EP163

Fossil Fools

EP163   こだいポケモンパーク！アルフのいせき！！ Ancient Pokémon Park! Ruins of Alph!!

First broadcast Japan September 7, 2000 United States September 15, 2001

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ポケモンはらはらリレー

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Fossil Fools (Japanese: こだいポケモンパーク！アルフのいせき！！ Ancient Pokémon Park! Ruins of Alph!!) is the 163rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 7, 2000 and in the United States on September 15, 2001.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis The group visits the Ruins of Alph where living Omanyte and Omastar have been discovered. Unfortunately, Team Rocket has also discovered them.

Major events

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

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Oak
• Foster
• Researchers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Pichu (US and international), Omnite (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Omanyte
• Omastar
• Aerodactyl (picture/fossil/robot)
• Kabutops (fossil)

Trivia

• Exciting Pokémon Relay replaces Takeshi's Paradise as the ending.
• The Ruins of Alph in the games is entirely different and focuses on the Unown.
• Archaeology currently dates the first Pokémon at 2 million years ago, though a Kabutops fossil had been discovered that is 20 to 30 thousand years older than that.
• Like life on Earth, the prevailing theory is that Pokémon life began in the sea.
• The English title is a pun of fossil fuels.
• When our heroes are riding in a jeep towards the reservoir, Professor Oak complains about his lumbago; this is the second time he has referrenced this pain, the first time being in The Power of One movie.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• Finnish: Fossiili herää eloon
• Dutch: Fossielenjagers
• French: Retour vers la préhistoire
• German: Aufregende Entdeckungen
• Hebrew: פוקימונים פרה-היסטורים Pokémonim pre-historim
• Italian: Jurassic Pokémon
• Portuguese (Brazilian): O Parque dos Pokéssauros
• Spanish:
  • Iberian Spanish: Locos por los fósiles
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Pokémon prehistóricos!

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