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 Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

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

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Ash and his friends visits the Ruins of Alph, a place where many fossils of ancient Pokémon including 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 (U.S. and international), Omanyte (Japan)

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

Trivia

Recurring earthenware artifact.

A reversal of roles

• Exciting Pokémon Relay replaces Takeshi's Paradise as the ending.
• One of the clay artifacts that is displayed in this episode also appeared in Me, Myself and Time, over 3 and a half years later and again in Bucking the Treasure Trend!, over 9 and a half years after its original appearance in this episode.
• 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 on fossil fuels, a source of energy.
• This is the first time Brock takes Misty by the ear.
• This episode revealed the scientific name of Kabutops, Kabutops Maximis. The only other Pokémon with a confirmed scientific name is Oddish, whose scientific name is Oddium Wanderus.

Errors

• Though Ash, his friends and Team Rocket were surprised to see Omanyte and Omastar as not extinct, they have actually seen the aforesaid Pokémon in Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon.
• When Pikachu uses his Tackle attack, his mouth moves but his voice cannot be heard.
  • In addition, Pikachu cannot even learn Tackle.
• In the dub, when Ash tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt (and when Misty points out that the Omanyte and Omastar would get shocked as well as Team Rocket), he says, "Pikachu, use Thunderbolt, Pikachu!" which is redundant as he says "Pikachu" twice in the same sentence.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		古代神奇寶貝公園，阿露福遺跡
Czech		Ztracený svět
Dutch		Fossielenjagers
Finnish		Fossiili herää eloon
European French		Retour vers la préhistoire
German		Aufregende Entdeckungen
Hebrew		פוקימונים פרה-היסטורים Pokémonim pre-historim
Italian		Jurassic Pokémon
Portuguese	Brazil	O Parque dos Pokéssauros
	Portugal	Tolos por Fósseis
Spanish	Latin America	¡Pokémon prehistóricos!
	Spain	Locos por los fósiles

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