EP089

Shell Shock!

EP089   カブトのかせきのひみつ！ Kabuto and the Fossil's Secret!

First broadcast Japan March 25, 1999 United States March 4, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon World Ending

Japanese themes Opening ライバル！ Ending タイプ・ワイルド

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani Assistant director 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani Animation director 山田俊也 Toshiya Yamada Additional credits

Toshiya Yamada is the Pokémon anime's executive animation director.

Shell Shock! (Japanese: カブトのかせきのひみつ！ Kabuto and the Fossil's Secret!) is the 89th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on March 25, 1999 and in the United States on March 4, 2000.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Aboard Lapras, the group follows a news crew to an uninhabited island (Fairchild Island), where a scientific expedition is underway after the discovery of a fossilized Kabuto. A series of natural disasters place our heroes in mortal danger, with only the power of their Pokémon to help them. What is the secret of the Kabuto, and who wants that secret to remain hidden?...

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Tracey
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Umberto
• Reporter
• Cameraman
• Exhibition crew

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Ponyta (US and international); Kabuto (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Lapras (Ash's)
• Goldeen (Misty's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Growlithe (expedition crew's)
• Machoke (expedition crew's)
• Rhydon (expedition crew's)
• Kabuto

Trivia

• This episode's dub title is a reference to the World War I illness, Shell Shock.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Pas si fossile que ça
• German: Auf der Suche nach Fossilien
• Hebrew: הלם השיריון helem shiryon
• Italian: L'isola dei fossili
• Portuguese (Brazilian): A Revolta dos Fósseis
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Impacto caparazón
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡El misterio de Kabuto!

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