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Ignorance is Blissey

EP129   ハピナスのハッピーナース！ Happinas the Happy Nurse!

First broadcast Japan January 6, 2000 United States December 9, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon Johto Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ニャースのパーティ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 井上修 Osamu Inoue Assistant director 井上修 Osamu Inoue Animation director 梶浦紳一郎 Shin'ichirō Kajiura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Ignorance is Blissey (Japanese: ハピナスのハッピーナース！ Happinas the Happy Nurse!) is the 129th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 6, 2000 and in the United States on December 9, 2000.

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

Synopsis

While Ash. Misty and Brock continue to make their way for the Violet City Gym, they find themselves looking for a place to spend the night in a quiet area called Happy Town. Tired, hungry, and dirty, Ash knocks on the door of a locked Pokémon Center and, to his surprise, is greeted by a Blissey. After noticing Ash's hunger, Blissey tries to give Ash some sweets, but ends up spilling it on Ash. While washing off, Blissey suggests that she wash his back, but ends up scratching him, and while she tries to attend to the scratch, she puts too much alcohol on him, and at the end of the sequence of events, he is in a full-body cast for one scene. Nurse Joy wakes up eventually and apologizes for her Blissey's trouble.

Outside, Team Rocket is just as hungry as Ash's party. James devises a plan to sneak into the Pokémon Center and steal some Pokémon and some food, but once they get inside, they find themselves in an empty kitchen with nothing to eat. Meowth finds some parsnip in the fridge, but refuses to share it and runs off. Jessie goes looking for him, but finds Blissey in the hallway. Blissey tackles Jessie in joy, but Jessie notices the Blissey's necklace; it's in the shape of the top of a broken egg, which Jessie pulls out the bottom half to it and connects the pieces:

Jessie went to a Chansey Pokémon Medical School, and Jessie was the only human in the class, the rest were Chansey. She failed the class due to her inability to soothe Pokémon like the Chansey could, and so when her roommate and her best friend, another Chansey, graduated from medical school, she gave Jessie half of her egg necklace so they would always remember each other.

Overjoyed, the Blissey satisfies Team Rocket's hunger by giving them boxes of food from the Pokémon Center stockpile. But because of her given bounty, Ash and his friends are only given a meager breakfast the next morning. Ash complains to Nurse Joy who reviews the security cameras to see who took the food, and she catches Blissey on tape. Nurse Joy wants Blissey to confess what she did with the food and if she doesn't, it could end her career as a nurse.

Overlooking the scene, Team Rocket devise a plan to get Blissey out of trouble, and they decide to go back and tell them they tricked Blissey into giving them food. Once they've gotten everyone's attention, they demand that all of the Pokémon in the Pokémon Center be handed over to them. While Ash and Nurse Joy argue with them, Blissey comes outside and runs to greet Jessie. Jessie pleads that Blissey not reveal their friendship, and in an attempt to save Blissey's job, she sends out Arbok and Lickitung to keep Blissey at a distance, but even after this, Blissey still wants to be with Jessie, so Jessie forces herself to order Arbok and Lickitung to attack Blissey.

But immediately, Blissey is on her feet and walks toward Jessie again, still unaware of why Jessie wants to keep their distance. Jessie then orders her Pokémon to attack Blissey again, but lightly. But even after that, Blissey limps toward Jessie, refusing to turn away. Then, Jessie shoots the ground with some sort of gun, and threatens to hit her if she comes any closer. James begins to insult Ash because he's letting a Blissey do all the fighting, and then Meowth uses a pair of grabbers to steal Pikachu, but Pikachu immediately uses ThunderShock to release himself.

Nurse Joy then runs to Blissey and apologizes for doubting her, even for a minute. Blissey then looks to Jessie, who puts her finger over her mouth to symbolize that it's a secret. Still hungry, Ash sends out Squirtle and Chikorita to retrieve the food. Pikachu uses a Thunderbolt on Arbok, Chikorita uses a Vine Whip on Lickitung, and Squirtle blasts a Water Gun at Jessie, James, and Meowth, who run to the balloon right after the attack, but Chikorita uses a Razor Leaf to cut the food from the balloon and to put a hole in it, sending the food to the ground and sending Team Rocket blasting off again.

The episode ends with Blissey finally serving a whole meal to Ash and his friends.

Major events

• It is revealed that Jessie went to nursing school.
• Jessie's Lickitung is revealed to know Slam.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Blissey

Characters

Humans

Who's That Pokémon?

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Togepi (U.S. and international); Blissey (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Lickitung (Jessie's)
• Blissey (Nurse Joy's, debut)
• Chansey (Nursing School's, flashback; multiple)
• Oddish (Nursing School's, flashback)
• Bellsprout (Nursing School's, flashback)
• Cubone (Nursing School's, flashback)
• Ditto (Nursing School's, flashback)

Trivia

Ash bleeding on his back

• This episode is based on Megumi Hayashibara's experiences in nursing school.
• This episode's English title is a reference to the popular saying, "ignorance is bliss."
• This episode is later referenced in One Big Happiny Family.
• This episode marks the second time a character is shown bleeding (in this case, Ash). The first time was in Wake Up Snorlax!.
• During the nursing school scene when the Chansey were using their Sing technique, the chip-tune Sing music and battle theme from the Generation II games can be heard in the background.
• The book Prepare for Trouble is based on this episode.

Errors

• Chikorita's Vine Whip is dark green, like Bulbasaur's, rather than its usual light green.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		幸福蛋的快樂護士
Czech		Nešikovná Blissey
Dutch		Blisseys Onwetendheid
Finnish		Pieni höperö Blissey
European French		Une amitié indestructible
German		Alte Bekannte
Hebrew		תמימותה של בליסיtmimuta shel Blissey
Italian		Vecchie conoscenze
Polish		To Blissey
Portuguese	Brazil	A Ignorância é uma Blissey
	Portugal	Ignorância é Linda
Spanish	Latin America	¡Mi amiga Blissey!
	Spain	La ignorancia de Blissey
Swedish		Jessies dilemma

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