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The Wacky Watcher!

EP109   コイキング！しんかのひみつ!! Koiking! The Secret of Evolution!!

First broadcast Japan August 19, 1999 United States September 16, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon World Ending

Japanese themes Opening ライバル！ Ending ラプラスにのって

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director 小林勝利 Katsutoshi Kobayashi No additional credits are available at this time.

The Wacky Watcher! (Japanese: コイキング！しんかのひみつ!! Koiking! The Secret of Evolution!!) is the 109th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on August 19, 1999 and in the United States on September 16, 2000.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash, Misty, and Tracey are suddenly caught in a migrating group of Magikarp. A submarine surfaces and a man named Quincy T. Quackenpoker comes out and tells them that he studies the Magikarp. The trio decide to help him.

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Tracey
• Jessie
• James
• Quincy T. Quackenpoker

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Poliwag (US and international); Koiking (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Lapras (Ash's)
• Magikarp
• Gyarados

Trivia

• Quincy T. Quackenpoker bears a resemblance to Groucho Marx.
• This is the second episode of the Orange Island saga to be dedicated to Magikarp and Gyarados. The first is The Joy of Pokémon.
• This is also the second episode that ends with Team Rocket stuck on top of a rock surrounded by Gyarados, the first being The Pi-Kahuna.

Errors

Dub edits

• In the dub, Dr. Quackenpoker introduces himself. Tracey repeats his name as if he heard of him before. Tracey then recognizes him as a famous Pokémon watcher. In the original Tracey had never heard of him before and was only interested in the fact that he was another Pokémon watcher.

In other languages

• French: Drôle d'observateur
• German: Der wirre Beobachter
• Hebrew: תעלומת מג'יקארפ ta'alumat Magikarp
• Italian: L'osservatore di Pokémon
• Portuguese (Brazilian): O Observador Maluco!
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: El observador chiflado
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡El observador loco!

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