab arc (JN091–JN098)
Episode	Season 25, episode 8 · English episode 1178 · Japanese episode 1184 · Bulbapedia code JN098
English title	Out of Their Elements!
Japanese title	ポケモンサーカス！ブースターとサンダース！！ Pokémon Sākasu! Būsutā to Sandāsu!! — “Pokémon Circus! Booster and Thunders!!”
First aired (Japan)	18 February 2022 · TV Tokyo
First aired (US)	21 October 2022 · Netflix
Screenplay	Yūko Kakihara
Opening / ending (Japan)	Wan, Tsū, Surī (One, Two, Three) – Karaage Sisters · Batsugun Taipu (Supereffective Type) – Pokémon Music Club
English opening	With You – Echosmith
Who’s That Pokémon?	Jolteon (US) · Jolteon (Japan)
Previous episode	An Evolution in Taste! (JN097)
Next episode	Battling Turned Up to Eleven! (JN099)

Filler / stand-alone episodeJolteon and FlareonChloe’s evolution stones

Out of Their Elements! is the 8th episode of Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series, the twenty-fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1178th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1184, Bulbapedia code JN098). It first aired in Japan on 18 February 2022 and in the United States on 21 October 2022. It falls within the season’s Ghost trains, Gigantamax & stories from the lab stretch (EP91–EP98).

Released on Netflix in the US on 21 October 2022 with the first part (JN091–JN102); Teletoon had premiered it in Canada on 16 July 2022.

Synopsis

When two feuding circus trapeze artists accidentally evolve each other’s Eevee, Chloe, Ash and Goh help the new Jolteon and Flareon show their Trainers that teamwork beats rivalry. Ash and Goh have won a lottery prize to guest-perform at a Pokémon Circus, and Chloe tags along because she has heard that a Flareon and a Jolteon will be in the show. The showman, who looks just like the excavation leader and the Pewter Museum curator but insists he is neither, explains that his trapeze artists Harmony and Billy are about to evolve their Eevee, Bernice and Toril. Harmony loves Fire types and Billy loves Electric types, and each insists that their type is superior. Arguing over who should go first, they drop their Fire Stone and Thunder Stone onto the wrong Eevee: Bernice becomes a Jolteon and Toril a Flareon. Spare stones cannot reverse the change, so on the showman’s advice the furious performers swap Pokémon for the show, despite Ash’s protests about the Pokémon’s feelings.

While Ash and Goh practise their guest acts, Chloe notices that Bernice and Toril are miserable without their original partners. The next day each wanders into its former Trainer’s rehearsal, so the showman tells Harmony and Billy to practise with their own Pokémon, but the act still is not working, and the show may be cancelled. When the Trainers take a break and leave their partners behind, Bernice and Toril run out of the tent, followed by Chloe and Eevee, who find them practising together. Ash and Goh realise that the pair want to perform as a team, and Eevee joins in, copying their moves with Copycat. The boys help train the Eeveelutions, and Chloe invites Harmony and Billy to watch as Bernice and Toril combine Thunder Shock and Ember into a dazzling display of fireworks. Moved by their partners’ determination, the performers resolve to practise together.

On the day of the show, Professor Cerise, Chrysa and Ren watch from the audience as Ash and Goh’s guest acts go off without a hitch. Chloe and Eevee then take the stage as Harmony and Billy begin their flying trapeze routine, each starting with the other’s Pokémon and swapping back to their own in mid-swing as their partners wrap the trapeze ropes in fire and electricity. Eevee fires Ember and Thunder Shock in turn, the performers’ other Pokémon join in, and the audience is amazed. Afterward Harmony and Billy thank Chloe for saving the show and give her their spare evolution stones, a Fire Stone and a Thunder Stone, saying the experience has broadened their horizons. Chloe gratefully accepts them, promising to stay by Eevee’s side whatever it eventually evolves into.

Major Events

The circus Eevee. The trapeze artists Harmony and Billy accidentally evolve each other’s Eevee, Bernice into Jolteon and Toril into Flareon
Chloe receives a Fire Stone and a Thunder Stone
Jolteon and Flareon are the sixth and seventh Eeveelutions Chloe has met
Grookey’s first move, Branch Poke, after 39 episodes
Barrett Leddy replaces the late Billy Kametz as Ren