EP147

The Fire-ing Squad! (Japanese: もえろゼニガメだん！ほのおのように!! Burn, Zenigame Squad! Like a Fire!) is the 147th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 11, 2000 and in the United States on April 21, 2001.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash sends Tauros back to Professor Oak and agrees to let Heracross stay there as well.
• Team Wartortle and the Squirtle Squad make a reappearance.
• Ash's Squirtle rejoins the Squirtle Squad.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Captain Aidan
• Tracey Sketchit (flashback)

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Houndour

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's; flashback)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's; leaves)
• Heracross (Ash's; at Professor Oak's lab)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's; flashback)
• Zubat (Brock's; flashback)
• Wartortle (Team Wartortle)
• Squirtle (Squirtle Squad)

Pokémon seen at the Fire and Rescue Grand Prix

• Blastoise
• Golduck
• Poliwag
• Poliwhirl
• Poliwrath
• Muk
• Vaporeon
• Marill
• Quagsire

Trivia

• This episode's dub title is a reference to a Firing Squad.

Errors

• Brock says Aidan's name along with Ash and Misty when they first see him, however, the two had never met before.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Une escouade qui a le feu sacré
• Italian: Pompieri provetti
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El escuadrón de bomberos!
• Iberian Spanish: La brigada de incendios

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